The pleasant lazy bump of Jamaican One-Drop faded as I wandered down the street, when someone hissed at me from an alleyway as I passed.“Devil’s w...ed,” she whispered. “Twenty a bag.” Ordinarily I would not have stopped, but the situation was desperate. Everyone I knew was scraping bowls. “No paraquat,” I said, cautiously. She was beautiful, deep subsaharan black skin and a boisterous riot of wonderfully unruly curls. For a moment I could have sworn she had horns, but when I looked again it was. Dial tone, and then an answer. “Hey, Babe,” Ryan’s voice says through the speaker, “you wanna come over tonight and-”“I’m breaking up with you, Ryan,” I say as evenly as I can through my moans, “don’t call me again; it’s not you, it’s me.”“Laurie, what the fu-” “I found someone better.” I hang up the phone, toss to the side and stare at my brother with a twisted smile on my face. “Does that answer your question?” I ask coyly. “It does,” Tom smirks back, and then leans against me, “he was a. She was always looking for an angle to improve her business. Sometimes she delivered goods from one store to another.Burl thought to himself, “She’s going to go far in life.”The shoe store was running a little late in opening that morning. Burl stopped in front of the store and saw that the manager was running around taking care of some last minute details. He waved to the manager who acknowledged him with a curt nod.Burl continued on his way knowing the store would be open soon. He was. Then again he never did really understand why people were attracted to who they were. Probably a primary reason as to why he was still single. Dr. Crane definitely had a more colorful past than she did. He was even implicated at one time in participating in a fraud case 10 years ago with a supposed surgeon operating out of his house. Some how he was cleared of any wrong doings though. Then Chuck noticed the attraction; he noticed they were once together many years before in college. The more he.