Christmas Eve Night

Anéyah
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I took lemar, my mother and sister downstairs and explained my fate to them as well. My mother begged me to rethink my decision but I cannot.

Dionnis has done more good than he does bad, I don't want to see him and his family locked away for life.

In all reality, I am the reason why he is in this grave situation so it's only best I find a way out of it.

If you're wondering how lemar is taking the news that I offered up on a white platter, I would say he's handling it better than all over us.

He is very optimistic that things will work out fine and I hope that for my sake he is right.

Lately he has been right, It's only best I trust his instincts.

Catalya wanted to sleep over tonight into Christmas; at first I refused because she should be spending this day with her fiancé and she retorted by saying I should be too so eventually I gave in.

"Besides I'm on my period that won't be fun" she shares making me giggle.

"Same sis, same" I reply.

We both sit next to the Christmas tree in our matching pajamas as we finish wrapping the last minute gifts we bought earlier.

I need to find a way to create a tracker that he won't suspect easily.

Until then I guess it's a waiting game.

Lya has a lingering smile on her face while she wraps the gift she bought for lemar today. I admire the glow that surrounds her, meeting diondré is the best thing that could ever happen to Lya.

Lemar and Aaliyah is at Antwaun's house pestering Briana as usual. Lemar enjoys going over there because he can play games with his uncle and kenrick as well as he can talk to his little cousin inside of Briana's belly.

He gets pretty excited about that.

A frown swept across my face upon realizing I came extremely close to giving him the one thing he wished for which is having a sibling.

Why me one can salt suh.

"I can't wait to have a baby with dré" lya says out of the blue in a soft voice with the same smile on her face.

Trust me girlllll

I know!

"You're the one that said you're not trying to conceive a child until your both married so yuh nuh really ave much of a choice with the waiting part mi love" I express and she falls over into a laughing fit.

"Dionnis really a rub off pon yuh" she says and I start to laugh with her.

"Really and truly is briana eno" I tell her and we both pause looking at each other then burst out laughing again.

"You're right" lya says in between.

Briana has been around me much longer than dionnis and that is definitely something she would say with her loud extra self.

"Anéyah the menu set for tomorrow?" Mommy shouts from the kitchen.

"Give me a minute dey mummy" I shout in return and open my phone to review the menu I created with everything we're about to serve for the Christmas luncheon.

Mentally checking each item so that I don't mistakenly add anything that might cause a duplicate and nod when it sounds complete.

"Yeah mummy every carpa-set" I then say giving her the confirmation for her question.

"Okay thanks" she shouts back to me which I barely heard over lya snickering like a hyena.

I give her a mean gaze and she stops but starts again seconds after "leave it to yuh to make up yuh owna vocabulary" lya jokes.

"Says the girl that just said 'owna' like she and dexta daps inna sup'm" I retort, lya scoffs "a my bad artist dat and yuh know it" she counters.

"Yeah yeah" I fan her off and continue wrapping the last two gifts laid out infront of me.

I still don't understand why my mother decided to host a luncheon when our house isn't big enough to fit that many people. I offered for her to relocate to dionnis house but she refused.

That woman can be so stubborn and persistent sometimes it's so frustrating.

Tomorrow and today might be the last few days I could enjoy before shipping myself off to imprisonment for a week.

Never see a man more delusional than Michael. He had me fooled throughout my whole years of high school, I really thought he wanted to be my friend; he even used to act a little feminine so lya and I just assumed that he was on the other side of the river.

We thought it was safe for us to get undressed in front of him not knowing he was watching and secretly preying on me in particular.

What a creep.

This just feels like am in a sick and twisted LMN movie.

Dionnis
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8:50pm|

"Okay sir I will be there at exactly eleven am" the decorator tells me.

"Sounds good but I must inform yuh that I won't be accompanying yuh until the decoration is completed. I have a family engagement" I explain to her.

She giggles

"That's okay we all do, my family is always behind with the cooking so they won't realize I'm missing for two hours" she shares.

She is sharing too much for my liking.

"Okay... until tomorrow" I return and she clears her throat as if she is now realizing she should remain professional she says, "right... y-yes, okay sir and thanks again for choosing my services" she express and I end the call.

Women these days have no morals.

My phone starts to ring seconds after regaining my attention. I pick it back up from the spear pillow then check the caller ID and groan. I forgot we were supposed to meet up to devise a plan on how to get rid of Mj.

