Monday 3 November 2014

from france to portugal

When he was four years old his mother often took him to the park in France, then one day she met another mother, who was out and about with her daughter. As the little ones were playing with one another the mothers started a conversation and so his mom discovered that the daughter was two and a half years younger than the boy and that she visited a french private school, this girl had the best future a mother could wish for her child. The two mothers met each other quite a lot and whilst they were talking the children always played with each other. As soon as the two week holiday was over the mother, the father and the son flew back home to Switzerland, but they never lost contact, even when he got a brother, they always visited france and the other family again and again. As the years went by him and her became really close friends, and since there was never a spark, they continued to confide in each other with every thing. They wrote E-Mails as good as that goes when you are ten years old and your parents have to help you. But as he was arround the age of fourteen and she just turned eleven, her father got promoted to Portugal and so the family moved to Portugal. And that was the point when he knew that he would never see her again, and against all odds he always tried his hardest to stay in contact with her.

They skyped at least once a week, and mailed nearly every other day. They needn't be beside each other, they were already happy to see each other and read from each other. But one day she called him, and that already made him weary because they never called, it simply cost too much... He took the call and the first thing he heard were her breaths and total silence. She was afraid, she had just been in a car accident with her parents and was still stuck in the car. Both her parents too, but they were already dead and she had already called an ambulance she told him. As he heard that he was completely shocked, then he decided the best idea was to distract her. So he made her remember all the good things they had lived through together; he reminded her of her eleventh birthday when he had made a party and filmed the whole thing for her, so she could join him. He sang all of the songs the had invented together. But after a while even that didn't help alot anymore, because she got more and more sleepy by the second, and he made the effort to keep her awake. But then she suddenly said, she knows that her time was up and that she had to go now. He had been crying for quite a while now and begged her not to go and to stay by his side. But already there her answers were getting weaker and weaker untill she didn't answer anymore. That whole time he begged her, and when she gave her last answer he promised her that he would see her on the other side.

He stayed on the telephone until some one picked it up and told him that they were all dead.


source: a good friend