Date: June 26, 2004
Bill's house smelled like cinnamon. You know, those scented candles that make the place smell spicy. As soon as we walked through the door I saw a staircase leading upstairs in front of me and a living room to my right and a kitchen to my left, Bill led me to the kitchen and told me to sit my bottom down on a chair. I laughed but did as I was told. He started rummaging through the cabinets and found...nothing. "Great," he muttered, "I'll be right back. TOM!!" He ran upstairs and I looked around the kitchen. It looked like mine, kinda, except it was just a bit bigger. I looked at the table I was sitting at and found a paper with what I presumed was lyrics on it. I read them
"Das Fernster ffnet sich nicht mehr Hier drin ist's voll von dir und mehr Und vor mir geht die letzte Kerze aus Ich warte schon ne Ewigkeit Endlich ist es jetzt so weit und drau en ziehn die schwarzen Wolken auf"
I only got that far when Bill came back in. A kid with dread-locks followed him in and looked at me. "Wer ist sie?" he (I think) asked. "Ein kleines M dchen, dem ich zuschaue." Bill said to the boy. Ok, I was really not liking that I could not understand a word they were saying. I am so learning German. I glared at Bill and he looked at me apologetically. "Sorry, Tom is really crappy at English, he just asked me who you were." I looked at Tom and tried to remember what Bill had said to me earlier. Oh ya, "Hallo Tom," I said with a grin. "Lehre ihr Deutsch schon, Bill?" Tom said with a smirk. Bill just grinned and took a band-aid outta the box and bent down to put it on my leg. Tom rolled his eyes and left. "Who was he?" I asked. "My twin brother" Bill said smoothing out the bandage. "Hes your twin??" I asked in disbelief. Bill only laughed and said "Ja, unfortunately..." "You guys look nothing alike." He stood up and shook his head, smiling. "We have very different styles." I nodded my head, thinking I had said enough because I could feel my face getting hot again. Bill put a bowl of candy in front of me. "Help yourself," He said as he went towards the stairs again, "I'll be back in a sec." I nodded again and took the first thing I saw. I looked at it and tried to use the little German I knew to tell what it was. It was a sour candy. I smiled and put it in my mouth, not knowing Bill had come back down. I noticed him as soon as I bit down the first time, I smiled, wanting to show off how I could eat a sour candy without making a face. He came in and watched me intently and looked amazed when I swallowed the candy with no sign of a sour face. "Whoa, I thought I was the only one who could do that." He said. "I love sour candy." I said quietly. "Cool, now come on, lets go before I run outta sour candy" I had picked up two more. I put them in my pocket and got off the chair. "Where are we going?" I asked as we left the house. "My friend Andreas' house" He answered. "ok." I whispered.
We had only walked for about 20 minutes when Bill stopped at a fairly large house. "Wow." I said, and that was pretty much all I could say. The house was green with gold trim and shutters. "Interesting pick of colors.." I mumbled. Bill giggled and bent down to whisper in my ear " His parents have no taste in anything." "Hmm..." I pondered that thought and said "Ya? Sounds like my parents!" Bill snickered and led me by the hand up to the door, which brought back the blush that had creeped up when they had been talking about Tom. Bill rang the doorbell and they both heard the crash. " And Andreas is trying to cook again, lets see how much damage he did this time" Bill opened the door and peered in "Andreas?" He called. "Umm... I do not think you should come in here...Its a mess..." Bill rolled his eyes and went into the kitchen and told me to follow him. Andreas had flour all over him and pots and pans were everywhere. Andreas looked up and pouted "Seriously," He said,"we have much money and Mom still will not hire a cook. We all suck at it but she just will not listen." I giggled and Andreas looked at me. He smiled sweetly and asked "Who are you?" And it did not sound rude like Tom had. "Hi" I said shyly, trying not to laugh at the flour on his face, "I'm Irene". Andreas smiled and looked at Bill, who was smiling like a nutbar. "Ya know Andy," Bill said, "Maybe you should wash your face. You look like a ghost whose slowly coming back to life." Andreas nodded his head and ran upstairs." I looked at Bill and asked him why Andreas had spoken to him in English. "Andreas is the one who taught me English," he smiled," He was always interested in the language, thank god." I wanted to say something but Andreas came bounding down the stairs all cleaned up. "Bill, I cannot help you today, I have to "cook" dinner for tonight." He said looking like he had an evil plan up his sleeve. Bill jokingly looked scared. "Ok, bye."
We left and as we did Bill's phone rang. He looked at the caller ID. "It's your mom," He said picking up the phone, "Hi Dawna. No, well not alot anyway. Are you sure? Ok then, I will. Bye" He hung up and looked at me "I'm gonna bring you home now, k?" I really did not want to go home but I know it would look weird if I put up a fight about it. I looked down, trying really hard to hide my disappointment and quickly figured out that I sucked at hiding any emotion, except of course when I liked someone. I could hide that pretty well. Oh well, I will learn to hide the others. Anyway, back to the disappointment thing, it must've shown more then I meant it to because he made me look up at him. "I'll see if you can come visit tomorrow ok?" I nodded my head and started walking home with him. Soon we came up to my house and I opened the door and let Bill come in. My Mom was in the kitchen trying to read the instructions on the back of something. "Hi mom," I chirped. She looked up and smiled then her eyes went to Bill. "Will you come to read this please? I have no idea what it says!" Bill went over and pushed buttons on the stove and told her to keep it on for 15 minutes. "Ok, thank you. Oh and thank you for watching her today," She said, "you do not know how much it helped. Do you want me to pay you?" Bill shook his head and said "Nah, its ok," he said, "Bye" "Bye Bill," I squeaked. He just smiled and left. Mom looked at me and grinned " Did you have fun?" "Mhm, I am going upstairs to read," I bounded up the stairs and as soon as my head hit the pillow I closed my eyes and fell asleep. Luckily I was not hungry. :-)