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and we got on. We only had to go up two floors, but in my mind it was taking us forever. I closed my eyes and started praying again. I didn’t open them until I felt the elevator stop on the fifth floor.
    The intensive care unit was all lit up. Family members of the sick and dying were standing around in the hallway pushing coins into vending machines, and talking on cell phones while they waited to see their loved ones.
    Down the hall, I could see Renata and Frank standing outside of a room across from the nurse’s station, and my heart started pounding real hard as we got closer. Even with the seriousness of our situation I was hyped with the anticipation of seeing Gino again.
    But just as they were wheeling me toward his room, Renata peeped us coming down the hall and she rushed over to stand in my path.
    “What’s going on?” I asked, frowning. There was a commotion going on in the room behind her and I peered past her and tried to get a look inside.
    “Is Gino in there?”
    Renata nodded. I didn’t see the cop that was supposed to be standing guard over Gino, but now a bunch of medical people were leaving the room with blank expressions on their faces.
    “What’s going on?” I asked her again. “All them doctors wasn’t in there for Gino, was they?”
    Renata didn’t answer. She just stared at me with a real funny look in her eyes.
    I glanced over my shoulder and barked at the dude who was pushing my wheelchair. “Push me in there, please! Take me in that goddamn room!”
    But Renata stood in front of me like a mountain. She was blocking hard, and I wasn’t having it. I leaned forward to push her out the way, and that’s when the first pain hit me. It was real low in the bottom of my stomach, and it shot out of my tailbone like a ball of fire.
    “Ouch!” I yelped and doubled over, my chest almost touching my knees.
    “What’s wrong?” Renata said. Her eyes went from looking sad to looking worried quick fast.
    “Nothing,” I gasped. Suddenly there was pressure building inside me like I needed to use the bathroom. I pressed my hands to the seat of the wheelchair and lifted my butt up a little bit, trying to relieve the pain.
    Gino .
    “Get outta my way,” I muttered to Renata. I had come to see Gino. Why the fuck was she standing in my way?
    My stomach cramped again. Harder this time. Hard as shit! I needed to use the bathroom, and my whole body broke out in a sweat from trying to hold my bowels in.
    “Renata, move! ” I tried to raise my voice, but I was hurting so bad that all I could do was whisper. “I gotta see Gino. Get out my way.”
    “Please don’t go in that room, Juicy,” Renata said softly. “Gino is not there anymore.”
    “What?” I glanced around, confused. We’d gotten off the elevator on the right floor. The pain rocking my stomach was messing with my head.
    “He’s not in there? Then where the fuck is he?” I demanded loudly. The hallway got real quiet. A few people who were standing around stopped talking and stared at me, but I didn’t give a damn.
    “He…” she started. “He…he…”
    Tears slipped from Renata’s eyes and ran down her cheeks.
    Fear pounded in my heart and I straight wailed.
    “ Renata!!! Tell me where my man is!!! ”
    “He’s dead, Juicy!” she blurted. The words slipped from her mouth and felt colder than the blood that was now rushing through my veins.
    “His blood pressure fell and his heart just couldn’t go on. He didn’t make it, cara . Gino is dead.”
    Grief washed over me in a giant, suffocating wave. It snatched all the air from my lungs. I felt like I was being smothered under an enormous pillow. But then, a searing pain and a numbing dizziness overtook me. I gripped the arms of the wheelchair and trembling, I pushed myself to my feet.
    I staggered over to the doorway, and almost fell inside the room. Wasn’t nobody rushing around anymore. I took one look at the patient, and then that blistering pain shot through me