Lost
Chapter 1
Thisstory takes place around the time Tony broke up with Kathleen. In my story, however, it didn't take Tony that long to confess his love to Angela.
Monday morning
Tony and Angela greet each other passionately when Angela joins him in the kitchen. Jonathan sits at the kitchen table and eats his breakfast. Mona sits next to him. They talk and Jonathan then looks slightly disgusted at Tony and Angela, who can hardly contain themselves with the happiness of love. "Take a room!" he says, hastily finishing his glass of juice. Then he gets up and goes out of the kitchen, "see you then" you can hear him shouting briefly. Tony and Angela don't notice this and whisper something in each other's ears
Mona watches them with sparkling eyes and lets out a loud sigh. Tony and Angela slowly look over at Mona, as if in slow motion. Angela raises her eyebrows.
"Oh you two, I could watch you for hours but unfortunately I have to go now!" she gets up, takes a quick bite of her toast and walks out. Tony turns his attention back to Angela. He pulls her very close to him by the hips, "I could look at you for hours my love, but I still have to get to the Uni. I have two important exams to write today." He gives her an intimate kiss. "I'll tell you what, when I get back home later, we'll pick up where we left off..." Angela smiles at him in love. "It's good, Tony," she kisses him again on the mouth and then pulls away from his arms.
Then she sits down at the table where her coffee is already ready. Tony says goodbye and then makes his way to the university. A little later the lecture hall is slowly filling up with all the students of the course. Tony looks around and then down to the teacher... Soon I'll be teaching too...he thinks to himself and has a satisfied smile on his face.
The teacher starts the lesson after a few minutes. Steve, his studies buddy, has sat down next to him. He whispers to him, "he shhh Tony" . Tony tilts his head slightly to Steve, "yes?"
"Did you study well for the exam? I hardly slept but I think the effort was worth it..."
"Good luck my friend," Tony says quickly to him, smiles and returns to the lesson.
"... Hey Tony..." Steve whispers again.
"What's up?" Tony whispers back, trying to follow the teacher.
"Shall we meet with the study group again tomorrow evening? Old Schubert said that we should work out different forms of pedagogy and we could divide them up well, you know..."
"Mr. Miller, do you have anything to contribute to the lesson?" the teacher shouts loudly.
"Sorry, no..." Steve blushes red. Everyone laughs quietly and then it gets quieter again.
When class is over Tony, Steve, and two other students meet in front of the lecture hall and plan to meet.
"Where's Kathleen?" asks Mel.
Steve shakes his head hastily and secretly points at Tony.
Tom joins the group. "Sorry guys, I had something else to discuss. So when do we meet again?"
"Tomorrow late afternoon?" Mel asks.
"Ok good Idea" Tony says.
Tom looks around "where's Kathleen, I didn't see her in class today, we should ask her too..."
Steve pats Tom on the shoulder "I don't think that's such a good idea, I've heard she's found a new study group anyway after she and Tony... well, you know, broke up."
Tony nods, "yes, maybe it's better that way!"
Mel whispers to Natalie. "yes, I heard she's sick...I don't know. I'll call her later."
Together we walk towards the campus to enjoy the beautiful weather.
They sit down on the lawn and chats a bit before continuing with the lesson. Tony talks about Angela and how happy he is now. Everyone congratulates him and is happy for Tony. Everyone is talking about the exam and how it went.
So the day slowly goes by. In the afternoon, Tony makes his way home.
He says goodbye to his fellow students.
When he gets home, he goes straight to the kitchen to prepare the food.
At 5 p.m., Angela comes home, takes off her coat and goes to the kitchen. She greets Tony and then settles down in the chair, exhausted.
"Busy day, huh?" says Tony, noticing how tired Angela is.
"Oh yes..." she says, yawning. "I'll eat something and then treat myself to a nice and relaxing bubble bath."
Tony grins, his thoughts evaporate...
He arranges the food and they both have dinner together. When they're done, Tony does the dishes and Angela goes upstairs to the bathroom.
An hour later, they both find themselves on the couch. Arm in arm, they watch TV. Angela's eyes keep falling shut until she finally falls asleep in Tony's arms.
"Angela?" Tony says softly, listening to her soft breathing. He carefully brushes a strand of hair out of her face and watches her sleep for a moment. ... How beautiful and peaceful she sleeps...he thinks lovely.
Then, after a while, he nudges her "... Angela. Come on, you have to go to bed..."
"Mmhh? ..." she says softly, half asleep.
"Come on, I'll help you," he gets up and carefully picks her up and carries her up the stairs in his arms. She wraps her arms around him and rests her head on his chest.
Once in her room, he carefully puts her to bed and covers her. He looks at her for a moment ... My little sweet pretty Angela... he thinks to himself and gives her a gentle goodnight kiss on the cheek.
He goes back down to the living room, it's 9 p.m. Not so late yet. He sits down on the couch and switches back and forth through the programs. "oh yes the Marcs Brothers".
Then the phone rings. Tony presses the remote control and turns down the volume of the TV. ...who calls so late?...
He picks up the phone and says more quietly, "yes, hello, here at Bower and Micelli's?"
He waits for a moment and hears who is there, but no one answers, he only hears a soft breathing.
"Hello? Who's there?" he asks again. Then he hears it hang up.
... hm weird... He puts the receiver back on the station. After that, he turns off the TV and stretches. He goes to bed, because tiredness is now setting in for him too.
The next morning, he discusses the day's schedule with Angela and that he will meet with his study group. Angela looks at him with a slightly worried look. Tony walks up to her, puts his arms around her "don't worry, nothing is being done but studying. Nothing can get in our way or separate us anymore" He gives her a tender kiss. Angela reciprocates passionately and hugs him tightly.
