Alicia's little brother is the sweetest angel on planet earth. He loves everyone unless he has a reason not too and he stubbornly chooses to believe that Alicia is an angel, despite all the things she's done. All he really wants is for everyone he loves to be happy, but unfortunately this has led to Alicia lying to him or keeping secrets for quite some time to try to protect him from the reality of just how poorly she's doing.
“You two were in an accident?!” Andrew’s voice is a mixture of panic and disbelief as I put the phone to my ear. “When? Are you still in the hospital?”
My head is already spinning as I cringe, trying to refind my voice in the silence. I can hear Jinho’s voice, rambling harsh, worried, sentence fragments in rapid Spanish-
“Que paso? Andrew- calmate- calmate - Dios-!”
“‘-Licia?”
“Not- not just now - we’re out of the hospital…”
It…
“It was three months ago.”
Andrew gets really quiet really fast. Like trapping a hurricane in a box - the sudden silence is anything but reassuring - as the phone trembles nervously in the disquiet - I hear Jinho fretting-
“Andrew- Andrew sit down-”
Is he breathing?
What I wouldn’t give to be able to reach through the phone and assure him-
I’m alive at the very least.
I’m not sure he doesn’t believe this is some sort of message from the next life-
When his voice returns it’s just the ghost of a whisper-
“You waited 3 months to tell me you were in a crash?”