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“No. Deal’s a deal,” I said and handed him another grand.
Naturally, he didn’t argue. He simply put the money in his pocket and opened the back door for me.
“Okay if I ride up front with you?” I asked and started walking around to the other side without waiting for an answer. Super shut the door.
“Come,” he said as he got in. “Where you wanna go?” he asked when I got in.
“Wherever you take me. Show me Nassau and I don’t mean the tourist shit either.”
“Me remember you say the woman she gon’ show you the real Nassau?”
“That is what she told me,” I said and got comfortable in my seat.
“Seem as if the only Nassau she want show was she.”
“Yeah, well, she showed me plenty of that.”
Seeing as I hadn’t seen any of it, he drove us through downtown Nassau, and then he pointed out a few tourist attractions. “Just so you say you see fore you go, don’t you know,” Super said before he drove out of the area.
For the rest of the day and well into the n
ight, I hung out with Super. He took me to a place where I gambled, drank homemade rum, smoked a gang of weed and listened to him and the locals talk shit. Then Super took me to a lady friend’s house and she cooked for us while we sat outside enjoying rum punch, weed and the evening sun. Then I was served a meal that my mother could have made. Yeah, it was that good.
After that, he took me back to the hotel where I found the red light on the phone flashing with messages. Knowing who they were from and what they wanted, I got undressed. I took a shower and then got in bed, knowing that one or the other would call again. I was proven right when the phone rang before I could get comfortable. It was Felicia, she was still on the property.
“How convenient,” I said and laughed.
“Yes, it is,” Felicia said, and she laughed too. Then she told me that she would be at my door in ten minutes.
“How convenient,” I said and hung up and then I called the front desk. Thinking that Felicia was working the morning shift, I asked them to hold my calls until morning.
What I didn’t know was that Felicia was working the afternoon shift, so she was still there when the phone started ringing at nine that next morning. Knowing who it was and what she wanted, I ignored it and went back to sleep. The second time, it woke Felicia up too.
“You are not going to answer she call?”
“No. And how do you know it’s a she?”
Felicia laughed and rolled over into my arms. “I know that it tis Cortisha Walker who call,” she said and since she seemed good with it, I said nothing.
The phone stopped ringing.
“When Cortisha Walker begin to come around each day, it is not hard to figure out who it is she come see.”
“Do you know her?”
“No, but I know she family. Cortisha, she go to England to study when she small. But me point is that people know her and some … they take great pride in telling me of she.”
“I see.”
Felicia kissed me. “Everybody at this hotel knows everybody and everybody talk. They talk about you, Mike Black.”
“Me? Why me?”
“This is an expensive hotel and you are a young black man that has been here for more than a week. People them want know who you are and what you do. Agnes tell them you are from New York, so some, them think you a drug dealer.”
I shook my head. “No, not a drug dealer.”
“I know. Drug dealers have stayed here before.” Felicia shook her head. “You are too nice to be a drug dealer. So, still them wonder who you are and what you are doing here.”