Tony pulls away from her slightly "so those wonderful kisses in the morning are already becoming our ritual, I like that," he jokes around. "Tony.." Angela says sheepishly.
They then part ways again. Tony goes to university and Angela to the agency. They won't see each other again until late in the evening, after Tony has studied with his study group.
In the late afternoon.
At Steve`s home.
Everyone discussed, divided up and exchanged their topics.
They treat themself to a delicious meal from the Chinese. Just as Mel comes back to bring the food, she accompanies Kathleen through the door.
Both of them stand in the hallway for a short time and discuss something. Then they go to the living room.
"Hey Mel, that was fast, oh dear, did it rain so much?" Steve looks at Mel, who is still standing in front of everyone with her wet jacket and the big hood on her head, with the food bags in her hand. "Yes, haha, it did, can someone help me please!"
Tony gets up and helps Mel and only now notices that Kathleen is standing in the living room entrance. "Kathleen...hi..." He looks at her. Pale and slightly dazed, she stands there, the rain dripping down her jacket. She waves fleetingly.
Then she turns her attention to Steve. "Hey Steve... uhm.. you still have two of my books, I desperately need them for tomorrow..."
Steve turns to her, "Oh hey, Kath. Of course, I'll bring it to you...would you like to have a bite to eat with us?"
Tony looks back and forth between Kathleen and Steve. He is very uncomfortable with the whole situation and hopes that she will say no and leave quickly.
Kathleen glances at Tony and notices his discomfort, she feels the same way.
"... no thanks Steve, I just wanted to get my books."
"But there's enough!" says Steve, pointing to the Chinese food that Tom and Natalie are spreading out on the table.
Tony nudges Steve with his elbow.
"What?" he says louder. It takes a while for him to check the situation. "Oh.. OK... yes... Then don't, wait, I'll get your books".
"Thank you," Kathleen says more quietly, still standing in the doorway. Mel has taken off her wet jacket and turns her attention to Kathleen. "Hey well, how are you? You look pale and tired..."
Kathleen looks over at Tony, who quickly stuffs a few noodles into his mouth so he doesn't have to talk.
"Um...yes you know it's like this..." Kathleen says more quietly and is then interrupted by Steve.
"Here are your books" he presses the books into her hand and sits down with the others at the table. He grabs a noodle pot and quickly gulps down the noodle as if there were no tomorrow.
Tony laughs, then chokes easily and coughs. He gets up and quickly goes to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
" ... I'm fine Mel, thank you..." Kathleen says fleetingly, and then goes to Tony in the kitchen.
Mel looks at her for a moment, thinks nothing of it and sits down with the others.
"Hey Tony..."
Tony turns around in horror and snorts out the water he just had in his mouth.
"Kathleen...yes?! ..."
"Well, that's what I call a greeting..."
Tony frowns. "Excuse me. How... how are you?" An unpleasant sensation makes itself felt in the pit of his stomach. He has always tried to avoid meeting her again. Even at university, he always avoided her after the relationship broke off. And now she's standing in front of him again.
"... Tony you know...well... I'm not doing so well... But anyway, how are you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.." he doesn't really want to go into detail about this conversation and tries to wriggle out of it. „ Me? I'm fine. So Angela and I are doing very well together!"
Kathleen looks at him with less than enthusiasm "you and Angela? Aha...well that was fast...!"
Tony has to laugh out loud "Fast? Kathleen, I beg you, 7 years is not fast!"
"Oh, excuse me," she replies with a slight snap and takes a few steps towards him.
Tony will be very uncomfortable.
"Tony, I need to talk to you!"
He looks at his watch, he wants to escape from the unpleasant situation immediately.
"Kathleen, I really have to go now!" he says quickly and walks past her. He quickly grabs his jacket and flees to the door. "Bye guys" and the door behind him slams shut.
Everyone turns to Kathleen, who is back in the living room and just shrugs.
During the entire car ride, Tony ponders what she was trying to tell him.
... I'm sure she wants me back... That's why she looks so pale... She can't sleep because of me... And probably cries his eyes out... But it's over with us. She needs to understand that. It's over and done with!.
When he gets home, he quickly walks in, Angela sits on the couch and leafs through the newspaper, she looks at Tony, who comes straight up to her, forces her to get up and takes her firmly in his arms and kisses passionately.
She pushes him away slightly to catch her breath "Tony, hi, it's nice to see you too" she says in a happy voice "everything alright?"
Tony looks at her, "yes... No..."
Angela pulls away from him and sits down on the couch. "What's up, Tony?"
Tony sits down next to her. "Don't worry, nothing serious... I think... You love me, don't you?"
Angela looks at him very confused, "Yes, of course, Tony, what's going on?"
Tony looks down for a moment and then into her eyes. He takes Angela's hands in his: "Well, just as we were about to eat something, Kathleen was suddenly there... She wanted to pick up books and I was in the kitchen and she wanted to talk to me..."
Angela's gaze deepens, she pulls her hands out of his.
"No, no, Angela, not what you think. For God's sake, I would never do that to you again!" He puts his hands on her lap. She puts her hands on his again.
"Ok Tony, excuse me..."
"I just wanted to tell you, I have no idea what the woman wanted from me! It was very uncomfortable. Like a ghost that haunts you."
"What did she want from you?" asks Angela.
Tony shrugs his shoulders "I don't know, but she should leave me alone! Come on, I'll make us something to eat, unfortunately I only had a little noodle for dinner before I fled" He stands up and takes her by the hand. Tony pulls Angela slightly behind him to the kitchen.
... What did she want from him...? Angela wonders.