Chapter 4

Likkle Miss Mackenza

In the far distance, a repetitive banding can be heard along with a muffled voice saying, “I am a God, I am God…I- I am a God…” The loud screech of a door was heard and it suddenly opened and a female walked in with two other males.

The female looked down at the woman in the bed while chewing gum, “Pam, is it. So You think that you're a God?” She pauses to pop her gum.

“The fact that you were even in the division astounds me.” The mysterious person said. Covering half her face.

Pam was sitting on the bed with her hands bound by a straitjacket, her jet-black hair was wet from perspiration and her cheek had a bandage. Her lips were cherry red and very dry. The skin was now peeling off, and her dark brown skin was turning blue. She hardly looked up instead, she just stayed quiet.

“Tell me…”

“If you're such a God then why can’t you free yourself. I mean you used to talk high and mighty but look at you now…” She paused, then walked over to the side of her bed and reached out her hand, “Jermaine hand me the file.” She said and skimmed through it while popping her gum.

“How great you fell from grace. I guess you belonged here all this time for thinking you could get my spot.” She looked down at Pam after hearing a whimper from her and rolled her eyes.

“Stop with the pity party, tell me why you did it, maybe I can get you out of here.” There was dead silence on both ends. The young female was no longer smirking at this point.

“Forget it, I have seen a lot of you on the job but to think they would send me…I mean where would they put you, just woulda hold up di space, them can just keep you here. Jermaine, Shawn lets go.” She said calling to her counterparts and walked out of the room.

“You always pretend like yuh so nice, but I see yuh for what yuh really are!” Pam finally shouted.

Stopping them, without even turning around she hissed her teeth.

“I hear the voices!” Pam shouted.

“The voice dem me tell me everything and I am a God, mmmeee have powers that can finally put ah end to it all. None ah uno ova deh nuh badder dan me!” Pam exclaims as she stands up in bed.

“Listen, I hear voices too Pam, don't feel like you're special.” And with that, they walked away and the doctors and the nurses came into the room to try to remove her from the bed and she started to get defensive and scream to be let out.

On the other hand, miles away after school while walking home with my sisters Sabrina called out to a girl named Makenza. She was bullied earlier in Sabrina’s netball class. She told us how basically because she doesn't know how to play the game the girls were very mean to her and when Ashely slapped her in the face with the ball she grew wings and flew off crying. We decided to try our very best to lift her spirits.

“Girl just nuh meds dem, sound like di gyal jealous cah honestly yuh nuh ugly and she mussy bad mind say yuh ah one fairy. Mek yuh nuh just go the School of Royalty?” I inquired.

“You think suh, well I can't go to the School of Royalty because my parents can't afford the school fee.” Makenza says.

We asked her where she was from. “Well, to be honest, my family and I are not from here.” Mackenzie answered while playing with her hair.

She turned to see us all looking at her waiting for her to continue, her face was so red when she saw us staring her down. “Aaannnddd?” Sabrina said.

“Well yeah, we are a family of fairies and we were all killed off by the Vampires and the witches, we've been living here for years now.” She said while taking a deep breath that's when we all eased back off her.

“Vampires and voodoo people?!” Selena burst out. “I mean I do hear of them but, jah know yuh hardly hearing of them or even actually spotting them.”

I started to scratch my head and grabbed Mackenzie's hands and sang to her. I started to see a smile wake across her face while her eyes darted trying her hardest to never make eye contact with me.

We converse more with her and we found out that she lived in our neighborhood

“Jah know speaking a dat, a true say you can even study and train fi be monster hunters and get pay?” Sabrina asks.

“I think suh girl me nuh know have fi look it up or something.” I said.

“Imagine if me end up have powers, uno already have yuh abilities. But jah know hope me can fly suh me nuh have fi walk go school a day time.” I said.

We then stopped and looked at Makenza and smiled while she looked at us nervously.

Soon after all three of us are levitating into the air, we all are laughing and enjoying ourselves with Mackenza, while we hold hands. Seeing that we have been sprinkled with fairy dust. We all are falling in the sky.

