NEW SERIES:”DIRTY & COMPANY” (views please)

 ”Shelly-Ann, yuh hear mi a call yuh little girl”, Pam called as she shook her head in disbelief as to how distant her daughter had become.
Shelly-Ann jumped up from the steps she had been sitting on for the past hour and ran to her mother.
As she approached it was hard not notice the fixation her mother’s eyes had on her rapidly developing body, Shelly too had noticed how wide her hips got and now she walked with a slight sway with her step.
”Come go buy pound and a half of rice round a Shook shop and pass Dassa and buy one tomato and one onion fi mi and hurry up and come back. Mi waa hurry up and cook before Melvin come home.
Saturdays always seemed extra long as Shelly often had to get up her regular 6:00 am and begin the cleaning so that the house would be glistening by the time Melvin got home. Pam, Shelly’s mother whole world seemed to revolve around this man.
Melvin , a tall light skinned man from Lawreston Spanish town had seemed to be Pam’s dream man. He provided for both her and her daughter, by paying the rent and providing everything they needed which allowed Pam not to work.
Pam, a dark skinned chubby one time higgler who no one thought would win a man, now had a dream man at home. A man who didn’t demand anything but time with her daughter on Sundays .
Melvin took Shelly- Ann every Sunday to Devon House for ice-creme, because he was a ” good man”
On the way home from shopping, Shelly-Ann noticed Melvin coming out from someone’s house with a huge grin on his face. This lady Shelly knew had four children and everyone said she was mad.
Quickly hiding behind the column so that she wouldn’t be seen, Shelly began to shake and cry .. Melvin spending time with this lady and her children was definately cutting into her time and her ice-creme time on Sundays!
This could not happen, Shelly looked up to Melvin and that smile made her suspicious as it wasn’t the first time seeing it. ”No dis nah guh suh”.
Shelly waited for Melvin to appear on the corner and stepped out infront of him. Shelly-Ann was a fairly petite girl but had a face that would light up a room, she was that pretty. Melvin’s smile froze as he saw her standing there. ”Yuh want a jockey ride”? Shelly shook her head , ”No mi nuh want no jockey ride, is what you doing ina dat yard”?, ”Nuttin ”, Melvin replied, but after a long pause he said ”A carry mi carry some bongo fi give di children dem, yuh sure yuh nuh want di jockey ride Shelly”?
”Ok”, Shelly replied, ”Yuh have any more bongo lef”?

Around his neck Shelly went, the pre-teen with the angelic face and the swaying hips.
Pam saw them coming and forgot all about the length of time it took Shelly-Ann to return from buying the things she asked her to buy. Melvin made Pam’s day.
”Get up, get up Shelly-Ann come go church”. It was Sunday morning and as usual Shelly-Ann had to go to church, which wasn’t so bad. It was getting up that was the problem. Shelly-Ann got a chance to see her friends that lived in a big house far away but came to church in her area, Wendy , Justine and Nichole. They did everything together on Sundays , shared the same boring Sunday school teacher , Aunty Valrie, sneaked notes in Sunday school, Shelly-Ann had a blast, every Sunday, after she got over getting out of bed.
This week , Wendy promised Shelly-Ann a pair of her heels and Shelly-Ann was looking forward to wearing them. Every girl was wearing heels, but Pam thought Shelly-Ann was too young to start. She was her mom’s pride and joy as Pam could only look at her daughter who had a very striking resemblance to her father, with whom Pam had spent that beautiful night. Xing Wang, he had said his name was and she felt proud she had a beautiful baby girl whom people admired for her looks as well as her milky complexion.
Yes, today was church, Shelly-Ann skipped right next door and waited at the gate for Wendy to come with her bag.

A red Lexus pulled into the church gate, Wendy and her younger sister sat in the back , and as always they were looking out the window. ”Yes mi get it”, Shelly-Ann said, almost aloud!