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You know when something is just plain out rude or shade. You know what you be doing.

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Angel

My leg bounced up and down as Dave and I sat in the waiting room in complete silence. It feels like we've been out here waiting forever for the doctor to update us on Kali.

Ever since she showed up to my door in the state that she was in my nerves and emotions have been all over the place, but the one I was feeling most of all was guilt.

"God David! How could I have been so stupid?!" I whisper yelled, slamming my hand down on the arm of the chair I was sitting in.

"Hey..." He intertwined our fingers and squeezed my hand tight.

"Don't think like that now. This isn't anyone's fault but Miracle's and her boyfriend's. We don't even know what happened yet. Let's just try to be strong for Kali, okay?" His soothing voice flowed through my ears, calming me down instantly.

"Mmkay..." I sucked my tears up as he placed a kiss on my ear.

"FAMILY OF GREER!"

Our heads shot up at the light skin, middle aged woman coming out of the double doors. We got up and met her halfway.

"Hi, how are you? I'm Dr. Grey, Kali's physician. Are you two her parents?" She pointed between the both of us and we both shook our heads no.

"No, but we're the closest thing she has to family." Dave said.

"Can you please tell us what's going on?" I asked worriedly, gripping onto Dave's white Polo tee.

"Oh yes ma'am, of course. Well the good news is that she doesn't have any broken bones or fractures, but the bad news is that she has lots of bruising and she's in a lot of pain... There are definitely signs of struggle, and whoever did this to her may have possibly been trying to molest her."

"Oh God..." I whispered. My knees buckled, but David quickly caught me and held me up.

"Her nose is fine. Her nose may be a little sore, but it's fine. I have to be honest, when I first looked at her, I though it was broken because of all the blood, but the bleeding has stopped. She does have many minor injuries like scratches on her arms and back, busted lip, black eye, and the small knot on the side of her head. Now with her recovery, she should recover just fine. The only problems you should have is her complaining about pain and soreness. She'll also need someone there to look after her at all times, and she'll need lots of rest. But other than that, she should be just fine. Angel, I know that you're work here so I know I don't have to worry. We have her all cleaned, bandaged up, and ready to take home. She's in room 254 and is alert and talking. The policemen should come in shortly to talk to you guys about what happened." We nodded our heads at her.

"Thank you Dr. Grey..." I said. She shook our hands and smiled. "You're welcome."

***

We slowly walked into Kali's room trying to brace ourselves for the current situation. She was sitting up in the hospital bed with her head in her little hands.

"Hey my Chunky Booty..." I cooed to her. Her head shot up and her frown quickly turned into a huge smile.

"MOMMY!" My heart fluttered seeing her kick her legs under the covers.

She slowly stood up, and I carefully picked her up. Me and David placed small pecks all over her cute little face.

"How are you Chunky Butt?" Dave spoke over her giggling. "I'm great now that you guys are here..."

"AWWWWWE, CHUNKY BOOTY!" We cooed in unison with our eyes shut.

We were about to shower her with kisses again, but were interrupted by a knock at the door.

"Oh that must be the policemen. Come in!" Just as I said that, an older Caucasian male and a younger African American male walked in.

"Hey! I'm Officer Joe and that's Officer Daniels. We work down at the NYPD. We got a call about a four year old by the name of Kalifornia Greer with bruises all over her body?" The older white man's thick southern accent bounced off the walls of the room.

"Yes, this is her. I'm Angel Love and that's David Brewster." I said shaking both of their hands.

"David Brewster? As in the owner of Raise The Bar Gym?" Officer Daniels asked with his eyebrows raised.

"Dave? Boy is that you?! Awe man!" Officer Joe chuckled.

"Yeah yeah it's me... How you doing Mr. Joe?" I looked between the two of them with my eyebrows furrowed.

"Do you two know each other?" I asked.

"Yeah... I used to get in trouble with the law so much that the people down at the station knew me by first name basis. He was the only one that believed in me and tried to speak some kind of positivity into my life. The only person down there I got respect for." He said shaking their hands.

"I told you was gonna be something big one day! I saw it in you. I'm so glad to see you turning your life around." They smiled at each other.

"Thank you Mr. Joe..."

"That's good, I'm so proud of you man. I can't wait to tell the guys down at the station. Wipe the smiles right off their crooked ass faces." We all laughed at him.

