𝐍𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚.

57

"Mommy, who's at the do—" I atop in my tracks when I see the man who my mother said is my father pointing a gun in another man's face.

Wait, mih know him.

Him did deh at the hospital.

"Shadia, gwaan back inside," My father says.

"Daddy, why unnuh a do this!?"

"Gwaan back inside, Shadia!" He exclaims, turning towards me. The man from the hospital use that as an opportunity to hit him to the ground.

"Siah!" Mommy screams trying to grab the man.

The other man, Sasha's boyfriend grabs mommy, holding her hostage.

Standing there dumbfounded, I watch them fight as tears streams down my face.

"Gio!" I exclaim. Mommy told me his name, but she didn't put a picture it.

She also told me that he is the father of my child.

I watch him as he punch daddy in his face.

"Unnuh please stop!" I sob. "Please!"

I hold my head as fall to the floor. Why them a do this?

I watch Gio as he pushes daddy to the floor, then run over to me.

"Yow, done, she still nahh memba," What?

Are they doing this because they wanted to see if my memory would come back?

"Unnuh crazy! Don't touch me!" I push him off of me.

"I'm sorry," He pulls me into his chest. For some reason I can feel the chemistry through us. The love, the pain, the anger.

I can feel it.

"I...I love you," I find myself saying. He pulls away, looking down at me.

"Yuh remember?" I shake my head no.

"So how—"

"I don't know...That's just how I feel," I tell him. He sighs, pulling me back into his chest.

"Like life, baby," He pecks my forehead. "Sorry fi all a this," He pecks my forehead once more.

"Why are you here?" I ask him, inhaling his scent.

He smells so good.

"To talk to you," He answers, pulling away.

"Unnuh please don't do that again!" I look over at
Mommy and Daddy.

"Hush," Mommy says. Daddy nods.

"Wahh we go round a back?" Gio asks, I nod. He looks over at Sasha's boyfriend, giving him a head nod, then we both walk off.

"What were we like?" I ask him as soon as we reach the backyard.

He chuckles, pulling me down to sit beside him.