Toppled Over!

Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Jamie

We're now in the car, Calareanne in the front passenger seat, turned back to see Carl laying on Romie. I started the car immediately and drove out of the lane and into the highways. After which, I connected my phone to charge and drove fast.

While driving, a thought popped into my mind, "Romie, if you could travel around, why didn't you try to find Carl before?"

"Before you guys came to the toppled towers, my life was only the house and the beach, the beach because I died there, I couldn't go anywhere else. However, a recent discovery is that I can go anywhere as long as I'm in close contact with someone I'm related to by blood, that's how I can be here right now. If I knew where Carl was, I would've done anything to meet him, but confined by area, I didn't have a lot of places to search. I just spent most of this phase trying to find my purpose. Not knowing that my brother was alive"

Calareanne's knee hits the dashboard and it opens to show the medicine, that packet that was prescribed by the doctor at the resort who was along with Mr. Lentas.

"Calareanne! Who was the man with your father in the morning?"

"The man who hit me?"

"Yes."

"He's actually my dad's business partner."

"What is he by profession?"

"I think he's a restauranteur. He works closely with all my dad's projects."

"Oh shoot, so he's not a doctor?"

"No ways."

Thank goodness I hadn't given the medicine to Carl, I'm sure something is wrong with that medicine, even the chemist had warned me. I told Calareanne to put it back but to my surprise, she lifted it and looked at it carefully.

"Jamie, I think I've consumed this once, the next few days were misery, I had severe body pain. I remember it quite distinctively. It happened quite recently. I had a fever and our doctor said that this will do"

A question just flashed into my mind as she said this, "Have you ever puked out blood, might've been a complete coincidence, but has it happened??" I asked eagerly.

"Yes, a couple of times, but how'd you know?"

"I knew it, I so knew it, Romie was right, your father and that friend of his are plotting to kill you and Carl. Carl had the same symptoms, he had the panic attacks but.........the medicines prescribed were insanely different and random, he too puked out blood, not once but twice. They gave him an overdose. That man with your father posed to be a doctor in front of me and prescribed this medicine. They are behind it all."

"I want to confess something, my dad manipulated me to make Carl go to the seas, he told me that it'll help him, I didn't realize that they were plotting anything of this sort. My dad built a small amount of vengeance in me because I thought Carl had killed my mom. That's exactly why I didn't want to go into the house when Carl called me. I'm sorry." She said, looking down.

"Hey Carlo, C...aaa...aarrrr...lllooh" I said, singing. "How are you feeling? Stay strong, we're going to reach the hospital in 10 minutes, don't worry. We're going to save you, honey."

"He's smiling" Romie said, she was constantly speaking to Carl, not letting him be left alone at any instant. I was praying that we don't find Mr. Lentas and his friend any time in the course of our journey. 10 minutes more, before we reach the hospital.

I had to break the big news to them too, that all of them were blood-related siblings. Romie, Carl and Calareanne.

"Carl, Calareanne, and Romie, there's something very very important that I'd want to tell you. Romie, I want you to hold on to Carl so he doesn't get too shocked. Hear me out." As I completed, both the girls nodded.

"Carl, you have a sister, an own sister apart from Romie. You've spent half of your childhood with that sister not knowing that she's your own sister. That sister I'm talking about is you, Calareanne. I said looking towards her. All of them had confused expressions. I narrated the entire story as the old man had told me, I told them that they were both born to Mrs. Melle, I told them everything I knew about their lives. Calareanne was shocked, tears rolling down her eyes. Romie too had tears in her eyes. I gave them a moment to process everything, I heard some soft mumbling. I turn around to see Carl trying to move his mouth and speak. "I love you all" he said and there was silence again.

"I love you too Calbro, and you too Calareanne" Romie said, looking at Calareanne.

"I.....I don't know what to say. It's not often that I hear that. It's actually afirst in years. No one's ever said that to me, and I... I just feel overwhelmedby all this. I love you both so much! I'm sorry for blindly believing my father,I'm just..." Calareanne broke down. Tears rolling down, "I'm sorry I wasn't therefor either of you when you most needed me... I'm just........ I love you both, I...Ilove you both so much, I just wish I'd known before." I turn around to seeRomie crying too, my eyes were filling up. this reunion felt so warm andlovely. I'm glad that I could do something at least for these 3 beautifulpeople. Especially for Carl. The same Carl who spent most of his life thinkingthat he was an orphan and had no one for him, but now he did, he had his ownsmall family and me!