The King of Kingston- BOOK 3 of the TULPS series

Chapter Ten: Message Delivered

Malikai

"Malikai, wah di fuck bro?" Ollie kiss him teeth, pacing back and forth in my living room. Scamma was busy lying down the couch to my right eating an apple and scrolling pon him phone and I was busy having a spliff and a try fi ignore him. "Bro it's her best friend, bro the man face swell like 50 bees bite him one time, him mouth buss up and —"

"Ollie, I nah go lie and tell you say I give a fuck, suh stop give me him medical update...mi neva ask," the words left my lips like I had no feeling left in me.

He stopped pacing and walked over to me. "You clearly unhinged as fuck right now, cause this nah mek no rass sense!"

"Him disrespect mi, wah more sense you want it mek?" I shrugged, nonchalantly. Ollie look like him bout fi lose him mind. "Picture smaddy weh yuh know wah fuck yuh wife—nah, worst yet, smaddy weh in love wid yuh wife. He's always butting in and being the shoulder to cry on just so he can inveigle his way in. You, Ollivier, cannot rass tell me say you wouldn't empty di clip inna a boy head. Suh nuh badda come try mek it look like Jaxn's likkle cuts and bruises are nuttn compared to weh di pussy deserve. Mi try wid him!"

"Bro, mi affi agree wid Kai, di pussyhole bright yuh fuck" Scamma said with his mouth full. "Man been a try, eva since him find out seh di two a dem use to be fuck-buddies—mi nah seh Anashé woulda cheat, but mi a man and mi know seh a nuff gyal mi knock when dem vulnerable...Kai just a try help her avoid di same situation him end up inna...we all know him fuck Zasha cause him a guh through supn right now...di blind can see that."

The room fell silent. A nuh di first Scamma eva mek sense...but...fi some reason everything bro said hit the nail right on the head. I looked at Ollie who stood with him mouth wide open in shock, as he looked at Scamma who was still enjoying his apple and scrolling pon smaddy Only Fans.

"Yeah, what Scamma said," I chuckled, impressed. "Jaxn is lucky he only stayed two days in the hospital."

"Bro, alright, if Scamma is right then whatever a badda you yuh need fi fix it, if you want yuh family back."

"Den spose mi did tell yuh say the wholla it a badda mi?" I said the words I've been feelin' for years for the first time. This whole rass shit bothers me. Scamma sat up instantly and Ollie's eyes widened in complete shock.

I sighed, shaking my head, "From the moment mi affi duppy mi mada til now, I've been doing a lot of shit weh nuh sit right wid mi spirit...and mi nah say a lot of it nuh necessary. If a boy affi dead a just dirt...but I think the part that mi just can't seem fi settle inna mi soul...di part weh just won't let me be relaxed...a di fact that I had goals of being so much more, so much betta...and den mi look pon mi life and see di shit that I've been left wid...deals Lee-Ann made that I had to follow through on to keep my family safe, and its like mi can't move on. All inna death, she still a fuck wid me life."

The fact is mi very ruthless, but that nuh mean mi heartless. That's what made this life easy for people like Lee-Ann. Man like me, did a look fi mek a positive change. Look at me now? Mi nuh proud a di tings weh mi a do. That shit a get to mi now.

"Kai, weh you a try seh? Yuh wah wi end the business?"

I threw my hands up, defeatedly.

"I'm saying there's is no escape...I'm saying it is what it fucking is, and I know that, and mi a mek mi peace wid it, but at the same time mi feel like mi a lose the balance."

"Balance?" Scamma asked. "Bro, mi been a try find that...you can't be in badness and stay good."

"Yeah, like there is no reality where the darkness nuh tek ova everything, to rass— unuh look pon the Zasha thing as mi just losing composure and fucking that girl to feel better... but mi look pon that shit and see me losing my fucking way. Me losing composure nuh just happen suh easy. Bro, how mi fi do that to mi wife? A mi wife wi talk enuh? Ana enuh, bro?"