Chapter 24

                  Sariah's pov

  I stayed up for most of the night watching some re-runs from the following day and days before. I saw Earlan eavesdropping and how he fell down the stairs. "Humn!" I said when I saw that the others had left and he had went up to the treehouse.

"That was a smart ass move he made on me," I said to myself.

  What the asshole didn't know was that I really love him and I just want to live a comfortable life. Why is it men always want a woman to settle for whatever, but won't ever stand for those kind of treatments? Doesn't he realize by now that I can do without him? I can stay away from him for the rest of my life and still love him.

  I took up my phone and scroll to the video from the day before at the hospital. After watching it and grinning at Earlan's dilemma, I set the audio for my ringtone. I went to his room, switch on the nightlight and saw him fast asleep, he was on his back looking uncomfortable, but I guess he was tired since he was asleep.

  Idiot, I said in my mind, I'm going to enjoy life wether he wants to cheat or not. One thing for sure I was going to make sure I was satisfied. My clit tingled and my breast nipples stood erected as I thought about the love and great sex we just had. On that note I went and wake him up.

  "Hey wake up!" I pinched is toe and lay on the bed beside him.

  "Earlan!"

  "Mmmnm," he said and cleared his throat, "babes wha gwane?" He asked looking a little alarmed.

"Mi need yuh," I said barely above a whisper.

  "Eh? Wey yuh sey?" He asked.

"Yuh deaf? Yuh a draw snore and mi want likkle more sex, tsk." I said flippantly and cut my eyes at him.

  I sucked my teeth nastliy every few seconds and frowns up my face looking at him bad. He laid there staring at me for a while with sleep evident on his face.

  "Come lie down beside mi." He murmured closing his eyes, I watched as he drifted off back in sleep and sighed deeply getting up. Turning off back the night light. I went back to my room and to my bed to sleep.

Someone was tickling my foot bottom and I chuckle pulling my feet up, my cheek was pecked loudly and I fluttered my eyes open.

"Good morning honey," Earlan said lowly, "breakfast in bed." A bed tray of deliciously smelling food was placed between us.

  I yawned rubbing the sleep from my eyes, then lay there staring at him. He got up using his crotch stick and came around to the next side. "Balance yuh ago mek di food cold? He asked.

"Who look after it?" I questioned knowing it must be his mother, but what was more concerning to me was how the tray of food entered my room. I didn't sleep dead, so how come I didn't hear any movements until he woke up.

"A me look after it." He replied.

I turned and looked up into his face meaningfully.

"Stop look pon mi so, look," he said getting up without the crotch stick, " mi can move round pon mi foot, but mi caan put no pressure pon it." He said then sat back down beside me.

  I sat up and open the thermostat teacup, seeing and smelling that it was cocoa tea I took sip. As soon as I started my door was knocked and in marched my troop. I smiled.

"Uno done eat a'ready?" Earlan asked and a group of "yes daddy and yeses" went up.

  Earlan got up and left and they crowded on my bed with a barrage of happy chatter. I heard that the pool was being cleaned and that daddy said they could all get to swim a little later. Great, I thought feeling lazy.

I call Shion and let them all have a happy chat, my heart swell with love and pride for my children. I love them so much.

Ms. Charmaine cooked dinner and then went home that afternoon with Balla who Earlan sent to do something. In the evening I had a hard time getting the children away from the pool. They chatted happily as I comb their hair for and made sure they were well prepared for school the following day. Ice-cream with a variety of toppings sealed the evening and when they were asleep, I went and took a good shower.

My day had been well spent and I felt thoroughly happy. I went to bed feeling exhausted.

The morning came with Rajae's father on smile Jamaica it's morning time. He was seeking monetary assistance dor a illness he had and he said he had been looking for me for years, when they asked if he hadn't been in contact with me. By the time he was done my phone was ringing off the hook. Some of the calls I didn't answer and I heard Rajae cursing somewhere up in the back yard.

Pelpa came to collect the children and was laughing like he was getting off.  Earlan looked at him with arrogance leaning against the back door. Pelpa came in for the children's lunch bags and my phone began ringing again.

Ahhhhhhhhhh!! Bumboclaaaaaate!! Ohhhhhh uhhh, bumbo pussy rassssss ohhhh pussy rassclete wuieee wuieee wuieee.

Pelpa was lying curled in a ball on the kitchen floor. "Somebody help me please, hahahahahahahahahahahahha. Woiiee, I need a donkey jawbone fi laugh. Uhhh, ohhh God." Pelpa said, I was afraid he might die as he gasps for breath.

