🥒 SUMMER BUDDY 🥒

CHAPTER 24

                        Chapter 24

                        Tiony's pov

  I stayed quiet inside while police searched the other two houses in the yard. Mister Audley and Miss Beverly stood in front of André who had been washing when the polices arrived, blocking them from taking André to the station for questioning. The shots fired earlier that morning had taken someone's life, and from what I heard André saying to his father, it was a drive-by. The polices search up by the foul coops and look over the fences into the farm. I breathed out a relieved sigh when they finally left and quickly went and caught up with my work.

Gibbanks came home with four big rolls of fencing wire and put them inside the wash room. Him, André, Jevaughn, and Mr. Audley sat and talked quietly by the washroom door outside. Dinah and Thickarous came, and Dinah told them that Kimeka told her policeman that Gibbanks had forced her to have sex with him one night when she came to collect Arlem, and that was her reason for asking him to take a paternity test as she just wanted to make sure she was giving her daughter to the right father. Dinah went on to relay how a certain person told her how much Kimeka bawled and begged the policeman to forgive her because she had ended the relationship with Gibbanks because he was very spiteful, and always disgracing her.

The news seemed to have sent him into soul searching as he sat by himself outside at nights in the dark. His mother whispered to me that he was trying to get a transfer from his current job as it appears he was being followed on some evenings. Soldiers chopped and lighted his weed fields, Natty's weed fields, and several other weed farmers in the community early Wednesday morning of the following week. Several tractors dug up the entire weed fields while Natty cursed until they arrested him.

"This a sabotage! Whosoever send uno, a fi dem place uno fi guh dig up! Mi smoke and mi sure as hell wouldn't want fi a smoke no weed wid issues from the dead! Bomboclaat! Look how uno duh mi fucking weed grung! How mi 'oman and family dem a guh eat?!" Natty cursed on the van back with his hand handcuffed behind his back.

"Carry him down a di station and him nah get nuh bail until him talk wey di body dem bury." The superintendent says loudly to two officers who got into the van.

"Any fucking body tell yuh sey me Nathaniel Nethersole aka Natty, know wey body bury yuh need fi guh investigate dem. Yuh fucking idiot yuh. All di while uno lock up man wey innocent and have di fucking criminal dem a laugh wid uno." Natty stood up and told him angrily then sat back down.

  I was surprised when he came back home that evening, and several men with red eyes from crying over their weed grungs came and sat in the back of Uncle Earl's yard with him. Mattic served them all soups as no one had eaten from the morning and clearly had no appetite. "Any wey dis come from, dem a guh pay ino mon!" Natty exclaims in a painful voice.

  Millions of dollars had gone up in flames that morning, I didn’t understand the marijuana trade they did that much, but it was on the news that evening that the pharmaceutical companies they supplied had taken a great hit as billions of dollars worth of marijuana were destroyed during criminal investigative operations. Police and soldiers swarmed the community, searching for Kimeka's brother Jermaine and two others. A shoot out between the military force and rival gangs of the community that night was said to be in relation to some missing scamming money.

  People began to move out of the community, and so did we also a week later. "Yuh si wey mi a talk bout wid dis scamming? And show me wey it a duh fi dem cause dead man caan spend money and drive expensive vehicle. Ol' fucking crosses dem." Natty asks, states and cursed as they dug the hole for a large septic pit at the back of the two bedroom board house Gibbanks and I live in with his family.