𝘗 𝘐 𝘕 𝘒 𝘠

Jul 25

"You deh near Choppa?" Her exhausted voice came over the phone and I stared ahead.

Feel fi say no because when me did ask her for him she tell me she nuh know where him deh.

But suppose it's an emergency.

Then she get what the duck get.

Pinks buil.

Rolling my eyes, I glanced at him for a split second and then I spoke. "Why you ask?"

She sounded like she was crying. "The baby a cry fi her Dada," she sniffled. "Nuh know wah must do...or tell her say."

Umm...

...what?

"Hold on," I leaned over and placed the phone at Tyreek's ear.

He was silent for a minute then he spoke. "Mhmm, me o' fawud round there."

Hearing the dial tone, I removed my phone from his ear and placed it in my lap.

I glanced at him with my eyebrows furrowed.

"Ask cause me know yuh waah ask," his voice came out wry.

The man know.

"Why didn't she call Ajhanae's dad instead?" I asked in worry.

He shrugged. "She doesn't have a dad."

Oh.

"Him dead?" I was confused.

Yuh mouth.

He glanced at me and then back at the road. "Yeah."

Oh.

For the rest of the drive, we were in silence. It wasn't awkward though.

When he turned on the road that led to my community he uttered, "Me a go round a Marcia before me make you drive go round zeen."

"Mhmm mmm," I rested my head on the window.

Nobody in my house knew where I had gone, when my boyfriend texted me and asked if I changed my mind about seeing the movie, I just got up and got ready then left.

Me a my own big woman stills.

Probably Danay knew though, because the lady was team Chops.

Everybody else hate the boy.

We went to the scheme and up to his mother's house, where he drove up into the yard and parked.

"You a come inside with me?" He turned to me when he parked.

Then me did go stay out here by myself?

"Obviously," I deadpanned.

He shook his head and then he leaned over and opened my door. "Fawud nuh."

Picking up my bag and my phone, I pushed the door open wider and went out then I waited for him to do the same.

I heard the weeping coming from the baby before we even reached the front door.

Jeez.

Tyreek opened the front door and pulled me in behind him and then we headed up the stairs.

Weh the one Tyrese deh?

Tyeeka was in the hallway with teary eyes holding a sobbing Ajhanae in her arms.

"Da-Da," she sobbed, her cheeks red and her eyes puffy. "Want Daa-da."

Standing in front of his sister, Tyreek took the crying baby from her arms and began rocking her.

Awww.

We can give him one.

Which summa!? Which holiday!?

"A how she start cry?" he paced the hallway.

She observed me and then diverted her attention to him. "Ummm," she fiddled with her fingers.

"Me did umm..." Was she afraid of her brother?
"Did deh pon a call with umm... somebody and she heard the voice and started saying Dada so me tell her it's not her daddy and she start cry say she want Dada."

So when did her father die?I didn't know what was going on.

"Who you did a chat to?" Why him so rough?

Looking at her face, I knew she wasn't going to answer truthfully.

Me nuh wrong her.

Same.

"Umm... waah guy," sje shrugged.

He glared at her. "Me find out what me hear about you a true and see."

Oh?

A fi him pickney?

Same so Andre gwaan so nuh say nth.

Him and Andre coulda par. They have similar characteristics.

Anyway, a wah him hear about her, cause me little bit and fast enuh.

"Nothing nuh go so," she made up her face.

Why me feel like me a invade the people them privacy?

Tyreek dragged me behind him stills and if he didn't want me to hear, he wouldn't say it in front of me.

Disregarding her, he continued to lull his niece, telling her that 'uncle was here now.'

Woulda give him one fi real.

Joke.

Tyreek ambled toward me and pushed his room door open. When he looked back at me, I walked behind him and went into the room.

He turned the lights on while cradling the sobbing child to his chest and I walked past him and to the loveseat in the room where I took my slides off.

