Page 201 of Not My Type
“Let me try it,” I say and she gives me. “Thanks.”
“So it have Pineapple, Vodka and blue curaçao,” Then that nah go too strong?
“This well strong then?” I ask and she nods. “It’s good though,” she smiles.
“Sash drink two already... all mi would a say is nuh drink too much of it,” she chuckles. I nod, sipping it. It tastes so good. Mhmmm Strawberry daiquiri nuh have nothing pan this.
“Mi love this!” I smile, still sipping it. She laughs.
“Yes mi work at the bar at the hotel so mi know fi make them,” She adds. I smile giving her thumbs up, my mouth full.
“Good job,” I finally say, shifting my gaze to Nickoi.
“You want to try it?” She asks him and he shows her his Hennessy.
“That good,” he shakes his head. “Thanks though.” I smile at him and she walks away.
When I’m done drinking the cocktail I walk to the kitchen to get a bottle of water and down it in no time. When I’m going back out, I hear my name causing me
to stop.
“Hey Zara,” I turn around and smile at Zanne.
“Girllll yuh look really good,” she compliments. I grab her in a hug.
“How yuh like the cologne set?” She asks as she pulls back. Which cologne set? She notices my expression. “Nickoi doh give you the gift?” she’s disappointed.
“Not yet, I’m sure it’s in the car,” I say, trying to make her feel better and also defend Nickoi.
“Mi beg him do ONE sup’m and him mek it come in like mi nuh send nuh gift... mi nuh like them sup’m deh,” she hiss.
“A man enuh them never do the right thing,” I say and she laughs.
I walk back over to Nickoi after talking with Suzanne. Nickoi is in his zone; just drinking and smoking. I’m not gonna ask him about the gift as yet because he probably never remember about it. Mi a go just wait. I watch him for a while as he drinks his Hennessy. He looks at me. “Wah some?” I nod slowly. Why not? He pours it out in a cup and as I drink it, it burns my throat. I choke a little.
Nickoi laughs. “You will get used to it mon,” he adds and I drink the rest. Yuh see how you a drink down the place?
The selector starts playing Moment for life again and everyone starts rocking while some of the females sing along.
“I fly with the stars in the skies!” Gavin sings loudly at the side making me laugh.
“But to live doesn’t mean you’re alive,” I hear my mother singing too.
“Ain’t being cocky, we just vindicated…best believe that when we’re done this moment will be syndicated, I don’t know!” I shrug, vibing to the song before I start dancing, moving my hips. Feel so nice, like mi drunk already...no sah.
“Yes birthday girl!” One of my aunts say and I laugh still rolling my hips to a song that has nothing to do with twerking.
I start seeing camera lights on me and I continue swirling my hip. I push my cup in the air. “P-put yah drinks up, it’s a celebration every time we link up, we done did everything, they can think of... greatness is what we on the brink of... I wish that I could have this moment for life!”
I shout the lyrics as everyone hypes me up. After a while uncle Rohan comes over to me. He tells me that he got here late because he was having some car issues.
“Happy birthday mi niece this a yours enuh,” he gives me ten thousand dollars and I smile.
One thing Uncle Rohan always gi me a money. “Thanks Uncle,” I give him a warm smile and he hands me a cup of D’usse.
“Have fun,” he chuckles before he walks away. Jesus watch dem out fi drunk off Zara!
I take it and smile... I’m kinda liking the whole alcohol thing. I like how it burns my throat and how it makes me feel. I sip my D’usse while rocking to Drake’s verse. As I whine to the song, I brace on Nickoi, feeling ecstatic. He puts his arm around my waist and I look back, grinding on him. Yuh come in like you a nuh yuh self enuh. How yah whine to this?
