Death Call (Part 1 complete)

Chap. 3.2

I do not know what to answer or if she will believe me about these things. I think there are real ghost in this house that Isle never told me. He keeps this as a big secret for his entire life since I come back here.

“Nothing,” I answer. “Let us go inside my room”

We enter my room and still, the cold wind is present, circulating the two of us. I look at her shivering from the dropping temperature. I am also shivering but not so affected with the temperature because I am wearing thick pajamas and jacket. I place two seats beside the table and open the window. I let Sam sits first because I will assure that my brother is still watching a movie at the restroom.

“Can you excuse me for a moment Sam? I need to check my brother first”

“Okay,” she agrees.

I am running downstairs.

 I am right when I see him, laughing alone while viewing a comedy show. My brother is going too crazy now. He is enjoying that movie alone and laughs abnormally like that. I go down the kitchen and make some juice so that we have something to drink in the room while we are talking. However, while I am preparing our food, I hear this outlandish laugh of all. It is not my brother’s chuckle anymore. It sounds like a man. It is weird to think that my brother grows up that fast. He is still eight years old and the puberty stage is still afar from him. My ears might have some problems. I should not think about paranormal things. I do not believe in ghosts. In fact, they are unreal. They are only imaginary things that run one’s mind foolishly.

I watch my brother again. I still hear that mysterious laugh with him. As I open the door, I see him silent, watching a dramatic movie. How could I hear that laugh if he is watching now a sad movie? He might be crazy. I must tell Carlo about this. If necessary, I will bring him to Sophie.

I go back to my room with all the foods when I see Sam hiding on my blanket. I place the foods on the table and get her out from my bed.

“Samantha, stop that. You are scaring me”

“He is there,” she says. “He is right behind you now”

“You are so coward little adult. Can you stop that thing or else, I will tell Tony that you love him”

“Okay, okay,” she ceases teasing me. “I am only joking”

I can still see on her face that she is afraid of something. The noon is fast approaching. The room is getting hotter. We both sit on a chair, facing each other. We are waiting who is the one to talk first until I open up the topic with her.

“I need to talk with you about the things that Dwight told you since I left to Manhattan. Can you share it all to me? Sophie told me that you know all about it”

“I cannot,” she impedes.

“Please tell me. I want to know, Sam. Please tell me now!”

She is hiding something about it. It might be a big secret. I want to know about it. I should force her or besides, I will be broke forever. That secret will let me down.

“If you will not tell me,” I discontinue.

“Fine, it is all about you. He suffered because of you, he abused himself because of you and he would commit suicide because of you. Additionally, not because of Carla, he might be dead right now. She is the one who brought Dwight back to life again when you disappear here”

“Then, where is that girl now? He never mentions her to me”

“He wants to keep it as a secret whenever you will return here. They were married happily without giving you a notice,” I start to pour down some tears on my face when hearing his marriage with here but I must not be affected. “They were happy but then, after three months, Carla was killed. Her body was found on a riverbank near a bridge. The report never stated that she was killed. Dwight could not forgive himself of knowing that his wife was gone. He is drunk at that night when Morris and Harry picked up him on a bar. He said to them that he knew who killed his wife”

“And who was it?”

“It is you, Katrina. You are the one he thought every time. He said to us that we must not treat you as a friend anymore. You only make the group unluckily if you are with us but as your best friend, you are still a part of me forever”

I am quite. My tears are running down to my face.

“Thank you,” I reply. “Can, can you tell me more about what he said next to that accident?”

“Can we stop this? You are toughly burden”

“No, do not mind about my feelings. I can carry this”

“Are you sure? Thus, here is the next, about the things that we should promise to him. First, we must not tell you the he was married. Second, we must not treat you as a friend if ever you will come back but we done it, he cannot stop us because we miss you. Finally,” she pauses for a moment and drink some juice.

“What is the final agreement of you and Dwight?”

“Can you promise me that you can keep this last one as the biggest secret?” she holds my hands then touch my cheeks. “He is still in love with you. We are shock knowing about it. He said that he saw you in Carla’s image. That is the reason why he married her”

“What kind of suicide does he want to commit?”

“Letting himself hit by a car”

“Oh, that will keep him alive for a second, and the purpose is to say the last words”

“You are too comic. Can you get through with that?”

She laughs hardly.

I realize now that he still loves me. There is nothing that I should be worry now. Sam is so honest that she tells me everything about what he said. While I am in New York, he is also the one that runs through my mind. He is the reason why I am unstable every time I see his picture on my pocket. If only he knows that I still love him, it might be a long, long time to say those words.

I only share my part to her while I am in New York. All the happening while it is my first travel there, my job at the museum and my experience while I am going home. I stop thinking first about the crime. I should not be more affected with it because it is not my talent.

“You know Sam, there were so many things that I enjoyed while I am in New York. The populaces there were so kind to me. Sometimes, I can feel heaven on my knees when bachelors pass me by and greets ‘hi’. My fellow workers in the museum came from different parts of the world and they only go there to have a new life”

“So in having your new life there, was there a time that you forgotten me?”

“You,” I react. “I will never forget you Sammy. You are my best friend and you are special to me. If there is someone that I must forget, it is him”

“Who,” she starts teasing me. “, Your very cute and romantic Dwight Johnson?”

“Stop it, I am not happy” I overreact. She doesn’t know about the strange man I met at the airport. “When I enter my first job there, you and my family were the persons I keep on thinking at that time. I do not think of someone else and in fact, he is finally out of my life”

“What did you say? Out of your life,” she counters. “Hey, sister, I sense you have still feelings for him. It is better that you tell me honestly than fooling me around”

“It is-

I cannot tell her the truth. What I am supposed to do now? If I will confess to her, she might shout and someone will hear even my brother downstairs. Her mouth is like a megaphone, it will wake up each sleepy heads in every neighborhood. I will tell her that I have a new boyfriend in NY so that she will stop teasing me about my feelings for Dwight.

“I have a new boyfriend now in NY. We are having a cool off this time because I am here in Phoenix, having my vacation. He is also busy at his work there, as a,” I do not know what to say next. She is starting to be confused on what I am saying to her. “He is an engineer”

“Wow, he has a great job!”

“Yes, you… you… are right”

At last, I use my wisest way of getting out from this mess. She finally believes me with me lies and I know that this will be the last time because he might tell someone about this. They might believe that I have a real boyfriend. I know that this is the worse thing I ever tell her.