Life’s Tough
Maurice Johnson
The Argument’s
“Jamie hurry up” Laura screamed “aunt Bert said we only have fifteen minutes to get to the church or else she is coming to get us and it wont be a pretty site”
“Hush up and be patient or I will make us late on purpose” Jamie shot back. “Besides you aren’t the boss and I told I was coming so hush or I will hush you my self”
“ring-ring” the telephone rang.
“I got it” Laura said “ hello, yes well she is taking forever and I told her what you said but she wont listen to me she’s still moving slow as a turtle. Ok I’ll tell her. Oh wait can I go to my friends house after church she was wondering if I could come over after to go to there night service at there church. Ok thanks bye” she quickly hung up the phone and ran up the steps to check and see if her sister was ready. To her surprise her sister had just got out of the shower.
“What! You’re just now getting out of the shower?” Laura questioned her sister.
“Yeah so what? You said we have fifteen minutes right” Jamie said gradually getting louder. “Besides I aint going anywhere stinking so you need to keep your mouth off of me and leave my room so I can get dressed.”
“Well let me tell you something. You are always making me late for church and its only two blocks away and sometimes you act like you don’t care whether you get saved and go to heaven or not. So now you know why I am always on your case it’s because I don’t want my sister to go to the place where you burn for eternity.” Laura said with a serious tone and look on her face, both of the girls sat in complete solemn until Jamie got up.
“You know what I am so tired of you; all you do is sit around here and judge me. When you need to be getting yourself together. You need to just shut your mouth.” Jamie said as she was pointing her finger and rolling her neck at Laura. They both just stood and no one said a word for about fifteen seconds.
“Just get ready to go” Laura said with a quite voice. She could not believe what her sister had said to her just now. So she just thought ‘I know she is a little right and I have been on her case a lot lately. She just doesn’t seem to understand that I only do it because I care’. So after Jamie got dressed and got rid of her little attitude we headed for church in complete silence.
When we arrived at church the praise team was already on there post singing a song called ‘Father Help Me’
“~Father Father help us we need refind you. With out you in our life we seem to come unglued. My Heart sings your praises and my mind seeks you, so my brothers and my sisters we will sing it all to you”. They sung their hearts out.
“Yall are ten minutes late please tell me why”? Their aunt questioned in a “wanna be nice voice”.
“Well when you called I told you that Jamie was taking forever, and when I got off the phone with you she was just now getting out of the shower, then we got into a little argument, then she took about five minutes to get dressed, and that’s basically all.” Laura said running out of breath. One really weird thing about Laura is that when she is telling a story she never takes a breath.
“Is this true Laura” Aunt Bert asked in gradually raising her voice.
“Yes and no. Cause she is not even telling the whole story. Ok yes we were arguing only because she is always on my case. So I told her she is always judging me and that instead of judging me all of the time she needs to be getting herself together. And then she started rushing me to get ready and I told her to shut her mouth. That’s all” Jamie said looking like she was about to cry.
“Well I am going to tell yawl this one time. The next time yawl are late for church you both will be on punishment. Do I make myself clear?
“Yes ma’am.” We both said at the same time.
After Church Jamie went to her friend’s house and stayed there for about three hours. Aunt Bert and I went out to eat at Golden Corall. After that we both decided that we needed a little bit of sleep before going back to church.
When we woke up we still had about thirty minutes before the night service started; really we only have twenty minutes because Aunt Bert likes to be at church ten minutes earlier, just so she can make sure the pastor has everything that he needs. Just before we went out of the door the telephone rang.
“Honey can you get that for me?” Aunt Bert asked
“Yes ma’am…. Hello. Hey Jamie…. What’s wrong with you? WHAT! Alright we are on our way.”
“Who was that Laura?” Aunt Bert asked.
“It was Jamie, and she sounded really upset and would not tell me what was the matter. She just said just to come pick her up.” I said in a troubled way.
“What do you mean she sounded really upset” she said with concern and a shaky voice.
So we got into the car and drove over three blocks. On our way we saw people sitting on corners drunk. So when we got to the house we honked the horn. No one came out. We honked a few more times.
“Maybe I should knock.” I said starting to feel a bit scared cause my sister hasn’t came out yet.
