90 Ray’s dilemma

Ray’s office door burst open and his sister strode in. With her momentum, it was clear she was angry. (1) “Ray! What is wrong with you?! Today marked three months you have been inside this office and wouldn’t come out. I bet you have forgotten the road to the house. What is going on? You don’t tell me anything anymore. M om, dad, grandpa, and everyone else are worried about you. The security

you barred them from coming into the company. How could you do that to your family? What is wrong with you?!”

said

“How did you get in?” Ray raised his head from the keyboard and asked his sister.

“Wh- what?!” Sharon was totally flabbergasted. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing.

At the gate earlier, the security men refused to let her in. Not until she called Frank who spoke with the chief security officer was she allowed in. She had thought her brother would react differently when he sees her, after all, she had been his most beloved person since young. She didn’t expect he would ask her this with a plain look on his face like he was addressing a stranger.

talking about?” She asked again.

walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window and stopped to look at the dark city

your older sister-”

to look at her. His hair looked disheveled, and his wh ite shirt,

slippers instead. His sleeves were folded up to rest just below his elbow. Totally

not that she knew her brother was allergic to dirt, she would

person I want

“Wh- why?”

regret. I

stopped manipulating me. You made me do things I never thought I would had thought you were the motherly figure you made me believe you were. Mother and father were never

right. Ever since young, she had been the only one who cared about him… no, she was the only one who had time for him. She gave him a listening ear, gave him a shoulder to cry on, took care of him whenever he was si ck, fed him whenever he couldn’t eat… She was literally everything to him because their parents were busy trying to stabilize their grandfather’s failing

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was already too late. Ray couldn’t love or rely on

“R- Ray…”

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