Chapter Six
***** It's early in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Dwayne and I took his car and followed the ambulance that Maia was in to the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. We're sitting here in the emergency room, still waiting for someone to come out here and tell us something about Maia. Dwayne told me to go home and get some rest, that he'd call me as soon as he heard anything, but I don't feel like it.
Dwayne just now left to go get us some coffee, seeing as we haven't slept at all. Suddenly, a guy in green scrubs with a stethoscope around his neck made his way towards me.
"Are you Crystal?" The man asked me, as I got up.
"Yes." I said, looking at him.
"Hi, I'm Jonathan Mirabal, Maia's doctor." He said, putting his hand out to shake mine.
"How's Maia?" I asked, getting worried.
"We're going to have to move her up to the ICU. It looks like we're going to have to do immediate surgery on her, because we did some x-rays, and the bullet hit her in her back. It may have hit her spinal cord, but because of the angle that the x-rays were taken, we're not too sure. If it hit her spinal cord, she may be paralyzed." Dr. Mirabal said, looking at me intensely.
"Oh my god." I said, hardly able to stand up.
"There's no telling how long this will take. And the bullet may not have hit her spinal cord, so there's still hope. I need to go back in there so we can go ahead and move her upstairs, but I will be back." Dr. Mirabal said, getting ready to turn around.
"When can I see her?" I asked, starting to cry.
Just then, Dwayne returned from getting us coffee from the food court in the hospital. He saw that I was crying and started to comfort me.
"I'll tell you what.you two can follow us up to the ICU unit, but once we're there I'm afraid I can't let you see her until after the surgery is performed." Dr. Mirabal said.
Dwayne and I followed Dr. Mirabal back to Maia's room and then watched as the nurses rolled her stretcher with her on it into the elevator. We followed them, watching Maia closely. Her eyes were still shut. I started to worry again.
"Don't worry, we just gave her some sedatives so that she'd be out before the surgery even began. She's sleeping peacefully now, and won't wake up until after the surgery is over." Dr. Mirabal said, touching my shoulder.
"Honey, are you okay?" Dwayne asked, holding me in his arms and looking at me as I started to cry again.
"I just have a weird feeling about this, Dwayne. I think this was my fault, like someone's sending me some sort of message. Maia never did a thing to anyone, and with all that's gone on lately, I can't help but think that this is my fault." I said, tears coming down my face.
"You need to stop crying, honey. You're going to get sick, and we don't need you ending up in a bed right next to Maia while we're here in the hospital. And anyway, it's not your fault that Maia got shot. Don't you ever let me hear those words come out your mouth again." Dwayne said, looking at me seriously.
"But." I started to say.
"No, Crystal. Stop it." Dwayne said in a serious tone.
I don't care what Dwayne says, I still think this is a sign. As much as I don't wanna believe it, so much drama has gone on lately, and I have this strange gut feeling that I'm involved in this somehow. We've never had anything to happen like this here at UM, ever. Even before I came here, nothing like this has ever happened. Noone has ever got shot or any of that. For this to happen, and for it to be HER, whoever did this had one hell of a reason for doing it. What the hell is that in the hood of Maia's shirt? Something's shimmering or something.
"Doctor, what is that in Maia's hoodie?" I asked, pointing.
"I don't know, let me see. Whatever it is, it's reflecting off of the camera in here." Dr. Mirabal said, getting whatever was down Maia's hoodie.
"It appears to be a small gold hoop earring.oh, but it can't be Maia's because she has diamond studs in." Dr. Mirabal said, looking at the earring.
"Oh my God! Dwayne, I know who's earring that is!" I said, starting to cry.
"Crystal, if you don't stop crying! Damn! Who's is it?!" Dwayne asked, starting to get annoyed with all my crying.
"It's Dany's!!! I gave them to her on her birthday just last summer." I said, beginning to cry hysterically.
"Oh shit! You don't think she." Dwayne said, rubbing the back of his head. That meant he was worried.
"I don't know, Dwayne. I really don't know. I don't wanna believe it, but I think she had something to do with this." I whispered to Dwayne.
"Well, we're here." Dr. Mirabal said, as the doors to the elevator opened to show the ICU.
