Devonte and I left the house at 3am to go burn the body. Trevor came over last night. I was driving when an idea came to mind, I stopped the car and drove to the hospital.
Devonte looked at me like I'm crazy, "the fuck are you doing man? She's dead."
Trevor rubbed his head, "De, don't be doing stupid shit."
I drove faster and parked the car. I asked Devonte to stay in the car and Trevor helped me get Nalia's body out.
We walked into the hospital and a nurse quickly helped us. I cleared my throat, "she got shot is there any way we can get the baby out?"
She quickly checked the pulse, "how long since she got shot?"
I shrugged my shoulders, "we don't know we found her lying on the road and decided to bring her here."
Everything was happening so fast. 3 doctors came and took her into the Emergency room. Reason why I did this is, the baby did nothing and I had a feeling that the baby could make it.
Trevor tapped my shoulder, "why?"
"A life for a life. He saved Qaddriyah's, can't I try save his?" I said. He nodded,"so you have a twin sheesh mane," he laughed.
"Oh actually I wanted to ask how can you see the difference between us?" I asked. I found it weird that he never got confused. He just rolled his eyes, "I can tell twins apart."
We sat down and waited for the doctors. Yesterday we made sure we took out the bullet that was in her. It was in her neck so I don't think it would affect the baby. The doctor came back, "who is the father of the baby?"
Trevor and I looked at each other. "I am sir," I said standing up. The doctor nodded, "well we were able to get the baby out and she's healthy. The mother couldn't make it though."
Trevor faked a smile, "can we go see the baby? When can we take her home?"
Trevor stood up and I coughed, "I'm going to fetch something from the car quickly."
I ran to the car and looked at Devonte, "I need you to go in there and fetch your baby."
"What baby?" He looked at me confused. "I came here because you saved my girl's life so I decided to return the favor. Now go."
He pulled me into a hug, "thank you. You don't know how much this means to me."
I hugged him back and smiled.
Devonte POV
I got out of the car trying not to cry. I walked into the hospital and saw Trevor with the doctor. I cleared my throat, "sorry for making you wait."
The doctor nodded, "you can follow me."
We followed him into a room where my baby and Nalia were. They were covering Nalia's body. I tried to look away and focus on the baby.
The nurse passed me my baby. It was a girl. I felt a tear run down my cheek. Trevor laughed, "you blessed bro."
I rolled my eyes playfully and looked at the baby. She was beautiful.
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The doctor came in, "have you decided on a name or you still need time?" I looked at Trevor then looked down and nodded.
"Diamanda Qaddriyah Jackson," I said with tears in my eyes. The doctor wrote it down and came to me, "Congratulations on your new girl and my condolences for your wife."
I nodded. I didn't care about Nalia right now. She almost killed my family. But I have a baby to take care of. Trevor and I walked out and went to the car. Dejounte smiled as I got in the passenger seat, "she's cute like me."
We all laughed and she started crying, "see you made her cry cos you ugly," I said hushing her to stop crying. She stopped.
"What did you name her?" He asked.
"I named her after a beautiful little girl that inspired to me never stop living life and to live to the fullest and I named her after a woman whose beautiful and helped me out when I was hurt," I said kissing her forehead. Dejounte arched his eyebrow, "what. Is. The. Name. Of. The. Child."
Trevor laughed as I rolled my eyes, "Diamanda Qaddriyah Jackson."
His eyes went huge and teary, "you named her after Diamonte and my girl," he looked down and smiled, "she looks like the both of them."
I nodded and closed my eyes. There was a long way to go and a bright future for me and Diamanda. We drove back home.
Qaddriyah POV
I walked to the door when I heard the car outside. I opened it and saw Dejounte coming out smiling. He came over to me and kissed me. I looked at his face, "have you been crying?"
Trevor walked in to and also had red eyes, "the fuck is going on?" I asked them.
I then heard the car door close and a cry, I saw Devonte walking out with a baby. My eyes were salty and I tried my best to hold them in.
I walked to him and took my hands out as a gesture to hold the baby. He put her gently in my arms. I rocked her slowly, "if it wasn't for me the mom would still be alive?"
He cleared his throat, "if it wasn't for me killing her, I would have lost you and my brother."
Dejounte came behind me, "A life for a life. He saved yours and I saved his baby's. "
I felt the tears run down my face, "what's her name?"
"Diamanda," he said as I interrupted him, "as in you named her after Diamonte?"
He nodded, "her full name is Diamanda Qaddriyah Jackson."
I froze and looked up to see if he was serious. My eyes became blurry. I looked down at her, she was so beautiful. I couldn't believe it.
"If it wasn't for you treating my bullet wound, I would have died from that. You allowed me to stay here after knowing me for only one second. You hardly know anything about me and all you've shown me is kindness and love. So I want my daughter to be like you. To be like Diamonte, but to also look up to you," he said. I smiled and carried on crying whilst looking at Diamanda.
"We are family after all," I said. Dejounte kissed my cheek, "family." Devonte and Trevor said it too and we walked into the house.
