"Girl mi hate Valentine's Day uh fuck. Mi nuh know why dem nuh just remove it from the calendar. It nuh mek no sense." Isla kissed her teeth as we walked through the Twin Gates pharmacy, and I chuckled.
"I hear uh, but nuh you did a tell me weh day say uh find man? Pineapple dah one yah name right?"
"Girl pineapple nah Gwan wid ntn so might as well go tek a bite outta apple."
"Who's apple?" Dis whole fruit bowl thing a mek me confused, and now it a mek me hungry.
"Never mind caz like uh memory nah work."
I hummed as we kept walking through the people dem place a look pan things and di price dem only fi put dem back caz dem people yah likkle bit and thief.
Thank God mi know dung a town.
No scratch that, thank God mi know SHEIN and Amazon and all a dem good sumn deh.
"Uh period come?" She asked out of the blue, and that was when I realized that it in fact hadn't, and I forced as my eyes widened as I looked at before quickly taking my phone out to check my Flo app.
"A wahm? It late? Woii!! You is breeding!"
"My girl tap uh noise nuh. Me nah breed. Mi period just a play hide and seek."
"Woiii me a turn Anty. Mek mi call mi cousin and big him up yah." She was typing on her phone before I grabbed it from her hands, and I placed it in my bag.
"Just stop uh noise nuh. Me nah breed."
"Yah breed girl caz mi know say uh nuh use protection. Uh figat a wah uh name Miss Pull and Pray?" She was having the time of her life, but I was panicking caz what if a true? Dead me dead now enuh.
"Me nah breed."
"Girl mi hear uh already, uh just a repeat like yah one broken record so. Come." She pulled me by the hand to the cash register before asking.
"Uh can tell mi di price fi dem pregnancy test deh please?"
"Isla come on nuh girl and stop the foolishness." The girl looked between the both of us before taking up all the options and giving her the prices for each.
"Uh wah the one fifty one, or the three bills one?"
"All a dem nuh do the same thing?" Didn't they?
"Gimme one a each."
"A you a pay fi dem enuh, and you ago piss pan dem." Walking leave her in the pharmacy I went outside to get some fresh air.
"Me ready fi gah mi yard." I told her as soon as she came outside with a brown bag in hand, and she interlocked our fingers.
"Uh nuh badda hungry?"
"No mi appetite gone."
"Oh uh mussi feel nauseous caz yah breed. Hush yah. It soon stop."
Kissing my teeth, I ripped my hand from her grasp as she laughed as I walked on the pedestrian crossing to get over Starbucks.
Mi nuh like over yah so enuh, caz it just ever crowded and just common and ghetto.
Look pan dem people ova deh so wid dem laptop like dem a do ntn of importance.
Dem mussi feel like say a farrin or a show dis dem inna.
All dem do a day time a tek up space and slow dung ee likkle Wi-Fi.
Aye it bun mi fi dem essi.
"Wah yah buy?"
"Strawberry Frappuccino. Uh know say a dat alone me can stomach."
"Bay fuckry uh drink enuh my girl. Well a wah di baby want stills." Me and har ago fight enuh.
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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...
