Who Don't hear go feel!!!

“Kendra, I think you should stay away from Drake?”

“Why? I find you real bold, just so!” I harshly exclaimed to my friend over the telephone.

“Girl, I hear he is a drug dealer you shouldn’t be dating them kinds of people.”

After taking a deep breath to calm and ridding the thought of me giving my friend a black eye I said  “What stupid-ness you telling me I know the boy long time, we went primary school together. He’s not like that! He does go to my church and he doesn’t smoke nor drink."

“Well if you say so. Let’s hope you know what you are about.”

“Girl I know so.” I said positively.

“That boy they is trouble, they does just work early-early in the morning and have all day to play the fool.” Demi exclaimed.

“You just jealous yes; anyway I am going wash some dishes, the people in this house real lazy” I said complaining to my best-friend while approaching the kitchen.

While in the kitchen my sister, Kim-Annie Prince or Kim-Kim as I normally called her came in and began shouting “What kind of picture you have on face book so? I tell you stay away from that drake boy already inno. Who don’t hear go feel, you go ahead.”

I continued soaping the plate in my hand and thinking while gazing out the kitchen window as even turned to night. Why she don’t mind her own business. I am of age to do as I please. She does only treat me as if I am seven. I can’t wait to get away from this place. Tears rolled over my eyelids as I suppress the thoughts from turning into words. Afraid of the slap I may get to my face.

I was in deep thought when the buzzing of my phone pulled me back to earth.

“Hey sup drake”

“Nun much Kendra, it have a party to go, nah I now remember. Want to come?”

“Boy you know how my sister is already and she done making a lot of stupid noise in my head bout my face book picture.”

“Girl forget she, just wait till she sleeping, she is a early bird like you forget that… it go be fun.” drake said persuasively, “And beside you almost eighteen, you could do what you want don’t let she jumbie your vibes.”

“Alright, alright, are you picking me up?”

“Yeah, you are my partner in crime from long time, like you forget how we do roll or what?

We giggled and press the end bottom almost in unison.

 That night I learned a whole side of Drake that I didn’t know for the past nine years. Drake took me to the west side of the town. “This is where my friend McKay keeping his party” he said while turning onto a dead end street. People and houses line the street. I began feeling uncomfortable. The music was loud and full of violence. “Drake I don’t like this place could you, um, carry me home” I said shyly.

“Kendra girl chillax, have a drink.” he said handing me the red cup filled with clear liquid that burned all the way to my stomach.

The drinks kept coming, my hand never went empty. Then everything began passing my way cigarette, and then the taste of the cigarettes began changing. I really wanted to fit in so I didn’t refuse. Drake and I left the party it the wee hours of the morning, I could remember hearing, a cock crowing, but i wasn’t sure what time it was. We were giggling nonstop. I vaguely remember, while approaching the Gulf-City mall Drake tried to avoid a heard of sheep crossing the Claude Noel.

When opening my eyes florescent bulbs about four of them, and was all I see. I panicked and was about to come off the bed to see where I was. There I saw my sister sitting in a chair with her cheeks wet. This time I am going to get the whipping of my life I thought. When my feet touched the ground, I began to scream, “aw my foot mi foot”. The pain felt worst than menstruation pain. I looked down and discovered that the cause for my pain lies behind the bandages on my feet.  My sister explained to me that I had an accident and that Drake had died. I was in disbelief I cried every day for the thirty days I was in the hospital. I began calling drake’s phone regularly and if someone told me he died I will scream at them “it not true! It not true! It can’t be I will see for myself when I get out” I did leave the hospital, and discovered my friend was really gone. For month I did not leave my room.