Chapter 6

Alkaline's pov

I finally felt better after days of being under the weather, asthma pump don't gree with alcohol and smoking and I had done too much of both that night. I cut my eyes and hissed as Righteous pass by the couch I was lieing in, mi nuh ina nuh chatting wid him, him likkle friend diss mi right in front a him an' him a talk bout mi must fi get bout dat. A gon guh lay wait har right a har workplace or har yard gate and box up har bloodclaate face.

"Yuh need fi eat somn eno, cause mi nuh know why yuh caan come outta yuh feelings all now," Righteous said and I looked to the passage where he was standing.

"Mi a'right, mi look hungry to yuh?" I said asking him.

"Yea, bones and sinews," he said trying to joke.

"A yuh lik-kle friend wey yuh claim sey yuh naa fuck a guh bi bones and sinews when mi buck har," I said angrily getting up.

"Yuh caan done offa dat now? Tsk, all now yuh nuh apologize fi spoil mi birthnight yet yuh a move suh. Tsk," he said bitterly kissing up his teeth and walking out.

"Mi neva know a me control your woman front das she nuh gi yuh none," I said loudly after him and he turned and fanned me off.

Quefer came out from his room asking, "a wha a gwane?"

"Yuh need fi admit sey yuh wrong an' a it dat," Righteous stated.

"Wrong wey? She have har man a das all she fi sey, gwey she have you a spin like clown," I told him.

"How she have me a spin like clown? Just because me and har have an understanding friendship? Bredda you a style di woman and mi a tell sey she's a cool parrying P, hear wha mi naffi explain miself to yuh hol' wey yuh waan hol'," he stated.

"Mi nuh care wey yuh waan sey, she too nice and sexy fi nuh have a man a fuck har an' mi done chat, you a idiot," I told him uncaringly.

"If she have a man and she nuh tell mi a nuh my problem, as mi sey me and her is just friend," he said.

I looked at him sighed and walked past Quefer answering his phone, I spun back to him quarreling with his woman who overseas. She had been threatening to send police here from the other day, he sighed and walked away with her cursing through the phone in his ears. A when mi friend dem tun gal clown I wondered as my eyes made four with Righteous walking through the living room.

Two weeks later...

"Mi tired a everything in a di house uno just buy sitn mi know wha," I told Righteous.

He was going to drop off Quefer who was going to spend the night with a catty he was dealing with and buy food to bring back, we were tired of cooking and feeling bored. I locked up the windows as the place was getting dark, locked the car port door not wanting any mosquitoes to fly in, then got my weed, lighter, pack of rizzla and took up the cutting board in the living room.

The sound of a vehicle coming up the drive made me pause in going through the side door and I shut it and walked hastily back into the living room. The cutting board fell from my hands when I spot the police jeep and I started to tremble, I checked the front door if it was locked and ran to lock the side and back door. I took my phone from my pocket and put it on vibrate, then crouched down in the passage to call Righteous but the voices of the officers talking outside stopped me.

They walked around the house a talked to dem one aneda saying they would have to get something to hit off the door, I watched as they loaded back into the jeep and drive off. I call Righteous.

"Wey yuh dey?" I asked desperately.

"Mi dey a di restaurant a wait fi collect di food dem," he replied.

"Police just come yah, bumboclaate mi affi lock up inna di house, mi a shake like a leaf. Dem sey dem a guh get somn fi lick off di door dem, mi just a pack wey mi can carry ina two suitcase," I told him.

"Bumboclaate! Guh ina mi room an' fling some a mi clothes dem ina my suitcase dem to an' nuh lef mi knapsack, mi dey pon mi way," he said.

"Keep di change, thanks," he said to someone.

"Carry everything ina di car port suh mi naffi itch when mi reach," he said.

While I hurriedly packed our things I kept glancing through the living room windows, thank goodness there was a door that led from the living room into the carport and I took our suitcases there quickly. I can't believe this is happening, where the fuck were we going to go at such short notice.

I heard and saw my car lights coming up the drive, I opened the carport as Righteous turned quickly and fly the boot. I began putting in the suitcases as he came out of the car and the double rubbish bags of my shoes and other stuffs I had grabbed up in haste.

"Yuh tek up everything important?" He asked hurriedly.

"I don't even know," I told him and he hurried inside.

We locked up the house and drive off with me holding the bag of food in my lap, I didn't stop shaking until we turned unto the main street leading across to the other side of Capture Land. Righteous parked on the curb top side the house where Adajay live, I turn to look at him questioningly.

"Adajay tell mi sey one house a rent some wey round yah day before yesterday, mi a call har and ask har fi tell har sista fi watch if police guh back round suh. Dah bitch dey wey Quefer have a guh see one a mi nigga dem gun ino," he explained saying the latter in vexed anger.

"Hello, yuh caan put mi up fi di night?" He said into his phone then pause to listen.

"You call har an' ask har fi mi," he said and pause again to listen again.

"Mi dey outta yuh gate come here," he told most likely Adajay and end the call.

"No badda wid yuh foolishness ino," he said to me.

I hissed my teeth and began going through the bag with the foods, without asking him anything I took the one with the cowskin and beans and started eating. He carried down the window when Adajay came and then went out, I ate my belly full and they were still out there chatting. I hissed it was getting late and I rather we were already booked into a guest house or something though it was risky, I didn't even want to think about the situation right now because mi nuh know wha Quefer a guh tell mi sey.

Adajay walked off and Righteous came back into the car, he took the bag with his food from the dash board and took out his food.

"Mi a guh mek Adajay do di hotel booking yuh a guh go a di hotel and mi guh sleep wid one catty round di road," he said and I looked at him.

"Unless yuh waan guh sleep ina Adajay bed she sey she a guh work as waitress a one party tonight," He said glaring at me.

Mi really fraid fi stay a hotel because if police come it hard fi mi run. "Mi e sleep ina e car," I told him.

He sighed covering back up his food. "Mi caan believe Michelle a duh dis after wi spend suh much money and done fix up har house. A wha di fuck duh some people man? Tsk," he said.

Adajay came out at the gate and he got out after flying the boot of the car, I watched our suitcases and other stuffs being carried quickly inside and then he came back and drive us up into the bushes to a zinc fence wid a zinc gate. He got out and opened the chained gate and as we drive in I saw a small unfinished building, he parked and began eating his food again.

I got out and with my phone light I looked around, this must be Adajay's place I said to myself. It was almost eight when his phone rang and he said,

"come in nuh we a step."

He locked up my car and covered it, then he locked the gate when we went out and we began to walk. I sighed as we went through a track then end up where Adajay lives again. We walked to the gate and I stopped as he went in, he turned and looked at me calling me with his hands. I stood same place because mi nuh know a who him a call ina people yard. He came back and pulled my hand and I went in behind him, we hurried inside a room passing Adajay dressed with a hand bag over her shoulder.

"Put on service and keep quiet. Bye," he said locking the door on my confused face.

To be continued....