Kendrick's POV
After that Much Needed quickie Cam and I feel asleep , and Woke Up Hours later to his Phone Ringing off the Hook . It was his mom calling Back to Back , He thought it was a good idea to Ignore Her , I mean I only Knew her for a Couple of days and I knew that was a Bad Idea , Just look at the last time you avoided her phone calls , she showed up at the Door . So While He was in the bathroom , I grabbed his phone when It started ringing and Answered it , She sounded Pretty Hysterical when she asked for Cam , I handed Him the Phone and he started Going Off About Not Wanting to see Carlos , and She should Drop it . Then All Of a sudden his he got quite and this Look Of shock just took over his face . He shook his head side to side , and Just stood there with this Blank Face , I could tell something was Wrong . He Hung the Phone up and sat on the Bed without saying anything he Just laid back Looking up at the ceiling .
Kendrick: Everything Ok ?
Cameron: ...........
Kendrick: Cam , Cameron
I Got up laid across him , and He still didnt look at me .
Kendrick: You Ok ? What ya Mom Say ?
Cameron: Carlos was Involved In a gang Fight , A bunch Of Dudes Jumped on Him
Kendrick: Is He Ok ?
Cameron: I dont Know , he's Being Prepped for Emergency surgery Right Now
Kendrick: You wanna Go to the Hospital ?
Cameron: Naw Im Good
Kendrick: Cam ,
Cameron: What
Kendrick: So You Just gone sit here while yo Brother have Emergency Surgery , When Its Emergency surgery Its Usually Life or Death .
Cameron: Well what difference Am I Gone make , Im Not a Surgeon Or Doctor , I cant Help Him
Kendrick: Ok then Be there For Him , For Your Family
Cameron: Im Tired , and I got to study
Kendrick: Dont Do that , He's Your Brother
Cameron: You Always say that Like its Suppose to Mean something , he Aint Been a Brother too Me in a Long time Did you forget what he Did to you , TO ME
Kendrick: No I didnt , and thats why I know He Needs You , Not to Long Ago I was In a Dark Room , Not knowing if I was going to make it out alive , Feeling alone , So I know How it feels to Need somebody there , Go Be there for Him , If Not Him at Least For your Mom and Dad .
He Just layed there and Pushed me off him , and sat up . He Rubbed his fingers threw his hair like he was really making a Important Decision . I just sat behind him Hoping he would make the right decision and Not let his Anger towards his Brother Cloud his Judgement . He turned around and looked at me .
Cameron: I'll go but you gotta Go with me
Kendrick: Ok
We Change Jump in the shower and Change Clothes , Since he was In his Thinking Mode which is basically Focusing on One thing and starring at it , I figured it was best that I drive us to the Hospital . The ride there was silent , He didnt say anything he just starred out the window , Once we made it to the hospital , we got in the elevator and I could visibly see him shaking , I grabbed his hand and leaned on his shoulder , the doors Open and I let Go of Him , as he walked out the elevator towards his Family , his Mom was Hysterically Crying while his dad held her and stroked her hair , Surprisingly Mr Carl wasnt that bent out of shape , I guess I see where Cam gets his way of dealing with things like this . I took a seat a couple chairs Down from them Just to give them Space . A Couple Minutes passed by and the Doctor came out to Explain what was going On with Carlos .
Doctor: Mr and Mrs . Evans , Doctor Shaw .
Carl: Yes
Rita: How Is He
Doctor: Ok Theres Good And Bad News , Which would you like to hear First
Carl: Good News
Doctor: Good News , Is Your Son Is stable , the Surgery went without Mishaps , He Is In the Recovery room Doing Just Fine
Carl: Bad News
Doctor: Your son Suffered from an Orbital Fracture , Most Commonly known as an Eye Socket Fracture , Normally this isn't such a Bad thing , But the Guys did a Pretty Good Number on Your son's Socket ,
The Doctor Pulls out Xrays and shows them to the Family , Mrs Rita Broke down in tears and Mr Carl just Put his head down .
Doctor: there's More , The Bone Broke Into Many Pieces , From the Fatal Blows and Kick to the Area . Shards of the Bone actually Punctured your Sons Eye .
