Fatal Attraction (Jamaican Novel)

•Chapter 47•

Kingston,J.A||Saturday||4:50 P.M

Tanoi Cunningham

I'm awoken by the car coming to a sudden stop. Blinking the residue of sleep I had in my eyes, I try to clear my vision.

I hear Vinny start cursing as he puts the car in reverse.

"What happened?" I ask with a groggy tone.

"Chinna, mi reach St Andrew but dem block the road", dem always ago call each other before dem answer my questions.

Great.

I sat up straight in the backseat, watching as the cars before us took a different route, the streets were filled with jdf officers and barriers.

A wah really a gwaan?.

"We affi split up" Vinny says to me, "yuh trust mi?".

I shook my head, "nope".

He chuckles, "good".

Mi nuh know wah kinda question that him a ask mi.

He maneuvers through the traffic and heads back into Kingston, never taking his foot off the gas.

I strapped myself into the seat, there's no way he's going to kill me today.

Three bikers rode out in front of us, mi cuda swear the man dem dead a while ago to how fast dem a move.

They did their signature salute, followed by Vinny's three honking.

"Are you you going to tell me what's going on since no one else will?" I question.

Vinny glanced at me through the rear view mirror, "yuh know this ano your information".

"I know, but come on Vinny, my life on the line as well as anybody else own, mi alone nuh know anything that's going on, just bits and bits of information"

He sighs in content, "Roger and Jonathan start run off the streets, remember a him a the MP so him have likkle more advantage, dem hire some young youths fi lock down the place so dem can find you".

"Dem a look fime and we deh pon e road a drive?"

"Yeah, a wah?"

Our eyes locked, blankly staring.

Him cyaah serious fi ask mi a wah. So far, him a the only sane person mi see while being insane at the same time.

Never would have imagined him being my guardian, he's doing a good job but for some reason I'm skeptical, he's always been quiet, the quiet ones always the crazy ones.

All my life I've been running from Jonathan Sybron, all my life I lost people because of him, I don't know how this will all end but I need him gone.

I lost my both of my brothers thanks to him, no one can ever recover from losing two brothers, he made my life hell, he made my family's life hell.

We had to be up and down for years, fighting to stay alive.

This has got to be the end of it.

"Beverly Hills?" I question Vinny, watching as the bikers split up, leaving only one in front.

"Yuh Mommy demanded it"

"Where is she?"

"Spain, everything good, we just need fi have unu in separate places"

I nod my head, "understandable, have you heard from Imani?".

"Yeah, him good", his somber tone threw me off but I brushed it to the side.