"Da'Mae." I stopped at the calling from my uncle's woman.
"Yeah?" I answered, looking at her.
I'm not someone to hate fat, but being skinny all my life and keeps getting bullied under style, I just avoid anyone with weight.
Claudette being one of them.
The worst.
Yet she's the one suffering with bad ankles that are swollen black. In pain as she walks and is always complaining, still she eats everything.
Much like her daughter, my little cousin is on their verandah eating dinner with a plate underneath her chin.
Nothing nuh suppose to fall and waste.
Nuh wonder dem dog always look malnourished. Dem wicked and greedy.
"Mih hear seh Jehlan gone a farrin. Unnu still deh?" She inquired.
"Yes." I answered, and raised a brow.
"Yuh nuh fraid him marry ova deh and get him stay?" She voiced what I know everyone is saying.
"Ehh." I foreign a look of surprise and she nods. "Mih a guh ova, lata."
Mih wah lef yah suh.
"A when him a come back?" She stops me again.
Mih wah tell har mih mind enuh.
"Mih nuh him keeper enuh. Mih naw guh question eh people dem son." I remarked in a say to insult her.
"Den wah mek yuh affi seh it suh?" She frowned.
"How?" I almost smiled.
"Suh unnu still deh and yuh naw ask him anything?"
Shi dumb then.
"A nuh mih husband or mih son." I held back the urge to roll my eyes. "Mih have mih parents dinner fih cook. Bye, Miss Claudette."
"Alright, Da'Mae." She says, watching as I walked away.
I could still feel her eyes on me.
Shi fih mek har eyes drop mih, shi go si wah mih do har.
Gossip eh pissa shit go gossip now.
Mih business go reach all a church.
Shi can hardly walk, yet shi running with mih business.
Getting in, I went to my room and threw out the content I have in my tote.
Wads of cash and four cheques.
I collected money from what Jehlan's family sent as he told me to stop working so hard.
Tu how mih a visit western union, dem know mih face good.
Cyaw deh ask mih every time what's the purpose of the money why it send to me.
Pussy pension of course.
And nude pics to mih foreign man.
Jehlan left five months ago, just a week after graduation.
I was with him at the US embassy and even at the airport before he left.
It's how they keep seeing me by myself as Jehlan and I are skin and bones. They are inquiring from his family since that barely see me outside.
Together forever and tight like a booty hole.
I laughed out, and then squealed as my bedroom door burst open.
"Ya mad now?" Mommy eyed me, then the content on the bed.
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Loving Young (Completed)
Teen FictionHearing how relationships after high school doesn't work. Da'Mae and Jehlan sort to prove everyone wrong the moment they turn eighteen. Working together to fullfil their dreams through the hardest of times, and no matter the storm they fight to get...
