Chicago Tension

Chapter 3

          "Close the door and lock it!!" I shouted at Naomi who was the last to get in. My heart started pounding. It was 6:00,almost dark and my heart was pounding to what it felt 100 beats a minute. "Jeremiah!" I called out. I could hear Joanne coming downstairs and she looked shaken up. "What's wrong?" I asked her. She slowly came down the stairs. I got on one knee and held the sides of her upper arms. "What's wrong??" I asked once more. "Jay and Jerry is in trouble." She said. I looked at her in a perplexed look when I heard yelling coming from outside. I got up and looked outside the window. I saw Jerry fighting with a guy who looked to be in a gang. And Jay behind him. "Do you have it?!" The man yelled as he pushed Jerry. "No,Matthew ! I told you,I don't want to do this!!!" Jerry snapped back. "Matthew ?" I said to myself. I had kind of a flashback. It was Damion's BROTHER. Then...that's when I remembered. Damion said that he was dangerous. The thought shot in my head. I banged on the window as hard as I could and screamed on top of my lungs. "JERRY,NO!" Then I heard a BANG. A sound of a gunshot going off. Matthew and his gang ran. Kianna and I started bursting in tears. I told Naomi to call the police. I sprung the door open then ran towards Jerry's body. He was barely alive. He was breathing weirdly. I took his jacket off of him and put it on the wound.

          "Don't die on me..." I whispered,wiping tears from my eyes. "Please." "Where's mama...?" He asked in a raspy voice. I opened my mouth to say something but then the ambulance came. The paramedics picked him up then put him on a stretcher. I stood up and witnessed as my brother was getting put in the ambulance. Then I saw my mom pull up,hop out of her car,run to the truck screaming "WHAT HAPPENED?!" "MOM!" I called out in tears. She ran over to me and pulled to me to ambulance. "WHAT HAPPENED?! JERRY!" She tried to get in but the parametric wouldn't let her. "Ma'am,drive to the hospital!" He said. Mom nodded her head. "Where Jay?" She asked. "I think in the house." I responded. She ran towards the house and she saw my friends and Kianna's friend. All I saw was my mom saying something to them and they told her something then they all came to me and hugged me. They all went to what I assume to someone's house. Mom went in the house and pulled Jay outside by the ear. "WHAT HAPPENED!?" She asked him while walking down the stairs to the side walk. "Jerry was selling drugs on the block with this guy named Matthew ." Jay explained. Then Joanne walked towards us softly saying "Mama." Mom picked her up and hugged her tightly.

          Mom told us to go to the car and she'll be there in a minute. Kianna picked up Joanne and walked towards the SUV. She opened the door and buckled Joanne in her carseat. She then got in the car and closed the door and sighed of disbelief. I was in the the middle in the backseat of the car. I looked to my left and saw mom on the phone. She was probably calling my dad to tell him what happened. But he doesn't care. He's the most dreadful,egotistic,slothful human being I've EVER met. As I looked at mom more,I could see mom getting angrier and angrier. But to be honest,she looked kind of crazy talking into a phone that looks like a brick. But I couldn't laugh in serious situations like these even would someone looked insanely crazy. Mom hung up the phone,went to the car and got in. She told us to buckle in our seatbelts then she drove off. Everyone was quiet as we were driving. No one said a word, cracked a joke,or made a peep. I looked at all the kids as we passed by. They looked so contented.

          When we finally arrived to the hospital,my mom said that one of us get Joanna. Mom bursted out of the car and ran inside and we all did the same. We got to the reception desk and the lady at the desk asked us if we were family or friends. "We're family." Mom said. "I want to see my son." "What's your name?" She asked. "Michelle Queens and my sons name is Jeremiah Queens." Mom answered. "Go to room 4." The lady told my mom. My mom sprinted to the hallways. She frantically tried to find the room. She finally found it and she sprung in there. He stood there as we watched Jerry on the heart monitor. It was scary seeing my brother on one of those things. My mom moved up closer. She tried to hold back tears. Mom grabbed a chair then sat down on the side of him. He looked bad. Very bad. The doctor came in and greeted my mom and us. "He's in a coma." The doctor said. "Hopefully he'll wake up tomorrow." "Will my brother be okay?" Kianna asked. "Yes. He'll be fine. He just got shot in the shoulder and in the chest but we managed to get the bullet out in time." Mom took a huge sigh of relief and we stayed there until 11:00 at night. We went home and we all went to bed.