"Yoow" I answer.

"D way yuh dey?" Kendrick voice comes out over the phone speaker.

My eyes roam over my bedroom and back to the phone. "Dawg give me ten minutes I will be there" I tell him and he kiss his teeth, mumbling something under his breath.

"All di man dem here eno, hurry up" he says and end the call.

I close the laptop and stand to my feet to get ready and head outside.

Within minutes I arrive at Kenrick's club, taking note of all the vehicles parked outside. We park separately to the other party goers, thanks to dré for making that upgrade.

I exit my jeep and proceed to inside of the club. My eyes stumble upon the crowd of people on a Christmas Eve.

These people don't have a family?

Kmt

Kenrick sent a message on my way here stating they were downstairs in his office so that's where I'm heading.

"Good night Mr Millar" one of the waitresses says in a sweet tender voice, I nod in acknowledgment and open the door to the office.

A fog of smoke greeted me at the door.

Dem man yah nah leggo off them spliff at all.

Antwaun and dré starts to chuckle at my facial expression. I quickly change it to an indifferent one but they pay it no mind and continue laughing.

"Bro lowe that" Fiftie says and my attention shifts to him, my brows raise in confusion.

"Dawg I thought you were coming tomorrow" I walk towards him and our hands join in a daps.

I sit next to him, sinking back into the sofa "Party start without me?" I query in a sarcastic tone.

Kenrick shrugs "we couldn't wait on yuh any longer" he answers and the others nod in agreement.

It's not like I care, the atmosphere seems a little tense since I've walked in.

They all know I despise smoking but I won't be the selfish one to tell them not to do it around me since it won't medically affect me. I only hate it now because I tried the very hardest to stray from that practice.

"What's the status on Mj since I left" I turn to Fiftie and ask.

"Same old, nothing has changed. I honestly don't think he suspects anything" he reply by saying.

I know better than to think he doesn't speculate we're up to something. He has had me under surveillance for god knows however long, he knows that I know about what went down in that hotel and if it wasn't for anéyah I wouldn't hesitate to put my glock 19 down his throat.

"That's okay he will resign by next week" I say loud enough for the others to hear.

They all shift their attentions to me, they're all aware of the incident that happened at the hotel with anéyah and that Mj is responsible for it. I also expressed my need to have him eradicated from her life for good but they don't know the crazy idea anéyah has in mind.

"What do yuh mean by that, I thought he didn't suspect anything" Fiftie says with a questioning look.

"Really and truly I asked yuh guys to come here tonight because anéyah has a something in mind which I don't one hundred percent agree with.

She wants to lure Mj to her by faking a relationship with him for two weeks but I chop that down to one cause mi no inna no fvkery when it comes to my woman. I need to find a way to get to him after she's done coaxing him into believing they're in a relationship and he drops his guide completely" I explain and their faces exceeds my expectations.

"Bare fuckery yuh a talk dawg, he no kill two a she pickney dem now?" Kenrick asks with disdain and I nod.

"I agree to disagree with yuh dionnis, this is some bullshit and my sister is crazy. Anéyah might not stand a chance with him since he's severely delusional about her" antwaun states and we all nod in agreement.

"Exactly my point, he might cause bodily harm to her or better yet force her into having sex and the latter angers me the most" I admit.

Mj will want to have sex with her and she won't be able to withhold it from him for more than a week which is why I narrowed it down to one week. She has more than enough time to swoon him without sex and dispose of him afterwards.

"Where will they be staying?" Dré asks and I shrug.

"All I know is they will be staying in Jamaica but as to where exactly, I don't know as yet" I answer truthfully.

He refuse to tell anéyah the location, afraid she might share that information with me or someone else.

Something about this whole situation doesn't sit right with me, he is up to something and I can't shake the feeling she's walking into a trap.

"Mi no like this none atarl, is mi one think this seems a bit sus" Antwaun says and for once I can agree with him. When it comes to his family especially his sisters his protective instincts really shows that's how I know briana made the right decision.

She is in good hands.

"I feel the same way" I chime in. Kenrick pass the Hennessy bottle to me with a glass of ice. I pour the contents of the bottle into the glass and give the cup a light swirl in my hand before taking a sip.

"What the plan D?" Fiftie asks as he release the smoke from the spliff he is constantly taking a puff of.

