Chapter 10: You didn't Believe

Hey y'all! You probably think i'm a liar, because I said this post wouldn't take so long. Sorry for my lateness. Here is Chapter 10. Enjoy loves.
-Jodi

The emergency doors of Mt. Zion hospital busted open.

"I NEED AN ULTRASOUND, A DEFIBRILLATOR, SOME TOWELS, AND MY TOOLS! THIS ONE IS BLEEDING FAST. WE MIGHT HAVE TO GO INTO SURGERY," the female doctor screamed.

While helping the other nurses push Nicki on a gurney. Safaree ran down the hall right along side an unconscious Nicki; scared out of his mind.

"Wh...what's...WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER?" He

asked frantically.

No one had answered him. The nurses quickly got an iv set up while some other nurses tried to clean her up, and stop the bleeding.

"SOMEONE ANSWER ME!" Safaree demanded.

They gurney came to a halt, and the overworked blonde doctor approached Safaree.

"We'll take it from here. Thank you very much for bringing her here," She replied with a dry rehearsed response.

She turned away from him and started walking down the long away once again. Safaree didn't like her answer. He ran up behind her, and got a hold of her arm.

"What do you mean? What is happening to her? Explain!" He demanded.

She looked at him annoyed and un-amused at his attempt for answers.

"Sir you have 3.5 seconds to get your hands off of me,"

Safaree realized his actions and let go.

"Now, we'll let you know what is going on later, once we evaluate her. But for now we'll let security escort you to the waiting room."

Safaree's head snapped left and right seeing two large security guys rush towards him. He walked over to Nicki side and held her hand, letting them know that he's not leaving her side. Before he knew it the security guards were already behind him. Both guards grabbed one of his arms, prying him away from Nicki.

"NO! NO!. GET OFF OF ME," he yelled, try to get loose from their grip.

He managed to get free, running back to Nicki's side. He held her limp head in between his too hands, and continuously kissed her left and right cheeks. When he felt one of his arms being pulled on once again he quickly kissed her on her lips, and set her head down as gently as possible.

"GET OFF OF ME," he yelled at security.

They didn't listen. The more he tried to breakaway from their grip, the more aggressive they got. The nurses resumed pushing Nicki down the "employee only" hallway.

"I LOVE YOU NICKI!" Safaree screamed as they pushed her further and further away.

        He dropped his head when he could no longer see her. He stopped resisting against the officers and allowed them to escort him to the emergency waiting room. When they got to the room. The officers released the tight grip on Safaree's arms, letting his arms fall to his sides. Safaree fixed the placement of his hat, and the wrinkles in his t-shirt. He walked over to an available chair and sat down. Looking down at his hands he thought of all the possible reasons this could be happening. Did he do something to her when they made love? Did he hurt her when he pushed her up the wall? When none of those answers satisfied him he thought of all the things him and Nicki should have worked out. He sighed and whispered to himself,

"This is not how I imagined us," He sighed.
"I know I don't say it enough, but I love you baby...," he sat there waiting in silence allowing reality set in.
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The automatic doors opened as the cool evening breeze passed through the waiting room. TT, Sherika, and Candi stormed in searching for Safaree.

"Do you see him?" Sherika asked.

The three girls scanned the room.

"No..." TT answered confused.

"Where the hell could he be? This room ain't that large," She continued.

"There he is!" Candi exclaimed, as she swiftly walked over to his seat.

The ladies followed her. Candi placed her arm around SB's shoulder.

"Hey bro we got your text," She said.

She came from behind him, and took a seat next to him.
"Yea and we drove over here as fast as we could," Sherika added.
"What's going on?" TT questioned

"Yea safaree what happened?" Sherika asked standing in front of him.

He didn't reply. The girls looked at each other speaking with their eyes. Trying to figure out why he wasn't saying anything. TT joined Sherika and stood in front of him. Because she was the only on who really knew what Nicki and Safaree were going through, she sternly asked him.

"What the hell did she do?" Safaree lifted his head and looked at all three of them.

"I don't know," He answered calmly.

"What you mean you don't know?" Candi pressed.

He looked at her with a mean mug.

"I SAID I don't KNOW!"

The girls took one step back looking at him worried.

"I'm sorry..." He spoke quietly, regretting his tone.

"We were at the house, about to talk about something, so we headed over to the couch. as I was walking behind her out of nowhere she just started to bleed, a lot."

TT's face filled with worry as soon as he said that. She knew what this could mean.

"So she was right." She whispered to herself.

