Inherited

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"Hello? Is this Chace Bohan ?" , enquires a gentle voice from the other end of the line.

"It's Chace speaking", I reply rubbing sleep from my eyes. It must have been 4am. I never get up this early on a Sunday morning.

"It's Shawn here. Your brother Lee's assistant manager. I was hoping you could make it to London this morning", he responded in a slightly shaken  voice. I vaguely remember his face. Lee introduced me to him 8 months ago and ever since then he always came to pick me up from the airport when I would visit my brother in London. "Is everything okay? Why do I need to come over?"

"Umm", he hesitates. I've never heard him sound so nervous although I've only met him a few times. He was the type that seemed to remain calm even through a hurricane. "It's Lee. Something's happened to him and you need to come over as fast as possible. I've already booked your flight tickets and mailed them to you. Your flight departs at 11. Please hurry up".

"What the fu-" , I'm cut short by the beep of the call being ended. A thousand questions fill my mind. What happened to Lee? Is this some type of misunderstanding. I should call Lee and ask him what's going on. I fumble with my phone for his number. I find his contact and hit call. I let it ring and on the 5th ring a lady's hoarse voice answers, "Hello?" Probably one of his secretaries.

"Hi I need to speak to Lee", I say urgently.

"Who is this?", she replies.

"It's Chace, Lee's brother."

"Chace it's Anabelle here. Have you reached London already. Should I send someone to pick you up?"

So it wasn't a misunderstanding. If Anabelle, Lee's girlfriend answers Lee's phone at 4am in the morning it could only mean that something is terribly wrong.

"What's wrong. I have no idea what you're talking about. Just tell me is Lee okay? " I nearly shout into the phone. God what has happened.

"What! It happened at 11pm last night. I told Henry to contact you immediately."

"Listen Anabelle you're not making any sense. Just get to the point and tell me what the fuck happened!", I scream my voice breaking at the end.

"He met up in an accident. Doctors say he won't make it till tonight Chace!" , she cries into the line, her words nearly knocking me off my feet.

I drop the phone. Everything feels numb and I hear a low ringing in my ears

I collapse on the bed. "FUCK!". My voice echos off the walls of my empty apartment. I suddenly feel suffocated in my 2 bedroom apartment. I'm not surprised when I find myself holding back tears. "Not now Chace, not now". Everything that I have buried deep down inside threatens to burst out. But why? After all Lee wasn't even my brother."

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I board the flight to London ten minutes before it departs. I am greeted by a flight attendant who tries to mask her frustration with a plastic smile. "May I see your ticket please?", she enquires. I don't respond

A/N. Okay so how'd you like it?