"Really? he's never mentioned me?" her face pulls up in disbelief, "that's funny 'cause I've known him for a while. I met his mother at a netball game that was going on in our home community years ago... It's her home community too by the way," she laughs. "I said supm about her Hermes slides and ended up becoming her younger friend ever since then."
Weh she a plague me with her story dem fah?
"And Paecyn know dem from she ah eight or nine," Kyan butts in.
"Oh... I haven't seen her at the house or anything," Melli fires back, her tone wrapped in faux warmness.
Kyan hisses lowly.
I decide to speak, "We weren't friends for a while."
"Oh what happened?" she questions, giving me zero time to breathe.
"A wah do you girl? Yah plan fi replace Winfred?" Kyan snaps.
"Kyan," I whisper-shout, before turning to smile at Melli— fighting myself to see the good in her, "she miserable, no pay her no mind..." I trail off.
Melli shrugs, before walking off to where everybody's gearing up to start riding.
We get to the group after her, and Mrs.Sheer embraces me, "Happy birthday Paecyn," her hug air tightttt. "The red one is yours for the day."
"Me only ever play games... I don't actually know how to ride them," I mumble to her nervously.
"Xavier over there so," she points, "ago go over it with those who don't know," she points to Paw.
*Xavier?*
I laugh a little. That's a cute name for him. I prefer it over the Paw name.
"Okay," I take the helmet from her.
"And that's why you have Junior. Keep close to him," her hands are now helping me to clip the helmet shut.
Minutes later we make it to the top of the trail, taking in the view, talking, laughing and snapping pictures.
I for one am currently looking at the one Kyan just took of myself and Mrs.Sheer.
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"Me nuh rate wah unuh do me enuh," she complains, "coulda wait till me done tuck in my belly and look up," she giggles before sitting back on her quad.