Carl: What does this Mean
Doctor: this Means , Your Son Could Possibly Be blind In his Right Eye
Rita: Nooooo Nooooo
Carl: What are the Chances he Wont be
Doctor: Very slim , Im 95 Percent Chance His right Eye would Be inoperable
Carl: Thank You Doctor , When Can We see Him
Doctor: the Nurse will be out here and soon as He awakes and then You Can See him .
Carl: Thank You .
The Doctor Leaves , and Mrs. Rita is Literally Breaking Down , My Heart Strings were Literally Being Pulled , I felt so bad for this Family , Just seeing Her Cry and the Look in her eyes . It made me feel responsible . About an Hour and a Half Went by before the Nurse Came out and Finally Told them they Could see him Now , Mrs. Rita and Carl Went In First Leaving Cam And I in the Waiting room . It was very Quite , and Awkward , I really Didnt Know what Was going threw me , I was so Confused right now , I scooted down to the seat Next to Cam .
Kendrick: You Ok
Cameron: Im Ok
Kendrick: You su......
Cameron: Dont Ask me Am I sure , I said Im Ok
Kendrick: Ok
Kendrick: I think I should Drop the Charges
Cameron: WHAT
Kendrick: I mean look at whats Happened . Your Brother's In the Hospital and He probably Wont be able to use his Right eye For the Rest of his life
Cameron: And that Has Nothing to Do with Why He's In jail
Kendrick: It has Every Reason Why , Maybe I should Just Dropped the Charges , I think He Payed Enough , For Attempting to Rape me .
Cameron: No
Kendrick: No ? Cam Your Brother Just Got the Living S***t beat out Of Him and You want him to go back to Jail ?
Cameron: He Needs to Pay for what He did
Kendrick: He Did Pay , he's Laying in a Hospital bed with a Fractured Orbital .
Cameron: Thats Not enough
Kendrick: Not Enough ? What Do you want The Death Penalty , Look It Happened to Me so I think I'll be the Judge and say When Enough is enough
Cameron: Why are you trying to Protect Him ? You Not Dropping No charges SO Just Drop this Conversation . Im Done Talking about It .
He Gets Up and walks over to the Window , I throw my Hands up and Sit back in my Chair . a Little While after Carl and Rita came back out and told cam that Visiting hours Were almost Over and he Should Go back Before . I sit in the Corner trying Not to look at his Parents , I couldnt face seeing them Like that , They were actually good people and I Kinda Like them . So I felt Guilty For whats Going on , I know I shouldn't But I Just Did . I could Hear Rita Crying and Carl telling Her it was going to Be ok . Before I knew It a tear actually Fell Down my Face , I wiped It away and walked down to where they were sitting , I stood in Front of them , Carl Looked at me , and Rita took her Head from his lap and looked at me with tears in her Eyes .
Kendrick: I wanna Drop the Charges
Carl: You Dont Have to Do that Son
Kendrick: No I want to .
Rita: We Cant Ask you to do That
Kendrick: Your Not asking Me , Im Telling You I want to . Its gone to Far This is Too Much for me .
Carl: Are you Sure ?
Kendrick: What Your Son Did to Me Traumatized me for some time , But Eventually I forgave and Forgot . I Just want to Move on with Your Other son thats It .
Rita: Thank You
Carl: Your A good Kid , Im glad My Son Found You
Rita: I'll Have the Paper Work ready For you to Sign , and Of Course Your Check , whatever you Want Just name it
Kendrick: I dont want your Money , I just want you to Keep your Son Away From us
Rita: Ok , Im Really Sorry For what He did to you , And It takes a Strong Person to Forgive , and What you Did for Us tonight I will never Forget and I will make sure He Never Forgets .
Kendrick: Thank you
I take My seat , and patiently Wait for Cam to Return .
