Page 65 of Ghetto Heartstrings
She looked up and kissed his cheek, “I’m sorry for everything I did, and I do love you.”
“What’s done is forgiven.” He told her, “But you gotta continue to love yourself first and then I’ll know for sure you can love me foreal.”
“That’s fair.” She smiled.
A distraught looking Wise made his way to the floor with a duffle bag in his hand; he looked tired, like he was just drained. “Where she at?” He asked them.
“She’s in there.” C2 pointed to the door and then gave him pound before giving him a brotherly hug.
“She aiight man?” He asked.
“I’mma just let you go in there and check shit out ya know…go ahead.”
Wise understood but that shit scared him cause he didn’t know what to expect but he walked in anyway closing the door behind him.
Kema looked back at C2, “How are you?” She asked. “Like are you really okay? You’ve dealt with a lot of shit these past couple of months and not only did you lose your daddy you lost your mama too.”
C2 pinched the brim of his nose and then let it go before speaking, “Don’t nobody want to lose a parent, but honestly, I lost my mama long ago, and Rasta? Let’s just say I’ll love him for all the good times, but the time was coming, Rasta is a snake…it was either gonna be him or us anyway cause that’s what it was coming down to.”
Kema nod her head and grabbed his hand again, “Walk with me to the cafeteria.”
He agreed and headed downstairs with her; as they were prepared to go down, there were some detectives getting out of the elevator coming up. C2 had a feeling they were headed to Brook’Lynn’s room and one thing he didn’t fuck with was no police so this little time with Kema was well appreciated.
Brook’Lynn spent damn near two weeks in the hospital and that was one of the hardest two weeks of her life, she was overwhelmed with visitors and co-workers on down to detective after detective and Perfect never left her side the entire time. Mentally, she didn’t feel like herself and she knew it would be a long road to recovery before she ever got completely right again. The doctor at the hospital suggested that she go and speak to a psychiatrist if she needed because it would help with her.
Brook’Lynn didn’t want to but instead of giving it a fast no, she decided to think about it first. She hadn’t seen Brody and she really didn’t want to, she actually had him blocked on the visiting list and the three times he tried to come, she declined every time and blocked his number from calling, as far as shewas concerned, she didn’t have a father, everyone she needed was right in the room with her waiting for her to be discharged.
She sat up in her bed no longer attached to all the monitors and IV bag. Most of her bandages were gone but her bruises were still visible and all the color that was drained from her body was finally coming back. She knew it wouldn’t be an easy road to complete recovery, but she was prepared to take it on, however, it was coming. With her arm now in a sling, she smiled at her crew. “I really do love ya’ll.”
“Girl, you know we love you.” Yaya sat in the chair picking at a salad using the fork to move all of the unwanted shit out of the way.
“You already know.” Marley smiled.
Kema leaned up against the wall, “We go back like four flats, you know what it is.” She smiled.
Yaya finally got tired of the salad and stood up to throw it away, “We been through so much.” She shook her head. “I’m convinced I don’t know no other chicks as solid as the ones I got, even you Marley.”
Marley winked her eye, “I’m not that lame.”
“You not.” Brook’Lynn agreed as the guys walked in holding bags from McDonald’s.
“Yo, I’m so glad we about to leave this bitch, I don’t wanna see another muthafuckin’ burger for the rest of this year.” Perfect frowned causing everyone to laugh.
“Bae, you want these cookies?” Wise asked Marley, holding them up.
She shook her head, “No I’ll eat them later you can just put them in my purse.”
Wise went to her purse to stick the bag of cookies in there was shocked to be greeted with a 9mm, “The fuck you doing with this?” He held it up. Never in a million years would he haveexpected to see his little nerd with a gun, “You even know how to use this shit?” He asked her.
Marley laughed at her boo, “I’m not as green as you think I am, of course I know how to use it.” She told him grabbing it out of his hand. She discharged the one in the head and emptied the clip just to load it all over again and place one back in the head as she cocked it. “See.” She shrugged.
All the girls looked away smirking, “The fuck ya’ll know that I don’t?” Wise laughed.
“Aye, just know you got you a real one on ya side.” Yaya shrugged.
“Man, keep that crazy shit ya’ll be on away from my girl Yaya, foreal.” He chuckled.
Everyone noticed how C2 and Kema had been back in each other’s presence as they both sat there with C2 letting Kema dig out of his box of fries. “I asked yo greedy ass if you wanted some.” C2 shook his head.
