Say Goodbye (A Chris Brown Love Story)

Chapter Thirteen

"M-Mariah?" I pulled her into my arms, tears filling my eyes. Blood was gushing from the bullet wound in her back. "No, Mariah look at me." I grabbed the curtain and yanked off a piece of it, balling it up and putting it on her wound to stop the bleeding.

"You have to stay with me, okay?" Her breaths were getting slower. "Mariah, please." My voice started breaking. "I-I love you, you have to hold on."

"Who the hell is that?" Dad said. I didn't answer him, Mariah was all that mattered to me right now.

"C-Chris, don't cry." She whispered, barely keeping her eyes open. But I couldn't stop. Not when she was dying right in my arms! "Dani....is outside...in my car. Make sure you get her. I...love you, Chris."

"I love you too. You're gonna make it, I know you are." I suddenly, stood up, with her in my arms, still applying pressure to her wound. I headed to the door, ignoring Dad's calls.

"Where do you think you're going?!" He yelled. I stopped at the door and looked at him.

"I'm taking my girlfriend to the hospital if you don't mind." I stomped out the house to her range rover. I got her keys out her pocket and unlocked the door.

"Chrissy, why are you crying?" Dani asked, staring at me.

"J-just be quiet, Dani." I said lowly.

"But-"

"Dani, shut up!" I hated that I was being so harsh with her but I just couldn't deal with that right now.

Mariah was slowly going downhill as we sped over to the hospital. I couldn't lose her, I just couldn't. I didn't realize it until now how much I loved her. And how much she meant to me. And to think if she had never sat in my doorstep that night, this wouldn't have happened. My dad wouldn't have hurt her.

"Mariah?" I nudged her to make sure she was still okay. I still had one hand over the wound, pressing on it. She slightly moved and I knew she was still alive. I wasn't gonna let her die. I couldn't.

We pulled up in the parking lot to the hospital.

"Dani, get out and follow me." I ordered while getting Mariah out the car. Dani got out the back and I locked the doors, heading inside the hospital. I ran inside and a nurse gave me a weird look.

"What happened?" She said, walking up to me.

"S-she was shot, please help her." I pleaded.

"We need a stretcher!" She called. "Where was she hit?" I showed her where I keeping pressure at on her back. Some guys walked up with a stretcher and I laid her down. The nurse moved my hand and put her hand there instead.

"We'll take care of her, just have a seat, okay?"

"Chris." Mariah mumbled tiredly, trying to raise her hand.

"You're gonna be okay." I whispered, kissing her forehead. They wheeled her away and I just stood there, hoping she was going to make it. She had to.

"Chrissy." I looked down at Daniella. "Will Sissy be okay?" She asked. Honestly, I didn't even know.

"She's gonna be okay." I said, bending down and picking her up. "She's gonna be fine." I headed to the bathroom to wash the blood off my right hand. Dani sat on the edge of the sink and I ran my hands under the water and washed them with soap. Once the blood was mostly gone, I turned the water off and dried my hands but there was still a red tint on my hand. I couldn't do anything but sit in the waiting room with Daniella. I noticed she was crying into my shirt but I was doing the same thing, holding her tightly. She was all I had at this moment.

Mariah's POV

Where was I? All I could see were bright lights and distant people talking.

"Should we go tell him that she didn't make it?" Someone said.

"I'm not doing it. He's already crying his eyes out, out there." Another person said. "It was just kill me inside to tell him." My vision started clearing and I looked around.

"W-what's going on?" I mumbled, using my hand to rub my eyes. I heard a sudden scream and saw a nurse looking at me.

"I thought you said there was no heartbeat!" She yelled at another nurse.

"The monitor didn't say anything!" She explained. The nurse walked around and looked at the monitor, picking something up.

"You idiot, it's not even plugged in!" She plugged it in and I heard some beeping start.

"See? There's her heartbeat, right there." She said, pointing to the screen.

"Oh. But she even looked like she was dead, I can't even see her breathing."

"Can someone answer my question now?" I asked, getting a bit irritated.

"Oh yeah. Well according to your boyfriend, you were shot in your lower back and we operated on you and fixed that up. Now Kayla here will go tell him that you're doing just fine now. How do you feel?"

"Um, weak. Tired. And sore."

