The Sequel to Burns&Bruises
Embark on a poignant journey with Maleek Montique, once a baby now a man shaped by a traumatic past. Thirteen book years post the Burns & Bruises saga, witness the evolution of the once tiny baby into a formidable figure...
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Sunday, March 23rd 8:01 pm 📍Phoenix Park, Portmore
𝚉𝚘𝚕𝚊 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐'𝚜 𝙿𝙾𝚅
"He wants me to have her over there" Shyla's eyes dart towards me, a thick layer of skin bulging out in the centre of her forehead due to her frowning.
"Wah?" I sigh and lift a copy of the completed visa application to show her.
She rolls her eyes and shifts her attention back to the stack of notes on her desk.
Her hiss fills the room making me feel even worse. "You and him lucky ennuh. Cause God see and know it is as if yuh caah seh no to the likkle devil."
I frown. "I can, it's just—" I swallow my words when she swivels in her seat, facing me with pure anger.
"You can't!" She shouts and I clamp my lids closed. "Yuh mek the duty boy a tell yuh fi guh have baby a foreign and then wah him aguh ask yuh next. Fi run off and deh with him deh?"
I purse my lips and end the conversation.
She won't understand and we will be going back and forth until one of us says something mean to the other.
Betta we done it yahso.
So I give her a forced nod with a smile and push the application paper back into my book bag.
Shyla stands from her chair and walks over to me. She places a knee into the bed and takes my hand. "You have a good thing going on with Ken, Zo don't allow Maleek to ruin it. I'm not being mean. I'm just offering another point of view. Mi know deep down you still love him." I pull my hands away and mentally shut my ears.
I want to hear nothing more.
My eyes skim over my past papers smiling at how despite everything going shit for me I was still able to perform at the top of the class.
Not the way, I had wanted but I guess being 3rd was better than being behind.
Baby Girl has been working with me lately, she hardly moves at school and leaves all of the moving about and kicking until late in the night when Maleek usually calls.
As weird and unbelievable as it sounds she already knows his voice and gets extra active around him, even more than when she's around Ken.
