Saving Gracie// Nba Youngboy Story

.24

March 13, 1995

3:13 am

Time was ticking and my patience was running thin... very thin. All that was flashing through my head were moments of not only what happened tonight, but moments from Darren's death as well. It was too much and I swear I felt like I was gonna break down any minute. A girl can only be so strong and THIS... this was too much on me

"Gracie" my momma called my name as she placed her hand on my shoulder. After Kentrell was FINALLY transported to the hospital, Bree called everybody and told them what was going on so they all hurried up here, including my momma.

Once she realized that I wasn't gonna answer, she sighed "I brought you some clothes to change into so go into the ladies room and clean yourself up"

I looked at her then looked down at myself. My clothes were terribly stained with kentrell's blood along with my hands. Sophie, who was busy eating a bag of chips she got from the vending machine, looked at me and shook her head "Yeah Gracie, you really gotta change. You look bad as hell right now. Come on, I walk you to the bathroom"

she stood up and walked over to me, sticking her hand out. I looked up at her and sighed before grabbing the bag of clothes from my momma and stood up, slowly shuffling my way to the bathroom while Sophie followed behind me. She waited outside the door as I changed my clothes and washed the blood off of my skin in the single bathroom. Watching kentrell's blood going down the drain immediately broke my heart even more that I began to cry again.

"Gracie!" Sophie called out while she knocked on the bathroom door "you Okay in there?"

"Yeah" I sniffled, grabbing a piece of paper towel to dry my hands. Although I said yeah, we both knew that I wasn't. Going through the exact same situation yet again actually has me questioning stuff. After my hands were dry, I threw the paper towel away and looked in the mirror. My hair was a mess, my eyes were puffy and I just looked like I was over it. I walked outta the bathroom and Sophie looked at me and sighed

"Gracie. Kentrell's gonna be okay"

"We don't know that yet. Nobody's telling us anything and I swear if I lose him I don't know what ima d-"

"Gracie!" She cut me off and grabbed my hands "we both know that kentrell's gonna be fine. He's probably in the back wide awake talking shit to the doctors right now as we speak"

I laughed a little and nodded, then hearing a bunch of arguing coming from the waiting room which made both Sophie and I look. We hurried back to the waiting room and I saw that my mom was gone, probably outside smoking, and Chasity and Bree were arguing. Why I'm the hell is she here?

"I blame all of y'all if Kentrell die!" Chasity yelled, pointing at everybody and then she looked at me "especially YOU! First it was Darren and now it's Kentrell!"

"Are you fucking serious right now?!" I yelled, walking over to her and Three stood up, pulling me back

"Gracie fuck that girl, all she doing is talking"

"Chasity get outta here. Kentrell don't even like you so why you here?" Bree fussed and Chasity looked at her

"Because I'm the only person that actually cares for him. And the fact that him getting shot never happened until this bitch came along got me questioning a whole lot"

"Whatchu tryina say?" Sky asked, getting up as well but Ben immediately yanked her back down

Chasity shot her eyes over at me "you probably set Kentrell up just like you did Darren"

I immediately bawled up my fist and tried to run up to her but three blocked me and baby joe pulled me away from her

"Is there a problem in here?" A police officer asked as he walked into the waiting room