Five

“I'm Casper," The one with grey eyes said “This is my brother Wave," he said gesturing to the one with green eyes " That is our best friend Robert."

These men were very handsome men, I thought that Mr Shawn was goodlooking but seeing them now, I wondered if it wasn't a crime to be so attractive.

“Why did you save me?." I asked them, my voice was shaky. “I mean, you must have had more important things..." I said to them, I knew that I was not sounding grateful but internally I felt forever indebted to Robert for bringing me here from the park.

All three of them exchanged glances and then the room fell really silent. I must have said something wrong because Casper's face was now pale, Robert's curvy lips were now hard and Wave's eyes lost it's softness.

“I have paid your hospital bill. The doctors would give you some medicine to help you get better, you can stay till you feel better, they wouldn't charge you a dime." Robert said.

Wave was the first to leave the hospital room.

“But... Wait..." I called after the three men but they left the room like they were trying to run away from an armed terrorist.

“I didn't even say thank you." I said, too late, they were long gone.

ROBERT'S POV

MIDNIGHT

It was raining again just like that day. I could not sleep, it's been thirteen years.

I heard my phone ringing, I saw that it was Wave calling me, I answered the call.

“Where are you?!." Wave asked me, intensity filled his voice.

“I am at home. Why?." I asked him.

" Nothing. I was just calling to make sure you don't do anything stupid, this time." Wave said.

This same time last year was what he was referring to as last time. He had saved me from jumping over a bridge.

“We lost her too that day, it would not be fair If we loose one more person. Casper is drunk tonight, he didn't want to take my calls so I went in search for him and found him slumped in a bar..." Wave said. He sounded tired.

" What about you Wave, you're dying as much as we are." I accused.

" I lost my sister in a park thirteen years ago, I was told to look after her and I failed, she was just eight years old. I've spent my entire life making up for it, I would never be able to recover!." Wave said.

It was thirteen years ago.

I had a sleep over with my best friends, in their house. Emmaline, Wave and Casper. We were all from wealthy families. Their parents were multi billionaires and mine too. We were children of well respected and influential people, and we were all destined for greatness.

Emmaline was just eight years old, I was twelve, same as as Casper, Wave was thirteen. Everybody knew that I was in love with Emmaline, if you asked me she was quiet unable to comprehend her emotions because she was eight, but she loved me too.

It was love at first sight, I told my mother about it and she accused me of being delusional.

Maybe you just like her… it's infatuation…It's just affection, I heard over the years from the very first time I mentioned it and it led to being called an obsession.

“You're obsessed with her, you need to stop seeing her!." My mother would yell but time and time again, I would not stop.

I wanted to keep her safe, I wanted to be there for her, nobody would ever hurt her as long as I was around.

That very morning I woke up too late. Emmaline had gone out with Wave and her parents but they returned without her.

For days I did not sleep. She could not have disappeared, but she did, according to Wave there were lots of people in the park and he just turned around for a second, when he looked back Emmaline was gone.

They searched for her to no avail. One year led to two, then three, then thirteen.

I ended the call and I ventured out into the night. I went to my Main office in the city's central.

“Boss, you're here this night?." The security asked me as he pushed the elevator button. The building of my main office was a ninety storey sky scraper.

I went into my office and I sat on the chair staring out through the window. Finally, I decided to leave after two hours and I found myself in the park where Emmaline got lost, I had asked my parents to shut down the park, so it had been empty for more than a decade.

It was morning already. I could see a young lady laying on the bench. Was she homeless, was she dead?. I asked myself because it was impossible to sleep through the rain, it was obvious she had slept there because she was soaked.

Her hair was dark, I wouldn't have guess that it would be light blonde when it dried. I woke her up, I was captivated by the alluring and seductiveness of her blue eyes. She mumbled something and she stood up.

“Emmaline?." I whispered as she fell to the floor.

ROBERT'S POV

“I can't believe that just happened. Did we just save a girl in a park because we wanted to fill a hole in ourselves?!." Casper asked and jumped into his Lamborghini.

“I'm leaving the country, I'm flying to Italy in my private jet, my phone is going to be in do not disturb so nobody should bother wondering where I am." Casper said before closing the door of his car.

“She looks so much like Emmaline. They have the same eyes, the same hair…but this girl has paler skin and she looks too fragile. Emmaline was vigorous." Wave said.

Casper had already started zooming off. He was very hurt from this, I remember the excitement in his voice when I called him, he was drowsy but immediately he heard what I had to say, he drove immediately to the hospital.