I raise the glass to my mouth and take a swig at it before saying "when he leaves the house we grab him and take him down to the warehouse".

"Anéyah wants to have a word with him before we kill him. Antwaun yuh might have to stay here in Miami to keep your family at ease and I will relay whatever updates for yuh to share" I tell him and a dark expression forms across his face then it disappeared just as fast as it came. I could see he wants to protest but he doesn't and it's for the best, they all need him especially my cousin.

"Everyone else will have their roles to play once when we go back to Jamaica in two weeks" I state.

"Just hope say anéyah know what she a do" kenrick express.

I hope so too.

"Yeah me too" I mutter staring at the contents in my glass.

As if lost in thought, something finally clicks in my mind. "Don't forget I'm having a little get together at my house tomorrow at five o'clock in the evening" I share.

"Yeah bro we won't forget that for sure, it's about time" Kenrick says and I roll my eyes.

"It's not like I didn't proposed already" I retort.

"Dawg come on it was a promise not a proposal" fiftie chimes in and I glare at him. He turns his head in the opposite direction to me and continue taking pulls at his spliff quietly.

The others roar out loud laughing.

"A bare fuckery yuh a gwaan wid stillz" dré state and I remain unfazed by their remarks.

"If a dat a dat" I refute and they continue laughing at me.

"We gone be there dawg" antwaun says "but I hope anéyah shows up" he adds jokingly.

"Yuh and kenrick know anéyah more than anyone else in here, so yuh both know if I did proposed when I wanted to, she might of freaked out so I chose to keep a safe distance" I explain.

"Yeah by writing a letter dawg??" Fiftie asks sarcastically and get up to run but my fist catches him in the side before he gets away.

"Aahh! De man hit me eno" Fiftie says out loud as he hold his side where my fist landed.

A satisfied smile grace my lips and I sink back into the sofa comfortably.

Why am I still friends with these men?

Oh yeah, they're my family.

"Ugh" I groan internally.

Antwaun, kenrick and dré burst out laughing.

"Yuh too soft dawg" dré says and fiftie's eyes widen in shock.

"Yuh tek one den" he suggests to him.

Dré chuckles "mi no inna no batty bwoy business wid unuh" he says and Fiftie kiss his teeth. I couldn't help joining them in laughter.

Fiftie roll his eyes and make his way back over to where he was sitting next to me and take his seat.

You have to be tough skin in order to hang around my family, these men will test your strengths.

Subsequently, two hours later we leave the club and went our separate ways. It's about eleven thirty now and instead of resting; my mind can't seem to stop wondering off on anéyah.

She should be asleep by now since she has to be up early in the morning with mummy jen to start cooking for the luncheon.

I reach for my phone from the nightstand and call her anyway, if she's up she will pick up.

The line opens and she says "hello?".

The grin on my face widens at the sound of her voice. "Shouldn't yuh be sleeping?" I ask trying to hide the excitement in voice.

"I should but I am up baking cookies for Santa and making the sides that can be stored inside of the refrigerator" she shares and I shake my head in admiration.

Why didn't she take up culinary arts at school instead?

She is always in the kitchen making something.

"Fiftie is joining us tomorrow for lunch, I hope that's okay" I tell her to avoid any arguments when he shows up unannounced.

"That's fine babe, aaliyah and him doesn't have any bad waters between them. It should be fine" she express and I reply by saying "okay".

We fell silent for a bit "yuh should get some sleep anéyah, don't women feet swell while they're on their menstrual cycle or some shit like that?" I query, she giggles a bit then say "yeah sometimes but mine is finished so my feet won't swell".

Hmm.

I like the sound of that, at least I would be able to get some before she goes back to JA.

"Aite... that's good" I pretend to be uninterested.

"Merry Christmas babe, I hope all your wishes come true today" Anéyah suddenly says pulling me out from lecherous thoughts of her.

"Me too" I mumble underneath my breath.

I remove the phone from my ear and look at the time, it's two past twelve. I couldn't help but smile "Merry Christmas to yuh as well baby girl, can't wait to see your sexy self later today" .

She makes a light squeaky noise and my smile grew wider.

"I made yuh blush?" I tease and my lips curve into a mischievous smirk.

"As usual" she returns with joy in her voice.

We continued to talk about random stuff until she was finished in the kitchen and got ready for bed.

How did I got so lucky?