🥒 SUMMER BUDDY 🥒

CHAPTER 27

                        Chapter 27

                         Arly's pov

  6 months later...

  Nothing that I worked hard for was I going to lose to a bitch and badminded haters. With an extra pair of gloves in my bag, I went out of the house quietly, and we hugged the road in the darkness with the big dark green tarpaulins. We turned off into the bushes a mile away and went through Dagger-master's yard into what was once my weed fields that Kimeka was arranging men to start reaping. Natty looked at me as I passed him with the sixth fully loaded tarpaulin, and I shook my hand at him to hurry up.

"Mi caan si!" He exclaims.

"Same like how yuh find yuh 'oman pussy when uno fuck ina di darkness, feel fi di tree root and cut di sitn dem!" I tell him and heard a quiet round of laughter.

Mister Troy was waiting for me with the wheelbarrow when I got to the end of the track and was away quickly as I paused to drink some water from the cooler Mattic had on a big stone while he stayed on guard close by with a loaded rifle. My back was killing me, but I wasn't going to leave one weed tree standing by daybreak, so I stretched and kept going with determination. Ignition uses Jermaine's phone to send several texts to the rival don telling him to come and pay the money and rescue them when we were done. Copper released Kimeka's father's cow to trample all over the weed fields, and I took one of the bulls and led him away with us while Dagger-master pulled out a pipe at the back of his yard to flood his back gate and hide our shoes print.

My parents, mother-in-law, and woman had a lot of weed picked and packed when I got home that evening with my brother, cousin, and brother-in-law. I changed and we ate and joined them. Mister Troy came home and couldn't pick the weed, so he packed the boxes and loaded them into the rental truck. Daddy bathed and drove alone to the wharf and unloaded the boxes of weed into the store house and came back. Everyone went to sleep, including André who lay snoring beside me. News was that they were searching for the reaped weed, and we needed to get it all out in case police came searching.

  André woke up when Natty came for the truck. He went to bathe and drove with Copper to the storehouse on the wharf and came back. Natty had a lot of people helping him and left with another truck load before morning. Tiony brought me a hot cup of tea and began helping me again, and I had another truck load by day light. I went to sleep when my Dad came back, and Tyrone and Jevaughn woke up and began helping after eating breakfast.

"Wake up and come eat." Tiony says, shaking me awake.

I got up automatically and went straight into the bathroom under the shower. I sipped the cup of goat soup while listening to Natty as he conversed in codes with Dagger-master's cousin from a strangers phone. "Di cow dem raid di place bredda, but di police dem come look and sey a nuh di cow dem alone suh mi a conduct search everywey."

"Nuh sey forty." Natty told him, and the call ended.

  I got to work picking, and everyone worked all through the night with me. We had heard there was a look out near the wharf, hence the reason my truck didn't go to do the drop-offs and as soon as we finished carrying all the boxes there the following evening. Natty went and loaded the look-out car with bullets. Crime scene yellow tape, no survivor. Rizzla's chatty mouth cousin Douglas was one of the victims, and Daddy shook his head. I organized with my car dealer friend in town to sell our truck and buy a different one and two weeks later we made the journey to Kingston where Natty left his car to be sold and bought a new one.

  "Me a sell di neda two and buy two new ones." Natty says when we sat reasoning the following day as we ate delicious roast beef from the butchered bull.