Best Friends

56

October 13, 2024
Wednesday 8:55am

Maria Pov

I open my eyes and I'm in my bedroom on the very bed I swore I would not lay on. I ease out of the bed and my ankles are swollen again, this has been happening for some days now.

A knock is at my door and I know for a fact that it's Kahjeel. Since our last conversation yesterday I came to the room and refused to speak to anyone.

"Come in."

I don't know when since he started to knock on doors before entering.

"Good morning." He says as he hand me a cup with chocolate tea in it.

"Morning and what is this?"

"I made it."

He reach out and rub his palm over my bump and instantly the baby starts moving as if he or she knows that daddy is touching the bump.

"My baby girl knows that daddy is here." He says smiling and rubbing my bump.

"Yeah right, I think it's a boy." I smile while sipping my tea.

"Nosah a daddy's girl this. I love you baby girl." He whisper then plant a soft kiss on my bump.

I stiffen up in response to the unfamiliar feeling and he glance up at me with a half smile.

"I love both of you." He says still looking in my eyes.

"You don't mean that."

"I do, you just don't believe me. We should think about the wedding preparations."

"I should get going. Let's go." I reply trying to stand when he wrap his hand around me and hold me close to him.

"Mi know mi fuck up but mi wah we work it out Ria, mi nuh wah we baby grow in a two different house."

"Kahjeel, I don't want that either but you had me and then you fumbled me so now your just my baby father and I'm your baby mother. We not getting married no time soon until you earn me."

I push past him and head into the bathroom so I can pee and get dressed for the doctor appointment.

The door to my bedroom is open when I walk back into the room and Zahria is sitting on my bed. I walk right past her and pull out something to put on from my closet.

"So after everything, you come back and not only a breed but have mi mother in your corner too. Looks like mi affi go kill you this time."

I turn around and look her dead in the eyes.

"I put up with you then because I didn't want to hurt Kahjeel or make him choose between us but bitch at this point in time I don't give a fuck about anyone except my child and myself so do your worst but expect mine in return."

With that I walk out of my room and head to the kitchen for something to eat. Just as I turn the corner I hear Kahjeel on his phone with someone.

"How is she?"

He slap the counter and knock everything off.

What the hell could be happening?

I push my fears behind and approach him. "Kahjeel what's wrong?"

He turn around and pull me in between his open legs and start crying uncontrollablely. I want to pull away but then I remember what his mom told me yesterday.

I wrap my hands around him with my chin on his head. "You can tell me anything."

"It's Nique." He says in a soft voice.

"What's wrong with her I ask confused."

Even though we have not spoken for months and she didn't come by yesterday I still love her.

"They want to take her off life support."

Instantly my hand falls to my side and a wave of emotions flash through me, then I feel a sharp pain in my back.

I scream out in pain and grab on to the counter as I feel another. "Aaah, help me."

Kahjeel grab me by my waist.

"Fuck a the baby?" He ask in panic mode.

"Its not time but it's hurting so bad."

I feel something running down my legs and I look down at my leg to see blood.

"Kahjeel look, please don't let me loose our baby please." I cry.

He lift me off the ground and I wrap my arms around him as he rush with me outside towards the car.

Busshead Pov

I swerve around another car making my way to the family hospital. Ria is in the back crying and that's not helping me at all.

I grab my phone and dial my mom's number. "Mommy, Ria start bleed and a cry in pain."

"Okay I'm on my way."

I end the call and run the stoplight heading straight without giving a damn. I pull up to the private practice and our doctor is already waiting with a few nurse. As soon as I pull up they take Ria out of the car and push her inside the building.

When I rush behind them inside my mom wrap her hand around me. I turn and see Skull, PinPin and Trigga all standing behind us. I pull my mom in a hug before I walk and sit beside them.

"Dad, mi have something fi tell unuh. Nique deh a California on life support. The hospital wah pull her off and mi nuh know wah fi do."

"Wah u nuh fuck up Busshead?" He ask walking away.

"Son your girlfriend and child needs you so do that now. Later we talk about Nique." Mom says rubbing my back.

I nod and she walk away on her phone. My bet is that she is making sure they don't take Nique off life support.

Skull pull me away and I frown at him in concern. "Wah happen?"

"Mi never kill Brandy when you tell me fi kill her because she prove to mi seh she pregnant fi real."

"Honestly dawg, right now you affi go figure out how you go tell Trigga and PinPin cause mi have my own burden fi go add yours to it."

"PinPin go murdah me Busshead and a nuh joke thing. How mi go start the argument? Yow PinPin mi go be a father?"

"Better drop out some base and probably wear a bullet proof vest."

"Unuh know mi ears them a basically anthena doh. Suh Skull u have a youth on the way to? The two a unuh a must bloodclaat farmer cause a pure seed a plant."

Skull nod and PinPin laugh a slow and deadly laugh.