Perfect Escape

Chapter 9

"Watch ya mi gyal reach home" I direct my attention towards the big mango tree in the yard, where Daddy and some of his friends are playing domino.

'Hi daddy, how are you?" He grin from ear to ear as I walk over to them, giving the other gentleman a smile before hugging Dad. Uncle Ratso and Karpy return the smile while Leon lifts his head in a manly gesture. I know he's not just here to play domino, probably waiting impatiently to see Kaylee come outside, if she's home that is. She's normally busy on weekends doing hair and preparing to go to some party or social event.

"Mi good eno, come change and play two domino wid me" He offers me some of the beer he's drinking.

"Daddy you know mi nuh like beer, old man liquor that"

"Ask you mada if me a old man?" The gentlemen start laughing while Leon offers him a fist bump grinning like a child. His locks are hanging loose over his shoulders on his plain white tee complimented by a gold chain. He looks so different when he doesn't have a tie around his neck.

"Unuh don't mix me, yuh nuh see she nuh have any manners, yuh nuh see mi and lawyer" Mommy takes a sip of whatever she drinking in her cup while she scrolls on her phone.

"Sorry Mommy, you know mi love yuh nuh know why ya behave like that" I walk around the table to go lean on her shoulder.

"Nuh come rub up yuh fronzy self pon mi" She hiss her teeth as she uses her elbow to push me away.

"That's why Daddy a mi favorite" I stick my tongue out at her as I move to stand beside Daddy again.

"Mek sure him cook fi yuh, have a great mind go duty up the close dem pon the line"

"Rayyyyy mi mada wash fi mi, a joke mi a mek a yuh a mi favorite come mek mi give a a kiss pon you jaw yaa" She rolls her eyes at me, but gives me the warmest smile. Its safe to say my parents are my bestfriends, they provide this safe place for me.

"Go bathe and come eat yuh dinner" She stands and walk off to the house but not before slapping Dad in his head.

Children's

"See how you badmind, yuh nuh hear mi a ask her to come play domino cause Ratso a go a gyal bush" The other gentlemen starts to laugh while Uncle Ratso hiss his teeth.

"Kirk, mine you make Mavis a pass and hear you a mi goat them mi ago take care of"

"Mine you mek Mavis beat him and nuh cook dinner fi him"

"Unuh aidiot, Mavis can beat mi"

"Wait until she find out bout browning" Daddy laughs hitting the table with a domino. I don't know why they have to play like that, beating down the table with the domino especially if its their final card.

"Karpy how unuh can chat so?" Ratso hiss his teeth again as he gets up from around the table. You can see in his face that he is getting annoyed or probably wondering if Mavis will hear.

"Ano we tell you fi a mind browning and her five pickney dem" Jesas dem wicked a two pickney the kady have them just nyam nuff and beg beg.

"Lay lay, nuh listen to them ya, mi ago carry in the goat them, nuh want dem boy thief them you zeen" He's the only person that calls me lay lay, Its a nickname that has stuck with me from I was a child because that's what I called the chickens.

"I understand uncle " I give him a warm smile as he drains the bottle he was drinking out of and shrub in his pocket.

"Member ya fi pass browning fi go a goat bush" Leon burst out laughing before taking a sip of the magnum he was drinking.