"That's natural." Kayla walked out the room and other nurse stared at me as I looked around the room. I was in a hospital bed and I still didn't remember what had happened. I was at Chris's parents's house and I heard yelling. Then I walked in and saw Chris on the floor, a gun pointed at him. Oh yeah, I jumped out in front of him. I had taken a bullet for him. Because I loved him. And if I'm remembering right, Chris finally said he loved me. Wow, it took all that to make him tell me he loved me.

"Mariah?" I looked towards the door and saw Chris standing there, holding a sleeping Daniella.

"Hey." I said softly, holding my hand out towards him. He immediately walked in and took ahold of my hand, leaning down and placing it on his cheek. I saw tear streaks going down his face.

"You've been crying." I whispered.

"I was afraid." He replied. "I was afraid that I was gonna lose you." He laid Daniella down on the end of the bed and sat down on the side of me, holding my hand still.

"I was so scared." He leaned down and hugged me. "I don't know what I would do without you."

"Go back to living your old life. The one without me in it." I whispered in his ear, hugging him back.

"But I couldn't do that. I can't act like I never knew you. Do you know how hard that is?"

"You would've got over me eventually."

"I would never get over you. You're the only that I've ever come to love like this." I laughed softly.

"It took all of that for you to finally tell me you loved me."

"I know, I'm sorry. I was just so lost before but now I realize how much I love you. And how much I care about you." I smiled and softly kissed him.

"Mariah, what were you doing at my parents's house anyway? How did you even find it?" He asked me.

"I was worried because you hadn't come home so I asked Daniella where you guys use to live and all she said was a run down neighborhood on the other side of town. And I went to the one I knew but then Dani saw you car. So I knew you were in that house."

"How did you get in?"

"The garage door was open a little, enough for me to slide under it. Then I heard yelling and came inside and saw that man about to shoot you and I just jumped in front of you."

"Why?"

"Because I love you." He smiled at me and kissed my cheek.

"I love you too." It felt so nice to hear him say that. Chris meant everything to me. "H-how do you feel?" He asked me.

"Sore. But I'm happy now. Who knows what would've happened if I hadn't come to your parents house. Who was that man trying to shoot you?"

"My father." I gasped and looked at him.

"Your own father was going to kill you?" I whispered.

"Yeah, I know, my parents are horrible. We were fighting about Daniella. They wanted her back. Well, he did, not my mom, she just asked how Dani was doing."

"Oh. Hmm." I placed my hands on either side of his face and softly kissed him.

"I never want to lose you." He whispered when I pulled away. I smiled and hugged him again.

"I never want to lose you either."

*four days later*

"Mariah, you have to take 2 of these each day for two weeks, okay?" The nurse said, handing me the bottle of huge white pills.

"Okay, okay, I got it." I was ready to get out of this place. I swear, I hate hospitals now. All it is, is sick people and needles......lots of needles. I hate needles.

"Ready to go?" Chris said, wheeling me back and forth in the wheelchair.

"Yeah, lets go." I said. Chris wheeled me out front to the car and helped me get in before taking the wheelchair back in. The meds I was on caused me to be very weak so Chris had to help me do everything until I get all of my strength back.

He came back and got in the car, pulling off and heading towards home. Daniella was already at home, waiting for us to get back. I just wanted to take a nice bath even though I had a shower earlier today but I need the hot water on my back to soothe me. When we got home, Chris helped me into the house and left me in the bedroom while he went to go check on Daniella.

I slowly dragged myself to the bathroom, quickly grabbing on the sink before I could fall. Man, my body felt like jello almost.

"Mariah?" I heard Chris's voice.

"I'm in here." I said from the bathroom. He walked in and I felt his arms wrap around me.

"What are you doing? You know you're suppose to wait for me." He said.

"I wanted to take a bath. The nurse said the hot water will soothe my back, the wound is sore." He sighed and picked me up, sitting me on the counter. I watched him as he slowly slipped off my hospital gown, revealing my cute light pink bra and underwear set that had black polka dots on the bra with a small bow in the middle. He gulped and stared at my body.

"Are you okay?" I asked, cocking my head at him. His face turned red and he finally looked up, making eye contact with me.

"Y-yeah, I am." He stuttered, looking down at my body again. He slowly placed his hands on my waist, moving them around to my back. This was the first time he had seen me almost naked and felt my skin. Actually, I think it's the first time he's seen ANY girl almost naked.

