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furneral of a city: chapter 23 part 2
"Thank you, Max! I don't know how to put it in words, but I'm very grateful that you understand me. It means a lot to me."
"As for Katrin, I'm happy for her, believe that. Nico and she have a lot in common. They are happy together and I can trust him somehow. I also believe he will be a good father to his daughter."
"Your right. You defenitly can trust Nico. I know him and his family very very well.
"As for Avelina, I still can't trust Justin. I believe, I call Avelina everyday and promise to kill Justin if he should threat her bad. I think I am just too scared for my sister and too afraid of losing her again."
"Justin is not an evil person. Look at how he plays with his daughter. How he holds her in his arms."
"I still don't trust him. Martin, her ex, was also not an evil person. He played the same way with Charra. He hold her the same way in his arms. He was kind to Avelina, made her presents. Went out with her. Katrin was the only one who knew from beginning he doesn't like her, but nobody believed her. He never hurt Avelina or did her something bad before. They had a good relationship and she was happy with him. Martin's parents were high educated people with soft character and he never caused anybody problems. You know, that makes everything even worse. If he would be just a mental ill, or if he would had a bad childhood, if he would have reasons to do something he did, I could probably forgive him or I would at least be able to understand his motives for doing something that terrible! But he wasnt a mental ill or something! He was absolutly a normal guy, he had nothing to excuse his motives! Avelina was the best girlfriend someone could have, the best mother. Theres not one person with a heart, like she has. She did nothing to get hated! She was innocent, and more of Charra. What did Charra did wrong. She was a life loving, curiouse little child! She was happy, bright!"
At this point Gina got really emotional.
" Have you ever seen her playing?!!! Have you seen her how she interacted with Thiago cat?!!! How she danced and how much she loved the butterflies in spring?!!! Her smiling face?!!! How could someone do something so bad to her?!!! Why would someone do it to her?!!! You understand he played every day with her! He was a good father, but than at one point he just takes her and kills her in away not even the worst prisioner deserves it?!!! I hate him, Max!!! just hate to think about him!!! And I hate myself cause I could not protect my sister. I am boxing champion. I teach little girls how to fight and how to protect themselfs, but I couldn't protect my own sister!!!"
Gina started to get a hard breath. She was strong shaken. On her face Max could see the horror of what Gina was reliving again. He tried to calm her down. Tried to comfort her, tried to make her clear, that she was not alone, but he was himself crying like a baby. He put her face on his beats. Hold her tight to him, like his own child. For sure he had a profession, where he was used to emotional heartbreaking scenes. He was used to violence, brutality, and unexplainable never forgivable crimes. But probably because the greatest tragedy of his long tenure had occurred in his own family, he had never held back from putting aside professionalism and preferred to talk to victims and victim relatives on a person-to-person level. He was sensetive, was not afraid to show his emotions, was not afraid to show his tear and pain ot lose his voice. He was a human being above all and that distinguished him. He didn't know how long he was sitting with Gina in his arms calming her down and crying with her, but at some point Katrin noticed them and squatted in front of Max and Gina. At first her voice made Gina look up and calm down a bit, but her condition quickly deteriorated again.

