Growing Up Together(EDITING*)

Chapter 25; Baby Ja'Mere

[C A R M E N]

After we figured out that Sasha's water broke, we rushed through the crowds of people at the river walk, trying to get her to the nearest hospital as close as possible. "GET THE FUCK OUT THE WAY, WE GOT A PREGNANT WOMAN PEOPLE !" Anthony just kept screaming at people to get out the way, and people shrunk back as he gave death glares to people who were moving too slow.

Jay couldn't pick Sasha up because of the weight she had picked up, and the baby ready to pop out inside of her, so we squeezed her hand as we ran as fast as we could out of the river walk. It seemed like hours as we pushed people out of the way and finally arrived to Sasha's car. She had a range rover that her father had brought for her as a baby shower gift, so we fit her into the backseat and hopped in as we swerved into traffic quick as fuck.

Sasha squeezed my hand hard as fuck as she tried to labor her breathing. I swear I could feel every bone in my hand crack and lose feeling, but I just kept trying to keep Sasha calm, no matter the intense physical pain she was causing to a bitch hand.

Tony was driving and frantically switching lanes on the free way, trying to go as fast as he could without hitting anybody. "Man we gotta get her to the hospital fast, it look like she can't hold it much longer !" Jay rushed out all his words quick and stared at Sasha worried and scared.

"No shit muhfucka I'm trying to drive as fast as I can !!" I blinked as Tony angrily yelled back and kept his eyes trained on the road. "NOT FUCKING FAST ENOUGH !" Sasha squeezed Jay's hand and I pursed my lips as I chose to remain quiet. Speaking in this type of condition wasn't going to have any good...

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It seemed like hours until we finally got Sasha into the hospital. They gently extracted her onto a stretcher and wheeled her down the hallway and past our plane of vision. Besides our little commotion, the hospital was very quiet, only giving the small beeps of peoples IV's.

"Carmen you alright. Hows your hand ?" Tony sat next to me and I leaned my head on his shoulder as I giggled. "The nurse put some jelly stuff on it and wrapped it up in this orange gauze. She said it'll reduce the swelling and then she made me drink a liquid Motrin with water." See, with Sasha squeezing my hand like that, it hurt like hell and Anthony saw to it that it was treated so I would feel better. I swear...she tried to dislocate all of my fucking fingers !

"Good..Man I'm tired." I nodded and closed my eyes before agreeing. We had been at the hospital for a long time. We both wanted to be there for Sasha and Jay when they had their little ball of sunshine. Besides, I know how it feels to not have anyone there after you have your baby...

When I had Stephon, the only person that came by to see me was Anthony. We left all our friends and family here in Michigan. It was only me and Anthony to see the beautiful birth of our child. And it was a lonely and melancholy feeling. But Sasha would have her friends around to see the beautiful birth of Ja'mere.

Jay came running down the hallway just as I started to doze off. "CARMEN, TONE, COME ON MAN YALL CAN SEE HIM NOW !" I was more worried about Sasha than the baby, call me selfish, so I jumped out of my seat and followed Jay down the long white boring hallways. My heart beat increased as so many thoughts ran through my mind.

Just outside the door, I stopped. Tony and Jay had already disappeared inside the room, not even noticing that I still stood outside frozen in place.

Was I ready for this ?

Would I really be ready to accept the birth of my Bestfriend's baby ? What if it looked like Stephon ? Light brown curly hair..beautiful big black eyes, tiny pink gums..

I shook my head and put on my best fake smile. Whether I wanted to do it or not, I would. Sasha was there for me and it would be selfish to act like an asshole now.

Twisting the knob and taking a deep breath, I opened the door and stared at the scene before me.

Jay was hovering over Sasha as he stared at the baby with that big smile on his face. Unshed tears glimmered in his eyes as he held Ja'mere in his hands so delicately like a flower.. Sasha smiled at the two, a tired look hanging over her face. Anthony sat in a chair to the left smiling at them as he watched the scene.

But me..I couldn't do it. Jay was giving his son the same look Tony gave Stephon when he was first born. I felt my eyes sting and I smiled as I coughed. "W-will you all e-excuse me I have to u-use the bathroom." They all nodded to me, not even noticing the way my voice cracked. I slammed the door shut and backed away from it, running down the hallways and out of the hospital blindly.

All I knew was that I had to be far away from them. Far away from the happy scene that everybody was distracted by. It made me sick, made me want to throw up. I ran and ran, not caring where my legs took me. I just knew I couldn't stop, not now. They would find me..

I ended up running into a old parking lot structure and crawled under the yellow bar, pushing myself against the wall and curling up into a ball.

It hurts.

Unknown

I drove down to the last level of the parking structure and inserted my card so that the gate could raise. Since my windows were down, I could here the faint sound of a woman crying. She had to be young, her voice was small and shrill.

I had just been a meeting with the dumb woman that Anthony had been sleeping with. God she got on my nerves, but she was valuable to my research and plans.

Deciding to be nosy, I got out of my car and walked over to the source of the crying.

A smirk plastered itself on my face when I saw who it happened to be.

I kicked her in her face, making her unconscious and picked her up, stuffing her in the back of my trunk.

This was just too easy.

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