The Love Song

Chapter One: Here you go.

So my luck is like the worst one anyone can ever come across and I mean it.

Like believe me, when for the first time I opened my eyes to this beautiful world, the first face that I saw was my momma's but I guess she didn't like me that much because she wanted to name me "Reebok" and I'm so not kidding, seriously guys can you imagine people talking to me?

"Hey Reebok, how's it going?"

"Hey Reebok, check out my new Nike dunks..."

"Hey Reebok, I love your Adidas bag..."

Or the worst one, my prince charming saying...

"I love you, marry me, Reebok?"

Just thinking about these things sends shivers down my spine.

But thank god! For dad, he put some sense in my mom's head; still she wanted to name me Lamborghini after her favorite car.

I shudder to think what I would be called if she liked Ferrari or Porsche.

Then came Versace, after her favorite brand. Thank god! She didn't adore Gucci.

Then she decided that the ideal name should be Oreo and the reason was I was as sweet as that cookie.

You see I come from a freaky family.

And before I go any further you should know my mothers name and believe me when I say it's my mom's name, not my dad.

My mom's name is Elvis Peterson. Yeah Elvis, my grandmamma apparently adored Elvis Presley and wanted him to be a part of her life.

Dad got mom at least seven name books and she didn't like one, like seriously out of four million names she didn't like one and was determined to call me Tulip because she loved that flower like she loved me. So you can just imagine if she liked sunflower or orchids or moss or gladiolus.

Then came the time when I had to be entered in a school and I didn't even have a proper name. So I have to tell you that I love my dad. He gave me a final name and even though it might not be that great a name but at least it's a valid one.

Yeah, so in the end mom had to give in because dad threatened that if she didn't call me what he said she should, then he will go ahead and name me Seeley and mom hated that name.

So finally on my third birthday they gifted me a name. I was no more Tulip and was named Temperance Peterson.

My mum was very unhappy with the name because it was big so she started calling me Tempy and I had no objection at all.

Yeah and that is my final name.

I grew up like any other average child living in my neighborhood. I was neither very geeky nor completely dumb. Though my strongest subject was English and my mum gave me this beautiful diary on my eighteenth birthday so that I could pen down my thoughts. And today for the first time I'm doing that and for the first time I'm really great full to her for giving me this diary. I was going to use it today after a very long time because of that stupid silly 'love song'. You see I have a best friend named Amber, she was always a romantic at heart, and for her everything was sweet and lovable.

"Life is a fairytale, Tempy. You just have to wait for the prince charming to come along and whisk you off your feet." She used to tell me and apparently her Prince Charming had come to whisk her off her feet. I on the other hand always believed that this was bull shit. I come from a series of catastrophic relationships that probably lasted like a month and resulted in a lot of pain.

The problem with me is that whenever I see a cute, smart, handsome, nice guy I fall for them, in that one instance I see myself spending the rest of my life with that person, us walking on the beach, cuddling our baby's, kissing under the stars and then probably drive ourselves mad, but as Amber says, I have never heard that 'love song'. According to her analogy, I will fall in love with the right person when I'm standing in front of Mr. Right and the 'love song' begins to play. That's what happened with her and Jason. Amber heard the love song and knew that Jason was the only one who would keep her happy for the rest of her existence. And I envied her for that belief. You see every of mine relationship started with a green sign but down the road I finally would encounter my red light and that was so bad. Amber met him at the local bar where he was drinking his lungs up because of a break-up, but it just took one look and Amber heard Steve Wonder sing "You are the sunshine of my life, that's why I'll always be aroundddd....you are the apple of my mind, forever you'll stay in my heartttt..." This song blew up the speakers at that bar and it just gave her 'the love song' she needed, she pursued Jason for two-an-a-half unbelievable years and now he was at her feet.