FrAcTuReD (Part One) (Completed continued in Part Two)

Chapter 21 (Edit/Revised)

The next morning Nina stood attentively at the front of Charla's door, she wanted to knock to see if she was awake but with what happened last night she couldn't help but feel like she might make it worse. Swallowing her courage she at least thought that there would be no harm in at least asking her only to stop when her father gently pulled her away from the door.

"We should let her rest." Isaac told her softly. "When she wakes up I can tell her to give you a call okay?"

"Is Charla sick Dad?" Nina asked. "She didn't look too good yesterday."

Isaac gave Nina a reassuring smile. "I'm sure she'll feel better soon. Now let's head downstairs to eat, I'll even drop you off on my way to the station."

Nina frowned. "You're heading to work?"

Isaac shook his head. "No, I'm not going to work, although I do have to pick up some paper work that I had left." In his quick attempt to get to the high school Isaac had believed that he had grabbed all that he needed until looking it over this morning he realized he had forgotten some files. "I don't intend to be long,"

Nina however didn't look too convinced. "Okay if you say so..."

Isaac looked back to the bedroom door with a slight worried expression, even though he had told his daughter that he believed Charla would be okay, he wasn't even sure himself if she would even snap out of this depressed emotion.

There were voices, jumbled and mixed, incoherent and indistinguishable followed with flashes of white, images of people she didn't know, and those she wished that she didn't, men in firefighter clothes, more flashing lights of red and blue.

Her brother, alive, then not, she didn't want to see that, didn't want to remember the pain but those images wouldn't leave. Then slowly the voices began to clear and become understandable.

"It's horrible, those poor kids. I can't even imagen what the parents must feel about all of this."

"Hard to say, the father looks broken but the mother? Never really see her much since she keeps cooped up in that house."

"Still, to be trapped like that in such a wreck, and only to have one of them come out alive is a miracle. Can't help but feel sorry for the girl, losing her brother the way it happened."

"Yet so many seem to wish that it was the other way around, the boy living instead of the girl, or at least so I've heard."

"What? That's disgusting, who would even wish for that? Who ever said it has no common sense!"

"The boy had talent, you've heard him play those instruments the kid was a genius, but the girl? I don't think she was good at anything..."

"Stop that you idiot, you have any idea what her father will do to you if he hears that kind of talk, I don't care if you've heard that from morons on the internet, if you want to keep your head in this company then keep your mouth shut!"

A sigh. "I'm just grateful at least one of them lived, I wouldn't know what I would do if I was in our boss's shoes..."

"It's uncertain as to why this accident happened, there wasn't supposed to be any kind of construction along that road. The police will look into it Mr. Liebert, for now you should be with your daughter..."

"The boy had suffered great injuries along his back and spin, the fact that he held on for as long as he did is astounding to say, what's more, the damage that had been done to your daughter's neck and skull might have been her death if something wasn't keeping her from being pierced any deeper."