Dwayne looked at Maia and then me and then started to shake his head. He didn't wanna believe it was Dany either, but the evidence was there. We walked out the elevator and watched as Dr. Mirabal rolled Maia into Room 272.
"You can't come in, remember what I said earlier." Dr. Mirabal said, blocking the doorway.
"Okay, well we're going to head on back home. You have our number, so please give us a call when you're done." Dwayne said, as Dr. Mirabal shook his head and shut the door.
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"Do you see, Dwayne? I told you I had a feeling that someone was trying to send me some sort of message!" I said, crying.
"Come here, baby. It'll be alright. It's gon' be okay." Dwayne said, coming over to me and holding me close.
"But why did she have to do this? I never knew Dany could be this cold!" I said, crying on Dwayne's shoulder.
"Baby, just when you think you know someone, you find out that you don't." Dwayne said, rocking me back and forth in his arms.
"I hope it's just a coincidence, and that she really didn't do this." I said, sniffling.
"All the answers to our questions will be solved just as soon as Maia wakes up and she talks to us. She'll tell us who did this, baby. Believe that." Dwayne said.
"I'm going to take care of this shit right now." I said, going to get up off of Dwayne's couch.
"Sit the hell down, girl. You haven't gotten any sleep, so you're acting all delirious and shit. You're not going any damn where, but right here with me." Dwayne said, pulling me back down to him.
"No Dwayne! Let me go!" I said, starting to struggle with him and continue crying.
"Crystal! Stop it!" Dwayne said, restraining me by pinning me down on the couch.
"Dany did this, I know it.and I have to go do this for Maia. Maia's laid up in the hospital because of me, Dwayne. Do you think I can live with that?" I asked, letting my guard down and stopping the struggle with Dwayne.
"Shh.baby, it's not your fault. Things are out of your control now, and there's nothing you can do. Maia's the key to putting whoever did this to her in prison, not you." Dwayne said, wiping my tears from my face.
Suddenly Dwayne picks me up in his arms, and then proceeds to carry me back to his bedroom. He lays me down in his bed and tucks me in.
"Baby, all I want you to do right now is sleep. Can you do that for me?" Dwayne asked, kneeling beside the bed as he held my hands.
"Okay, but what about you?" I asked, sniffling.
"Don't worry about me. All I want you to do is go to sleep, and that'll be enough to put me at ease. I'll be fine if you do that. Now you will do this for me, right?" Dwayne said.
"You're so good to me, Dwayne." I said.
"Yeah, I know. Go on to sleep, baby." Dwayne said, rubbing the side of my face and then kissing me on the forehead.
He sat down in the nearby chair that was next to his bed and watched as I drifted off to sleep. Then, he got up and left the room and shut the door behind him.
What's up, people? I thought I would snatch you guys while she's in my room asleep. Just so you know, I've never done this kinda thing before. I've never did the relationship thing with someone who's 6 years younger than I, not that age really matters to me. It might matter to the school with the fact that I'm her teacher, but that's why we're being so hush-hush about all of this.
I don't know what it is that draws me to her, but when we talk it's like I've known her for years. She's a great person with a great personality to match. I think she'd make an excellent criminal lawyer too, because she has that drive and that attitude that would really look good in a courtroom. And with that coming from me, an actual lawyer, it really does say something about her.
It's a shame with what's happened to Maia. I like Maia, I do. She's got that flare that noone can take away from her. And she seems to have infinite energy! My god, that girl is always on the go! She's certainly a wild child, but she's a good girl at heart. I never seem to have any major problems with her.or Crystal for that matter. I don't know why they always gotta be whispering and passing notes in my damn class, though! (I'm bout to put a stop to that shit, too!) When them two are together, it's like double trouble! I need to start calling them the Doublemint Twins! But then, that would be too many nicknames, right? Cause they're already apart of the 6 J.Lo's! Crystal is J.Lo number one and Maia is J.Lo number two.oh well!