Safaree heard her say something a looked at her.
"What's that TT?"

"Nothing....just thinking about how scared you both must've been," She lied.

Candi and Sherika remained lost as to what happened.

"She was bleeding? Where?" Sherika asked.

"Did she fall and bleed from her head?" Candi added.

"No." He said, weirded out that he has to say where.

"Then where the hell from?" Candi asked.

"Her woman parts." He answered.

They all giggled when he got all 7th grade boy on them.

"She'll be alright SB." TT said trying to comfort him.

"I'll be the judge of that when I see her."

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*In the ER*

"The iv is in doctor," One of the nurses stated.

"Good! Where is the defibrillator? We need to revive her now. She's been unconscious too long."

"Here you go doctor," Another nurse said rolling in the defibrillator machine.

As the doctor set up the machine, other nurses were working on cleaning up Nicki's blood.

"Alright move." The Doctor ordered.

She rubbed the two pieces of metal together ready to lay it on Nic's chest.

"COUNT OFF" She yelled.

The male nurse did as told.

"5......4.....3......2.....1......CHARGE."

The doctor laid the two pieces on Nicki, cause her chest to jerk up.The doctor and all the nurses looked over to the EKG machine to see if Nicki's heart reacted......it didn't.

"AGAIN! This time with a positive 2 charge," She yelled.

The count off began.

"5......4.....3......2.....1......CHARGE." Nicki's chest jerked up once again, as they all looked at the machine.

"Nothing.....Really?" The doctor said worried.

"This isn't good. AGAIN!" She yelled.

"Last time! And if this doesn't work then we know what we have to tell the family." She informed her team.

"Positive 5 charge this time!"

"And if this doesn't work, then I don't know what will..." She thought to herself.

"5......4.....3......2.....1......CHARGE." Nicki's heart jerked up for the last and final time. All the people in the room snapped their heads towards the EKG machine, and waited.
            There was nothing. The room suddenly became filled with gloom. The air was dry, and you couldn't hear it, but you just knew everyone's heart started to break. The doctor looked towards the ground in disappointment. She took a deep breath in and out. She hated when things didn't go well, it pained her deeply to have to tell the family that she couldn't save them. She took one last deep breath, and she lifted her head once again, looking at her team. She could stay upset, but she had to stay strong for her team.

"You guys did a wonderful job. We did what we cou-," The doctor was cut off my the multiple beeps on the EKG machine.

A smile slowly arose on her face. Everyone looked at each other, wondering if this means what they think it does. When they looked at the doctors reaction, it confirmed their thoughts. A loud out burst of cheers suddenly filled the room.

"YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!" They all clapped.

"WOOOOOOHOOOOO," One nurse screamed.

Everyone in the room was rejoicing.

"ALRIGHT ALRIGHT Settle down," the doctor said with a smile on her face.

"We still have a lot to do. We now have to figure out what's going on, and why she's still bleeding."

"So! Sarah and Rachel, take these tool and try to close up whatever is making her bleed in her vaginal area. Sharon bring out the ultra sound. Mike read what you can see from the ultra sound. And tell me what's going on as I listen to her heart and her stomach! LET'S GO, LET'S GO, LET'S GO!"

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            The emergency waiting room was still pretty quiet, with a few voices and conversations resonating through the air. The girls had taken a seat next to each other on one side of a restless Safaree. He sifted in his seat every couple seconds. He was tremendously uneasy. He took off his hat and rubbed his head. Huffing a puffing. The girls were use to his movement having been waiting for an hour now. He shot up out of his seat and paced. The girls jumped at his new coping method. He looked like he was really getting mad.

"When the fuck am I gonna see her," He asked himself.

He continued to pace back and forth. TT slowly got up about to convince him to sit down without getting him upset, but a nurse with a clipboard came through the door behind the desk, and yelled.

"The family of Onika Maraj?"

Safaree snapped out of his angered state, and practically ran to the front desk, as all three girls followed.

"Yes! That's us," He said with urgency.

"You guys can see her now. She's awake, but try to be quiet. A lot of things are happening with her body right now, and we don't want her in a high stress leveled environment understood?" The elderly nurse said.

"We understand!" They all said in unison.

"Good. Give me a second and I'll open up this side door for you."

They all walked to the door, and the moment the door buzzed signifying it was unlocked, Safaree pulled the door open faster than ever. The girls just as eager to see their friend, followed behind.The nurse walked them down the long hallway. Safaree heard and saw all the different patients.

