Prisoner [Part 3]

"Drake, Drake, Drake" Nicki tapped him waking him up. "We're at your apartment block but we have to be quick"

She pulled him up by his arms and let him use her as support. She was thankful his apartment was only on the second floor. The elevator ride was fast and so was the walk to his actual apartment.

"So what are we going to do now?" Nicki sat him down on his bed and helped him undress and lie down.   

"You're going to stay low, if you want anything call or text me. I can't risk loosing you again"

-

Nicki was rudely awakened by her phone ringing. Still half asleep, she patted around looking for her phone and found it on the nightstand. "Hello?" She answered groggily.

"Onika, we've been trying to call you all night! Your brother's in hospital. We don't know what happened but he was shot in his arm"

"I'm on my way" She said and hung up. She turned over and saw Drake peacefully sleeping. She lightly brushed her fingers against his face and placed a kiss on his cheek. He didn't move a little which she was thankful for. She climbed out of his bed and went to have her shower and got changed. Nicki slipped her phone in her pocket and snuck out of his apartment.

~

She reluctantly walked into the hospital room and saw her family surrounding his bed. He was asleep with his arm bandaged up with IV's attached to it. 

"Is he okay?" She asked.

"He's doing okay. The doctor said he lost a fair bit of blood so they gave him a blood transfusion. He doesn't seem to be in a lot of pain, I just thank God he is alive" Her mother replied. 

Nicki nodded and sat down on one of the spare seats. Her parents were talking to each other, leaving Nicki by herself but she seemed to be in her own world anyway. She was thinking of Drake's health and safety more than her brother's, but was she wrong too? Not in her mind, her own flesh and blood tried to kill the one person that understood her and made her feel complete, he deserved to get shot. 

After what seemed like hours, he finally woke up. He struggled to open his eyes but when he did, he looked around the room. He let out a cough alerting everyone he was awake.

"You're awake, are you okay?" His mother rushed to his side. 

"I'm okay ma, can I have some water though?"

"Sure you can baby, come on Robert" She dragged her husband along with her to the hospital cafeteria, leaving Nicki and him alone.

Nicki didn't know what to say to him. "Erm,"

"Come here" Nicki moved her chair closer to his bed.

"I know you know what I've been doing and before you ask how I know, Donte came to see me and told me you got it out of him. My guess is you were with him last night, that's why you didn't come with mum and dad"

"Maybe I was, maybe I wasn't. Why do you care?"

"Because," His sentence was cut short by his parents coming back. Nicki was handed his glass of water and was told to help him drink. She held the straw to his mouth and watched him drink. Suddenly she was full of emotion.

"Mum, c-can you do this please?" She sniffled. Once the glass was out of her hand, she ran out of the room.

"What's wrong with her?"

"I think seeing me in hospital got to her"

~

Drake had been running her fingers through her hair for the last two hours. She came back to him crying her eyes out, this time he had to be strong for her. She was crying so much, she couldn't tell him why she was crying but he knew she would tell her eventually. 

During that time, she cried herself to sleep. He moved her hair out of her face and kissed her forehead. Her eyes opened and she sat up still not uttering a word with puffy eyes and a pale face.

"Are you going to tell me what's wrong?" Drake pulled himself up too, it was hard since he was still a little weak. "Babe?"

"He knows"

"What do you mean he knows? Who's he?"

"Jelani! Jelani knows that I know what he's been doing"

"That's what got you so upset?"

"No! He knows we're together right now, I think he knows I'm the one that shot him!"

"Do you know for certain? I mean did he say he knew that part of it?"

"He didn't have to! I just knew" She said and broke down again.

~

"So what did you find out?"

"Whoever it was must have done this before, no fingerprints or anything. We tried to follow the car tracks but it led to nothing"

"The fuck? Find her and take care of it" He quickly hung up when he heard a knock on his door and pretended to be asleep.

~

"We're going to see Jelani you coming with us or is it still too much?"

"No its okay I'll go see him later, I kind of want to see him by myself"

"Okay baby, I'll see in the morning after work"

"Okay, love you"

"Love you too"

As soon as her bedroom door closed, she pulled out her phone to text Drake.

Baby: You feeling okay? I miss you 

Aubs: I miss you too, I'm better. Went to the hospital to get checked out, they said I've got no broken bones but I should rest.

Baby: I'm glad, wanted to have fun with you but I guess it has to wait

Aubs: Nah don't play, we can still have fun you can just do most of the work

Baby: You hornball. I love you :*

~

Nicki lay naked on his chest. He held her close to him as she slept. Running his fingers up and down the small of her back. He felt content. He had been with a few girls before her but none of them compared. The phrase ride or die chick was thrown around loosely but she really was his and he didn't want to lose her.

