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THE BEDREST
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|| Wednesday. . .

Since the robbery, things have been. . . mi deevn know which word fi use to describe it.

Aunty Macky is stressing about how she ago pay fi the subjects.

I'm worrying about if it's a coincidence seh the house get robbed right as the money send.

Favio pick up pon mi awkwardness around him. I haven't told him what happened.

Mi sigh and put mi head pon the desk. I'm at school wasting my free period. Mi a have terrible cramps since mi come back from Town. Mi nuh know if a mi period or what. . . PMS never bother me this much before.

"Chichi?" smaddy voice come from somewhere in the empty classroom.

Mi look up and see Yolanda. Mi give her a forced smile weh quickly turn to a grimace. Sum really do me and the school nurse just give me a pill fi pain and seh mi fi go lay down.

"Yu arite?" Yolanda face crease in worry and she come over to me.

"Yea," I tell her. "PMS, I think."

She nod in understanding and rub mi shoulder. "Hush yaa, girl. It soon pass."

Mi just nod. Mi hope it soon pass. I don't want to have to go to an actual doctor, Aunty Macky already have enough on her plate.

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|| Thursday. . .

I blink back tears as Favio try push him hood ina me.

He senses my discomfort and stop. Him look down at me. "You good?"

I shake my head. "No, it really hurts."

Him come from offa me and lay on his side on my bed. I turn to face him and him wipe beneath my eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"I've been having really bad cramps. . ."

"Is it your. . ."

Mi shake mi head. "It nuh feel like period."

His brows crease in worry. "Yu waa go doctor?"

Mi look weh to a corner ina mi room. "No, mi scared."

Him hold beneath mi chin and mek mi look back pon him. "Why?"

I sigh. "Because. . . mi aunty ago ask mi wa the money fa."

"Money should be the least of her concerns, your health comes first. How long has this been happening?"

"Since mi come from Town. . ." I trail off, thinking back to when we had sex. Favio did very rough wid me that day. "If. . . if it has something to do with sex, mi aunty ago kill me."

He's quiet in thought. "I can bring you to my godmother's private practice."

A must tongues me a speak ina.

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