Just One Of Those Days

Safaree looked at his son and his eyes widened. He ran to him, trying to find the cut where the vast amount of blood was coming from.


"Did he do this to you?" Safaree said gently searching for some kind of wound in his sons head. Eventually he found it, a couple of centimetres from his left temple.


"Lemme get you a towel" Mack shouted running up the stairs to the bathroom. Safaree knew pressure must be put on the cut immediately so whipped off his top in about 1.2 seconds.


"This might sting buddy" he said while pressing the t-shirt onto the cut.


Macaiah could not speak through sobbing. "I think there's glass in it Daddy".


"Glass, How'd you get glass in it?"


By now Mack was on hand passing Safaree the towel. He had also brought down other towels for the numerous small, less serious cuts on Cai's arms.


"I was in the boot"


"THE BOOT" Safaree roared. "HE PUT YOU IN THE BOOT OF HIS CAR?" Safaree turned to look at Drake, intending on beating him until he was unconscious and then shoving him in a boot. But Drake was no where to be seen.


"Where did he go?" Safaree asked, looking at Slim.


"I'm here" Drake said, from behind him. Safaree turned round to see Drake with a gun.


"CAI GET OUT" Safaree shouted, he ran to his son, running at him. Safaree seemed to see everything in slow motion. The frightened look on Cai's face, then Cai turning around to run out of the house. He saw Mack, grabbing at Macaiah's hand, trying to make him run even faster. Then the noise. The sound of the shot went off and Safaree jumped at Cai, smothering as much of him as he could. There was no way he could let his son get shot.


"CALL THE COPS" Wayne screamed. Drake heard these words and ran out of the house. Wayne and Slim tried to catch up with him and ran out. Mack thanked God silently that no one got hurt, burying his head in hands.


"Dad. You get off me now" Cai said trying to get his Dads weight off of him. "Dad? DAD??!!"


Mack looked up at the heap on the floor. "Shit! Cai don't move" He bent down, looking at Safaree who had blood all over him. "Please tell me that's Cai's blood on him" Mack whispered to himself.


"Is he okay?" Cai said, clearly distraught.


"Umm yep. He's just, ummm in shock" Mack said lying through his teeth. By now he knew the bullet must have hit Safaree. He dragged Safaree off of Cai and tried to find his pulse.He couldn't find it and was now getting panicked.


"Cai, i need you to stay calm, and go wait for the police outside" Cai stood there, looking at his limp dad, with blood leaking out of him.


 "He's not alright is he?" Cai asked hoping for reassurance.


"Just go wait for the police. Everything ganna be okay" Mack said, hoping that whoever called the cops asked for an ambulance to.


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An Hour Later.


The ambulance had picked Safaree up and he was being taken to the hospital. Mack didn't quite see what was going on but knew that it was serious. He decided quickly that he would take Cai to the hospital in his car, since Caiah was already distraught seeing his dad unconscious on the floor. Mack had rung Wayne and told him to meet them at the hospital.


"How long is it to the hospital" Cai said through his tears.


"Not long dude." Mack said, keeping as calm as possible for the little boy sitting to his right. He didn't want to make it obvious that he was speeding to get to the hospital, because he didn't want to make it obvious that he thought the next couple of hours could be the last of Safaree's life.


"I better ring ya mom, just to let her know that your Dad's umm passed out."


Cai just nodded and carried on crying. He wished he had been allowed in the ambulance with his Dad because he knew what was going on. Even though everyone kept lying to him and saying that his Dad was fine, it was evident to him it wasn't. He didn't wanna snap on anyone though, because Cai knew they were only doing it for his benefit, but he just wished everyone would stop treating him like a baby.


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With Nicki and Lil Chuckee.


Chuckee had been trying to calm Nicki as much as possible, like Safaree had told him. They were sitting on the couch, watching Judge Judy while Nicki nervously tapped her fingers on the edge of the couch.


"He should be back by now. They both should be"


"Ya know, everything will be fine Nic. Safaree prolly got Cai and they getting some ice cream or something on the way back."


"I wish i could believe you Chuck. But i just have this gut feeling somethings wrong" Nicki was about to expand when her phone went off. Hoping it was Safaree with good news, she jumped up to get it. She frowned when she saw Macks name. He knew she was having a week off of work.


"Hello?"


"Listen Nic, Safaree's had a little accident. I need you to get to the hospital, as quick as you can, but safely. Okay Nic?"


"OMG! Was it a car accident? Is he okay? How do you know? Was Cai with him?""


"Cai's with me. He's perfectly fine Nic, we're on the way to the hospital as well."


Nicki just dropped her phone onto the floor and grabbed her keys, hastily wiping the tears from her face."Chuckee, get in the car, Faree's had an accident"
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In the Hospital.
Mack and Wayne and Cai were waiting nervously outside Safaree's room. There had been about 12 nurses and doctors walking in and out, but whenever asked, all 3 of them were denied access. As another Doctor walked out, looking stressed and reading a long list of notes on a clipboard Cai stopped him.