"But no on a serious note, we're here to get details about what happened to Kali so we can get justice for her, but you know we can't start without someone from CPS here. Someone should be here any min-" A loud knock at the door cut him off.

A tall, black woman in a grey pants suit walked into the room and shut the door.

"Hi, I'm Angela Fullford! I work down at OCFS, New York State Office of Children and Family Servic-"

"Awe, we know who you are Angie." Mr. Joe said waving her off. She drew her head back at him.

"Oh my gosh, they may not know who I am Joe! Has this man been giving you guys problems? Please let me know and we'll get another officer down her asap." She said to me.

"What'd you mean? You gotta be the lady from CPS! You got on a hot ass suit. Who else could you be?" He straight faced her.

"Alright now, you pushing it. Make me call your wife down here." She said, pointing her finger in his face.

"Awe hell, ain't nobody stun her..." He mumbled.

"I'm sorry y'all, I didn't get to get your names." As soon as she shook our hands, deja vu came over me.

I've seen this woman before...

"I'm Angel Love, and this is my boyfriend David Brewster." Her eyes grew big and wide.

"Angel? You don't remember me?! I'm Miss. Ang! I worked with you on your case with your father!" I squinted my eyes at her.

Memories of all those times of me sitting in her office talking to her flooded to the front of my mind. She was such a big help during the time of my case.

I would call her in the middle of the night in tears just because I needed someone to talk to, and she would get out of her bed and rush down to her office.

It was always so easy to talk to her. She said it was the most disturbing cases she'd ever been given. I guess it was that way because she went through some of the similar things with her father as a child.

After the case and everything was over, she gave me the prettiest, pink "Goodbye" card.

When I opened it, a picture of us and a one

hundred dollar bill fell out. The entire right side of the card was taken up by a heart filled message that she wrote.

It explained to me how much I inspired her and how proud she was of me. It also explained to me that that would be my last time seeing her. But as I watched her drive away from the courthouse that day, something in me was telling me otherwise.

"Oh my gosh, hi!" She pulled me into this tight, tight hug.

"I thought I'd never see you again..." I whispered into her shoulder and she pulled away.

"I know I know! I thought the same, but here we are! We'll talk later. Now that I'm here, we can get to the bottom of what happened to this baby and what'll be best for her." She day in the chair that was beside the bed.

She pulled out a notepad and pen from her briefcase, making the officers pull there's out.

"Okay, what is your relationship with her, how did you meet her, and how long have you been knowing her?" She looked at me and Dave.

"You can say we're like a mother and father figure to her. I saw her sitting outside on the sidewalk on my way to work one morning. I invited her into my home and fed her. Ever since then she's been in our lives. We've been knowing her for a few weeks now." I said.

"Oh, so you two aren't her parents?" They all asked at the same time.

"No no no, we brought her here. We live in the same apartment complex as Kali and her biological mother." David said.

"Ohhhh okay, okay. That makes sense... So what happened tonight that made you two rush her here?" Mr. Joe asked.

"Well, me and David were... Um... Playing?" I moved my hands around trying to figure out how to say what we were doing without actually saying it.

"Gotchu, gotchu." Mr. Joe chuckled as everyone nodded their heads.

"And I heard a tapping sound; it sounded like someone was knocking on the door but with their palms. So, I threw on my robe and ran downstairs to answer the door, and there she was... Standing there in her underwear." Dave put his arm around my shoulder, side hugging me.

"What do you think made her so comfortable to knock on your door and no one else's?" Mr. Daniels asked.

"Well, I always told her if she needed me to knock on my door or call my number."

"Alright... I don't think we have anymore questions Angie. You can take it away." Mr. Joe said writing on his notepad.

"Alright, well hi! I'm Miss. Ang, what's your name?" She held her hand out to Kali, smiling.

"Kali Greer!" She shook it giving her a smile back.

"Okay Kaliiii, so how old are you?" "I'm 4!" She held up four fingers.

"Great! I just turned 46." Her words made Kali's mouth drop.

"Wowww, I thought Angel and Dave was old... That's really old..." We all let little snickers out as Miss. Ang nodded her head.

"Yes, that is a little old huh?" She asked while chuckling. "Uhh huh."

"Alright Kali, you, Mr. Joe, and I are going to have a conversation without David, Mr. Daniels, and Angel in the room. Is that okay with you?" Kali looked at us with her eyebrows raised.