“We scanned everywhere for her Wave, everybody named Emmaline, we reviewed, we searched. God, I don't know what my Emmaline would like like now as a grown up twenty one year old, if she's even alive...."

“F*ck!." Wave spat

He entered into his Ferrari and without saying another word he zoomed off.

I had called a cab because I wasn't with my car when I saved the girl. What was I thinking, that Emmaline would find her way back to the park?.

I shook my head as I entered into the taxi, I wanted to be as far away from the hospital very quickly. Maybe I needed to travel out of the country, too.

***

EMMALINE'S POV

The doctor stood in front of me, immediately the nurse dropped the tray with food on it on my lap, I could not control myself.

It was as if my body took control, I grabbed the spoon and I didn't stop chewing until the plate was empty and my jaws were hurting.

I looked up at the doctor and the nurse, they had a disgusted and amused look on their faces.

“I haven't... I've not had any food for quite a while..." I tried to explain.

“Then how come the wealthiest men in our country had brought you here?." The nurse asked in bewilderment.

“Wealthiest... They did seem wealthy..." I began saying.

“Don't you know who they are, they're multi trillionaires, probably the most wealthiest men..." The nurse was saying with wide eyes but I cut her off sharply.

" I've had enough of hearing about wealth...“ I said more acidly than I had intended.

It was just that living with a heartless billionaire made me uncomfortable, if they're trillionaires, imagine how rude and arrogant they would be. I thought to myself but then I remembered how nice they were before I asked them why they would rescue me.

****

ONE WEEK LATER

I stayed in the hospital for a week because I did not have any where else to go. I ate their food, it had no seasoning most time but it was nutritious, I could not complain.

But the doctors and nurses started side eyeing me because it was obvious I had fully recovered, they just did not want to tell to leave because they were scared that I meant something to Casper, Wave and Robert...and they did not want to get into trouble for hurting my feelings.

I meant nothing to them, they had rescued me and if I ever met them in the future I would finally say thank you and we would part ways.

It took everything in me not to run back to Mr Shawn, not because I developed a soft spot for him, eww that would never happen, not even in my wildest dreams, but because the scorch from the sun was slowly cooking me as I sat in the bench at the bus stop.

I stood up, it was getting late. I made my way forward and onward without a destination, but as it grew dark I felt that I needed to find a place to crash or else I would come in contact with danger.

There were a crowd of paparazzi flooding the front of an estate's gate. In the dark, their cameras flashed like twinkling stars. There were cheers and screams as two fancy cars were entering into the estate.

I went close to see what was happening and immediately body guards and security men wearing dark suits started shoving people away, I was among the people being shoved aside.

“What is happening?." I asked a man holding a camera, there was a female reporter standing beside him.

“The Jons and Kaleb!." The woman exclaimed in my face.

“What?." I asked her, I was lost.

“Wave and Casper Jon... Robert Kaleb, the richest bachelors are gathered in one place." The woman informed me.

I recognized those names. Those men had saved me last week. I looked at the mansion that stood in the middle of the estate and I gasped.

" They're really rich..." I was elated as I saw two big helicopters in their compound.

***

ROBERT'S POV

Wave called me and Casper to his house because he had something to say to us, something important.

He practically had to make Casper fly over the from HollyWood and we both drove here together.

There was a mob of paparazzis in front of his gate. We met Wave drinking in his living room. He started to explain to us that he went back to the hospital and he saw that the name in the girl's file was Emmaline... Not just a random Emmaline, he dug deeper and found out that she was adopted when she was eight by a couple who did not have any kids.

He dug really deeper, she was his sister, my Emmaline but once again she was no where to be found since she left the hospital...

“So you're telling me that the girl we saved is my baby sister?!." Casper screamed, he held the chair and threw it across the big room.

I could not believe what I was hearing. Wave was serious, his face was pale white, as if blood was vacuumed from him.

“I was curious because she really looked exactly like the little girl I remembered and I went back to the hospital for her records, we could have just asked her for her name!." Wave said.

My inside world was crumbling. Casper hurled another table across the room.

“Where is she, don't tell me you lost her again." Casper demanded from Wave.

" Casper... " I started saying and he turned to me.

" You don't know what it is like to loose a your little sister... Twice!. " he spat

" You don't know what it's like to loose the love of your life, twice." I told him and he softened immediately.

" I'm sorry." He said to me and Wave.

“She left the hospital today." Wave informed us.

“We can still find her." I said standing up.

I was aware of the paparazzi outside and I had ordered some men to take care of them.

We entered into our cars and we drove towards the hospital.

We were driving when my eyes caught sight of something and I had to hit the brakes.