The Marina Legacy – Chapter 3.5 – Reincarnation

Hello Guys! Another, rather upsetting update!

Hope you enjoy!

The girl had just another money to pay for a taxi up the hill. She gave the driver a small scrap of paper with a scribbled address on it. Once she arrived at the manor, she confidently climbed the steps towards the door. She knocked on the door sharply three times and waited patiently for an answer. The door was finally opened by a balding man and he let the beautiful teenager into his house.

“Odile, you’ve grown so much since we last met!”

“Uncle Glenn, It’s so good to see you again?” she said sweetly.

“You too! What brings you to Sunset Valley?”

“My mother is here, isn’t she?”

“Your mother?”

 

“Yes, she came her a few weeks back and didn’t return, so i assumed that she was still here?”

“I haven’t seen her in about a week? I assumed she’d gone back home?”

“What? No she never did, She isn’t anwsering her phone either!”

“The last place i know she went was to see Yorath Ebony Marina”

 

"Who’s Yorath Ebony Marina?” Ordile asked curiously.

“He’s your mothers ex-boyfriend. She had a baby with him!”

“Oh… Xerxes?”

“Yes, but did mum never come back?"

“No, i never saw anything of her, she said that she might go home again after seeing Yorath, so i assumed she had.”

 

“I think this Yorath has done something to my mother?”

“Well… we’ll just have to find out about that, won’t we?

Meanwhile, Xiu Mei went to visit her friend Daphne Taylor at her family home. They talked for hours in the lounge and couldn’t be distracted by anything or anyone.

Daphne’s older brother, Boyd, walked through the front door. Xiu was instantly smitten with Boyd and even managed to pluck up the courage to talk to him.

 

After a few hours of talking, Xiu Mei got her first kiss, with Boyd and his family watching. She was overjoyed that Boyd liked her back and things were moving quickly.

She was so happy, she couldn’t help herself. She lost her shyness around Boyd and was a completely different person.

She decided that she wanted to be with Boyd for the rest of her life. She proposed to him and he accepted. It was getting late in the Deb household and Xiu had to leave. She and Boyd arranged to get married as soon as possible. The next day.

When Xiu Mei woke up the next day, it took a while for the news to sink in. Once it did, she jumped out of her bed and got changed. It will still hours away from the big moment, so she decided to go and tend her garden. After spending a couple of hours in the garden, she decided to go and start to get ready.

Three hours later, she walked down the stairs a different woman. She was radiant and brimming with confidence. The guest at the wedding were amazed that she looked so different.

 

She and Boyd were married on the front lawn, next to the small lake now a part of the Marina’s home. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful ceremony.

The wedding night was spent as every wedding night is. The went straight to the bedroom and …

A few minutes after the ceremony, Graciela received a phone call from a Withheld number.

“Hello?”

“Graciela Marina, i have something important to discuss with you.” said a deep and hoarse voice on the other end of the phone.

“Who is this?” Graciela asked

“That doesn’t matter, what does matter is that i have important information about your husband, Yorath, and your son, Xerxes,!”

“What do you mean?”

“Meet me at the old Primpleton Manor in 10 minutes”

Before Graciela could say any more, the mysterious voice hung up. She quickly grabbed her keys and walked outside.

As she walked into the overgrown garden of the manor, she felt really scared. Her brain told her to run, but her heart told her she needed to know what this person had to say about Xerxes. Against her better judgement, she walked inside.

 

The day after the wedding, Boyd had to work early. He got up without waking Xiu and got in his car and started the engine.

Graciela got into her car after staying all night at Primpleton Manor. She had been informed of everything, her husband’s cheating, her husband killing his own son and ex girlfriend. Her eyes closed as she dozed into sleep. She woke with a jolt and continued driving.

 

As he turned a corner, Boyd’s phone fell onto the floor of the car. He reached down to pick it up and in doing so missed Graciela pulling out in front of him. His car slammed into the back of hers.

The two cars slid all the way down the road and crashed into a lampost at the end. The streets were empty and there was no one to help the two injured passengers. Boyd awoke in a mist of smoke surrounding him. He tried to open the door beside him, but it wouldn’t budge. He could smell oil all around him and was franticly trying to push the door open. Suddenly, Graciela’s car went up in flames, sending an explosion echoing through the town. Boyd’s car was blow backwards and the blast mixed with the fire made the second explosion of the morning.

Xiu Mei woke after a good nights sleep. With Boyd not next to her she thought the wedding was a dream. She then remembered he had to work very early in the morning. She picked her phone of the bed side table and saw that she had 23 missed calls from Xenophilius.

She quickly pressed the redial button.

“Hello”

“Hey Xeno! It’s Xiu!”

“Oh… Hi!”

“What’s up?”

“I think you’d better come to the hospital”

“Why?”

“I’ll tell you when you get her, just hurry up ok?”

“Ok”

And with that he hung up!

10 minutes later, Xiu arrived at the hospital. She quickly ran inside, past a couple who were expecting a baby. She smiled and hoped that one day she and Boyd could have a family.

A day and a half later. Xiu Mei emerged from the hospital pale, dreary eyes, greasy hair and stinky. She had mascara all down her face and seemed to be sobbing. Having lost both her mother and husband in one day had affected Xiu seriously.

Just as she was about to hail a taxi, she felt a huge kick in her stomach. She was pregnant with her dead husbands baby.