to yell at him and tell him about my past. But the way he yelled at me, the look in his eyes and those angry gestures in general, all of this reminded me of my terrible childhood in the abbey.A childhood that I was never allowed to live, that I could never enjoy! They always just hit, humiliated and tortured me. And what do I get for having endured it? Just more suffering and pain! But I can’t cry anymore. My tears are shed, I feel neither sadness nor anger at Boris and my grandfather, who did this to me and destroyed me! I can't feel anything anymore. My hopes for better times, for help, and my wishes are also gone. I don't need them, they just torture me, because they will always show me how worthless such feelings are! They make you vulnerable and vulnerable. And I am not allowed to be, I have to be cold, to isolate myself from other people. They mustn't come too close to me, I can't trust them anymore. Because they will abuse this trust and hurt me, and I can safely do without it!
The only thing I want is just peace and quiet and my solitude.Because when I'm lonely and calm, then I can think about things that I otherwise never noticed, things that make me strong and invulnerable. //

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The next day Kai was - as always - the first to roam the house. He was already sitting at the breakfast table and drinking his morning coffee.
"Morning, Kai," muttered Ray, who was still rather sleepy, but already fully dressed, padded into the kitchen and stood in front of the stove without a word. Kai didn't give the slightest sign of life that he had heard his friend, he continued to sit there, clutching the cup tightly, and dreaming with open eyes.
But Ray didn't mind this behavior anymore. At this time of the day, Kai was unresponsive if he hadn't already had his three cups away and practically went on sleeping with his eyes open.
"Tyson came back last night.", Ray tried to involve his friend in a little conversation, and, oh wonder, Kai looked at him confused and waited for the black-haired man to continue."He had a high fever and the doctor said he shouldn't get out of bed this week. But you know Tyson, he's guaranteed not to keep it!"
"Then I'll see to it that he does it. The next World Cup will finally start again in two months. And I can't use a half-dead would-be world champion who falls out of my feet at the start just because he doesn't open heard the doctor and kept the bed. ", Kai growled, who meanwhile dumped the last cup, and got up.
Ray looked at him, now really stunned, wide-eyed.
"Kai, tell me, are you sick too? You can't be serious, can it?"
"What?" Came the annoyed person.
"You really want to take care of Tyson? For a whole week? And what about the training?" The last sentence almost sounded a little hopeful, but Kai destroyed this wish immediately.
"Of course that won't be canceled! You can forget that, but I'll postpone it for certain times, so I would advise you to be ready at any time.""A, but ..."
"No buts, I'm going to wake Max now, and then you go out and run three laps of the stadium to warm up, get it?"
Ray stopped arguing and just nodded. He knew to contradict Kai now would be fatal. So he preferred to leave it, he was attached to his life!
After less than three minutes, Max finally appeared downstairs in the kitchen, still in boxer shorts and yawning in a tour. He seemed to be in a bad mood, because his morning greeting, usually yelled out so happily, was more like a growl, something you weren't used to from the usually good-humored American.
"Is Kai already up with Ty?", Ray asked his friend after a few minutes, who just shrugged his shoulders.
"No idea, I don't care either. He can do whatever he wants as long as he lets Ty live.", The American replied bored and brewed a hot vanilla-pepper tea. # * puking * OMG, is there such a thing? And if so, how can you drink something disgusting and disgusting?* scary wusel * #
"You're right ... Kai's been acting weird since yesterday, first he locks himself in his room for hours, and then out of the blue he suggests that we make sure that Ty doesn't get out of bed for the week either. And the training comes along, of course. ", Ray said thoughtfully and started to set the table. Max grabbed a plate for himself, because Ty was not allowed to leave the bed and Kai would certainly stay with him to make sure that the Japanese really danced to his tune. So there were only two people in the kitchen.
"Hopefully Ty will get better soon. I'm really worried ..." Max muttered depressed to himself, while he sipped at his tea.
Ray could only agree with him dumbly.

Meanwhile up in Tyson's room:

Kai pushed the Japanese man's door open very quietly. The bedroom was darkened and the air smelled of sweat and illness. A smell that Kai knew only too well of himself, but which at that moment worried him very much.He moved cautiously through the dark room, and when he got to the window he quietly pulled the curtains open.
Tyson was lying on his side, breathing very calmly, in his bed and was still sound asleep. He had pulled the covers down almost to his stomach, so that one could see his free upper body, glistening with sweat, which rose and fell in time with his breath.
A wave of unprecedented feelings rushed to Kai when he saw his sleeping friend there. Reluctantly, he sat down on the edge of the bed and put his hand on the Japanese man's forehead. It was still hot, he estimated the body temperature of the sleeper at 39 °, if not higher.
Concerned, Kai ran over to the adjoining bathroom, took a bowl of lukewarm water and a cloth, and wrung it out on Tyson's forehead after he had gently turned the younger man onto his back.
"Kai ... sorry ..." Tyson whispered to himself in a dream.The addressee winced, startled. Tyson dreamed of him! What was that supposed to mean? He had whispered something about being sorry ... but who? and what? Was he sorry for hurting Kai so shamefully yesterday? Definitely not!
"You little idiot! You dream of me ...", Kai muttered incredulously, got himself a chair and sat down on the bed. He made up his mind to take good care of Tyson from now on, strangely enough, why, he didn't know himself, he was worried about the younger one and wanted to be around him. He didn't understand himself anymore, but he decided to listen to his heart for once and give in to inner urges.
The rest of the day was very calm. Tyson slept through the day, waking up only once, only to nod off, and Kai and his friends spent most of the day training. They weren't at all pleased that Kai was still giving them training despite everything, but they let it go without comment, and the fact that the team captain regularly checked Tyson every quarter of an hour to check his health left their mood only hinted at, but not increasing any further.Finally, after four hours of endurance training, Ray and Max were so exhausted that they went straight to their room and fell asleep. And that without supper, without anything.
Kai sighed and sank down on the sofa in the living room. He, too, was exhausted, even if he didn't show it in the least on the outside.
// Well, it works like clockwork! Ray is getting better and better, and Max has done four hours of training without a single whine, which I normally would never do! You can be really proud of that! //
Satisfied, Kai sank back and relaxed his eyes closed. A faint noise overhead startled him from his daydreams.
// Damn it, someone is sneaking around there! Is that Tyson? That can't be the case, he shouldn't get out of bed! // thought Kai angrily, and got up.
And sure enough, when he stormed into Tyson's room at one stroke, he caught the Japanese man trying to steal from the bedroom, probably to grab the dinner tray that Kai opened in the kitchen an hour ago had set the table."Lie down again immediately, well it will be soon? You are in bed for a whole week so that it is clear right away!", Kai snapped at the younger one, and roughly pushed him back into his bed.
"Hey, Kai, let me ... go!", Tyson gasped, frightened, and made a feeble attempt to defend himself, but against Kai's strength he was absolutely defenseless.
"Nothing there, you still have a fever, and the doctor said you should stay in bed this week so that your fever can cure properly!" Growled Kai and covered the younger boy. Tyson tried to fight back again.
"Kai, I ..."
"Shut up, I'll bring you something to eat. But then you go back to sleep immediately!"
"..." Tyson said nothing more.

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So that's it again! That was the second trick and the third will follow immediately! I hope it met your expectations, even if I let Kai and Tyson suffer a little! * fg *
Commissioners and criticism, as always, very welcome * nicknick *One reads
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