Yesterday when them two and the other 4 (I call them the 6 J.Lo's now) all got up on my desk, that was the funniest shit I had ever seen! I mean, you wanna talk about booty shakin? The next time Nelly wants to do a damn music video, all his ass needs to do is come to my classroom! For real! Cause all I saw was ass! After Crystal doing her little thing, I HAD to sit down! I figured that would be the end of it, but when the 6 of them got up on my desk.that shit was hilarious. A classic for the UM yearbook, I'm telling you!
I don't even know this girl Dany, like that. I met her that one day where I was with the girls in the Hurricane Food Court in the BK line. Other than that, I never spoke to her. If she DID shoot Maia, I don't know what her motive would be. I know her and Crystal just had a huge fight, and for what reason, I really am not too sure of. Crystal just told me that it was about time that she drop Dany anyway because a lot of "stuff" as she called it, had been going on. She won't disclose any information on that, and I don't know why because it's not like I would tell anyone. I should probably talk to her about that sometime, just not today. She's been through enough as it is, and I don't wanna make things worse by bringing up the fight between her and Dany.
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"Are you okay, honey? Do you need anything? Anything, I don't care, whatever it is, I'll get it." I said, looking at Maia who laid in the hospital bed.
"I'm still Jenny number 2 from the block, girl. I don't need nothing." Maia said, smiling weakly.
"Are you sure? I don't have anything else planned today, and I don't know about Crystal, but I can stay here all day if you want me to." Dwayne said, smiling.
"I don't have a thing planned for today. I'm staying here, and I mean it." I said, holding Maia's hand.
"Man, what the fuck?! My back is killing me! Dammit!" Maia said, scrunching her face up as she felt much anguish.
"Oh, there's my girl! She's back!" I said, cracking up.
"Damn right she is." Dwayne said, laughing along with me.
"Ya'll can kiss my ass, especially you Crissy. This shit ain't funny!" Maia said, trying to get comfortable in bed.
Dr. Mirabal suddenly appeared, as he came walking into the room. Dwayne, Maia and I all looked at him, wondering what he was going to say. Dwayne and I started to get anxious and worried at the same time, not knowing what he was about to say.
"How you feelin' Maia?" He asked, smiling at Maia.
"My back hurts like hell." Maia said, making a discomforting face.
"Well, you're lucky to be alive. The bullet that hit you in your back was so close to your spinal cord that it's a wonder it didn't go through and hit you." Dr. Mirabal said, still smiling.
Dwayne and I sighed with much relief after hearing that. Maia wasn't paralyzed! She was okay!
"So when can I leave?" Maia asked, anxious to get out the hospital.
"Today, if you like. I'm just going to assign you to bed rest these next 2 days so that your wounded back can properly be healed after the surgery. And I mean it.as tempting as it may seem, that means no going clubbing since it's the weekend, no going this place and that, none of that. And I trust that you two will be sure that she follows doctor's orders?" Dr. Mirabal said, later turning to face us.
"Of course." Dwayne and I said, smiling at each other and then Maia, who was scowling at us.
"Maia, I'm going to give you a prescription for something to help with the pain, okay?" Dr. Mirabal asked, looking at Maia.
"You know you done ruined my weekend, man." Maia said, not paying any attention to what he just said.
Dwayne, Dr. Mirabal and I just laughed. I know Maia wanted to go up to the Grove to do some clubbing, and now that she has this injury, she can't. Oh well, there's always next weekend!
Dr. Mirabal left the room, leaving us alone again. I thought about the crazy thing with finding Dany's earring in her hoodie. I didn't wanna come right out and start playing 20 questions with her, but I had to know if Maia knew who shot her.
"Maia, can I ask you something?" I asked, looking at her.
"Go head." Maia said, shaking her head.
"Do you have any idea who shot you?" I asked.
"Are you sure you should be doing this now?" Dwayne whispered in my ear, holding me close to him.
"I know what I'm doing, dammit." I said, pulling away from him.
"No, I don't. I had my back turned, I mean how the hell am I supposed to know who got me from behind like that? I don't have eyes in the back of my head." Maia said, snapping.
"I'm sorry for asking, I just thought you would know. I didn't mean to upset you." I said apologetically.
"Girl, you don't have nothing to be sorry about. I'm just a little pissed because I gotta stay in bed all weekend. That, and I don't really feel like talking about it right now. Is that okay? I mean, can we talk about something else please?" Maia said calmly.
