Chapter 19 Nuisance

A few minutes later he and his friends left the restaurant, he was almost in his car when two policemen approach him. "Hi again Mr. Maxwell, we need you to come to the station with us. We have some more questions for you." one of them said indicating for him to get in the police car.

Gabriel summons Mike who along with Marlon and Justin was standing beside their vehicle. "I have to go to the station, could you please bring my vehicle there for me?" "Sure man, no problem."

He was questioned for two hours and when he exited the station the guys were there waiting for him. "Hey guys, thank you for waiting, I appreciate it." "We're here for you man. So what did they want?" Mike asks.

"Well, because Alex was riding my bike and he was my best friend who came into this country with me, and he was currently on drugs, coming from my house, and because I also had drugs in my system. They now think that I know a lot more than I'm saying, and because I look filthy stinking rich, their words not mine, they think that I'm the head of some organization, and whether I like it or not, I'm now on their radar." Gabriel said with a groan.

"Let's just put it this way, I'm glad they weren't able to use my blood to help save the life of the son-of- bitch." He sneers angrily. After everything that we have faced together everything, we have been through. This's what it comes down to, this is fucking bullshit!"

"Hey- hey, be angry without sinning, don't forget you're a child of God now." Mike reminds him. "Yeah, I'm sorry, look I can't deal with this right now, I'll see you guys later." He said getting into his car but before he could drive away Marlon stops him by knocking on the car window which Gabriel winds down.

"Hush," Marlon said as Gabriel opened his mouth to say something. "We know sey you mad as hell right now but we'll be at your house later tonight alright, we have to celebrate." "Celebrate what?" "Your engagement stupid," Mike added. "Oh yeah, alright, see you guys later." He said and drive away.

"It has been a little over a month since Alex's accident and Gabriel's aunt had come into town for his birthday. He had told her all that had happened and she too was shocked. At the time he really didn't feel like celebrating his birthday but Diane; his aunt and his friends insist on treating him to a nice evening. He had to admit he had fun.

It wasn't like the birthdays he had with Alex but it was still fun. His aunt then spends the rest of the week with him. He uses to think of his aunt as a nuisance but now he loves when she was around. She helped him and Diane cleanout Alex's house which was a dump. They found a bag of drugs and flushed it down the toilet. When they were finished the house was sparkling clean compare to the dump it was when they got there, too bad, if he wasn't such an idiot he would have been around to enjoy it.

Alex was still in a coma and attached to life support. He was also still in critical condition. Some of his wounds were healing but because of his severe spinal injury, the doctor couldn't tell if he would be able to walk again. They had to wait until he was awake if he ever woke up.

Diane had quit her job and was now attending classes. She was doing three C X C subjects Math, English, and Accounts and she was also attending driving school. Every morning he took Jasmine to school and then at 12 noon he would take Diane to class, after class, she took a bus to driving school and he would pick her in the evening.

They would then collect Jasmine from daycare and spend the rest of the evening together, sometimes at his house, sometimes at hers. He didn't sleep at her house because of Jasmine but whenever she came home with him she usually spends the night.

She was a little uncomfortable coming back to his house at first but she started to relax after a few more visits. She also went with him to the hospital a few times to visit Alex. A prayer group went once per week to pray for Alex. He and Diane also attend marriage counseling twice per week. It was now the last week of March and they had set the date for their wedding on the last Saturday in June and there was a lot he had to do before then. Since Marlon was out of a job Gabriel put him in charge of Alex's businesses and Gabriel took over Alex's accounts books. So between doing his accounts and Alex's, running his business; helping to plan their wedding, and taking care of his wife-to-be and his daughter–to –be he was pretty busy. He was also in the process of adopting Jasmine and he really wanted to get it done before the wedding.