"Stop the bullshit. Is my Dad going to die"


Everyone was taken aback. The doctor looked at his notes again, to Wayne, to Mack and finally back at Cai. "I can't promise you anything. But there are a lot of people in there trying there absolute hardest to make your Dad okay" The doctor patted Cai on the shoulder and walked off. Cai huffed and walked over to the row of chairs. He buried his head in his hands and cried. Mack and Wayne eyed each other, not quite knowing what to do. As much as they wanted to comfort the boy, and tell him his Dad was going to be fine, they couldn't, because they couldn't promise him anything they weren't sure of themselves.


Wayne went and sat down on the chair next to Cai. He had never even spoke to the kid before, In fact he had never seen him in person before he escaped from Drakes boot, but he knew he couldn't just let this boy sit and cry by himself. He put his arm round Cai and pulled him to him, so that Cai was crying on his shoulder.


"You want anything little dude?"


"Do you know what time my moms ganna get here?" 


"I don't know that. But she wont be long."


About 2 minutes later Nicki and Lil Chuckee ran into the little waiting room.


"Baby!" Nicki cried as she saw her son. "Your bleeding! I thought you said he wasn't hurt?!" Nicki said angry at Mack for lying to her. She took Cai in her arms and squeezed him. 


"Everythings going to be fine Cai. Your Dad's a good man, we just need to pray."


Cai nodded and Nicki patted him in the direction of Chuckee. She had told him to try and distract him from the situation and not let Macaiah get depressed or paranoid.


"Mack? Can i have a word?"


Mack got up and followed Nicki out of the small room, down the hall. As soon as she was out of Cai's eyesight she let her real emotions out. Grasping at Mack's arm she asked, not sure if she wanted to know the answer or not."What happened? Honestly, please Mack."


"Drake shot him. I think he was aiming at Macaiah but Safaree jumped in front of him in time. I didn't think it hit him, i thought everyone was fine. But then i saw the blood and and " Mack started to get choked up just remembering the horrible sight.


"Where?"


"Huh?"


"Where did the bullet hit?" Nicki already guessed the answer. She had seen how many people had gone in and out of Safaree's room and knew it must be serious.


"His head" 


Nicki's eyes closed and she slumped against the wall.


"I'm so sorry Nic."


"Don't be sorry. Just pray with me. Please"


Nicki and Mack sat against the wall in the corrider and prayed. Nicki prayed to God that he wouldn't take away her happiness. She couldn't live without Safaree, her man, her love, her life. She prayed Safaree would live, and that if he did, he wouldn't have any kind of brain damage. She knew Safaree would hate having to depend on anyone for anything, he was way to proud. She prayed that God wouldn't take her sons father away from him. In the middle of her prayer Wayne burst through the doors.


"Nic, the nurse said the next of kin can go in, but no one else"


Nicki stood and walked into the waiting room before going to see Safaree. Walking over to Cai she bent down at the chairs level and asked quietly "Is there anything you want me to tell your Dad? The doctors say you can't go in yet"


"Just tell him i love him." Cai said still sobbing uncontrollably.


"I will. Stay strong for me, and your Dad, lambchop. He would hate to see you like this"


Cai nodded and Nicki walked towards the room the Nurse was standing at. She had no clue what to expect when she walked into the room, but it what she saw shocked her. Safaree lay there, completely limp and lifeless. There seemed to be a million different wires and leads coming from him, and his head was strapped to the bed. For some reason, his eye was swollen and there was dried blood all over him. There was a heart moniter, beeping at a steady rate in the corner of the room, that in a weird way soothed Nicki. She walked over to him and put her hand over his. It was cold, and did not respond.


"Whats wrong with him. Is he in a coma? Why isn't he saying something." Nicki said hysterically.


"Please calm down maam. We are trying to help your boyfriend as much as we can. At the moment he in a stable condition but we had to put him in a coma otherwise the pain in his head would be too much for him to take."


"YOU PUT HIM IN A COMA?!"


"Yes maam, as i said if we hadn't the pain would have been unbearable and he would have died, or gone permanently delusional. At the moment we are doing a brain scan to check if the bullet has hit the brain. Hopefully, the brain will be undamaged and we will be able to try and wake him in 2 days."


"TRY? What the fuck you mean your ganna try?"


"Well maam, when someone is in a coma then its not 100% that they will ever wake up. I'm really sorry but i have to go and look over these brain scans, as soon as i know anything you'll be the first to know." The lady left but quickly popped her head back in. "Oh and maam, we aren't really allowed more than one visitor at a time but i noticed you had a young son, so just this once i'm willing to bend the rules. Just keep it quiet"


"Thanks" Nicki said.


Nicki didn't know what to do. Her hand touching his was soothing, to know he was right there, but at the same time odd, he had never not reacted to Nicki, even at the slightest touch, and it felt so unnatural. Now she just had to make the decision, whether it would be a good idea to let Caiah see his Dad in this state. Would seeing his Dad, on a heart moniter, in a coma, strapped to a hospital bed going to freak him out, or make him feel better that he was at least still alive?

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