Chapter 2:
“Watch your steps here and don’t look at the big mess!” we brought her into my room. We brought her to the bed where she sat down. Here in the room with the lights on, you could really see what she had gone through. Eero came with some ice, which she could put on her face. On the way here we had called the police and informed them what happened. They would come to the hotel to check it out. The girl hasn’t said a thing yet but that was understandable. I sat down next to her “it will be alright! Aki scared them away for you!” The girl looked at Aki who sat in front of her with a smile on his face and he made some weird gesture like he was superman. The girl smiled for a moment, then she looked at all of us and with a soft voice she said: “Thank you!”
We all took care of her; we gave her some water and something to eat. After a little while the girl must have felt more comfortable because she started talking. “I just can’t understand these guys! Just because I’m a bit weird doesn’t mean you’ve got to beat me up like that!” I was a bit surprised when I heard this, she looked so fragile at first but now when I looked at her I saw anger in her eyes, her hands into fist like she would going to hit one of us real soon! She stood up but almost fell down again, because of the pain. Eero caught her up in time so that she wouldn’t fall on the ground again “you better just sit down for a while, by the way what’s your name?” when she sat down she sighted. “I guess you are right, my name is Kathleen but most of my friends all call me Kat”
“Kat?”
“It has been my nickname for a long time, it all started when I almost scratched someone’s eye out because I was totally pissed off. Though it was his own fault.. He shouldn’t ruin my project!” she smiled and she didn’t really look like the girl she was a few minutes ago.
While we were talking with Kathleen we heard someone knocking on the door. Pauli opened the door and came back with two policemen walking behind him. “Hello, good day” they said to us and walked over to Kathleen “so, what happened to you, miss?”
“Kathleen…” she said her back name as well but I missed it because I was staring at her. I admired her that was for sure, sure she was crying and all but that was logical, but the way she was now able to talk about it.. Like there was nothing wrong. “Now please tell me what has happened, why did they attacked you?”
“Well I was in the bar across the street I was, can’t remember the name of the street though… Anyway when I was walking through the street to find some nice hotel for myself those two guys followed me. At first they just called names at me so I didn’t pay attention to them, then they finally caught up with me and they started pushing me around which ended up in beating me up. Luckily for me they arrived and helped me out.” she pointed at us. We smiled when Pauli came back with some beers and water for Eero and Kathleen. The policeman wrote everything down on his little notebook and asked a description of the two guys. Off course we helped her to describe them as best as possible and then the two policemen left.
I let them out of the room, and waked into the bathroom quickly followed by Aki. “Hey Lauri..”
“What?”
“What are we supposed to do with her now? I mean she can’t stay here.. And to be honest.. I’m pretty tired.”
“Well, just say she has got to go home then, I mean we have helped her out right? There is nothing more we can do for her.” Aki nodded and left the bathroom.
I looked in the mirror and looked at myself. My eyes all smudged because sweated at the concert. I looked pale at least that was my conclusion. I sighted which was resulted with a sharp pain in my stomach. The whole time I didn’t felt a thing and now it all came up. The pain didn’t stop and I started to feel sick. “I shouldn’t have taken that beer,” I said softly to myself. I walked to the toilet and threw up, thank god the other were talking loudly so that they wouldn’t hear a thing. I had a disgusting taste in my mouth so I took some water to wash it away though it wasn’t all gone. I looked in the mirror again. It was quite a rare sight seeing me like this, with my face all white and the rest black. I opened the door and walked to the others, though the pain wouldn’t leave anymore.
When I came back everybody looked at me. “Are you okay? You look very pale!” I sat down on the bed and nodded “yeah, I’m fine, don’t worry” Kathleen looked at me, and again I saw those blue eyes shining brightly like she was happy. “I just heard that I’m save by famous rock stars!” I smiled “we aren’t that famous”
“If people are travelling over the world just to give concerts than I think you are pretty famous!” We all laughed except for me but I did my best to smile. My stomach just hurt like hell and all I want right now is to sleep. It was Eero who finally started about it. “Hey, Kathleen.. Don’t you have to go back to your home or whatever you are staying in?” Kathleen’s smile suddenly disappeared again and now I finally saw something back from the girl that we helped out on the street. “Actually I don’t have a place to stay.. I was looking for a cheap hotel but I just couldn’t find any..”
“Can’t you stay elsewhere? Don’t you have got some friends somewhere in the neighbourhood?” Kathleen shook her head “it’s actually a long story but well just say my family is messed up. Since my father left my mother it has been going downhill with us. My mother threw me out of the house saying that it was my fault and the fact that she has got her new lover around and that she wants to be alone. I got some money from her so that I could spend some time in hotels until I found some work though it is hard for me finding one. I’m a designer you know!” I closed my eyes while I listened to her story. It would be a long night. Why does these things have to happen when you don’t feel all right.