I needed to text Olivia for a session before the month finished.

"B, can take off me shoes fimi please?" Tyreek sat on the bed with his feet hanging off.

I stared at him with my eyebrows raised. "Look like Ashley?"

Boy Pinky, me cyaa stand you.

He hissed his teeth, "Chat too much."

"Them say if you nuh chat your mouth will stink mawsa," I laughed and placed my phone down on the sofa.

"Cyaa deal with you enuh."

I stood up and leaned toward his feet and proceeded to untie the lace of his black and white Saint Laurent.

"Cause you have the baby me a do it," I informed him. "Don't feel too nice."

"So you gwaan man," I heard him say.

I just realized I wasn't hearing cries from the baby anymore and I looked up to see her with her mouth slightly open, her tongue peeking out and one of her tiny hands holding onto Tyreek's hair.

Awww.

I finished taking both shoes off his feet and was about to sit back down when Tyreek held onto my hand.

Knowing that he wanted my attention, I took up my phone and then stood between his legs.

The baby's eyes were half-opened as she was falling asleep.

"Wah you want?" I asked Tyreek.

He smiled and laid on his back, taking the now-sleeping baby off his chest and placing her on the bed.

When the baby was out of his hand her patted her back and made sure she was asleep.

"Want one?" I asked teasingly, wanting to hear his response.

He pulled me down so I was lying on his chest. "Two me want."

Go ask Ashley wah she do with them.

Aye gyal.

"Chest high," I raised a brow and then I looked down at him.

"Boy and Girl me want, one year apart like me and Tye," he explained.

Not even a laugh.

"How you a get them?" I stared at him with a blank expression.

Before a boy breed me, me rather lick him inah him back with a crep!

Word to Brit.

He had a confident look on his face. "Nuh from you."

"Joke you a make man," I chuckled, opening my phone and going on Remini. "Yuh waah see how me baby ago look?"

"Hmm," he hummed and turned his attention to my phone.

He watched as I followed the steps as directed by the app and after a few minutes the pictures came up.

"Purr! Me daughter cute," I laughed.

"So we daughter ago look?" He asked me.

No.

"Yeah," I giggled, locking my phone then looking down at the baby beside us.

"She knew her dad?" My eyes turned to Tyreek.

He shook his head. "Died before her mother have her."

That's sad.

"How?" I raised another question, followed by a yawn.

"Shoot them did shoot him enuh," his hands wrapped around my waist.

I hummed in response, listening to his heartbeat and soon enough I was fast asleep.

##

"How you can ramp so!?" I cursed, trying to take my phone from him.

He dodged me. "Easy nuh," he laughed and held the phone higher. "Wah you a hide?"

I hissed my teeth, not playing anymore. "Gimi me f-king phone nuh."

He bent his index finger and knocked it on my forehead. "Yuh mouth nuh fit your body."

I wasn't playing with him, I wanted my phone so I could text my aunt.

"Can get me phone?" I sighed, trying to be calm.

He took a step closer to me and backed me into the wall.

"Kiss me first."

Immediately, I made up my face. "Yuh cyaa give up don't?"

"Naah," he smiled. "Man love you enuh, long time and yuh know."

"Me nuh love you," I folded my arms across my chest.

He smiled. "Too lie, see how yuh heart a beat fast."

"Wah that have fi do with nothing?" I was irritated.

"Yuh love the G too, yuh just fraid fi admit it," he was smiling.

"Move," I pushed at his chest but he didn't move.

Hulk.

His hands wrapped around my neck and he bit his lip, pulling me closer to him.

When we made eye contact, I smiled and looked away.

"See," he chuckled.

Rolling my eyes, I stared at him with my brows furrowed.

Our faces were now closer to each other and my heartbeat accelerated.

I could feel his breath fanning on my face and our nose were almost touching.

His eyes flickered between my lips and my eyes.

"Do it nuh fool," I encouraged him.

