Iyana McKinney didn't come from a rich family. She grew up with her sickly grandmother in a run down apartment building until her grandmother died just after she graduated college and even though they didn't have much, her grandmother made the sacri...
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I stood at the bus stop waiting for my friend Amyra to come and pick me. I usually did find my way home by myself because I was self reliant and I had instilled in me from a young age that I should always do for myself suh, "nuhbaddi couldn't tek it tell mi" in the famous words of my late grandmother.
Jah know mi did miss mama.
It was now just me ever since she died, because whatever family we did have drifted so far away after her death that even I, who had four eyes, couldn't see them.
My grandmother had only had two kids: my uncle, who died when he was 20, and my father, who died when I was about 9; I am now 26.
I didn't know my mother because the story my grandmother told was that, immediately after she left the hospital after giving birth to me, she dropped me off at my grandma's house and she never came back.
Mi neva miss nthn still cause even though wi neva did ave much, mama neva mek mi feel like seh mi a burden har or mek mi feel like she nuh love mi.
Cause after all yuh couldn't miss smthn weh yuh neva ave.
I just felt like things might've been different if Daddy was still alive and even though I didn't get much time with him, he always made sure I knew he loved me.
I touched the pendant on the chain that he had given me, it was a bit worn now but I never went anywhere without it because it reminded me of him.
I snapped out of my thoughts as I heard the blowing of a horn and saw Amyra waving frantically at me. I kissed my teeth and walked towards the car. I opened the door and got in before shutting the door behind me and putting on my seatbelt.
"No likkle evening, no likkle nthn Yan?" I kissed my teeth and gave her the side eye. "Should a spit inna mi face."
"Don't start." I warned her because I wasn't the one that insisted on her coming to pick me up, she offered then she showed up an hour later than the time she promised to be there.
"Y yuh suh upset Iyana?" A mi bestfriend enuh but sometimes mi feel like mi would a strangle di gyal cause she ask tuh much fool fool question.
"Doh ask mi y mi fucking upset bredda an just drive di car." I kissed my teeth and rolled my eyes. "Mi ave a good mind just come out an tek taxi guh a mi yard cause a dat mi should a duh inna di first place."
"Iyana?" I didn't answer and she sighed. "I'm sorry okay, I went somewhere with Daddy and I lost track of time."
"Anuh di first time yah duh dis Amyra, a dats y mi upset cause y yah offer fi duh a ting if it aguh comin like seh mi a bother yuh bredda?"
"You're not bothering me Iyana, don't say that."
"A suh yuh mek mi feel bredda an yuh know mi nuh like feel like mi a bother ppl." Doing things yourself would never result in something like this happening and I decided to give her another chance tonight but she fucked it up.
