"Isla uh know say me and uh ago fight don't it? Why uh love bring the likkle beenie sumn dem fi me wear?"
"Uh come back wid dis again? A so di sumn fi wear. Uh titty dem fi a show."
Kiss mi rawse teeth.
Mi deeven ago argue wid har enuh caz mi not even a plan fi stay long.
"Den a walk we ago walk gah Dam? Me nave no energy fi dat enuh."
"Uh Neva yet have no energy fi ntn. Day nuh just light? Uh lazy so? And no. A Jay ago come pick we up."
"Good caz me Neva did a go walk go all di way dung deh so, den walk dung den steps deh only fi come up back."
"Shut up and come on. Me wah go get likkle soup as it done."
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"No sah den dem steps yah did affi so long? What if earthquake go Gwan now? A dead we dead enuh."
"Uh know say uh too grim? Weh yah think bout that fah? How dat drop in?" Isla rolled her eyes as we walked down the steps hand in hand.
"Just a thought."
"No sah a tek Jay mek him a keep water party inna January yah? Him couldn't keep one desert party? No sah." I whined as we finally made it to the falls.
"And di girl weh wear Bridget's don't it?"
"Bridget's pan foot and and Bridget's pan foot."
I began to sing, but then stopped when I felt a presence behind us.
"Yow Shawty. Uh Neva tell me say uh did a come." I heard Malik one of Travis' friends said as he placed his hand over my shoulder and the other over Isla's.
"Neva did sure."
"Yah styla enuh, uh love style man." He said as Isla walked away.
"Yah talk bout?"
"Look how long man text uh and all now uh nuh respond after uh mek me get me hopes up say yeah sumn can Gwan." He said and I rolled my eyes.
"How me mek you get your hopes up now? Me know fi a fact say me and you Neva yet hold dem argument deh."
"Just cool nuh babes a me and you a talk enuh. But really a truly a long time mi like uh enuh, and me wah uh inna mi life fi treat uh like the queen you are. Me Neva yet see smaddy weh me like so yet. Uh have me head a way." He said softly, and I began to chuckle.
"Uh use dah line deh pan Isla already so come again."
"No watch yah nuh. Annuh use me did a try use it pan har enuh. A just practice me did a practice fi when me a talk to uh it perfect." Yow dah Bredda yah different enuh.
"Malik Lata mi talk to uh. Isla a call me."
Mi deeven did know a weh Isla gone, but me just a walk.
Me nah go inna dah water deh enuh, caz a too much people dat and mnk weh dem body a come from.
"Thea carry dah bag an ice yah ova weh Xavier dem deh fimme nuh please." Jay handed me the bag of the ice, and that was when I realized that Xavier was in fact here.
"Where mi fi put dis?" I asked Burris as when I made it over to them, Xavier lifting his head up to look at me for a second, before lowering it back.
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In the Dark
Romance"Uh look so like uh see duppy mumma. Or a uh reflection uh see?" Asked the driver, and I squinted as I tried to get a good look of his face, and he chucked and turned on the roof light when he realized, and I kissed my teeth and rolled my eyes when...