Instantly, he pressed his lips against mine for a slow sensual kiss.

After about a minute he pulled away and I diverted my gaze, not making eye contact.

The scenery changed and we were now in the town.

How?

"Know say you love me," he smirked.

I rolled my eyes at his statement. "All waah gwaan a my phone me want."

"Nah get it enuh," he stared at me. "Me a control it... and you."

Control who?

"Boy bye!" I dismissed.

"Come on nuh," he held out his hand for me.

I shook my head.

"Come nuh Brittney," Only him and Danay called me that.

"Where we a go?" I didn't want to walk. Where was his car anyway?

"Yuh stubborn so?" He was used to this so why was he complaining.

Frowning, I leaned off the wall and reached for his hand but I touched air.

That's weird.

My brows furrowed and I looked up so I could see his face.

He was nowhere to be found.

I looked around my surroundings with my brows pulled together.

"Zachary yuh play too much," I called out, thinking he was hiding or something.

Big 'ole 19-year-old boy.

"Zachary! Stop play nuh," Why him always a pissed me off.

"Zachary Jones!" I stomped my feet.

I looked around again and I didn't see him.

"Zachary!?"

##

My eyes flew open and I rubbed them, looking around my surroundings.

Where we deh?

Tyreek's mother's house, I guess.

I sat up in the bed, the baby was no longer beside me so I looked around the room.

Tyreek was standing at the bathroom door, wearing blue Ralph Lauren shorts and white merina, a glare set on his face.

"Fool yuh take man fah?" his tone was gravel.

What was he talking about?

"With what?" I yawned, covering my mouth.

His jaws tightened. "Just deh yah so a call man name inah your sleep... fuck yuh self with me enuh."

I made up my face. "What?"

Girl.

"Yuh f-cking deaf?"

A cyaa me him a talk too, cause ain't no way.

Sliding off the bed, I got up and walked past him to go inside the bathroom.

Not even big back André cyaa chat to me so.

I turned the tap on at the sink and washed my face.

When I was finished, I turned around and dried my face with the merina he was wearing.

No damn limit.

Me nuh business.

When I was about to go out of the bathroom, he pulled me back and slammed the door shut.

This was why I stayed single and leave men alone.

Cause why him a man handle me?

"You and the Zachary youth inah?" His voice was gruff.

So he be on Instagram?

If a never this him come with, something wrong.

"He's my friend," I responded, staring at him.

"Sure?" he didn't believe me and I could tell by his voice and the way he looked at me.

"Yes," I rolled my eyes. "Me a Ask you nothing bout Ashley?"

Yes, me a go always bring her up.

He face scrunched up. "How that come in?"

That?

Laugh my ass off!

"Same thing you see or hear nothing about me and Zachary pon a the same thing me see sumn bout you and Ashley pon... and the lady say the two a we a share you," I retorted.

"Me nuh see or hear nothing," he hissed. "A you a call the man name inah your bl-claat sleep like yuh take me fi claffy."

Oh?

"Me obviously did a dream Sir, why you a behave so?" My eyebrows were pulled together as I stared at him.

"Oh... if a me did call woman name inah my sleep, you woulda calm?" He snapped.

Mad.

"Woulda a shot you a box, you wake up same time," I shrugged, nonchalantly.

A just the truth.

He shook his head. "See, that a the thing Pinky, 'cause me smile with you every day, make you do wah you want, make yuh have your own way and work pan your timing, yuh feel me a idiot doh?"

The man called me Pinky.

"Tell yuh this man, doh make me get chip, me will murda Zachary in front a you and watch you bawl and nuh pay you no mind yer," he threatened.

Okay.

Him Bellevue a look for?

"Okay," I rolled my eyes. "Me fi tell you wah Matthew woulda do with you?"

Your mouth!!

"Who you a deal with?" He pressed me into the wall and stood in front of me.

