The next morning me and Rome woke up at 5:05am the sun was just peeking light into the dark sky justenough for us to see. We walked out to the backyard with just our boxers on, "Damn he just like me" I thought to my self "niggah where da shovel at?" I was cranky but I really wanted to see what was in the chest. "We cuban nigga here"he threw me a stick we picked around until finally, both our sticks hit something. It was the cigar box! We digged it up and opened it the key was inside along with some cuban coins and two identical necklaces. We put them on imediatly we were so happy excited we brung the cigar box inside and cleaned it off. We didnt know what was in the chest so we didnt want to open it in front of eveybody and plus it was still 5 in the morning we put on some clothes and went for a walk "what you think in da chest?" He asked me I thought for a second "Ion kno a bunch a pictures and prayers and writtin out shit" "yea you prob right" "where we goin?" "We gonna get some cuban sandwitches and jorritos" we walked a good couple blocks down the street. People were outside sweeping, cleaning, watering their plants and blasting music out their houses it was only 7:30 inda mornin. finally we got to a little café on the corner. men were playing dominos and smoking cigars "maricon!" One of them yelled to another guy sitting at the table. I knew what that meant and laughed the cigar smoke smelled so strong it gave me a slight head ache but I aint wanna seem like a bitch so I aint mention it to Rome who was use to it. "You see down there he pointed across the street thats Little Haiti we gonna go there with Drew later. We ate our sandwitches and headed back to the house. When we got there. My mom was hopping in the van, she saw us "cmon imma buy some paint for the house." We went to a paint store. "Hi im looking for a tropical vibe of paint tones" the store lady answered with a beautiful Caribbean accent. "I have somting for you she showed us this rich yellow and a sangria colored burgendy and my mom pritty much loved everything she picked out we left with hella buckets a paint. "We gotta paint da whole house?" My mom laughed "Hell no, we in Miami I get some Haitians to do it. " why not cubans?" Romario asked my mom explained to him."yuh momma black so I gotta flip the money for my black people. Unless you know a bunch a black cubans" "I do actually, I know a lot a people here" "ahaa u got da connect just like yuh momma" she smiled at him. We got back to the house my mom told everybody defore we left to put their stuff in Rome's room cause she ain't want our stuff to get stolen by the dudes that was coming to paint. Rome called them up and he sure didn't lie. They looked more black then anything. Me Rome and Drew left. "Where we goin?" Drew asked "you'll see" Rome told him I could tell he was axious we walked, and walked and walked, "we here" "what da hood?" "Nah we in little Haiti! My friend kevin family havin a lil party we goin to his house now" we continued walking it was ghetto as shit I mean like on some other shit but I kinda liked the strong culture it had we finally got to his friends house "Mario! Oh shit and de twinn damn you wasn't lien his family came to the door Drew nudged me to greet them "good morning" and of course Drew at home ass broke out in some Creole and they laughed and they told us to come in. Drew was feeling better obviously he was a Haitian comic cause he had them laughing the whole time. Me and Rome went to Mikes room with him "bruh we got a problem" Rome said to Mike "and wats dat" Mike had a strong accent. He explained everything to him about Drew missing his brother and how he was lettin it out on Drew . "Oh dats no good, ok so where in Haiti is he fwom?" We had to call him up and of course they had the conversation in Creole me and Rome were lost I sighed and put my hand on top of his not intentionally and it all sounded crystal clear we both looked at eachother I took my hand off. I could still understand them "you could still understand dem?" "Yea they said they from the same place." Drew and Mike looked looked at us with a what da fuk face "when did you learn Creole"we laughed ""when he touched my hand "we both replyed at the sametime we didnt even notice we were talking Creole to them. Drew said "ok yall could stop now" in English and we snapped back into talking english "ok so you touched my hand while they was talkin and we became fluent" Rome said" "ight so can we still understand it now without touching our hands again?" I asked "I cant believe my boyfriend have super natural powers" Drew said to Mike in Creole we understood it perfectly. "Not jus yuh boyfriend I can too" Rome said back to him so it was official we was now fluent in Haitian Creole. I saved it in my phone :to learn a language put my hand on top of Rome's while the language is being spoken and dats it. We headed back home on the way we learned French, Spanish and