PPP Box Set

by Charmanie Saquea

  Kamil came rushing into the emergency room looking for Neicey. He sped the whole way to the hospital. His heart broke when Johnny called him and told him what happened. He felt responsible because he should have stayed there then he would have been able to walk her to her car like he always does. When he walked into his room he wanted to break down and cry. Reneice’s face was bruised and swollen. He walked over to her bed and kissed her forehead, she jumped and started screaming.

  The nurse came in and put something in her IV that calmed her down. She explained to him that she was still traumatized from the incident and not to take it personal. He told her he understood, Neicey whispered with low eyes, “Don’t leave me Kamil,” before she went back to sleep.

  Kamil looked for her phone and went through her contacts until he came across Micah’s name. He called and informed him about what was going on.

  Lani, Mykell, and Micah all rushed into the emergency room. Mykell ran to the nurse’s desk and asked if they had a Reneice Peak.

  “She’s in room 201.” they were informed, as they all took off in search of Neicey.

  When they got to her room, everybody but Micah was taken back that she already had a visitor. He was sitting in a chair next to her bed, holding her hand and running his fingers through her hair. Mykell wanted to know who this nigga was that was acting like Neicey was his girl. Always being the level headed one, Micah went up to Kamil and shook his hand and thanked him for calling.

  “Thanks for calling me man, I really appreciate it.”

  “No problem, she talks about you all the time and I didn’t knew who else to call.”

  “What the fuck he mean ‘all the time’”, Mykell thought.

  “Yo, who are you?” he angrily asked.

  Kamil looked at Mykell unfazed and replied, “I’m a friend.”

  Then looked at Neicey, “A very good friend.”

  Something about the way he said a very good friend struck a nerve with Mykell.

  “Well I’m her fiancé, so you can go ahead and leave now.” he said mugging Kamil.

  “Nah,” Kamil said defiantly. “She asked me not to leave her so I’ma do just that.”

  Sensing something about to pop off, Lani spoke up. She remembered him from the club awhile back so she formally introduced herself. “Hi, I’m Le’Lani.”

  “Hey Le’Lani, she talks about you all the time but I’m Kami.”

  “Kamil, let me holler at you in the hallway for a minute,” Micah spoke.

  Mykell’s mug never left his face as Kamil and Micah left the room.

  “I know who you are and I know you care for her. She told me about you and I know you respect her relationship, but that knuckle head in there is just threatened. So I think you should let us take it from here and you come back in the morning. So that way it won’t be any problems.”

  Kamil thought about it for a moment, and he agreed.

  Chapter 9

  The next morning, Kamil got up bright and early to go see Reneice. When he got there she was sitting up in her bed watching Jerry Springer.

  “Don’t let me catch you on that show,” he said jokingly.

  She smiled even though her lips were swollen, “Hey Boss Man, I mean if I still can call you that.”

  “Why wouldn’t you be able to call me that? You been doing it for two years knucklehead.” He said kissing her forehead.

  At that moment Mykell walked into the room. He cleared his throat to get their attention. It was something about this dude he didn’t like.

  “Hey baby, how you feel?” he asked walking further into the room.

  Reneice sighed and said “I feel exactly how I look, like shit. I’m just ready to get out of here so I can get back to work.”

  “Uhn uhn, knucklehead what did I tell you yesterday?" Kamil asked sternly.

  “I know Boss Man, but I’ma need something to keep my mind off what happened. Plus I need to work as much as I can before I get too big.”

  Kamil looked down at the mention of her being pregnant. She was so out of it yesterday that she didn't hear when the doctors said she had suffered a miscarriage.

  She picked up on his sudden mood change and looked from him to Mykell. All Mykell could do was look away.

  “Naw, y’all don't do that. Don’t tell me I lost my baby. Mykell please tell me I didn’t lose my baby. Whoever did this to me was looking for you, they didn’t have to kill my baby!” she began to cry.

  “What you talking about baby? What you mean they was looking for me?” He asked confused.