"Your skin." He whispered. "It's so soft." He stepped closer so that he was standing in between my legs. I wrapped my arms around his neck and smiled, before leaning down and kissing him. It's like he hesitated at first but then he deepened the kiss, slowly pulling me off the counter. I felt him carry me back into the room and he laid me down on the bed, climbing on top of me. I couldn't believe he was actually doing this, what happen to his much used line 'I'm not ready'? Is he ready all of a sudden?

"Chris." I mumbled as he started kissing my neck.

"Hmm?" He said, vibrating my neck and causing me to slightly moan. He found my spot and kissed it lightly before biting down and sucking on it. I bit my lip in an attempt to contain my moans.

"I-I thought you said-" He put his finger to my lips, silencing me. Since he was going along, I guess I was going to, too.

I ran my hands down his chest and gripped his shirt at the bottom, tugging it up over his head. I tossed it to the floor and counted each one of his rock hard abs. He pressed his hips against mine and I could feel his hard member through his jeans, I was getting more turned on by the minute. I hope he wasn't planning on getting me all hot and bothered then change his mind at the last second. His hand trailed around my back to unhook my bra and he slowly pulled it off my shoulders. As he continued to kiss me, his hands came up and rested on my breasts and he gently squeezed them, causing me to gasp and moan against his lips. He massaged them with his hands and I reached down, undoing his belt buckle on his jeans. I pushed them down once I had undid the buttons too and he kicked them off when they got down to his ankles. He moved his hands down to my panties and looped his fingers through the sides of them, tugging them down off my waist. I pulled down his boxers also and when we were both completely naked, we slid under the blankets and he stopped kissing me for a minute, just staring into my eyes. I wanted nothing more than for Chris to make love to me right now. I loved him with all my heart and I'm glad I made the decision to walk in the rain that night. Cause if I hadn't, he wouldn't be mine. And I wouldn't be his.

"Christopher." I whispered, using his whole name. "I love you." He leaned down to where his nose was touching mine.

"I love you too, Mariah." He pressed his lips to mine once again and positioned himself over me. To be honest, I was afraid of the pain that always came when it was your first time, but I would get through it. Because I had Chris to go through it with.

"Tell me if I'm hurting you, okay?" He said softly in my ear. I just nodded cause I didn't trust my lips to form the correct words right now. I flinched as he slowly pushed his length into me and bit down on his neck, whimpering.

"Sorry." He apologized.

"It's okay, I'm fine." I lied. My nails were deeply embedded in his back as he continued to push himself in and out of me. It hurt like hell and tears were forming in my eyes.

"Mari, look at me." I gasped and opened my eyes. He had never called me Mari before and I instantly adored the nickname. His gaze was locked onto mine, forbidding me to look away.

"Do you feel that?" He whispered. He sped up his pace and I realized the pain was gone and a new feeling had replaced it, a feeling I had never even thought of before. It was by far an amazing feeling.

"Yes..." I moaned and wrapped my legs around his waist. My arms slinked around his neck and I pulled him down to kiss him. Our tongues danced with each other as he continued to deliver me amazing pleasure. I never wanted it to end, I wanted Chris and I to be able to show our love to each other for forever.

"Oh...baby." I moaned again and threw my head back, my eyes rolling into the back of my head as my legs started to shake. Chris had his hands on either side of me, grunting with each stroke he made. By now, I couldn't hold any of my moans in anymore and the tension was building, both of our climaxes nearing. He took his hands away from me and found my own hands, interlocking them together and bringing them to rest over my head. I squeezed his hands and moaned loudly as I released everything I had. He groaned in pleasure when I felt a warm substance fill me and we were both breathing heavily, struggling to catch our breath.

"I love you." He said huskily, sending chills down my spine. I giggled and kissed him.

"I love you more." I purred, placing kisses on his cheek and jaw. He smiled and rolled off of me, picking his boxers up off the floor.

"Babe, I still haven't had my bath." I whined. He shook his head and chuckled before slipping his arms under me and picking me up. He took me into the bathroom and sat me down on the lid of the toilet while he went to go run me some bath water. I was mad that he had put his boxers on so I couldn't catch a glimpse of him. He wouldn't even let me look down when I had pulled his boxers off in bed. Was he embarrassed?

"Chris." I said. He walked over and leaned over me.

