FREDERICK'S POINT OF VIEW
"Good morning bro," William greeted me when I wake up.
"Mhmm! Why are you here in the hospital?" I asked him.
"Your Mom asked me to check if you are doing well here. You know, she's busy in your family businesses," William replied.
"How about father?" I asked.
"He can't go home for now. He still have a lot of business to do in Italy," William replied.
"Tss. Always busy!" I can't help but feel sorry for my self.
Since I was young until now that I already have my own house and company, I never feel that my parents value me. I am an only child but my parents value and prioritized our family businesses over me. It's already a good luck if I can see them once a week. I'm longing for a love and care of a parents but that seems to be just a dream in my case.
"Just understand them. What they are doing is all for you," William tried to comfort me.
"It's been 27 years. I'm used to it," I replied. "Pay the bill and let me out of this boring hospital now. I need to see Joylene," I added.
"After what she did to you? You still have the guts to see that stupid girl?" William asked me. "Why didn't you just sue that Detective," he murmured.
"Don't ever say something wrong about her again. I love her so much," I angrily replied to this s**t cousin of mine. "Lucky you are that I can't fight now or else, I will destroy that monkey face of yours," I added.
"Fine. I'm sorry!" William apologized to me.
"Tsss. Don't forget that you are the one who called her and tell her those foolishness," I reminded William for his mistake.
"If only I know that Joylene will also come in that bar. What a coincidence, I shouldn't have make such mistake with you, Joylene and your Ex," William replied.
William is inviting me to go with him into a bar that day when I have a schedule to have dinner with Joylene. I rejected him but he didn't let me off.
William borrowed my phone that night when I and Joylene planned to dinner outside. I thought that he is just going to call someone but unexpectedly, he called my girlfriend. He pretended to be me and made an excuse to Joylene why I can't go out with her. He just told me what he did after he give back my phone. I and William have very similar voice that's why Joylene didn't notice that it is my cousin who called her.
I can't reject William's invitation anymore because he already cancelled my date. I just warned him not do pranks and stupidness anymore. I didn't know that William invited my Ex girlfriend to party with us on the bar. They made me drunk and my Ex girlfriend keeps on seducing me. By coincidence, Joylene is on that bar and caught me kissing with my Ex.
I understand why Joylene became so angry with me until now. Yet, my only fault is that I agreed to William's lies, get drunk and was tempted by my Ex girlfriend. I don't have other girls on my life except it Joylene. I love her so much and I don't know how to explain this mess to her. I made a mistake too but I'm not a cheater.
"You are the reason why I am here now. You are the reason why Joylene almost killed me. You are the reason why she broke up with me. You are the," I said all the blames to my playful cousin but he didn't let me finish my words.
"Enough! I'm sorry. I promised to help you be with her again," William said.
"Now, go and pay my bill. I need to go out," I told him.
"Yes boss!" William replied with an unwilling face and go out of the room.
It's been a week since Joylene bullied me in that bar and I am stuck in this hospital. She maybe so angry thinking that I really cheated her. She even choose me over her sister but this is what she will get back from me. How fool I am to her go, she's such a good catch.
A few hours later.
"At last, I am home now," I said while sitting in the sofa.
"The doctor advised that you must not make yourself tired and stress. You better stay here for a few more days before meeting Joylene," William said.
"Tsss!" I exclaimed.
"You have to be fully prepared of what that girl can do again to you. She's so ferocious, you know," William warned me.
"Enough! Fine! I will try to recover faster. Besides, I have a lot of things to do in my company," I replied.
"Good," William said. "So, I have to leave now bro," he added.
"Ok. Thanks for the help lately. Take care," I replied.
"I'm really sorry for everything bro. You too, take good care of your self here. Bye," William said and before he leave, he told our maids to take care of me.
William Collins is my first cousin. He is tall, tan and handsome. He's my bestfriend and I already treated him as my real brother since young. He is a great friend, very caring but often full of dangerous pranks and trickery. Yet, this is the first time that I became his victim. But no matter what he did, I still have no choice but forgive him and give him one more chance. He just have to make sure that it won't happen again or else I will send him to hell earlier.
"Kring! Kring! Kring!" Joylene's phone is ringing but she's not answering it. "Maybe she just silenced her phone." I said to my self.
I already made 30 missed calls but still the same. I just hope that she's doing fine. If anything wrong happened to her, I really can't forgive myself.
"How are you son? William told me that you already go out of the hospital even you are not fully recovered. I'm very worried about you but I can't leave my unfinished business here in Italy. Just take care of yourself, Ok? I love you," my father's message.
"Can't even call me. Tsss. Worried but just give me a text? Foolishness!" I can't stop my self from feeling so disappointed when it becomes to my Mom and Dad.
"Kring! Kring! Kring!" my phone rang.
"Hello?" A woman's voice said.
"Who's this please?" I asked.
"Can I talk to Frederick?" a woman's voice asked.
"Yes, speaking. What can I help you?" I asked. Then, she cut off the call.
I got curious with the woman's voice. So, I called her back.
I'm hoping that she is Joylene even her voice is quite different. I'm still hoping that she still love and care for me. I'm hoping that she's the one who called me to check if I am fine. Maybe she's just afraid to show her feelings now because she thought that I cheated her, that's why she pretended.
"The number you have dialed is either unattended or out of coverage area. Please try your call later." The operator said when I called back the number again and again.
"Who's that girl?" I curiously asked myself.