FACADE

41|Happy

PAECYN

I've been experiencing a wave of happiness all week. Apart from the fact that I have to be studying right around the clock, my orders have been through the roof. Most of my peers put their orders in before the break so they could get them now, while studying, and I must say, I'm surprised the shipment came through way before I expected.

*Big up daddy*

With my personal Tigaz cheese trix in one hand and this customer's pack of Busta candy in the next, I move to the mountain of boxes to double count how many I've done and how many I have left.

*Weh Bailey?*

Di girl say she ago help me when she done study and all now me cyaa see her and an after eight ah night. She a take her sophomore year way more serious than I did last year.

*Oh well*

Ridding my mind of her whereabouts, I move from the packed boxes to the order sheet displayed on my Mac.

"Think yuh figet 'bout me," he chuckles before bringing his face back to the screen.

I kinda did.

When I'm fulfilling orders it's just me and the sheet, nuttin else nuh really matter.

"I did but me soon done. Me ago send you my booklet and you tell me wah you think wrong or right," I plop down onto the bed, positioned on my tummy and propped up by my elbows, while bending my knees to bring my feet up.

While swinging them and digging deeper into the bag of Tigaz, I listen for his response.

"You know a Physics me do right?" he giggles.

"So?" my eyebrows rush into a knot, "you act like you know everything so mark the paper so me can send the group and we can see who have the closest answers."

"You nuh see that as cheating?"

"Yuh can't cheat during studying though-" before my words land safely, the knob of the dorm door is being rattled and a millisecond later Bailey is ambling in.

*Lock the screen!*

I do just what my mind tells me, without even saying goodbye.

"Bee weh yuh deh how long?" I shove my laptop to the side before sliding from the bed to greet her.

"Girl," she sighs, "me study till me weak. Right now sleep a kill me."

What? Somebody can study till dem weak?

*Yes*

I know but why she say it so? My eyes drop to her two empty hands... Weh the snacks weh the lady say she did ago buy on her way back?

"Girl weh the snacks?" I grab both her hands, twisting them to find any evidence of shopping bags.

Any markings...

Any residue of bread... supm! I want her to tell me she left the bags outside and need help bringing them in.

She pulls her hands away, "Girl you extra enuh," her giggles swarm our tiny room.

Bwoy she sound tired fi true, maybe a me nah take the studying serious enough.

"Me buy dem enuh, and eat some ina the library and then when me a come back me say me ago buy some more and supm fi we cook, but me too tired yah man. Mek we just order pizza and go sleep."

"Well if a pizza we ago eat we might as well go dining hall go get it free," my tone now in a slump but still hopeful say me can full me belly.

*From day me just a eat outa the people dem box*