A Beautiful Creation

part 12 the help

Part 12

A knock on the door alerted her that morning after. She called in sick to her office as she can't take any chances of seeing the guy again

Thursday means there's a school still so she sent Candy to take Charlie as she waits for her brother to arrive

A tall shadow was seen on her tinted glass door then she sighed. Here comes her saviour, she thought

"Carl!", she announced as she launched herself to hug the gentle giant that is her brother. He's standing 6'-6" but never been intimidating, anywhere but the kitchen

The guy flinched. "Gentle little miss, I know you missed me but isn't that too much?", he said smiling

Carl got a black curly hair not like hers. She thought then that Charlie had his black hair from the two important men in her life, her brother and her dad but the resemblances from Charlie's father has been showing up as time goes by. Then Carl got green eyes and tanned skin from his mother's Italian heritage, very far from her son

They walked towards her living room and she frowned on Carl's movement. He's circulating his left shoulder and massaging it gently

"Am I that heavy?", asked Tin. She crossed her arms frowning still

"You're not. It's just that…. Playing too much with knives I guess", Carl reasoned

"You're right handed!"

The guy smiled down at her. "You're not heavy little miss, I'm just tired. Can you offer something to ease the agony of your favorite brother?", he pleaded, slumping on the couch

"Got a wine on the fridge but it's almost noon"

"That's alright"

"And I have no choice, you're the only brother I got", she said smiling back

She make her way to the kitchen to take two glasses and a wine. Tin has been formulating in her thoughts on how she will drop that bomb to her brother

"So, what's the problem?" Carl asked when she emerged from the kitchen, "I'm worried since last night. You called at 10 but scheduled the meeting at this early? What is going on?"

"I'm sorry, I was disoriented last night", she said then easing herself in the couch. "Carl…."

"What is it? You're killing me!"

She leaned her back on the couch with her arms crossed. She exhaled, "Luke, he's back."

Carl muscular jaw dropped

"And he saw Charlie.", she tugged her hair. "What am I gonna do?!"

"Pray that Luke doesn't want anything to do with Charlie?", Carl offered

"Carl you're not helping, you know Luke's not like that"

"Oh yeah, I forgot. He's just a scandalous cheating motherfucker."

"Carl!", she yelled. Her brother was out of the country that awful day at Robert's home but he knew the story. He planned on hunting Luke the moment his plane landed but their father stopped that. It won't change anything that happened anyways

"You can't stop it. Charlie will be asking about his father soon enough. Question is, how are you going to answer that? Are you going to introduce Luke?"

"Do you think Luke will try to get Charlie from me?", Tin asked instead

He thought of it and replied, "Luke will try to have Charlie that's for sure. You left him in the middle of the scandal. Chances are, he will try to get back on you. He will use Charlie."