Complicated

15. Medical Visits.

At the clinic, Courtlen stayed in the waiting room as Abby was getting check if she was really pregnant or not. 20 minutes after her being in their office, the doctor came out. "Courtlen?" he asked. Courtlen stumbled out of his chair nervously. "Yea, that's me! Um, is she..?" The doctor smirked, "come with me." He walked into the room, expecting Courtlen to follow which he did. At the end of the hall, they got to the room with Abby in scrubs sitting on the edge of the bed. Her face showed no expression whatsoever. "Well?" Courtlen barked with impatience. A smile slowly grew on Abby's face. "You're gonna be a dad." Courtlen was speechless. He expected this was probably a pregnancy scare but the fact that it wasn't, he was excited yet scared to be a father.

He plopped into the chair next to the bed, "oh my gosh.."

"4 weeks already!"

"..4 weeks?"

"Mhm. In a couple more, we can find out if it's a boy or a girl." Courtlen was still caught off guard from the news so he stayed quiet. The doctor instructed the do's and don'ts of the pregnancy then let the two go home.

On the way back to Abby's house, they discussed their plans. "I think I should tell Loni at this point.." Abby mutter, playing with her hands. "What for?"

"Because it'll blow up in our faces later. Might as well get it out the way. Plus, she's my bestfriend. I hate to keep secrets from her.."

"Yet you manage to fuck her brother. I don't get you at all."

"I didn't expect all this!"

"But you did. Now you're having bestfriend's niece. Like I said, I don't get you. At all."

"Well shit, would you like to tell her?"

"No thank you."

"Alright then! So how are we gonna pay for stuff? I mean, you're going to college and-"

"Don't worry about it. I got it."

"But-"

"I said I got it. Just hold that kid and everything will be fine."

"Okay?" Courtlen pulled up to Abby's house. She got out and went towards her house. As she unlocked the door, Courtlen pulled down his window, "have fun telling your parents!" he shouted. "Fuck.." she said under her breath. Abby flipped him off and went inside. Courtlen laughed to himself and pulled away to deal with the money issue. In other words, asking Jake for more profit.

As always, outside his house was always crowded. Everyone sat on their porches, drinking and smoking together, having a good time. He parked out front and went inside his small home. It was dark and stuffy in Jake's house but that was only upstairs. Downstairs was where everything was going on so that's where Courtlen went. It was like a whole other neighborhood in the basement. It was clean and full of space, but still alot of people. They sat on the floor playing videos, hanging out in a corner, passing blunts, doing lines of coke on the tables, and most likely having sex in the next room. In total, there were 4 rooms and a bathroom in the basement.

Courtlen walked over people and looked all over for Jake. Finally he found him in the lab. "Sup bro?" Courtlen said, trying to dap Jake. Jake didn't even bother to dap him back. He looked at Courtlen with his hands crossed on the table. "Yo, what happened to you?" Courtlen asked, pointing at Jake's black eye and bruises. "You didn't hear?" he replied. "How I got into a fight with your friend?"

"My friend?"

"Chresanto."

"Really? But he looks perfectly fine." Jake gave Courtlen a deathly glare. "Oh.. well, why'd y'all fight?"

"He doesn't mind his business.." Jake slowly got up and walked towards Courtlen with his hands behind his back. "Now you tell him, nobody makes me look bad.. if someone does-" Jake immediately entered a knife into Courtlen's lower abdomen. "-they suffer. Family and all." He took his knife back out and threw it onto the table. "AHH FUCK!" Courtlen shouted. Jake walked back to his seat, "Get out." Courtlen stayed bent over and pressured his wound in pain. Walking out, everyone in the room grew fear. One of the people on the floor took out their phone and called 911. By the time Courtlen stumbled his way outside, the paramedics arrived and took him to the ER. To make him feel worse, he still didn't ask Jake for the money.

About 30 minutes after the stabbing, everyone showed up at the hospital to see Courtlen; Kiloni, Abby, Chres and his parents. They all stayed in the waiting until it was okay to actually see him. Finally, a nurse came out. "Who's here for Courtlen Lee?" Everyone quickly stood up and walked to the nurse. "Okay so his organs are fine and all but he lost a lot of blood so he needs a blood transfusion which we can do. Other than that, he'll be fine." Everyone gave out a sigh of relief. "Thank you.. can we see him yet?" Michelle asked. "Well he's not completely conscious yet so no. Soon, you guys can but not all at once." They all nodded in understanding and sat back in their seats. Kiloni leaned her head onto Chresanto's shoulder. "Who could've done this? Of all things?" Kiloni asked sadly. "I dunno.." Chresanto lied. He knew exactly who it was and he wasn't going to stand for it.