Queen of the City: The Life of a Female Rapper (An Urban Hood Drama) by Tamicka Higgins

Author:Tamicka Higgins [Higgins, Tamicka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

A few weeks passed since I started kicking it with Nasir. Uncle Stew moved in permanently with us, and I didn’t have a problem with it. He cooked, kept the house clean, and Big Mama didn't have any problems with him being there so I figured I shouldn’t either. Her cancer had grown worse, though. The chemotherapy didn’t seem to be working.

“Unc, we’re gonna have to take her to the hospital.”

He wiped a tear from his eye. “Yeah. Yeah, I know.”

We both stood in the hallway, watching her from a distance. She hadn’t moved in the past few hours. She had become too weak, and we just stood around, hoping for the best but preparing for the worst.

We checked her in later that day against every last one of her wishes. She tried to push me off, the same way she did when she had enough strength to do it, but it just wasn’t there. That hurt me to the core, but I knew it was going to come to this eventually. I sat in the hospital chair next to her bed, flipping through the channels with the remote on the bed. Immediately, I felt the sudden urge to throw up. Uncle Stew looked at me,

“Lyric? You aight?”

“Yeah, I'm going—”

I got up and rushed to the bathroom before I could finish. I threw up into the toilet for a few minutes as I heard knocks on the door,

“Excuse me? Are you all right in there?” It was a female’s voice. I figured it was the nurse.

“I’m good. I’m good,” I said, as I threw up seconds after that. She opened the door, seeing me seated on the floor hugging the toilet.

“Oh my goodness,” she said as she ran towards me, “Do you still need to throw up?”

I shook my head no as she helped me up, back into the room.

“What have you eaten today?”

“No, it’s not that. I’ve been feeling like this the past few days. It only comes at certain times of the day, though. Usually the morning.”

She looked at me quizzically. “Do you think you’re pregnant?”

“Pregnant?”

I looked towards Big Mama. She was sound asleep.

“No, I am not pregnant!”

She laughed. “I mean, you’re at a hospital. Do you want to test just to see if you are? I mean, it would put you at ease and keep you from thinking that there is something else going on with you.”

Uncle Stew spoke up, “Gone head and get tested, girl. I already got Mama goin’ through this. I don’t need something else happening to another one of y’all. Please, Lyric?”

I looked at him and shook my head. “Aight. I’ll take the test.”

An hour later, I sat in the room, speechless. As many times as I had sex with Junie and didn’t get pregnant, I figured that it just wasn’t possible. I wasn’t prepared for this. Not even in the slightest way.

“Don’t be sad, Lyric.” Uncle Stew said, “Having a baby is a blessing!”

“I’m not tryin’ to hear that right now.”

He laughed.

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