Make It Shine

Chapter 4

"When we bend our knees in prayer, God bends his ear to listen"

Linda Corbs ran into the emergency ward of St. Phils like a mad woman. This was by far her worst day since her family crisis started. She had gotten back from work late by around 9pm and didn't find Dave. She settled into her favourite chair and prepared a cup of tea which she was eating happily till the phone rang. It was an official State Phone. Oh no! Now what had Dave done. It had been just 3 days since she bailed him from the police so she prayed it wasn't trouble with the cops. With equal equanimity as every time she had to pick an emergency call, she picked the call

"Hello" the deep voice said

"Linda Corbs here" she answered

"Well Mrs. Corbs I'm afraid I have very terrible news" Her heart Sank "Your son, Dave is currently being rushed to the ICU at St. Phils. His Body was found at a gang shootout which appears to have been a party downtown"

Linda nearly slumped on the phone. For a whole minute she couldn't speak

"Mrs. Corbs, you there?"

"Y-y-yes.. I'll be there"

Still half shocked half normal, Linda Corbs rushed out, into her old Sedan and sped like never before to the hospital.

"Hey I'm Linda Corbs" She said running to the Nearest Nurse

"Linda!! Sit over there will you? Your son is in the theatre" the Nurse said motioning to a sitting area

Linda took the seat beside a girl looking in her teens.

"Hi" the girl said

Turning to the girl, Linda noticed she had a black eye obviously from a recent bruise

"Hi" Linda answered

"I'm Samantha Jones, Dave's Girlfriend. We were at the party together. A gang leader form another town came and started a fight. Dave was shot trying to shield me and he got shot. I didn't want him to risk his life, now he might die and I-I-I" She busted into tears

"Sorry Dearie, he'll be alright. Jesus is with him" Linda said hugging her

"I don't believe in Church but let's pray Mrs. Corbs. Let's pray for Dave"

"Okay" and Linda led Samantha into prayer

As they mouthed the word 'Amen', some two men walked up to them

"I'm Detective Ross and with me is Detective Myers, we're here to ask you some questions Miss Jones"

"Okay" and they started questioning Samantha

A Woman walked up to them in a suit obviously in Panic

"Oh My God, Samantha are you okay, are you hurt, what happened" the woman asked interrupting the interrogation

"Im fine Mom, lemme finish this" She replied

"Hi" the woman said leaving them and turning to Mrs. Corbs

"Hi", she answered

"I'm Laurette Jones"

"I'm Linda Corbs"

Just then Samantha jumped into the conversation and narrated to her mom how Dave was almost dying because he was defending her

"Oh my! Your son, he's in surgery oh dear, that's bad. Why do you look so calm?" Laurette Said

"Well, we just committed him to Jesus, me and Samantha so Jesus will solve this"

"You prayed Samantha??" Laurette asked surprised

"Right now if I could I'll pray to every 'God'"

A doctor walked up to them

"Which one of you is Mrs. Corbs?" he asked

"I am" Linda replied

"Should we go to my office or I can tell you right here?"

"We're all together so you can now"

"Well, your son made it narrowly, more narrow than it is for a cow to enter through the eye of a needle. However unfortunately we're not sure he'll regain motor sense because right now he's in a comma"

"Thank Jesus" Linda Said

"We'll move him to a ward where we'll monitor him then you can see him" He said "By the way I'm Doctor Mitch"

30 minutes later, Linda, Samantha and Laureate went into Dave's ward. They prayed and then Samantha and Laurette left. Linda called Pastor, a few friends and Bill after much contemplation.

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Bill Corbs was just about packing his final bags for his move to New York when his cell rang. It was Linda. Oh! What was wrong with her again? Why was she calling him? Angrily he picked up the cell.

"What!?" he asked

"Bill, Dave was shot. He's in a comma"

What! Dave! Shot! This was unbelievable.

"How?"

"The cops are still tryna ascertain"

"I'll be there gimme 2 days" and with that he hung up.

He had introduced Dave to the thug life to hurt his mom. Now even he was hurt and the young man might never have a life. Dave couldn't die. He had to live. He immediately booked his flight to New York. Tomorrow was going to be his last day in L.A. all things being equal.