My Safe Heaven

Chp 4

Ryan Leblanc
Sitting at my desk I scrunched my face up in exhaustion as I signed off on certain paperwork for certain residents and their progression .. it was gloomy today so all I craved at this point was my bed , and my week off which I was more than ready for being me and Nia will be on vacation .. looking down at my watch I watched as 2:19 danced across it meaning I didn't have long till 3 , hearing a knock at my door I looked up and invited whoever it was in .

Looking back down at my files I covered them up before greeting the person who walked in .

"Hello my name is Ryan how can I help you today ?" I asked the light skin male who sat in front of me

"Yes it's nice to meet you , I'm Chris I'm just here to visit my brother ." He spoke shaking my hand

He looked young and it wasn't rocket science as to who his brother was , not that they looked alike but all our other residents were up there in age .. handing him a form to sign in on I scanned his ID before printing him off a visitor pass ..

"He's in room 02 , tell him I'll be in there shortly to discuss his progress. enjoy your visit." I spoke while smiling

Waiting for him to leave out I went back to my laptop and looked at what the scan picked up , seeing he was was basically raised in New Orleans too made me wonder what they did or what they use to do , I wasn't dumb not by a long shot I didn't have brothers but I have a handful of male cousins who I was around here and there .. so I knew drug dealing played a roll in his legs accident I just wondered what did he do or did he have any more family was it only them what made hi-

"Ryan mind your own black ass business."

Clicking off the ID portal I closed my laptop and gathered my things together sitting them on the little couch , in my office I grabbed the files I needed and stepped out into the hall ..

August Alsina
"Mane look at you skinny bitch." Chris spoke out Making us laugh

You would've thought it's been years .. but when you grew up with someone and yall been through hell and back together two days would feel weird , let alone a month and some change .. me and Chris became potnas back in grade school when he moved from Georgia to Nola .. his folks was cool with my mom when Chris lost his parents we took em in my mama treated him as if he came outta her that's my brother ..

"And yo breath still be hot as fuck , light skin bitch." I chuckled back

"Yo that nurse said she's gone come talk to you in a minute so we can wait to talk business till after she leave ." He spoke shrugging

"Never thought I'd have to use plan D I feel like a bitch like I'm runnin or sum." I spoke shaking my head

"Call it playing smart." He shrugged his shoulders "it's only me and you in this business together , we gotta be able to show clean money if we get indicted . And we gotta move accordingly to get them niggas back for shooting you up , got you walking I mean rolling round here." He hunched over laughing

Finally laughing with him I held my abdomen as I leaned forward and smacked the side of his head .. hearing a knock on the door I turned toward it and told her to come in .

Walking in she smiled and waved a manila folded in the air , I didn't understand how she carried on gracefully after hearing some of what she went through ..but she did it and she made it look damn good .

"Okay August I have some good news for you . " she smiled and opened the folder "Okay so after talking to your nurse from physical therapy she believes you can now lose the wheelchair and op for a Cain . if your comfortable with that decision of course , the Cain is really a non factor plays a comfort roll more than anything. You have about five more sessions with her then your done with therapy and this place." She smiled

"Oh shit nigga ." Chris jumped up laughing "A real nigga can't stay down for long." He spoke dapping me up

"Man fuck up." I spoke tryna compress my smile

Truth be told a nigga was happy my pride would've been crushed had shit weighed negatively for me .. looking at her I held my hand out and watched as she stood up slowly and grabbed on to both my hands , looking pass her head I watched as Chris smirked.

Shaking my head at him I focused my attention back to Ryan , slowly standing up Chris walked around and pushed the wheelchair to where it rolled away.

Fuck it smiling I held my hands across my chest and laughed .

"Race me right nie." I spoke to Chris causing us to laugh

"Let's take it easy ." Ryan spoke laughing "I just wanna say I'm so glad you managed to come this far in such short time ,  I won't be here next week to see you off but I hope you stay in contact good luck August ." She smiled and walked out the room

"She gotta sister ?" Chris asked walking back toward me

"Mane let's get dis shit done." I spoke laughing

Wondering why she wouldn't be here kept dancing in my head I wonder what she was doing , if she was gonna be gone completely or just her week off which was something she normally had since I been going her-.

"August mind yo own black ass business"

Naw I wasn't checking for her she just helped a nigga out being we in the same age group it was nice to have that .. last thing I needed was another problem at hand stuffing the thoughts to the back of my head , I tuned into the conversation at hand to get shit back right for us.

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