I woke up in a hospital bed. I could tell it was late at night because the atmosphere felt dead. My entire body was in pain, but thankfully I could still move everything easily. Daniel and Lovie were on the side of my bed sitting down. I turned my head towards them, making eye contact with Lovie.
"Hey, how are you?" Lovie spoke sitting on the edge of my bed to get closer to me.
"I have a headache." I groaned.
"Yeah, the doctor said that you got a minor concussion." she spoke. "They recommend you take it easy.
"I need to see Olivia." I tried to sit up but Lovie laid me back down.
"Right now she just got out of surgery, so she's in the ICU," Lovie spoke. "You probably won't be able to see her until tomorrow."
"Also, before you do, there's something we need to tell you." she spoke. Daniel stood at the edge of my bed, looking at Lovie then back at me.
"What's wrong?" I asked. "She didn't die did she?" I began to panic.
"Oh nah, no, she's alive." Daniel added.
"But she was severely beaten and," Lovie took a deep breath and looked at Daniel again.
"And what?" I spoke impatiently.
"The baby didn't survive." she spoke. "I'm so so sorry Daquan."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"A lot of the damages was done to her chest and stomach, and put both her and the baby in distress."
"So he's gone?"
Lovie nodded, "I'm sorry sweetie."
I pulled the IV from my arm and sat up again.
"Daquan, where are you going?" Lovie asked.
"I'm going to see Olivia." I stood up and left the room.
Walking down the hallway furiously, Daquan proceeded to look at every room for her.
"Liv!" he yelled."Liv!"
"Daquan come back," Lovie spoke. She and Daniel were following behind him.
"No, I need to see her." he spoke.
"You need to rest man," Daniel said speeding up to get in front of him.
"I'll rest when I see Liv." he repeated. It was like Daquan became a different person. He couldn't control himself or his feelings right now.
Daniel held Daquan by the shoulders to try to slow him down, but that made him angry.
"Bro what are you doing?" Daquan yelled smacking his hands away.
"We're trying to get you to calm down and relax!" Daniel answered.
Daquan balled his fist and gave Daniel a good punch in the mouth, "don't tell me to calm down nigga!"
"Daquan!" Lovie yelled. He pushed her away too.
Daniel touched his lip to see blood dripping. "Look man, I know you're angry but you can't just terrorize a hospital and those who care about you!"
"Man you shut up!" Daquan yelled cocking his fist back again, this time Daniel got him one time in the eye. Which was enough to knock him down.
Nurses came from down the hallway to grab and restrict Daquan in a wheelchair.
The Next Day
Daquan and Olivia were coming home today. Lovie was just waiting for Daniel to come by.
"Hey Love, you ready?" he asked entering the apartment keys in hand.
"Yeah, I'm just getting his room ready." Lovie spoke coming from down the hallway.
"Aww that's nice of you."
"Thanks." she yawned.
"Hopefully the doctors can give us some good people to call that can help Daquan and Olivia."
"Yeah, they just need to talk to someone," she agreed.
"Yeah, anything helps." Daniel added.
"Yeah because it's not like you were helping." she groaned putting on her shoes.
Daniel looked as Lovie with an expression that red "excuse me". "What is that suppose to mean?" he asked.
She shrugged, "I just didn't see the point of you punching him in the face last night."
"Are you serious?" Daniel snorted, "did you not see him punch me and push you down?"
"So he's just a kid." she responded.
"Daquan is almost 18! He's not a kid." he answered.
"Okay, well he's a minor." she corrected herself sarcastically.
Daniel sighed "You know, I'd rather he get that from me than someone else."
"You know, you're not his father Daniel!"
"I'm the closest thing he has to one!" he yelled, "he called me that night, not you!"
"I don't give a fuck Daniel, you don't hit a child!"
Before he could speak again, Daniel took a bigger and deeper breath "Okay look, if you want to me apologize, fine, I'm sorry for punching him."
Lovie scoffed, "That fake ass apology, you're ridiculous," she spoke shooing him away.
"Who the fuck are you shooing?" Daniel asked stepping up to Lovie.
"Oh you're about to hit me too?" she asked.
"You know what," Daniel said " I'm done."
"What do you mean done?"
"You're not going to sit here and call me out my name. Yeah I'm not Daquan's dad but I was willing to take that responsibility because I love you and I didn't plan on going anywhere. then you do some immature shit like calling me abusive? That's just crazy."
With tears welling up in her eyes, Lovie spoke, "Well excuse me if I'm such a burden. I can't believe I was going to give myself to you. Get the hell out!"
"Gladly." he spoke slamming the door.
Ohhhh snap
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