"Haawehhhhh," one women expressed as she threw up.

Candi's shoulders raised to her ears, wincing at the horrible sound.

"Yuck," she exclaimed.

They contined to walk pass each room. More coughs and loud machines were heard as they walked. Safaree's heart sank when he saw some elderly people moments away from death, and connected to all those machines and tube. He prayed Nicki was in no way, shape, or form like the people he saw. The nurse stopped.

"Here you are. Be gentle," She said showing them into the all glass window room.

"Damnnnn," Candi whispered.

"This a nice ass room," Sherika agreed with her quietly.

They all entered slowly. Nicki laid there staring at the all white wall with her hands on her stomach. Safaree slowly touched her shoulder.

"Thank God you're okay! I was so worried about you," He said looking her in the eyes.

She whispered,

"I'm sorry."

He looked at her weird.

"Sorry? Sorry about what Nic? None of this is your fault," He told her while slowly caressing the top of her head."

No....no....no. I'm sorry. To the both of you," She repeated.

"I'm so sorry baby, I'm sorry I did this to you, and I'm sorry I hurt you like this," She pleaded, with tears falling down her face.

Safaree had no idea what she could be sorry for and what she meant by "both of you", but he wanted to find out. Before he could turn to the girls and ask them for privacy, a woman came in. She was a average hight, fair skinned woman with beautifully think blonde hair. You could tell she had a lot if shape by the way her white lab coat laid on her hips.

"Hi I'm doctor Victoria." She said shaking each girls hand.

"And you must remember me from earlier," She said holding out her hand to Safaree.

He was reluctant to shake her hand. He honestly felt like slapping it out his face, but he knew he needed to cooperate. So he accepted the gesture.

"I apologize for earlier I was just following through with the regular procedure."

"It's good," He replied obviously still upset at her.

"Well I'll be glad to tell you what's going on with her, but I'm going to have to ask you ladies to step outside for a moment," Victoria asked the girls pleasantly.

They did as told, but they all kissed Nicki on her head before leaving. When they all made their rounds the door clicked shut.

"Alrighty, so good news or bad news first?" She asked.

Nicki's washed out, colorless face, turned toward to the doctor.

"Does it matter? Nothing can get worse than this," Nicki said in a raspy voice.

Both the doctor and Safaree were confused about her response.

"Okay.....well the good news is that we stopped the bleeding!" Vitoria stated with a smile on her face.

Safaree seemed relieved also.

"That's great! That means everything is good right? Because that's what we came in here for, and you solved it." Safaree said excited.

Nicki rolled her eyes, but he didn't see. She didn't know how she wanted to feel, but right now she felt the "fuck everyone" mood.

"I wish it was that simple Mr. Samuels, but it isn't." She said regretfully.

"Well. uh.. well Then what is it Victory?" He asked pissed and worried.

He wasn't sure what this lady was about to tell him, and he didn't want it to be something big that would change their lives.

"You might want to sit down first sir," Victoria suggested.

His face twisted. He was worried as hell now. This couldn't be good.

"NO," he said sternly.

"Just tell me what is going on," he demanded.

"Okay then. This is not uncommon, but it doesn't happen too often either. Not at this level anyways."

The room became tense.

What type of bomb was this doctor about to drop, Safaree thought.

"Onika, i'm sorry to inform you that you are suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome."

The room grew quiet.

"I know." Nicki said dryly.

Victoria was confused how could she know? And Safaree was just completely confused.

"Nicki you know? You know what? What does the even mean?" Safaree frantically asked wanting answers.

Victoria answered,"It means that bec-" Nicki cut her off.

"It means...." She paused.

Her face started to quiver, indicating that her tears were about to come gushing through. "It means that I'M POISONING THE BABY EVERYONE SAID I DIDN'T HAVE," She bursted with wave of anger, pain and hurt.

She wailed, turning her face away from Safaree and Victoria. Safaree's mouth slowly gaped open hearing what she said. He couldn't believe it. She was right the whole time. He looked towards her, as he listened to her loud cries. His heart fell. He'd never heard her hurt like this before. The girls outside the room wanting to bust into the room as they could see everything unraveling, but they could't, because they wanted to respect their privacy.

So What did you guys think? Loved it? Hated it? Tell me your thoughts! I know this chapter had less drama then usual, but this needed to be explained. By the way, do you guys like a lot of drama, or do you guys like just happy sunshine onikafaree, or do you like a balance of both? Please let us know. SO COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT!!!!!