Bag Lady:(Book One)

Bag 13-- Ugly Scars

It's been a week and I'm still in this fucking hospital. I'm okay, they just want to keep me 'protected' they're scared to send me back home, because they don't want me to get attacked again.

I sat in my bed and FaceTime Desireè on my phone, I told my mom to not let her come to see me, I don't want her to see all my bruises, it makes her emotional.

"Mommy, I miss you. When you comin home"

"Soon baby, it won't be long, but you doin' okay?"

"Yeah, I want to go home to my dolls and my IPad"

"Awww I'll give granny the house key next time she come visit."

Someone knocked on the door.

"Come in, Desi imma call you later okay, the nurse have to draw my blood."

"Okay mommy I love you,"

"I love you too baby"

"Bye" she hung and the nurse pulled back the curtains from the door and Andrew stood by her, he had flowers and a gift bag in his hand.

"Here's a visitor" she smiled as she walked out
"Hi Professor "

"Hey beautiful, these are for you" he gave me the flowers and gift bag. I looked through the bag and pulled out a pink bear.

"This is cute"

"Press the button" he smiled.

I looked down at the bears paw and it had a read button on it, I pressed it and it started to sing

" Sweet lady would you be my
Sweet love for a lifetime
I'll be there when you need me
Just call and receive me
Sweet lady would you be my
Sweet love for a lifetime
I'll be there when you need me
Just call and receive me"

"Awww thankyou Andrew, it's cute" I laughed
"How you know I was in here?"

"Mr . Robichuad told me, you feelin okay?"

"Sickle Cell, that's all"

"That's all? I have sickle cell too, it never gave me bruises."

"How you been?" I ignored his statement.

"I've been okay, just working."

.....

We talked for a half an hour and it was so nice.

"Tell me, you use to be friends with Dalontè, but yall nothin a like. Your sophisticated, he ghetto garbage, how that come about"

"Well, we're from the same hood 'bank head'. I was always the kid who was bad and I sold drugs and I had fe--"

"You sold drugs?!"

"Yeah I did it,me and Tae, are actually cousins, you should know that...but I saw the life he was living and I saw how he was raised by my aunt and I wanted a better life you know, he almost got me locked up but he took the fall. "

"What did you do?"

"Let's not talk about my past, but I turned my life around, graduated from Florida State, became a professor, became a foot ball coach, gonna be an entrepreneur and investment banker one day, so the present is looking good "

"So your Desireè's cousin and Kada's?" I asked in a worried tone.

"Yeah im related to your daughter, but not Kada, they have different moms,she's not from Atlanta, she from Carolina."

Thank God!

"Oh well it's a small world, yeah I forgot sh's from there. Desireè and your daughter can grow up together" I smiled.