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"Wah dat you a drink inna deh Aloe bottle deh?" Bridget stepped closer, eyes narrowing at me.
She reached for it. I swing, just in time, keeping it from her grip.
"Girl... a' Aloe Vera juiceeee," it comes out wrapped in a loud, guilty laugh. Casa's scent already swirling 'round her nostrils like incense.
"Amoy..."
"If it's an Aloe Vera bottle, nuh must that in deh?" I giggle, taking a sip, with a childish look on my face.
She's not playing with me.
"Wahm to yuh Bridget? That's why me nuh like when dem send me a Regional enuh. Cas yuh miss me so much, yuh get annoying," I laugh.
She proceeds to say my name in monotone.
"Amoy fi a pretty gyal, you a wah alcoholic enuh," She pinched me. I bursted out laughing.
Laughing again...
The first sign of depression.
"Yuh nuh far from the 'special' boss dem a the likkle cawna shop dem," she dragged the bottle, sniffed it, face already judging.
I give up, waiting for her to go off, her head dipping closer to the mouth of the bottle.
Then-
"Amoy..." she looks up at me. "Yuh wah the pickney born wid two head?"
"It's... it's just a little... it won't hurt," it slips out in a whisper.
It's early. It's just a fetus right now.
But something about drinking these days... just, soothes me. At least I'm not smoking.
Not gon lie... mi sound like mi buy mi nursing degree.
A sigh, not of relief, leaves my lips.
Then just as I'm about to say something even more ridiculous-
Whap!
A slap flies out the air and lands clean on my arm. "Stop it, man. Stop hurt the baby and guh hurt the father."
I turned my gaze to the window, and zoned right out. And just like that, I'm somewhere else, my own little world, quiet and far from here.
I really was doing this purposely. Self-sabotage in a cute bottle. Aloe label and all.
I'm wrong.
I need to stop.
"Amoy?" she leans into me. For a second, I forget she's right beside me. But then I feel her eyes.
I turn to her.
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AMNIJA
Romance"Comm check... Testing, one... two... Kwes Boaz speaking. ...you a hear me? Ah. You ever wake up and feel like something's...missing? That's my life. Seven years after. Now I'm back, but nothing's the way I left it. Not even me. Amnija happened righ...
