This story follows a young woman by the name of British whose mother was tragically murdered by sources unknown, this causes her to move back to Jamaica temporarily bringing back old flames she thought she already placed behind her.
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Subliminal
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BRITISH SMITH|24
If there was ever a time that I needed my mother most it would be now. I wish she was here to tell me what to do about everything and anything. It's crazy how we take people for granted until we lose them.
I remember how much I wanted to be an adult so my mother would stop trying to tell me what to do. Now here I am wishing she was here to rule my life like she did when I was a teen.
I got up from the couch and made my way over to the kitchen sink where Jayda was standing with a cup of whatever liquor she could find in the cabinet, she smiled at me shyly and I smiled back.
"How yuh suh cool wid dis?"
"Cool wid wah?"
"Killing Zion?"
Not that anyone liked him but murder was a whole different question when it came down to it and this was a secret that we all had to keep for the rest of our lives, was that something we were all ready for? The lies and the secrets?
"I don't know, maybe because it's for you. Yuh woulda do anything fi mi suh dis a me doing something fi you and fi Amanie to." A wide smile crept upon her face and that made me smile even harder too. She was a God sent, in a time where we both needed each other. That's when she was sent to me and we have been inseparable since. Regardless of my absence throughout our childhood and teenage years.
She still had that look on her face, the one that told me something was wrong but her lips bare no words to tell me.
"If something was wrong with you, you'd tell me right?"
"Of course, I always tell you everything. It might take a while but I'll tell you anyway."
I sighed, "How long this ago tek fi yuh tell me?" Her smile faded a little and I saw through the façade, I wasn't going to let this keep us apart any longer. I was in the process of fixing everything in my life that needed fixing and standing here with my childhood best friend made me fully aware that she was one of those things.
"I don't know."
"You remember what our rule was as a child?" We were now facing each other as she pondered my question.
"There is nothing in the world that you cannot tell a best friend."
"Exactly."
"But dis different."
"How?"
"Because Jerome a beat mi British." I stepped back.
"How long."
"Ever since mi leff yaad but mi couldn't guh back, mi neva have nuh weh fi guh back. Daddy did dead and mi mada hate mi."
I was in shock, these are the things you tell someone so they can help you to the best of their abilities. We remained in the kitchen speaking to each other in a hush tone.
She began telling me about the sexual abuse and how that's where it started and how she had to move in with Samantha temporarily when it got really bad and how she went back when he told her he would change. Then she told me about the cheating and how she'd get the shitty end of the stick because he wanted to do the things she didn't like, the occasional drugging to take advantage of her and even the things he did to her when she went home the night after we went clubbing because she was too weak to fight him off.
Then the affair with my brother and the loss of their baby because Jerome beat her when she went for her stuff, she was going through it and that made my heart break so badly that I don't think it will ever heal. I wondered why she didn't tell me.
"I told Damian I fell down the stairs because I didn't want him to get in trouble." She forced a smile with tears stuck to her, "I'm okay now and I'm currently staying with Damaian at his house and trying to find a job."
I hugged her and wished I could keep her safe in my own little bubble. I was so consumed by my life that I didn't ask her the things you were supposed to ask your best friend who was in trouble, I saw all the signs and walked past them.
"Nuh mek this one a the many things weh keep you up at night." She said.
'Lol, I'll try." I responded.
Chapter 28 - Subliminal
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