Chapter 190The president's building: 7:30 a.m. Essence and Kymoni: “Did you get a text yet?” Kymoni asked for the nine hundred twentieth time. Since they got to the campus. They came early because they hadn't been able to fall asleep the entire night so they decided it was best to head to the meeting so they wouldn't show up late. They didn't want to be the last to come in and have everyone looking at them, especially with Syncere's momma being there. “Kiki we are in here together, you will be able to hear my phone go off just like I will. So to answer your question, no I haven’t gotten a text, a call, a tweet, a DM, an email, nor a Pigeon with a note on its foot.” Essence said, shaking her head. “You don't have to be a smart ass you know I always ask a lot of questions when I'm nervous.” Kymoni said, looking out her window. “I know, I just have a lot on my mind. I have questions and I need to make sure I am ready to asked them when we get in this meeting. Especial
Chapter 191The Conference Room “How are you?” Syncere asked softly. He couldn't be near her now, but he had to know how she was coping. He could see she didn't get any sleep judging by the dark circles around her eyes and how she lost the sparkle that was always reflected in her eyes. “I'm ok, considering I was blindsided with being accused of drugging you by your ex-girlfriend.” Essence said glancing at Jazz who looked like she wanted to murder me, because she could see Syncere was worried about her. “I’m know I am so sor….” “Hello everyone, I am so sorry I am late, there has been some delays. I hadn't gotten the test back from the labs, for Ms. Nelson, but I wanted to go over everything with Mr. Jamison. So your test came back clean there was no traces of the drug in your system. I have decided to allow you to continue to play, while the investigation is ongoing, but you will be tested randomly until the investigation is over. If you agree to those ter
Chapter 192 the Conference Room: Continued “What do you mean what color was your bottle?” “She didn't speak Spanish, you heard what she said, what color was this water bottle you saw her force Syncere to drink?” Kymoni said repeating the question. “Why is that important the point is she saw you do it.” Sharon said once Jazz didn't answer. “It's important, because if she can give detail like that, she should be able to tell me what color my bottle was.” Essence said looking Jazz in the eye. “Ms. Taylor answer the question.” President Harris said waiting for her to answer. “Uh….I…” A knock on the door, the President’s secretary rushed in handing her a folder, and left back out. The President opened the folder and closed it back and looked at Essence. “That was the other part of your test, the reason for the delay was because we had only gotten part of the test results. I now have both results from the bottle and your swab. Looking at both results for your swa
Chapter 193Syncere and Shawn's apartment: “I am so glad that we cleared your name and the real criminal will be locked up and off the streets.” Sharon said as they all walked into Syncere and Shawn's apartment. Shawn's mother walked out of the kitchen hearing Sharon's voice. “Syn, I hope you’ve learned your lesson, you can't trust just anyone. The one person who has always had your back, was the one who was able to save you from those vial girls. I told the captain to call me once he locks her up. Syncere you will have to tell them everything she did to you. You can't be ashamed of what happen to you, you're not to blame. You just need to tell the police the truth, I am sure that she will try and take a plea deal, because there is no way she will be able to get away with this.” Sharon said. “Mom, please just stop, how many times do I have to tell you that Essence didn't do anything to me that night, so just drop it already. I am not going to the police station eit
Chapter 194Game time: “Put my phone down, didn't I say Essi was going to sleep. So you already know she not answering any phone calls.” Kymoni said, taking her phone from Maya. “I know, I know I just wanted to talk to her to see if she was really ok, and plus give me a boost of confidence I need, because I am nervous as hell.” Maya said hands shaking. “That's what I am here for, to make sure yall good.” Kymoni said looking at both girls. “Yea, you just said, it's hundreds of people in here so don't fuck up, that is not a pep talk. Essence would have told us something super motivating to hype us up.” Nyasia said, closing her eyes taking a deep breath. “That literally means the same thing, Essi would just word it differently.” Kymoni said in her defense. Maya and Nyasia looked at each other and laughed. Kymoni smiled seeing them finally get out of their heads. “Remember when the cheerleaders make their move, yall gonna act embarrass, yall going to have to
Chapter 195 Show time: “OH MY GOD! DID YOU SEE THAT HALF TIME SHOW, THOSE TWO CHEERLEADERS DID THEIR THING! IT WAS AN OBVIOUS SET UP BY THEIR TEAM MATES, WHICH WAS A FOUL THING TO DO TRYING TO EMBARRASS THOSE GIRLS LIKE THAT! BUT THOSE GIRLS TURNED AROUND AND STOLE THE SHOW! THEY EVEN BROUGHT A FRIEND ON TO THE FLOOR! SHE STOOD RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE SQUAD AND MADE THEIR ROUTINE LOOK LIKE A TODDLER MADE IT UP! THEN SHE ENDED IT SHOWING HER BALANCE AS SHE LIFT HER LEG SLOWLY THEN STUCK A BIRD AT THE ENTIRE CHEER SQUAD AND DROPPED INTO A SPLIT! THE CROWD WENT CRAZY! THAT WAS THE BEST HALF TIME SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN! I CAN TELL YOU ONE THING AFTER TONIGHT THEIR MAYBE TRYOUTS TO REPLACE THE ENTIRE CHEER TEAM!” The announcer said, over the loud speaker. He knew that no one heard him because the crowd was yelling and banging on the bleachers. He figured he would post the winners of the competition in the school’s website and on the school’s social media pa
