Chapter: One

"Ring, Ring, Ring."

S~POV

"UGH, what's that noise?" I screamed.

It took a minute to comprehend that my cell phone was ringing. I carefully located the phone so that I didn't cause harm to myself with being half asleep.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Stephanie this is your mother and I need you to get to the hospital, your sister and Albert was in an accident a few hours ago." She calmly explained but I could tell she was trying not to show emotions.

"Why didn't anyone tell me before this? Are they alright? Where are the girls?" I replied as quickly as I could, trying to stay as calm as my mother's false calmness. Tonight was their first night out since baby Lisa was born.

"Stephanie, just get here soon. Okay?"

I didn't know what to say next. She didn't answer any of my questions. Val is about four years older than me so that made her thirty-four and me thirty. When we were kids, we used to fight a lot. She would always want to play dress up and Barbies while I liked to play with the GI Joe collection that my daddy always got for me. We are as different as the sun and the moon. She was mother's favorite and I was daddies.

"I'll be right there as soon as I can." We hung up.

I ended the call and was freaking out. I taught to myself for a minute and decided to call Ranger for a ride because my car went to the shop yesterday.

"Yo" He answered.

"Ranger… I need a ride to the hospital." I cried.

"Babe?" Translation: Why? Are you hurt?

"Val and Albert were in an accident tonight. I need to be there."

"Be there in ten." He hung up and I closed my phone.

I got dressed in a pair of black jeans, a pair of doc martins, and a dark blue long sleeve shirt since it was chilly here in Trenton at night. I grabbed my new MIA SIGNATURE OUTLINE OP ART CARRYALL coach bag I just bought online. I made sure I had my wallet, and things in there. I walked out of the apartment and waited for two minutes before Ranger pulled up. I got in and we said our hellos. We both went into our zone or he did and my thought kept running.

What was going to happen in the next hour or so?

I can't imagine myself as a copy of my mother and Val. They are housewives and they are good at it, but I just wanted to fly and I can't do that if I'm at home all day doing nothing but cook and clean. I like the freedom of what I do instead of what they do every day. I've watched them throughout my life and know that their life is not the life I want.

I did the whole thing with Dickie and look how that turned out. A divorce before the marriage certificate was dried. What a Dick he was, but I showed him didn't I? A pubic divorce because of his cheating ass was fucking my arch nemesis Joyce and guess where I found them?... I'll tell you, on my dining room table that my family got for us for the wedding. Boy was I pissed with capital letters. The divorce was carried out for a month before the judge Ordered Dickie to pay me back for my down payment for our house, my father for the wedding and to top it off Dickie will never succeed in becoming a great lawyer because of the pubic divorce and his disgusting self that got into the mess in the first place. Thank God, that we didn't have children, Huh? That would have been a disaster.

Back to the present time and to the point…

As we pulled up to the front entrance of the hospital, I could see my daddy out front waiting for me. I thanked Ranger and he parked the truck before we got out. He came with me obviously since he is my ride and also one of my best friends.

I walked to my daddy's side. He looked kind of pale and knew that something went wrong and it wasn't going to be good. My "Spidey Sense" was tingling and it frightened me. We headed up the elevator to the ICU floor.

This was bad. I could feel it in my bones and in my gut that something was wrong and it hasn't gone away since the phone call. I felt a part of me die.

The elevator stopped and the door opened just a second before I heard my mom screaming and crying. We all ran down to where she was and there was doctors, nurses and other people going in and out of one of the ICU rooms. I knew that this wasn't going to end well tonight.