Sisters of Inglewood (completed)

Chapter 17

Ominous

It had been a week since Rochelle first made it to the hospital. The doctor was in the room and she wanted her sisters to be here but one was always under her boyfriend and the other barely wanted to talk to her.

"Hello Ms. Williams, how are you feeling?" The doctor asked sitting on the stool.

"Tired, I feel fine I'm just always tired." Chelle shrugged her shoulders.

"I have good news and bad news." The doctor sighed.

Rochelle sat up and Mikey leaned in to hear better.

"I'm going to give you the bad news first okay." She shook her head." The bad news is... You tested positive for HIV." Rochelle gasped and her eyes grew bigger.

"Chelle." Mikey said confused.

She started crying. She just knew she wouldn't live long. Her aunt had HIV and lived for 1 year after she was diagnosed.

"The good news however, is that you can live a long healthy life if you take care of yourself. Go through the treatment program and take care of your body." He said.

"How long will I live?"

"I've had patients live up to 15 years plus when they went through with our treatment program. It is expensive, but your insurance covers 75% of it. It's what you want to do, we won't force you."

Rochelle swallowed a wad of spit. "If I don't go through with the treatment, how long will I have?" She asked.

"Not long, we're looking at maybe 3 years or less." He said looking at his chart.

"How am I going to tell my sisters? Ronnie's going to take it so hard." She spoke to herself.

"I'll give you some time." The doctor patted her shoulder and left.

Mikey was at the window. He knew he had it too, him and Chelle had sex the week before he left to go to Miami.

"Mikey I swear I didn't know." She said crying.

"That's obvious Chelle, but how you get it? I was clean." He said walking up to her.

She just bawled.

"Blue." Is all she got out.

"Rochelle talk to me." He said moving her hands from her face.

"I've been having sex with Blue to make some extra money Mike... I'm so sorry." She cried out.

Mikey looked at her like she grew another head. He walked off and started pacing the room.

"Rochelle please tell me you lying! Please Rochelle!" He was yelling and his soft exterior was now hard.

"I told you you wouldn't want me, I told you not to date me! I knew I wasn't good enough for you Mikey but you just kept at it. I had to make money and that was the only way! I'm sorry." She said.

"Sorry ain't go fucking cut it Chelle!" He yelled punching a wall.

She flinched. "I was a man, something you needed. I was willing to provide for you like a man. I told you you were smart and beautiful and I meant it, you could work anywhere you want. You chose that damn strip club, you chose to be broke! I was willing to work with you and you just do this shit behind my back? That's foul Chelle. That's fucked up." Mikey was grabbing his coat and keys.

He could not believe the girl he loved cheated on him and gave him a life or death disease.

"Mikey please don't leave me, Mikey please!" She yelled crying.

"Chelle I love you so much, I just need time aight." He threw his coat on and left out the room.

Rochelle started crying and couldn't stop. She was a mess, she called Seiko and it kept ringing. Ronnie was also a no answer, her phone was disconnected.

She needed to talk to someone bad. She couldn't believe she had HIV, and she couldn't believe she made the stupid mistake of getting with blue just for some cash. Mikey was the one. That man would go to the moon and back for her, he was willing to give her the stars and whatever else she wanted. She knew she would lose him though. He was extremely too hurt. There was no coming back from this.

Rochelle cried so much, she forced herself to go to sleep.

She was awaken by a tap on the shoulder. It was Toine, she knew his face but not his name. Seiko used to play outside with them all the time. Toine smirked at her before pushing a pillow over her face. Tone stood by the door watching and Rochelle struggled and fought for her life. She had too much to live for. Her sisters needed her, they were off track for a moment but when all this blew over they were going to get right.

After several minutes, Rochelle stopped struggling. Her chest wasn't heaving, and her eyes had rolled to the back of her head.

"Let's get out of here." Toine said. He and Tone left out. They had done their job, no one would be looking for them, they had no family, all they had was each other and now they could see each other again.

Mikey banged on the door thinking maybe Seiko or Ronnie was in the house. When he got no answer he walked back to his floor.

"Aye man you seen Ronnie or Seiko?" Mikey asked Joe.

"Nah, Seiko came around here earlier looking for Ronnie, she went in there and when she left out I saw them boys leave out with her." Joe said not getting the story right.

"Toine and his brother?" Mike asked averting his brows and pointing at their door.

Joe shook his head. Just then Toine and Tone started walking up the hallway. Mikey had fire in his eyes, he knew they had knew something about Ronnie and Seiko. He pulled a gun from his waist band and so did Tone and Toine. They started shooting the hall up, Joe followed suit and shot as well. Tone was shot in the arm and Joe was shot in the leg. Mikey shot Toine right between the eyes with perfect aim. Toine's door opened and it was his friends, they saw what was going on and emptied the clip on Mikey and Joe. They were dead within seconds. Toine's friends dragged Tone outside to the car, they had to flee the scene. As he passed his brother up who was staring right at him not breathing, he felt some sort of emotion after all this time. Once outside in the parking lot, Tone knew after everything he had done, the police would find out. He stopped walking and held the gun to his head. With one shot, he killed himself.

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Sorry for this horrible chapter. I feel like this book has went on long enough. There's one more chapter after this and then it'll end. Don't forget to vote and comment. Thanks for reading guys.

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