Melody Of Love

Accident!

Rose POV:

“Good morning, Kate. I made sandwiches for breakfast.”

“Morning Rosie girl, that’s great. Where’s the newspaper?” she asked taking a sandwich in her hand. This girl would never sit in one place and eat.

“It’s on the sofa. Kate, they asked me to report by 10:30, so I’ll get going by 10 o’clock.” I have a party I’m singing for today. Kate nodded her head in response and opened the newspaper.

“What the f**k! How could he do this to me?” She started shouting looking at the newspaper.

“What happened, Kate?” She handed the paper for me to read, and the headlines say ‘Michael and Liza ENGAGED?’ What the hell? Seriously? I gave her a side look and asked, “You reacted as if he cheated on you and got engaged to someone, come on Kate he’ll get married sooner or later, so get over that crush you have on this man.”

“He’s not just any man OK? Did you even look at his face? How could anyone not like him? And his music, it’s the best. And his dance is the best.” Here it goes, Kate’s fangirl mode ON.

“Oh, c'mon, Kate. You know I like his music, and I’ve seen his face hundreds of times, thanks to you. But look at the picture in the paper, they look so happy with each other and he even had the ring on his left hand.”

“But she didn’t have one and he was going to be my husband.” And that’s it, I started laughing out loud. If he was going to marry every one of his fangirls, the man will have to buy the entire country for his wives to live in.

“Okay, Katie girl. I’ve had enough drama for today, now get lost, it’s time for you to leave.”

Kate looked at the clock, before grabbing her bag. She hugged me and ran out of the door not before shouting

“He will not marry her, look at the ring, it’s not a real diamond.”

What? Seriously? This girl… I shake my head and took a look at the picture of Michael and Liza. Mike has great music, he broke all the records that ever were in the history of music, and there’s no doubt in saying that he is one of the greatest entertainers the world has ever seen. He broke all the racial, cultural, and national barriers and united people worldwide.

Some people might not know who the United States president is, but I highly doubt if there's anyone who doesn’t know Michael Osburne.  But fame comes with a prize, and in Michael’s case this is true, I feel that the media machine is completely against him and are some powerful people. And why wouldn’t they be? This man has more power than anyone and I’m sure many powerful people are waiting for a chance to take him down.

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I reached the venue by 9:45 A.M. The manager of the event gave the instructions about when to start and for how much time should I sing, the payment, and stuff. My phone started ringing, it’s from Kate.

“What girl, no work to do?” I asked

“Hello mam, we are calling from the Apollo Hospital.”

“Apollo Hospital?”

“Yes, your friend had an accident, and she’s admitted to our hospital. We request you to come here as soon as possible.” Accident… Kate?

“I’ll be there in 10 minutes please take care of her.” I ended the call, and tears started falling from my eyes. Nothing should happen to her, she’s the only family I have, God, please don’t let anything happen to her.

“I reached the hospital and the receptionist told me Kate was in the emergency ward.” I didn’t know what was happening, I was feeling numb all over, everything was fine until this morning, why did this have to happen all of a sudden? The doctor came giving some instructions to the nurse.

“Doctor, Kate…”

“You’re her family?”

“Yeah, we are sisters.” Technically, we are, both of us have the same last name, and I love her more than anyone in this entire world.

“Look, your sister suffered serious injuries on her head, which lead to the formation of a blood clot in her brain and we need to perform surgery and remove the clot as fast as possible, I’m not going to lie to you, if we don’t perform the surgery within the next two days, there’s no way she’ll make it.” Oh my God!

“How much will it cost doctor?”

“It costs a minimum of $40,000. You will get the exact bill in the reception.”

God! Brain surgery? She’ll die if the surgery is not performed within two days. And $40,000 I don’t have that much money and there’s no way mom and dad will have that much money.

“Okay doctor I’ll arrange the money by tomorrow, please take care of her. Can I go see her?”

“We’ll shift her into a room, but you can’t see her right now, at least not until the evening.”

I sat on the chair, not knowing what to do, a minimum of $40,000 which means it might be, even more, Kate and I recently moved out from the orphanage, and the little money we had, we used for buying things we needed in the apartment, and both of us don’t have anything right now, and I can’t even ask dad for help because he used all the donations for the school fees of the orphanage children. And technically we moved out of the orphanage and we can't expect him to spend the orphanage money on us.

Where will I get this much money by tomorrow? And if the surgery is not performed within two days… Hell no, I need to get the money by tomorrow at any cost.

I called dad hoping to ask for some money, but instead, he was talking to me about the money problems in the orphanage and how he decided to use all the donations for the children's school fees and furnishing the orphanage and it didn’t feel right for me to ask for money from him, that too when we moved out of the orphanage. I didn’t tell him about Kate’s accident because I didn’t want him to worry about the operation, once I arrange the money, I’ll inform him after that.

Kate was shifted into a room, and seeing her like that, with so many tubes attached, I felt like someone punched me in my heart. She had bandages all over her hand, her legs, and a big one on her head. She was laying there on the bed, so small and lifeless, she didn’t look like my Katie at all, God please let this be some nightmare.

I can ask for some help from Clay, my bar manager. I asked the nurses to take care of Kate and came to the bar.

“Clay, I need to talk to you.”

“Not now Rose, I need you to get on the stage right now and start singing.”

“Clay, please listen to me, I need your help, my sister’s admitted to a hospital and need’s an operation immediately. I need some money, Clay.”

“How much do you need?” He didn’t seem concerned at all, and he asked very casually, and I could tell from his tone that he was not going to help me.

“Minimum of $40,000”

“$40,000!? Seeing what should I give you that much money?”

“Clay please, you’re my last hope.” I begged, if not him I can't even come to think of someone who can help me.

“Okay, I’ll see if I can do something, but first you need to perform, so get on to the stage and I’ll arrange some money for you.”

I stood on the stage, but I just couldn’t sing, not now, not in this situation. Not when my only friend, my sister is in the hospital fighting for her life. But I will do all I can, to save her life. I closed my eyes and prayed to God for some miracle to happen. I need his blessings today, I need him to help me out of this problem, please God. I opened my eyes and found a pair of black eyes staring at me.

Oh heavens, it's Mr. Black-eyes.