The Game of Love

Chapter Twenty-Three part two

The next day

I woke up the next morning lying next to Ariel. She was still hooked to monitors but the tube was gone. The nurse walked in and started checking on Ariel to see how she was doing. She looked so peaceful the way she just laid still with no movement present. The more I looked at her the more I realized how much I loved her. She had always been there no matter what bullshit I put her through. I wanted to touch her but felt as if I couldn’t or wasn’t allowed to. Instead I decided that just staring at her was the best way to go. The time seemed to fly by as I observed everything about Ariel-the slight mole that resided on her neck, the birthmark that hid just below her armpit, the not so visible freckles that were scattered over her face, or even how small her hands were compared to mine- everything about her made me want her even more.

As I was being mesmerized by a still person, someone walked in and took me out of my thoughts. When I looked up it was Dee and Ariel’s dad. I was surprised to see Ariel’s dad had showed up, normally he would tell one of us to report to him instead of him actually having to show. “Hey,” I said directing it to them. However, Dee seemed to be acting strange like I had done something wrong. “What’s up with you?”

“How’s my sister,” he asked avoiding my question. I shook my head and looked down at Ariel, “So far she good. The doctors say she in a coma.”

“Wow, a coma.” I was starting to feel as if I had missed something. “You know this shit wouldn’t have never happened if you would’ve kept yo ass away from my sister,” he said gaining instant anger for some unknown reason. “What the hell you mean?”

“I mean if you would’ve left my damn sister alone she wouldn’t be sitting in some damn comma fighting for her life! You knew I didn’t want her apart of this damn lifestyle and you put her right in the damn middle if it! Now my sister got FIVE bullet wounds in ha cause of yo high yellow ass!”

“Don’t you think I know that! Ever since this whole thing as started the only thing I can thing about is how I should’ve left her alone. All these hoes around and I pick the one girl that is the complete opposite of me. I understand you grieving but I’m grieving too got damn it!”

“Man fuck yo damn feelings!” I was officially sick of his attitude. “If you got a damn problem then you need to do something other than that back the hell up outta my damn face,” I said through clenched jaws. I couldn’t believe he picked this moment to start playing the blame game when he had just as much blame as me. “Hey settle down,” Ariel’s dad said stepping between us. “Maybe you need to step outside and give Dee a minute with his sister.”

“I ain’t going no damn where! He wanna see ha he can I ain’t stopping him,” I said stepping aside revealing Ariel.  “Look Kameron haven’t you done enough to our family already? Just give us a minute.” Now I was beyond pissed. I wish Ariel could hear this shit but since she couldn’t I would handle this motherfucker. I could feel my eyes go dark as I stared at this joke in front of me, “Usually I value what you have to say Trill but this time I want to put five bullets in yo ass.”

“Aye you better watch who you talking to-“

“No, you better watch who you fucking talking to! If yo dead beat ass was there for your daughter she wouldn’t even had to know what the gang life was about. You abandoned her, you left her with no father figure, and now you want to talk about the trouble I have caused. At least I was fucking there! Whenever she needed me I was there and not because I wanted something but because I fucking love her! But you wouldn’t know about that would ya Trill cause all you love is money.”

“That’s not true and you know that. You know why I couldn’t be Ariel’s life.”

“Oh yea I forgot, you got some other woman pregnant and decided that your new unborn was more important.” I could tell I struck a nerve by the way his eyebrow started twitching. “But I left the best part out the girl you got pregnant just so happened to be Antonio’s mother. How about you tell Ariel that’s why she was targeted because you couldn’t keep it in yo damn pants.” He looked as if he could beat my ass but I didn’t give a damn. He was about to say something until the machines started going off. We turned around and Ariel’s eyes started to flicker open.

Ariel POV

“But I left the best part out the girl you got pregnant just so happened to be Antonio’s mother. How about you tell Ariel that’s why she was targeted because you couldn’t keep it in yo damn pants.” That’s the first thing I heard when I finally found the light. I could tell it was Kameron’s voice and when I looked over I saw my father. The further I looked it was as if I could see Dee too. My head hurt like a bitch and when I tried to move that hurt worse. Nurses came rushing in telling me to be still and breathe. Now that I was up I could feel the pain of every bullet wound and that made me wanna cry like a baby. Once they gave me some more medicine for my pain and I felt like I could breathe.

“Ariel you ok,” Kameron asked as soon as the nurses left. “I’m fine,” was all I could croak out due to all the pain. It was like he understood this and just nodded. He stroked my hair back into place as he looked into my eyes. This look was different, this look said more than I care about you but I don’t even know. All I know is I enjoyed it and never wanted it to end.

Our moment was soon interrupted when Dee came pushed Kameron out the way. I was beyond confused. “You ok sis?” I didn’t even know how to respond or if I could. I was kind of mad since he interrupted the thing between me and Kameron. ”Man can you leave and take yo joke with you,” Kameron said pushing Dee back. I knew by the look in both of their eyes something was fin to go down. The next thing I knew Dee tackled Kameron to the floor throwing punches randomly. It looked as if Kameron was losing but that changed when he literally threw Dee across the room.

The whole time my father stood absently as always. Soon noise could be heard loud and clear which made a nurse come to the room. When she saw what was happening she called security. The guys didn’t seem to care because the fight only seemed to escalate. When security arrived they pulled Dee and Kameron away from each other. Dee had a black eye, bloody nose, busted lip, and ripped shirt while Kameron only had a busted lip and slight tear in his shirt. I guess we know who won that. They began to take them out of the room and that made me anxious. “Wait,” they all looked at me with curiosity. “I want Kameron to stay.” The security guards looked at each other as if debating in what to do. They soon let Kameron go and took my father and Dee out the room. I sighed in relief and got back comfortable. Kameron stayed by the door like a kid that had done something wrong and just stared at me. “What?”

“I’m sorry,” was all he said while trying to fix himself. He seemed to be nervous. “Look Kameron I don’t care about the fight right now, can you just come hold me,” he looked up and smiled. He made his way across the room and climbed in bed with me. When we were both comfortable I looked up at him and saw the new look return back into his eyes. “Thanks.”

“For what?”

“For being there for me.” he smiled and pulled me closer. “Always.” With that I fell back to sleep this time with dreams filled of me and him.

         

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