  “When he got done raping me, he said tell Mykell’s bitch ass I said wassup. You made me lose my baby Kell! Why? What did you do? He raped me and killed my baby!” she let out a gut wrenching wail that could be heard all throughout the hospital.

  Kamil stepped out of the room, he couldn’t bear to see her like that. That made his heart broken. He didn’t know what it would take but he would make Neicey his and save her from that sorry ass nigga of hers. She wouldn’t have to hurt any more.

  The nurses came in and put some more sedative in Reneice’s IV to calm her down. Mykell was lost, he didn’t know who could have done this to her just to get back at him. He couldn’t take seeing her like that and seeing her hurt. He knew that whoever did this would pay.

  After Reneice calmed down she drifted off to sleep. Mykell stayed and watched for a little before he left. He needed to be around his son right now and he wanted him to hear the news from him and not anybody else.

  When he pulled up to his father’s house, he was sitting on the porch and MJ was playing in the yard. HIs father could tell by the look on his sons face that something was wrong.

  “Talk to me Mykell.”

  “She flipped when she found out about the baby, like I’ve never seen her like that before pop.”

  “Just give her some time, losing a child is a hard thing, especially when you never got to meet them.”

  “The killer part is he told me that whoever beat and raped her told her to tell me wassup. Now I been out the game for a year so I’m appalled at who could be behind this.”

  Noah was about to respond when Mykell’s phone rung. Seeing that it was the hospital, he feared the worst.

  “Hello?” he answered wearily.

  “Hi is this Mr.Jones?”

  “Yes it is,”

  “Well Mr.Jones, this is Mr.Pelowski at I’m the doctor that is watching over Ms.Peake, I’m calling to inform you that she seems to be suffering from traumatic shock and it is causing her to go into a deep depression. She won’t communicate with us and we can’t get her to eat anything. We have a psychiatrist here that could check her out and admit her to the psychiatric ward but we would need her family’s consent.”

  A pain shot through Mykell’s heart at the thought of the words ‘psychiatric ward’.

  “Doctor, we’re on our way right now.” said Mykell, as he looked at his father with tears in his eyes.

  “Pop we gotta get to the hospital like NOW, they tryna put my baby in the crazy house!”

  Noah stood up without a word and locked the house up. MJ rode with his grandfather while Mykell led the way to the hospital. He called Ramone, “Mone man, you gotta get to the hospital now!”

  The tone is Mykell’s voice sent a chill down his spine, at that moment he knew something was wrong with his sister.

  “Wassup man? What’s wrong with her?” he asked while getting dressed.

  “They tryna put her in the crazy house talking bout she in a real deep depression.”

  Tears started to fall from both men’s eyes.

  “I’m in the car now.”

  Noah had already called Lani and Micah to let them know the situation.

  When they got to the hospital it was horrible. Neicey was lying in the bed with a far off look in her eyes; they looked empty like she had checked out. Ramone walked up to her and kissed her forehead.

  “Come on Ladybug, you gotta get up.”

  Reneice didn’t respond. She k
ept staring off into space, she didn’t even blink.

  MJ walked up and grabbed her hands. “Mommy?” he said in a low tone “Mommy you gotta get up. I need you mommy, get up. Please get up.”

  Reneice just looked at him but it really looked like she was looking past him.

  That broke everyone’s heart. Noah walked over and kissed her on the forehead.

  “We got you baby girl, as long as there is breath in my body, we will not let them admit you in the psych ward. And you know I’ma man of my word,”

  The doctor walked into the room with another man. “Hello, as you know I’m Dr.Pelowski and this his Dr.Scheck, the psychiatrist. We came to discuss the possibility of Ms.Peake being admitted.”

  “Nah, that won’t be happening. My sister’s not crazy, she just going through something right now and she’s not handling it well. With the love of everyone in this room she will get through this. She will be coming home with me so therefore there’s nothing to discuss.”

