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CHAPTER 38

                        Chapter 38

                        Tiony's pov

  2 weeks later...

  André drove to work in Gibbanks' Jeep, carrying Arlem to school, Jevaughn, Tyrone, and his pregnant girlfriend Kady-ann to work. André collects Arlem from school at two in the afternoons, and he stays with Kady-ann until she leaves work at four-thirty. Gibbanks didn't make getting fired bother him. He was still earning on the side from the company and has begun clearing another parcel of land to plant more marijuana. I worked locked inside the bedroom during the daytime to keep out the noise of the workmen building the dual carport and storeroom. He carries Artyon with him in the mornings, and they always return in the late afternoons.

  Natty had someone bailed Cryptonite out of prison, and I heard he beat him badly and took what money he had been caught with before threatening to kill him if he saw him again. The place looked like an estate with two large electronic gates, high fences, and groomed gardens at the front. Rubbish drums were placed a short distance away from the gate, and the rubbish truck collected the rubbish when the road sign was put up by Gibbanks' friend Marlon, who worked inside the ministry of land and housing. A team from the Jamaica public service came and erect light posts, connecting this new community with electricity, and everyone could now pay electricity bills as we all got meters.

  "A one fridge mi a plug in pon it suh dem betta try nuh send mi nuh high bill or else it nah pay." Uncle Earl says when the electricity works was fully completed.

"Dem si di theiving wire dem, dem can gwane guh report it cause a straight theiving light mi a us." Mattic states.

  His house was almost completed, and like us, he had a great view at the baack and front of his yard. "Chantelle look like she a breed again." Mommy says lowly.

  "She betta hurry up and done build di room dem wey she a add on, cause mi couldn't guh breed again fi mi babyfada if mi caan live wid him." I state.

"Mi like how Shinel a build up har place and si Steffon mek sure sey she move in fully wid Weedeye. 'Oman fi have ambition and always have some wey fi put dem head. Yuh nuh si di whole a Natty sister and niece dem a build up somn fi demselves, dung to Dinah and Thickarous a gwane good." Mommy reasons.

"Fi real mon, any work Gibbanks a duh Thickarous and All-purpose present dem self fi di likkle hustlings. Yuh waan si how fast dem a pick off di first set a weed. Ignition nah gwane too bad, him start raising turkeys and rabbits along wid him likkle work. Di rest a dem need fi guh look work and stop depend pon Natty. Mi hear Chantelle and Chantae a chat Ignition 'oman a sey she waan put business place out pon di main, a same way mi feel like dem a chat mi to ino, cause mi nuh si nutn wrong wid dat. Di girl a elevate herself." I reasoned.

"If dem waan chat yuh a fi dem problem dat, yuh working and since Chantelle gone back to Natty she stop wuk, dem na've nutn fi hurt dem. Dem sey si mi and cum live wid mi a two different somn, what a way Palsy can watch people business. Mi tell Gibbanks dis mawnin' when yuh send di meat come sey mi waan build a fence and him tell mi sey him sisters a pree fi duh di same thing. Mi nuh like how dem just walk through di yard anytime, and Palsy she nuh care how Earl reap from him grung she nuh know sey she can put two somn ina one bag bring come, but every time she come a beg somn." Mommy expressed lowly, and I washed my hands and began making the dumplings for the chicken back soup.