At the next morning I got up early to prepare breakfast.

 

Christina showed up just in time.

 

She's even more beautiful without all that make-up. What a natural beauty...

 

“Bruce?”

“Yeah, what's up?”

“I had a wonderful evening yesterday.”

“Yeah, me too, it was like a wonderful dream.”

“Glad to hear that... Sooo... I am wondering...”

“What's up, you can tell me everything.”

“... Am I just a one-night stand for you?”

“What? Nooo! I want you to be more than just a one-night stand for me. I really have feelings for you!”

“I am so happy you said that. I also have feelings for you.”

 

Soon after the breakfest it was time for Christina to return to her family.

But not without a warm goodbye.

 

Later that day, Marco called me and invited me for Sunday.

 

They had a little house in the outskirts of Windenburg.

I found Marco in front of his house.

 

“Hi, Bruce. Nice that you came.”

“Hi, Marco, thanks for the invitation.”

“I just wanted to feet the fishes. You can go inside, I will follow soon.”

 

So, I went inside.

 

Marco's wife was sitting in the living room watching TV.

 

“Oh, hi, you must be Bruce. Please have a seat.”

She pointed to the place beside her.

“Sure, thanks.”

 

“Hi, I am Angela, nice to meet you Bruce.”

“Nice to meet you too, Angela.”

“Ah, you met already.” Marco came inside.

“Momi, can we play fairy and nasty wizard again?” A little girl ran into the room.

“Oh, not now, sweetheart. This is daddy's friend Bruce, say hello to him.”

“Heeelllloooo.”

“Hello...”

“Tina”

“Hello, Tina, nice to meet you.”

“So, Bruce, Angela and I need to move some furniture upstairs, can you stay with Tina for a while?”

“Ah...”

“Thank you, so nice of you! Sweetheart, stay with Bruce for a while, ok?”

 

With that words, Angela and Marco went upstairs...

 

“Ahm... sooo... Tina, how's school?”

“I don't go to your mortal school, that's boring.”

Mortal school? WTF?

“Ahm... do you have some friends here you can play with?”

“No. Your questions are booooring.”

“Do you want to play something with me instead?”

“Yes, let's play Llama Tower!”

“Ahm... ok...”

I have no clue what that is...

 

She took me to a table, stacked some wooden sticks on it and set a wooden Llama on top.

 

“Now remove one of the sticks without the tower collapsing.”

“Ok, that's easy...”

 

I had no idea why they needed to move some furniture right now.

Months later, Marco told me, what they really did upstairs.

 

“Yeah, I won!”

How did this happen? I barely touched the stick...

 

“Great, sweetheart!”

“Oh, there you are. Everything ok with the furniture?”

“Yes, now we are satisfied.”

“Yes, it was a pleasant experience.”

Why do they both grin so strange?

 

“So, Bruce, do you want something? We have some crackers.”

“Yes, thanks.”

“Come, join me on the couch, let's talk a little bit.”

 

“So, you and Christina, yeah? How nice for both of you!”

“What did she tell you?”

“Only that you had a nice evening and that she stayed over night. So, it's quite obvious what happened.”

“It was a wonderful evening...”

“Honestly, I am so happy for you, especially for her as she had not the best taste in men recently. But now I have the feeling, she found her soulmate.”

 

*Whhhrrrr, cough, retch*

“Bruce, everything ok?”

*Cough*

“I don't like that word, bad memories, but thanks for your warm words.”

“Oh, I am sorry.”

“But you're right, I have a special feeling for Christina.”

“You love her.”

“I think it's to early to speak of love.”

“Yeah, you love her, you just need to stand by your feelings.”

“Maybe... Ahm, you have a wonderful family. You must be so proud.”

“Yes, I am, Tina is my everything and Angela is my true love, to use another word.”

“Speaking of Tina, she said something about that she don't visits “mortal school”. What did she mean with that?”

“Hahahaha, don't attach too much importance to her words, she likes messing around with strangers.”

 

I also found out that Marco worked as fitness trainer. Angela had some job in the government's office in San Mayshuno.

Marco and I had much things in common. We both were interested in all topics related to mental and physical fitness and we both were sports fans and little nerds.

I stayed a little longer, had a relaxing afternoon and went home the early evening.