"Myracles Happen"

Chapter Five





Just about ten hours after this morning’s incident Myracle was ready to crawl into a hole and die. Right when she thought she would be able to move on with her life and drop the extra baggage this happened to her. The night before she had went to bed with stomach pains and this morning when she had woken up to use the bathroom she woke up to a blood covered bed. Due to the amount of blood Myracle could not say this was her period. She’d never in her life bled this much. Unfortunately the doctor had told her that the bleeding was result of a miscarriage.

Her heart sank for the loss that occurred in her body. She never imagined that Brian had hit her so hard the impact affected her insides. Apparently stress, anxiety, and much pain added onto the already in endangered baby. And so, she lost her child. She found this horrible because she herself was unaware of her pregnant position.

Sitting at the end of her hospital bed dressed in the clothes that Troy had grabbed she stared at the window. The doctors said she would likely be discharged pretty soon. He recommended she stay in bed for the next three days.

What she really wanted to do was cry an ocean and drown Brian and herself in it. She could have been a mother! When she began to think her life had no meaning God impregnated her. Now, here she was with out life inside her. How could he take it away from her before she ever knew she had it?

Her throat was dry and felt as though she had a lump in it. Myracle hadn’t cried the whole time but she felt now the pain began to control her and she could no longer take the overwhelming power of her tears. Blinking her eyes tears rushed down her face leaving wet trails among her hot cheeks. She closed her eyes and laid a hand on the stomach that could have been home to her child.

The black world behind her eyelids spun and she couldn’t dare try to open her eyes because although then the spinning would stop she would still have to stare at the hospitals walls where it was announced that her baby had been taken away from her. A minutes passed as she sit there eyes closed tears still falling when she felt his arms wrap around her. She didn’t need to open her eyes to know it was Troy.

She wrapped her arms around his weight and held him close. She smelled him and felt his muscular body pressed against hers. His strength encircled her and for a second she considered never letting him go. Holding onto him was all she could do to hold on to sanity because Myaracle knew for sure. If she let it al go she was bound to die in her own self pity.

Finally Myracle let him go and opened her eyes. Troy took a seat next to her on the bed and reached for the Tray of coffees he had brought with him. She grabbed one and held its warmth in her hand. Both Myracle and Troy had left an hour ago. Troy returned home to obviously shower and change and October left to finish something at her office. Myracle wasn’t surprised that no matter what happened October never ditched her duties at work.

This came to remind Myracle of her current professional status. She was a manager of profession training in living a life of nothing. She felt she had to change her ways. She had to do something with her life where she did something for everyone.

Suddenly the doctor came in. He talked some and gave her paper to sign. She signed them and he announced she was good to go. Myracle sighed and wiped at her face. She then grabbed her bag and rose from her bed. Then the pain hit her. She dropped the bag and gasped. What the doctors had done to her was still in effect. She soon got over the pain and took some steps.

Troy grabbed her bag and her hand. She walked slowly but then began to speed up as the pain went away. “Remember,” Troy said to her. “I can always carry you.” She smiled up at him and shook her head. With in ten minutes she was in Troy’s car and he was pulling out.

“Can you take me to the salon.” She said to him. He glanced at her with a confused face and nodded his head.

“I can but you’re supposed to be in bed, remember?” He said.

“I remember its just I need this. I promise nothing more but the salon. I can handle it.” Myracle said. Troy didn’t question her any further but drove to the salon she requested. He double parked in front of it and looked at her. “Just be here in an hour.”

He told her be careful and she got out and walked into the salon. She turned around just in time to see Troy drive away in his Forrest green explorer. She turned back to the salon and everyone stared at her. “I got into a fight with my cat” she said.

“That was some big cat.” Antonio said to her. Antonio was her very talented bisexual hair stylist.

“Yeah, turns out cats really know how to get a girl. Listen I have a job for you. Are you free?” She asked him.

“Always for you darling.” He smiled at her.

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Troy arrived at the salon just in time to see Myracle step out and a gush of window blow her now black hair. Troy was also blown away. When he had told her to not be blonde he never expected her to go as far as black. Now he was sure she was twins with October. Now the only differences in them both were their eyes and their fashion sense. Troy smiled at her and she walked to the car. She got inside and smiled back at him.

“I guess you’re not blonde anymore.” He said to her.

“No Troy, I am not.” She said to him. No further words were exchanged on the way to Myracle’s home. Troy wondered what October would say about Myracle’s change. It was a drastic change but he guessed it was her way of changing herself. Being a new person would come with having a new image.

Troy was at Myracle house and out of the car. He grabbed her bag and she rounded the car and met him at the porch. She opened the door and they both walked in. Troy closed the door and put her bag down. Myracle walked over to her couch and collapsed. Troy stood in front of her and grabbed her hand. “I have something to show you” he said to her.

