2002 Rainbow Kisses

Chapter12

So today is the day. To say I'm nervous would be an understatement.
Ash and I are standing outside the gym house at the moment.

"Any moment now Fluffy. At least let's get inside okay. We are just signing up and checking out the gym that's all.
We will start out slow trust me. I got your back"

"Can't we come back tomorrow atleast, I am sure I will be ready then okay"

"No can do hunny, we are already here."

Ash and I enter the gym. We go to the front desk so we can sign up for this.

"Hie Ashley, welcome back, it's been like 6 months since I saw you here. I see you brought a friend"

"Hie Starr, yeah I am back, so my friend here wants to sign up for a gym membership, she is kind of nervous but I keep telling her that there is nothing to be scared of here"

"Ashley is right, hie I am Starr, nice to meet you and you are?"

"Hie, Rainbow"

"Wow, I love your name, I wish my parents had called me something cool like that"

Okay, well I guess I was wrong, the people here are not stuck up or anything.

Starr hands me a sheet to fill up after I am done I hand her my credit card to pay for this month.

"Okay now that we are all ready, let's just start  by stretching okay. The first thing you do is stretch your body.

" I will be your trainer until Jordan gets here. Before you ask Jordan is our best personal trainer and yes he works here part time"

After our 2 hour work out at the gym Ash and I head to the coffee shop located next to the gym for a well needed smoothie.

"So? I saw you checking Jordan out"
Ash says

"What noo, Ofcourse not, I was just listening at what he was saying that's all."

Ash gives that I know you are lying look and I sigh.

"Okay, fine he is handsome okay, there is nothing wrong with admiring God's perfect creation."

"You should talk to him tomorrow when you back there."

"Talk to him? Have you seen me?"

"Fluffy, we really need to work on your confidence. You are beautiful. Anyone with eyes can it. You also have a great personality hence why I  hang out with you okay. Trust me on this. Here comes the waiter, just talk to him. Ask him what he recommends that we drink and smile okay. Look him in the eye when you are talking to him."

I shake my head vigorously.
The waiter comes to our table and Ash is looking at me expectedly.

" Umm h-hie, so my friend and I here don't know exactly what to order, what do you recommend that we drink"

"well everything here is great, but I would recommend the cinnamon ice tea. That's my favorite"

"okay we will both have that, thank you" I smile at him and hand him back the menus.

"you did not ask him his name, ask him his name when he brings our order okay. But that's a great start"

So I didnt ask for his name, I was too shy, thank God Ash did not force me to talk to him again.

Right now we are walking back to my house since it is not that far from the gym house.

"So are you ready for school on Monday?" Ash asks me.

"Not really, but what can I do, Jace and Sam deserve each other really, i just want to focus on the great things happening in my life, what ever they are" I sigh.

"Can you not do that to yourself. Why are always pulling yourself down.
I guess we need more thing either than the 2002 kisses.
Wait, I have an idea, you have to make sure you get a kiss from someone at least once a week or else you have to do something that I want you to do and you know me, I am going to make you do things out of your comfort zone. Let's see if you do not get a kiss from someone before the end of this week you and I are going to enter a bikini contest at the mall. I will not take no for an answer too. We are going to switch up the rules a bit, you record all the kisses you get no matter how awful they are because knowing you there won't be any meaningful things there. By the way do not record kisses you receive from your family or friends, that defies the whole reason for this process okay. Yeah I went through the book and I saw all the kisses you recorded, yeah they are all sweet and stuff but let's get serious. You know what you have to do. To make things a bit harder, let's forget the stars, take a picture and write the date and everything at the back of the picture and put it in the rainbow book okay. "

" But Ashley.. "I whine

" No buts, you are taking this lightly, so I need to make some drastic changes to our agreement. That means we have to go to the mall right now, get into a store and buy a Polaroid instant camera. "

I have to make sure I find someone who will have pity on me and kiss me.
There is no way I am entering a bikini contest looking like this.
I know I have low self esteem, I do not even know how I have it because I have the best father in the world who is always uplifting me up so I do not get it honestly.

So Ash and I bought the fancy camera. We took a few pictures with it and I took some of the pictures and Ash took some. We agreed to put them on our bedroom walls.

It is 6pm when I arrive at home, I find my dad waiting for me in my room.
I do not know if I should turn back and leave. I am not disrespectful or anything but I am just really disappointed in my dad, I have not talked to him ever since, he didnt even have the time to tell me himself.

"Fluffy, can we talk about this, I am sorry I could not make it to our Thursday night date okay, I will make it up to you, how about we go out today or we just watch the big bang theory marathon. Huh? How about that?"

"Dad, it's not about the date and you know it. I just feel like I do not matter to you anymore. I know you just wanted to spend more time with your new girlfriend and there was no meeting or emergency yesterday. I thought you said Khalil and I will always come first. But I guess people change and things change. It's okay though Dad, I understand. I have so much work that I need to get done dad. "

" Rainbow, you are my little girl, how could you ever think I will replace you ever. I would never do that, I did lose track of time yesterday but not because I wanted too. By the time I looked at my watch so much time had already passed and my phone was dead. So I asked Nikki to call you. I though it would be a way for you guys to bond but I was wrong. We will talk tomorrow morning."

Immediately after my dad leaves my room I start feeling guilty. I know my dad would never leave me hanging. But I am still hurt that we did not spend our quality time yesterday like we always do.

Hopefully everything will be much better tomorrow and maybe things will be a bit calm and we can talk things out then.

Either way, I can not stay mad at my dad for a long , he gives the best advices and I need to talk to him about this whole thing I have going with Ashley.
I need some pointers from him, like the best way to approach a guy and what to say and what not say. How not to look too desperate and all that.
I would ask Khalil but we are not like that anymore.

I really should have a talk with my brother, I did not realize how much I miss him until my friendship with Samantha ended.

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-April