Mom , a black beauty about 5"5 ,has the kind of skin that repels water ,soft smooth and shinny. She has a youthful personality and looked younger than her age. Sandra came from a very controlled and restrictive Christian home .The first of ten kids, mom only obtained a 5th grade education, because she had to leave school to help with her younger siblings. Mom was a house wife, a customary practice in Trinidad back then for most married women.
After spending approximately one year with some cousins, we were ready to bulid our own house as scouters on government land located behind my great grand mothers home. My great grand mother, was well know as hopie or as we called her GRA, she was a landlady by her own rights. There were three rental properties located on her land ,two were connected to her house and the other stood on its own between the big house and the fowl pen. Gra was a force to be reckoned with she stood, about 5"9 with an hourglass shape that was accompanied by a tongue that was as swift and sharp as a double edged sword. To know her was to respect her and boy did we ever.
Now my mom had a new boyfriend and by this time she was in her late twenties, with three young daughter ages,3,5,and 8. My youngest sister at the time was staying with my grand parents ,my older sister was in primary school and I was getting ready to start kindergarten. On this particular day, my memory is not 100% for many different reasons as you will learn. I believe that my mom was going to get my sister from the corner where she got dropped off or she came home with our great uncle maybe.
Trinidad and Tobago sits pretty close to the equator, which means its hot as hell most , sometimes I think the devil lost his undies and its in Trinidad. Because of the temperature, most doors where made in halves, a top and bottom with individual latches. Usually the top half was left open once you were home during the day to let air in and also to let the neighbors know you were in. I remember sitting on the bed that was covered by a sheet , that had big green and white squares and a flowery pattern in the middle. It was a popular sheet set at that time that came in a variety of different colors. There where black trash bags, in the far right corner of the room and a wardrobe on the right.
At this point uncle parris as we eventually called him , was about 27 at the time, with naturally chiseled body who would in about two years become a body builder, walked over and closed the top half of the door. This made the room a bit dark cause now there was only light coming in from the window on the left above where the trash bags were. He came over and started talking to me and before I knew it ,my underwear was off and he was on top of me. I remember saying to stop and how much this hurt I was crying, he stopped when he heard my mom coming and put my underwear back on he said to me not to say anything .He walked over to the door to open it as mom knocked.
Her first question was why was the door closed ,I don't remember what his reply was, nor do I remember what happened next. My sister was now in the room on the left close to the bags leaning on the bed. I remember telling my mom that my private was hurting and trying to explain what happened . I don't remember much after that, but that was the beginning of the end of my innocence.
They stayed together for almost three decades.am going to stop here.