"Yes?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Why won't you let me see you?"

"You do see me."

"No, I mean see you." I tugged at the hem of his boxers and he started blushing. "Are you embarrassed to let me see?"

"No." He turned red even more. I started laughing.

"You're embarrassed!" I teased.

"Am not."

"Then let me see." He looked around for a minute.

"I think your bath is ready." He walked back over to the tub and turned off the water before it overfilled. I kept staring at him while he picked me up and carried me over to the tub, slowly sliding me into the hot bubbly water.

"Mmm, this feels nice." I say. "It would feel even better if someone was in here with me." I looked up at Chris.

"You want me to get Daniella?" He asked.

"No, I want you."

"Mariah-"

"Pretty please?" I poked out my bottom lip and batted my eyelashes at him.

"Ugh, that's not fair."

"But it's working, isn't it?" I smiled at him.

"Fine." He placed one hand over my eyes and I heard him taking off his boxers,

"Cheater!" I yelled trying to move his hand but number one, he was strong and number two, I'm still weak from my meds. I heard him step into the water and he didn't remove his hand until he was all the way in.

"You're so mean." I crossed my arms and pouted. He moved closer to me and wrapped his arms around my waist, kissing my spot on my neck. I couldn't stay mad at him if he kept doing that. I put my arms around his neck and my legs found his waist under the water. I could feel him but I couldn't see him, which frustrated me. I tried to look down and he must have known cause he suddenly pinched me.

"Ow!" I hit his chest. "That hurt!"

"I saw you." He said.

"I just wanna see, I'm curious." I ran a finger down the front of his chest, softly kissing his jaw.

"I'd much rather admire you." He pressed me against the wall of the tub.

"Ow, stop, my back." I slightly pushed him away.

"Sorry." He backed up and I glanced down at the water. He had fell for it. I could finally see him and boy was he BLESSED down there.

"Mariah!" He pulled me against him again and I started laughing.

"You're so gullible!" I laughed even harder. He splashed water in my face and I immediately splashed him back, causing him to start laughing with me. But then I felt a sudden pain in my back near the wound and stopped laughing.

"You okay?" Chris asked me.

"Y-yeah, my back just hurts a little, that's all." I laid my head on his shoulder. He picked up a rag and the soap.

"I'll bathe you." He said, soaping up the rag.

"What would I do without you?"

"Be miserable." I laughed and I wrapped my arms around him.

At first, he started bathing me but then I guess looking at my body got him off track cause he dropped the rag and started kissing me, making sure my back wasn't pressed against the wall. I swear, I could kiss him for hours.

"Chrissy!" The bathroom door opened and Chris immediately pulled away from me. I was hidden behind the curtain that was halfway out.

"Where's Mimi?" Dani asked.

"Dani, get out the bathroom." Chris ordered.

"But I can't find Mimi."

"Dani, I'll be out in a minute." I said. I leaned up and got behind Chris so she could see me.

"What...what are you doing in there with Chrissy?" She looked kinda sad and mad.

"We're just taking a bath, that's all." I answered.

"No! That's for me and you! Not you and Chrissy! Stop stealing her!" Dani yelled at Chris. "That's our thing!"

"Daniella Marie!" Chris snapped. Dani grabbed the door and slammed it on her way out.

"Stay right here." Chris said, standing up. I guess he didn't care about me seeing him anymore. He got out and dried off, pulling back on his boxers.

"Chris, don't kill her." I say, sinking down in the water.

"Don't worry, I won't." He walked out the bathroom and closed the door back. Chris was always sexy in his little "daddy mode" but I did feel bad for Dani. Even though she deserves it. Because she shouldn't disrespect Chris like that.

Me being me, I disobey Chris's orders and try to get out the tub which just ends up with me on the floor, a towel on top of me. I laid there, slowly about to fall asleep until I heard the door open.

"What did I tell you?" Chris said as he walked over and helped me up.

"I don't know." I said innocently. "I have no idea what you're talking about." He sighed and picked me up, carrying me to the bed.

"How's Dani?" I ask.

"She's crying still probably. She hates whoopings."

"Chris!"

"What? I believe in discipline." I roll my eyes and he pulls the blankets up on me.

"Now go to sleep. You need it."

"Alright." He turned on the TV and laid down next to me, holding me until I slowly fell asleep.