“Yeah, and if no one answers I’m coming up there and we’re going in there.
“Yes ma’am” I said as I was getting out of the car. I really hope my sister comes out. I am very scared cause I just got into an argument with her this morning. So I went up and knocked on the door. No one answered so this time I started kicking the door and I even put a small dent in the door I kicked it so hard.
“No one is answering” I said to my aunt beginning to cry. So my aunt came up the stairs and busted their door down. We ran through the whole down stairs and we could not find her. So me and my aunt ran to the room where Jamie and her friends usually are. I turned the knob…it was locked.
“Man its locked” I said to my aunt.
“Stand back Laura” She said fuming with anger. So I moved back and my aunt busted the door open and screamed. So I went inside the room and saw my sister laying on the floor bleeding.
“What are we going to do” I said crying and holding my sister at the same time.
“We have got to get her to a hospital” my aunt said with tears raining down her cheeks.
So we pulled her to our car and started driving to the hospital, but on the way we ran into some trouble. Traffic was backed up about two miles because there had been a severe accident on the road. Traffic was only moving about five miles an hour. So by the time we were out in the open road we start going at least seventy miles per hour. When I checked her pulse she was still breathing but very lightly. Then I began to panic.
“Aunt Bert she not breathing well” I said crying my eyes out.
Chapter two
When we arrived at the hospital Aunt Bert and I had to carry her into the building. Luckily when we arrived at the hospital there was no one in line at the Emergency Room. That’s not something you find everyday. So we ran up to the desk. There was a black lady wearing a nurse’s uniform at the desk. She also had a mole on her left cheek.
“Excuse me ma’am but we need a doctor quick” my aunt Bert said.
“Right away ma’am. While I’m getting the doctor can you tell me what the problem is.” The nurse said with a very worried face.
“Look ma’am there is no time for that I need a doctor fast.” My aunt said with a rising temper. Just as soon as she said that about four people came in with a stretcher and they put Jamie on the stretcher and took her into a room. While they were inside figuring out what was wrong with my sister me and my aunt just waited in the waiting room right down the hall. When I sat down in the chair I began to pray. ‘Dear God, Please don’t let me loose my sister. I know we have arguments and we don’t get along sometimes but we love each other. Please lords just don’t let my sister die lord please. We need you lord.’
“Excuse me Ms. Sessor,” a doctor said knocking out of my thoughts. He was a tall Light skinned man. He had a nice hair cut. And he is about six feet and four inches.
“Yes doctor, how’s my niece, is she ok, is she going to live
“Well we checked her out and to us it looks like she has been raped” the doctor said with a serious face.
“Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, if only I didn’t have let her go to her friend’s house none of this would have happened. Can we go see her?”
“Not right now doctors are still fixing her up. So we are going to have to keep her here overnight. So come back at about 7:00 in the morning and she should be fine ok.” The doctor said with a smile that just seemed like it brightened my day up some.”
Chapter 3
The next day when we woke up we didn’t even think about breakfast. We just quickly took a shower and got dressed and headed out of the door. On the way to the hospital my aunt Bert was just mainly starting to cry again. She told me she was crying because she was wondering who would do a thing like that. She also said that it’s something when you here about someone being raped on the news, but when it happens in your own family it’s very terrifying.
So when we had gotten to the hospital aunt Bert had calmed down. We immediately asked the lady at the front desk which room Jamie was in. On our way to the room we ran into the same doctor we saw last night.
“Good morning Ms. Sessor”. The doctor said with the very same smile that let me know that everything was going to be ok.
“Good morning Mr.…”My aunt said with a questioning face.
“Oh sorry I never did give you my name did I? Well my name is Frank White.” Mr. White said with a pleasant and kind voice.
“Mr. White I’m sorry for being blunt but is my niece Jamie ok?” My aunt said with a very, very serious face.
“Well about that they actually said that not only was she raped but she was also stabbed in the back of her hand. Right now she’s fine and if you want you can go in and talk to her if you would like.” He said with a rising pitch.
“Thank you so much I really appreciate what you and the staff here at Jordan Town Hospital. I really do.” My aunt said slowly walking toward my sister’s room.
