Page 126 of Not My Type
How long Lorie go inna mi house fa? Mi want har out a mi house!
Look like them nah gree again. I shake my head and close my phone. Mi not even care wah deh gwaan with mamz and Lorie cas a she tek har in. Anything dem a go through them try figure that out themselves cause right now mi have bigga things fi meds. I spot Ms. Michelle coming. She pulls the back door and Ms. Sandra moves over chuckling. Zara’s mom struggles to hop in. Mama laughs out.
“Yuh nyam up the wull heap a food a ‘Merika now yuh can hardly lif up yuh legs,” she says and they both start laughing.
As they continue to talk, I zone out their conversation. Mi really need fi be by miself enuh .. mi really cya think the way mi want with so much talking round me. I smile at them. Dem can chat.
“Unuh ready now?” I ask and they nod.
“Yes, before it gets too late,” Ms. Michelle retorts. I press the button, powering on the car. I look over at Zara and she’s pulling on her seatbelt.
“Mi always hate lef family reunions enuh but all good things come to an end. Nuh so dem say?” Zara’s mom laughs.
“Same suh,” Ms. Sandra chuckles and I watch my mirrors and notice that a man is moving his car at the same time.
Mi sure know him see mi a move. Him cya wait? He moves his car slowly almost scraping my car and I wind down my window. I poke my head out, giving him a death stare because him a must idiot.
“Yuh nuh see say mi a move my car?!” I ask him.
“Nickoi..” Zara says and I sigh. Cya even be grimey wid him. Universe love deh boy yah.
“No mi never notice,” he says. “But yuh nuh have mirror?!” Who him a deal wid? Nickoi memba weh yuh deh.
I glare at him then hear Ms. Michelle’s voice. “If him see say you a move why him would a move same time?!”
“Who gi dem license?” Ms. Sandra asks. I sigh to myself.
Mi a try fi stay calm enuh. He’s still outside arguing and my temper is boiling. Zara puts her hand on mine and squeeze it. I breathe. Wah him a argue bout? Nuh him nearly scratch mi car? Delusional.
“Town boy deh feel like mi fraid a him enuh,” he says. What! How that come in?
“ Wah you a argue bout?” I ask him.
Him a kill up himself and him nah mek sense. Him barely a talk bout the car him just a talk bout who fraid a who. Maybe something else a bother him. That nuh have nothing fi do with me though... mi just a go check if him scrape mi car.
“ Yuh a gwaan like a fool bad man!” his voice raises.
Zara comes out of the car and stands beside me. Zara is a rider enuh. A mi Ghee mon.
“It alright?” She asks and I kneel down, looking at it. Him scrape it enuh.
I shake my head and Zara puts her hand on my shoulder. “ It’s minor.” She says. Mi know seh a cas she nuh wah nuh problem.
“If yuh did a look in a yuh mirror that wouldn’t happen!” he says with no sign of remorse.
Keep calm Nickoi, you already a do great!
Him a ask fi sup’m enuh but mi respect Zara family so mi a gwaan wull it.
“Hey bwoy shut up yuh mouth yuh know a who yah deal wid?” Dino asks him.
“Yow mek that deh boy deh gwaan talk man, as long as him nuh touch me,” I say looking at my car bumper. Ben mi enuh.
I hiss. True him d’evu know seh a Zara mek mi nuh use deh glock ya pon him. Zara always a save dem bwoy yah life. That’s why mi nah mek she know bout Carlos. Mi wah kill him miself.
“Yow Dino nuh deal with me!” He shouts. Bad bwoy?
“Timoy shut yuh mouth nuh!” Zara snaps. So she know him? A who him?
