All the Things Money Can't Buy by Krystal Armstead

Author:Krystal Armstead [Armstead, Krystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Urban Life, United States, African American, Urban
Amazon: B014VK1MMO
Publisher: Racquel Williams Presents
Published: 2015-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

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A week went by. I hadn’t really bled that much at all that week, and the cramping was really minimal. But that day that my father took me out to lunch, my abdomen was in an enormous amount of pain. I tried to ignore it, but halfway through lunch, the pain became unbearable.

“Honey,” my father was smiling from ear to ear. He’d just bought me a white 1999 Ford Mustang. It was a beauty, and he couldn’t wait to teach me how to drive it. “Don’t tell your mother about the car just yet. You already know her deal with giving you any sort of independence.” Father watched me grabbing my stomach, in pain. He sat his fork down alongside his plate of steak, potatoes, and asparagus tips. “Baby, are you okay?”

I shook my head, barely able to speak. “Daddy, I need to get to the hospital.” I struggled to tell him.

I watched my father snatch the napkin from his BDU blouse, throwing it onto the table. He jumped up from his seat, rushing over to help me up from my seat. And as he helped me up from my seat, he yelled out, looking down at it. “Nina, honey, what’s going on?” he exclaimed, looking down at my seat.

I looked down at it, gasping at the sight of the massive pool of blood in my chair. In an instant, Daddy swooped me up in his arms and carried me to the car. Daddy flew down the highway to the hospital, spewing out all sorts of questions. I was crying so much that I couldn’t answer any of them. So he called my mother to let her explain it to him.

There I was again, laying in a triage in the emergency room department. My father paced back and forth across the room as my mother stood there, trying to defend herself to my father for making me go through with the abortion.

“You should have told me, Rayna!” My father shouted at her.

“Keith, what’s there to explain? She’s fifteen years old! What the hell is she going to do with a baby by the son of a known drug distributor? One who’s being watched like a hawk by all types of people? I told her to stay away from him! I can’t believe my own best friend would go behind my back to introduce my daughter to that hoodlum!” Mother had the nerve to start crying. “No daughter of mine is going to walk around pregnant!”

My father shook his head at my mother and then looked at the doctor who was performing yet another sonogram to look at my abdomen.

The doctor sighed, looking at me and then at my parents as he wiped the gel from my belly. “Mr. and Mrs. Cambridge, your daughter is fine. The bleeding is normal; sometimes after an abortion, a person can experience massive amounts of bleeding. It looks to me as if your daughter’s abortion was successful, but she was misinformed.”

My parents both looked at the doctor, confused.

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