You Saved Me: An Omeeka Story

Chapter 16

Meek
"Baby get up. We have therapy today." I said shaking her a little. She woke up abruptly and gasped, then her face softened as she saw me. I pulled her into a hug.
"You okay, I got you." I said and kissed her forehead. I pushed aside some of her hair that was in her face.
"You look beautiful this morning." I told her and her face looked like she took it more as an insult. She let go and went to the bathroom and came out heading straight to the closet. She changed into some jeans and a DC t-shirt with some Jordan's.
"I'm about to get ready. So I want you to go downstairs and eat alright." I said and she went downstairs. I got ready and went on my phone to reply to my sisters messages until I heard a knock at the door.
"Come in." I said and Carol walked in.
"She's been sitting there for twenty minutes and hasn't touched her food yet." She said and I groaned getting up. I went downstairs and she was sitting there looking at the wall.
"Baby? Why haven't you eaten?" I asked walking over to her and she didn't look at me. I took her food and put it in the microwave and warmed it up. I went back to the table and sat the food down.
"Eat. We have to leave in thirty minutes." I said and she didn't make a move as if she didn't hear me. I picked her up and sat in the chair then sat her in my lap. I took a spoon of eggs and put it to her lips but she didn't open her mouth. By now I was very frustrated and I took my hand and opened her mouth then put the spoon in her mouth, feeding her some eggs. She chewed slowly with tears coming out of her eyes. She laid her head in the crook of my neck and I could feel her warm tears falling on my skin.
"Okay, alright stop crying and eat." I sat and put the straw that was in her orange juice to her lips and she drunk some.
"Your gonna eat some more then we'll leave." I said, wiping her tears and I fed her some more. She was more than halfway done with the plate. I got up and grabbed my keys. It was a little cool outside so I got a jacket for Nicki because she was wearing a short sleeved shirt.
"Come here baby." I said and she walked to me and I put the jacket on her and pulled it up her shoulders.
"Okay let's go." I said walking out the door that led to the garage. I opened the door for Nicki and she got in. The car ride was silent and I tried talking to her multiple times but she didn't want to speak. We finally arrived and Nicki and I walked in.
"We have a 12 o'clock with Dr.Sherry." I said and the lady at the desk looked through her computer and led us to her office.
"Nice to see you Ms.Nicki" Dr.Sherry said closing the door and holding her hand out to Nicki but Nicki stepped back.
"I'm sorry about that." I said as we sat down on the couch.
"It's alright. I didn't expect her to speak." She said and I screwed my face up.
"As in like, she's depressed and isolating herself. She feels as if everything bad that happened is her fault so she thinks if she's not having encounters with anyone, like speaking then everything will stop." I looked at Nicki and she was not paying attention.
"Nicki, may I ask how you feel and if I said was true?" Dr. Sherry asked and Nicki was looking out the window and wasn't listening. I squeezed her thigh.
"Nicki your being rude as hell right now." I whispered.
"There's no need to do that. She can hear me."  Dr.Sherry said and I nodded.
"Hey, I see your pregnant. How far along are you?" She asked Nicki and she held up three fingers.
"That's amazing, three months. So six more months until you meet your bundle of joy. How does that make you feel Nicki? Your going to have a new baby." She said and Nicki looked out the window and smiled.
"Amazing." I heard her whisper but I missed her beautiful voice. I kissed her cheek.
"I heard about this new dinner place. It's high end but my friends suggested it.-"
"Can I talk with you out in the hall for a second?" I asked and she nodded.
"Nicki can you sit at that table and sketch me a picture, anything you want or feel." She said then got up going in the hall with me.
"Why are you talking to her about random stuff? I thought-"
"Look, she obviously doesn't like being brought back to the reason why she's not talking or eating. So I'm going to get her talking first then I'll gradually get her to tell us what's wrong. You have to trust me okay, I know you see my degrees on the wall." She said.
"Okay I do." I said and she nodded and we walked back inside. Nicki had this weird ass drawing.
"Nicki can you come here please?" Dr.Sherry asked and Nicki sat down close to me.
"Explain to me what you drew." Nicki looked at her like she wanted to speak but she didn't.
"Can I see it?" She asked and Nicki handed her the drawing. Dr.Sherry looked at it. The picture was a heart that had a bunch of different shapes inside.
"This is your heart, correct?" She asked and Nicki nodded.
"Can you speak to me please? I just want to know how your feeling okay? I won't judge you or yell at you or hurt you. I promise, just speak please." She said and Nicki's breathing picked up, like she was being pressured. I rubbed her back to calm her down but it didn't work.
"It's okay baby. Just talk to her okay she's trying to help you." She held her head down and didn't speak.
"Oh, looks like we went overtime. My next people should've been here ten minutes ago." She said and I nodded and stood up with Nicki.
"Thank you so much. See you next week." I said as we left. Nicki walked with her head down when we passed people going to the car. She quickly got in and I sighed going to my side. I got in the car and turned on some old Jay Z. As we rode to the house I could hear Nicki's soft cries. I turned the radio off and hurried to pull into the garage. I turned the car off and she hid her face from me.
"Baby look at me." I said and pulled her face gently so she looked at me.
"Tell me what's wrong. I have to know because we need communication to make this relationship last. I can't keep walking around here like everything is alright when really... I feel like I failed you." I said and she cried. I got out the car and went to her side. I opened the door and she looked at me in the eyes and my lips crashed against hers. We pulled away slowly, looking into each other's eyes.
"Nicki I'm so sorry. Sorry for failing you, it's my fault your acting this way I could've done something to prevent all this-" She cut me off with another kiss and she looked in my eyes, rubbing the sides of my face.
"It's not your fault. I'm sorry but I can't be with you anymore." She finally spoke and my heart dropped.
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