“Really?”
Tanya sucked her teeth and pushed Kevin aside as she got back in Joy’s face. Joy smiled. Tanya punched her in the face, catching her on the side of her right eye. Something in Joy snapped. You couldn’t tell that she never been in a fight before. She grabbed Tanya by her hair, bringing her head low, as she kneed her in the face. She heard a crunch and knew she broke something. Tanya fell to the ground and Joy let her go.
Kevin reached down and helped Tanya to her feet. Her face was covered with blood and her nose was crooked. It looked like it was broken. Kevin winced when he looked at her. He leaned her against the wall. She wept, holding her nose and staring at Joy like she wanted to kill her while she kept her distance.
Tears rolled down Joy’s face. It wasn’t because of pain; the punch Tanya threw stung her face and swelled the right side of her face. It was because she was angry at Tanya for being with Kevin and then having the nerve to put her hands on her.
“I should take you two to the hospital to make sure everything was alright with yall and the babies are okay.” Kevin shook his head and grabbed Tanya’s arm. He led her down the steps and to the car. Joy followed behind them. At the car he opened the back door for Tanya to get in. She looked at him like he was crazy but got in. Joy opened the door and slid in the passenger seat with a smile on her face.
Chapter 10
“Can I help you?” the guard at the desk at Einstein Hospital asked.
“Yes. These two need to be looked at. They were in a fight and umm they both pregnant.” Kevin said really fast.
The guard looked at him as if he wanted to say something but didn’t.
“Both babies aren’t mine, so you can stop looking at me like that.” he clarified
“Okay.” the guard said holding both hands out in front of him. “Jeff, can you bring another wheelchair,” he said into his walkie-talkie.
Another guard came form the double doors on the side with a wheelchair, placing it beside the one already there. He motioned for Tanya and Joy to have a seat. Kevin pushed Joy and Jeff pushed Tanya. The first room they came to Joy was rolled in. The one next to it was Tanya’s. A nurse came in and told them both to get undress and put on the gowns that were on top of the bed.
“Do you want me to step out?” Kevin asked Joy.
“You done seen it all before. But you might as well go in there with your girlfriend.” she said, dryly.
“She’s not my girlfriend. She….”
“Yeah? She was at you’re apartment, calling you daddy n shit.” Joy said cutting him off.
“It’s not what you think.”
“What is it then? You know what I don’t care. Where is the damn doctor?”
Tears rolled down her face. She heard the doctor next door talking to Tanya. Thinking about Tanya and Kevin together made Joy angrier. She wiped her face with but her face became soaked again half a second later. The nurse came in, handed her a cup. “I need a urine sample. The bathroom’s on the corner.” she said and left back out.
Joy swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood up. She grabbed the sheet off the bed and wrapped it around herself. She walked pass Kevin without saying anything.
When she finished in the bathroom, she went back into the room. Kevin was gone. Joy stuck her head back outside of the curtain and looked left then right, nothing. She went back to the bed to lay down. She placed her hand on her stomach. A funny feeling spread across her stomach and she felt something move. She had denied the feeling in the past but now she knew that it was a baby.
The nurse came in and drew three tubes of blood. She then placed an IV in Joy’s arm. “These are fluids so you don’t get dehydrated,” she stated before she left.
She couldn’t believe how different everything was. As the months went by she lost more and more of herself and she didn’t even know who she was anymore. The tears started again, just as Kevin came