"You... nuh you say you will kill the boy in front a me?" I retorted. "So me ask if you want me tell you wah him brother would a do with you."

"Defend you a defend yuh man?" his jaws tightened.

"Anuh me man, yuh deaf?" I was getting infuriated.

"Make me find out say you a style me," he pointed a finger in my face. "Fuck up you and him."

"Nuh know a who you a talk to enuh," I laughed.

"Yuh soon bl-dclaat now," he stepped away from me. "Tell yuh fi just make me find out sumn a gwaan enuh."

I hissed my teeth.

"Bruh, if me and Zachary did inah things, I wouldn't be here with you, I'd be laid up with him, trust me," I made it clear.

"Yuh love chat?" he glared at me.

Yeah, enuh.

I shrugged. "Me just a tell you."

"A earsaz ago reach yuh, gwaan chat man," he stated, then opened the door and walked out.

I laughed, shaking my head and I walked out of the bathroom with him.

When I got inside the room, I straightened the bed and then I picked up my phone from under the pillow.

I unlocked my phone and went to the call log and searched for George's number. When I found it, I dialed it and then pressed the phone at my ear.

He picked up on the fourth ring and I was thankful.

"Good evening, where yuh deh?" I asked him.

"You know me deh a St. James pon a charter though Likkle Miss," he answered and I frowned.

"Soon come?" I pushed my bottom lip out.

"No enuh, me just reach," he responded.

Cyaa bother.

"Alright then, later."

I hung up and folded my arms.

Tyreek was staring at me. "Every time we have a disagreement you ready fi cut?"

Disagreement?

Man wicked so?

"We didn't have a disagreement Sir, yuh raise your voice after me, then accuse me of cheating then you threatened me," I responded. "Now I feel offended and want to go home."

"Pinky..." he sighed.

Oh.

That's what we doing?

Okay.

"Choppa?" I raised a brow.

We matching energy!

"Maybe me approach it wrong but yuh nuh think me feel a way when me a hear say me woman a fuck pan me and then you a call the man name inah your sleep bro... wah me did fi think?" he questioned me.

Never feel no way when Ashley say unuh still inah things and we a share you!

"Yuh smart," I began. "Look like me a give yuh bun?"

His eyes raked me. "Initially, no. Me never believe but the thing wah you nuh too long do make me start pree different."

I chuckled in disbelief. "You of all persons shouldn't even think a true. Me not even know- never mind yaa."

He laughed and pulled me toward him.

"Don't touch me," I pushed his hands off. "After yuh just done threaten me."

"Neva mean it B, you have man head a way enuh," his hands wrapped around my waist.

Laughing, I looked up at him. "Tell no lie pah me."

"Fi real," he held my stare. "Man rate yuh."

Oh.

"You don't," I stepped back from him. "Else you wouldn't believe that."

"You affi medz it from my point of view Brittania," he stated.

Mhmm Kay.

"Okay," I pretended to think about it. "Me still ready fi go home though."

"Why?" a frown formed on his face.

Ugh.

"Long time me gone and nobody nuh know where me deh," I shrugged.

Although it was a regular habit for me to go somewhere and then tell them where I went after I came back.

He hissed. "People them goodly occupied."

"How you know that?" I stretched my hand out for the car key.

He dipped his hands in his pocket and then he placed his car key in my palm.

"A wild guess," he shrugged in response to my question."Put on your slippers and fawud nuh."

I walked to where my slides were and pushed my feet inside of them.

"Ready," I glanced at him and walked out of the room with him following behind me.

When I got downstairs and outside of the house, he held onto my hand.

"Wah happen to you?" I asked him.

Not answering me, his free hand held onto my throat and his lips crashed onto mine.

Fully love out.

When he pulled away, I stared at him.

"Obsessed?" I laughed playfully.

He smiled at me. "In love."

I raised a brow, thinking I heard incorrectly. "With me?"

"Coulda who else?" He shook his head as if I was stupid.