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"You got a surprise visitor, Maia." Dwayne and I said, smiling at Maia who laid in her bed.
"Who the hell is it? If it's Ty, tell her that I'm asleep." Maia said, grumbling just a little bit.
"It's not Ty." Dwayne said, smiling at her.
"Well who the hell else is it gonna be? Crissy, is it one of the other J.Lo's? I don't feel like a bootylicious convention right now." Maia said, grumbling some more.
"No, it's not any of our fellow J.Lo's." I said, laughing.
"Hey Maia, how you feeling?"
Maia turned towards where the voice was coming from, and found it to be Jay. She watched as a smiling Crystal and Dwayne walked out the room to leave Jay and her alone.
"What are you doing here?" Maia asked, sitting up in bed and smiling as she watched Jay walk over to her and sit on the side of her bed.
"I don't forget people I go toe-to-toe with on the court." Jay said, smiling and handing Maia a huge teddy bear and a bouquet of roses.
"Thank you!" Maia said, smiling.
"I know it would probably hurt you to strain just to give a brotha some love, so I'll help you out a lil' bit." Jay said, going to hug Maia.
"So really, is the only reason why you came here because you don't forget who you go against on the court? And how did you find out where I live? I know Dwayne didn't tell you, and Crissy don't do shit like that, at least for free anyway." Maia said, starting to laugh.
"First of all, no that wasn't my only reason for coming here. No female has ever challenged me like that, especially on the court. So that kinda caught my eye, that you could hold your own. And, I thought you was fine too. Oh, and about how I found out where you live.I slipped ya girl a 50 to give me some info. It was the only way she would give it to me." Jay said, laughing.
"You know, what do you say as soon as I get back on my feet that you and me have a one-on-one game of b-ball on the court?" Maia asked, smiling.
"I'm down, that sounds like it'll be interesting." Jay said, smiling.
"Oh, and by the way.you don't look so bad yourself." Maia said, winking and then smiling at him.
~TO BE CONTINUED~
***** It's early in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Dwayne and I took his car and followed the ambulance that Maia was in to the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. We're sitting here in the emergency room, still waiting for someone to come out here and tell us something about Maia. Dwayne told me to go home and get some rest, that he'd call me as soon as he heard anything, but I don't feel like it.
Dwayne just now left to go get us some coffee, seeing as we haven't slept at all. Suddenly, a guy in green scrubs with a stethoscope around his neck made his way towards me.
"Are you Crystal?" The man asked me, as I got up.
"Yes." I said, looking at him.
"Hi, I'm Jonathan Mirabal, Maia's doctor." He said, putting his hand out to shake mine.
"How's Maia?" I asked, getting worried.
"We're going to have to move her up to the ICU. It looks like we're going to have to do immediate surgery on her, because we did some x-rays, and the bullet hit her in her back. It may have hit her spinal cord, but because of the angle that the x-rays were taken, we're not too sure. If it hit her spinal cord, she may be paralyzed." Dr. Mirabal said, looking at me intensely.
"Oh my god." I said, hardly able to stand up.
"There's no telling how long this will take. And the bullet may not have hit her spinal cord, so there's still hope. I need to go back in there so we can go ahead and move her upstairs, but I will be back." Dr. Mirabal said, getting ready to turn around.
"When can I see her?" I asked, starting to cry.
Just then, Dwayne returned from getting us coffee from the food court in the hospital. He saw that I was crying and started to comfort me.
"I'll tell you what.you two can follow us up to the ICU unit, but once we're there I'm afraid I can't let you see her until after the surgery is performed." Dr. Mirabal said.
Dwayne and I followed Dr. Mirabal back to Maia's room and then watched as the nurses rolled her stretcher with her on it into the elevator. We followed them, watching Maia closely. Her eyes were still shut. I started to worry again.
"Don't worry, we just gave her some sedatives so that she'd be out before the surgery even began. She's sleeping peacefully now, and won't wake up until after the surgery is over." Dr. Mirabal said, touching my shoulder.
