Chapter 1 

Introduction 

As I stood outside in front of an Ice cream shop in our neighborhood selling alongside my sisters in our short shorts I looked into the eyes of the person standing in front of me I could almost see my reflection, the beautiful reflection of a young teen who is trying so hard to find herself, as I could see his eyes losing connection with my dark green iris and lower to look at my chest.

I also cut and rolled my eyes at him to look at the kids playing football in the street.

I sold the poor bastard the water bottle and continued to suck my lollipop and looked ahead of me then he walked off. I swung my head back to glance at the clear blue sky as I tried my best to hide from the hot sun.

Hey, what ah gwan, what's popping, how do you do? My name is Sasha, but not Sasha Fierce, It's Sasha Destiny.

Today is a fairly warm day, we have to wash off our faces twice and dry them with rags. Which makes it better to understand why we are in these shorts and belly skin tops.

The reason we have these transparent plastic bags on our backs is that we're selling juice and water with little snacks.

The only reason I'm talking to you in English right now is that the creator of this story hopes to reach a wider audience one day.

But truthfully if this is really the story of my life then it is lame, people my age only care about money and fame.

In addition to the sun being hot, it's a windy afternoon and all three of us are trying to sell because we're broke.

The eldest sister's name is Selena, she's also the tallest one, even though she's around  5 ft inches, something that's how short we are. She's round and plump and has long black creamed hair dyed the end of it green.

Brown eyes and on her right arm filled with bangles, and a tanned complexion. She mostly wears her hair up or in a bun with a bang to the side of her face. Her body looks very mature seeing that she is 18 years old and fond of guys that give her things that she wants.

The sister after her is Sabrina. She's the spunkiest and the foodie, she always enjoys the company of friends and going out, she enjoys seafood and likes to go out with friends to the beach and catch fish or crab. She has thick curly black hair at the roots and also dyed the end of it blue.

The youngest one is me, Sasha. How to describe me, I am more of a goofy person, very outspoken and bold. I am the pink head one though a girl never had to dye her hair, girl was just born with pink long hair. Even though I stand here wearing a cap and sheltering myself with an umbrella. I like people to get to know me cause I'm very friendly but if you don't serve any purpose I drive off in my bus.

We went around persuading people to buy from us, by walking up to them or just yelling so that other people can hear

We sometimes go to town to sell or like today sell in our neighborhood. When dinner time came we went to the nearest store and bought some canned food and one pound of rice as we complained about how hungry we were.

I then turned to them and said, “Well just glad mommy passed har teaching course finally, she can finally work and might start to see some cash in the house this year.”

Sabrina, who was standing outside the store, “Yeah but still man cah live pon rice alone, we have fi start budget we money so we can buy back the things dem fi sell.” She says holding the food in a plastic bag. She had on her roller skates and was riding while doing a couple tricks. When she does her tricks it attracts some customers at times since people are not used to seeing a girl skating and doing tricks.

Me, Sabrina, and Selena all came home where we found our mother Sherise at home curling her hair and painting her toes all at once while on the phone talking very loudly about how she was working as a substitute teacher and shouted at a kid for talking too much in class and that she got fired for threatening to kill him.

We looked disappointed and a bit annoyed then started looking in the kitchen for food. We started grumbling.

I opened the fridge door and saw the chicken that was taken out of the freezer to cook and kept looking at it then suddenly had the urge to eat the raw chicken, it is like I heard this voice in my head telling me to, which I took a piece of the flesh and ate it then grabbed a canned strawberry juice to wash it down then shake my head and hurried to close the door.

Confused by my own actions I then decided that we will go to the library since mom is so loud and we wanted to check for any summer jobs on the computer.

Selena agreed to stay and cook and add to the dinner since she was really hungry.

We go to the library to search for summer jobs when I bounce into Dre where we had an interesting interaction.

Dre is one of the popular guys at our school, I had a crush on him for a while but I was in another relationship.

Dre is older than me a tall chocolate skinned toned 18-year-old in 5th form he is very athletic and good looking he mostly wears his hair low with a faded cut. With brown eyes and a nice smile, he always wore his guard ring. It looks like the one Vybz Kartel wore. I would talk to him occasionally but today it seems that he was now flirting with me.

I inquired about why he was at the library and he explained that he has a chemistry assignment and needs help. I lied about being really good in chemistry even though I mostly get a B plus. I agreed to help him and to study with him.

He then invites me to a club and I tried making a few excuses then remembered my mom is at home shouting so I decided to go and said it to my sister Sabrina.

The club was called Three Musketeers where I was dancing with Dre.

He offers me something to drink and I start to whine and grind on him.

While standing at the bar I see him lighting his blunt and ask if I can get a puff, “Yuh smoke, can build yuh one mon.'' He says and starts to rub out the weed.

“Thanks, alcohol nuh really do it fi me for some reason.” My stomach started to growl, and I was a bit embarrassed.

Then Dre smiles and asks if I want him to buy some food which I thanked him for, I ask him if he knows of any summer job available and he asks why I want one. I say that I need the money.

