Chapter Twenty-Two: Shipping Out
This chapter ends our main character’s story. Bone is running way from the mothership, and thinking of his best options to get away from Jamaica. He then remembers a dock man that he and I-Man did business with some time ago. The man’s name is Captain Ave. Captain Ave runs a tour boat system that takes people to the many island around Jamaica. Usually he gets families, and couples looking to go on a honeymoon. The Captain however, uses false advertisement to attract people on to buying tickets for the ship. He show wonderful pictures of a perfect ship, with a huge crew, a nice ocean view, and makes it seem like the perfect get away. Because of all the lies that the captain puts out, he has a hard time maintaining a stable crew. Bone took thins chance to take up the job offer that was given to him long ago. The Captain said that he would have a family coming in and that Bone could cook, because they were all vegetarians and he knew how to make vegetarian Jamaican food. One night out on the deck, Bone saw all the constellations and stars up in the evening sky. Upon further inspection, they morphed into things that reminded him of all the people he met. A barbell for Bruce, a rose for Rose, and a lion for I-Man. In his head, Bone could hear the voice of I-Man guiding him, as he sailed off into the sea...
Chapter Twenty-One: Bone’s Revenge
He heads up to the mothership to see that no one is home, so he sits there for a while thinking about thing and finally listening to the classical CD’s that he stole from Mr. Ridgeway. He was drinking beer and listening, when his father’s truck had pulled up and Even Star came home too. Evening Star was glad to see him, but his father was in a real bad mood, so they both went into the kitchen to start on dinner and talk about I-Man. She told him that I-Man was trying to rip someone off with selling his ganja, and he and his gang had been killed for it. They were cooking dinner, and when all of a sudden, Bone asked Evening Star if she would like to have sex with him. She said okay and she did it in the same place that I-Man she did it when Bone saw them. After that, he started to ask if his father had another family back up where he worked, and she was hesitant to tell him, but she did anyways. He then goes and prepares for his leave. He leaves a note for his father saying, “The Bone rules, never forget-tee!”. Then, he goes off to take his revenge. He finds Jason cooking that goat on the barbecue and soon starts to tell him about how he killed I-Man. Jason says that it was the other guy, but Bone knows, so then get into a fight, and Jason ends up falling into the barbecue and then getting dumped in the pool. Bone then rushes off before anyone can catch on.
Chapter Twenty: Bone phones home
Bone is sad and enraged that I-Man has been killed. He has nowhere to go so he finds an unlocked car and sleeps in there for the night. The next morning, he thought that it would be good if he went back to I-Man’s home village to tell them about the sad news. When he arrived there, he realized that they already knew. They all looked at him with a weird glance that made him feel uneasy. He thought that is would be best if he didn't stay any longer that he needed to, so he went back to the house that he used to stay in, got all of his belongings, and headed back to town to find somewhere to sleep. He has no choice but to sleep in the outside park grounds of a hospital. When he is lying there, a stolen lady’s purse falls on his head, tossed by a thief running by. He found a phone card in there and used it to call his buddy Russ. Russ was amazed to hear that he was in Jamaica, and that all the stuff he’s been through. Bone asks Russ about how things are going back at home, and he tells him pretty bad. Russ also tells him about his parents splitting to Buffalo, New York and his grandma dieing. Russ says that he can’t stand it anymore at home, so he wants to come to Jamaica to hang out and have a good time. Bone reluctantly agrees and tells him that he’ll meet him tomorrow. Even sadder, Bone finds a number in his wallet and decides to call it. To his amazement, it is the phone number of Rose’s mother. He asks how Rose is doing, and she tells him that she died. Bone is angry and doesn’t believe her but has no choice. Even more pissed and lost, Bone has no choice but to head back up to the mothership.
