Free The Day the Streets Stood Still by JaQuavis Coleman Page A

make sure he found out where Meyer laid his head so he could pay him a visit. It was the least Sean could do to repay Fox for the years he’d taken care of him.
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    â€œWhat? What?” Sean huffed defensively jumping up and touching his gun when the doctor tapped him on the shoulder and snapped him out of his sleep. The doctor stepped back and put his hands up in surrender.
    â€œI’m sorry if I startled you. I’m here to speak to you about your friend . . . um . . . the young lady you brought in,” the doctor explained, his voice quivering a bit.
    â€œYeah, yeah. Sorry, you just caught me off guard,” Sean said, easing the tension in his body while he stretched. He swiped his hands over his face in an attempt to settle his nerves.
    â€œIt looks like she’s going to pull through. She took a pretty bad hit in the chest, but she was wearing a solid platinum pendant that kind of deflected the full impact of the bullet,” the doctor told Sean. “She’s out of it now, but we are going to take her off of the meds that had induced the coma so we could treat her at the time. When she wakes up, she’ll be looking for someone to be here. You can go in now . . . just hold her hand and be there. We find it helps with the healing in these types of touch-and-go situations,” the doctor went on.
    When Sean walked into Adina’s hospital room his legs went slack and he almost hit the floor. “Goddamn,” he gasped, shaking his head. He had never seen so many tubes and machines attached to a person in his life. He walked slowly over to her bedside, his jaw tense and anger welling up inside of him for the people responsible. Sean did just what the doctor said, he reached out and grabbed Adina’s hand, being careful not to move the intravenous line stuck in the top of it, and held it as tightly as he could.
    â€œYou gotta pull through, Adina. You’re the only connection I have left to Fox. He was all I had out here. He was the only person who could show me how to survive. I need you. You have to pull through this,” Sean said aloud hoping Adina could hear him. He put his head down on the side of the bed and kept a grasp on her hand. After a few minutes Sean felt Adina’s hand move slightly.
    â€œAdina?” He raised his head slowly, his eyes wide with excitement. His shoulders slumped when he saw that her eyes were closed and she was still out of it. He went to put his head back down but before he could, Adina squeezed his hand with much more force than the first time.
    â€œYes! I’m here, Adina! I’m here!” Sean exclaimed, excitement welling up inside of him. Although her eyes were still shut, Sean knew she was still with him. He promised that he would wait there as long as he needed to until she got better. He didn’t know it yet, but he needed her as much as she needed him.
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    After two and a half weeks of being at the hospital twenty-four-seven, Sean began going home at night and returning to the hospital during the days to sit with Adina and help her.
    â€œI’m going home today so just give me the release forms!” Adina shouted as Sean walked into her room from one of his trips home.
    â€œBut . . . but . . .” one of the doctors was saying. A group of doctors stood around dumbfounded by Adina’s ranting and raving when not even three weeks ago she had barely been clinging to life.
    â€œBut shit! I’m out of here! I feel better and I’m not sticking around here for all these people to keep coming and asking me questions, poking at me and shit! I need to bury my man with a proper burial and that’s it!” Adina screamed, disregarding the blood starting to seep into bandages that still dressed her healing wounds.
    â€œC’mon, ’Dina, calm down, they are trying to help you,” Sean stepped closer to the bed and tried to comfort her.
    Adina shot him a blazing look.