Carl smiled and kept his emotion away. He just lost his beloved wive who died in an accident two weeks ago. His wive was pregnant that time, so he lost his present and yet never to meet his future.
"Carl Andrews!" called mother Sophie
Carl and Steven both stood up.
"Its time, my son" said mother Sophie.
They both went into the church to pay their last respect to Maria, Carl's wive.
* * * * *
8.15 p.m. Carl who supposedly to have dinner with Maria went to a coffee house to have his dinner.
"Hey Carl, how are you man? I hope you are just fine. Long time no see." shout Peter as he see Carl, his best friend.
Carl did not gave any responds. He just walked away from Peter. Peter felt different. He went to seat in front of Carl.
"Hey man, whats the matter. I know you feel bad, but we have to let things go. It has been two weeks man. Its not good to mourn this long. You'll be sick. Maria would not be glad if she knows about this." said Peter softly to Carl. Carl stood and said angrily
"She will never know how I feel. You will never know how I feel. Nobody will know! She died in front of me. I could not do a thing! I felt stupid! I felt irresponsible."
"Well its not your fault or her fault or my fault. We cannot stop death. Everyone will die Carl. I'm giving you some advice. I want to see you live. Let the dead be!" Peter replied with the same tone.
"She wan not just dead, but murdered!" shout Carl. Then he grabbed his coat and leave.
That leaves a thousand question to Peter. As what Peter knows, Maria died in an accident when she was on the way home. In that time she was with a man, her office mate. She had in coma for a day. When she was awake, she could talk and even smile. But suddenly her heartbeat began to slow. She was fainted and died 2 hours after that in front of Carl. Peter just believe that was the thing that Carl was thinking about these whole time. Carl who was the one who urges an operation to detect the causes of the death. But the answer was just clogged blood in the arteries due to internal injury. That results does not satisfy Carl. He is still looking for the answers.
* * * * *
Carl sat on his chair, alone thinking of nothing when suddenly he heard someone knocking. He went to the door and open it and it was Melinda.
"Hi Carl, am I bothering you? says Melinda
"No, no. Not at all. Whats the matter? Anything important?" Carl answered.
"Its hard but I have to get this to you. My boss and Maria's boss too, he is having a party this weekend. The whole office is coming and they ask if you can join us too.If you are willing. Ohh! This is the card. The venue is in Clara Hill. Hope to see you there. Bye." Melinda left so that Carl would never had a chance to say anything. At her car she screamed
"By the way, my husband, Peter said thats he was so sorry"
"Me too" Answered Carl and he shut the door.
The day has come and finally Carl really went to the party. Maria's boss greet him. All of Maria's co-workers expressed their feeling how bad they felt with the lost.
"We've has come so far, and from this very moment I am telling you that our company had a total of 75% profit for year 2010. Congratulations everyone" The boss's speech for all the guest.
Carl smiled and think how happy Maria will be if she was here.
"But with all happiness we share, we encountered the most sad moment in this company when we lost Maria Andrews. She alongside Steven and Eva had helped in the promotion of our products. A big thanks to Maria and also her husband who came and share a little time with us." continue the boss.
Carl just smile. Thats the best he can do.
Its almost 12am and Carl is still waiting for Melinda and Peter. He wanted to say something to them, but they were still chatting with the boss. Suddenly he felt like the ground is shaking. He saw the light blipping, the water spills by itself and then he heard people cried "Landslide!"
He ran to save himself. He saw Steven in from of him and then he falls. Carl tried to save Stevens, but it was too late. Everything turns dark. It makes Carl to feel that he is dead.
* * * * *
Carl could hear the sound of people calling for help.
"Who's there? Can somebody hear me" Carl shouted.
The sound stops and suddenly it replied.
"Carl is that you? Carl its me Steven. Thank goodness you are here. It been an hour we are trapped under this thing."
Carl did not replied.
"Carl!"Steven shouts
"Yes I am here. You dont have to say anything to me. We are trapped down here. We need air to breath. Just use the air to breath. Stop talking" Replied Carl.
Steven did not say any word. Both of them remains silent until they could hear sounds of a helicopter.
"Yes. we are going to be rescued. Carl can you hear that? We will be safe. Right Carl?" said Stevens happily.
Carl does'nt reply. Steven was worried of Carl. He was afraid if something happened to Carl. He Shouted for Carl so much.
"Will you be quite. I am here. I told you not to talk.I dont care whether i am rescued or not. Theres no point for me to live. Maria was dead. I have no family no nothing. I dont have a thing." Carl spoked with emotion.
"Carl I have something to talk to you about Maria. I dont mind if you does'nt want to hear it." Steven said softly.
Carl do not respond. Steven continued
"I really wanted to tell you this at the church but I figured it out that it was not the best time. I tried to find the best time but I could'nt. Maybe god arrange this so I can speak the truth. Actually I was with Maria, on the car when we had the accident. We had an argument. She was so mad at me. She was really mad at me. She was on a hurry. She was coming for you to say the truth we both held together. She was pregnant because of me. That was my child. Even She was clueless when the doctor said so. But really it was going to be my child. I dont kill her. She was so emotional and she just let the car move by her emotion. Carl I Am VERY-VERY SORRY."
Carl did not said anything but he cried even more to hear such a thing. The person he loved the most had done such awfull things to him.
After 6 hour trapped under the earth, Carl was found by the rescuers alive. But Steven was found dead. He could not breath because there was no air to breath. Three people was dead in the tragedy. One of them was also Peter, Carl's best friend. He met peter by Maria, now both of them are gone.
Carl could not accept the reality until one day Melinda came to tell that once she was also pregnant by some other guy. In that time she was engaged with Peter. Peter knew that things, but he kept his will to still love Melinda and once said "I dont care what were you or how bad were you as long as you love me, I'll love you and we are together"
Carl took Melinda's experience as his medicine to fix whatever was wrong from his past. He forgive Maria And Stevens and accept that everything was a mistake and Maria was not given the time to ask for forgiveness from him. He was so happy to remember that once they had live together
THE END
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