So just before I went in I began to talk to God. I said Dear God; I thank you for allowing my sister to live and to see another day. I also thank you for allowing her to be able to see and live through all she is going through right now. Now I trust you that me, my aunt, and Jamie get through this and be able to move on with our lives. When I was finished praying I went into the room with my aunt. Jamie was laying on a bed bandaged up and everything.
Chapter 4
“Jamie baby are you ok” my aunt said looking like she was about ready to cry.
“What does it look like; do I look ok to you”? Jamie said with a big attitude problem. When she said my aunt looked very sad.
“Jamie what’s wrong…” My aunt said; then being interrupted by Jamie.
“What’s wrong, what’s wrong? What’s wrong, I was raped don’t you think I deserve to mad. I can’t believe it.” Jamie said begging to cry. You wanna know something this is the first time in a long time that I have seen Jamie crying. For a few seconds we just sat there quietly and everyone was mainly crying in a silent way.
“So the doctors said that I could come home tomorrow.” Jamie said with a little bit of shock. I know my sister and there is something she wants to tell us but does not know how.
“Jamie I just want to say that I am sorry for always being in your face and being so hard on you but it’s just that life is not a game and sometimes you don’t take life serious and it scares me. You know how sometimes you like to sneak out of the house and go to the club underage, what if someone was to start shooting bullets don’t have names on them and you can easily get shot or even worse you could get killed. So Jamie Life’s tough and things happen to us and sometimes we don’t understand why. But I have learned that what don’t kill you will only make you stronger. God will protect you all you have to do is believe and you will see.” I said to Jamie with tears coming down my eyes.
“I know but when you are always on my back it makes me so mad causes you make it seem like I’m suppose to be perfect when I’m not. You act like you the best and most perfect person out there and you always calling me down. What about what you do wrong, what about other people out there who do wrong? You mess up to and I can prove that.” Jamie said with tears of anger coming down her eyes. I was silent for a second because I did not know what to say back to her so I began to pray once more ‘Lord Jesus, I know my sister feels like I am always somewhere judging her so I am asking you to come in and take control of this situation lord. My aunt cant handle this all by herself lord so just please show us the way lord and I will give you all the glory, honor, and praise and say you did it, in Jesus name I pray Amen’.
“Well Jamie we did not eat any breakfast this morning so we are going to run down to the restaurant on the fifth floor. Do you want anything from down there like an egg sandwich or what?” Aunt Bert said trying to change the subject and to break the silence.
“Yes ma’am. I want a bacon and egg sandwich with juice please,” Jamie said rubbing her stomach and licking her lips.
“ Ok, Laura I want you to stay here with Jamie and I will go and get all of us something to eat because I don’t think I can go another step without eating something,” Aunt said with a funny look on her face. “I’ll be back in about ten minutes and you two please don’t argue while I’m gone ok” Aunt Bert said with a pleading face.
“Yes ma’am” Jamie and Me both said at the same time.
“Look Laura I know you care about me and all but I really need you to just give me some space right now. I’m sorry for being so rude but it’s just that I can’t deal with all of the pressure right now. Man” Laura said with a painful look on her face. “ I just feel so sore and I feel like I have been stabbed one hundred times in my back”.
“Do they give you anything to take like a pain killer or something” I said to Jamie with a curios look.
“Yeah but the nurse hasn’t gave it to me yet so until then I have to sit here in pain”
“Can you just call them and say you are ready to take your pills or something?” I said and just before I could say something else Jamie interrupted me.
“ Well to be honest I really don’t know cause I’ve never tried that maybe I will now.” So Jamie picked up this red device and hit three numbers and said “Hello this is Jamie Sessor from room 307 and I woke up and I’m in so much pain and I was just wondering if I can take my pain killer now….yes ma’am….well my aunt and my sister are here and they came to see how I was doing….ok…five minutes that is perfectly fine…thank you so much…ok…bye-bye” and Jamie hung up the phone.
“ So what did they say?” I said to Jamie as soon as she hung up the phone.
“ Well the nurse told me that someone will be down her to see me and….”Jamie said being interrupted by my aunt.
“ Who’s hungry?” she said with a smile on her face.” Ok here’s your food and here’s your food and here is mine” she said with an even bigger smile.
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