Broken

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Daija woke up to rain heavily tapping against the bedroom window. Lighting flashed through the curtains nearly blinding her. She slowly stretched then turned over onto her back as she stared up at the ceiling. She didn't smell any food being cooked so she assumed Teala must was at work. She hated when she gets called in early because she doesn't have anybody to wake up to and aggravate. Now she has to either has to cook for herself or just have something simple and ready to eat. She grabbed her phone from beside her then realized she didn't put it on charge last night. "30 percent? Ugh!" She cried out. She sat up and swung her feet off the bed. The temperature must have dropped over night, Daija shivered as she touched the icy cold wooden floors. She walked over to the closet and grabbed her a pair of UGG boots and a jacket that she got from Kevyn. She walked out of her bedroom and towards the kitchen.

Going over to the refrigerator she grabbed the carton of eggs and a box of sausages. That's what she craving plus the French Toast that Teala's makes. She sat everything on the kitchen counter and then started to get everything she needed. It was easy cooking the eggs it didn't take no time for her to scramble those up. She tossed the sausages in the oven then froze as she was starting to attempt the toast. Daija watched Teala make them one morning hopefully she remembers and does it right. Taking a slice of bread she dipped it in the cinnamon batter then laid it carefully in the hot pan.

She stood over it and watched it cook. A wave a pain took over Daija. It was from her chest to her knees. She groaned and walked away from the stove. With every step she took the pain worsen so she just had to stop where she was and fall to her knees. "This can't be." She thought in her head. She cursed aloud as the pain was more intense than anything. She needed to up and get her phone but this is her first time going through something like this so she doesn't know what to expect nor what to do. Daija has been through pain just as close to this and she still managed to be strong enough and pull through that. So she slowly and carefully stood to her two feet and walked down the hall that seemed so narrow to her now. Her breathing picked up once she felt warmth coming from between her legs. Grabbing her phone she dialed Teala's number. Tightening her grip on the phone as it rung she began taking off the shorts and her underwear. She started panicking when she saw all the blood that covered them both. "Girl what you want? I'm at work." Teala answered. "T-Teala. I'm bleeding and.... mmh i'm in pain a-and i'm panicking Teala." Daija cried as she tried to keep calm and take the pain. "Huh? Ok i'm on the way just keep calm and take deep breaths Dee. I think Kevyn's close to you so i'm about to tell him to get there."

"No Teala I don't want him-." Teala ended the call before Daija could get out her sentence. She didn't want Kevyn to see all of this. Then she realized that the food was still in the kitchen cooking. The smell of it burning was starting to take over the house. Tears started to  stain Daija's face as she sat on the floor in front of the bed with her legs propped up and open. In her head she was thinking the worse.  She's going to have her baby in this room and one of them isn't going to make it. Daija yelled out As a first-time mom, she had a difficult time deciding if she was in labor or was this a miscarriage. She had a lot of cramping under my belly, She was told it would feel like very bad menstrual cramps but that's not what it felt like to her. It was much more intense and it was almost all in her lower back. Every time a contraction would come, her lower back would slowly begin to seize up. It was kind of like the muscles inside were slowly twisting harder and harder until it became almost unbearable, and then it would slowly subside. It was still much more painful than she had imagined it would be.

"Daija?!" Kevyn called out as he stormed into the house. He went to the kitchen and looked around for her but instead all he seen was smoke coming from the stove. Going over to it he cut off the stove and took the pan off the eye and sat it on the counter on top of pot holders. "Daija where the hell you at?!" He called out again. With all this smoke in this house and her not responding he was hoping she was alright but damn who knows. He went down the hall to the bedroom and his eyes widened as he looked at Daija who was naked from the waist down and covered in blood. He didn't want to look at that. He didn't mind the blood it was just her. "Daija? Can you get up?" He asked her trying not to look at her nakedness. She slowly and tiredly shook her head. "No." She spoke weakly. Kevyn grabbed a folded blanket from off the dresser and placed it over her. "You hurting?" He asked her. Daija shot him a mean look. "Nah Kevyn. I'm bleeding from my vagina and possibly is about to push a another human being out of it too." She said sarcastically. Kevyn held his hands up in surrender, "My bad."