Life Changes

6

Manda pov

How can I be leaving Jamaica next week. I'm going to miss Alex. Today is Wednesday and I'm going to meet him to tell him the news.

What if him leave me, or him start cheat on me, or him think a lie. Gosh I'm so nervous. I had a nike slippers with some shorts and a over size tie die shirt. My hair was in a pony tail and I take up my phone and leave the house. 

Alex is tall, 5’9 to be exact. He has a honey kissed skin that looks so delicious, he has bad head and what you would call pepper grain, but when he has his trim and put in his hair products you couldn't tell. His brown eyes always seems to look deep in my soul as his cherry lips thin lips always caress my plump one. Alex is a fitness freak, so you know he's sexy. He is captain of the football team under 16.

Almost an hour later I meet up with him at a bench under a tree. "Hey." He said. "Hi." I answered. "You look nice." He said. "Don't I always." I said and we laugh. "So, wahm now?" He asked.

"Mi have something fi tell yuh. Mi a move." I said and he looked at me. "To where, mi can drive eno b fi come look fi uh." He said. This is harder than I thought.

"Mi a move from Jamaica." I said and he stands up. This is it, he is leaving me. "When?" He asked. "Next week Monday." I said to him. "Seriously! You a leave me Mussy." He said and I stand up. He's so darn tall.

"I don't have a choice." I said to him. He holds my hand and look into my eyes. "Mussy how mi go cope without uh, you a mi every thing eno b." He said with glossy eyes.

I'm now crying because I know he's been through a lot, his father passed last year and I was there for him the entire time. "We can mek it work right? We go through too much fi just done right yah suh. Mussy mi love uh eno b." Alex said hugging me.

"I love you too Alex." I said hugging him back. We stayed like that for a good while until he pulled away. "I'm going to buy you a gift suh nun a dem white bwoy dh nuh look uh." He said and I laugh.

We walked to a gift shop and he told me to close my eyes. "Ok open them now." He said as he held out a beautiful multi colored ring. "It's a promise ring, to show that I'll always be here waiting for you." He said.

"A who seh Jamaican man nuh romantic." I said and he laughs. He put on the ring and I bought him the same one as mine and we left the gift shop. We walk up and down talking about anything and everything until our feets got tired.

"I'm hungry." I said to him. "Me too, wah you want fi eat?" He asked. "You." I said and he laughs. "Not right here." He said kissing my forehead. "How about pizza?" I said. "Sure." He said and we walked to pizza hut hand in hand.

We reached and he joined the line as I found a seat for the both of us. I was watching a video that Keke sent me that I didn't notice someone sitting down. "Is this seat taken?" Someone asked me. "Yes." I said and looked up to see it's one of my class mate from primary school.

"Watch yah, wahm Wayne?" I said. "Nothing twinny. A which one this?" He asked. "Amanda." I said. "A you alone?" He asked. "No." Alex said standing behind me. "Who this?" He asked.

"Wayne this is Alex my boyfriend, Alex this is Wayne, an old friend of mine." I said. "So Amanda where is your other half?" He asked. "She's home." I said. "Oh, well it was nice seeing you, I'm going now." He said and wave bye.

"So here's your pizza." Alex said putting it down on the table. "Thanks love." I said. We each take a slice and started eating as well as continue talking. It's now minutes after five and time for us to go home.

We walked to the taxi stand and he put me in a car and I left. In half an hour I was walking up to my front door. I entered and texted him I'm home and he say's he's still in taxi and when he's home he would call.

I walk up to my room and take a quick shower and put on pjs and walk to Abby room. I knock and open it. "So how was your date?" She asked me. "It was the best date ever, look wah him buy mi." I said showing her the ring.

"So pretty!" Abby yells. She loves color full things. "Guess who mi see?" I asked. "Who?" She questions. "Nuh Wayne. Him ask mi fi uh." I said. "Wayne? Which Wayne?" She asked. "Abby uh nuh remember Wayne from primary school?" I asked her. "Oh him. A wah him a ask fi mi fah?" She asked and I shrugged.

"Come corn row my hair like yours nuh." I said to her. "Aiite pass the comb give me." She said and I give her. She started to part my hair in two. "So did you tell Alex?" She questioned. "Yea and him nuh really tek it good, but were going to do long distance until I'm old enough to come back on my own." I answered.

"That's good, mi tell Shay dem and them ok with it but mi affi call everyday. Plus mi talk to mommy and she seh we can come back every summer." She told me. "Thank god for that. Mi go really miss this house. Mi not even start pack yet and your room look half empty already."

"Because I didn't have anything to do today so I packed. Shay dem a plan fi guh out Saturday you a come?" Abby asked. "Yes of course." I said as Abby finish combing my hair. It was now after 7 when we were finish talking and I head to my room to talk to my man.