Fatal Attraction (Jamaican Novel)

•Chapter 12•

Tanoi Cunningham

Wednesday||Kingston//8:20 P.M

I'm rinsing the glass I drank out of when I felt someone else's presence inside the kitchen with me.

I whisper a small prayer, I'm not feeling well, I would hate to have to fight someone.

"I told you I wanted to talk to you", Brielle.

Why she sound like she a yuh ma?.

I turn around to face her, she's sitting with an annoyed look on her face.

"I haven't been feeling well" I answer, I'm still waiting for the pills I just took to kick in, it's been five minutes.

"I heard", she looked me up and down, "yuh love me bredda?"

"Wah kinda question dat Brielle?", I rolled my eyes at her stinking attitude.

"Is a simple question Tanoi, from him know yuh all yaah do a use him, if yuh no love him make sumody else love him!"

I bit my tongue, literally.

"Who, Kira?", I scoff when she doesn't answer, "yuh think Kira can love Imani?, Kira is a mattress, only thing she can love a man wid money"

"So waah the difference wid two a unu, doh act like yuh innocent when yuh did a have sex wid Chinna mean while yuh in a relationship and engaged"

She a try call yuh mattress.

"When yuh see me act innocent?, just because me no loud and vulgar wid it nuh mean me act innocent"

She cyaah serious, she literally a try compare me wid Kira.

Of course me and Mani did a mess around, but that was after me find out Jaydon never faithful as him used to play. Mi never act like me innocent, mi just naah go round a skin mi teeth wid Mani make everybody see.

Some people know bout we and some don't, most people think we used to be high school sweethearts because a how we stay and of course me did have strong feelings fi him when me a go school but come on....she really a push it too far.

"So what was that yesterday then, yuh always act like yuh naah do nutn wrong", she pressed bout this eh.

"Me nuh affi listen to you", I walk from the sink and as I'm about to walk by her she got up in front of me.

It come like trouble cyaah see me and pass.

"Brielle, come outta me face" I said calmly, not looking at her.

If I did look at her I would probably hit her.

Me know wahm to har eno, mi nuh know who trouble har.

"Me try fi make amends with you because Chinna asked me to, but after yesterday mi cyaah seem fi do that"

I laughed, looking up at her, "Nuh make because a him yuh fake yuh friendship, mi nuh need it and teach yuh fren fi play har role right, since yaah boost har up fi take him, make she fucking take him, fi all I care give him to as much a dem as yuh want Brielle, give him to wulla yuh dutty waste fren dem".

I walked around her, standing there as if she wasn't expecting me to answer her like that.

Brielle know mi naah go back down so easily especially if a never me start it.

Pain shot through me once I'm out of her sight, I lean against the wall, rubbing my belly.

See how mi body wicked, fi so long me a wonder why it naah come and as soon as Imani get him hands pon me it come.