Draft, part 3

Chapter three

The same day’s evening, Virginia chanced to hear one more of her mother’s conversations with her neighbor. And found out the truth about her origins. And she was in quiet shock. Her mother didn’t notice anything. But Virginia is already obsessed with the idea. She cannot rid her head of Dat‘s story about probably the same case.
It means that he could be…that…that rapist. Feeling sick and terrified she tried to contact Tom, but he is not answering her phone calls. She doesn’t want to talk to Sarah, knowing that Sarah worships Dat, and loves him as her own father, the one she never knew. What the hell is going on? Fate’s horrible. An ugly smirk of fate. Sarah loves a man, who is to them both…Virginia feels sick of such guess. She falls into a deep trance. And she decides to commit suicide. She doesn’t want to involve anyone though. The only thing that upsets her is what will become of her mother, for whom Virginia is the light of life. And Tom, who would sacrifice his life for her, all night long she thinks how to end her life. As if on purpose, not even one phone call comes from her friends. She mentally says goodbye to Tom. They had planned to get engaged this year, upon achieving adulthood. Why is fate so cruel to her? Was it her fault? She, who would not hurt even a bug, for whose sins is she atoning?  The same time, while Virginia is choosing between life and death, Mary who experienced a different blow of destiny, after seeing the drunk in the hospital, feels very ill. And into the night, not long before the ambulance comes to take her away, she thinks that she will not live. Mary tells her sons the whole truth, as well as what she had just acquired knowledge of.  According to the facts known to her, they might be from different fathers. It is not her fault. She isn’t guilty of anything. Only God knows for what she has to suffer like this. Tim just keeps repeating: mom, mommy: we love you, mom, mommy. Tom is holding her hand and keeps stroking it. Both brothers are shocked. Tom says: Mom, we will find him. We will avenge you. He will crawl under our feet in a pile of his own shit. Mary looks at him, but already not saying anything. Tim tries to calm Tom down, but Tom loses control of  himself. He wants to crush everything: Brother, how proud we used to be, that we are brothers. Always together, and now what? That one of us is carrying all the rapist’s genes. Who is that beast? How could the earth bear him. I swear. I’ll do anything to make sure that the beast’s foot will never again tread on it. And if I find him, I kill him, with the same atrocity with which he wanted to kill each of us, even before we knew we’ve been conceived. Even if some part of him is in me, I will not spare him. And I too will go to jail. He took our mother’s peace and happiness. He made us hostages of his dirty, selfish lust. He does not deserve to live among humans. I will get him. I will take revenge for everything. Tom runs away, and comes back hiding a gun in a plastic bag. All of them leave for the hospital with their mother. At the same time an ambulance is rushing to the hospital containing Virginia, after her failed attempt to suicide. Sarah brings the news about Virginia to the brothers. All of them meet in one hospital. Dat came too, also to be a blood donor for Virginia. Tom has regained himself. A tragedy has befallen on them all, has driven him out of the situation of affect. Tom is in Virginia’s room now. And Tim is in their mother’s room. Sarah persuades the personnel of hospital to compare the bloods tests from database the samples of all four friends with Dat’s one. She is scared. Even though she doesn’t allow herself thoughts of such possibility, but some inner voice prods her to do it. She just feels with all fibers of her being a tragic end. A young assistant, after lengthily deliberation, gives a result, that all four of them possess a striking similarity to Dats. It is just an estimate, but the probability is high 99, 99%. Sarah is afraid to breathe such awful news to the friends. She searches for Dat, but he cannot be found anywhere. How is such unfaithfulness possible? From a man who all of them nearly worshipped? They all viewed him as a role-model. Sarah’s sight darkened with even that single one thought about their father. Tim came closer and took her hand. What‘s the matter with you? Take control yourself. Mom is better and with Virginia frightening everyone the most. They will let them go home tomorrow. It’s just that everything is so mixed up right now. Sarah came to herself instantly. What do you mean? And Tim appeared with Tom told her all what they heard from their mother and from Virginia. Sarah felts short of breath. Please let’s go out into the evening, it is so pleasant and cool after a heavy rain. She tries to understand it: all that is the horrid rush, they all four of them are brothers and sisters. At least is from one side of parents. She feels like throwing up. Tim brings her water. Only later they find out that due to a clear system error the computer gave them the wrong results. Later an announcement for Mary comes, that that drunken man to lost his ability to procreate long before the encounter with her. So both her sons have the same father. Now Sarah decides to inform everybody about the draft of results which she obtained, about the possible connection between Dat and their birth. The probable matching in their and Dat’s genomes is about 99, 99%. But we have to wait for the final research. (Later it will be proven that Tom and Virginia are from different fathers, which means that 99, 99% was obviously some kind of mistake. Everybody took that as good news at first. But still everyone was puzzled a good deal, how can one know the complete and final truth? But Sarah had a plan and that was their best kept secret. The incident with Virginia gave Mary an opportunity to get to know the girl’s mother, which was awfully worried for her daughter.
