Forbidden Love novel Chapter 3

The next morning I woke up tangled with Liam and Vera on the couch. Meanwhile, my other siblings were asleep on the floor. It was clear that none of them had woken up yet, since they were all snoring.

I got up from the couch and stared at them, debating on whether I should scare them awake or be mature and make them up normally. Eventually the childish side of me took over like it always does when it comes to my siblings.

“Eeeeek!” I shrieked, waiting for chaos to unfold.

Everyone woke up with a start, and even Jada sat straight up with her hands out as if she was trying to shoo off the devil. I cackled at their confused expressions, not being able to hold my laughter in.

“Good morning, everyone! I hope you guys all had a good night’s sleep,” I said innocently.

“Are you trying to get beat up? Cause it really seems like that right now. I got a whole ass headache and you think you can just keep playing around like that?” Sara began saying as she picked herself up from the floor.

“Oh, hell no. Not in my house. You all can go ahead and leave so I can do the things I need to do before mom’s dinner,” Lin said. She got herself off of the ground and was stretching.

“You’re not even gonna call me a taxi? Damn, I wonder where the manners mom taught you went…” my voice trailed off.

Lin looked at me with her head tilted, probably contemplating to help Sara beat my ass. Before they could beat me up, Vera spoke up and offered to drive me home.

I had to go grocery shopping, do laundry, and clean my apartment before 7 PM so I could go over to my mom’s house and have dinner with my whole family. It was a routine where we would have dinner at our mom’s house every month, so we could spend quality time with each other.

Some of my siblings moved hours away from the town we live in, so aren’t really able to see that often but, of course, we still facetime every now and then. The point of the dinner was so everyone could get together and spend time with each other.

I got into the car with Vera and thankfully, she let me have the aux. I played a soft R&B playlist so I wouldn’t annoy her or make her headache worse. We had a light conversation until she pulled up to my complex, where she practically kicked me out of the car saying that she would pick me up at 6:30.

Once I got inside the apartment, I stretched then began writing down my thoughts in my journal. I only wrote a sentence or two before I closed the journal and moved on with my day. I ended up making a small to-do list so I wouldn’t be overwhelmed with everything I had to do.

Laundry was the first thing on the list since I just had to put my clothes in the washer. If my mom saw me putting the light clothes with the dark ones, she probably would’ve killed me right then and there but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.

Next, I decided to tackle my kitchen since it was the dirtiest. I threw out all the bad food from the fridge, then cleaned the stove of all residue and organized my cabinets. Once I finished cleaning the kitchen, I moved on to the bathroom.

I made sure to be careful with the bleach since I didn’t want to get it all over my clothes or even die from it. It took me a bit longer to finish cleaning the bathroom because I changed all the curtains and cleaned inside the tub.

After I finished cleaning the bathroom, I went to put my clothes from the washing machine to the drier, then proceeded to clean the rest of the apartment which only took me around an hour since I always cleaned my apartment every week.

When I finished cleaning the entire apartment, I felt really accomplished and so I decided to take an hour long break since it was just 2 PM. I sat on the couch and ended up watching random YouTube videos to pass time. Once the alarm I set for myself went off, I got my ass out of the couch.

I grabbed my keys and wallet then went to my car where I began driving to the store. I made sure to bring a list of all the things I needed to buy, since whenever I didn’t bring one, I just bought whatever looked cool or seemed interesting.

Surprisingly, I wasn’t an unhealthy eater, but that was just because the vegetables were cheap when you buy them in multi-packs and I hated wasting food.

I parked my car in the Walmart parking lot then took out my list and looked at everything I needed. Absentmindedly, I scratched my hair under the bonnet I threw on before leaving the house and realized that I also needed to buy some hair products since I was running out.

About an hour later, I stepped out of Walmart with an annoyed look on my face. I bought very little things but somehow, the total was over 100 dollars. How? I don’t even know.

When I arrived home, I put all the groceries away. I decided that since I did everything I needed to do, I would just spend the rest of the time online looking for activities that my students would like to do. Eventually, I got lost in the sea of websites and ended up creating four new lessons that I could teach after the parent-teacher conferences.