Michael's POV
I had heard that Shelby was hurt last night, so I decided that I was going to surprise her at the hospital. My family and I still owned our old house in Gary, so we were staying there. Same beds, same set up. I didnt really like it, mostly because the sleepless nights I had spent in that bed of mine.
I woke up early, and hopped in the shower. I got out and put on a simple over sized flannel and black pants. As I was about to leave the house, Janet woke up and said:
"Mike, what the hell are you doing up so early?"
"Oh well, I friend of mine got hurt last night and im going to surprise her in the hospital, you can come with if you hurry up," I said to her
"No its okay, im really tired, go ahead," Janet said
"Okay, oh and tell mother and Joseph, im uhh out sho-" i tries to say
"Its okay Mike, ive got you covered," She said
"Thanks Dunk,"
I got in the back of the car, and told the driver to to go to the nearest florist and get bouquet of tulips. As we neared the shop, I saw a bunch of girls walking to our house with signs. Boy, was i happy id missed them!
The driver got out of the car, took the money I gave him, and went into the shop. I was waiting there, listening to the radio. There was some Modonna, George Michael, and Guns N Roses. All very good artists/ groups of artists. But then my song-Bad came on. It made me happy to here myself singing on the radio. I couldn't help but giggle a little bit at the thought.
"Heres your flowers, boss," My driver Kenny said
"thank you,"
we rode to the hospital within about 10 minutes we can were there. I got out, and surprisingly, no paparazzi or fans-what a relief! I walked in the lobby, and went to the woman that the desk.
"Hello there, how my I help you, Mr. Jackson?" A heavy set woman said-she remembered me from all my visit I made as a child, kinda sad actually.
"Hi, yeah I'm looking for a Shelby Henderson?" I asked, looking around the room, nothing had changed at all.
"Let me check-op! Here we are, that would be level four, room 225," she answered
"Thank you so much," I said, walking to the elevator.
As I got on, a little girl and her mother got on with me.
"Hey mommy! Thats Michael Jackson!!" She said, a wide smile across her face.
The woman was looking at the ground sad, and when she looked at me, she was stunned.
"Oh my, oh my god it is!" She said happily
"Yeah it really is me," I said laughing.
"What happened Michael Jackson? Why are you here at the hospital?" The little girl said
"Oh just a friend of mine, she got hurt last name night, and i wanted to surprise her," I replied
"Oh what's her name? It's a small town ya know? I might know her," the woman said
"Shelby Henderson," I said
"Oh my goodness, you haven't heard?" She said
"No, what do you mean?"
"Last night, Shelby Henderson was attacked by her ex boyfriend with a 50 pound weight to the stomach, like five times," she explained
My face flushed. I didn't know it was that bad, I thought it was gonna cry. I thought she just fell and hurt her arm or foot or something. But who was gonna pay? Her family was so very poor, I just had to help.
"Don't worry, Michael Jackson!! I'm here visit my daddy today! He's battling cancer, and I just know he's gonna win!!" The little girl said
Jesus Christ, this girl looked to be five years old, and she has to go through this, that's so terrible.
"I'm sure he will, just have faith, and tell him I said best wishes," I said to happily
Then the fourth floor came. I waved goodbye to the girl and her mother as they waved back.
225
All of the sudden, I start to get really nervous. Start down the hallway, to see pastor Greg standing in the hallway, pacing pack and fourth. When he looked at me he said:
"Oh son, what are you doing here?" He said confused
"Oh actually I met your daughter yesterday, and when I heard she got hurt, I thought I might surprise her.
"Oh thank you for coming!" He said, pulling me into an embrace as he started crying.
"Is she alright?" I asked
He shook his head no.
"Oh I'm so sorry sir," I said to him, looking down
"She hasn't woken up yet, and I don't know how I'm going to pay for thi-" he started
"No need, sir, I'll pay for it, I insist.
"No, Michael I can't make you do that,"
"But you're not! I want to help in anyway I can, so please, let me do this for you all, for her," I said
"Well then I can't refuse it, oh thank you so so much!" He said embracing me again.
"Shall we go in?" He asked
"Yeah, I wanna see her," I said
She was so beautiful, I just needed to see her, awake or not.
She looked so helpless
She was laying the hospital bed, her head to the side, with a breathing mask over her face. Poor baby, is all I could think of.
"Oh well hello there, Michael," Mrs. Henderson said to me. She was sitting in a chair next to Shelby's bed, playing with Shelby's hair, tears down her face.
"Hello," I said quietly
"Loretta, Michael said he would pay for Shelby's hospital bills!l" Greg said
"oh thank you so much, baby! Shelby said you all were talking yesterday," she said
"yeah, we were gonna meet in the park today, "
"well your here now, and thats all that matters" Loretta said
i giggled
we sat in silence for about ten minutes, just looking at her.
"if you dont mind me asking, what happened last night?" I asked
"Well, apparently Eddie, her ex boyfriend came into her room last night, and hit her in the stomach with a weight about five times. Its done some really bad damage to her stomach and lower intestines, and they dont know when shes gonna wake up. Eddie was taking into custody this morning at about 2am," Greg explained
Horrid. Just horrid
"Yeah, I heard screaming from her room, so I ran up there to see, my baby o the floor holding her stomach, when she passed out. And she was bleeding everywhere!" Loretta said crying
"That's sick, how could he do such a thing?" I said discussed
"I don't know. But they have him locked up now, so there's no need to worry about him now," Greg said
"Shelby told me she was adopted yesterday, and then started to cry, I felt really bad, so I just held her in my arms and let her cry," I said
"Yeah, It all started when Greg and I took a vacation to Canada. It was for our honeymoon. We weren't planning on having kids, but we did-Shelby. We were talking a walk in the streets, when we saw a couple fighting through a widow. The man was yelling at the woman who was holding the most beautiful baby girl. And then, he started to hit her. She bolted for the door, running out. She came running to us and said "HERE PLEASE! TAKE MY BABY! I CANT TAKE CARE OF HER! OH PLEASE!" She screamed, crying, and then she kissed the baby's head, saying "I love you, Shelby," and she gave the baby to me, running away. We didn't know what to do, so we took the baby as our own, and eventually adopting her, she's been our baby ever since," Loretta explained, smiling
"That's amazing," I said
it truly was. how shes gone through so much, and shes only 25 years old.
A/N hope you enjoyed this chapter! its a longer one so enjoy it and dont mind the typos xoxo