Chapter 26

**Okay so for everyone who still reads this story I need to know if you guys want this to be one long story or should there be a sequel? I was thinking sequel but i wanted to know what you guys thought :)! Plus either way those parts are going to be more focused on developing their relationships and waaaay more drama.**

Dontae's POV

I paced outside of Tyler's room waiting for the doctors to finish giving her her medications. I was nervous. Trying to figure out the right words to say when I walked into that room was hard, I was scared out of my mind. Listening to Kayla describe the blank expressions that Tyler gave her countless times made me think about how I would react if i looked at my best-friend and she didn't look the same.

I ran outside at the sight of the doctor beginning to exit her room. It wasn't even hot but I was sweating. I was panicking and I felt like my head was spinning.

I lifted up my shirt and ran my fingers across my stitches replaying that day over and over again in my head. I felt like a mad man because I would not stop until I found at least one of them, unfortunately it wasn't the one that I wanted. Since then my adrenaline is constantly rushing, I've been sneaking away every chance I get looking for Demi and coming up short is an injustice to Tyler.

"Are you okay?" I jumped as my brother placed his hand on my shoulder

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT SHIT!" I screamed. "Don't just walk up on me man what the fuck..."

"We need to talk." He walked towards the parking garage and I followed. He opened the backseat door to one of Big's trucks and we both climbed in.

Big was sitting in the front seat, surprisingly none of his boys were with him. He took a puff of his cigar and looked at me through the rear view mirror.

"How you holding up?" he asked

"I'm fine."

"You're lying." Derek shot towards me

"Fuck you! I don't have a reason to lie I'm good. I swear."

"So then why are you shaking out your socks kid?"Big looked out straight forward out of the window not changing his gaze.

I didn't respond.

"Look kid we found the girl you've been trying to find. We got a few people keeping tabs on her."

"Keeping tabs?! Fuck tabs you should have killed her!"

"Like you killed that boy in the alley?" Derek asked, I turned to him shocked but he didn't meet my gaze, he stared out the window with his jaw clenched.

"Don't worry kid, we're the only ones that know."

"That's what worries me."

"Look, we didn't make a move because of Tyler." Derek then pulled the gun that was for her out of a bag that was under the seat. "She wouldn't even touch this man, if Tyler doesn't want the girl dead then imagine what will happen."

"She'll take the blame for the girl's death, but she doesn't have her memory so why not just finish it?"

"Because," Big spoke up,"she'll be back before you know it. I talked to one of the nurses and her condition should be temporary. Also, we need to draw the girl out. She's smart, she makes sure that she's surround at all times and she only comes out at night. We would need to draw her out."

"The plan is to let Tyler recover, let her make the decision and go from there."

"Guys I...-"

"Dontae," my brother said as he placed his hand on my shoulder,"we're leaving it up to her. Don't go trying to do your own shit. We don't need to take more lives than intended."

He moved his hand and picked the gun up off his lap gripping it tightly. I looked at my once quiet and laid back brothers face, I got a glimpse of his eyes and they were so cold. It's like his soul had left his body too.

"What happened to you bro? This isn't your scene."

He looked at me and cocked the gun back,"They fucked with the wrong family..... Our family."

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I slowly walked into Tyler's room behind Derek. She was laying on the couch in her regular clothes, flipping through the channels on the TV.

Derek flashed her a big smile and gave her a hug. Derek kissed the top of her head and sat next to her. I know they were always close but now I was kind of confused.

"Ty, do you remember us?" I asked raising my eyebrow.

"No, but Derek's been here all morning and we've been having the best conversations."

"About?"

"I asked her a lot of questions to see if her point of view was still the same, her mindset is still there so shes not gone. She just needed a few reminders though."

I pulled up a chair and decided to test what Derek said.

"Ty, are we free?"

"Free? From actual shackles and chains yes, but from societal chains no. We as a minority will never win in this world. We have so many eyes on us...so many targets on our backs..We as young black teens can graduate from high school and go on to get a masters or PHD and still be ridiculed and stereotyped for what we are not. We take one hundred steps forward just to get pulled back fifty. There is no justice, there is no freedom."

"What's love?"

"Love is the most bitter-sweet feeling in the world. It's going to sleep and waking up with the same person on your mind, and every-time you see them it's like the first. It's wanting to give someone else the world before you even thinking about giving it to yourself, you'd take twenty bullets for that person before you even let them get a paper cut. Love is kind, but love also kills.

"Do you know anybody named Demi?"

"No...should I?"

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Me and Derek left the hospital about two hours later. It helped hearing Tyler talk like she was herself again even though she still didn't remember. Derek drove and I sat in the passenger seat staring out the window.

"She's starting to remember." He said breaking the silence.

"How do you know?"

"The look on her face when we asked her certain questions....it was like it struck a nerve."

"So what are we supposed to do?"

"We've all went and talked to her so i'm not sure."

I leaned back in my seat and thought for a second. ".........Not all of us."

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