sexual content in this chapter babes... yes, I'm back with it.
"Can you walk on it?" Rochelle asked her son, referring to his badly injured ankle. "This is why you don't hang out by the balcony with no adults."
Chris shakes his head no violently, rubbing the sides of his hands over his face, getting away all of the tears. "It hurts! It hurts!" He cried in pain.
"I think he fractured it." Riley frowned. She felt bad that her nephew got hurt while in her care. "Cassius can pay the hospital bills, don't worry. He needs to go to the hospital now and get that checked out."
"Okay that's cool. I'm gonna bring him out right now." Rochelle attempted to stand with Chris in her arms when they gave way and he fell back onto the couch. Riley looked at Ro in concern, she could see that Ro looked physically weak. She didn't look like this the day before at the dinner table.
Rochelle sighed and closed her eyes momentarily. Riley quickly excused herself, rushing to her bedroom. Pushing open the door she seen Cassius laying in her bed half asleep. She budged his shoulder until his eyes popped open. "Cass can you bring Chris to Rochelle's car? She's going to bring him to the hospital."
"Yeah." He answered and pushed him up out of the bed. Pulling his socked feet into a pair of shoes, Riley scrunched up her face. How could he sleep in socks? She followed him out and watched as he carried Chris right through the door.
Rochelle started to walk out behind him when Riley grabbed her arm to stop and get her attention. "Are you okay? You're taking your medication right?"
"Yes I'm fine Ri. Don't worry about me."
"And what about Chris?" Riley asked then paused. She didn't want to bring this up because then the disease would be real, it was actually affecting her sister. But she knew she had to be a grown up about it and face the problems head on. "What's going to happen to him if something happens to you when this sickness runs it's course?"
Rochelle could feel the slight burn from the tears forming in her eyes. She really didn't want to cry. "Mama will keep him. I would say you but you have enough children on your hands."
"Christopher is going to be in great hands Ro."
"I know." Rochelle wiped a few tears and quickly hustled out of the room. Riley grabbed her purse and followed suit.
Cassius helped lay Chris in the backseat of his mother's car before letting the three drive off to the hospital. He went back up the elevator and back into Riley's condominium, slamming and locking the front door behind him. He tugged his shirt off his chest, walking into the kitchen to grab a Pepsi out of the refrigerator.
He popped it open and noticed his oldest child at the table doing her Thanksgiving break homework. Asia bit the end of her pencil, her forehead crinkled in frustration. Cassius walked up behind her and looked down at the math problem on the paper. "What are you doing here?" He asked, confused his damn self after a quick glance at the paper.
Asia hesitated not knowing if him talking to her was a trick. She took a chance anyway but made sure to inch away from him a bit. "Finding the volume of a cube." She answered, her voice smaller than usual.
"Oh. Baby that's easy." He mumbled and sat beside her, scooting his chair up closer to her. Asia held in her breath as his body heat radiated onto her skin. Cassius picked up his pencil and started to write. "The length of this side is 2. So the other sides are obviously 2 too. So all you have to do is cube the number 2. And you get, what?"
"Huh?"
"What's 2 × 2 × 2?"
"4?"
Cassius placed the pencil down and looked her in the eye. Slight presperation formed at her temple, she was so nervous and scared. "It's eight Asia."
