In The NICK of time

Chapter 4

Ms.Mccall the looks like the transfusion went as planned. Everything is starting to look normal even her brain activity. The sedative we gave her earlier, should be wearing off soon and she should wake up. We will keep her for a couple more days. Just to make sure everything is ok. If you have any questions please, feel free to ask me or anyone on my staff. Thanks for being patience as well as understanding I know that this has been a hard time for you. Thank you, Dr. Cordell, I really appreciate all your help. No problem it's my job why don't you go home? You've been here for 2 days. Please go home get and get some rest.  We will call you if anything changes. Also, Dr. Nick had your car towed to the employee parking lot here are your keys. I  take the keys smiling,  Would you tell him I said thank you. 

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I pull into the driveway of our townhouse. Turn off the ignition and began thinking ... this is Our house ... I take a deep breath in and let it out slowly and tears start to run down my face. I almost lost my lifeline, I know Crystal may have cutoff off a couple of bitches here and there but to think that someone would want to off her the feeling and situation is so unreal. We've only been living here for about 3 months but it feels like forever... maybe it's because we've been running from our past too long. 

After having a moment to myself I decided to get out the car and go inside. I went into the house and went straight to sleep. Not even 5 minutes into my sleep I get a call from an unknown number. I ignore it and turned over to the sunlight beaming through my beige sheer curtains. Who opened my curtains? I never open my curtains simply because every time I get home there's no sunlight and all I want to do is sleep. I start thinking I'm just paranoid. Or am I?  I sit up on the bed trying not to freak out. I go to my closet and pull both white doors open. Quickly, I push all my clothes that are hanging in the closet to one side. Then I bend down to where I have my shoes stacked neatly still in the boxes. I move all the shoes in the same direction as the clothes. I open a hidden door on my closet floor that reveals a safe. I turn the combination and open the safe.  I take a deep breath in and say out loud" OH thank GOD!!". 

Inside the safe was still a small black pistol, a knife, and an envelope. Where did the envelope come from?  I never put the envelope in the safe. I took the envelope out close the safe and place my shoes and clothes back as they were before.  I sat on my bed just looking at the envelope.  The only person that has access to this safe is Crystal and me, and this is her handwriting. Why would she write me a letter? My phone rings and its the same unknown number.  I answer the phone yelling with an attitude.  " Whoever the fuck this is, this better be pretty fucking important to be calling back to back" Ms. Mccall we need for you to come to the hospital. Please hurry.  I'm on my way. I stuff the letter in my purse, grabbed my keys and ran out the door. 

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I'm 10 minutes away from the hospital and my phone starts to ring. Another unknown number flashes across the screen. I slide the green button to answer. " Hello I'm almost there..." is all I could say before a woman starts to speak " Keisha you don't know me but I know all about you. I don't have time to play games so please find you something else to do other than play on my damn phone. I push the end button on the phone and threw the phone in the seat. I have enough going on why must people try me.  I get to hospital parked near a meter that still had 50 minutes on it.  Once inside the hospital, I walked right past the big fat white receptionist with red hair. She looked like ol girl from  Wild And Out, just the fat version and very ghetto.

 I  walked past her ghetto ass she was to busy trying to hide the  Mrs. Beriad white powdered donuts that he was sneaking and eating,she didn't even know I had passed her until she looked up and I was pressing the red button waiting for her or someone behind the big tan double doors to open them. Ma'am, you need a red a red visitors pass before entering, the receptionist tells me. I don't need shit but to get to OR 3 now! I yell at her.  I give her this look like bitch I'm not moving! and she pushes the button, but before she does she mumbles under her breath, you'll be back they always send yall ghetto asses back to me. Watch your mouth is all I said and I ran through the doors not giving them a chance to open all the way up.  I ran straight to Crystal's room but when I got there she wasn't in the room there was just a sheet covering the bed she was laying in and a pool of dried bloodstains in the middle.  I just dropped to the floor, screaming and crying saying. Why take her away from me she was all I had, she was all I had. I just don't get it. 

 I knew that she was gone. There was no way she lost that much blood and lived not to mention where is her body? These bitches didn't give me a chance to even say goodbye or to even see her body. One last time.