Caught Off Guard

Upset

🖤Aria POV🖤

I can't believe it's almost 9:00 pm and people keep walking in asking for token to play pool.

I want to go home now Christ mon

I should be leaving work by nine but my customers don't seems to notice or even care.

Kmt cho

I don't know how long I'll be staying at this place,

This is not the kind of work I always wanted for myself but it's the only one I get called for.

I scrolled through Instagram in a very foul mood.

All mi mother she a the next one.

I don't know why she had to die leaving my sister's and I to suffer so much in this wicked world.

"Aye miss set yuh face good woman an tap vex up yuh face suh inna di place mon" said a voice

Kmt yuh try nuh mek mi haffi cuss out yuh rass enuh bowy and tek out mi problem pon yuh enuh.

I didn't respond to the statement made by the guy but continue to scrolled through my phone.

"Yow, yuh nuh hear mi seh fi set yuh face good woman" the voice said once more.

Very upset now I lift my head to give him piece of my mind

"Aye..."

I was caught off guard by this handsome guy standing there smiling at me

Out of nowhere I started to smile also

He then took a seat at the bar

"Look at that, yuh smile too beautiful fi yuh a vex up yuh face suh mon," he said

"Aye yuh know when yuh well wa go home and know yuh soon can't get no taxi?," I asked.

"Mi know how yuh feel mon but taxi run right through yaso, a Salem this the community that never sleeps," he said with a smile

Lawd God a weh this nice brown boy come from

I've been working here over two weeks and I've never seen him at the bar before.

"I know taxi always on the road here I'm talking about taxi from downtown to take me home"

"A weh u live?," He then asked

"Down a wa county place name Hopewell," I replied

"But Hopewell a nuh county mon it's like a small town to itself"

Yuh will get drive mon," he said smiling.

"I pray I do," I said with my spirit slowly lifting

"I'll let someone take you home if it get too late then," he suggested.

"That's kind of you but I don't even know you"

I have never seen you before," I said while blushing.

Why mi even a blush suh tho like a di first mi a si wa cute bowy.

"Nuh musi yuh Shaniel Muir sing the song yamabella fa" a voice in my head said

He started smiling again

"My name is Theo Malcolm"

"But my friends call me Dela Vega, Dela for short, what's yours," he asked

Theo as in Theodore

But wa di Dela Vega fa tho

If mi member correctly a wa place here in Jamaica name suh