He tugged at her hand and she got up. They walked up the steps and he led her into her room. She walked in and looked directly at the bed. She smiled at him and hugged him. Troy had gone out and bought heart covered bed set. He’d scrubbed the mattress and then flipped it over. He put the sheets on it and threw the blankets into the washing machine. He wanted her to come home and not worry about work. It was hard enough what she had been through.

It was even hard on Troy what she had been through. So what better then for him to make her worry about one less thing? In his mind he was actually dangerously angry. “This is great” she said to him. She walked over to the bed and sat on it. She moved closer to the middle and laid back.

“Good. I’m glad you’re enjoying it. My only question now is Do you want me to stay over tonight?”

Myracle thought for a bit and then gave him a head nod. “I’d like that,” She said.


“Ok, will do. I’m just going to return to my house pick up some clothes so I don’t sleep in my boxers again and maybe get some food?” He offered.

“Yeah,” she said. “Chinese!”

“Yum” he said to her. He left her room and exited her home. He jumped into his car and knew exactly where he was going. He drove for twenty minutes until he was at the same building he was in the day before. He looked up at the building that Brian lived in. He jumped out of his car and went into the lobby. He took the steps and entered the forth floor.

Troy looked at the door that he’d been standing in front of with Myracle the day before. Troy knocked on the door and stepped to the side. The door opened and Brian poked hi head out. Troy grabbed him by the collar and pinned him against the wall. “Hello” he said to Brian a wicked smile on his face.

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Myracle lie in bed with October both of them staring at the ceiling. Myracle lay her head at the top of the bed her arms crossed over her chest and October lay opposite to her with her arms under her head. October sat up and looked at her sister. “It still looks weird to see you.”

“But it’s not bad right?” Myracle asked.

“If I said it looked bad I’d be insulting my own style. It looks great. It’s just weird. What comes next?” October said.

“I’m not sure.” October lay back again and they both sighed in unison.

Myracle had been here for half hour thinking. Her sister joined her ten minutes ago and she felt good. It had been a long time since she had last really just been with her sister in a calm surrounding just thinking. Not many words being exchanged.

“October… If I asked you to invest some money in something, would you do it with me?” Myracle asked.

“Depends what are we talking about here? And how much?” October asked.

“500…. Thousand.” Myracle said.

“500 thousand!” October said jumping up. “what would I invest five hundred thousand in?”

“I want to make a shelter. I want to make a shelter for battered women. Mothers especially. “ Myracle said. She meant every word coming out of her mouth. She thought of what she had lost and she considered how much worst it could have been. She was with Brian but she had a home to escape to. She lost her child yes but it was a child whom she’d never met or even known about. In worst situations there were women who couldn’t leave their men and had children who were also being hurt.

“Wow… I guess I couldn’t say no to that. Are you serious about this? Five hundred thousand is a lot.” October said to her.

“Yes, I really, really want to do this. I even have a name. M.N.M. Agency. “ Myracle smiled. She’d thought about it long and hard and she knew that no matter if it was services or agency or even protection she knew it would start with M.N.M.

“M.N.M.?” October asked.

“Moms Need Myracles.” Myracle smiled. It was perfect.

October joined her sisters smiled and moved around some bit till she was infront of her sister. She extended her hands and hugged her. “I’m sure it will be a fantastic shelter. You’d end up helping a lot of people.”

“That’s what I want October. I don’t want to shop or hang out. I want to help other woman. I want to be important to some one.”

“You’re important to me.”

“Only because we share the same DNA” Myracle said poking her sister. October laughed and Myracle continued “This will be big. I want to be known. I want woman everywhere within a 60 mile radius to know where they can go to get away from abusive men.”

“Imagine how much of an idiot Brian will feel when he finds out you made an organization because of what he did to you.” October said.

“It’s not even about making Brian feel like an idiot. It’s about what I’ve been through and what other women are going through. I can’t imagine not having some one to turn to. I’m lucky enough to have you, to be ok financially, and to be me where I can walk away. Not many of them can do that.”

“Sounds to me you got dedication in you.”

“I do.” She said to October.

“That’s great Myracle…” There was a pause and then October jolted with excitement. “Did I tell you I’m engaged to Kristian?!”

“No… But I was expecting it. You can’t say no to a man that great for so long.” Myracle said. Then they shared yet another hug. It was then Myracle thought maybe all this happened for a reason. Maybe this was apart of God’s master plan for her.

“Speaking of great men. Are you sure nothing is happening between you and Troy?” October asked.

“Well, I’m not on to predict the future, but…” Myracle smiled at her sister.