"Baby, it's okay." Dave assured her.

"Umm, okay. Yeah, I guess." She said shrugging. Me and Dave walked to the door with Officer Daniels behind us.

"We'll be right outside okay fat mama?" Dave yelled out to her.

"Alrightttt" She replied back. We stepped outside and shut the door behind us.

I sighed and rested the side of my head on the wall.

10 Minuets Later...

All of our heads shot up hearing the door open. Joe and Angie came out the room sighing. She opened her mouth first.

"Okay, so apparently what happened was her mother and her mother's boyfriend, who's name we now know is 'Geo', tried to pin her down and rape her. At first, he was touching her and she was becoming uncomfortable. So, she started to restrain. That's when her mother stepped in and they began to hit her. But luckily she fought back and 'punched him in between the legs' like you told her to. She was able to get away. She described what happened perfectly, and it explained where all of injuries came from on her body."

My heart broke and I instantly became hysterical hearing what she had to go through.

"Oh God..." I sobbed into Dave's chest. Miss. Ang laid her hand on my shoulder

"Angel, Angel listen to me. You two are doing everything you can for her, but the only thing you can do now in this situation is be strong for her."

"I knowww, but I didn't want what happened to me to happen to her..." I cried, shaking my head.

"I know Angel, but God brought her into your life for a reason. Just like how he brought you into my life. You need to help her, take her in, make her apart of your family, adopt her, raise, protect, and love her like you two made her yourselves. These two officers are going to go hurry and get a warrant and arrest Miracle and her boyfriend. There's nothing to worry about. Everything's going to be fine. We're going to let her go home with you two. I'll also be helping you with adoption process and everything else you need. You should be getting a call from Joe and Daniels letting you know that they' in custody. But right now? Take that baby home with you, give her a nice bath, and hold her. Let her know that she has a family that loves her and will never harm her." I pulled away from him and looked into her eyes.

"Thank you..." She smiled at me.

"You're welcome. Now go." She opened the door and pointed to the room.

I wiped my eyes with my hands and stepped into the room. David stayed behind and gave them all of our contact information.

"Angel, I'm not going back home with them am I? Please don't make me go back. I wanna go home with you and Dave..." I saw the tears form in her eyes.

"No no no baby. You're coming home with us. You're never going back there again, I'm going to make sure of that."

"Yay! Mmkay..." I put my hands under her underarms and picked her up.

"When we get home, can we bake brownies?" She ran her finger softly across my Mink extensions.

"Of course baby. Actually, you know who we could call to help us? They make the best brownies ever..." I threw my head back remembering how good they used to taste.

"Really?! Who??" She asked excitedly.

"TT Stephanie. She makes the little fudge ones. I'll call her as soon as we get in the car. Well that's if she can get off the toilet." I pulled at her hospital gown a little and she furrowed her brows.

"What'd you mean?"

"Well that same day we left the water park, her and Uncle JD went to McDonalds, and she's been on the toilet ever since." I watched her scrunch her face up.

"Is she doing the number 2?" "She doing the number 1 AND number 2."

"EWWWW hehehe!" We both giggled at each other. Our laughter died down and she put both of her hands on the sides of my face.

"Umm, are you my new mommy Angel?"

"Of course baby, I'm your Mommy." She smiled and softly pecked my nose.

"Ouchie..." She frowned holding her lip. "Awwww, mommy baby..." I held her onto her body tighter, but not tight enough to hurt her.

"I love you mommy." Her small, sweet voice made my heart fly outside of my chest.

That's her first time ever saying that to me...

"I love you more baby..." I placed a kiss on the top of her thick curly head of hair.

"Alright, who's ready to go home?!" We both looked at the door seeing him standing there with a wheelchair.

"ME!" She shouted with her hands up in the hair. I walked over to him and carefully sat her down in the seat.

"Alright Kali, you ready?" He asked her as we walked away from the door. "Yes!"

"Alright, hold on!"

And with that, she screamed and laughed at the top of her lungs as he pushed her full speed down the hallway.

"David, slow down with her!" I cuffed my hands over my mouth yelling down the hallway.

"ERRRRRRRR!" I shook my head at him screeching while he turned the corner with her.

What am I going to do with my big babies?

Hey y'all! ❤️

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