Chapter 71 Reaction #2
“Somebody wah kill me,” hesays, casual like it’s nothing. I stay silent, listening. Hearingthis from him makes my eyessting, tears threatening, because I know he’s in real danger.
“I know,” I say quietly but wewon’t let that happen. Al’right bad gyal.
“Mi nah say this fi scare youbut I made a promise to youthat I would never kill anyoneagain but mi a tell yuh from now Zara, some bwoy aguh dead.”
Ah bwoy.
“You have to defend yourself,” I shrug. “Iunderstand and I uh… want tobe there for you when you’reum… defending yourself.”
You wah inna war? My subconscious screams.
If I have to help him, yes. He shakes his head no. “That partof the promise mi nah breakwhen I said I’d never make anyone hurt you or put a gun on you again.”
I know he was gonna say this.
“But you can’t do this alone,” I reason.
“Zara wah mi ask you a while ago?”
“To listen,” I sigh.
“Right… so listen,” he says and I nod. “And mi have mi gang.”
“The youth weh send Na—the head,” he slowly opens a crumpled paper and I read ‘you’re next’ and panic. “He was my best friend.”
WHAT!?
Then this nuh really really deadly? Close fren war always deadly enuh.
“So you know it’s not like any other type of war because we both know each other’s weakness. And he’s already starting on my weaknesses. He knows that I love Nature and that’s why he… killed him.” Where is he goingwith this?
“So wah mi a say is, the world know say you a mi weakness so he’s going to attack you next and mi nah make him hurt you so mi a go mek some changes,” he says and I gasp. What changes?
“What?” I ask.
“A war a go start and him know where I live so I don’t want when I’m at theunderground he gets to hurt you when I’m distracted so I’m gonna buy a house or an apartment for you.
You and Suzanne affi go stay there cause this isn’t just Golf and Outlaw war this is Nickoi, Junior verses Lennox and Doritos cause this is deep from my father’s time,” he explains. Doritos? Weh mi hear deh name deh?
The bwoy today with the dye hair.
This is too much to digest.
“Who is Doritos?” I raise a brow. Oh my God that’s why he was staring at the car. And talking to you!
Oh my…
“Lennox brother,” Nickoi says then it clicks.
LENNOX
“A so him girlfriend nice?” Doritos asks and I nod my head.
His lip curls into a smile.
“Mi did tell yuh,” I retort and puff the spliff. “But yuh neva’ a meds it.”
“Mi think yuh did an exaggerate,” Doritos laughs. I shake my head no.
“A real thing mon… so wah you say gwaan today now?” I change the topicand he sits down. My aunt walks over to us, putting down box food on thetable.
“Soon send the liquor dem.”
“Thanks,” Doritos says, and I stare at him, waiting to hear what he has to say.
“Mi know him black Benz and the license plate enuh and mi follow it and see say it stop at the doctor office and mi just park deh and mek Deja go indeh,” he tells me.
“Eeeeh?” I look up at him.
He nods. “Yah and mi feel seh eh bwoy Nick did in deh somehow and when the girl come back mi go over deh ready fi shoot him up eno. Mi nuh 3 wah the war so mi wish him did in deh fi just get it over with,” Doritos admits.
“It would a good if you did get fi shoot him up without kill him then wetorture him,” Creature smirks.
“Yeah,” Doritos agrees and avert his attention to me. We are in the backyard, chilling. The other gang members are on the street, drinking or doingwhatever they want to do. I don’t care.
“You feel him get the head?” Creature rubs his hands together.
I glare at him. “Bredda yaw wah? Mek things surface nuh? Yuh just a rusheverything so.”
“The bwoy fi dead and unuh a wait,” Creature says and I drape his shirt.
“Gwaan like yuh wah rule man and yuh see if mi nuh buss yuh jelly,” I warn and he sighs.
“Alright,” he sits. I know Nickoi is serious and his gang is deadly so I have to know exactly what I’m doing before I do anything. Yuh betta!
Doritos sits up. “You think killing the jewelry man a go affect him as we think?”
I nod slowly, that’s the closest thing he has to a father. “I know it is.”
He’s somewhere smoking and drinking Hennessy excessively. If he’s still the same. With that sexy ass girl sitting around his house.
I bite my lip.
“How yuh so sure?” Creature asks.
“Mi and the man was so,” I cross my index and my middle finger. “So I know, now stop question me.”
I hear footsteps and I look up to see my girlfriend when she approaches us.“What are you boys talking bout?” She smiles.
“Right now eh war fi start enuh,” Creature says because he knows that she loves the sound of war. Especially when a the Outlaws.
“We affi wait,” she smiles too much when she hears about Prezi. After allthat the bitch still has love for him. I hiss and look heavenward. This has to be an obsession. She sits on my lap, and I shift my glare to Creature.
“Wah yuh still a talk bout? Def say we affi wait?” say in a cold tone to himand he looks away. Not only is the bredda getting on my nerves, but this dumb bitch gets on it too. Prezi can never be wrong doh?
I hiss and roll my eyes inwardly.
“Must til him prepare fi unuh.” Creature says under his breath and I look away.
Why him so hasty?
“And I said… We. Affi. Wait,” Juaqína repeats, in a tone that silences the whole gang. Creature sits down. “You think mi nuh long fi see Nickoi? Oh,and Gutta? You see this gun,” she pulls it from her waist. “It has a bullet with that nigga’s name on it. So stop beat up yuh gum. We. A. Wait!”