🥒 SUMMER BUDDY 🥒

CHAPTER 10

Chapter 10

Tiony's pov

"All dem breed a somn dey mek people duh some people things ino, caz wey dem mek di fence get lick dung fah and dem caan build one,eh? Now di two yard dem open up and dem a stare ina Gibbanks and him fada battyole. Dem a crosses!" Uncle Earl expresses after Mattic told him why Mr. Audley was seen cutting posts in the bushes.

"More dan crosses, cause look how Rizzla put di youth ina hospital fi foolishness. If a neva one thing a guh round dey guh light dem piece a house a fire." Mattic vented.

"Di whole family a dem nuh like peace, suh you try nuh get involved." Aunty Palsy warned him, making a face.

Uncle Earl hissed loudly before saying. "If a di man weed farm dem a pree dem can guh plant fi demselves. Yuh nuh affi look hard fi si how badmind tan up ina some a dem bout yah. Das why I tell uno know who uno bring ina dah yard yah and kip uno business to uno self."

After a lengthy pause, Mattic says. "A waday Gibbanks sey to mi, 'mi a shub out di weed a evening time as it done pick ino and mi nuh want certain man over mi grung a work mi nuh trust dem.' Di man done a feel Rizzla dutty friends dem bad energy. Di drankro dem goodly a chat di man and have him up, but dem know better dan fi step to him caz Natty will sey is him duh di crime a guh a prison fi him if him frig dem up."

"Di lawyer dem love scammers money." Chantelle stated.

"All dem wi get fuck to! Tsk. Listen nuh. Uhumn!" Mattic says, hissed and went angrily.

He got up and went out the front door and Chantelle laughs quietly. Uncle Earl chuckles and says. "Him friend, have him clean money to, yuh nuh si how di youth elevate himself."

"Him should a breed one out a port woman and bring har ina di community." Aunty Palsy says lowly and dislike of Kimeka was evident in her voice.

"Suh it guh, him wiser now. Si who him a mad ova yah." Chantelle says upon getting up and slapping me hard on my leg.

Chantae, Steffon, and Shinel laugh while Aunty Palsy made a face after the initial surprised look that she had looked at me with. I got up immediately as Uncle Earl cleans his throat and was through the kitchen before he could utter a word. I could hear my cousins laughing uncontrollably at me, and I took a deep breath and went to sit in the hammock. I call Mommy, who accused me of enjoying myself so much that I forgot about them. It was good to hear her voice, and I spoke to Daddy and then my big brother Tyrone, who came home from work as I was about to end the call.

Chantelle came down to where I was a short while later, and we talked about a clothes business she was planning to start. "In the town better than anywhere near here, you will get the support of strangers rather than just a few people in and around the communities." I told her, and she sat there pondering.

My life wasn't as easy as hers. My parents are struggling to pay the rent and the bills while still assisting me to go to university. Tyrone's pay mostly goes into his savings to go towards us getting our own home, and that's what I'll be doing too once I finish university and start working. If only we had some of these lands to build on, we would have fewer worries in our lives. I understand mommy's decision to leave here when she was younger for a better life in the city, but I wish she had secured some lands that could be farmed up and we would have an income from it. She wasn't thinking like that at the time, and I couldn't just ask Uncle Earl to do so now, especially with the likes of Aunty Palsy to discourage him.

"Uno man dem want to see uno pretty faces round a di front a di yard." Mattic says from a stone throw away.

Chantelle smiles, and we get up and walk around to the front of the yard. A table was set up at the gate with drinks, fruits, and snacks, and I sat on a chair just inside the yard while Chantelle went over to where Natty sat at one of the domino tables playing. Steffon carried out a chair and placed beside her man, and Shinel came and sat beside me. Moments later, Chadea began serving us small dishes of fruits while Mattic handed out drinks and liquors. Copper came out of his car after music began to trump from it, and Gibbanks appeared from somewhere near the wall where I couldn't see from where I was.