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"First time seeing you, you no come from here"I should be at school weh mi parents send me, but she looks like she needs someone to talk to.
"Yes mi live in the next community," she said calmly, I stopped the server telling him to bring some breakfast, mi cousin place a gwann, a long time mi no bless mi eyes pon him, like him, deh office.
"What do you want to eat, my treat" she shook no.
"I'm not hungry, mi not even fi deh yah, I need to go home".
"Weh you name?".I saw my phone ringing it's my mom, shit she has my location eno, "yes mommy".
"Yuh see a casket weh catch yuh eyes"I chuckled, she funny eno," mi stop fi buy food a mi cousin place, mi soon guh up a school".
"Aaricia, doh play wid me, I'm behind you"I spin around quickly to my mom, then the girl rushed to the exit.
"Mommy" I grumped, she fold her hands looking at me, "if something a happen baby you can tell me eno, you pregnant"mi fraid fi tell r mi like girls, and the reason why she's asking a because mi a be secretive and always in my world.
"No mummy, mi no pregnant mi just feel pressured cause mi affi a focus Pon me future already mi wah be five again" and she just rubbed my hands removing her handbag, like she ago work now.
"Just talk to me and tell mi weh yah have problem with," the man come wid me soup and the other things fi the girl but she was gone.
"Yes, mum, mi ago school now, n why yah stalk mi".
"Because mi wah mek sure yuh okay, who was that young girl" I would like to know the same thing a wonder if she goes to my school.
Kahdeja's POV
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I'm not going back, I have decided to run away but weh mia run guh tho, mi mus look like a homeless girl walking up & down in the hot sun.
Two hours passed, mi tired, dizzy, and hungry like dog, the food weh me consume last night, gone from overnight mi would a eat something nice. Mi a talk like me use to anything nice a the second time mia turn down food.
But dem mad wah man in a me lane because a food, so mi learn if a hungry ago kill me so be it... everybody guh differently.
Hours after...
Mi did a walk guh back home, mi no have no choice, when mi reach mi granny did a smoke Pon the veranda, "come here" mi guh and sit down.
"Yuh mada gone out, she seh she ago mek yuh guh school"mi scream out because mi happy.
"Really grandma, Thank you, "I cheer, and smiled "but...we will talk about some conditions at dinner,".
"But me no eat with you guys" she smiled, "you will if you agree with Kahdeja, it's simple things trust me, just yuh signature Pon a paper fi mek sure yuh nah guh try rule we understand"mi try and put piece and piece together, she sounds honest and I ago school so me can get an education and lef this yard.
"Okay grandma, when Stef comes "she sit down and she passed it to me, I said no, but she insists else mi nah guh attend.
"A just weed, nah do yuh anything"I hesitate, me tek it and inhale, I coughed and she grin,"tek another puff"I did, and mi feel like mia guh dead.
"No more please" she tek it, "you soon start be me smoking partner mia fix yuh man" this old woman, mi mussi broken bout fix mi, a true me wah guh a school mek me put up wid fuckry she thinks mi fool fool?
"Guh fi mi handbag in the room, di umm di, the pink one weh hang up in the room"I got up and passed my lazy ass cousins and some boys weh always deh yah, and some girl, a everybody yard this.
Mi guh grandma room, no two pink bags in yah, me pick up the bag and guh out deh, no man mia walk Pon some clouds.
"Lord Jesus Kahdeja, a Blue bag this yuh blind" she chuckled I just looked at her.
"Mi rass yuh high after two draws, come here yuh Betta sober up, me a send yuh down pass bun dung' fi buy 50 bag weed fimi, I already call the young man, me tell him fi look out fi you ere" like she in a slow motion so me seh yes fast.
She gimme the money, and I Walk out, closing the gate, I smelled my armpits, no man mi wah bathe.
...
I opened up the gate, a bay man deh Pon the veranda, "Good evening mi grandma Bett seh you fi gimme something,".
"Come in, he soon come a no mi name blacks" he lick his lips looking at me, I feel uncomfortable in these surroundings full of men, I sat down and cut ten.
"Pretty girl like you, bun weed love fi see it, muma high look in a r eyes dawg" he laughed out, I looked down, until he comes pon the veranda chair beside me, "yuh can move yah mek me, uncomfortable sir".
"Mi look old stop sir up bad man, yow mek mi show yuh a pree, mi a badman mi can tek yuh out the bad community yah, mi have a house up a hill baby, can tek care a you eno".
"Mi look homeless, talk the truth, mi just come fi the things then I'm on my way, please yuh breath a kick bredda" he friends started laughing at him, he frowns getting up.
"Bett owes me eno, tell r fi send me money next time else mia tek me balance out a yuh"my eyes opened, I quickly paid and cut mi fraid a rape.
Dem seh yuh attract weh yuh fear, if somebody rapes me, mi kill me self mi couldn't live with it.
Me born luckless because mi see the police car a come up... Jesus Christ mi dead now...
