Chapter 27:
The truth is out
New York firehouse:
"Egon, will you get the door." Winston called. Israel went to the door and opened it.
"Mom, dad what are you two doing here?" The guys over heard them.
Janine looks over at Ray with a confused look. She whispers, "Did he just say mom and dad? Isn't that his uncle and aunt?"
"I thought so." Winston remarked in a lower voice.
"To me that's what Egon always told me." Ray put his two cents in.
"Israel you were not supposed to know about your twin brother." Cyrus called out with his loud voice.
"Uh?" Janine, Ray and Winston all said in unison. Israel faced them and was thinking of a way to tell them.
"I was…." He cleared his throat. "I was looking for my twin brother Egon."
"What?" all the three responded, they had confused looks and Israel's heart sank. He felt his face turning all red. He didn't know how to explain it to any of them for he himself didn't know much. Cyrus and Suzzy walked over the to the three of them.
"We can somewhat explain but it's a long story." Cyrus said.
"I would like to hear it." Israel called.
"you don't even know?" Winston looked at Israel.
"No I just found out. I'm…." Janine was speechless. He looked at her and smiled. She turned her head away. Israel felt his heart drop even farther. He swallowed. That wasn't a good start to this. I kissed my brother's wife. Well, she did but I should have broken it off. I should have told her when she hugged me. Now, she must think the worst of me. He took a deep breath. What have I got myself into? Maybe it was a bad idea coming out here. But at least now I will know the real truth. The one truth that has been, hiding from us for a very long time. Janine still didn't look at him.Ray seeing the awkwardness of this all said,
"Let's go upstairs where we have enough seating."
"Yeah, it might get long." Cyrus remarked. All of them went up stairs to the somewhat of a den area. Israel sat on the couch. Janine ran and sat next to him. He smiled at her. I guess that she has forgiving me but I still should tell her that…"I'm sorry." She scratched her head.
"For?" she whispered as Ray brought in some chairs.
"You know, kissing you but…." He smiled an evil grin, the same one that
Egon had. "You are a good kisser if I may say so." Janine started to blush some. "Egon, He took her hand in his and kissed it softly. "He is a luck man." He noticed that she had no rings on. So she's not married to him yet? He got her pregnant without marring her? What kind of brother do I have? I don't know if I want to meet him after all. She seems to care a lot for him though. I wonder….
"So you've never met your brother?"
"Never knew that he existed actually." Even though he wasn't Egon, she still felt the same way when she was with him. Flashbacks started to haunt her and she realized what she was really missing which made her both sad but gave her faith that he might really one day return to her. Winston and Ray sat in the Lazyboy chairs, while Cyrus and Suzzy sat in the chairs in front of Janine and Israel. Cyrus was about to start telling the story when the phone on the coffee table rang. Janine answered it.
"Ghostbusters, how may we help you?"
"Janine, good I reached you. It's Monica. I'm sitting outside in the back parking area. I sent Egon in a few minutes ago."
"Yeah, he came in."
"I wanted to give you and him time to see each other before I interrupted. I would join the two of you but I got a phone call from a lawyer that wants to see me this instant and I think that he means business. I will stop by tomorrow and see how the two of you did. Hint, hint."
"That will be great."
"Sorry for having to run off like this but.." Janine cut her off. "It's ok. I understand." She wanted to hear the story about Egon's brother.
"Great see you tomorrow and we can do lunch."
"Sure." They both said good-bye. She sat back against the couch. "Sorry about that. Just a friend." Cyrus was looking around the room while she was on the phone. This is not a bad looking place. I was expecting something completely different. Maybe I was to hard on Egon all these years. Now…he swallowed he may never got the chance to know that or his brother. Cyrus cleared his throat once again.
Under the sea:
Peter landed hard on his butt. "Ow…" he looked around. He was underwater with bars all around him. He landed in some short of cage. "Bars, I don't deserve to behind bars. He got up and went to the edge of the cage and shook the bars. "Let me out of here. Let me out of here." The top to the cage slammed shut. "Just my luck." He looked up at the bars above his head as well. "I'm a caged animal. Now what am I going to do?" he sighed. "I'll just have to wait for someone. Like that will ever happen." He sat down. He watched the clear water out in front of him. Why me? A large gray shark swam up to the cage and bared its teeth. Peter stupidly stuck his tongue out. "You can't get me. You can't get me." The shark swam around the cage. Peter twirled around watching it attentively, not letting his eyes off of it. Then there was another and another. Now four hungry sharks joined in circling him. Peter swallowed, but I'm safe in this cage for divers right? He stared at them hoping they wouldn't be able to tear the cage apart. One of the sharks nudged the cage, making it shift some. "Not a good sign." The sharks, still circling around like buzzards over a kill, snapped at Peter. "Ah…." He screamed. Panic was now in his voice. "What to do? What to do?" he took a deep breath but that didn't seem to help him. "I want out. I want out." The sharks started swimming faster and hitting the cage at full blast. The cage started to move from where it had been for sometime. Every time that Peter yelled out the sharks would attack him. The cage was hit and it turns over and over like a beach ball thrown in the air. "Help!" Peter screamed as he was tossed around. Finally, after a few minutes of this the cage landed on its side. Peter saw a shark headed right for his head. He stifled his cry. "This is it. This is it…" he whispered.