Dear Dieter

First Chapter

2:32 in the morning, he looked to his nightstand clock, ‘’-Shit, not this again.″ he thought to himself. Another nightmare, as usual. Countless nights this same thing happened, he was really used to this feeling of despair after waking up, but still hurt him every single time.

‘’-Better get up and get some water’’, he said to himself in a low voice. He got up and looked around, the room was a mess like it was supposed to be, there was a weak moonlight coming from outside the window and illuminating a small corner of the room, he looked at it for a minute or so, then got off. He went to the kitchen, grabbed a bottle from the shelf close to the fridge and poured some water into it, sipped just a little bit and went back to his room. He closed the window and the curtains, blocking the moonlight that was illuminating a small part of the room, turned on the light and sat on his bed with the bottle on his hands. He looked to his right, close to his clock was a small notebook with a brown cover and a yellow stripe, he raised his arm to take, but was hesitant, ‘’-Maybe right now is not the time, it’s late as shit.’’, he dropped the water bottle on the ground and went to sleep again.

Restless nights, as usual. Nothing new. It was 7 in the morning, his phone was going crazy with the alarm, he reached it and turned it off, sat up on the bed and looked to the corner of the room, he got up and went to the bathroom. After a long hot shower, he dried himself and went back to his room. ‘‘-There it is, the fucking thing staring at me again.″, he flipped the book and look to its cover, it read Klaus Lee, ‘‘-Grandpa would be happy if he knew I have this thing now, even though I’m not really using it as I should.″ he thought and smirked, then threw the notebook on the drawer. He looked in the mirror while putting his usual white polo shirt and his black pants, ‘’-I look like shit.″ he thought, sat down and looked to his black sneaker, put them on and went out.

On his way to the university he looked to the street, the cars, the sun, the houses and felt the breeze, something nice crossed his mind on that moment, he smiled and stopped, he looked up, there was a big tree close to him, beautiful leaves and flowers were looking back at him, ‘’-Better get going or I’m gonna get late to my class.’’ he thought. He got back to his mind and kept walking to the university building.

Entering his class, he realized that the class had started already, he looked to the closest sit to the door and sat there, the professor suddenly stopped speaking and cast a look at him:

’’-Aham.″, she cleared her throat, ’’-Mr. Lee, late again aren’t we?″, she asked with an arrogant tone of voice,

’’-Oh..″ he acted surprised, ’’-I’m sorry professor, my phone was on a different time zone for some reason.″ he smirked, ’’-But it won’t happen again, I promise you.″ he said nicely. She looked at him and then back to the class and kept talking about whatever she was talking about before. He was lost in thought, thinking about his nightmare from the night before, although he couldn’t remember it very well, he knew it’d been a bad dream.

After the class he was going to the cafeteria to eat something since he hadn’t eaten breakfast yet, he sat down at a chair close to the edge of the cafeteria and started wondering what to eat. Coming from a distance he saw a small boy, ginger and a little chubby with freckles all over his face, he looked to the boy coming to his table and thought ‘’-Geek fuck.″, then smirked with sarcasm.

‘’-Hi Dieter, how you doing?″, asked the ginger boy.

’’-Hi Tom, I’m tired as fuck like the usual, what about you?″, he asked back.

‘‘-I’ve been worried about you man.″, said Tom while sitting on the chair in front of Dieter, ‘’-I mean, you look so tired, man. Have you been getting enough sleep lately?″, asked Tom with a friendly look on his face while taking off his glasses.

‘’-Yeah, like that is possible.″, replied Dieter with a sarcastic look. Tom stood up from the chair and looked at Dieter, placed his hand on his shoulder and said:

’’-I know things get hard sometimes, but I’m here if you need anything. You know, that right?″

’’-Sure″, replied Dieter shortly and coldly. Tom smiled at him then went off on his way. Dieter passed his fingers through his black hair and sighed. ’’-And I still must go to work today. For fuck’s sake.″ he said while looking down at the table. He stood up and went to the cafeteria to order something to eat. He ordered the cheapest thing and some black coffee with lots of sugar, his life was already bitter enough.

Walking back to his classroom a thought crossed his mind, ‘’-What if instead of going to the class, I go to the library and get some rest?’’, he smiled to himself and changed his course. On the library entrance and old looking lady asked him for his full name:

‘’-Dieter Lee Rosewald.’’, he replied.

‘’-Ok Mr. Rosewald, you can get in.’’ said the woman, he thanked her with a head gesture and went to the stairs, after walking to the third floor he found a single chair close to the window, he went there, sat down and dropped his bag on his feet, his phone showed him the time, 10:30 in the morning. He locked his phone, crossed his arms on the table in front of him and laid his head in his arms.