The lady at the vending stall selling turned over her igloo of bag juices and suck suck at the sight of us. even some of her items fell like her coconuts and pineapples rolled into the street, while she ran to pick them up she started yelling, “The blood of Jesus, watch dem yah witch yah, weh me phone deh, which part my phone deh cah them nah go believe.”

We laughed while flying off to our homes. It felt so weird but she told us to relax when Selena occasionally screamed while laughing in excitement. The lady's reaction is understandable since people don't usually always see things like this or magic or power around just casually.

In some places, it shows you that it's not allowed. When we reached our house I turned on some music and started doing my stretches in the mirror and asked Mackenzie if she knew who the dancehall artist Spice is. She shook her head no.

“Come likkle miss, who ah yuh favorite dancehall artist?”

“Umm, I am not sure, me think it's Shaggy?"  We chuckled a bit and we shook our heads, “Don't worry girl we ago tek yuh from underneath the rock which you live under cah yuh a mussi Patrick.”

Now cue the shopping montage. The rest of the day we went shopping and also taught her to say certain Jamaican slang and phrases, and how to defend herself the next time the girls at our school try to bully her.

While we were outside of the mall where we usually hang out, Selena said she would soon catch up to us and wait at the bus stop for her.

At the time she was keeping from us that she met up with Victoria Golden.

We and the Golden family have been at it for some while now, honestly, I wouldn't want to be like them, they think the whole world revolves around them and they are boastful.

She walked up to where the twins and their friends casually hung out in the middle of the mall.

“When yuh a come to me and face me, woman to woman. Or me have fi tek the initiative and do it mi self.”

“Well yuh already deh yah, fi tell di truth yuh very exasperating.” Victoria said while sitting at the table writing a poem.

“Yuh think me nuh know who you be and what yuh really are?” Selena said and leaned in closer.

“And yuh nuh think me know the same. Tell me something…yuh even know weh yuh wukless pupa deh?” Selena lifted her hand to slap her but then as if something was holding her back she stopped.

That's when she saw Randy, her close best friend, he was all bling out from head to toe. She inquired about his recent whereabouts and why he hasn't been at school.

“School anuh nuh fi me enuh and honestly me get some goods fi sell…yuh wah none?” She push him off and said.

“Yuh betta come off ah di streets before yuh end up dead.” He only fans her off and walked away.

Meanwhile, I ran into my ex David he was standing at the bus stop with another girl, when he saw me he started calling out me by hissing at me, “Pppsssttt!” I tried to ignore him so I walked off then he grabbed my hand.

I turned around and rolled my eyes at him.  He then grabbed me again and tugged my hair. I was now getting annoyed, “Listen to me, you aguh leave me alone.” I said. He looked at my chest and then my eyes.

Then he laughed to himself and said, “Why you ah behave like that?”.Then I mocked him and moved my hands like I was doing sock puppets.

David is the opposite of Dre, he wasn't into sports and he definitely wasn't tall either but he was about four inches taller than me. He had hazel eyes and long hair, and a light complexion. He always wore a mask too. What he really liked were dark and violent things and had tattoos on his chest and arm. He was very rebellious but had really good grades, and he got the most awards for high achievement at school.

He's what people might call a gangsta nerd, his style is saggy tight pants and his shirt is always straight and tucked in tight.

I looked over to see my sister looking at me to see if I am okay, I didn't want to draw attention to myself so I told him that I would text him later when I reached home.

When we all got back home we convinced Mackenza to stay over after getting permission.

We played dominos then later on Mackenza did our makeup, Sabrina asked her more about her life and she explained how she had to soon get married and carry on her family legacy and soon leave. We all got silent until Selena broke it by exclaiming, “Di life of a fairy I guess.” We all gave her a look, then suddenly I got a call, it was from my ex David.

He still wanted to meet up with me. I stepped away from the girls and took the call. He was very persistent. So I agreed, so he could just stop…or was that what I told myself.

I slip away and went to the restroom. Changed my clothes and yelled out that I was going to the store and rushed out before anyone could even say or question me about anything.