“It can’t be that bad,” Lisa said in a groggy voice when she cracked open her eyes.
Kim dropped her hand from her mouth and smiled. “You know I wanna rock that outfit,” Kim joked, tugging at Lisa’s hospital gown
“Where is everybody?” Lisa asked looking around the room. “Naomi?”
“She’s wit Ms. D. When I leave here, I’ma take her to my house. Lamar just went to check up on Ralphy.
“How is he?” Lisa asked in a weak voice
“He’s doing a lot better, but…”
Before Kim could finish her sentence, Falisha and Tammy busted into the room. “Oh hell no…We came as soon as we heard what happened,” Falisha said, putting her shopping bags down and walking over to the bed.
“How is she?” Falisha turned and asked Kim, while hovering over Lisa.
“I see y’all bitches went shopping wit’ out me?” Lisa asked jokingly. “Y’all better have something…”
“Shhhhh! Don’t be worrying about that, you try and get some rest girl, “Tammy said, walking over and grabbing Lisa’s hand.
Lisa smiled, it felt good having her girls all around her, even though she was in hospital. She could feel the medicine kicking in, and although she could hear the conversation, she began to drift back off to sleep.
The girls just sat around the bed talking quietly amongst themselves. Nobody could figure out why somebody would have done this to them. Not to mention at Lisa’s job for that matter.
“Yo, I just came from Ralphy’s room,” Lamar said, coming into the room. “He’s awake but the homicide detectives are down there questioning him. They’re on their way down here too.”
Falisha jumped up from her chair and tried to kiss Lamar, but only came away with a hug. He turned his head when she tried to kiss him and he informed her that now wasn’t the time. She looked at him with an obvious attitude written all over her face. Kim turned her head, trying not to smile from the way Lamar had dismissed her. She knew that Lamar hadn’t told Falisha about them, and she was tempted to do it herself, but Lamar stepped up before she could.
“Let me talk to you out here for a second,” Lamar told Falisha, pulling her by the arm.
Now was probably a bad time, but he knew he had to handle this immediately. He was tired of hiding and playing games about what was going on. He had love for Falisha, but now it was time for him to draw the line. Once they had gotten far enough from the Lisa’s door, Lamar took a deep breath and began.
“I really don’t know how to explain this, so I’m going to get right to the point. This right here between me and you has to stop. You know I got love for you as a friend, and I hope we can continue to be that. But as far as anything more is concerned, that can’t happen. Also, before you hear this from somebody else, I want to let you know first… me and Kim are together.”
“Nigga are you fucking serious?” Falisha asked, cocking her head back.
“Look, I didn’t mean for it to happen like this,” Lamar tried to explain.
He knew that Falisha was about to snap. He expected her to make a scene right then and there, but to his surprise, she didn’t say another word. Instead, Falisha turned, walked back into the room, and grabbed her bags. Lamar kept his eyes on her the whole time, just in case she started swinging on Kim.
“Please call me if anything changes with Lisa or Ralphy… and congratulations,” she told Kim before walking out of the room.
The whole room was quiet. Tammy didn’t know what was going on, and it showed by the confused look she had on her face. “What’s up with that?” Tammy asked, still confused. Neither Kim nor Lamar said anything. “Well, she came with me, so let me make sure she gets home ok,” Tammy said, grabbing her bags and heading out of the room.
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The homicide detectives asked Ralphy question after question about what happened at the dental office. They even threatened to lock him up if he didn’t tell them the truth, but Ralphy stuck to his guns and told them the same story he told the first responding officers when they got there. Two men came into the room and one of them began shooting. Ralphy wrestled the gun away from one of them and began firing back, dropping the man to the ground. The second gunman fired several more shots into the room blindly before taking off down the hallway. Ralphy said that when he went into the hallway to make sure the other gunman was gone, the shooter that was on the ground pulled out another gun, and that’s when Ralphy shot him in the head. That was his story and he was sticking to it. Lisa gave the same story to another officer that rode with her to the hospital. The detectives didn’t believe the whole story, but really couldn’t do anything, since both had the same version. After a few more questions, they left him and Lisa alone, calling it a justifiable homicide.
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“Falisha! Falisha!” Tammy yelled, coming out of the hospital. “Wait up!”
When Tammy caught up to Falisha, she was crying and arguing with herself about something.
“What’s going on wit you?” she asked, getting Falisha to turn and face her.
Falisha looked at her, wiping the tears from her eyes. “Did you know?” Falisha asked.
“Know what?” Tammy responded in confusion. “What are you talking about?”
“Kim and Lamar being together,” Falisha responded.
Tammy was shocked. She never thought they would be together, especially knowing how much in love Lamar was with Falisha back in the day. Kim always stood firm on the ‘no dating the roommate rule’ and always denied ever having sex with Lamar, or looking at him in that way. One thing Tammy was aware of, was the fact that Falisha had been seeing Lamar off and on for the past couple of months.
“Girl, don’t stress over dat nigga. It’s plenty of fine men out here,” Tammy said to counsel her. “I’ma go get the car and take you home.”
“My ride is on the way here,” Falisha said, cutting Tammy off and looking down at her phone.
Before Tammy could say anything, Falisha was waving her hand in the air.
Tammy turned around, and there Fox was, pulling up in his Cadillac truck.
“Falisha, let me take you home,” Tammy suggested one more time, knowing that being with Fox was not such a good idea right now.
Falisha cracked a smile through her sadness, then leaned in and gave Tammy a hug. Even though she was trying, Falisha couldn’t hold back the tears, and her reasons were understandable.
“I’m pregnant by Lamar.” She wiped the tears from her face. “He’s my baby daddy,” she said before turning around and walking to the passenger side of Fox’s truck.
Tammy stood there stuck as she let what Falisha said register in her brain. As Fox’s truck pulled off, Lamar walked out of the hospital to try to check up on Falisha. He noticed Fox’s truck, and knew nine times out of ten, Falisha was in it. He turned to confirm it with Tammy, but she rolled her eyes at him in disgust and walked off. She really didn’t have anything to say to him right now.
He just stood there with a stupid look on his face.
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