A Different Way To Finding Each Other

12 Years Gone

Robert Quinn was shocked as his phone rang and picked it up and answered it. "Hello?"

"Hi Robert," his older sister replied on the other end. His eyes were huge and his mouth hung open after hearing his sister Rochelle's voice after twelve years that she had been gone after running off with her boyfriend and getting married to him against their parents wishes. He was too stunned to speak and remembered the last time they saw each other.

Robert and Lena had went after Rochelle as she took off with her boyfriend, Pablo Espinoza and the four of them had a shout out match near the train station.

"You are going off with him?" Robert asked. "He has a ex girlfriend for a reason."

"I love him, Robert. Like you love Lena," she replied.

"Lena and I are the same age, Rochelle and he is thirty five years old."

"I love him and I'm leaving. After Rona died mom and dad blamed me and I can't do this anymore and take the blame for what happened."

Robert sighed as Lena spoke. "Think about this Rolie," Lena replied of her nickname.

"I have Lena. My mom and dad don't like him and will never approve of an older man."

"So you are picking him over family?" Robert asked.

"Yes and what family Robert? Mom and dad where never home and we were raised by the hired help. Mom and dad aren't family. Pablo and I love each other."

"Do what ever you want," Robert replied. He was hurt and in pain as he eyed his older sister in tears. He lost one sister due to an automobile accident and was losing his other older sister for a grown ass man.

"After the car accident, Rochelle. We all lost Rona," Lena replied. "We all got hurt."

"And I'm the only one that got the blame. How is that? Was that fair?"

"No," Lena replied. Her, Robert and Rochelle were in the backseat and Rona was driving in the front seat as her best friend, Deanna Keller was in the passenger seat as Rona lost control of the car and hit a tree and died instantly. Deanna was paralyzed at the waist down, Robert only mild bruises, Lena given a ten percent chance to have a baby and after she did would have to have a hysterectomy and Rochelle would never have a baby, which she told Pablo.

"I was the one that got blamed. Not Rona who had the idea and was the oldest."

"You can't leave," he pleaded.

"Why stay?" she asked. "Mom and dad hate me."

She left as Robert and Lena saw her leave with Pablo Espinoza as Robert cried for his older sister as Lena hugged him hard. Out of the Quinn triplets, Rochelle was blamed for everything since she was the middle child and Rona and Robert hated their parents for that. In some cases, the middle child is ignored, but not poor Rochelle Leticia Quinn. She had enough and left with Pablo and her parents took her out of their will.

Robert and Rochelle never saw or talked to each other again. He texted, emailed, left messages on her phone and even did FB, Twitter, and other forms of electronic ways of communication till now.

His mind returned to the present as he heard her. "Hello?"

"Hi Rochelle," Robert replied. "What do you want?" he asked bitterly.

"I miss you," she replied.

"You are a damned liar," he told her. "It's been twelve years."

"I'm in Mission Bay," she said. He rolled his eyes. "Let's meet for dinner?"

"I have dinner plans and you can come if you want," Robert said. "I can't cancel."

"Not even for family?" she asked.