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Five people sat around a small card table in a small apartment in the small town of Magdeburg East Germany.
One was a dashing lad with long brown hair, soft green eyes and a strong jaw by the name of Georg.
One was a short, sturdy man by the name of Gustav.
He had soft blond hair, dark, intriguing eyes and pursed lips.
A man with shaggy black hair, dark eyes and a joyful smirk smacked two kings down on the table.
"In your face Tom!" Bill shouted, pointing at his winning card.
Tom, the shaggy haired man's twin brother rolled his eyes and put down an ace.
Mia, Tom's girlfriend, laughed and fingered one of Tom's loose dreadlocks.
"That's just great!" Georg laughed.
Bill stuck out his tongue and pushed his cards out in front of him.
"I give up, this game is stupid anyway." Bill said throwing his hands in the air.
Gustav laughed and said "You're just mad because Tom always wins."
Mia simply smirked.
Bill looked into the freckled face that was next to him on his brother's lap.
"He cheated didn't he?" Bill asked.
Mia laughed and pushed her soft blond hair out of her face. The mass of bushy curls had started to deflate. "He picked that card out of the deck when he shuffled it." She smiled sweetly.
Tom threw his hands in the air and let out a strangled grunt. "What the hell?!" he asked her.
It was clear to the rest of the table that he really had cheated. "I tell it like it is." Mia smiled, her blue eyes sparkling.
"You're useless, why do I keep you around anyway?" Tom grumbled.
"'Cause I'm good in bed." Mia smirked.
Bill and Georg laughed loudly as Gustav snickered and Tom mumbled something under his breath.
Suddenly there was a large BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! at the door.
Every thing stopped in that instant.
Two words were going through everyone's mind.
"Secret police"
"OPENTHEFUCKINGDOORYOUMORONS!" a scream came from the other side.
Everyone took an uneasy breath at the sound of the voice.
Bill rushed to the door and opened it wide to see his girlfriend of four years standing on the door step.
Part of him was overjoyed to see her.
Partly because it had been a whole seven hours since he had seen her this morning and that he was so entirely infatuated with the girl that he couldn't stand to be away from her for more than an hour (the reason he was at his best friend's house playing a rather silly card game)
And also because he was glad that it indeed was not the secret police.
Had it been the Stasi they would have been in deep trouble.
Bill knew for a fact that he had at least four folders at the Stasi headquarters.
Something that he was rather proud of, even if he could die because of it.
But instead of seeing her face happy or natural or even slightly irritated because he had not come to the door fast enough.
She was crying, sobbing even.
There Rittie stood on the doorstep with her hands over her face, her chest racking with sobs.
At once Bill wrapped his arms around her and smoothed her ruffled black hair.
"Shhhh…." Bill cooed in her ear.
"What happened?" Gustav said, putting a soft hand on her shoulder.
Rittie looked up at them with her wide, steel grey eyes.
Her pupils were dilating so much that only a small amount of color could be seen.
"Turn- Turn on the TV." She muttered, clinging to Bill's chest.
At once, every one ran to the small TV in the corner.
As they turned it on everything in front of them was a haze of motion and words and shouting.
"What does this mean?" Georg asked.
Mia clung to Tom as he petted her hair.
"We're free." Rittie said, a smile forming beneath the tears.
"I told you, I'm not driving to Austria." Both Bill and Tom said at the same time.
Sure, the government had opened the borders of Hungary and Austria. But the concept of driving such just go get out of the state, nonsense.
"NO YOU FOOLS!" Rittie said her voice thick. "He let us go, He said we can leave! We can travel abroad at our own free will." She said, laughing hysterically.
Bill looked at Rittie just as if she were going mad.
"So the borders aren't just opened in Hungary?" he asked.
"Nope! Everywhere! We can go to Check Point Charley whenever we want!" she shouted.
Mia let out a squeal as everyone else started to jump around.
Georg and Gustav were hugging, Mia was laughing and Bill and Rittie were jumping up and down.
"There's just one little issue…" Gustav said after a moment, breaking through the excited voices.
"What?" Mia asked with a confused look on her face.
"We can't just leave." Gustav sighed.
"Err, why not?" Georg asked.
"One, because we don't have a lot of money, two we don't have jobs and three we've got family here, who knows if they'll end up shutting the border again, I don't want to be stuck in the West with my family here." Gustav said "We can't just leave."
"DUDE! You're harshing my mellow!" Rittie shouted.
"My point still stands." Gustav said.
Georg flopped down on the couch with a huff.
"Why don't we wait? Wait for a while, save up our money and leave when we all can, not when it seems like a fun thing to do." Gustav said.
"The dude's gotta point." Tom sighed.
Things were silent for a moment before Rittie said "No." quite suddenly and quite fiercely.
"What do you mean 'no.'?" Georg asked.
"I'm leaving." Rittie said. "I've got money in the bank, enough to live on until I get a job, I won't stay here any longer."
"Love, think about it." Bill said. "He's got a point."
"No." Rittie said, shaking her head back and forth briskly, her black died shag hair cut bounced around her face.
"You're going?" Bill asked.
She nodded.
"Then I'm going with you." Bill said sighing slightly.
She smiled softly and kissed him on the cheek.
"Fine! I'm coming too." Tom grumbled, there was no way that he was going to let
Bill go without him.
"Does that mean that I'm coming too?" Mia asked, leaning on Tom.
"If you want to." Tom said quietly. He loved Mia, He had since they were children. But if she didn't want to go, he would not force her.
Still, the thought of leaving her here, he could hardly stand it.
Mia and Tom looked at each other for a long while.
"Do you want me to go?" she finely said softly.
"Yes." Tom said at once.
"Then I will go, but, on one condition." Mia said raising a finger.
"Anything." Tom said softly.
Rittie was leaning heavily on Bill, the gravity of the situation finely having sunk in to full extent, she felt sick and tired.
Bill simply stroked her hair softly.
"You have to promise me that you'll never leave me, I'm not going to start a new life in a new place just so you can leave me alone."
"Always and forever…" Tom said softly as he held her hand.
Georg looked at Gustav as Gustav said; "All right, we're in."
