Ghetto Licks

Chapter One

CHRISTMAS Eve in Shovel Heights was a spectacle every year. In 56 Lane Christmas lights could be seen in every nook and cranny. All zinc have Christmas lights wrap round it. Sophia Williams always made sure the house was decked out in the latest decorations and her daughter, Shelly was in the latest fashion for the season. Christmas was her favorite time of the year. The shopping, the parties, the cooking – the cooking was her most favorite part of all – she loved to cook – she loved to feed har man.

The house was packed this year; most of har babyfada family from St. Elizabeth was here for the

holiday. Shelly was having a blast with her cousins; playing dress-up and showing them all the

toys her father bought for her from the store uptown. Everything was perfect. Now if only

Shawn would hurry up and come home so she could start getting ready for the big Christmas

Eve party her friend Ava was throwing this year. They agreed that this year Shawn would stay

home and she would go out and he found the idea very soothing because he'd been on the road a

whole lot for the last two weeks.

"Sophie!"

"Thank God! Shawn come home." Sophia thought.

Shawn was a man in his forties but you'd never know by just looking at him. He was hot and

damn sexy and every time Sophia saw him she got instantly wet.

Sophia came running to the veranda, "Laad gad! A wa, a wa Shawn? Weh yuh a shout out mi

name fa?"

Shawn walked to the bedroom with Sophie following behind. "Nuttn B, mi jus a gi yuh a loud

shout out fi get yuh inna d party mood. Cho man."

"Raaee...! Mi aguh mad dem tonight when mi step inna di place tonight! Nuh gyal cyaa test yuh

gyal eh babe?" Sophia shouted.

"Yes B." Shawn replied.

Shawn eyed the clothes laid out on the bed and got a instant screw face. "Yow, mek sure seh a u

an Peaches an Ava stan up enuh! Mi not even wa hear seh yuh a look pon nuh man enuh caa yuh

know how it guh."

"Watch yah! Mek yuh affi a gwaan suh? Yuh nuh know she u alone inna my heart? Yuh nuh

know seh a your summn? Look how long mi deh wid yuh, yuh evah si mi wid nuh man yet? Jus

stap it man, jus stap di jelousness."

Shawn walked around to her and grabbed her ass and gave it a nice squeeze, "jus mek sure seh u

know dat an wi gud."

"Yuh a taak up like yuh nuh av yuh watch dawg dem a watch mi." Sophie said.

"Hey gyal, watch yuh mouth man, mine man affi lick off yuh head enuh."

"Lawd man Shawn a joke mi a mek." Sophia said, then proceeded to hug him around his waist.

"Mi aguh bade caa mi waa lef before 12 a clak."

SHAWN watched her leave the room and his eyes were glued to her backside. Sophia was one

sexy bitch, and all his.

Shawn reached in his back pocket and pulled out his blackberry and dialed him friend Screechy

number. He was feeling a bit insecure because this was the first time he was allowing Sophia to

go out alone.

Screechy picked up on the second ring. "Yow mi don, waa gwaan?"

"Yow Screech waa gwaan?" Shawn replied.

"Yea puppah, waa guh dung?"

"Hear dis, Sophia a guh a Ava party tonight enuh an mi nah guh wid har suh mi wa yuh gi a

special eye pon har yuh hear dat mi dawg?"

"Yea man puppah, everyting a everyting. A suh di ting set."

"Auh, mi wi link up back wid yuh."

"Nuh seh a word." Screechy replied and ended the call.

Shawn walked over to the bed, took off his wallabee and lay across the bed. Hands behind his

head, ankles crossed.

He had been with Sophia since she was thirteen. Back then – even as a thirteen-year-old – she

always had the ability fi mek him hood stan' up. She was so sexy in those little shorts and the

belly-skin blouse, it was impossible for him not to stake a claim to her and bwoy she knew how

to blow his mind. No other girl could come close to her not even dem time deh. Some a him

bredren use to drop one an two talk bout the age ting but Sophie was always wise fi har years;

and smart. Way smarter than him and pretty like money with har pretty brown skin and brown

eyes, straight nose and full lips. Him did affi own har up before one a di likkle youth dem tek di

cherry.

It was somewhat taboo to even look at a thirteen-year-old back then but being the man he was,

Sophia's mother – Ms. Bennett – respected him and knew he would take care of her daughter in

the best ways possible. The fact that she was not able to care for Sophia and her two younger

sisters gave him a slight advantage so she gave them her blessing. Not that she saying she didn't

approve of it would have stopped anything because Sophia was fi him girl and the whole a

Shovel Heights knew that way before even Ms. Bennett fine out. But, him decide to go about it

the right and proper way. After Ms. Bennett come on board Shawn and Sophia was all ovah di

place; crazy partying and him buss har pon di liquor caa she get wild when she drink and him

love that. Watching Sophie experience womanhood was a pleasure for Shawn and made him feel

even more like the don fi Shovel Heights. No other man was allowed to touch a young girl after

him get Sophia. Him nuh waa nuh man av weh him av.

Everything that was imaginable he did for her. Pay har school fee, provide lunch money, keep

food on the table for Ms. Bennett. Sophia was him queen. Him groom har. Any bwoy decide fi

violate get straight gunshot.

Sophia got pregnant when she was fourteen. It was a bittersweet time for Shawn because Sophia

was always smart and he didn't want to ruin her future but he was happy that she as the one fi

bear him first yute. Right then and there him decide seh when the yute born him aguh move har

een an tek care a him yute. Everything was smooth sailing after Sophia get pregnant. Baby

born, Shawn made good on his vow to take care a she an him yute and him mek sure she go back

to school – where she got five subjects in CXC – because him know she destined fi big tings.

Anything inna di world will never be too good fi him baby. Da gyal yah know how fi hold him.

Sophia is eighteen now – five years an di relationship still excite him.