In the Dark

52.

Later that day I realized that I hadn't seen Athena since she came home from school, and I knew that she was home caz I heard her playing music.

"Tina?" I knocked on her door, but she didn't answer, so I knocked and called until she did.

"The door Neva lock enuh."

A who trouble har?

"Wahm to uh pretty?"

"Ntn. Mi good." She went and sat back on her bed as she ate chocolates from a box, and I rose a brow.

"Uh get Valentine's Day gift tho. Think uh did say uh nave no man."

"I don't." I rose brow caz sumn definitely wrong.

"Tina wahm to uh? From weh day me did fi ask uh caz a from weh day yah sulk so."

"Mi good mi say." She snapped, and I went quiet then she sighed apologizing

"Alright mek me tell uh a wah Gwan. So uh know mi fren dem Kay Kay, Kissy, Tiara, Mandy, Apple, and Princess right?"

"I know of them Yh." Nuh like none a dem, but me keep me opinion to mi self caz a fi har life.

"Alright so pre dis. Princess deh wid dis yute from JC right, at least she say she deh wid him, and I'm like cool happy fi uh. Every thing did a go good from weh day enuh, mi figat bout dem and a mind me likkle business until she tell all a we say she ago meet him a Treez and she wah all a we come so we say ah we can go Popeyes caz mi did a crave it. So boom di day come now enuh and di wull a we deh a Popeyes siddung a wait pan di yute wid him fren dem and we a talk and a laugh and a disturb the peace like we normally do until dem come."  I nodded listening keenly caz mi love 8 grade drama caz my life uneventful and boring uh fuck.

"Mi nah go lie di yute didcute. Tall brown skin wid pretty hair and him did inna grade 10, but a mi fren man so mi just give him one small smile den go inna the line go order. Only fi look back now and see him backa me a look pan me and me ask him why him a look pan me if him wah mi juk out him yeye dem, and him laugh and think a joke me a mek and tek it as an invitation fi talk to me, so just caz mi nuh wah be rude now me ansa him and a so we start talk and thing and mi nah go lie if him Neva did deh wid mi fren mi woulda talk to him enuh, and mi did say dat to him when we did tek  di bus gah town together caz him say him a gah town , and he was like me and har nuh deh and him like me and blah blah, so I was like Bredda no. Mi nuh play dem game deh and me did get up and change seat, but him nuh stop text and call me caz me did give him mi number." Dis festive bad.

"So now fast forward to Friday when we did deh Treez again, all a dem start move a way, and like dem wah sneak dis me, but mi Neva did know a wah fah, so mi did just ignore dem, until yesterday Tuesday now Valentine's Day when him come a school wid flowers and chocolate the wull school a create excitement caz him did get drop off inna one hype car caz him come from money, and Princess did a jump and a Gwan di most way until him walk pass har and gimme dem, and mi honestly did shock wid every body else, and him gimme dah likkle box yer wid a Pandora bracelet and mi nuh know wah fi do. Mi Deven did say thank you, mi just did tek it and run should incase dem did wah jump me."

Oh.

Well sucks to be Queenie or whatever she name, but damn.

A dem tings yah likkle Tina a Gwan wid inna school, and when me a gah school Algebra did a mad me?

"So weh uh think?"

"Weh me think? Well." Mi can see both sides enuh, but den again had fren dem weren't even her friends from long time, and time tell har dat from grade 7 when she tell me say used to chat har and even spread rumor bout har after Travis did bring har KFC a school one day.