A Whole New Beginning
1
The man walks into the silent café and sits down on a chair. He orders a cup of coffee and starts to think through the last coupe of years.
He wonders how Joey’s doing over at the hospital, how his parents are, they never come to him anymore, only he does.
He can’t believe that it’s been four years since that horrible day, he had read about it in the next morning’s paper, and he directly went to the hospital to see how Joey was doing.
That girl didn’t see him, well, that’s kind of obvious because he had stood behind a plant and heard everything the doctors had told her, and then, when the parents arrived he walked to them and took them into a room and spoke to them, he told them about the things that had happened to Joey, and they didn’t understand it all at first but then it sank into their minds and they got what he said.
“How do you know Joey?”, the father had asked, he remembered it as it was yesterday, and he had just said to them both:
“I knew him, let’s just keep to that for now, I know him, I’m his friend and I read about it the day after the accident and went here to see how he was.”
Joey’s parents had just looked at him like he was some kind of freak.
But he forgave them for that, because, they didn’t know what he knew, the thing Joey and he shared.
And he had no intent to tell them, not just yet. He would, because Joey had made him promise that he wouldn’t. Joey had said that he had to promise not to tell anyone:
“Please, Nick! Don’t tell mum and dad, I don’t want them to know, not yet, but soon!”, Joey said to Nick, that day in the clothes shop where they met.
He had invited Joey to come and listen to music at his place some day, and Joey ad gladly accepted it.
He, Joey, had come to Nick’s the next day and said that he got beaten by the kids in school and that he didn’t want to continue to be an outsider.
Then Nick had said to him that he shouldn’t care about them.
“Strike back then, kiddo”, he said and blinked at Joey to cheer him up.
And Joey had done just that, he had shown those idiots that he wouldn’t tolerate that treatment anymore.
So he kicked the gang’s leader and spit in his face, and the next day he had to go to another class just because he had given back.
But, Joey had fought for his right to be himself and even the last day awake he had done that, by singing ‘Minority’ by Green Day on the graduation day, Nick was actually kind of proud of the little kiddo.
He wonders how Joey’s doing over at the hospital, how his parents are, they never come to him anymore, only he does.
He can’t believe that it’s been four years since that horrible day, he had read about it in the next morning’s paper, and he directly went to the hospital to see how Joey was doing.
That girl didn’t see him, well, that’s kind of obvious because he had stood behind a plant and heard everything the doctors had told her, and then, when the parents arrived he walked to them and took them into a room and spoke to them, he told them about the things that had happened to Joey, and they didn’t understand it all at first but then it sank into their minds and they got what he said.
“How do you know Joey?”, the father had asked, he remembered it as it was yesterday, and he had just said to them both:
“I knew him, let’s just keep to that for now, I know him, I’m his friend and I read about it the day after the accident and went here to see how he was.”
Joey’s parents had just looked at him like he was some kind of freak.
But he forgave them for that, because, they didn’t know what he knew, the thing Joey and he shared.
And he had no intent to tell them, not just yet. He would, because Joey had made him promise that he wouldn’t. Joey had said that he had to promise not to tell anyone:
“Please, Nick! Don’t tell mum and dad, I don’t want them to know, not yet, but soon!”, Joey said to Nick, that day in the clothes shop where they met.
He had invited Joey to come and listen to music at his place some day, and Joey ad gladly accepted it.
He, Joey, had come to Nick’s the next day and said that he got beaten by the kids in school and that he didn’t want to continue to be an outsider.
Then Nick had said to him that he shouldn’t care about them.
“Strike back then, kiddo”, he said and blinked at Joey to cheer him up.
And Joey had done just that, he had shown those idiots that he wouldn’t tolerate that treatment anymore.
So he kicked the gang’s leader and spit in his face, and the next day he had to go to another class just because he had given back.
But, Joey had fought for his right to be himself and even the last day awake he had done that, by singing ‘Minority’ by Green Day on the graduation day, Nick was actually kind of proud of the little kiddo.