They came back to the same place where the bus was. Most of the people were already sleeping on the bus. It was midnight. Mexx looked at the bus, the people sleeping inside. It looked like a big family camping out.
He crept into the bus and laid the sleeping Vic on a seat. Abby was sleeping next to him. He wanted to kiss her on her forehead, but then she opened her eyes and punched Mexx in the face.
"Where have you been? I was worried about you. Whereby, what am I talking about... I was worried about little Vic, not about you, you idiot!", she said angrily and hugged Vic in relief.
"I was in Los Angeles. I looked at the apartment. I'll sell it tomorrow." Mexx said, still wondering how much it hurt. "It's a disaster, I fell through the floor-", he was interrupted by Abigail's laughter.
"Hehehehehe, hahahahahaha. Haha! Loser! Such a loser! You fell down where your level is. Hahahahahahaha...", he put his hand over her mouth.
"Hey, quiet! Did you drink? You sound drunk...", Covering her mouth helped her fall asleep in a flash.
"God... I'm really at the end...", Mexx said, almost asleep himself.
'I think I'm just sleeping now, who cares? And tomorrow Abigail is sure to return to normal', he thought.
And then he fell asleep after being without sleep for almost a day.
Day 14 of summer, year 6
He was woken up by Lewis' screams. It was already 10am. And his wife yelled at him.
"What do you want, can't I just sleep like normal people do?", he growled back and tried to sleep.
"So?", she said and got a bucket of cold water. Laughing, she shook the bucket out at him. But what is it? No reaction.
"Nice try...", he just said "Did you take the bucket with you to do that?" he kept trying to fall asleep.
"Hey man, he just doesn't want to get up." She called all the girls together and they all shouted at the same time:
"Get up, farmer, get up! Work is waiting for you!"
He wakes himself up and gets up immediately.
"Who, where, what, how, why?!", He looked questioningly at the six girls.
"I said, always helps!", Abigail said.
"Oh, congrats! You caught me on this one!", Mexx said "Y'know, I always hated being farmer. I only became farmer cuz I just didn't want to disappoint my grandad. You may don't believe me, but my parents hate me! Don't know why... When they threw me out of their house, they said: Go, search for a new life! After I came back from war without my brother because he is... you already know... So my grandad was the only good person in my family."
Abigail turned to him and looked at him in confusion.
"Otherwise I hate it. I am a civilized person. I've grown up in a city. I don't have anything to do with that. And yes, also because I wanted to earn a lot of money, that was the advantage. The disadvantage, however, was that I wasn't used to have my own house. I used to have either an apartment or ... also ... tents.", Mexx finished.
"About the tents that was in Gottoro, am I right?", he nodded. "Well I don't really know what to say about it, only that it wouldn't be possible to farm anyway. Otherwise I'm so fifty-fifty with the topic. But you know what, yes... yes, do what you want. Do you know actually how we make money now?!", she asked him and stepped closer to him. It looked threatening.
Then Mexx said: "There is still something I have to tell you.."
"And what is that?", she asked him, becoming extremely curious.
"But first MY question: Where were you yesterday?! Did you drink? What happened there?", Mexx asked quickly.
"It were three questions but ok.", Abigail responded. "Fine... I went to a club with a couple other girls... danced... and yes I drank some mojito. But I didn't know it'd knock me out that fast! I was carried back to the bus by some girls. I got in trouble from my mom and then I went to sleep. I was wondering where you were!"
"Aha, so you experienced the feeling of the twenties. For the first time. Did you happen to meet someone you know?", Mexx asked.
"Yeah, I met Sebby and all! He wanted to say hello to me but I was already drunk and pushed him away so hard that he crashed into the bar counter and all the bottles flew at him. Luckily nobody saw that it was me. He was then taken to the hospital. After half an hour I broke down and you already know the end."
"Um... so it's normal for something like this to happen? Good. Case solved and forgotten.", He just said and put on his sunglasses.
"So what did you want to tell me?", Abigail asked again.
After he explained it to her in detail, she surprisingly just said: "Well, money's now more important than a crumbling apartment that needs to be renovated! What about the car?"
"It.. wasn't there? I think it has been stolen by some guys. A while ago...", he replied.
"I won't even see the promised car, too bad...", she said sadly.
"And how we get the money, I already know. I will be a bus driver. $3000 gross wouldn't be bad! That would be enough for at least a few things-", he was interrupted by his wife's hug.
"You are a true hero, my darling! You are always so full of ideas", she said happily.
"I rarely say that, but you are the best thing that could happen in my life.", he said.
Lewis broke the romance.
"Hey, Mexx! I was there again and they said we can come tomorrow and get the adresses of our new apartments, and of course the keys too!", he gets out of the bus and calls out to the crowd: "Tomorrow we will all have a home again! Thanks to Mexx."
There was a loud rejoicing in the crowd.
