11. Marcel #2
“I ain’t got time for the shit. I said Ima go check on her.
Now leave me alone.” I ended the call without warning.
Belinda needed to understand that I didn’t fuck with her.
I tolerated her off the strength of Koi in the past, but now I had no choice but to be in communication with her until Rika woke up.
I had no respect for her, and that was never gonna change. Belinda was the problem, and that ultimately trickled down to her kids.
I got dressed and was out of the house within the hour. I stopped by the Cuchifrito’s for a plate of baked chicken, rice and peas, and yuca. It was the least I could do; hospital food was disgusting.
“Good afternoon, she has a guest inside now.” I furrowed my brows when the nurse I had come acquainted with stopped me.
“Who?”
“I’m not sure. But it is a female.” Now my interest piqued. If Belinda wasn’t there, then I figured it may have been Koi’s mother. She couldn’t stand her niece, but she did pop in and out.
I rushed to the room, stopping in my tracks when I heard Koi’s voice through the open door.
“See, I could very well get rid of you right here and right now, but it’s not worth it.” She paused. “You’re not worth it.” From the reflection of the bed, I could see Rika staring right at Koi. Koi stood by her bedside, arms folded, tapping her foot against the tiled floor.
“I,”
“No, no. Don’t speak. I don’t want to hear what you have to say.
See, none of that matters. You’re a bitch, always have and always will be.
You’re gonna get everything you deserve, and this is just the beginning,” she shrugged.
“See, if I were like you, I’d go get my man back and tell him to leave you and the kid stranded, but I’m not like you.
I’m better.” Rika sniffed back. “I’m gonna give him to you and be happy.
Because you two will never be happy, and that’s a fact.
Starting with today.” Koi moved swiftly, pressing down on the button on the side of the bed.
Rika’s bed flopped down swiftly, almost making her fall off.
I stepped into the room.
“Koi.”
“Oh, look who it is. Your baby father here to save you.” She grabbed her purse from the chair before leaving the room.
I wanted to run after her, but the look of discomfort on Rika’s face had me worried. I didn’t like the hoe, but I also didn’t want her ass needing a longer medical stay. That was where I drew the line. She was set to be discharged soon.
“Doctors, can you have them check me out?” She looked panicked. Koi wasn’t playing fair, but I guess this is what Rika get for fucking with her.
“Sure.”
I groaned as I dreaded this moment. “You ain’t coming to my house.
You better plan to stay in the projects with your mother and siblings.
” I balled up my fist as I paced back and forth in Rika’s hospital room.
She was being discharged after a week of being alert, and part of me hated the idea of it.
On top of Koi releasing the button to her bed, Rika had a night where she felt like she couldn’t breathe.
Now that she had fully been cleared, I had no choice but to get ready for the real drama.
From the day I went into her room, she had been nagging me with bullshit, and she needed to know that this wasn’t that.
If it wasn’t shit she wanted for the baby, then it was her having this fake ass fantasy concocted in her head that we were gonna be a family.
That was the last thing she could expect.
We weren’t shit but two people who shared a child.
“Bro, she doesn’t want you. She’s gone, you might as well just settle with me,” Rika laughed, showing off that rotten tooth. I almost threw up in my mouth, looking over at her.
“Bitch, fuck you.” I yanked the bag from her hands. “Keep talking shit, and I’m going to leave your ass right here in this room.”
“Now this. How you mad at me because we had sex?”
“Easy! Because your ass trapped me. You should be lucky I didn’t tell the cops your funky ass took advantage when I was drunk.”
“Nigga, please. That dick is for everybody. You should be lucky that you only got caught up with a kid and not getting an STD from a dirty bitch.”
“Are you the dirty bitch you speak of?”
“Ahem, we can hear you guys outside of this room. You all are disturbing our patients. Hurry up and go.” The nurse stood in front of the door, giving us a lecture. “And if you don’t hurry up, I will call security.”
“All of that ain’t called for. I’m gone.” Rika was still moving as slow as molasses. I left her heading towards the elevator when I spotted a familiar face.
“Don’t make no sense. And you got nerve to be begging my friend back, but you here with that hoe.”
“Hello to you too, Marli,” Rika chuckled.
“Rika don’t get slapped back into a coma,” she snapped. “My friend can act modest, but me, I still got some hood in me,” she growled, ready to go off.