Camerons POV
As I walked Down the hall , it was Like everything was Moving In slow Motion , The Nurses Faces as they watched me Walk Past , the Words On the Walls all seemed Like a Blur of Color . The Sounds seemed to Be amplified , the Beep of the machine Felt like it was Embedded into my ear Drums , The Nurse Pointed Me to His Room , I stood in front Of his door For what Felt Like an eternity Until I finally Pushed the Door Open , I was***t with a Rush Of Cold Air From the Door I could see Him laying there . With each step I took Closer to Him my heart race Increased , I was Nervous , Angry and Afraid all at the Same time . I was Nervous Cause I Dont Like Hospitals , Angry at Him Still , and Afraid to See him in his condition . I walked Over to His bed and stood over him . Almost Immediately Every Emotion I had Disappeared , I Just stared Down at him , His face was Badly beating and his Right side of his faced looked Like a Swollen Watermelon , His eye wasnt Even Visible . I felt My Knees getting Weak so I sat in the Chair Next to the Bed . Out Of Nowhere I Just became Angry , Angry at Myself for Letting This go down between us , Angry at Him For what he Did to Kendrick , And Angry at the Guys Who Did this To My Brother . Even tho I hated Him , He was still My Brother and Nobody F***ks With my Family , I wanted to Drive my Car threw that Jail and Find each and Every One of them Pussies and Do a Buck Fifty On they face . I Just Stared at him , thinking of How He must have Felt to Be Brutally beaten Like that and Have No One there for him , I wonder did he Feel like I did when he Hurt me , Or When He Tried to Rape Kendrick , Now Once again My Emotions were Mixed Just that Quick I was angry at Him again . Out Of the Corner of my eye I could see His Finger Move , My attention Immediately focused On his Moving Hand . For A good Lil Minute I just stared at his Moving Hand , His Fingers were Even Bruised , I guess he didnt go down without a fight somebody got a Black Eye . I looked away From his Hand and Out the Window , I Knew What He wanted , He wanted me to Hold his Hand , He wanted to Apologize make things right , But For some Reason I couldnt , I couldnt Give him my Hand . I was too hurt , I felt Like Forgiving Him would be Stupid Of Me , I would Be a Fool to get Burned by the same Iron 3 times , twice was enough for me . I sat there looking out the window trying to block out the movement of his hand , But My eye Kept catching it , My leg started shaking up and down in a Fast pace . I really Didnt Know What to Do , I didnt Want to Forgive Him , I didnt Want to reward him For all the bad things He's Done , I didnt Want him to think that He could Do everything He did to Me and I would still Be there , True He was My Brother and at one point I was My Brothers Keeper , and As Was He . But that was a Long time ago The Man Or should I say Boy Laying in that Bed wasnt My Brother It looked like him , talked like him , Walked like him , But It wasnt Him . The Guy that I grew up Idolizing Was gone , Replaced by a Coward , A snake and Fake . As Much as I wanted to Walk away , get up and Leave that Room , I couldnt because For some reason , Some Crazy Unknown Reason I Thought there was Some Piece Of My Brothers Still Left in there , Even If It was a Little Spec , he was still there . I felt my Hand Moving closer to His , Our Fingers touch and I felt his Hand Grip mines , and A tear Feel Down My face Followed By a few More . I wiped them away with my other Hand . the Nurse came and Knocked on the Door and said Visiting Hours are over , I Wiped away any Sign Of tears and Freed my hand from my Brothers Hand . I practically had to Rip it Out of his Grasp . I slightly Punch him in the chest and turned and walked out of the room , I made sure Everything was ok before I walked back into the Waiting Room .
Rita: Honey You Ok
Cameron: Yea Im fine
Carl: How was He
Cameron: he was Sleep , Which Is what I need to do , I got a Big test in the Morning
Rita: Thats ok , Your Father and I need to get some Sleep Ourselves , We Got a Busy Day Before we leave tomorrow
Cameron: Ok , in case I dont see you Guys I love you , have a safe trip *hugs them *
Carl: Love you too son
Rita: Love you Too , the Both Of You
We give Each other One last Hug , and Kendrick and I Leave the Hospital . the ride was Quite Just Like the ride there . I kinda felt Bad since I was Yelling at him Earlier .
Cameron: You Mad at me
Kendrick: No , Just tired
Cameron: You Going Home , Or My Place
Kendrick: I think Im gonna go Home
Cameron: Ok
I Pull Up at Kendrick's Apartment and Turn the Car Off , he Opens the Door , and gives Me a Kiss on the Cheek and Gets out , I knew He was Mad at me For snapping On him , he really Was Only trying to help , I had to think Of something to do to make it up to him , But I was gone have to wait on that Cause I was tired and Sleepy and Still Had to study .
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