"Honey, are you okay?" Dwayne asked, holding me in his arms and looking at me as I started to cry again.
"I just have a weird feeling about this, Dwayne. I think this was my fault, like someone's sending me some sort of message. Maia never did a thing to anyone, and with all that's gone on lately, I can't help but think that this is my fault." I said, tears coming down my face.
"You need to stop crying, honey. You're going to get sick, and we don't need you ending up in a bed right next to Maia while we're here in the hospital. And anyway, it's not your fault that Maia got shot. Don't you ever let me hear those words come out your mouth again." Dwayne said, looking at me seriously.
"But." I started to say.
"No, Crystal. Stop it." Dwayne said in a serious tone.
I don't care what Dwayne says, I still think this is a sign. As much as I don't wanna believe it, so much drama has gone on lately, and I have this strange gut feeling that I'm involved in this somehow. We've never had anything to happen like this here at UM, ever. Even before I came here, nothing like this has ever happened. Noone has ever got shot or any of that. For this to happen, and for it to be HER, whoever did this had one hell of a reason for doing it. What the hell is that in the hood of Maia's shirt? Something's shimmering or something.
"Doctor, what is that in Maia's hoodie?" I asked, pointing.
"I don't know, let me see. Whatever it is, it's reflecting off of the camera in here." Dr. Mirabal said, getting whatever was down Maia's hoodie.
"It appears to be a small gold hoop earring.oh, but it can't be Maia's because she has diamond studs in." Dr. Mirabal said, looking at the earring.
"Oh my God! Dwayne, I know who's earring that is!" I said, starting to cry.
"Crystal, if you don't stop crying! Damn! Who's is it?!" Dwayne asked, starting to get annoyed with all my crying.
"It's Dany's!!! I gave them to her on her birthday just last summer." I said, beginning to cry hysterically.
"Oh shit! You don't think she." Dwayne said, rubbing the back of his head. That meant he was worried.
"I don't know, Dwayne. I really don't know. I don't wanna believe it, but I think she had something to do with this." I whispered to Dwayne.
"Well, we're here." Dr. Mirabal said, as the doors to the elevator opened to show the ICU.
Dwayne looked at Maia and then me and then started to shake his head. He didn't wanna believe it was Dany either, but the evidence was there. We walked out the elevator and watched as Dr. Mirabal rolled Maia into Room 272.
"You can't come in, remember what I said earlier." Dr. Mirabal said, blocking the doorway.
"Okay, well we're going to head on back home. You have our number, so please give us a call when you're done." Dwayne said, as Dr. Mirabal shook his head and shut the door.
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"Do you see, Dwayne? I told you I had a feeling that someone was trying to send me some sort of message!" I said, crying.
"Come here, baby. It'll be alright. It's gon' be okay." Dwayne said, coming over to me and holding me close.
"But why did she have to do this? I never knew Dany could be this cold!" I said, crying on Dwayne's shoulder.
"Baby, just when you think you know someone, you find out that you don't." Dwayne said, rocking me back and forth in his arms.
"I hope it's just a coincidence, and that she really didn't do this." I said, sniffling.
"All the answers to our questions will be solved just as soon as Maia wakes up and she talks to us. She'll tell us who did this, baby. Believe that." Dwayne said.
"I'm going to take care of this shit right now." I said, going to get up off of Dwayne's couch.
"Sit the hell down, girl. You haven't gotten any sleep, so you're acting all delirious and shit. You're not going any damn where, but right here with me." Dwayne said, pulling me back down to him.
"No Dwayne! Let me go!" I said, starting to struggle with him and continue crying.
"Crystal! Stop it!" Dwayne said, restraining me by pinning me down on the couch.
"Dany did this, I know it.and I have to go do this for Maia. Maia's laid up in the hospital because of me, Dwayne. Do you think I can live with that?" I asked, letting my guard down and stopping the struggle with Dwayne.
"Shh.baby, it's not your fault. Things are out of your control now, and there's nothing you can do. Maia's the key to putting whoever did this to her in prison, not you." Dwayne said, wiping my tears from my face.
Suddenly Dwayne picks me up in his arms, and then proceeds to carry me back to his bedroom. He lays me down in his bed and tucks me in.