  “I can assure you that admitting Ms.Peake would be the best choice, we have the proper medicine and treatment that she will need. We don’t know how long she will be going through this so we need to keep a careful eye on her.”

  It was time for Noah to speak.

  “Doctor, I can assure you that Reneice is coming home with us. There is no need for medicine or treatment because she is not crazy. She had a traumatic experience happen to her and in the process she lost her child. So right now she needs to feel the love of her family and not the poke of a needle. So you can go right ahead and draw up those discharge papers because my daughter will be coming home today.”

  Noah never raised his voice but his tone and posture screamed that he was a man of authority and you didn’t go against what he said. They rushed out the room to print her discharge papers. Ten minutes later, Neicey was released. They agreed that she would be staying with Ramone because he really needed to be there for her.

  Mykell dropped MJ off at his father’s house because he needed to clear his head. He drove around for an hour before he ended up at the last place he needed to be. He knocked on the door and Kya came to the door. She wanted to go off on him but thought better of it when she seen the look on his face. He walked right past her without saying a word. He sat on the couch and cried.

  “What’s wrong baby?”

  “It’s Neicey.”

  “What about her?” she asked dryly.

  “She….she,” he couldn’t get it out.

  Kya just kissed his lips and got down on her knees. She didn’t want to hear about the young bitch but she wanted to take his mind off whatever was on it. She sucked his dick like she was going for the championship. When he busted in her mouth she climbed on top of him. He stopped her, “You know better,”

  She rolled her eyes and went to get a condom. She came back, put it on him and rode him like a horse. Mykell thought he would have felt better after he got off but he didn’t. He felt like shit, especially since Neicey blamed him for her being raped and losing their child. He picked up the phone and called Ramone, “How my baby doing?”

  “Man not good at all, she just been sitting here staring into space with this lost look in her eyes. She won't even eat nothing, I tried feeding it to her but she wouldn’t open her mouth. This shit really fucking with me dawg, I ain’t never seen my Ladybug like this.” His voice cracked.

  Mykell sighed, “Aight, I’m on my way, one”

  “One.”

  “I’m tired of you always leaving me for her. I wake up in the middle of the night to find out that you done went home to her lil young ass. I’m tired of this shit!” Kya yelled.

  “Then stop hopping on my dick every chance you get then.” He said before walking out the door.

  To say that Kya was mad would be an understatement. She was tired of that bitch fucking up her life, she was standing in the way of her and Mykell being together. She pulled out her cell phone.

  Kya: I want that bitch gone for good. She is becoming too much of a problem.

  Unknown: I’m on it

  Kya: Not fast enough

  Unknown: I work at my own speed, you don’t make the rules.

  When Mykell got to Ramone’s house he didn’t know what to expect. He opened the door to find Ramone sitting on the couch with Neicey’s head in her lap brushing her hair. Her eyes still had that faraway look in them. Ramone looked at Mykell and gave him a head nod and Mykell returned the gesture. Mykell sat on the couch and put Neicey’s feet on his lap and she flinched. He figured it was still hard for her to be touched since the rape and he knew he had to be gentle with her. His phone started to ring and he was hesitant to look at it thinking it was Kya calling him. He looked it anyways and seen it was his father. “Wassup Pops?”

  “How is she doing?” he asked in a concerned tone.

  “Pretty much the same, she gets a little jumpy when anyone touches her but that's understandable. I’ma stay here with her tonight because she won’t eat nothing so me and Mone gon see what we can do to get her to eat.”

  “Alright, Junior has been having a fit since we left the hospital and he wants to see his mother.”

  “Tell him I’ll come get him tomorrow so he can see her, maybe he could help her come out this depression.”

  “I think that could work. I’ll deliver the message.”

  “Aight pops, one.” Mykell hung up and took a deep breath. He didn’t know what it would take or how long it would take, but he was willing to do anything to bring Neicey back to herself.

