JUNIPER

Chapter XI

    Sai'Yanna walked for miles in a daze until she reached the hospital. Her skin was so pale as the tears stained her face, moving like a zombie. All that she could see was Jayceon's face when he was shot. She kept trying to convince herself that it was his life over Reagan's. She dropped of the seventy k off at the nurses station and left faster than she came.
    After ignoring for hours, Sai'Yanna picked up her phone calling the only person she knew would make her feel better.
"Hello." Bricks answered.
"Please come get me, I need you", she said desperately.
"Where you at? Sound like some wrong Sai."
"I'm at the hospital", she whispered. She was all out of energy. Everything in her was drained. She hung up the phone and sat outside the emergency entrance, on the bench. She didn't even know if he would show after all the dodging she'd been doing. She just sat in the curb and waited, thinking about all the wrong she'd done.
Bricks finally pulled up and jumped out when he saw Sai'Yanna sitting on the curb. Her face was stained from white ash from dried up tears. He approached her. Sai'Yanna's hair was in a disarray, eyes red and puffy from the crying. "What happened to you?" She didn't say a word. It was like her sixteenth birthday all over again except she wasn't the killer this time.
    "Sai you gotta talk to me ma. Who hurt you?" She dropped her head as the tears continued to fall. He picked her up gently, placing her into his truck pulling off. He pulled up to his condo on the Upper East side of Manhattan. Sai'Yanna didn't speak the whole way there. He didn't know what happened to her tonight but she wasn't herself and he knew it. He carried her inside, playing her on his bed. "Sai baby you gotta talk to me, who hurt you?"
   "Everybody", she finally replied. She told him everything about what happened to Reagan, Ace throwing Emily off of the balcony. "Why is the world so evil Bricks?" He could tell she was hurting and obviously it was nothing that could fix whatever broke her. He was furious he know the type of work Ace was running. Growing up Ace was never the type to hit a nigga back but was quick to snap at a woman. Ace lusted after lost woman to make himself to feel more of a man. "Ima handle him ma, you ain't gotta worry bout him no more." "I did it. It was an accident, I promise", Sai'Yanna whispered. She'd fell into the same daze she was in when she turned sixteen.
"What did you do Sai?" Bricks asked lifting her chin, making eye contact. "I did it. He was going to hurt her. I had to do somethin'." Bricks knew exactly what she was talking about. He took her clothes, ran her a warm bath and put her inside. Lathering her body down, he kissed her passionately. "Please don't leave me", Sai'Yanna said out of nowhere. "I love you babygirl. I ain't going nowhere", he whispered.
"I love you too."