Time fi you

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Karalana Atalyia Campbell
January 3, 2024

"Is he going to be okay?" I worriedly asked the doctor. She didn't answer, she only moved to lift his shirt and I stopped her.

"No to backside, a weh yaah duh?" Mi asked crossing mi arms.

"I'm just checking to see, I cannot hear anything through the stethoscope when he has on this thick shirt." She said with attitude and I raised my eyebrows at her, mi did tell him seh mi waah change doctor innuh.

"Oh suh mia idiot?" Mi ask.

"I don't know, you seem to be." Did she just- "Now if you'll allow me to do my job-" She continued to say but I cut her off.

"A job that yuh clearly naah duh properly, yaah one a them weh graduate innah covid?" Muss AI she did a use duh all a them work deh Cause a cyaah her brain.

"Atleast I have a degree. . .PhD at that,   so don't you question mi." She said smugly and I wanted to do nothing more than to slap her in her face.

It's a new year mia try fi change. . .Mi see the lady continue liff mi man shirt and mi coulda swear mi see drool drop outta her mouth and when things couldn't get worst mi see she move fi touch him abs them. . .wul on deh, my abs?

Could neva. . .

"Clearly you unprofessional. . .yuh nuh need fi do all a that. . .fainting common among men who hear their baby's heartbeat  fi the first time. . ." Yes one minute this so called doctor deh yah a check the heart beat and ask if we waah hear it. . .mi hear it and nearly bawl and a did fi Tristen turn, him now a listen it and the next thing mi know mi hear buff a dutty. . .The man drop dung.

And this leads me to the situation that I'm in.

"Well since you have your degree and you know everything. . ." Like every chance she get she aguh rub that innah mi face. I mean, I am on my way to getting my degree. . .mi nuh feel nuh way, mi nuh feel nuh way at all.

"Listen to mi idiot gyal. . .The degree weh yaah boast ova, that a something weh   any body can get hell that a easy thing fi me get if mi did a pree that but that's just not my thing. But yuh know who a nuh easy smaddy fi get? my man. . .450, that's right the man that every woman want suh doh bright. . .don't you bright." She stood there looking at me with hate in her eyes.

Devu duh her nothing, all mi was doing was spending my money here. . .my man's money but whatever and she doesn't appreciate that.

See how people ungrateful?

"Now move from near mi man before mi haffi report yuh fi harassment. . .memba seh him a artiste suh how it aguh look pan your end when the whole Jamaica hear seh yuh harrass 450?" She stood there and look at me before she slowly step aside.

"Hurry up to ! !" I snapped and she flinched.

Hehaeee. . .still have e.

Mi side eye her and move over to where Tristen was laying down and pull down back his shirt. Fucking bright.

Mi tek out a bottle of water from mi bag and half opened the cork, I then raised it to his face and squeezed it.