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I didn't get far as he was there with me and taking me into the front room just as the music starts playing again.
"Damajue, me nuh wah deal with yuh right now." I frowned, feeling the adrenaline wearing off and pain rocking me to cry.
"Come on." He called me towards the bathroom and I went with him so whatever this is can be over with quickly.
Seated on the side of the elevated bath, he attended to my bruises like a professional and topped it off with some medicated powder. "What is this for?"
"Cuts heal quicker when its dried. It will feel better tomorrow."
"Okay doctor." I muttered then thanked him. "Thanks for this, but I need to go."
"Amoy, please stop shutting me out." He pleads and I sighed, looked up at him.
"All I said downstairs is true." I shrugged, awaiting for him to ask a question or two.
"Can I know what happened before the investigation, so I can give my family an heads up? People were recording so it's definitely going viral right now." He says which is absolutely true.
"The investigation sounds great, does your family save all the video footages because they can go back as far as the early daycare years and see those evidence up until last year when you came. Yeah, because that evening you took me home in your car, she came to my apartment asking my mother for me. She threatened me real good so look into that too. All I know is, I didn't do anything and as much as I was avoiding you and your family, you caused this..."
"I caused it? All I did was love you while you shut me out. This could've been avoided if you had told me or my family because we would've gotten rid of them immediately." He defended.
"Whatever. It's wasn't love, I call it obsession." An here I was pushing his buttons.
"Oh really." He chuckled, his voice thick as he stoop to meet my eyes at my level. "Mih obsessed yes, but mih cah do nothing cause yuh nuh wah mih. Your type is a bwoy who shy fih even put him hand roun' yuh so him dweet when yuh distracted. While him young, mih older suh mih know what me know. Mummy right, cow nuh know dih use a him tail till butcher cut it off."
"What's that suppose to mean?" I raised a brow in question.
"Yuh have a man right in front a yuh and him try fih years just fih do everything to include yuh in him life and yuh nuh want it. It's when him gone and find somebody else yuh go see the good in him. Yuh wah sumaddy yuh nuh know, and will affi find time fih know, trust and love. It's an idiot move because all now mih nuh do nothing fih hurt yuh and fih years a me deh get hurt. Heartbroken, rejected, insulted, disappointed, disrespected and ignored but this idiot still a try. Yuh see love and reject it fih wah, fukry yuh could a avoid if yuh just talk. Yuh even let yuh fada know how yuh mada treating yuh?"
I looked down embarrassed and he lifts my head by the chin but I didn't look in his eyes. He is right and I can't deny it, the tears building in my tear dusk couldn't hide either.
"Mih done Amoy, mih love yuh but mih can't always a give me all while yuh have me like a idiot. Just tek care a yuh self and mih just hope yuh choose a man worthy fih yuh cause if wasn't me." He whispered and moved his finger from chin.
Meeting his eyes, my tears finally fell and my heart broke immediately.
"Good luck, Amoy. Have a great life." He smiled sadly and turned, leaving.
Before he could leave the room, I was holding his arm and he stopped. Nervousness was the last thing I felt, for when he turned I pulled his head down as I stood on my tippy toes to kiss him.
