I Am Harlem (urban)

Chapter 4

"She was asking for it!!" Oh look at the way she is dressed!" Well if you weren't flaunting your ass and boobs to the world it wouldn't have happened!"

It's people that are just so ignorant that say we as women deserved it. No one deserves it. To be beaten... Raped. Having your sanity taken from you. Having your life, having just everything ripped from you in those seconds, those minutes... All so someone can get a quick nut... No one deserves it. Why are people so ignorant? Why do people say we deserve it? But when it happens to them or someone close to them.... Suddenly they want the person killed... They want the person found and locked away for life. How can people be so ignorant... Saying someone deserved it isn't true. No one deserves to have their life taken from them in that way. No one deserves to go through life afraid of being beaten, and raped. Man or Woman. Who gives them that right?

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As I laid in my hospital bed, hooked up to a bunch of beeping machines. I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe on my own, nothing. I had fallen into a coma, had 2 bruised ribs, and a broken leg... Along with being molested, raped, and my dignity stolen. I felt useless, well I was but feeling that way? It was one of the worst feelings in the world. Have you ever felt so alone in a world full of people? Have you ever felt like the world has turned grey only for you? But is so many colors for everyone else?

"We aren't sure when she will come out of it. She was beaten pretty bad. When we found her."

"NaeNae!" Kaden screamed running over to my lifeless body.

"NaeNae?" He tugged on my finger, and looked up at me. When he didn't get a response he poked my arm an laughed. After a few more attempts he started to get the idea that "NaeNae" wasn't waking up. He turned around with my finger still in his hand and looked up at Gina and Ricky with tears in his eyes.

"Oh kaden. NaeNae will be okay. C'mere" Ricky picked him up and kaden couldn't hold it in anymore. He let it all go. He screamed and cried. Yelling out my name. Gina and Ricky tried calming him down but he wouldn't.

"Kaden it's okay baby. She will wake up we promise"

Gina looked at Ricky with doubtful eyes. She didn't know what to do. Kaden just saw the person who was raising him on a hospital bed, hooked up to a bunch of machines not responding to him.

"NaeNae! No!" Kaden screamed as Ricky carried him out of the hospital.

Gina stayed with me at the hospital overnight. The nurse provided her with blankets and a pillow. And she tried to find a comfortable spot in the chair next to me.

"She is 16. She didn't deserve this" she said to someone on the phone.

"Poetry... She is so talented. And that little boy adores her. I mean they are inseparable. Unless she has to go to work or is at the poetry club he is always by her side."

She took a deep breath, got up from the chair and walked over to me. She grabbed my hand and sighed. Looking at all the machines she covered her mouth trying to keep from crying.

"She doesn't need to be here anymore.. HARLEM! She doesn't need to be here. She needs to be somewhere she has opportunity...."

"Yeah okay goodnight"

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Days passed. Hell weeks passed. Before I finally came too. Today was the day I would wake up. I would be able to see the damage and actually feel the pain... But besides that I wanted to see Kaden. Ricky brought him everyday to see me, and prayed that id wake up. As I slowly, and I mean slowly came back to reality I heard my doctor talking to someone.

"Ma'am I'm sorry but he is in a coma.

"I don't care! Wake my baby up!"

"Ma'am we can't.."

"Look mr. Doctor degree my taxes don't pay your dumbass to leave my baby like this now WAKE HER UP NOW!"

You know it's funny how people start to care when you are dying. Where was she at when we needed her the most? No where to be found. Running around Harlem like a little lost puppy. I heard security come down to the room and take her out. The doctor walked over to me and I managed to open my eyes. Giving him a look of someone in dyer need, for answers. Someone in dyer need of someone to just tell them everything will be okay, that I'd be okay.

"You'll be fine sweetie. You're healing just fine but we need to know if you can breath on your own"

He slowly took the tube out of my throat, and I took my first breath and coughed as I exhaled. I moved my left arm to help myself sit up, because I had broken, they had broken my right. Wincing in pain I managed.

"Don't let her back in here okay? I've been through a lot on my own and this is one of the things I can deal with without her fake pity and concern."

The doctor shook his head, leaving the room. Shortly after I hear tiny footsteps down the hall. And a gasp at the door.

"NAENAE!!"

"Hey bubba!" I chuckled as he ran over to me trying to climb up on the bed. I grabbed him and pulled him up, groaning at the stiffness of my body.

"Oh! You're so big. Haha what's up bubba. You been good?"

He shook his head and laid on my chest. "I miss you NaeNae" he sat up and put his tiny hands on my face. So many things running through my mind I just... I wouldn't know how he could cope if I wasn't here. Would he think less of me just like he does mom? Because I left him alone too? As I was slowly losing myself within myself, weird right? Ricky walked in with some balloons. Our eyes met, and I could just feel all the weight lifted from my shoulders.

"Harlem!?"

He walked over to me with open arms then closed them when he saw the expression on my face. I was happy to see him. But after all that had happened to me I wasn't sure, that being hugged by him... Or anyone for that matter was the best way to go.

"Harlem..." I felt his hand touch my and I froze an instant flashback.

"That's okay sweetheart"

The man standing over me was blurry, I couldn't make his face out. The voice sounded familiar but still. I felt him grab my hand as he leaned down and kissed me..

"Please stop... I didn't do anything to you."

I felt a sting across my face and more tears rolled down my cheeks. The only things keeping me warm. I just wanted to die. Literally. If dying was better than this then I'd take it.

"Harlem?... Harlem?"

Ricky grabbed me by my shoulders and I screamed. Kaden looked at me and started crying, then I realized what I did.

"Oh god kaden NaeNae is sorry!" I rocked him back and forth but he wouldn't stop. Gina walked in and took him from me.

"It's okay Harlem I'll calm him down while you talk to Ricky."

When they left the room I looked at Ricky in a way is never looked at him before... As if he could do what those guys did to me that night. That if I was left alone with him... It would end the same way that night ended....

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