The Bancrofts 5: Practice Run by Brenda Barrett

Author:Brenda Barrett [Barrett, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: United States, Christian, Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Christian Fiction, African American, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B00GJ0T498
Publisher: Jamaica Treasures
Published: 2013-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

*****

The family started taking shifts at Marcus' bedside. Tiffany had also muscled her way into some of the time spent there too; she had been staying at the school’s hotel and walking over to the hospital. It had been three days since the accident and Marcus was still in a coma. He just lay in the bed, still, his head wrapped in bandages with machines chirping all around him. The doctors reported that he was stable but that they had no idea when he would wake up.

The international media had become involved, and local media personnel were also camped out on the hospital grounds. Daily, the newspapers were running features on Marcus and his career and the television stations were running a documentary on his life, almost as if he were already dead.

Tiffany had offered an interview to the Associated Press, and it had been nice to see her name in print: “Tiffany Lewis, the girlfriend of Marcus Bancroft, says that his leg is broken but the doctors say it is a clean break.”

She was sitting at Marcus' bedside and was reading the paper again, looking at her name and grimacing. It should be Tiffany Bancroft.

"Ehem," she looked up and there was Deidra. She looked fresh and pretty. She should be the one in the bed, in a coma, Tiffany thought resentfully.

Tiffany watched her as she walked over to the other side of the bed and sat down. She didn't even spare Tiffany a glance. She gently smoothed Marcus' brow and whispered something in his ear. Then she took out an MP3 player and put it in Marcus' ears.

"What are you doing?" Tiffany asked acerbically.

"Huh?" Deidra looked across at her. "Playing Marcus a sermon. You know a sermon, where the preacher elaborates on God's words. Have you ever heard one?"

Tiffany sneered at her. "Marcus and I don't listen to sermons and ridiculous God talk."

"That's because he was fraternizing with the wrong company," Deidra said fiercely. "Something tells me you discouraged him from listening to such things."

Tiffany reached over and plucked the headphones out of his ear. "Leave him alone. He can't hear it anyway."

"Oh yes, he can," Deidra said, pulling the headphone from Tiffany's hand. "The doctor said coma patients can sometimes hear what is going on around them."

Tiffany grunted. "You people are something else. You ignore me, all of you, yet I am the only person in Marcus' life that knows what is going on with him. Where were you all three years ago?"

Deidra frowned. "No one is ignoring you. We all meet at the chapel in the mornings, his family and friends, community people, even the press stops by to join in; we pray for his recovery. We know that only a higher power can help."

Tiffany sat down sullenly. "I don't pray."

"Well," Deidra said, "that's your loss. Prayer is the only option we mere mortals have to get access to God. And you may sneer all you want, but medicine cannot explain what is going on with Marcus right now.

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