MADGYAL

Chapter 2: Raining.

Vanessa

"Im a bad bitch everybody wants me and I'm the prettiest girl a man will ever see" I kissed at my self in the mirror as I called my grandma.

"Mama, me try call yuh like three times today. Don't scare me like that again, what you been up to? I sat up in bed brushing my long acrylic nails that I was getting ready to paint up in fancy designs. Smacking and popping on the piece of juicy fruit gum in my mouth I stretched my nails out wondering if I wanted them a little bit longer.

I didn't like short nails. I liked my shit long with hella diamonds and glitter. I liked to draw attention with my nails, clucking them and ting. People always tell me seh me extra but wah nuh extra bout me? Me is No basic bitch! When me walk inna the room all attention on me and that's just me.

"Li li gyal stop pop the chewing gum inna mi ears!" She yelled my me causing me to snicker like a child dashing my hands over my mouth. I laughed pouring the monemer into the container I normally used getting ready to add more acrylic over my nails, I felt like they were too thin. I liked the fact that I could do my own nails. They always turned out pretty and people ask me where I get them done. You know joe much of a huge compliment that is for me.

"Sorry grandma! Bad habit!" I told her giggling.

"Very bad a from you a likkle girl me a teach yuh fi bruck it out It nuh respectful nuh guh a the people dem place guh guh nyam chewing gum suh dem
Will fire yuh!" She scolded me. I held in my laugh nodding as if she could see me.

"Ooookayy grandma! Me won't guh a dem place huh eat suh. Anyways what you cook for dinner? I asked her curiously.

"Mi child a just eat wah Zoe make fi me just little rice and bully beef. The doctor seh bully beef nuh good for the pressure but a dat alone me have. Almost every Jesus thing nuh good fi the pressure and sugar " she said sighing. I gulped softly. I hated the idea of knowing my grandma who raised me until I was now a big woman who took care of me when all my mother ever did was mistreat me and put man before me and abuse me now cannot benefit from me as much as I did from her.

I wanted to give back to her as she did nothing but take care of me as a child. I wasn't in need of anything. If she didn't have it she took money from her savings any weh she fi get it she got it for me. I loved my grandma. This was the reason I was drying to get this job in the first place so I could take better care of her.

My other siblings sat on their asses at home not doing nothing but living off the partner draw that she had that was now slowly finishing. That was all they were good for. Zoe paying her baby father to stay with her and Jason flexing on Instagram like seh him rich fi him little gyal dem. Even out of that money he bought him self a bike, I was so mad. I still am. Even though I whooped his ass I still think he deserved something more.

"Everything soon be alright grandma. As soon as me get my first pay check, me will buy up yuh pill dem and buy righted food and make sure you're ok" I told her softly. She sighed into the phone.

"My dare child, Me miss you so much already. I know a to better me but come home as often as you can DONT GET YOUR SELF IN NO TROUBLE! CONTROL YOUR TEMPOR!" She told me knowing how much of a hot head I was. I got it from her. When my grandma was young she was the fighter out of her three sisters. You couldn't talk to her rough it didn't matter if you were the president of the county talking to her she was ready to get to work fighting you as soon as you diss har you gwine get some fist connected to your face.

She always told me that in her eyes that's how she demanded respect. She said when you soft and you're forgiving that's how people walk over you. Though really a person whos able to walk away from disrespect is ten times stronger than someone that fights I rather to fight. That's just me.

"YOU NUH SEH NOTHING? A BET YUH GUH UP THERE GUH FIGHT? she yelled into the phone and I begun to snicker. She was like my best friend, I don't hide anything from her. Remembering the dirty stinking mawga tattooed bleach out bwoy wah come bounce me down and a talk bout a mussy fuck me fuck fi buy my phone I was re-angry thinking bout him. I was so happy I left him with a black eye.

"Me get into a little scuffle with this old scruff come a talk bout me sell mi front fi buy mi phone after the idiot come out of the bathroom and bounce me down grandma tell me me wrong? I asked her curiously.

"You not wrong, that is highly disrespectful of him fi seh and him nuh know you. Him is damn out of order but me tell you not to fight nobody girl dem will lock yuh up!" She said to me.

"Me couldn't control mi anger grandma. And you fi see how him laugh inna mi face me did feel so violated me did affi lik him" I muttered upset.

"You never had to. Vanessa you are a beautiful young lady and you get weh with a lot of things because of it and you get a lot of opportunities because of it too but one day somebody might hold you accountable. You need to move wise, you need to move with your head pan your body. You guh new place you don't know people from adams a Can bad man eno?! A Can bad bwoy and him come back come shoot yuh!"

"You never know who that person could be. That's what's why me warn yuh and me tell you not to fight. If you cannot manage the job don't take it. You cannot go there guh fight off the people dem a dem place either because care taker job nuh easy... old people feisty"

"When dem touch certain ages dem mouth turn ruthless dem nuh give a damn. You need to start control your tempor!" She told me. She was right, like always. Everything my grandma said was right. I've never doubted what she tells me, I always listened to her.

"Well... hopefully I never meet him again and I can just forget about him. Apart from that me will definitely control my temper"

"Me need fi make sure you alright and me can hot out!" I told her laughing. She chucked into the phone. She just like me, I was just like her. I'm her twin. When she was young you wouldn't tell the difference between me and her, we looked just alike.

"Hot out? You must save too! Save yuh money and don't buy fart foolishness me hate fi tell you how to spend your money but me nahh tell you nothing wrong don't waste your money pan false hair and nails wah pop off!" She told me. I nodded as I placed acrylic power into my nails staring at them as I laughed. Growing up I've always heard her say stick bruck off inna mi ears. I'm staring to realize it's true.

"Ok grandma I will save and I will be respectful and read the Bible. goodnight grandma. Me ago get some sleep I love you" I told her yawning slightly. I really was tired. I didn't plan on finishing my nails until eleven o clock tonight when I wake up. I hoped I wouldn't get told I had to take them off but I doubt it. I was nervous.

This was a job as a care taker of some old people in st. Elizabeth for some very rich people. I would be getting thousands an hour. I'd have my own room shit though so it doesn't sound that bad. All I had to do was clean the rooms clean them cook for the family walk dogs and take care of kids and I'd be getting paid twice a week.

"Goodnight. Have a productive first day tomorrow wish you all the best my dear child may god go with you" she told me. Uh oh here comes a prayer.