For his whole family, this day was the worst day, they ever experienced, a hughe tragedy. The girls lived in a perfect life before of that, always in the protection bubble of their parents. But at that day life turned the face away from them. Gina had been one of the first to be at the scenes. He was coming by to Avelina, to invite her for some shopping, unlike Avelina, who was unconscious and barely remembered any details afterwards and never saw the actual disturbance and brutality, on Gina who get to witness everything, it had an even stronger psychological trauma. She had heard shots already as soon as she arrived. The front door was open. She was hearing screams and yells before even entering the house. When she was inside, Avelina was already lying on the floor in a big lake of blood around her head. He had shoot her in the back head. The first seconds Gina came in, the child, was still alive and was screaming as terrified as half death child could scream. Avelinas Ex was still beating with the construction hammer at the screaming half dead kid. The house, the walls the furniture were already covered in blood. Gina always had to think about his hateful face. She could not hold herself back, she knocked Martin ko with one beat. She tried to do anything, to save Cahrra, but when the police and medics arrived Charra was already dead and Avelina was in a most life-threatening condition. She was able to be saved thanks to quick action, but to see her in a coma later to see her agonizing healing process, the constant waiting and hoping. Anita could not handle the situation. She had a deadly stroke only a few hours later which made the situation for everyone even more unbearable. That day Tiago had lost his mother and his first grandchild. Max had never seen him before in such depression and despair. For the Frist few weeks, he knelt permanently at Avelinas bed. He was always kneeling next to her. His face was mostly on her chest, so he could hear her still breathing, he only sometimes raised his head out of despair. He cried, all the time, as far as his eyes allowed him. Sometimes he cletched his feet to get her screamed, as if someone was squeezing his own heart with immense power between the fingers and was ripping it in pieces at the same time. Max got with every minuet more afraid, Thiago would not handle it any longer and when Thiago grabbed his heart ot beat himself on the chest, Max feared his heart would give up any minute. Thiago stopped eating. He didn't sleep either. He never left the bed. After a few days he got a strong fever and lost his consciousness. He became seriously ill, from grie. He refused to fight. He gave up, refused to breathe and Max knew, that if Avelina would not surrive, Thiago would also die. Emilia was strong, stronger than Max ever thought. Probably everything seemed so hard to grasp for her and the shock was so big at that time and everything so unexplainable and far away from reality that she just sad on a chair and look at everyone as if everything around her was just a movie. About Katrin. Katrin hardly visited Avelina. She felt to overwhelmed by the whole situation. She spend most days with her Granddad and helped Max a lot with all other things that needed to be organized and done. She cleaned and sell the house x organized the furnerals did other formalities for which Max had no time and strength. But in all the following day nobody had time or attention for Gina and Gina was left in her post trauma condition alone without any psychological help. Similar like Thiago, she stopped eadting and lost her sleep. The pictures and scenes she saw did not leave her. She saw them over and over again. How he lifted the heavy construction hammer, how he hit the child over and over again, how the blood splashed, how loudly the bones broke into pieces, the screams, the way he hold the child between his knees how he pressed her agains the table and neat her, how he yelled at her. His downward-sloping face top, his downward eyebrows. The stiff look in his squeezed eyes. The up going cheeks, the distrachin nostrils, every corner of his mouth and the lips which Wer expressed together and one of the corners was slightly raised upwards. His greasy hair falling in his face, Avelina laying on the floor with the legs showing apart. Her arm, with which she had tried to pull herself up was hanging down a chair-rest, the other, with which she he'd tried to pull herself of the ground, was under her chest. Gina was constantly hearing the lout shots and the police sirens, why she got really panicked and terrified over every loud noise. She saw constantly the paramedic rushing in and the hustle in which they tried to do anything they could to reanimated her sister and save her life. Gina remebere holding Charra in her hands. She would never forget that picture. He had hit the girl so hard, there was almost nothing left of the face, the whole flesh and face skin hung down on the right right side, of the deformed mass, that used to be this smiling happy face, nose, cheeks and forehead were crushed, into a deformed mass out of what only pieces of bones stucked out. Hey eyes were also crushed and were swelling out together with the brain mass and the blood through the remains of the skull. When Max arrived Gina was in a condition, as if not the girl got killed, but she herself. She was screaming, was trying to cover and protect her face, was shaking, she was living through the horrot herself. She was not able to stay or sit and was not reacting to anybody. She stayed in this condition for days and weeks. She lived through it constantly, reexperienced everything over and over again. Only two years later, she started to do training again and started to fight agains, to find peace and rest, but still she was never able to come over her PTSD, get over the fear and nervousness. She stopped talking about it, tried to live a normal life, but even 12 years later, she still felt as bad, as she felt at that time.

Max and Katrin had to realize that they couldn't help Gina anymore and that Gina needed professional medical help. She began to suffocate because of her breathing shortness, her pulse was dangerously elevated, she was in a strong sweat break, barely reacted to voices. She kept screaming, banging into the air, as if she was hitting someone's face. Katrin got up to call a doctor, but at that times also others turned their attention towards Gina. Nico and Thiago tried to keep curiouser faces away to give her some space, while Max and also Emilia tried to ease Gina's conditions. Max was still thinking about their conversation. Someone who does not build his life on career or live or family, butt al his efforts are onyl on self-development and expansion of horizon with the hope to reach a perfect inner balance, a harmonious soul and body condition. Healthy and harmonious state of mind. Max knew that Gina's was looking for someone who would first of all help her to find the inner peace she longs so much for, who would help her to get over the fear a d the trauma, to start believing and hoping anew and Max even knew who could help Gina. He thought of Enrique Whitley...l