"Let me sleep" She mumbled into his chest. "What time is it?"

"Almost 3"

"In the afternoon?!" Nicki jumped up and rolled off of him, running to the bathroom. She quickly tied her hair up and got into his shower. Trying to keep her hair as dry as possible, she washed her body with the shower gel he got just for her. After drying herself, she wrapped the towel around her and went to her overnight bag.

"What you hurrying for?" Nicki pulled on her jeans and threw on her shirt. 

"I told my mum I would visit Jelani in hospital before she gets home from work which is in an hour"

Drake went to the bathroom and came back out in no time, fully dressed and smelled nice. "I'm coming with you"

"No! He can't see you!"

"Yes! We'll face him together"

The ride to the hospital was nerve-wrecking. Drake held her hand the whole ride. The walk to his hospital room was even worse. Nicki didn't bother knocking on the door and just walked in. Jelani was watching TV when they walked in and turned around.

"I see you brought him with you" 

"He brought himself actually" They sat directly across from him.

"I see you got out" He smirked. 

"Says the guy who got shot and is in hospital"

"Shut up both of you. Getting on my last nerve. So what were you going to tell me the other day?" 

Jelani closed his eyes momentarily and spoke. "I care because I remember a woman came to the warehouse and I remember her voice, it sounded like yours but maybe it's my blood loss that fucked up my hearing" He looked at her and squinted his eyes. "Same eyes as well" 

Nicki stayed quiet for a moment feeling his eyes on her before speaking up. "Fine! It was me! I was one who shot you! It was an accident, you almost killed me for saving someone I love. I never knew you could be so spiteful and try to kill him after everything I've been through, we've been through! What would," She wiped the tears falling down her face. "What would you get from killing him huh?! The satisfaction of killing someone, breaking my heart, ending a long rivalry?"

"I never knew he meant so much to you"

"Of course you didn't because you never cared about me, you only care about yourself!"

"You're my baby sister, I obviously care about you!"

"Clearly not enough! Come on, I don't want to be here anymore" Nicki got up and walked out of the room not speaking another word. Drake followed behind her but stopped.

"I hope you realised what you've done to her" He looked at him one last time before going after Nicki.

Jelani sat back in his hospital bed, letting his thoughts take over. Looking at things from her point of view made everything he did to him seem so hurtful. Imagining her doing the same things to his girlfriend killed him inside. He knew all along it was her but he didn't want to believe it, he was hoping when the gang traced whoever it was it would be someone else. The moment she confessed, it was all over for him - He almost killed his sister. No doubt he knew he couldn't fix what he did, all he could do was apologize and try to get along with his sister's boyfriend despite the feud they have or had. The most important one in the situation was Nicki and it took him till now to realise.   

Drake caught up to Nicki and she was sat on the bench outside the hospital. He sat down next to her not saying a word. He put his hand over hers and gave it a light squeeze. She looked up at him and gave him a small smile. 

"What do you want to do now?"

"I'll just go home"

Neither of them spoke on the way back to hers but the silence wasn't an awkward silence. He pulled up outside her house.

"Are you gonna love me forever?" Nicki asked.

"No doubt"

"Promise?"

"Promise"

~

A few years down the road and things started to get better. Jelani finally got out of hospital and decided to get his life together, starting by getting himself out of the gang situation and Nicki finished high school with promising grades that got her her dream job. 

"Well what can I say about Onika? Well she's is the world's most annoying sister. I know we all say we wanted to get rid of our younger brothers and sisters but oh boy the amount of times I tried to get rid of her I cannot even count them on my fingers. Moving on, I remember when I found out she had a boyfriend. I almost went ape on that nig-, I mean guy. I didn't want her to date at all. I broke that up, she was heartbroken but he was douche anyway. And now, she's about to get married. Now you may think that phase where you want to kill your sister's boyfriend fades away but mine never did. When I met Aubrey, I wanted to kill him" Everyone laughed. "I'm being deadly serious. I even tried to" He mumbled the last bit under his breath. "But we get along just fine and if I'm being honest I'm glad you two are together because I couldn't find of a better guy for her. So let's toast, to Onika and Aubrey"

Annoyed myself by writing a story like this, I wanted it to be oneshot but I was told to continue it. I know this is super shit because I had no good ideas for it so I improvised while I was writing. By the way the first part is the italic part is a continuous from the ending of part 2 not her dream.