Shattered by Kia DuPree

Author:Kia DuPree [DUPREE, KIA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781455518173
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

16

We ain’t get to the hospital ’til eleven cuz of a big-ass accident on the turnpike that had traffic backed up all the way to the Verrazano Bridge. It ain’t help that we ain’t leave Trina Boo’s apartment until nine o’clock. Bitches talking ’bout they had to eat and shit. Was my baby eating? When I walked into Audri’s room, she was sleeping peacefully.

“She probably high as hell right now,” Peaches said. “You know they got her on some pain medicine.”

Meeka said she wanted something to drink so the two of them went to go find a vending machine. I kissed Audri on her cheek and then sat with her for a while. When she woke up and saw me, she smiled.

“How long you been here?” she whispered.

“For a little while. How you feeling?” I said, kissing her.

“Sore as shit. Them niggas beat the shit outta me.”

I wished I could take her pain away. Audri told me how she was in the parking garage at one of the casinos when some dudes attacked her, stole her wallet, phone, and her car. She told me Myra, Cha-Cha, and Whitney was on their way back to D.C. in a rental now that their pockets was full from the party where they performed in the wee hours that morning.

“The doctors said I can leave today, though.”

“Good,” I said.

“Hey, you’re up!” Peaches said, walking inside the room.

“Hey, Audri,” Meeka said, following her.

Audri smiled. “I ain’t know they came up here with you. Wassup?”

“You all right?”

“Just a little fucked up, that’s all,” she said, smiling.

“Yeah, we came to check on you,” Peaches said.

Everybody knew that I ain’t plan to tell Audri that we was in New York, so it all worked out. After they discharged her, we all piled in Peaches’s truck. Audri was confused about the luggage in the back when we put her suitcase back there, but she ain’t say nothing about it since it was Peaches’s truck. Audri was quiet the whole ride. I knew she was in a lot of pain, but she just seemed like she was in her own space. I sat in the back with her and pushed the front passenger seat up so she could have plenty of space to stretch her legs. It ain’t seem like there was nothing I could say to make her feel better. After a while, she fell asleep.

When we stopped at a rest stop in Maryland to use the bathroom, I asked Peaches if she had some coke with her. She looked at me sideways, then took her necklace off and handed it to me. I went in a stall and took a couple hits. It was just what I needed. Back at the truck, Audri had turned to the side so that most of her body was stretched across the backseat. I ain’t wanna wake her up, so I let her stretch her legs across my lap. I felt guilty about the thoughts I had earlier about Peaches. I mean, maybe she ain’t realize just how bad my situation was.

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