Nikita was on her computer grading papers from her students at her beautiful apartment in Corinth, her apartment was white and pink, and her balcony was filled with plants. She has rain lilies, mint, basil. She had tomatoes and peppers. She did not have to spend much money on tomatoes and peppers at a supermarket or the market. Her apartment was in an area with many houses. It was a residential area, and, no buses were coming into the area, not the Gros Islet or the Corinth and Grande Riverie busses will stop in that gap. She had to walk up to Glace to catch a bus. Nikita did not mind because she liked the exercise. It was good for her, and she was a fitness person. It was 7 pm, and the curfew had started, and she was in her panty and bra. She was not ashamed; she was at her home, and it was a hot surprise in October. Not that in St. Lucia, it ever gets cold. It just gets a bit cooler. Her bra was a silk bra, pink Nikita loved pink, and her black panty was a thong. She had a glass of cheap wine she brought at Massey’s. She could not remember the brand as she had thrown out the bottle, and it was on the last glass, and she was too drunk. Nikita thought she should not be grading paper while she was drunk. It was so hot that she had to open the door and windows as blazing hot.
Then she felt a chilly wind open, and there Aimee was, but she wasn’t’ in that 19th-century outfit she first met her in but in her cotton black summer dress and her hair in one plait.
Aimee raced towards her soul mate, “what are you doing here? “
Aimee responded in French, “Je suis venu te voir. Aimee did not only speak English but French and Patwa,
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“I wanted to see you too. Come and sit down. You must be tired. “In the apartment, Nikita ‘s walls were pink, and she had black and purple chairs with a table. It was a wooden table, but it looked so exquisite that you could see a craftsman made it. Aimee thought the table looked like furniture that the men on the plantation made back in the day. She was still not into the modern furniture, but she sat down on the couch near Nikita
Nikita turned to Aimee “do you think Papa Bwa, or Anansi would know how to get you out of this dreadful curse.?”
“No, Nikita, I asked for many years, and they don’t know how to free me. Please accept this.”
Nikita, frustrated, shouted, “no. we are going to free you from Lucifer’s dreadful curse so you can be with me in every way.,”
Aimee, also frustrated, said, “we are together in every way; I love you,” With that, she pulled towards Nikita and kissed her passionately. She started to untack her pink silky bra and kissed her breast. Nikita moaned as Aimee was kissing her, and then Nikita lay down and let Aimee kiss her, but then the cow foot popped, and Nikita stopped Aimee
Aimee stops! And Nikita got up quickly without her bra on and said to Aimee, “I want to go all the way with you, but I just cannot, not here because I am still fresh from my last relationship. I know it’s been a year plus, but it was a long relationship.” And honestly, I could not get that cow foot out of my head. That’s why we got to break this curse that Lucifer has placed on you.”
Aimee was visibly upset, and her face changed to that rotten face that many say that Ladjablès have. Nikita could not look and turn away.
Aimee sensed that Nikita was disgusted with her. “You do not love me,” she shrieked and fled quickly into the night.
Nikita screamed, “No! Aimee, came back,” but she did not. Nikita goes back on the couch and then goes back to her notes on the Island Caribs and remembers the night she met Aimee. she was fascinated with her from the day she met Aimee.
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“Nikita, I cannot believe we just saw a Ladjablès, and she spoke to us. Oh my God.” Christina said that night.
“Wasn’t she beautiful?” Christina asked Nikita.
Christina responded, “she surely was not like the Ladjablès we were told of.”
“Chris, “Nikita said, we need to go back. She said there were still Island Caribs, and as an Anthropologist, I need to find out more about her and if there are other spirits like her. “Come on, let us go, Chris, and besides, she is not going to hurt you, only cheating men she hurts.”
Christina thought for a moment, and she was in deep thought, although she was scared that this creature would hurt them. Nikita was right. It was men she was hurting and women. Well, at least Nikita and she were not cheaters.
Christina responded to her and said, “all right, so let’s go and find more of them and see if there are Island Caribs out there.”
So, Christina and Nikita headed into Christina’s car. And Christina started to drive in the darkness of the village, and Nikita looked for Aimee while Christina drove. Nikita needed to see Aimee again because she was drawn to her for some reason. She needed to meet up, and suddenly, Nikita spotted a man following a womanly figure. “Christina stops the car! “And Christina stops the car, and Nikita gets out and runs and says to the man, “run!”
Aimee shows up in front of her with a rotten face and tries to scare her, and Nikita says to her, “I am not scared of you. I am not going to let you kill or harm this man.”
In a distorted voice, Aimee said, “He beat his wife badly and constantly cheats on her. You are saving this man.”
And Nikita responded, “even this man deserves another chance to make it right., He does not deserve to die.”
The man who saw the rotten face was speechless and frightened. He wanted to run, but he could not run. He was stoic.
Nikita keeps saying she was not scared, but she was scared like shit bit no way she would show.
Aimee realized for the first time in the two-plus centuries. She had never met anyone who stood up to her and was not frightened. Her face changed back to the beautiful face she had, and then she responded to Nikita
“You are a brave woman. He can live, but do not make this a habit. The men I destroyed are not innocent, and Lucifer needs men like him in hell.”
And Nikita replied, “you made a deal with the devil. Is that what happened? Why did not the orishas help you?”
And Aimee responded, “Lucifer said free will and all that. But make this the last time you stand in my way,”
And Aimee starts to walk away. And Nikita stops her in her tracks, “you implied earlier that there are Island Caribs, where are they?”
Aimee looked at her and smiled, “I think you are smart and brave enough to find them,” and disappeared.
The man was listening with Christina still couldn’t move, and Nikita turned to him, “Sir, you are safe, and the man in his fear said, “That was a Ladjablès!”, and he couldn’t even finish the words and Nikita tried to touch him and calm him but the man thinking she was a. panic and said leave me alone and ran.
Christina then said, “this was an interesting night and told Nikita,” We had enough excitement for the night.”
They went into the car, drove back to Christina’s apartment, and called it a night. Nikita will have to find her Island Caribs, Ladjablès, and other deities another day, but tonight she knew the Ladjablès was real and wanted to know more, but tonight she needed rest and sleep. There was another day for more adventure.