 Two mothers, two females now bound with one destiny, their own as well as their children’s are standing in the church. The service is over. They turn their eyes to the sky. Why it is lot to live through/experience all this. Who is this one who dared to mess up our lives, he bound us all to such sufferings. How does the Earth carry such a man?, Oh, -Lord! How should we live on this sinners Earth. What to hope for? What to believe in? ‘O, Lord! God please help and save us, deliver us from all evil. Please protect our children if it was our lot to pass on such a deal. Instantly a sharp ray of daylight pierces the twilight of the church is aisle/hell, illuminating two lonely female figures. Two women, bound to each other by the same destiny, who lingered in the church bore few more moments of the eternal time. Both women promise each other to find out the truth. They had to face a lengthily waiting for the answer to their joined inquiry if they were raped by the same individual or if it is just a tragic coincidence what had happened to both of them, more than twenty years ago. Virginia’s mother just like Mary on that a infamous evening, first got in a car accident. And later also became a victim of someone’s sexual contact. That same day earlier she has met her beautiful stranger in the first time in her life. That day he had happened to join her band of motorcycle bikers. He was a new one in the group who didn’t even make friends with anybody, but only her. They developed a strong attraction towards each other from the very first moments together. It was the love at first sight. They drove away from the others to be alone with one another. And they had spent that day in crazy lovemaking. So crazy and passionate, that Virginia’s future mother did not get a chance to take care of precautions against possible pregnancy. To be fair, through, she got a package deal: love confession. Like a proposal to go get married immediately, that very moment. They felt so great, good in each other arms, that they didn’t notice how the time had flown by. That evening they were racing the wind on their bikes and racing each other. She had a helmet, but he didn’t. Suddenly in the front of them several cars came crushing into each other and a gasoline tanker among them. It caught fire, falling. They were pushed to different sides of the gasoline tanker when it exploded, Virginia’s mother was throw away on the side of the road and farther still down the slope. When she was found by the rescuers, she was just starting to regain consciousness. All her clothes were torn. She was almost naked. But in the medical report, filed in the hospital, where she was taken among other injured, was a record indicating that she had probably a sexual intercourse at least with two different men that evening. She could confirm being a sexual contact with one man only. Who as it turned around, had died in the explosion of tanker.  There was practically no way to identify him later. About nine months after, Virginia was born. More than twenty years have passed since then. But Virginia’s origin remained a mystery still. Virginia’s mother didn’t even ask him for his name. He answered all questions with riddles. But he did hint that she perhaps was seeing his name from time to time during a day. That it would be a real surprise for her. A tricky smile was playing upon his lips when he was said that. That he is not quite yet a fairy godfather. But she would have a absolutely delightful evening, like Cinderella. He was going to introduce her to his parents that same evening, so they’d get off his case about their future , but all that just amazed her then. She transferred that ignited love onto her child. She loved her daughter madly. And even later, many years later, when she married a very well to do, divorce man, who was like father to Virginia. When the two girls, - Sarah and Virginia, - used to go anywhere together, people used to ask if they were twins ? They were just so alike. They become friends from the first days of high school. They felt comfortable and good together, humored in each other’s company as if truly they were family, although Sarah never spoke about her parents.
And the matter was as follows. More than twenty years ago her mom was traveling as a translator for one businessman. He was a single man and during the trip got very attached to his pretty translator. And she, too, could not refuse when he offered her to become his wife. So last day abroad for business, before their flight, they spent the hours making love. She did not even think to take precautions. And then in the evening they took a taxi to the airport. They were planning their future family together. But the conversation they have had was never to be finished. Suddenly in the front of them few cars crashed. It was a terrible disaster. They both survived by some miracle. She was found unconscious not so far from the road’s side. When she came back to her senses, she could not understand why all her clothes were in tatters, so she was almost naked. The businessman have got few braises and a twisted ankle. But it took him some time to find her. Simultaneously, another man tried to help her up. She was not very badly injured. The businessman wrapped his jacket around her. Then arrived paramedics and rendered first aid to them. They both refused to be hospitalized, and caught another taxi to the airport. It is only upon arrival to this other country, she felt sick as if some possessed her while she was unconscious. The hospital staff, unfortunately, had only confirmed her doubts. And few hours later a coop began in that country and they were taken hostages: nines month later Sarah appeared. She was fortunate enough to be taken to USA with other freed hostages. In the USA she would be adopted by a childless couple, so Sarah had everything she needed for a happy childhood. But her parents had disappeared in that country. This was what happened in her life, and none of it can be changed.