Dre looks at me then makes strong eye contact and tells me that it's hard to get jobs as a teen and that with my dancing skills, I'm better off stripping. I laughed it off and started smoking and dancing on him while he was sitting down. I tell him that I have been dancing ever since my eye was at my knee. He then tells me to go on the pole and he will throw money at me, at this point I am already high and said I wouldn't mind the money so just like that I started to dance and whine, and he takes out his money then I started to whine on the pole and then he starts to throw money at me while smirking.

I started swinging on the pole and then going on my head top and other guys started throwing money my way. Sabrina charmed in giving me some of the drink that was given to her by a guy that was flirting with her, we then threw the rest on each other and danced very erotic together, both of us started getting money thrown at us and it starts to draw a bit of attention that even some of the dancers and workers started to wonder if we are new workers since people come and go at that club.

Later on in the night, a dancer walked up to us asking if we were the new dancers and complimenting our dance. I mean it's nothing that we don't already know.

"Maybe uno should work here." Cassie said she's been there for two years now and seemed a bit excited to see two girls in her age bracket that she could see herself getting along with.

She had a really strong and thick body it's evident that she works out or lifts weights almost seems like she had some work done on her chest and butt, but who am I to judge I think she looks great in her yellow lace front wig and her makeup cake was a chief's kiss that it was holding up in the warm sweaty club.

She told us that the house mom told her to talk to us and ask if we are interested we can let them know. We all talked more for a while and exchanged numbers.

Either way when we got home our mom was gone she had got a new job interview to work in a hair salon.

We went into our room that we shared together and I told how we got some money at the club in our intoxicated state.

I took two straws and stuck them in my nose and tried to shoot my boogers at my sisters. They laughed in disgust and threw pillows at me. I made a joke about just working there and went to whine on the bed frame as if it were a pole and swing on it.

Then, almost like a stroke of genius came to me I blurted out to them and said, “Why not just actually do stripping?” They all become quiet and look at me wide-eyed.  “We could use the money to buy more things fi sell and could even buy braids to do we hair and sell braids.”

They all laugh at me of course, Sabrina said, “Yuh ah one dumb bitch. Mommy would ah kill we, dat and plus you under age you a just 17, Selena would ah have a better chance.” She says and finishes off her drink. Then the next day at school I saw Dre again.

It was P.E class. The girls were outside playing netball and the boys were playing football. In between breaks Dre noticed that I was standing against the classroom wall in the shed taking a break, he ran up to me and smacked me on my lower leg all while looking deep into my eyes and said, “Wah gwan sexy, like how u did a whine last night did sexy enuh.”

I couldn't help but blushed and said, “Whatever me know say me say sexy,”

“Eeh, wah throw money pon yuh every night can be mi private stripper.”

He says taking off his shirt in front of me.

I look down at him and turn away from him smiling. And rubbing my fingers through my soft hair.

“You think that works on every girl?” I looked over at my other classmates playing netball chatting and laughing.

“Gwan like me have a bag a girl.” He says looking down at me.

“Umm, don’t you?” Raising my eyebrows.

“Me mada actually tell me fi easy off ah the relationships this year, say me fi focus on getting a scholarship ina basketball. Me can dash me money pon yuh if me and yuh deh.” He answered.

“All dat too come like me fi do striping and done a fuss me ever get suh much money.” I said with arms flooded. While our class went on.

Dre smirked and put back on his shirt and said, “Why not, me mada own it, can talk to har if yuh serious.”

“Really me just did a say, plus yuh figet say me under 18.” I replied and turned to face him. Wasn't really expecting that but then again this country sometimes is slack, they don't really follow the rules, but then again who doesn't.

“Dat never stop the other girl dem. But dem eva a leave tho suh dem wah more dancers, if yuh body look mature which it does, dem nuh response just have fi look good.”

“Oh, alright den talk to her then.” He leaned in one more time with his lips to my ear.

“Suh me cah talk to you too den.” blushing, I pushed him off, “Watch yah.” I said with a giggle, “No man real talk gimme yuh number suh me can give har.” I then took my pen out of my hair and write my number on his arm.

He smiles then runs off to the homeroom and puts the number in his phone.

After school, Sabrina was at netball practice that's where Dre saw her they both had practice

He approaches her while she is bent over doing her stretches and cats call her by saying, “pppssttt.” At her to get her attention.

She turns to see him behind her looking at her like she was his lunch.

"Jah kw star yuh cah do dem thing deh u nuh see u mek di rata a rise."

"Eehh you alright enuh ah my stretch mi a do. Lock yuh eye." He walks up to her and says, "All last night me see you a gwan look like uno vibezy when uno drink."

"Yeah, well vibezy." His coach called him to join the others so he then asked for her number.

"Weh yuh a ask my number fah yuh nuh like mi sista?"

"Yeah suh weh dat say we cah be friends. Right now me cah even have girl friend cah me a try get mi scholarship ina basketball. Mada say only afta me can date."

The coach calls him again. "When we done me gi yuh gwan go practice.”

He says, “No man gimme now we nuh must see each other after.”

She then takes out her phone and puts her number in it.

He looks down at her and smiles and says, "Alright me will call you. If you and yuh sister serious fi work a me mada club me will set di link." She sat down on the ground to finish off her stretches and laughed and shook her head.