Blood Relations

Noah hurriedly rushed forward. His heart was beating so fast that it sounded like drums beating. He realized that he had made a mistake by shouting out to the woman while she was at the literal edge of the rooftop.

He had been too shocked upon seeing her standing there and had concluded that she was about to jump down but instead of stopping her, he had actually shocked her into falling down the edge instead.

Thinking of how the woman from the was most likely dead, Noah felt crushed. Especially thinking of how she resembled his mother so much.

By the time he reached the edge of the rooftop, Noah's face was already streaming with tears uncontrollably.

Noah was shakily taking his phone out of his pocket in order to call for help when he suddenly heard a voice shouting, "hey, I need help over here". He was stumped for a second and wondered if he was hallucinating.

He took a look down and saw that there was actually a safety net a little below the edge and the woman was actually safe. She had fortunately fallen right on top of the safety net.

"Hey, I'm stuck here. Can you please help me up or find someone who can?" Elise asked the guy who was staring at her as if she was a rare monkey in a zoo.

Her words seem to have gotten him out of the daze though because he stammered ," O-Oh of course, here, take my hand".

Elise grabbed onto his hand and hauled herself up with difficulty. She had just recently given birth after all and falling down on the safety net wasn't a pleasant experience either.

Elise hadn't noticed her body's condition while coming upto the rooftop but now that all the adrenaline was gone, she felt rather weak and slightly dizzy. Her entire body was painful.

Elise looked at Noah who had just helped pull her up and said, " I think I'm going to pass out".

Noah had just opened his mouth to question her when Elise did in fact pass out. Noah thankfully caught her before she hit the floor and carried her up.

Looking at her pale face, Noah started panicking again. He decided to take her to his brother's hospital room as it was near and private as well.

***

Oliver was working on his laptop inside his hospital room. He was waiting for Noah so that they could leave the hospital together.

Actually, he had already gotten the clearance from the doctor for his discharge but Oliver had been waiting for Noah because he had gotten a call from home saying that his mom had ordered Noah to check on him. Since it was his mother's orders after all, he had decided to stay put.

He was just finishing up his work when Noah barged into the room.

Oliver was about to reprimand him when he saw that he was actually carrying an unconscious woman in his arms.

"Olly, move from the bed and call the doctor over, quick!!".

Oliver was quite shocked but quickly did as he was told when he heard the urgency in Noah's voice. He watched as Noah laid the woman down gently on the bed. He was a little amazed upon seeing how careful Noah was being with her.

Curiosity got the best of him and Oliver went to the bedside to see what the girl looked like. When he took a good look at her face, Oliver couldn't believe his eyes for a second.

The woman on the bed greatly resembles his mother. In fact, she looked almost exactly like his mother but younger and with black hair instead of his mother's brown.

"W-Who?" The doctor entered the room right before Oliver could finish asking who the woman was.

Noah was hovering beside the woman with a worried expression on his face, so Oliver decided that he would just question Noah after the doctor was finished with his diagnosis.

The doctor asked Noah what had happened to the woman and Noah replied, "she fell down and fainted".

Looking at her hospital gown, the doctor told the nurse beside him, "Since she is a patient, the hospital will have her medical reports. Please go and fetch them for me".

The nurse left to follow his orders and the doctor continued to examine her. After he was done, he said,"there doesn't seem to be much of a problem. She seemed to have fainted due to stress. I will give her some fluids first. I will read her reports first before taking any other steps".

Noah and Oliver both let out a sigh of relief upon hearing the doctor's words.

After the doctor left the room, Noah finally recounted everything that had happened to Oliver.

"Do you think she is our missing sister?" Oliver asked his brother.

Noah looked down at the unconscious Elise and replied," we have been let down too many times". He looked up at his brother and continued," but it feels different this time, so I am pretty hopeful. At Least I can say with confidence that she is not a scammer and our interaction was not planned".

Oliver nodded his head. Throughout the years, they have had a lot of girls come to them claiming to be their lost sister. Some of them even got plastic surgery and all to make it seem more realistic.

Because of the girls who came to them falsely claiming to be their sister, their mother got even more depressed. So now they didn't ever let anyone claiming to be their sister anywhere near their mother.

Elise's face obviously didn't have any trace of plastic surgery which made both Oliver and Noah rather hopeful that she was their long lost sister.

"Should I take a sample of her hair for the DNA test"? Noah asked Oliver.

"No, let's wait until she gains consciousness

first". Oliver didn't want to take her hair without getting her permission first.

"Oh, of course. I was so focused on the fact -that she looks like our mom that I didn't consider asking her first" Noah said with a slightly sheepish tone.

Since both their schedules were free for the day, Oliver and Noah decided to stay inside the hospital room and wait for Elise to wake up.

Since her hospital gown didn't have a name tag or anything on it, it would take time to get her hospital records and other information. Even if she wasn't their sister, Oliver and Noah wanted to make sure that she was okay before they left.

The hospital room was a vip room after all, so it had a whole sitting area for visitors. Oliver and Noah sat down on the sofa.

Both of them couldn't focus on anything else, so they just sat there waiting for the woman to wake up.

Elise opened her eyes. Looking at the hospital ceiling, she wasn't very surprised. The loss of her child was still fresh on her mind.

Tears unwillingly welled up in her eyes due to the overwhelming feeling of pain from losing the child she had been looking forward to being born.

Chloe had even bought so many items for her unborn baby. Every night, Chloe and herself would read a new story out of the children's book that they had bought and get excited everytime the baby kicked or moved.

"Oh, you're awake".

Elise snapped out of her memories when she heard a stranger's voice addressing her.

She looked up to see a stranger looking at her with a concerned expression. "Are you in pain? Noah, go call the doctor quick".

Before she could say anything, a doctor entered the room and started asking her various questions.

Elise answered the doctor but her attention was on the two men who were also inside the hospital room. They were looking at her with rapt attention which surprisingly didn't make her feel uncomfortable.

She had already recognized one of them as the man who had helped her when she fell but didn't know who the other man was. Judging from his looks though, she guessed that they were probably related.

The doctor finished his assessment and concluded that she just needed more rest. After the doctor left, she turned towards the men who were hovering at the edge of her bed and said,"Thank you for saving me. Is there anything I can do to repay you"?

Elise didn't like to owe favors so she just asked them in a straightforward manner. She was just hoping that they wouldn't ask for anything outrageous.

"Okay then can you give me your hair"?

Elise:"..."

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