Chapter 39 - 39

'I am crazy,' I screamed in my head as I followed the weird nurse to the hospital room. He might throw me off the building but here I am following behind him like an obedient student.

"What now?" I asked him once we were standing It the roof. I looked down and the ground was so far that I was feeling dizzy just looking down.

"You have to make a wish."

"I wish to save Reiner's life," I said and he shook his head in disapproval..

"That is not how you do it. The wish has to include you both, say I wish to undo our mistake and fulfill our intended destiny," he said and I said the exact words he asked me to say.

I stand around for a few minutes with nothing happening. It didn't work which I knew it wouldn't but at least I can scratch that on my attempts to save Reiner. I decided to give him another minute before I go down to see Reiner.

Just as I turned around to leave bright strings came from his pockets and he started knitting. He was using his hands to guide the strings to move in the air into whatever he is trying to make. 'And he says that he is no magician," I thought as I watched the beautiful movements of the strings. He kept performing his trick and out of it came a flower with all the colors of the rainbow.

I clapped for him for the amazing show that he put on for me. He might not have saved my love but he made me happy and less worried. And with a clear mind, I will be able to think of a solution to help him. "Thank you," I said feeling grateful.

"Don't thank me yet. My job is far from over," he stated matter-of-factly.

I turn around to leave the mad magician to his madness but I freeze in my steps. I found that I was no longer on the roof of the hospital but in what looked like my brother Logan's room. I would know as I have always desired his room for it was the biggest and had everything that a teenage boy would ever need to have the best time.

I glance back at the magician who is making himself comfortable on the bed. "Where are we?" I asked just to make sure that I wasn't hallucinating and that he could also see that we are not in the hospital anymore.

"The question is not where are we but when are we," he said and my heart dropped to the bottom of my stomach.

"W...what do you mean by that?" I asked nervously. I had a weird feeling that I was not going to like what he was going to say next.

"Your wish took us all back to the time when the two of you have yet to stray from your destiny. Now you get a do-over," he said and I wish that I had not asked my question.

I don't ever want to relive all the bad that Reiner and I went through. I am not sure at what point in time he has taken us back to or what my relationship with Reiner is like. I must find out. I walk to the door to leave and go check on my love but then I hear my father and my brother's voice and freeze.

In the past, I was not allowed to enter my brother's room as I pleased. It made my father very angry, if the two of them catch me and that crazy nurse in here then my life will be over even before it starts. "We have to go," I say dragging the nurse by the hand to the window.

We are on the third flow but I think that we might survive if we jump. But if we are caught in this room then death is the only thing I see in our future. I climb up the window first and try to jump but the distance down is so big that I can't bring myself to jump.

"What do you think that you are doing?" I heard my father ask in worry and swallowed hard. "Get down from there," he ordered and helped me down.

I stared at my father with disbelief written all over my face. This was the first time that the man had ever done anything for me. He not only helped me but showed concern for me which means that he noticed me. Tears of joy flowed down my eyes as the happiness of having been noticed for the first time by my dad filled my body.

"Why are you crying, my dear boy? Did someone do something to you?" he asked me again but I was too shocked to believe the word that came out of his mouth. How can he be the same man that I know who never found me worthy of even a second of his but today he is showing concern and is giving me his time.

"Logan, what did you say to your brother?" my father shouted bringing me out of my earlier shock into yet another one. Did the great Marco Avery just shout at the apple of his eye for me or any dreaming? I eyed the two of them suspiciously wondering what game they were playing.

"But I have been with you the whole morning father. When would I have said anything to him?" Logan defended himself. The weirdest thing of all is that my father still glared at him in distrust as though he did not believe him.

"Then maybe that ill-mannered sister of yours must have done it. I just don't understand why you are so envious of your brother's success. Brandon is the pride of this family and the two of you simply have to accept that," he said and dragged Logan out of the room.

I couldn't help but look at the nurse to explain the weird thing that my eyes had just witnessed.

"What was that? Why did my dad shout at his favorite son and what did he mean by I am the pride of the family?" I asked getting straight to the point.

"Well, you wanted to walk your destined path. The wish you made was so that the two of you don't break the tie and Reiner doesn't die. This is just one of the prices you paid for the wish."

"Price? You never mentioned anything about a price earlier. And you still have not explained to me exactly what is going on," I state in anger at this new information that he left out earlier.

"You are a businessman. You of all people shouldn't need to be told that everything in life has a price. For one to live another must doe and for one to find love another must receive hate. You being unloved by your parents made you weak and you allowed others to walk all over you including Reiner. Had you had the backbone to tell him no he would not have strayed from the path and hence your wish got you that love. You are the apple of your mother and father. You are a superstar as your mother wanted and an aspiring businessman like your dad wishes," he said and paused to let me absorb everything he was saying. My jaw fell from shock with all the things he was saying.

"As you are now the beloved child of the Avery family it is only natural that your brother and sister are unloved and neglected. You have what you have always desired at the expense of those who had it. With you having all the love and attention you won't need to become nobody and hence Zane won't come into your life and without Zane, no major misunderstandings will occur between you and Reiner," he explained.