"So you say," I shrugged, not believing him and he stared at me with a blank expression.

Why would I believe him?

Yeah, I think you need to go see Olivia.

He hissed his teeth and turned to go back inside. "Later, maa send Tyeeka fi the car when me done."

***

When I got home, I decided to walk at the front door.

It's a usual thing.

Me just lazy fi use my stairs.

I unlocked the door and stepped in to see Kayla sitting on the sofa, a pissed off André staring down at her while she laughed.

A Wah me miss?

Them a friend now?

Think she did fraid a him.

"Look like me a fucking laugh?" His voice was raucous.

Murda.

"A joke, jeez," she rolled her eyes.

He hissed his teeth and we made eye contact and I stood staring at him for about a minute.

Laugh me laugh man.

"Good evening," I mumbled, heading towards the stairs.

"You a fawud from?" André called after me.

"Nuh owe you no explanation," I answered, going up. "Shoulda glad say me come back before night."

Nuh want nobody ask me nothing.

More while me just feel like listen two Chronic law and murda smaddy.

A joke.

Me belly a hurt me so me nuh want nobody bother me.

Kayla came up to my room a little after I went up.

She came when I was organizing my clothes and sanitary items to go take a shower.

"Umm... Pinky," she fiddled with her fingers.

I stared at her with my head tilted up, urging her to continue.

She glanced around the room and her eyes stopped at the items in my hand.

"You a menstruate?" she asked me.

"Yeah," I nodded.

"Umm, never mind then," she turned and walked out of the room.

A wah gwaan?

"Kayla?" I called after her.

"Yeah," she answered me, and stopped walking.

I observed her before speaking. "Everything good?"

"Yeah," she nodded.

Okay.

"Feel like we a drift," I said to her giving her my undivided attention.

"Why you say that?" she asked, a frown on her face.

I shrugged. "Because that's how I feel."

"Most a the time you deh somewhere with your boyfriend enuh Pinky, so me nuh know," she held up her hands.

How boyfriend reach here so?

"I wasn't implying that we don't spend time together enuh miss, me just say we a drift," was my response.

She looked down at her feet and didn't say anything.

"Me a go bathe," I walked off and went into the bathroom.

***

After my bath, I got a text from Tyeeka that she was on her way.

Wiping the tears from my eyes, I stood up with my phone and took the car keys from my dresser.

What was I crying for?

Nothing, everything.

Me just feel cryish.

I sat down and thought about everything that had been happening in my life and that's how the tears just started.

But it's fine.

I used my stairs to go down and when I got outside and through the gate, a black Mark X similar to Andre's pulled up.

Tyeeka emerged from the passenger side and she looked between me and the house.

"You a Dantè them sister?" Her eyes widened in shock.

She said 'Dantè them' not 'Zelle them.'

"Never know?" I observed her.

She shook her head. "First me a know."

"Oh," I chuckled.

"Chops-" she stopped and sighed. "Nothing."

"Hmmm," I stretched the keys out to her.

She took them excitedly. "Know long me waah drive the bimmer and Ty nuh want me drive it."

"My brother naah make me drive him GLE either," I laughed.

"A style thing man," she pressed the fob and the car unlocked.

Real.

"Pinks," I heard my name being called from the car she came out of.

The windows rolled down revealing a smoking Matthew.

Baxide now.

Wah him a do with the boy sister?

Better yet, wah she a do with him?

If he brought her here for her brother's car that I drove here, then him nuh must know say me and the boy still inah things.

Suppose him go tell him Bessie?

Yeah man, yuh love risk it fi the biscuit.

"Naah inform if you nuh inform," he let out smoke through his mouth.

Huh?

"A your girlfriend?" I asked him.

He smiled. "A me woman."

God come here if yuh nuh busy.

"Oh, later... me a go back in," I said to him then turned to Tyeeka. "Later."

"Yeah later girl," she responded, waving at me.

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