Chapter: 195Sunday, 9 am: Jazz's Dorm room: Syncere and Jazz: “Hi Momma Jamison, yes, he's here, He called me from the bar late last night he had too much to drink and told the bar tender to call his girlfriend. I brought him back here because he said he didn't want to go home. Ok I will make sure he gets to the Luncheon on time. I was just about to wake him up we had a long night.” Syncere heard through the fog in his head that was pounding. Why did that sound like Jazz, he asked himself trying to open his eyes. When he manage to pry one of his eyes opened the sun nearly took him out, and he groaned in pain. “Oh baby, wait don't try to open your eyes, I got some pain pills and juice for you. I knew you would have a major headache once you woke up so I made sure I had pain pills ready for you.” Jazz said getting on her bed, putting the pills in Syncere’s mouth, then let him drink the juice. He was still trying to fight through the fog of liquor that clou
Chapter 196Unknown location:10:00am Sunday morning:Essence and Unique: “Oh God, did I get drunk last night, why does my head feel like I kissed a sledge hammer?” Essence groaned, and tried to open her eyes, but gave up when she saw the sun was being disrespectful. She tried to lift her hand and realized that she now only had one hand or her hands were tied together. Then blurred memories flashed through her mind making her head hurt even worse. “Hey, baby you're awake, I was starting to worry that they gave me a stronger dose then I asked for.” Essence heard from someone right next to her. She frowned and opened her eyes to look at a smiling Unique who was lying next to her with his shirt off. That's when everything came back to her in an instant and so did her anger. She lift her tied hands and punched him in the face with all her mite. “MOTHA FUCKA, YOU DONE LOST YOUR MOTHA FUCKING MIND! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU! Essence yelled hoping like
Chapter 237Back inside the hospital: “Where is she? Where is my baby?” Eula, asked her sons as they filed into Essence's room. Once the air was cleared, the nurses came and escorted them back to Essence's room. They didn't have any answers to give her about her daughter. They were all trying to grasp what had happened, the janitors were cleaning up the mess and patching up the window Big C shot. “Momma by the time we got to her, she…. She wasn't… She wasn't breathing. We don't know for how long, we don't know anything at this point, all we know is that we weren't prepared for this kind of open attack. Once we got to her, we carried her down to the ICU floor and Doctor Angelic took her into surgery.” Kain said, as tears fell down his face. Shawn and Kymoni came through the door, Kymoni was looking lost like she didn't know where she was, she was silent, but her tears were flowing unchecked down her face, as Shawn guided her to a chair in the corner
Chapter 236The Hospital Enterance “Unk, there are two heading to the parking garage, leaving from the access elevator. Can you guys try and cut them off. Be prepared one of them has tear gas, more than one canister, it looks like that have an unlimited amount. There could be more men lying in wait, so keep an eye out.” Big C said in his ear piece. “Don't worry about these old fools, we have endured shit more lethal than tear gas.” Uncle Bubba said. “Just because we have endured it don't mean we liked it. Tear gas ain't fun, our eyes were red for a month when those cops sprayed us down with tear gas at that protest.” Uncle Ron said to his brother. “Would yall be quiet what’s the use of trying to sneak up on them and not letting them know we're coming, if yall going to run your mouth the entire time.” Their Uncle Junior whispered yell as he checked his guns making sure the safety were off his guns. “Just, cover your faces if they have tear gas let's expect them to toss them
Chapter 235Getting to Essence: Continued The pain instantly grew, causing Syncere to pause and try to cover his eyes. Then the first shot echoed in the air giving everyone pause. Big C and his brother all pulled their weapon immediately and took cover. Big C knew they had to find a way to even the playing field. He pointed at the windows in the hospital and fired six rounds, breaking the windows. The instant the windows broke the fog was sucked out almost immediately. As soon as he looked at the sprinklers, Martrice had already turned them on, he was behind the nurse’s station using his Hi-tech watch. He loved that his family knew what to do without him saying a word. When he looked again, he was able to see the armed men moving as a unit trying to block their path to Unique. He also saw Shawn running towards them with Kymoni covering Essence protectively. He knew he had to get his sister help, they didn't have time to fight this battle. Essence wasn't brea