It was Thursday afternoon and he had just drop Diane off at class and was heading back home when his phone rang. "Hey, Mike what's up?" "Hey prince the guys and I were heading to your house thought we could hang out if you're not busy." "No, I'm not, come on over." "Alright see you in a bit." The guy that cleans his pool and his gardener was waiting for him at his gate. "Hey, guys sorry to keep you waiting, come on in." He greeted them as he opened the gate. "I'll be inside, if you need anything just holler." They nod and walk away to begin their work. Sweet smells greet him as he enters the house. Diane had bought him some great smelling house fresheners. They made his house smell like flowers and roses.

On weekends they would clean; do laundry and cook together, he loved being with her; doing stuff with her; no matter what she did she would make it fun. Who would have thought cleaning could be fun. He would sit and talk to her while she ironed for him and he would hang them up. They talked about her family and her past; and lots of other things, everything and anything except his family. He changes into sweat pants; a white marina; white socks and white sneakers.

Twenty minutes later his friends arrived and he opened the gate for them, then his front door. They came in bringing pizza and K.F.C. "What's up prince?" Mike greets him. "Hey, guys how's it going?" They went into the kitchen and while they ate his friends as usual told him what they had been up to. For some reason the topic switch to Alex and just the mention of his name set Gabriel's blood boiling with anger.

"So Gabriel do you think he's ever going to wake up?" Mike asks. "I don't know." Gabriel grumbled "The question is do you want him to wake up?" Justin adds. Gabriel took a deep breath and ran his hands through his hair. "You know what I keep thinking about. When I was leaving here that morning Diane told me that she was going to relax in my hot tub. Now fortunately for her when he got there she was in the living room; but what if he had found her in the tub? What if she wasn't dressed when he got here?" He asks folding his fingers in a fist.

"Do you have any idea what he would have done to her? She had to run, from my house. What if she didn't have any money on her, she had no way of contacting anyone. Her blouse was literally torn from her body; that's was how she went home." He took a deep breath and groan in anger.

"He had the nerve to come into my house and attack my girl; She was supposed to be safe; that's the reason for the damn security system! to keep things like this from happening; and what's worst he told her that I send him to have his way with her, me! Can you imagine? I trusted him with my life. He was like my brother. There was nothing I wouldn't do for him!" Gabriel said tears running down his face.

"Hey prince, take it easy, mind your blood pressure. Remember the doctor said he had drugs in his system....." Justin was saying but pauses when Gabriel turns his now dangerously dark blue eyes on him. Gabriel drank his Supligen and eggs and slam the glass on the counter,

"I don't give a damn what he was high on, he had no right touching her! So my answer is yes; I do want him to wake up because he's going to answer for this; damn him!" Gabriel said angrily brushing the three drinking glasses off the counter and sends them flying across the room. "Damn him!" He said again as he stormed from the room.

"Remind me never to make this guy angry at me," Mike said stepping aside as prince breeze pass him. "What a temper," Justin said in awe. "Should we go after him?" Mike asks. "No man, give him a chance to cool down. Mek we get these glasses off the floor first."

Gabriel stormed into the gym. First, he attacks the punching bag, next he went for the bow flex machine, and with sweat running from his face; back and chest he attacked his weights. He had done fifty on each arm when Mike stuck his head into the gym. "We come in peace." He said waving his white handkerchief in front of him. Gabriel shakes his head and smiled to himself.

"Come on in, it's not you guys I'm angry at." "Tell that to the three drinking glasses downstairs in the trash," Justin said as he too steps into the gym. "I hate losing my temper like that." Gabriel groaned. "Hey it's cool, we all have to blow our tops sometimes. But you know something, with your muscles and your temper you could be a wrestler." Mike said in a teasing tone. "Yeah like the rock," Justin adds. "Well I was in wrestling," Gabriel said proudly.

"You don't say," Marlon said in surprise. "Not professionally. I use to wrestle in high school." "Why didn't you continue?' Justin asks. "Because I was banned from wrestling my last year in high school." "Why?" Marlon ask. "Because I slap a guy across his shoulder with a chair. To be honest, I was going for his face," Gabriel snorts. "Why on earth would you do that?" Mike asks in shock.

