Loveless

Chapter 1

Love is an irresistible desire

To be irresistibly desired

                     - Robert Frost

Wow, people now days are sooo lame, I mean come on who keeps love quotes as there status on Face book. (No offense, people)

I mean yeah,"The world revolves around love” and yeah, “We were born because of love”, but that does not mean you have to keep talking about it, sheesh.

Why do I even add this person as a friend?

That’s because the one having this status is my best friend in the world, Ivy. She always does this to irritate me and guess what she is doing a great job!!

Damn, Ivy. She woke me up at an ungodly hour which happens to be 6 am and told me to open Face book and said, and I quote “Amor, open Facebook and see my status there is something very important and you have to see it”

And me the gullible loser had believed the stupid warning. Like always she wanted me to see the excellence of love, and it only increased when I said “Good luck with that”.

I close the computer and look at the watch, it was 06:05. I groaned. I should be sleeping right now.

Thank you, Ivy, I thought sarcastically

Now that I have woken up , might as well get ready.

I rushed into the bathroom and took a long bath, wasting a whole lot of time.

After taking a bath of 30 minutes, I came out of the bathroom and started pulling on a shirt, jeans and a hoody. And put on my converse.

Again I looked at the watch to see what time it was…

It was 7:00, still too early for breakfast. My parents and my twin were going to get an heart attack.

Lazily I skipped down the stairs and went to the kitchen and fixed myself some cereals and milk. After eating halfway through my breakfast, my mom walked in the kitchen. And absentmindedly

 Said, “Good morning, Amor.”

“Good morning, mom” I said with cereals in my mouth.

My mom walked past me and went towards the coffee machine and she froze.

1 2 3…

“Hayden and Asher come over here right now” she shouted without turning back.

And my dad and twin brother came rushing to the kitchen. They looked like they had just jumped out of their bed, oh maybe they had.

And they also froze; they stood so still that I might have mistaken them for statues, if I didn’t know any better.

“A..m..o..r” Asher, my twin brother, stuttered slowly

“Is it really you?” My dad said softly

“No offense dad, but duhh!”

“How, when, why, what?”

They started stuttering. This was really fun. Why didn’t I do this before?  Their reaction was worth getting up early. And it got my mind out of the status Ivy told me to see.

To see my cocky brother, be not sure of himself, was so worth getting up early but it was too good to last, I saw Asher snap out of the shock but my parents were pretty shocked that they were not even moving. Now you see it was a big deal if I woke up early.

Then I saw the cocky smirk plaster on Asher’s face. Aw oh !

“Mom and dad don’t worry, it's a phase. Amor is in love.”

No he didn’t just say that. Then I saw my mom and dad come out of the shock.

“Oh! I think you are right, Ash. She may be in love” my mom said.

“Yeah son, she will eventually snap out of it” my dad said “It scared me for a minute , I thought she was unwell.”

“Amor, honey Tell me if you are in love, I was scared to death when I saw you sitting and eating this early.” Mom said looking at me with concern in her eyes.

That was it, it was the last straw.

“MOM, DAD AND ASHER, I AM NOT IN LOVE. AND ASHER GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK HEAD THAT I DESPISE LOVE, GET IT DESPISES IT, OR SHOULD I SPELL IT FOR YOU” I shouted stamping my foot with every word that I spoke.

“Honey!! No need to shout. We get it that you don’t want us to know about it.” My dad said

“Because if I knew I would warn him but now I know, I am going to threaten the boy about even thinking about breaking my little girl’s heart.”

This was ridiculous. I saw my so called brother laughing his pants off.

I hate love, literally hate it. I absolutely despise it. But I have no reason to hate it this much. I don’t care about the love of friends, sibling and parents. But I have always hated the term love applied to couples, uggghh!!!!

Even I don’t understand why I hate it that much. And the irony is that my name is “Amor” which means love in Spanish.

Fantastic right (note the sarcasm)

I looked at my parents with disbelief. “Mom and dad, I am not in love” I said emphasizing in love.

“So don’t start assuming things and believing everything this idiot says,” I said pointing to the baboon of a brother.

I looked at the watch again, how many times have I looked at the watch this morning?

It was 7:45, the time when I  usually ate breakfast.

Time flies , when people are shocked to see you eating breakfast early.

“Bye guys I am going, and Asher, school starts in 15 minutes” I said running towards the door, as my brother started eating a banana.

And the baboon threw the banana peel at me  as I reminded him about school , I slipped out the door just in time to save myself from his mokey wrath.