One Day Mi Affi Win

14

ANAYA'S P.O.V

"Waa gwaan mi daughter?" He smiled.

Hissing my teeth, I ensured to lock the front door with the lock before going back to my room.

Nuh know weh him come ya fa enuh

Him always do this enuh

Go way fi months. No contact. No nothing. And then come back here like all is well wid him problems dem weh him a carry back a him.

"Likkle girl, come open the door. Yuh feel like ya big ooman yuh come a lock door in a mi face?" He shouts from the verandah.

Hissing my teeth, I turned on the TV to play music and turned it up to the highest volume. He was silent after that, so I went back to lie down.

Him fi go back weh him a come from.

Bout him come and siddung pon verandah wid bag like him a come ya fi stay. Kmt.

Scrolling through my phone, I felt a shadow come to stand over me. Looking up, I saw him with his face in an angry scowl. Jumping up from the bed, I screamed as he tried to grab me. I tried to run out of the house, but he caught me and gripped my neck in his hands.
"Donald leggo affa mi," I tried to scream. No one could hear me because the TV was still loud.

Lawd God!!!

"Ya tek man now so yuh feel like seh yuh can come disrespect mi ee??" He shouted in my face.

I tried not to answer him because, to be honest, I was scared. My father had never been handsy with me before, and I wondered what had caused him to be acting like this right.

"Mek this be the last yuh lock mi out a mi house," He said, pushing me to the side. My heart was beating wildly, and I tried my best to keep my tears from falling. I saw when he grabbed the remote and turned off the TV.

Him deven know how it buy!

Heading to my room, I shut the door and locked it.

Bout lock him out a him house. Him nuh see seh a board house him leff we in a e last time him deh here?

Chro mi deven know weh fi do right now! Wa a go happen when mommy come and see him in a the house??

And mi know this a go stress out mommy real bad cause she have high blood pressure.

Lawd God!!

Mi can't even call mi sister cause she pregnant and mi nuh waa she stress out wid wa a gwaan out here.

"Jesus, please tell mi what to do," I cried as I couldn't hold the tears anymore.

Picking up my phone, I called one of my big cousins. "Cuz waa gwaan," He answered.

"Kerron, yuh can do sumn fi mi?" I cried into the phone.

"Wahmp to yuh?" He asked now alert.

"Daddy come here a while a go a-and mi lock him out a the house but h-him find a way fi come in and him choke mi too. Now him nuh waa come out!" I cried.