Past Love

Chapter 13: The Next Day/Loser

Tuesday July 5th, 2005

12:30pm

Tyrone

"Ugh my head." I woke up with it throbbing, I definitely took a beating, I couldn't remember much from last night in all honesty, other than me losing the match. I couldn't believe it.

"Hey I heard you moving around, i made you some food, and i've been checking on you off and on." I heard Jahmelle say. I could feel myself elevated up on the bed like I was sitting up. "Don't move around too much man, you're definitely not in too good of shape after last night."

"Awww shit!! Where am I?"

"You're here at St. Louis General, I drove you here after the fight, the doctor at the event said you might have to stay here for further observation. He said it could be possible that you have a pretty bad concussion." I told him. "Now your mom's here as well, she's been here along with me all night." I told him.

"Where is she? I don't want her to worry..."

"She stepped out for a second. She'll be right back."

"Well Jahmelle i just wanna say thanks for staying here with me, you didn't have to you know."

"I know I didn't. I stayed because I wanted to." I said. "You just don't know how much you mean to me now for real. I could have lost you, a lot of people could have lost you, you mean a lot to so many people." He kissed me on top of the head.

Right after that my mom walked in. "Hey baby how are you? Well that's a stupid question to ask in all honesty. I'm just glad that you're awake and you're alert. Hopefully you're able to go home today or the day after. We need to get you well."

"Don't worry mom. This isn't the first time where I got a little bruised and scraped up and it definitely won't be the last. I'm just glad it's in the boxing ring instead of out on the streets."

"Well either way you could have ended up hurt, paralyzed, or even dead in the ring. You do remember what happened to Apollo Creed in Rocky 4 right?"

"Yeah but that was a movie."

"All right, well here's another example. Do you remember what happened to Marlon Fuller back in 2002? That fight that he had with Tavarious Jordan II? And don't act like you don't know what fight I am talking about. He ended up with a broken jaw, his eye almost out of his socket, broken ribs as well as a broken nose. and he was in the hospital for a long time."

"Yeah I remember that and he was in that hospital in Baltimore for about a month I think."

"Exactly so, think about that." She said, "You could have had that happen to you or worse. Anyway I'm going to go talk to the doctor and see when you go home. They might want to keep you for a night or two for observations but I just want to be sure."

"Alright ma, hey i love you." I said as she gave me a kiss.

"I love you too."

She walked out of the room and I looked back at Jahmelle. "I appreciate you, I really do. So what's been going on in your life?" I asked him.

"Well to be honest not much, I mean Damon's been busy with his job, other than that we really stay out of each other's way and all, i think he's still upset about that situation with Lee and all in all honesty." He said. "But things going pretty good man, he's got pretty decent grades in school and he's trying from the looks of it, I just hope he doesn't get involved with Lee again."

"Well he's a teenager, he's gonna rebel, that's usually what teenagers do, we got to remember about how we were when we were young, you know? St. Louis never been a joke, you either in school, you at a job, a deadend job that is, you might have to go out of town for a high paying job, or if you lucky you might find one here, or you're running the streets, it's a fucked up situation but that's just how it is unfortunately." He held his head down, he knew in a way I was right.

"Exactly, remember we both had to leave town to chase our dreams, but it seems like fate brought us back here, for me it was a bum knee, and for you....well we all know what happened there, and it's tragic. You know not a day goes by where I don't remember Shawn." He told me. "You know what he'd say if he saw you laying in this hospital bed?"

"Yeah, he'd say get out of this bed you pussy and shake it off, quit acting like a bitch ass dude." We both busted out laughing. "Yeah, I miss my brother, for real." I looked out the window of the hospital with a tear in my eye.

"But you know what, I know he would have been proud of you." Jahmelle said.

Me and Jahmelle looked into each other's eyes and stared for a second, we just looked at each other and I felt like we were thinking the same thing, we came in close for a kiss and right as our lips were about to meet there was a knock at the door. It was the doctor.

"Hey Doc what's up? So what's the news? Am I okay?" I asked him. He was pretty quiet at first then he spoke.

"Well your results came back but it's quite a few things i have to tell you....."

End Of Chapter 13