Page 49 of Not My Type
“Nuh say nutt’n to me man,” he walks away. “Mama me a leave now so goodnight!” Her voice echoes from behind her room door.
You know what it never was? That serious.
“Zara?” Nick’s raspy voice calls and I look over my shoulder.
“Yes?” I answer, feeling so uncomfortable knowing that Gavin is seeing this. I look back at Gavin and he shakes his head at me in disappointment. Disbelief and disgust.
“Cya believe this a raatid,” he mumbles.
“Gavin, it nuh that serious enuh,” I say to him. He snorts.
“Oh, really?”
Nick walks back into the room and closes the door softly. Maybe he’s giving us space.
“You a go hear me out?” I ask him.
He glares at me. “Wah?”
“I like him but me couldn’t tell you that,” I admit.
“Yes because me would a lick back yuh sense dem in a yuh, but you do this behind me back. Weh this secretive side did a hide all along? Why a now you feel fi betray me and spit in a mi face?” he questions.
“Gavin. Stop,” I breathe out. This is heading somewhere I don’t like. I look down and sigh before I meet his glare again. “You a me only friend enuh,” I hold his hand. Losing a bestfriend is so painful, especially over something as trivial as this.
“Yuh nuh need me,” he says. Oh?
“So, because of this you a go vex with me?” I want to cry at this point. I’m frustrated and whenever I am, I cry.
“Zara? How yuh fi have him out of all persons in a yuh bed?! Zara mi nuh wah have nothing fi do with you. Live yuh life but just know seh wen him hurt yuh I am unavailable.”
“Why can’t you just support me?” I finally start crying. I’ve never felt so desperate in my life. He responds harshly. “Yuh deh with smaddy weh kill people and almost kill wi too!? I can’t.”
“The time late me affi lef now,” he abruptly says and storms out. Every word that he said to me cuts through me like a sword. Mi know him wouldn’t accept him. I knew it. What did I expect? I wipe my tears and head back to the room. When I do, Nick is watching the movie as he gets ready to leave.
“You a leave?” I ask, worriedly. He nods. “Mi a go link yuh tomorrow.”
“Alright,” I sob. I can’t imagine a life without my cousin Gavin. He has always been here for me and now he’s walking out of my life just like that? Nick lifts my chin and kisses my lips. I exhale against his, running my hand through his hair before I move my face to the crook of his neck with tears rolling down my cheeks.
“Yuh fren soon come back round,” he assures me. So him really did a listen?
“You think so?” I ask.
“Mhm,” he hums.
“This is the biggest fight we’ve had,” I tell him.
“I can see that, everything soon mek sense though,” he hugs me.
“Okay, stay safe,” I wave and he walks out. I follow him, praying that Mama is sleeping. Why not the back door? Vicky lives behind us, she ago chat. We make it to the front and a black SUV pulls up to us. His chauffeur is on time. I see. I feel relieved when I realize that his car wasn’t parked here. He hugs me again before he moves to my ear.
“Me a get yuh tomorrow so be ready,” he promises. I smile sweetly.
“Okay,” I wave and he hops in the back. As soon as I turn around, Mama is staring at me with her mouth wide open.Lawddd God!
19. NONCHALANT
Zara
