Detroit. •b.t.• (Completed)

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Omniscient

Sage cried in her father's arms, as he sat on the bed with her.

Keisha, Camilla, Serenity, and Covonte were scattered around her room, wondering what was going on.

Sage's loud cries turned into whimpers, as she had once again, cried herself to sleep.

Bryson walked by Sage's room, but stopped and took a few steps, when he realized that everyone except for him was gathered there.

"What happened?" Bryson questioned, looking around.

"Some kids said some things to her, yesterday, and they hurt her feelings"

"Who?"

"Some kids of my employees. At the banquet yesterday"

"What they say?"

"I wasn't given details" Charles kept it short.

He did, in fact know the details, but he wasn't going to repeat anything.

"How long she been like this?"

"Since 6 am"

Sage's head turned to the side and Charles looked down at her face.

He pushed her hair out of the way when he saw something strange.

"Serenity . . . come here"

She walked over to where he was sitting.

"What's wrong?"

He pushed Sage's hair further away from her face.

"What does this look like?"

She squinted, and got closer to her face.

"It looks like. . . bite marks?"

Bite marks along the edge of her face.

Charles put Sage down and pulled her shirt down around her shoulder.

The trail continued.

He lifted Sage's shirt up to reveal her bruised stomach.

"Serenity, call into the hospital for a rape kit"

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"We can not use the rape kit on the victim because she refused with a simple 'no' and we have to have her consent."

"What about the baby?" Bryson questioned.

Keisha rolled her eyes. "What about Sage?"

"The baby was kicking, and everything seemed to be okay. We talked to Miss Wyatt about inducing labor, and she was 50/50 about it"

"Can we do that?"

Charles stood to leave. "I'm about to choke this fucking boy" He shook his head and walked back to the hospital.

Keisha walked with Serenity, and Bryson and Covonte stayed in the waiting room.

"Why you don't care about Sage?" Covonte questioned. "I'm pretty sure that Sage was hurt worse than y'alls baby, but you only care about him"

Bryson shook his head. "Sage didn't get hurt. She's fine, yeah?"

He was in denial.

"Bro. . .Sage hurt"

Bryson shook his head. "Last time we talked, she was fine"

Bryson and Sage hadn't talked in days.

Covonte didn't bother to reply, and instead, looked at the coffee table that they had infront of the couch they were sitting on.

Bryson kicked the wooden coffee table over and magazines were strewn throughout the floor.

"Why the fuck you not answering me?"

"Bryson, chill out. They gone kick you out the hospital, and you ain't gone be there for the birth of your son"

Covonte picked up the coffee table before looking at the security guard who had his hand rested right above his gun.

Covonte pushed Bryson out of the waiting room, and into the elevator. He led them outside, and Bryson paced back and fourth in the hospital parking lot.

"Imma fucking kill somebody" Bryson laughed, while shaking his head.

"Bryson, you know-"

"Nah, fuck that. I'm really about to fucking kill somebody, man. Nobody gets to fucking touch Sage"

"You gotta-"

"I don't need no fucking logic. Somebody put their fucking dick inside of my fucking girlfriend and raped her. Who the fuck bites down the side of somebody's face when they do that shit?"

Grayson did.

"I know the shit ain't right, but I'm pretty sure Charles all over it right now"

"Sage don't even do shit to nobody. Who the fuck felt the need to hit on her like that?"

Eric did.

"Umm . . .Sage is pushing right now" Keisha interrupted.

They both followed her back into the hospital, but Covonte stayed in the waiting room.

They got to the room that was Sage's, and Charles was standing outside of it.

"1 . . .2 . . .3"

The baby was halfway out already.

No one expected it everything to happen so quickly.

Their son would be here any moment now.

Serenity put something in a cup up to Sage's lips.

A piece of ice fell out of the cup onto
the floor.

"Two more pushes, and you're done"

It was actually three.

Sage groaned because it was painful, and because she was still hurting from the previous night.

The baby cried when they pulled him out all the way.

"It's a girl"

They set her on Sage's stomach for a few moments.

"The lady said it was supposed to be a boy"

"How many times did you get the gender checked?" The nurse questioned.

"Just once"

"Early on?"

"Yeah"

"People make mistakes all the time. It is especially common during the early stages"

Sage and Bryson now had a daughter.

They had a few unisex items, but mostly everything was for a boy.

They took the baby away from Sage and Bryson momentarily.

"What do you plan on naming her?"

Nobody had any idea.

"How about, Jayda Sage Tiller?

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