Discontinued: If Loving You Is Wrong 3

Casha

Ring, ring

The sound of Jr's phone ringing wakes me up. "What's up?" I hear him mumble. "Nah wait! What?!?" He yells. "Damn... I'll be up there soon... let me get them up." I hope it's nothing with mama Sharon.

"Shit man." I hear him saying. A feeling of unease takes over. I turn back over thinking on what it could be.

"Cay." His voice is shaky, this shit has to be serious.

"Yeah. What's wrong?" I ask leaning up against the wall. "We gotta go to the hospital. Leave the kids here, Kim staying back."

I get up, "What happen?"

"I'll tell you in the car. I need to get dressed." He walks out the room and I throw on the closet thing to me.

"This is crazy as hell." Tina says waiting against the wall. Jr grabs his keys and we roll out. "T called you?" Tina asks. "Yeah." Jr says.

"What we gone do?" Tina asks. "What's happening?" I ask again. "It's a clot blocking her blood flow from her heart. They need to go in and remove it but it's risky and has a low survival rate."

"But if they don't get it removed then what?"

"She still could die."

"Damn." I mumble soaking that in. This shit is serious as hell.

Here we are again, at the hospital lounging around waiting. It's a room full of people but it's quiet. No one has said a word since we got here.

I sit there lost in my thoughts wondering about what was going to happen to my life, my children's life once we got back home. That was my distraction to what was currently going on.

"Aye." T said getting our attention as he walked into the room. "She's in recovery, they were able to remove it." He stops and inhales then exhales. "We was so close to losing her. She was about to be gone." His voice cracks. Literally seconds later, he stands there in tears. Ive never seen T cry like ever. He's so goofy and playful all the time, this is so weird. We almost lost her forreal.

"Oh no, please don't say she's gone." I look up and see Tatyana standing there. "Nah. She's in recovery." T responded pulling himself together. "Thank God." She said clinching her heart. "Baby she's okay." She says to a guy. He looks so familiar.

"Trevor, what you doing here?" Jr and T asks at the same time. "Well one that's my auntie and two we got the call and came as soon as we could. It's a problem for me and my girl to be here?" Trevor questions. He hoped on the defensive side suddenly. I noticed his demeanor changed when he saw Jr. I'm sure he knows the history.

"We was just shocked to see you, that's it."  T said. They join us in the waiting room and we semi catch up on life. We have to let our children met seeing that they are cousins on both sides. The mood smoothed out a bit.

A few hours later... 

"Alright, they ain't gone let anyone back at this time. I tried to pull some strings considering the circumstances. You all will have to come back later on."

Jr sighs. He's tired and it's written all over his face. "Let's just go back to the house and come back later." He gets up from the chair and waits for me to follow suit. "I'll call you later bro." T says.

"You still on the clock?" Trevor asks? "Unfortunately." T responds. "Oh nah. That's ridiculous." I get up. "Where ya supervisor?" I ask. "It's cool Cay."

"No it ain't." I walk up the nurses station. "Can I speak to the supervisor?"

"Cathy, this woman would like to speak to you." The woman says. An older white woman approaches me. "Him.." I point to T. "He's one of your staff, correct?"

"Yes ma'am. Is there an issue?"

"Why is he still on the clock after his mother almost died? I'm not understanding where in your policy does it say you can force an employee who is under immense stress, so much stress that can affect their ability to perform their normal duties."

"I'm sorry who are you again?"

"A lawyer that will sue this entire hospital if some time is not allotted for an employee to deal with the stress of emotional trauma."

She bats her eyes at me then looks past me. "I'm sorry for my inappropriate behavior. It was wrong and inhuman of me to act this way. You're free to take as much time as you like." She says to T. "Good. Let's go T." I turn around and walks towards the door.

"You ain't have to do that girl." T says. "Yeah I did."

We all gathered into our cars and head back to our destinations. T and Tina came back to mamas place with us.

"What happen?" Kim asks as soon as we walk into the door. They fill her in on everything while I head back to the room to check on the kids. They're still sleeping peaceful.

I head back to the room I'm in and change. I climb back into bed and was about to go go sleep until the door opens. "You sleep?" Jr asks. "Nah what's up?"

"Nothing, I just came to check on you."

"I'm good. You straight?"

"Yeah. I thought about what you said about when y'all get ready to head back."

"And what you thinking?" I ask now leaning up. "Ima come with, if that's cool with you. Unless you come back here. Mama would love that one." He says with a sound of hope in his voice. As much as she would, I don't think I would. "I can't drop my life there and come here. My firm is there and home. The kids friends and school."

"Everything but their family."

"Yeah but right now would be too big of an adjustment for them."

"Yeah I hear you," He sounds so defeated, "You shouldn't have snatched them from here to begin with. But I guess I'm doing the same thing to them asking you to come back."

"Jr, we've talked about this. I don't wanna argue with you about it. Now isn't good, that's all I got to say."

"Good night Cay."

"Night."

He walks out the room leaving his phone on the night stand. Did he do that on purpose? Stay in your lane Cay. I lay there trying to push away the curiosity.

"Fuck it." I get up and grab it. He doesn't have a passcode either. Hm.

Ash: I hate to ask this bae but something's come up and I could really use a few dollars. I won't have access to my money till Monday.

Jr: Done, check your app.:

Why is he sending her money? Who is this anyway? I question as I scroll up on their messages.

Ash: Man it's jus so much going on. Thanks for being a shoulder to lean on. I for real for real appreciate it Jr. If you ever need anything let me know. Doesn't matter what it is. Let me kno and I got you bae.:

Jr: It's cool.:

I scroll back down and sit there. "Bae?" I question. Who is this girl and why is she calling Jr Bae. I sit the phone back down and cover back up in the bed.

"Cay you seen what I did with my phone?"

"Nah. When you had it last?" I ask playing dumb. "I thought when I was in here. Mind if I cut the light on?"

"Go ahead." I respond.

"Found it." He says grabbing it off the dresser and walking out. "Uhm mhm."