Peppa

16. Peppa

I parked the car and everyone came out, everyone except Candy. She had been silent the whole ride. But it's expected, I mean she just saw someone get shot, in the head.

"Come outta the car," I said opening her door.

"Peppa I-" she started but I stopped her.

"Just tell me weh the bomboclaat happen. Yuh sorry nah go make a fucking difference right now Candy." I said. She tensed up from the harshness in my voice.

Me vex, me fucking vex man not only is another one a me fada man dead by my hand but it took up the whole of my day. Wah go home to mi woman mhon.

She got out of the car and stood in front of it, looking out at the view. I had carried us to Lookout Point after getting Gargamel the Wendy's he was so bent on.

I watched as Stinga and him siddung on a big rock close to the edge. He offered a silent Stinga some of his food. She fan him weh. Stinga always got like that when she killed someone: silent, almost scared. Still, she always insists fi come when we a do things like this.

"Me see him one night when me did a go home from this party," Candy said, her voice gaining my attention again.

Me siddung pon the front a the car, knowing this story would be long.

"Yuh memba when Chop Sue dead?" She asked - I nodded not knowing what that had to do with this.

"Me a come from a party one night, and me see him and Chop Sue a cuss. Me nay did a listen. Me just a go bout me business. And then me hear gunshots. He shot him. A yute he called his brother, him family. I stood there fraid like puss, I even counted them. Five inna him head and two inna him belly."

My eyes widened a little. Chop Sue and Cash were one of the few man them weh live a Grants Pen weh a work fi me fada. When Chop Sue died, Cash said he didn't know what happened and that his guess was the don find out him did a play two side and cut him tail.

I didn't buy it, for some reason I didn't buy it. Neither did my dad but he didn't act on it. Knowing if one a the other man did ever find out what truly happened, he woulda know first fi sure. My father hated questioning the loyalty of him man them, me on the other hand ago question every fucking thing, but me lowe it, upon his requests.

"Me devn know why me turn round, me did a hope fi see a different situation, but all I saw was Chop Sue pon the ground. Head dent in. Blood all over. Me couldn't help but bawl out; me and Chop Sue grew up together. Him hear me, run me dun go straight a me fucking yaad gate." She turned to me. Tears start streaming down har face.

Fuck, if me did ever know. Me would a make the pussy suffer more.

She pointed to her temple, "Yah suh him point the gun. Fi the fuss me feel the coldness of a metal gun. And me neva know weh fi do. Him tell me if me ever talk me would a dead. I had no other choice but to listen."

"Next day dem find him body, Mama start bawl fi him. Me decide me affi say something so him can get justice; whether me end up dead or not. Me pull him sister aside ready fi tell har and a Cash that enter them house same time. Him realize weh me did ago do and pull me aside bout him wah talk to me. Talk. Bwoy, the man threatened me whole family a St.Mary. Tell me exactly where him can find them and exactly weh him ago do them if me ever open me mouth."

"Dun to me fucking 90-year-old grandmadda, weh nuh do nuh body nothing, him threaten. So me keep shut. Then him start come a me yard. The man start come a me yaad come lay dung inna me bed and talk to me like we a fren. Hide all him gun a me yaad, all sort a something." She sighed.