When he finally got himself under control a bit he said, "mi ago dead."

He lay on the kitchen floor sprawled on his back. I took a glance at Earlan who was looking at me with a mixed facial expression I couldn't quite decipher. My phone began to ring again and Pelpa rolled over unto his stomach and began beating the tile floor with his hands while laughing. Earlan went outside asssisted by his crotch stick.

It was then I began to laugh, "Pelpa, get the fuck up off my kitchen floor, this is just the beginning of how I'm going to fix your fuck face fren." I told Pelpa, who was wiping tears from his cheeks.

  Earlan didn't come back inside the house until later that morning, Rajae came with him and I laugh to myself at how I was going to fix every motherfucker that kept stepping on my toes. In the late evening I sat grinning by myself as I scroll through the pics Riri posted with my children and her's.

Torcha and her was having a field day on social media and Earlan flung the crotch stick into the tv at news time when Sidoney's father came on television descrediting me and saying all kinds of shit. I don't know how the tv screen didn't manage to break. I roiled in laughter as he got up angrily nearly pitching over.

  I swear my children's father are not serious at this time, crawling out of whatever holes they have been hiding in for years. While Rajae grumbled and curse out back with Earlan, Balla, Pelpa and two more friends they had been watching the tv with, I called Carrissa and made plans for her visit the coming weekend.

After taking a nice warm shower, I went to the small wine cellar and choose a famous brand of champagne. I took a glass popped the bottle opened and poured myself a drink. Rajae came and looked inside the kitchen, I looked at him then took up the bottle and my glass of champagne and walked up the stairs.

I cannot stop him from loving his father and I wouldn't if I could, but he was not giving him any money. His father could go and seek alms somewhere else, how dare him! Going on t.v. and trying to make me look bad, after telling me when Shion was only months old that if I didn't continue having sex with wether we were in a relationship or not, he was not going to mind them. And he didn't, because I couldn't bring myself to stoop so low to him. I had left him without having a place to lay our heads and began a battle to survive in which I came out with a lot of emotional, verbal and mental scars.

  I had came out victorious. I was sitting comfortably inside my bedroom sipping a bottle of champagne valueing the amount of money he claimed he needed to help with his illness. After avoiding to help financially or otherwise for years. Shamefully I had reached out to them a few times when I had founf my back against a wall. They had only wanted to get back with me, none of them was interested to support or be a father to their children. Now they have the audacity to now come on t.v. to try and do what? To let me fuuuccckk them up.

Even though I was now well off, I wasn't struggling nor suffering with my children, I still felt a pang in my heart. The life I had hoped for is still far from me. With all the wealth and status I've attained in life, I was still without what I have always yearned for.

Maybe I will never have that, since I've been wanting it all along and still can't have it. I took a big gulp of the bubbly golden liquid shimmering in the light from the night lamp. I leaned my head back and sighed heavily.

At ten the following day the helper still hadn't arrived and I murmured every minute.

"I told yuh dat I fire her ino," Earlan said from the living room.

"Tsk. Why?" I snapped.

  He looked around at me, then after a minute he said. "I was re-watching the house video the day before I fired her and I saw her go into the fridge and turn the whole big bottle of cranberry juice to her head. She drank and then put it back in there, so I fired her."

After inhaling deep and exhaling upon a sigh, I took my phone and called the woman. Finding out she was  unemployed, I asked her if she could come in the next day and she agrred that she would.

Catching Earlan's eyes looking at me with anger after I end the call I said. "Atleast you didn't catch her balancing on the washing machine." He hissed and I began washing the breakfast dishes.

The helper was wrong for doing so, this was not her house, it was downright rude. However, I did do similar shits like that when I was a helper. Especially when I was working for the ones who looked down on me because I was their helper. Sometimes I would cook and ate first before telling them dinner was ready.

The things I've been through many people wouldn't have survived I'm sure. My thoughts dipped back into my past reminding me of when I left Simeon Rajae's and Shion's father and moved back home. My sister and brother treated me so bad. They would steal my things, eat out my food, they did everything to me without having any conscience.

It was then I decided to build a house for myself at the back, I had reached out to Simeon thinking he would be glad to help so his children could have a safe roof over their heads. He had told me that the money I was using to build the house to take it and send his children to school and go sell mi front fi build mi house and ended the call on me. I had been depressed for a long time after, struggling and working hard to make ends meet.

I had stayed celibate for four full years, not having any feelings for sex. I had began to have a deep distrust for men.

  To be continued....