Her Beef

Chapter 24: At Heavens Door

That gun went off and I felt this burning in my my chest. This is it for me I won't see my niece born or have children of my own. I could hear Raven and Aubrey wrestling around on the floor. I heard heavy foot steps and then I felt someone untie me and lift me up. I was being taking up the steps when I heard the gun go off again and all I could think about was Aubrey. I thought to myself please Lord let him be okay. I heard sirens getting closer and I kept going in and out of it. I thought back to when I first met Aubrey and everything else that happened after and I prayed it was finally over.

"Desire just hold on for me. Everything is gonna be alright the police are coming." My brother said. I managed to open my eye's and saw his tear stained face. I loved my brother because no matter what he has always been there when I needed him. I just kept my eye's on him and gave him a weak smile. I couldn't speak I just lightly squeezed his hand. He looked at me with so much pain in his eye's. "Desire don't do that do say goodbye to me." He said holding my hand tighter. I gave him one last weak smile and than I stopped fighting the feeling and let myself drift away. I could faintly hear voices calling out my name but they just seemed to grow further and further away.

I felt that warm feeling again and I saw that beautiful white light getting closer. I felt so at peace and I just wanted to stay here. I saw my mother and my daughter and they were playing and laughing. My mother looked over at me and her laughter stopped. She walked over to me with a puzzled look on her face.
"Desire what are you doing here? Your not pos to be here." She said sadly. I didn't know why I was here but what I did know was that I didn't want to go back. I wanted to stay with my daughter and mother and just be happy and at peace. "Momma I'm just so tired and I can't do it anymore. Everything I try to do goes wrong and I much rather just stay here." I said to her. We sat and I told her everything that lead up til now. She shook her head in disbelief.

"That does sound like a lot going on, but you can't let a few bad choices and the actions of other's keep you from living your life. Sometimes we want things so bad that we don't realize it might not be the right time to have them. Your young and beautiful with your whole life ahead of you don't give up now. When the time comes for you to have your husband you will and he will be just for you. It's not your time to be here baby so go and live. Just live for God and yourself the right man will come when the time is right. Hell Aubrey still might be the man God has for you." She said hugging me tightly. I talked with my mother a little more and played with my daughter.

All of a sudden I felt this rush and when I opened my eye's I was in the hospital all alone. Where was everyone? Why was I here alone? Was Aubrey Ok? I had so many questions, but the main one was what happened to Raven/Dawn? All these questions and no one here to answer them. Why am I living again?

Aubrey

I still felt so much anger and rage. Dawn was truly crazy and I can't believe that I never picked up on it. All I remember was her firing that gun at Desire and her falling back. I rushed her and knocked the gun from her hand. I rolled around on the floor fighting with her when she kicked me in the balls. She grabbed the gun and pointed it at me but before she could fire Shad hit her in the back of the head with a pipe. Police and EMT's rushed in and started working on Desire. The police took Raven and had her locked in a mental ward. I hope she finally gets the help she needs.

Desaundra went into labor and had a beautiful healthy baby girl that she named Desire Renee. Desire has been in a coma for three weeks and we are praying she comes out of it. I can't believe all this crazy shit happened. I never should have been going back and forth between the two of them. I love Desire and been praying that when she wakes up she is ready to be my wife. I was sitting in the cafe when a nurse came over to me. "Mr. Graham Ms. Williams is awake now." She said. I didn't waste anytime getting to that room, and sure enough she was wide awake. The nurse left us alone and we just stared at each other as I'd we were the only to people left in this world.