"Baby, all I want you to do right now is sleep. Can you do that for me?" Dwayne asked, kneeling beside the bed as he held my hands.
"Okay, but what about you?" I asked, sniffling.
"Don't worry about me. All I want you to do is go to sleep, and that'll be enough to put me at ease. I'll be fine if you do that. Now you will do this for me, right?" Dwayne said.
"You're so good to me, Dwayne." I said.
"Yeah, I know. Go on to sleep, baby." Dwayne said, rubbing the side of my face and then kissing me on the forehead.
He sat down in the nearby chair that was next to his bed and watched as I drifted off to sleep. Then, he got up and left the room and shut the door behind him.
What's up, people? I thought I would snatch you guys while she's in my room asleep. Just so you know, I've never done this kinda thing before. I've never did the relationship thing with someone who's 6 years younger than I, not that age really matters to me. It might matter to the school with the fact that I'm her teacher, but that's why we're being so hush-hush about all of this.
I don't know what it is that draws me to her, but when we talk it's like I've known her for years. She's a great person with a great personality to match. I think she'd make an excellent criminal lawyer too, because she has that drive and that attitude that would really look good in a courtroom. And with that coming from me, an actual lawyer, it really does say something about her.
It's a shame with what's happened to Maia. I like Maia, I do. She's got that flare that noone can take away from her. And she seems to have infinite energy! My god, that girl is always on the go! She's certainly a wild child, but she's a good girl at heart. I never seem to have any major problems with her.or Crystal for that matter. I don't know why they always gotta be whispering and passing notes in my damn class, though! (I'm bout to put a stop to that shit, too!) When them two are together, it's like double trouble! I need to start calling them the Doublemint Twins! But then, that would be too many nicknames, right? Cause they're already apart of the 6 J.Lo's! Crystal is J.Lo number one and Maia is J.Lo number two.oh well!
Yesterday when them two and the other 4 (I call them the 6 J.Lo's now) all got up on my desk, that was the funniest shit I had ever seen! I mean, you wanna talk about booty shakin? The next time Nelly wants to do a damn music video, all his ass needs to do is come to my classroom! For real! Cause all I saw was ass! After Crystal doing her little thing, I HAD to sit down! I figured that would be the end of it, but when the 6 of them got up on my desk.that shit was hilarious. A classic for the UM yearbook, I'm telling you!
I don't even know this girl Dany, like that. I met her that one day where I was with the girls in the Hurricane Food Court in the BK line. Other than that, I never spoke to her. If she DID shoot Maia, I don't know what her motive would be. I know her and Crystal just had a huge fight, and for what reason, I really am not too sure of. Crystal just told me that it was about time that she drop Dany anyway because a lot of "stuff" as she called it, had been going on. She won't disclose any information on that, and I don't know why because it's not like I would tell anyone. I should probably talk to her about that sometime, just not today. She's been through enough as it is, and I don't wanna make things worse by bringing up the fight between her and Dany.
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"Are you okay, honey? Do you need anything? Anything, I don't care, whatever it is, I'll get it." I said, looking at Maia who laid in the hospital bed.
"I'm still Jenny number 2 from the block, girl. I don't need nothing." Maia said, smiling weakly.
"Are you sure? I don't have anything else planned today, and I don't know about Crystal, but I can stay here all day if you want me to." Dwayne said, smiling.
"I don't have a thing planned for today. I'm staying here, and I mean it." I said, holding Maia's hand.
"Man, what the fuck?! My back is killing me! Dammit!" Maia said, scrunching her face up as she felt much anguish.
"Oh, there's my girl! She's back!" I said, cracking up.
"Damn right she is." Dwayne said, laughing along with me.
"Ya'll can kiss my ass, especially you Crissy. This shit ain't funny!" Maia said, trying to get comfortable in bed.
Dr. Mirabal suddenly appeared, as he came walking into the room. Dwayne, Maia and I all looked at him, wondering what he was going to say. Dwayne and I started to get anxious and worried at the same time, not knowing what he was about to say.
"How you feelin' Maia?" He asked, smiling at Maia.
"My back hurts like hell." Maia said, making a discomforting face.
