Chapter 59
"Hello Cynthia" Lucy started as she held the phone to her ear
"Who's on the line please?" The curious voice came from the other side
"It's Lucy, Fred's sister" Lucy replied still obviously keeping herself strong from breaking down
"Oh! Oh my gosh! Lucy. It's been a while" she sounded excitedly
"Yeah" Lucy mumbled slowly, not finding anything funny to be excited about.
"Oh Lucy, are you alright?" She sounded pacifying this time
"Fred asked me to call you"
"Oh really? What happened?"
"It's about Carl"
"Oh!" She sounded disappointed "if this call is about us getting back then don't dream of it, I've broke up, I've broke up with him for good and that's it so please, don't try to convince me, I mean can you realize what he has done to me, everything..."
Lucy finally broke down and this made Cynthia stopped
"Lucy" she called calmly and guiltily
"Are you alright? Did I hurt you?" She asked and when Lucy started to sniffed she asked again "Lucy are you crying? For God sake, Lucy I'm sorry"
"It's okay" she finally replied
"I'm so sorry" she paused "but, are you doing all these for him?"
"Cynthia, things are not good at all and I'm calling you to explain this to you. You need to see Carl at this moment, he's dying"
"What!"
That was the shriek that came from the other side of the phone
"What do you mean by Carl is dying?"
"He was shot Cynthia"
"Goodness! Oh my Carl! Where are you Lucy?"
"We're still in Paris"
"I mean the hospital"
"Just let me know when you land at the airport, I'll come pick you up"
"Okay, I'm coming soon. I'm booking the next flight"
She said and hung up before Lucy could say anything again.
Things has not been good now, Carl and iris had been admitted to the hospital since two days and none of them has woken up. This time Lucy thought if all these doctors are even doing anything about it but the doctor in charge said they are but why is it now taking so much time. Fred had asked her to call Cynthia. He'd been in their ward since days since both had been put in the same ward.
Lucy dropped the phone sluggishly and looked up to Arthur's face who'd been her only confidant since. Tears started to roll down her cheeks which Arthur quickly caught off with his thumb.
"It's okay Lucy, don't cry anymore" he said pulling her into his chest.
"This is so gross, they're dying because of us. I just want them to wake up" she sobs and Arthur patted her back, skimming his hand through her hair.
"It's okay Lucy, they're going to wake up"
"But when?" She asked and heard him sigh, does that mean the question is disturbing him too? They should wake up now.
Lucy felt the presence of someone from her back and she knew it's Linda.
"Come on, you all should minimize this please you're tearing me apart more and more. I just left Fred grieving over, in between of his friends' bed, Doris was down and here you are too." She paused and sniffed ”I know this shouldn't have happened if not..." She paused again and sob. Lucy had broke from Arthur.
"I'm sorry Lucy, I'm so sorry" Linda sob and sniffed
'I'm sorry for all these" she added and Lucy dived into her embrace.
"It's okay" she said softly and Linda patted her back.
"I'm sorry" she whispered again
Just then, the doctor came out and Arthur vent to ask him
"Hi doctor" he called as the doctor came out and he smiled at him
"Good morning Mr Fred"
"Morning, please how are they doing?"
The doctor shook his head and replied "we're still on it, they are not responding yet"
"Oh my God" Arthur whispered and brushed his face with his palm before standing back
"Just be strong Mr Arthur and please help do something with your brother inside. He's not in a good state all, maybe it'll be good if someone accompany him"
Arthur knew he was talking about Fred and Lucy and Linda had also joined them to listen to the doctor's report
"Okay Doc, thanks"
"You're welcome" he said and left
"I told you Fred is not in a good state" Linda said and sniffed
"We should do something about it" Arthur said
"And my Mom?" Lucy asked
"She's outside, we should go to her too" Linda replied
"And what about Mr Anderson?"
"He's still in the hospital, though he wished he could be here too. I told him about the incident" Linda said and Doris nodded. She knew Anderson is in a different hospital, she just asked to why they had choose to leave him.
It was already evening and everybody are now in the ward, this was because the doctor told them Carl is already responding and would soon wake up but as to Iris, she's still as she was, not responding.
"What do you mean by she's not responding?" Fred queried the doctor angrily
"You should take a good care of her, she'll wake up. She's also a doctor if you don't know, she can struggle for her life so just do something to wake her up" he heated up and the doctor almost chuckled.
All he was saying was obviously nonsense and he knew the reason was because he was afraid to loose her. Yeah, the tension that he'd loose her when he said she's not responding.
"It's okay Mr Fred. Let's just hope she respond" the doctor said and left, leaving Fred in the world he couldn't believe he's in.
"It's okay Fred" Doris held his hand
"Let's just hope she wake up" she said and Fred heaved heavily. He looked to Carl's side and a light smile flickered on his face but it quickly disappeared later when he turned to Iris, he sighed again and rubbed his palm on his face. His eyes was bloodshot and tears had began to stung in it.
Just immediately, Lucy's phone rang and she pulled out her phone to check the caller.
"Oh it's Cynthia" she unintentionally said it out.
"Who's Cynthia?" Doris asked
"Aw! em. Carl's girlfriend" she replied
"Oh really?" Linda replied
"Did she hear about the news?" She asked looking terrified.
"Uhm. I told her myself so she could meet him. She should be at the airport now" she said and picked the call.
*Oh really?*
*okay wait, we're coming now*
She hung up the call and looked up to Arthur.
"Arthur, please can you give me a drive?"
"Sure" he responded affirmatively as if he'd been waiting for that.
"Okay let's go" she nodded st him and turned to Linda and Doris "we'll soon be back" she added and they left.
"Fred, you need to be calm okay" Linda started to talk to Fred at his state when his phone rang.
"Sorry, excuse me" he said as he dipped the phone out and when he was staring at it instead of picking Doris asked;
"Who's that?"
"I don't know, it's an unknown number"
"Come on, pick it, let's hear what the person has to say"
He picked the phone and put it to his ear.
*Hello*
A deep voice came from the phone
*Hello*
Fred replied
*Am I speaking with Fred, Iris friend?*
*Yeah, any problem please?*
*okay, this is Mr Gold, Iris' dad*
What!
Mr Gold?
Iris' Dad?
Why is he calling?
TBC....
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