Alliyah pov
23/09/23
7;30. a.m
“Ally!!” shouts my mother, “Yes mommy mi a come!” I made my way to the living room to see Yanice (my mother) in the kitchen making breakfast “ye ma” I say as I enter the kitchen.
“Mi ago pan the road yah come?” she asks
“ye gimmie 30 mins fi get cause me jus wake” I state she nod in response and push a plate with a sandwich on it towards me, taking it up and turning on my heels to get ready.
4 minutes time I finish showering after mi nahv nth serious a wash off a mi, finish brushing my teeth and enter my room. I started eating in on hand and sweeping out my room in the next.
Time fi put on some clothes now taking a shorts from my clothes basket and a nautica shirt ye dem yah can work I thought to myself.
Spraying some perfume I grabbed my cross bag and head towards mommy's room.
‘ready alliyah?’ asked my mother before I even entered her room.
‘ye’
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‘pssst thickass’ a random guys calls out to me but I pay no attention a so Jamaican man dem cranny and stay love likkle pickney yah.
‘ stop look pan mi pickney ole dawg lakka uh’ my mother reprimands the guy
One thing with mommy she ago mek yk say mi a pickney I’m 17 in one week and 2 days I’m turning 18 not really excited for my birthday I never am and everybody finds that weird but not me.
Mommy is shopping for clothes and im doing the same.
‘ma mi ago inna Amir’s go buy one crocs’
‘alright hurry up though cause mark soon reach’ she says referring to the driver she called to come pick us up
Making my way over to Amirs I spot a group of young men near the door mi nuh understand why people always bundle up inna the walk and expect mi fi step out inna the road fi please then even though is a mall mi deh pan mi nah walk nowhere else but the side walk sorry but mi a step tru unuh convo after mnc non a dem probably nah go eva see them back inna mi life plus dem nuh intimidate mi.
‘Excuse mi’ I state has they clear the way and let me through so I can enter the store. ‘ and good afternoon to you too’ I hear one of them say.
‘afternoon’ I say looking back to see a light skin smoking a blunt looking straight at me with smirk he then look me up and down the smirk fade he’s now serious.
Looking forward I entered the store and goes in the crocs section is a white one me look for enuh distinction no accept nothing but white nursing shoe me already have 2 but me want a white crocs fi where grabbing a size 6 I turn around and bump into someone.
‘mchtt’ I say
‘a me fi kmt a u lick up in a me’ the light from earlier says
‘ sorry’ we say in sync
‘that good man’ he say and I push pass him
‘gyal deh thick and har skin clean eh man’ one the his friends says
‘ jay leggo datt bro no look desso’ the light skin say immediately his friend looked away
Walking up to the cashier I placed my crocs down and search through my bag for my money or my card to pay i found a five-thousand-dollar bill and hand it to the cashier she took it and bagged my crocs and hand it and my change to me.
