Loveless

Chapter 8

     The two weeks of my training went by surprisingly fast. My office is fully furnished...thanks to Janessa and Jazmin. They helped me decorate and shit because I was honestly just going to have a desk and a table. But they got my desk looking like a man cave of some sort. It's crazy how good it looks though. I must have zoned out when he said I got a company card and was shook when the H.R. rep gave it to me with my new I.D. Badge. Which by the way looked good as fuck. Jazmin taught me how to do a wash and go and my shit looked good. Not to suck my own titty or anything but me in the picture looked fuckable. Like if it was possible to fuck myself I would. Anyways back to this company card. I was told that it was for things that dealt with the company so any office expenses, like decorating my office, are paid for by the company. So if I decided to fire someone in my department, which I have the power to do, I can hold interviews at an expensive ass restaurant if I wanted and they'd pay for it. Or if a designer wanted to have a meeting with me we could go to lunch and they'd pay for the shit. Of course, I'm not going to misuse it but like damn y'all. I did find waking up an hour later different though. It took me a little while to stop automatically waking up at 5. Jazmin and I have been spending a lot of time together though. I can say that I'm feeling her a lot and I think the feelings are reciprocated.

     Speaking of Jazmin, today was one of her cheer competition thingies. I was excited to go and see her do the thing. I got up around 4:30 and got myself ready. Why they needed to be up so early is beyond me but I was driving Jazmin and they were going to Atlanta. I don't know who the fuck I thought I was volunteering my services to drive but I'm here now. I went to pick up Jazmin and she came out with a shit ton of bags. "Jesus Christ do y'all pack up your entires lives for every competition?" I asked and she laughed. "No but I coach more than one team plus our team is competing as well so I have a lot of things," she said looking through her bag. "Here's your official coach's assistant pass," she said handing me a badge with lanyard. "It comes with free parking, backstage access, and free lunch. Paid by me of course," she giggled. "You don't have to buy me lunch," I said pulling out. "Listen. I know you got a promotion and everything and you ready to flex your new money but you're paying for gas so at least let me take you out for lunch," she said and I obliged. She did have a point after all. We stopped at Starbucks for coffee and then we were on our way.

     For the first half of the ride, Jazmin was dead sleep. Like snoring and all knocked the fuck out. So I ended up popping in my headphones and listening to this podcast called HoodxHollistic. Ashley and Courtney (my bad if I spelled their names wrong) are literally my couple inspiration. Like they work and gel so well together and I could only hope to find someone I bond with like they do. For the second half of the ride though Jazmin blared cheer music throughout my car for like 20 minutes. Do you know how many times I had to hear "ELITE CITY CHEER" it was exasperating? I decided to bear through it because she seemed to be going over routines in her head but eventually she stopped. I've been told before that I wear my emotions on my face and she could probably sense my irritation. I really tried to ignore it though. It was at a hotel and the closer we got the more high ponytails and glittered bows we saw. We found the hotel and parked in the parking garage. I helped her with her bags and we went to the lobby. There an overly enthusiastic lady met us and introduced herself to me. "Hi! You must be Kayla our assistant coach for the day," she radiated happiness. "Yes, I am. Nice to meet you," I said extending my hand. "Nice to meet you as well. I'm Rashida Omar, founder, and head coach at elite city cheer and we are so grateful to have your help today. I know the girls will be excited to meet you. We've blocked the entire fifth floor so here's a key for each of you. Coaches rooms are 506 and 507. Emeralds are in 501, diamonds are in 510, and Phoenixes are in 517. Competition starts at 9:00 and Opals have warm-up at 9:30. Did I text you the schedule?" She said faster than I could really comprehend. I thought they were Elite city cheer. "Yes, you did. I'll get Emeralds ready first," Jazmin said and the woman nodded saying she'd see us later.