"Because he called me a pussy." "So you slap him with A chair?" "Yep." "You crazy son-of-a-bitch." Mike said laughing. "Come on you need some fresh air. Let's go chill by the pool." Justin suggested heading towards the door. "I could do that," Gabriel said grabbing his towel and following his friends outside. "Remind me neva to get on your bad side," Marlon said as he walks behind Gabriel.

Gabriel checks the workers. The pool guy was finished so Gabriel paid him and he left but the gardener was still hard at work. Holding a cold tin of Supligen in his hand Gabriel walks over to him. "Hey; need a boost?" Gabriel asks handing him the drink. "Thank you very much, boss." "No problem, the lawn is looking pretty good," Gabriel said in admiration. "Thanks, boss." "Holler at me when you're done okay." "Alright boss." Gabriel then walks over to his friends by the pool. As soon as he sat down Justin turn to him.

"So prince I know you had a very active sex life before but how have you been handling that since you got baptized?" Gabriel twists his mouth and bit his lips. "Why do you ask?" "Curiosity," Justin replied. "I use Anne Palmer and her five sisters." Gabriel smiled. "Masturbation? You?" Mike asks in surprise. "Yeah, it's strange right? I mean ever since I started having sex at the age of fourteen I never once had to pleasure myself but now that I'm a Christian and sex before marriage is a sin, things have changed." Gabriel said running his hands through his hair. "I mean, I still can't believe I 'm engaged, me."

"So what about Diane?" Mike asks. "Couldn't she like, you know, help you?" "She is, trusts me, she is." "Oh, so the two a you, a do it?" Marlon laughs. "No Marlon we're not doing it. Came pretty close though." Gabriel bits his lips. "So the both of you have never….?" Justin asks. "Nope." "Don't you think you should see what she is capable of before you marry her?" Justin asks again. Gabriel smiled and arched his brows. "I know exactly what she is capable of." He said licking his lips. "How?" Justin asks.

"I've been getting a lot of previews. She only used her hands but the girl has me arching my back and gripping the sheets. I mean sounds are constantly coming from me that I didn't know I could make. I didn't even know I was capable of moaning like that." He chuckled.

"It is dat good?" Marlon asks "You bet your life it is." Gabriel replied biting his bottom lip. "Some heavy petting huh? Mike asks. "Very heavy, I never thought I would ever invite a woman into my house much less fall in love and get engaged shit, I have taken a lot of impulsive risk in business but I was never impulsive when it comes to women but Diane, damn when I'm with her, it's like I can't even think properly, what's this girl doing to me?" He groans putting his head on the table.

"She's making you happy, that's what she is doing and we couldn't be happier for you." Mike laughs. "By the way, I'm going to need your help, all of you." "With what?" Mike asks. "You guys are going to help me plan my engagement party." "Now you're talking. Just tell us what you need and we will get it." Justin said eagerly.

Two hours later Gabriel took a shower; got dressed and he and his friends left the house along with the gardener and despite his anger, he still stopped at the hospital to check on Alex. His condition had worsened, his brain activity was decreasing and he was slipping deeper into the coma.

Gabriel wishes he could just turn away, just not care but as angry as he was at Alex his heart filled with compassion as he looks at him lying there. He sat beside him and talk to him for a while, so did the guys, they also prayed for him and an hour later they all left the hospital. "I'm going to get Diane. I'll holler at you guys later." He said to his friends and drive away.

Diane was waiting in the parking lot when he got there and there was a man standing beside her talking to her and something ran through him that he had never felt before. Just the fact that the man was so close to her makes Gabriel wants to strangle him. He stops at her feet and the look that he gave the man would have frozen a volcano and the man hastily stepped away from her.

"Hi, baby." She greeted him with a kiss on his cheek. "Hi, who's that?" He asks coldly. "A guy I met on the driving track. He's waiting for his friend to come to pick him up." She explained. "Does he have to stand so close to my woman?" He asks in a cold tone. "Oh my, is that jealousy I hear in your voice?" She asks chuckling.

