🥒 SUMMER BUDDY 🥒

CHAPTER 28

                       Chapter 28

                       Tiony's pov

  Natty's eyes followed me inside the house, and I dropped the traveling bag carelessly just inside the living room and walked to my room. I switched on the room light, then switched it off again and went inside the bathroom. I heard him talking with Gibbanks, stretching out the conversation, and I went out and closed the bathroom door. I quickly pulled out the plastic shoes bag with the money and felt inside it if any money was left inside it before moving away and standing just inside the bedroom. I barely saw the door opened and the bag lifted out quietly while Gibbanks talked with Natty close to the gazebo.

  I hissed under my breath, badly wanting to haste there and switched on the outside light. The bag was placed back inside soundlessly, and I placed the plastic bag of money in one of my towel baskets inside the closet and waited on Gibbanks. He came in and locked the door, and we showered, then watched Cryptonite from the playback camera as he sneaked unto the verandah and took his time opening the door. He looked like a real puss bending down at the house side and shining his phone light inside the bag.

  "Everyone is your enemy." Gibbanks murmurs and closed the tablet screen.

  Gibbanks gave the grill man the down payment out of the two million dollars Natty gave him right in front of them. He had the man measured all four houses, and they talked about the prices while Natty and some of his nuh waan work man dem look on. He went about mixing some weed seeds after the grill man left and called André away from amongst Natty and the other men. They went about sowing the seeds, and Tyrone and Jevaughn went to where they were to see what they were doing. Natty eventually went to where they were talking about weed that would be too strong to smoke.

  That night with Mommy and Miss Beverly sitting out on the verandah, Gibbanks told all the men including my father that Natty and the other men cannot be trusted which is why he had made so much effort to keep him at bay. Tyrone mentioned that Natty logged on to every news and did full inquiry on everyone. Gibbanks told Daddy and his father to farm up the walkway that crossed from Cryptonite's house and make them all have to walk the long way around when they were coming over here. The following day Mattic told Gibbanks that he had seen someone came up on our verandah and searched the bag I had carried with me and Gibbanks told him what had happened leaving out the part that we actually found money in two of the bimmas.

  Since Natty and his talibans was drunk on most days, they ignored their weed fields and he told Gibbanks in an unfriendly way to come out of his weed grounds when him and André went and was weeding it out. He ordered a few men to weed and look after the weed grounds and chastised Gibbanks for acting differently. Both of them argued with Gibbanks telling him about his rass and coming over. When Natty wanted him to order two expensive new cars, Gibbanks told him he would not because that would draw suspicion and unwanted attention to Natty and they argued all evening until they finally agreed on which two cars to buy.

  Natty began to bring other bad men to his yard, and even Uncle Earl and Aunty Palsy got worried. It was as if Chantelle got thrown to the back as it was rumored that he had even brought other women to his house and Uncle Earl cursed Chantelle terribly one evening when she came over from Natty's yard with her face swollen and threw down the baby on her bed. I could not blame Uncle Earl as Natty had made millions off the cars, yet Chantelle seemingly didn't have any money to build herself a room. Mattic began showing her bad face, and Gibbanks, Tyrone, André, and Jevaughn avoided going over to Natty's base in the evenings as he no longer came over to the gazebo.

"Wash di truck." Daddy tells Tyrone the following evening when Natty and a large group of men came to sit under the gazebo drinking, smoking, and chatting.