In the Dark

27.

"Wah Gwan fi you and Xavier?" He asked as soon as we were some place private enough, and I shrugged.

"Wah uh mean?"

"Unnuh deh? Unnuh a fuck?" He asked, and I blinked a few times.

Well that escalated quickly.

What happened to 'hi, how are you'?

"No."

"And if me ask him dah same question yah him ago have the same answer?"

"We annuh twin weh use telepathy." I said, and he kissed his teeth.

"Mi nah laugh."

"Me nah laugh neither. Yah mi Bredda uh fi know say we annuh twin." I said and she walked past me bumping me out the way as he said.

"Mi nah ramp wid uh yer Thea, and mi done talk."

Honestly mi deeven ago pay him no mind, caz annuh one time dis when me did young.

Me a mi own big woman now, and him a deeven mi fadda.

"A wah him say to uh?" Asked Tristan when I returned from my little talk with Anthony, and I shrugged.

"Him say uh fi send me 30k by a morning:

"Eeh?" He asked, and I chuckled, but then my smile fell, for I saw Xavier, and what Anthony said to me earlier came back to me.

Him cah stop me.

"Xavier can talk uh real quick?" I asked as I walked up to him, and he looked at the group of guys that he was talking to, before turning his attention to me.

"Depends pan weh yah try fi say."

"Wah talk to uh inna private." I said folding my arms, and it was now that I got the attention of the rest of the group.

"Thea wah pudung one pan uh Zay." Said one of Travis' friends weh dem call short man, and the rest of the group laughed as I kissed my teeth.

"Eeh? Well some man betta get in line enuh caz a long time me a pre har." Said another weh dem call one and go, and I kissed my teeth getting irritated by them.

"Inna uh dreams. Uh figat a wah uh nickname? If uh cah keep up wah yah chat fah?" I said kissing my teeth, and his friends all laughed at him.

"Xavier yah come or not?" I sided as I grew even more impatient as the seconds went by.

"Yow my youth if uh nah go go wid har me will go fi uh enuh." Said short man as he tried to take a step towards me, but Xavier just placed his hand on his chest pushing him back.

"Easy uh self man and go one side."

"Mi honestly nah go ask again." I said as I grabbed Xavier by the his shirt pulling him along with me until we got to an empty room and I closed the door behind me.

"Thea mi honestly nah go mek uh put me inna trouble enuh." He said as he stood at the farthest end of the room with his hands folded.

"Xavier stop wid di foolishness. Which trouble yah talk bout?"

"Doh worry uh likkle head. Time fi uh let me out caz dem soon start look fimme." He said as he walked over to the door as he tried to open it, but I quickly grabbed a hold of the knob before he did, and I held it firmly.

"Thea mi ago bawl out rape enuh God know."  He said as he tried to move me, but I didn't budge.

"Xavier just stop wid di foolishness nuh. Mi swear uu confusing bad. Nuh just nuh too long yah apologize bout weh night, so why yah act so strange now?"