  Ramone was hurt and angry that he couldn’t protect his baby sister. He vowed the day she was born that he would do anything in his power to protect her and keep her safe, but it seems like he had broken that promise the day he got locked up. Neicey had been in like this when their mom past but not this bad. He could at least get her to eat back then but now she was too far gone. All he knew was that whoever did this to his ladybug would pay, no matter who it was.

  Playtime is over, time to dust off my guns and make it do what it do. thougt Ramone.

  “I already put her in the tub and tried to feed her but she wasn’t having it so there’s nothing left to do but put her in bed when she falls asleep.” Ramone said

  “Aight, thanks alot man.”

  “No thanks needed. This is my job, the only thing we need to worry about is getting her back to herself then we're going to do some damage.”

  *****

  Kamil had been worried about Neicey ever since he left the hospital. He knew that she wasn’t going to be alright anytime soon. Falling for her hadn’t been in the original plan. His feelings for her were really growing, and he knew that she would be his girl sooner than later. He was pissed that Mykell wanted to act like he was such a wonderful, caring, “fiancé”. But Kamil it was a bunch of bullshit. He knew Mykell didn’t give a fuck about Neicey because if he did, he would do the shit he did. He got agitated as his phone buzzed, not in the mood to talk to anybody, he turned it off. His only concern was Reneice and Reneice only.

  *****

  It had been two weeks since Reneice had fallen into depression and things were starting to get a little better. Lani and Micah came by every day to check on her. Whenever MJ came around, he could get Neicey to smile, eat and he even got her to talk a little. He was like the only sunshine in her dark world. He didn’t treat her like she was crazy and would just sit and talked to her. One day, everybody was at Ramone’s because they missed Neicey and they wanted to spend time as a family. The family was in the living room just chatting it up and enjoying each other’s company. They assumed Neicey was still asleep, so they waited for her to get up.

  Everyone was too busy doing their own thing that they didn’t hear footsteps approaching. MJ was the first one to notice and he took off running towards her. She picked him up and hugged him tightly. Reneice woke up that morning and she said she was no longer going to let depression get the best of her; she had enough of being the victim. Enough was enough. It was time to get her
life back. She threw her pills away, today was a new day.

  “Hey baby, how are you?” she kissed MJ.

  “Mommy, you're talking!” MJ yelled.

  He got everyone's attention when he said that. Reneice smiled at him and tickled him.

  “Yea, mommy’s talking thanks to her lil man.”

  Lani ran to her best friend/sister and they embraced. Lani let her tears flow; she didn’t care about messing up her makeup. She had her sister back and she didn’t care about anything else.

  “Don’t ever scare us like that, mami.”

  “I promise I won’t.”

  Then it was Ramone’s turn. “Welcome back Ladybug.” he kissed both her dimples.

  She laughed and said “It feels good to be back.”

  Micah and Noah both hugged her at the same time. “Thanks Mack and Pop-Pop.”

  Reneice looked around and was surprised that she didn’t see Mykell.

  “He had to run out for a minute but he’ll be back. Let’s just surprise him.” Noah spoke up saving his son’s ass.

  Mykell was pissed off. Kya had been blowing his phone up for two days; she said she had to tell him something important. He finally gave in and came to see what was so important. It felt like he had been hit with a ton of bricks, Kya had just revealed that she was pregnant. He didn't believe her so she showed him her papers from the doctors that stated that she was indeed 16 weeks pregnant. He did not need this shit right now. He was still tryna get Reneice back and here Kya go with this bullshit.

  “How do I know for sure it’s mine?” he asked.

  Kya was shocked that he would even say something like that to her.

  “What, because I’m not that lil young bitch this ain’t yo baby? Fuck that bitch! That hoe can’t even wipe her own ass right now so fo---” She was cut short because Mykell had a tight grip around her throat.

  “You gon stop disrespecting my lady. Come out yo mouth like that again and I’ma end you and this baby life. Fuck wit it if you want to.” He dropped her body like she was nothing and headed for the door. “See you when it’s time for DNA.”