"Ye mon. Not even air itself cah come between we. Memba dat."
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Karissa Kizeah Thomas' life changed at the age of 16 years old when her grandmother passed away from cancer, leaving her to fend for herself. She pursued a career as...
As I tilted my body, I expertly apply a subtle highlight to the high points of my client's face with a steady hand, while her friend tells the story of what she had experienced with her ex-boyfriend. She has been our unpaid stand up comedian, for the past fifteen minutes she has been here.
"Ye now sista gyal suh. So me come back from school the day and ring off eh boy phone. Bout thirty missed call me leff pon the boy phone and cah get him. So one mind tell me go dung a him yaad.
Mind yuh enuh. Me a 17 dem time deh. Mother soon come back from work and if she nuh see me, me ago get some rassing deh.
Me march dung deh now like the mad gyal me be ina me yaad slippaz, and bang dung pon him door. Never hear nobody but me know him deh home cause the window dem open.
See true is a one story house, me walk addi side and gah the back which part him room deh and peep. Never see nobody neither but the bed did pull up so me say ah make me go pick the lock.
Bups now me a pick the lock and addi boy dat open the door, dress up ina towel and a stare pon me bout weh me a do.
Start cuss him rass and push him ina the house and ask him weh him did a do and if him nuh see me a call him. Di boss claim fi say him did a sleep and just wake and did a bathe."
I giggled as i waited for her to complete the story, and apply contour to my clients face using contour powder.
"Ye now so me as di yamhead well believe di dutty man and start tidy up him room, while him go so called bathe. Me ina him room a wait enuh fi how long. Nah hear no soap a lather pon rag, only the water a beat pon the tub floor.
So me get up offa the bed now, and turn the doorknob. Di door lock."
Shanti, my client, started to laugh and i told her to keep steady so i can apply blush to the apples of her cheek. I then glanced at her friend as she continued with the story, "So yuh nuh pop it dung?"
"How yuh mean Karissa? Me start bang dung the door and say weh him lock the door fah and a me and him alone in here. Him end up open it and use him eye and peep through the likkle section and me nuh know weh me get dah strength deh from but me push it open.
Rassclaat Shan! Nuh di gyal dat stand up ina the bathroom. Me liff up di iron board ina the corner essi and me claat him outta it."
I burst out laughing in my salon and Shanti started to laugh as well, looking at her friend and asked her if she's being forreal.
"Den me coulda deh yasso a tell lie pon miself? Bwoy ago look pon me now when me a bawl and fling tump and ago ask why me a fight him, when a she take me man.