"Well, you're lucky to be alive. The bullet that hit you in your back was so close to your spinal cord that it's a wonder it didn't go through and hit you." Dr. Mirabal said, still smiling.
Dwayne and I sighed with much relief after hearing that. Maia wasn't paralyzed! She was okay!
"So when can I leave?" Maia asked, anxious to get out the hospital.
"Today, if you like. I'm just going to assign you to bed rest these next 2 days so that your wounded back can properly be healed after the surgery. And I mean it.as tempting as it may seem, that means no going clubbing since it's the weekend, no going this place and that, none of that. And I trust that you two will be sure that she follows doctor's orders?" Dr. Mirabal said, later turning to face us.
"Of course." Dwayne and I said, smiling at each other and then Maia, who was scowling at us.
"Maia, I'm going to give you a prescription for something to help with the pain, okay?" Dr. Mirabal asked, looking at Maia.
"You know you done ruined my weekend, man." Maia said, not paying any attention to what he just said.
Dwayne, Dr. Mirabal and I just laughed. I know Maia wanted to go up to the Grove to do some clubbing, and now that she has this injury, she can't. Oh well, there's always next weekend!
Dr. Mirabal left the room, leaving us alone again. I thought about the crazy thing with finding Dany's earring in her hoodie. I didn't wanna come right out and start playing 20 questions with her, but I had to know if Maia knew who shot her.
"Maia, can I ask you something?" I asked, looking at her.
"Go head." Maia said, shaking her head.
"Do you have any idea who shot you?" I asked.
"Are you sure you should be doing this now?" Dwayne whispered in my ear, holding me close to him.
"I know what I'm doing, dammit." I said, pulling away from him.
"No, I don't. I had my back turned, I mean how the hell am I supposed to know who got me from behind like that? I don't have eyes in the back of my head." Maia said, snapping.
"I'm sorry for asking, I just thought you would know. I didn't mean to upset you." I said apologetically.
"Girl, you don't have nothing to be sorry about. I'm just a little pissed because I gotta stay in bed all weekend. That, and I don't really feel like talking about it right now. Is that okay? I mean, can we talk about something else please?" Maia said calmly.
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"You got a surprise visitor, Maia." Dwayne and I said, smiling at Maia who laid in her bed.
"Who the hell is it? If it's Ty, tell her that I'm asleep." Maia said, grumbling just a little bit.
"It's not Ty." Dwayne said, smiling at her.
"Well who the hell else is it gonna be? Crissy, is it one of the other J.Lo's? I don't feel like a bootylicious convention right now." Maia said, grumbling some more.
"No, it's not any of our fellow J.Lo's." I said, laughing.
"Hey Maia, how you feeling?"
Maia turned towards where the voice was coming from, and found it to be Jay. She watched as a smiling Crystal and Dwayne walked out the room to leave Jay and her alone.
"What are you doing here?" Maia asked, sitting up in bed and smiling as she watched Jay walk over to her and sit on the side of her bed.
"I don't forget people I go toe-to-toe with on the court." Jay said, smiling and handing Maia a huge teddy bear and a bouquet of roses.
"Thank you!" Maia said, smiling.
"I know it would probably hurt you to strain just to give a brotha some love, so I'll help you out a lil' bit." Jay said, going to hug Maia.
"So really, is the only reason why you came here because you don't forget who you go against on the court? And how did you find out where I live? I know Dwayne didn't tell you, and Crissy don't do shit like that, at least for free anyway." Maia said, starting to laugh.
"First of all, no that wasn't my only reason for coming here. No female has ever challenged me like that, especially on the court. So that kinda caught my eye, that you could hold your own. And, I thought you was fine too. Oh, and about how I found out where you live.I slipped ya girl a 50 to give me some info. It was the only way she would give it to me." Jay said, laughing.
"You know, what do you say as soon as I get back on my feet that you and me have a one-on-one game of b-ball on the court?" Maia asked, smiling.
"I'm down, that sounds like it'll be interesting." Jay said, smiling.
"Oh, and by the way.you don't look so bad yourself." Maia said, winking and then smiling at him.
~TO BE CONTINUED~