This is the story of Amiya Nnaji, a 16 year old high schooler living in Kingston, Jamaica.
Follow her on her journey; learning how to deal with puberty, fake friendships, betrayals, love & self awareness.
"I got a feeling (woo-hoo) that tonight's gonna be a good nig-" I turned in bed and stop my loud ass alarm clock "6:30am - Wake up pretty likkle island gal" it read, I smiled to myself. It's a beautiful Monday September morning, where parents are eagered to get rid of their kids for 7 hours a day. I was excited to go though, I really wanted to see my girls Mira and Jennifer, my gals!
"Amiya, get up!" my mom yelled from downstairs, she was making breakfast for the family. "Amiya! Nu mek mi have to come up there enu" she continued.
"Mom, I am already getting ready!" I said as I stood at balcony and my voice echoed throughout the mansion. I took a shower and then put on some light make up - brows, mascara, a lil concealer and a brown lippie. I tossed my hair to one side and put on a short sleeve jeans jacket over my school shirt and took a for a pic to post on the school's social media site "PriorityPrepPost - PPP for short".
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Immediately after the pic was posted I heard my black berry notifications going off like crazy "Ping! Ping! Ping!" A satisfying grin came over my face, yeah i still got it. I grab my book bag and headed downs stairs, ate breakfast and kiss my mom told her later, played with Jelana a little and I was out the door. My father and brothers were already out the house, my mom always take my baby sis to school before she went to the salon.
"Good morning Miss Nnaji " said the driver Mr Benjamin as he open the door to the BMW X5, all black and tinted. "Hi Mr B, wa gwan?" I jeered him, he was so uptight. He laughed as I got in the jeep and closes the door.
"What type of music you wanted to hear this morning, Miss Nnaji ?" questioned Mr Benjamin looking through the rear view mirror at me.
"Play sum Tessanne Chin fe mi deh" I said happily, I love me some Tessanne. Her songs always calms me, her voice is so sweet yet powerful. Mr B obliged to my request. "Remember that I will be picking you up after school at 4pm to take you to dance class" he reminded me.
"Yes, I remember Mr B" I assured him. I took dance, drama, swimming and piano lessons, my parents kept me busy with these extra curriculum activities and I didn't mind. While scrolling through PPP I saw that Jennifer posted a pic of herself and Mira pouting.
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