Chapter Eighteen: Bone goes native
Without anywhere to go, Bone and I-Man have no choice but to go to I-Man’s hometown. When they get there, Bone said that it was just as he imagined; a small, rural town with one small dirt path with small cabins and tree growing everywhere. There is no electricity or running water in the village either. Bone felt pretty weird, being the one white person among a few hundred Maroons (name). I-Man showed him a little hut in that he could stay in and work on his ganja field. Everyday, Bone learned new things about the ganja trade from I-Man. Bone had started to take on new looks, like dark skin and longer hair. One morning, I-Man saw that Bone was taking on some mini dreadlocks so he gave him a special juice, that next morning when he woke up, Bone had some dreadlocks and was looking like a Jamaican. One day, Bone woke up, and I-Man said that they were going on a journey to a cave with some friends to help improve his knowledge of himself. He was lead through a dark, twisty cave. He then was sat down and given a special herb to smoke were he passed out and was in a trance. He woke up to find in self in an old civil was type era were he was a slave. He was a plantation boy that was about to go to sleep, but then his fellow slaves launched and attack against the owners. There were gunshots and people were killed, and Bone barely escaped, and when he woke up, he was back in the cave.
Chapter Seventeen: Happy Birthday to the Bone
After meeting with his father, everything became busy again, because his father had to go back to Kingston to work as a doctor. People were running in and out and Bone started to call the place the mothership in spite of Evening Star who ran the place. Most of the people there would ignore Bone when Doc wasn’t around, but he didn’t seem to care because him and I-Man were checking out the place on their own. I-Man liked it because he could sell weed to all the people hanging out there and even had to go back to the ant farm to replenish his supply. His father let him stay only if he’d help do some chores around the house and help when needed. One day, Evening Star and Bone were talking about astronomical signs and she asked him when his birthday was. He said that it was sometime this week, and it even surprised him because he thought it was a long ways off. Evening Star was happy and said that they were going to have a party, but Bone thought that they just wanted a reason to throw another huge event. Bone and Doc were out for most of the day, and when they came home, there was a big sign on the front of the mothership that said, “Happy Birthday to the Bone!!!” He was really happy that finally something good was going to happen, and it was going to be a very special party. Various people from town came up to the house to eat, drink, smoke, and just hang out. Bone imagined finding a big birthday cake for him that would come near the end of the party, and everyone would sing to him. Sadly, it didn’t come. Bone, tired and sad, goes to the kitchen to get the last beer when he hears some noises coming from the next room. When he peeks in, he finds I-Man having sex with Evening Star. He is pissed and confused at the same time, so he decides to go to his room when he runs into his father. His father asks him what’s the matter, and he tells him and I-Man and Evening Star. His father says that he has no choice, but to kill him. Bone is terrified for his friend, so he quickly finds I-Man and they escape.
Chapter Sixteen: Starport
Bone was feeling kind of sad that he missed his father and at the same time dumb, because he was running through the streets. He headed back to where I-Man was and then I-Man asked why he was chasing after him. Bone told him that was his real father and that he wanted to know more about him and maybe even meet up with him. He also asked about the woman who was with him at the time and I-Man said that her name was Evening Star. She was a tall muscular Jamaican woman who to Bone seemed pretty sexy. They asked a cop about her and he said that everyone knew about Evening Star and her house. It turns out that she has a pretty big house not to far from where they were. Bone is anxious to go and I-Man says that he’ll go with him to check out the ganja selling. They take a bus all the way up to find a humongous house with a sign that says starport and that looks pretty modern and up to date. There’s a party going on and Bone becomes worried that maybe his father won’t accept him and tell him to go home. He musters the courage and walk through the doors to find Evening Star again and ask her if he can talk to Doc (his father). She didn’t believe him at first till he said that he wanted to talk to Paul. She than knew that he must be American and probably know him, because she was the only one who called him Paul. Just then, Doc comes walking in but naturally does not recognize Bone. Bone then tells him that his real name is Chappie Dorset and then he makes the connection and his filled with joy to see his real son again.
