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Chapter 23: Pinches

Later in the night Beyonce's temerature went up as she slept. She got hot and restless and kicked the sheets off her and she started sweating. Lindell awoke and put his hand on hers. It was burning up and he felt her face and it was even hotter. He got a cool cloth and put if on her forehead but it didnt work. He knew she was very sick. He woke her up and she was out of it.

"I want my momma," she kept saying. "wheres my momma,"

"she aint here now, c'mon we need to take you to the doctor,"

"no," she said breating hard. "I need my momma,"

He called Tina and she came over and went with them to the hospital. She felt her daughter's face and kissed her on her forehead.

"Just seems like a fever,"Tina said.

The doctors told them that her temerpature had gone up because the amountt of blood going to her head was increasing. It meant that something had caused her to get her memory back. They'd put her under anesthetics again to lessen her pain.

"When she wakes up," the docter said to them as Beyonce was wheeled to their car. "She'll have her memory back and probably have really bad headaches. Advil will take care of it though, we gave her a shot so she wont need to take any medicine probably until a couple days from now,"

"Ok, Thank you," Lindell said.

When she woke up the next morning she just layed there. She was afraid to open her eyes. Afraid that Jay Z would be standing over her wanting her to "breathe" or moan again. But he wasnt. She opened her eyes and she was in the room she'd stayed in at Lindell's house. Lindell came in.

"How you feelin sunshine?" he asked.

"I feel...." she began. "I feel ok,"

"No headaches?" he asked.

"No," she said.

"The doctors gave you a shot that would make them go away for today," He told her.

"Doctors?" she said.

"...how far back to you remember?" He asked her.

"Hm.." she sighed. "The police came into arrest Shawn,"

Lindell let out a sigh of relief. "Oh thank the Lord," He hugged her. She was confused.

"What happened?" she asked.

"He shot you, and then you went into a coma and had amnesia for a while. But you're ok now," Lindell said. "Oh, thank God you're ok now,"

"whoa..." she said. "for real? Where is he now? Jigga? Where is he?"

"he's dead," Lindell said.

"He's dead?"

"After he shot you he shot himself,"

"Oh my God," Beyonce said putting her head into her hands. "I didn't mean to cause all this trouble,"

"You didn't. It was unavoidable." He studied her face. He could tell she was distressed. Look at me," Lindell said. She looked up.

"Everything happens for a reason sweetheart, there was a reason for all this,"

"I guess the reason for all of this is to prove to me that...it's real," She said looking away. "That I'm not dreaming..that its actually happening...that I'm with you..." she looked back at him "that you love me, it seemed to good to be true. Everything seemed to perfect, and now I know its true, since everything's not perfect..."

"Yeah...like what happened is the pinch that tells us we aint dreamin," Lindell said.

She smiled. "Yeah,"

"Um..I.....I got somethin for you....a while ago, but I didn't know when to give it to you," He said nervously. He got up and looked in a drawer. He pulled a small plastic bad from the back of it. He took a small box out.

"I know that we're really young...and...if you say no, it's ok...cuz I know that we just got back together recently and you been through a lot..and..." he began.

She smiled. "Are you asking me to marry you Lindell?" she asked.

"...i--i dont know..." he said still shy and nervous. "But-but not if you don't want to. If you think we're movin too fast...if maybe you don't like me that much, if--"

"Stop," she said putting her finger to his lips. "I would love to be your wife Lindell,"

"Not any time soon...just...I been havin this ring for so long.." he said giving it to her. "That I thought maybe I should give it to you now...we could get married in maybe........well, years from now"

"Yes. I'll marry you. Even if it's years from now, I wanna wear the ring" She said smiling. He loved to see her smile like that, and knowing he was the reason made him love it even more, made him love her even more.

"It aint like that huge one you got before..." he began as she opened it.

"Don't compare yourself to him," she said. It wasn't as extravigant as what Jay Z had given her but it definately meant a lot more to her. It was a thin band of white gold with a diamond in the middle the shined 10 times more than the diamonds on the ring she'd recieved from Jay Z.

"Oh my god, I love it Lindell! It's so...oh my God, I cant believe this! We're engaged we're engaged!!" They kissed. They were so excited.

"I love you," she whispered as he hugged her.

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