Chapter 24

             Adajay's pov

  I didn't care how Bartley felt I was pained with hurt, he had forced me to come with them but I wasn't going for him I was going for me. He needed to go to who he loves with his dead hood, cause I don't want it any at all and I'm just biding my time to ask him to kindly move over to Righteous's house and Quefer could continue staying in the store house until the other room finish. I will be locking up the house fully too he can go and use the bathroom over Righteous's house and I will tell them  off if they said anything to me.

  "Fix yuh face Adajay, Jesus yuh mek mi feel fraid," Taynia said to me.

  "Mi have somn fi sey ino," Donique stated.

"Mi hear Righteous a argue wid Bartley sey him better control Shanae because she mussi have friend over Rema and she coming to the dance. Bartley mussi tell har don't come an' she sey him caan tell har dat. To my understanding him did a guh carry har if yuh neva come wid him. Mi nah lie mi feel a way," Donique told me and Taynia.

"Thanks for telling me," I told her with a bitter smile.

  We got in the expensive cars and went to the party, I saw Shanae fifteen minutes after we reach and began drinking. She was the same woman Bartley had been speaking with on the phone and she stood with a group of women. She looked really nice, light brown skin and absolutely stunning, I would have loved her too if I was him if only for her beauty. I felt like crying and I stood beside a vexed looking Taynia who was in shock as much as Righteous was when his babymother walked up to him.

The selector big up someone name first lady Dean and two gun shots slapped into the sky by Straight-dut who was big up as he walk into the dance and came near to where we were. The crowd cheered loudly and I got to admit he looked really handsome in real life. I let the music take control over me and rocked steadily on the beat, I turned and caught Shanae looking at me.

  "God, don't mek mi duh nutn foolish," I whispered while sizing up she and her friends.

  When the dance began to get hot she came over and began to wine up on Bartley, Righteous looked at me and I laughed. I turn my back on a them all and put on my heels, a beautiful black girl danced on the don and I notice that no other women went near him. She could dance and when the scammer song came on she literally tore up the place.

  She dance coming right up to me and I step up to the challenge and began to rip up the place, she wined and stop and I did the same. Her face was serious like mines and we continued to dance together only looking at each other, it was like we were sharing some form of connection without speaking and then we began to dance nsync and smiled at each other it was amazing we didn't know each other but was dancing as if we had practiced together.

   We relaxed cooling down as the selector played Alkaline's "In this world" and he got a respectable forward- his songs deserved it, he didn't I thought sipping my redstripe lightbeer. When I glance to where he was, he was standing close to the don and Shanae was back with her friends. I laughed crazily in my head wondering what fuckery he would be spilling to me when we got home.

  His song weekend began to play and I bounce on it, Shanae and her friends was dancing and carrying on. I heard Taynia hissed her teeth beside me, I couldn't help feeling bad for her and look to see where Righteous was. He stood close by Bartley along with Quefer and his woman stood over to where Shanae and her friends have there drinks table.

  Busy signal's Hill an' gully ride began to play and The don's woman began to dance again, I smiled at her she was so neat and pretty with her unusual beauty. I twisted my hips and opened my legs then wined my waist from side to side, she stood watching me as I shook my ass going around and the selector pull up the song.

  She walked up to me and we started dancing, I began to dance erotic with my ass jerking up and down. I wined go down low and saw that I was being videoed by the don among others. I wheeled upside down and danced on my hands when the selector dropped the next song Alkaline "things mi love".

The selector and the crowd was going crazy as he pull up the song. The don's woman held unto my hand and we laughed together.

  "Mi man a bun mi and it hurt mi, a waan fix him business suh till every part a mi ignorant. Mi nuh know why mi a tell yuh," she said loudly in my ears and we looked at each other.

  I pulled her into a hug and told her. "My own have who mi hear him a tell sey him love right here and di dranco won't gwane wey him a guh, mi nuh know why mi a tell yuh," I told her and release her as the song began to play again.

  She squeezed my hand and I squeeze hers and we dominated the dance for the next half hour, we tore the place up right into the gun songs and we dominated that too. She hand me her phone and I rang mines from it, I took off my heels and sipped from a new bottle of lightbeer Quefer place on our drinks table.

  Shanae walked over to where Bartley was and so did I, for all the fucks I gave him and the fact that it may never happened if I didn't have to put him up- he needed to show me some respect. I didn't wanted to come here in the first place and was not taking any more diss from him I will work both of them with the heels I held in my left hand and the lightbeer bottle that I'm drinking from in my right hand.

  I walked right up to him and stood staring at goody who was touching him to talk to him, he looked at me while I pretended not to see his heartbeat. I looked at her pointedly and then looked up at him, he gaze away to the opposite side and Quefer came and began speaking to him. The woman stood there and Donique came and stood infront of her, a couple of her friends came near and Righteous announced that they were ready to roll. Bartley spun away hurriedly with Quefer and Righteous walked behind us.

  Taynia drove with me and Bartley as Righteous babymother went into the front of the car he drove to the dance. When we reach back to the place where we had switched vehicles, she went into his jeep with him and Taynia drove in the back of Bartley's jeep with Quefer and Donique.

  Righteous sped past Bartley when we reach close to Capture Land and I surmise that he didn't want his babymother to see where Taynia lives. Whe he carried her over my house in the evening of the next day I notice that she didn't speak to me, but rather laughed and chatted with Bartley. I laugh to myself as I went inside at how Righteous had begged me to come out and sit with her. I made sure to lock the verandah grill as I went in, any of them wanted to come in had to walk around.

  I called Taynia to check up on her and she was crying. "Mi done wid him, him tell mi sey him an' har pull up," she said between sobs.

"Well it better when yuh know wey yuh stand, me and Bartley done from couple weeks back- yuh see how him force mi fi guh and same thing wey Donique tell wi don't him woman show up?" I said and asked.

"Mi caan believe sey him really carry har come dung wid wi and a me and him guh," she said through her tears.

  I felt really sad after the call ended, I ironed my work clothes and did a bit of straightening up. I scoured the two bathrooms then showered and went out into the living room to watch tv and browse on my phone. I went inside my room when I hear Righteous leaving with his woman and I ignored Bartley altogether when he tried to speak to me.

  I went to both my jobs with an heavy heart and when he told me that evening that Righteous would drop me and Taynia at work and he'll come pick us up in the evening I felt like something was not right. I told him not to bother Righteous that I'd take the taxi and he said "ok".

  "Mi a guh play some game wid him suh him naffi come over here, cool?" He said and asked.

"Yea," I answered wanting him to be gone so I could think, because I didn't business wid him.

To be continued....