Portuguese. The house was getting painted, it was lookin really good. Before it was a washed up light blue and had moss and dirt on it,damn it was ugly. They painted moms room a orangy tanish color the girls room was warm dark but faded lavender color lil Drevon room was a light and bright blue it almost reminded me of a blue kisko popyou buy at a corna store. Are room didnt get painted yet. The living, dining and hallways were all a light green a little richer then the inside of a cucumber. the kitchen was getting the same color as outside a rich yellow. They finished at 1 in the morning. The house had paint fumes so we spent the night at Tios house. And boy was that house was packed! Me and Romario ended up sleeping on a wooden table in a gazebo on the back deck we had alot of sheets, comforters and pillows so It wasnt bad "your Espino's we can make anything work no problemo" Tio told us we kinda laughed him off cuz he was so corny. We talked most of the night. "What else you think we could do" he asked me "a whole bunch of stuff I bet we not gone know until we open da chest." "We gotta pray." I held his hands and we closed our eyes. "My sons" we bowed to her out of respect and thanked mama Oba" "Marcelona has a curse on you two my children, if you don't cast it away by sundown tommorow you will loose something valuble! Dont shame me!" A black man walked up "My sons I am papa Luis you must feed me in order for me to protect you". The dream was over we called aunt Rosa and told her we saw a man at the tree "I'm on my way " she got there in no time and picked us up name "whats his name?" We told her papa Luis. She hit the steering wheel "Shit!" "Whats wrong?" We asked "papa Luis was Haitian in order to communicate with him we either need drums or a Haitian voodoo priest she made a u turn and headed for little haiti she brung us to a old ugly house it was alot of people we thought it was a party until we went inside. They where killing a chicken singing songs and spilling rum me and Romario had the same thought "we jus wanna talk to papa Luis and mama oba to get this curse off of us and get da fuk out. Finally a man came and talked to Tia Rosa he grabbed us and brung us to the middle of the room and asked us what our anceosters was named we told him. He called their names and the congregation called for a Loa (a spirit) he held our hands and papa Luis told him what he wanted to cast the curse away. The man killed 3 white chickens then made us touch eachothers foreheads. It felt like something was running through me we blacked out for I dont know how long then regained contiousness holding Romario we were exausted and smelled like a whole bunch a stuff it was 3 in the morning. Tia Rosa made us shower at her house and gave us some clothes and we went back to sleep on the table without anyone knowing. The next day we woke up at 12pm we walked back home after eating breakfast. Because mom and the others left us. I was curious if the curse was broken we checked by visiting the tree again and it was! We got to the house it was a moving truck with new furniture it was all in a nautical theme it was really nice especially moms canopy California king bed set . She got to talk them down to buy on get da other two 80%off. Aunt Leecey got a whole bed room set for free. Mom got 3 full sized beds too and another kingon top of that 60% off. The rooms where all big tooso it was no problem to fit the beds. She called a meeting "ok I got more news, so im keeping.."she pointed to Duwonn,Dane, Teetee and Ray and I'm building 2 more rooms in the back" we looked to the back and saw them digging a foundation. The twins started crying and huggin my mom they really didn't want to go home and now it was official that they wasnt Ray was happy as hell too cuase he didnt really like the city we lived in,it was too much bad memories for him. Drew was so happy but he was gonna be really happy on his birthday me and Rome had a surprise for him. As days went by mom bought alot of plants she made a garden and the yard looked great she planted tree seeds too, a little coconut tree, a mango tree and of course a orange tree. The new rooms were built out of cinder block then covered with cement to make it look like it have a stucco effect. The work men were done in no time we had to wait days for it to properly dry. Drews birthday was only 2 days away their rooms were almost done it would of been but my mom wanted a roof top garden patio thing so instead of making a reguler roof they made a concrete slab flat roof with a spiral stairs to go up there it was really nice. It had a pergola and patio set and the walls on the sidewas a little above waist hight.she added a bunch of flower pots and a bed swing thing too like at that hotelme and Rome went to. The floor was a mosaic of broken marble and granite tiles which was free because they was scrap peices. It was like something off a magazine, the whole house was.