"What if it is?" He asks twisting his lips. "You don't have to be jealous baby, I'm completely yours and besides I would never do anything to hurt you." She said sweetly. "Okay, I will try to remember that. So how is driving coming along?" "Good, the instructor said I only have two months left. Then I can take my test." "And classes, how's that accounts problem we were working on last night?" " I totally got it. Thanks for your help. You know your shampoo really works. Your hair has a lot of volumes." She said playing in his hair.

"Thanks, it's getting too long though I'll have to cut it soon." "I told you that a few days ago but, to be honest, it's too bad you've to cut it, it's very beautiful." She said in admiration. "So is yours, I love your braids." He said seductively twisting one around his finger but stop when he felt his shaft getting hard. "So what's for dinner?" He asks handing her a container of fruit he had bought for her. "Well after we get Jasmine, I'm going to your house, how does curry chicken sound?"

"It sounds delicious." After dinner, Diane went to put Jasmine to bed and take a shower. While Gabriel tidies the kitchen and puts the dishes in the dishwasher. After that, he took a shower. He had just stepped from the bathroom when she came into his room. Just the sight of her made Gabriel's blood boil with desire.

He walks over to her and pushed her gently on his bed. "Could you take that off please?" He asks referring to her nightgown. "Behave we're not going to do any of that tonight." She said scrambling away from him. But he just smiled and pulls the towel from around his waist and let it fall to the ground. "I disagree." He laughs grabbing her ankles and pulling her towards him, he then pulled the nightgown over her head and began massaging her breasts and caressing her body. Within minutes she totally surrenders to him, her body moving in rhythm with his hands. He loves the way she moves beneath his hands.

When she was completely satisfied he lies on his back and let her do the same thing to him, damn she could do amazing things with her lips. He felt like a volcano erupted inside him. He felt his back arching from the bed, felt his nails digging into the sheets and there was nothing he could do to stop or control it nor could he stop the exotic sounds that her actions were pulling from him. Wow, this girl was good. Within minutes he was gasping for air.

Gripping her waist he put her beneath him and came over her, using his knees he part her legs. But as deep in ecstasy as she was the voice of the Holy Spirit still managed to breakthrough. "Baby we have to stop." She pleads. "I don't want to stop baby girl, just this once please." He begged. "We can't go any further baby boy." "Come on baby we could just ask forgiveness afterward." He moaned kissing her breasts.

"Those who know the right and do it not shall be damned Gabriel." She said firmly. He knew she was right, he had to stop. Leaning down he kissed her passionately until she was breathless.

"You're driving me crazy you know that?" He asks against her lips. "Sorry baby I don't mean to, but could you please hold on a little longer," "I'll try, because you're definitely worth waiting for." He smiled kissing her nose. She smiled up at him and kiss him softly on his lips. "I love you." She whispered, "I love you too baby girl." "Okay then, so how about a movie before bed?" He asks. "Movie and a prayer session then bed." She adds. "Okay, I can work with that."

The next day Gabriel took Diane to class, had a meeting with his real estate agent, check on his buses and the drivers; check his bank accounts and emails; call his aunt; check on Alex; had lunch with brother Josh who he had gotten to know very well and did some work on his computer. He picked Diane up from driving class; got Jasmine from daycare and stop by her sister's house for dinner; then they both went to church.

Minister Smith asks him to sing a prayer song. And Gabriel smiled because he loves singing in church; he always felt the power of the Holy Spirit stronger when he sings. He chooses. Your grace and mercy, because he really loves that song.

The power of the Holy Spirit surges through him like wildfire. He grips the mike harder and tried to finish the song but couldn't. The power of the Holy Spirit came over him and soon it had taken over the rest of the service. It was a spirit-filled service and as he drives home that night with his beautiful wife-to-be and his daughter beside him he couldn't help thinking that giving his life to God was the best thing he had ever done.