The Big Bad Don and his Cosmetic Stripper

Chapter 23: Back to the Basics

Tamara's POV

I am so over the fuckry that I call a job and the mistreatment that comes with it.

"Good body a who hawt up yuh head" Gary snickers at my attitude as divine turns around to enter his car.

"Guh suck yuh self gary, brawling too" I say unexpectedly.

Like him nuh realise seh mi grimy right now.

I get in the car , start it and drive off passing divine so that he can follow behind me.

***

I park in the drive way and  take my belongings out the car and soon hear the clinging of divine's keys behind me.

"Nice neighbourhood" he says in a flat tone.

"Yeah thanks" I say turning the door knob that enters my aunts home.

I am welcomed by the smell of shrimp , chicken and coconut.....

" You're home a bit too early, a wahm dem fire yuh?" Jason says laughing in my face.

"I quit actually" I say blatantly and after those words leave my mouth all I could hear was the after math of my mom throwing some onions and tomato in the pot.

"Good afternoon" Divine says breaking the silence in the room.

"Hello Divine " they all say in unison except for Jason who pauses the knife in mid air that he was using to slice some chicken breast.

Looking at divine as if he has seen a ghost.

Weirdo...

"What lead you to do such a thing?" My uncle asks.

" Did anyone say something to piss you off or-..." my mom ask

" A true yuh work a club dont it I knew tha-" aunty michelle exclaims.

" What are all of you trying to say!, I quit my job because I felt disrespected and didnt feel heard" I say a little to loud.

" Baby you need to calm down" Divine says.

"Baby!" Both uncle dylan and Jason say.

Turning the heads of me , mommy, aunty michelle and Divine.

" Who is this young man calling my Baby girl his BABY" my uncle chuckles.

" Um...well this is Divine my - um..."

" Very good friend" he say not once looking at me with a smirk plastered on his lips.

Now a my turn fi look pon him now cuz who the fuck him a label as him friend after mi bubble pon fi him buddy couple days aguh like seh him drop ring pon my finger.

"Your friend?" I say looking for confirmation in his hazel eyes.

"She has never carried a Friend in this house or even in the drive way for us to see...ever" my uncle smiles at me.

" Well lets just say I am a very special friend" he says turning his body to me then giving me a kiss on my cheek infront of everyone.

" Den babez a longtime we a friend then cuz yuh been a kiss me pon my cheek, come look fi me a night time, carry me out guh hotel and me all stay out the couple nights wid yuh and yuh drive miles come look fimi too suh I guess we and them a di same thing" my aunty says literally listing out everything divine and I have done.