Chapter Fifteen: Sunsplashed
Both I-Man and Bone got of the plane and pass through customs, without getting papers signed because I-Man knew one of the people there. When they exited the airport, Bone realized that the Jamaica that he pictured was different than the real one. It was really hot even when the sun was going down. They left the airport and walked through a ditch that curved in all sorts of directions, and then they came to a bamboo fence. It was a cave with all sorts of homemade objects in it. They settle down and start to smoke and soon both of them pass out. Bone woke up and saw a man that looked like I-Man but wasn’t. He then was scared and confused trying to find a place where he could sleep. He then found an exit to the beach and fell asleep near the ocean. In the morning, he awoke to find I-Man next to him and he explained that there were three other Jamaicans named Fattis, Buju, and Prince Shabba. Bone started to call the place the ant farm and it was the exact same thing as Video Den. They would all help fix the ant farm and send the two youngest members, Fattis and Buju, to get food, just like Bone and Russ did. I-Man and Prince Shabba would be out for most of the day, running some delivery and when they came home, various people would come over and smoke and hang out. One day however, I-Man told Bone to come with him and see the sights of Jamaica. I-Man would go out and do his deliveries to all sorts of people in town, giving them paper sacks of his ganja (some form of weed). Bone got bored and decided to run of and see if he could score a couple of bucks of the locals and the tourist. He then saw what looked to him like his real father standing off somewhere talking to I-Man and giving him some ganja. Bone ran after him like a madman but he drove off too fast. He was happy to see his real father but then again, sad that he did not hear him yelling and screaming.
Chapter Fourteen: Crossing the bar
Bone and I-Man get up the next morning and both pack for the trip. Bone is just going to go to the dock and take the ferry to the airport and then see I-Man off. So then get ready and leave the bus and arrive at the ferry dock. Bone felt strange because of the way that they were dressed and how it was one white boy and a Rastafarian traveling together. On the ferry ride, they talked about the white Rasta kid who gave the tape player to I-Man while smoking some more joints. They get to the airport and Bone is faced with the decision if he wants to go or not. He thinks that it’s wrong that he’s using Buster Brown’s money, but I-Man said it’s up to him. Bone then realizes that there isn’t too much for him back in New York so he goes with I-Man, where his real journey is about to begin.
Read More!Chapter Thirteen: Mister Yesterday
On the way there, Bone starts think about what would happen if he used the gun and killed his whole family. Scenes were playing through his head as he thought about all the different things that could happen in that minute when he picked up the gun. He started to get scared that he might go over board, so he tossed the gun. By the time he got to the bus, he did not eat for a while so he was pretty weak than from before. I-Man welcomes him back however and helps bring him back to life. He teaches him more about his religion while he also shows him how to take care of the garden. I-Man also got more things to add to the place like a tape player and fixed it up even more than before. He also had his fare share of weed growing too, that him and Bone would smoke at night. One night however, I-Man was listening to slavery music instead of the normal reggae stuff that he’d listen to. I-Man said that he longed to go back home to his homeland, Jamaica. Bone remembered that he had some left over money that he took from Buster Brown, and that it was probably enough to take him back to Jamaica. I-Man is happy that he can finally go back home.
Read More!Chapter Twelve: Over the river and through the woods
When he gets to his grandma’s house, she also gives him the same greeting about how she was glad and that she thought that he died in the fire. He sits down and talks to her for a while about nothing much until he remembers something. He then starts to ask about his real father who he never knew so well, because he left when he was five. His grandma did not like him and said that his mother was better of without him. She said that he had been cheating on her with some other co-worker. Also, he lied about his job and his status, so his mother had to keep it a secret. She shown him pictures of his old father and he looked like JKF standing next to his 4x4. Bone thought to himself that he’d rather be with him than his mother and stepfather. After they were done talking, he left his grandma’s house, and with no place to go, he went back to the bus.
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