Chapter 235 The VIP Floor Getting to Essence: “TEAR GAS EVERYBODY COVER YOURSELVES!” Kain yelled being the first to recognize what it was. They were all force to cover their entire face walking blind. The brothers had all been tested with tear gas in training and although they handled it better than anyone it still left them blind. “GET TO MY BABY, OH GOD WHERE IS SHE I CAN'T LEAVE UNTIL I KNOW SHE'S OK!” The all heard Eula scream, as someone tried to get them into one of the room where the gas wasn't. “MOMMA JUST GO WE WILL GET ESSENCE!” Kristian said, not knowing if he was lying to his mother or not. Big C pushed his mother and aunts into the closest room closing the door. He ripped his shirt off exposing nothing but pure muscles. He was a big man with not an ounce of fat, he was all muscle. People thought he was a gym rat, but he never stepped foot in a gym. No one could explain how he got a body like The Rock, when he doesn't even have a membershi
Chapter 233 The Hospital Showdown Continued: “Yall go ahead and stop coming this way, so just back the fuck up. Don't make me put a bullet through her chest and not her back this time. Please don't test me, because you already know what I'm capable of.” Unique said shoving Debra who cried out in shock. “Shut the fuck up bitch!” Unique said hitting her in the back of the head with his gun. Debra screamed but kept pushing the bed, she was trying not to make any sudden moves. “Please, just let my baby go, I will not try to come after you, just leave her here. She is too fragile to be going through this, I promise my family won't come after you if you just leave her here.” Eula said with her hands stretched out towards Essence praying that this man just let her go. She couldn’t bare it if he took her while they were all standing there. “Well Mother-n-law I'm afraid I might not be able to do that, because I am sure someone has called the cops and your family have
Chapter 232 Syncere and Shawn's apartment: “FUCK! WE GOTTA GO!” Syncere said rushing out of his room. Shawn and Kymoni were at our dining table eating a sandwich, while our parents were still there, sitting in their living room. Kymoni looked up at my face and saw the fear, and knew it was about Essence. She was afraid to ask any questions, she just got up grabbed her bag not bothering to put her shoes on as she went to the door. “Wait, son what's going on? Where are you going?” It's Essence somehow Unique got into the hospital and got to Essence. I knew something was wrong, I felt it when I was on the elevator, I knew I shouldn't have left. Fuck!” Syncere was saying as he looked for his keys. He knew they were in plain sight but he was so worked up he couldn't think straight. “Son, you need to calm down and take a breath. Why are you so in a rush to get back. That Unique boy is obviously dangerous, I don't think you should be going there, her family is
Chapter 231A few minutes early: “Hey isn't that Essence's nurse, I thought she was her head nurse or something like that" Kain asked as they got off the elevator, Martrice needed to check a better internet connection. He decided he would stay on the first floor because then internet connection was excellent on that first. He looked up at the nurse in question and frowned. “You're right, she was supposed to be with Essence full time. So she should be with Essence during these test. So what the hell is going on.” Martrice said as he began typing on his laptop. His alarm went off when one of the cameras he had installed on the ICU floors went off. He pulled up the footage and saw man holding his head down, like he knew where the cameras were and avoided them on purpose. A few seconds later the nurses’ station alarms went off in Leah's room. Martrice looked back at his laptop and watched as the man went into the rest room and came back out wearing different clothes.
Chapter 228Essence's room: “Alright folks we have Ms. Nelson settled and ready for her scan, you all can leave we have a special team coming in to do the test. Once we're done you will be paged to transport the patient back to her room. So please have someone on standby that can cover your patients until you're done.” The Financial manager said to the nurses. “Uh excuse me, I’m the nurse in charge of Ms. Nelson, why wasn't I inform that a special team was coming to do the test. Also I am required to stay with the patient, since I am the nurse in charge of Ms. Nelson's care.” Nancy said after the other nurses left. “Nancy there has been a change of plans, the family has requested the best people to test her. They have their own nurse they plan to use, you can head back to the VIP suites and wait for the call that the team is done testing.” “How about I wait here for the other nurse to get here, so I can pass along the notes about the patient. This is a
Chapter 229 Syncere and Shawn's apartment: Continued “Oh hey Kymoni, I didn't see you until just now. How’s your friend doing?” Briana asked with a smile on her face, she wondered why Kymoni didn't tell Shawn about their little talk in the hallway. Kymoni eyes held a comment full of cuss words, but she was trying to not let her mouth start some shit. “She’s, unconscious and they’re doing more test to find out what their next steps are. But I'm sure once this is over, she will be fine.” Kymoni said, her voice trembled a little bit as she talked, Shawn noticed and pulled her close. Susan's smile faltered a little bit, not use to seeing Shawn care for another woman. She only ever saw Shawn treat Briana with such care, so it was strange seeing him do that with someone while Briana was only a few feet away. “Shawn, I heard Syncere say he's missing a couple of games to spend at the hospital. Are you planning to do the same thing?” Susan asked, still not