Well hopefully everyone enjoys the first chapter! Please review (:
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*2 years later and after Rin's birthday, so she is now 18.*
"Rin! We're out of the hot chocolate powder; can you grab some while you're back there?" I heard Kagome yell from the front counter. Of course I wish I could grab it but my 5'2 figure didn't help me out and neither did the idiot that put the powder boxes on the top shelf. I looked around for something to help but my only real option left was to climb up the other shelves. Everything was going great until I actually grabbed the powder and slipped, making the whole scene sound a war. I left the scene quickly because I wasn't about to clean up the mess that could have been prevented if people thought about the shorter people!
Coming out of the back room I noticed that everyone in the small shop was looking at me.
"Well thanks… you may want to go to the bathroom and clean off all that powder…" Kagome started laughing after she finished her sentenced. I gave her the best glare I could muster, although it didn't last long. Kagome had become my best friend over the past 2 year of working together. She was one of the two people who knew of my situation and she was always there. Along with Sango, except she worked as a receptionist of some rich insurance company. Sango and Kagome had been high school best friends and Kagome introduced me to her. The two of them didn't understand why I never went back to high school, but I guess I just didn't feel comfortable with it anymore. I didn't have anything to begin with so I didn't feel as though I was losing anything by not going.
Walking to the bathroom I noticed that it was 3. My shift was over for the day so I said my goodbyes to the staff and walked home. Although my money had been building up over time, I still didn't have much. Money was going towards my home or my father's addiction. I had tried numerous times to just get my father to quit but it seemed like nothing would help. He was still heartbroken from my mother leaving and he didn't realize that he could have fixed it if he just got off his lazy ass.
Walking into my house, there was something off. My father wasn't in his recliner, and after checking the rest of the house, I realized he was gone. He didn't have many friends and most of the time they were at our house. He never went out to drink because I controlled the money so he didn't even have any. Then I saw a note on the kitchen table, and I could feel my heart sink.
Rin, I love you for being the best daughter a father could ask for. You have done so much for me but I am sorry. I know that I need to get my life together. One of my close friends owns a rehab center and he has taken me in. I didn't want to see you sad and I knew I couldn't do this if I had to go through with an in person good bye. I am sorry but I will be home again. Love, your father.
Anger filled me; seriously this guy was an idiot. It upsets me how he only could think of himself and how it would be too hard for him to say goodbye in person. I dropped the note, took a deep breathe in, and let out a scream. It felt to get it out but I still felt empty. I gave up everything for him and now he was gone. It felt like I was going through a break up but much worse. I took a seat in his recliner and prayed. At least I knew he was going someplace to help him. I didn't really know what to do so I did what I was good at; I put on shorts, a sports bra, and tennis shoes and I ran. Although I never actually ran away from my problems, running is what I needed to do to think and clear my mind. It's what I did so that I could fully understand what to do in rough situations.
I knew that Kagome worked till 5 so I took a long path to run on which would still lead me to the coffee shop. My body was aching by the time I reached the shop and I made it just in time as I saw Kagome leaving. "Kagome!" I called out as I jogged up to her getting into her car.
"Oh hey! What are you doing, are you ok Rin?" She always knew when something was wrong which is why I knew I needed to go to her.
I got into her passenger seat of her 2001 Honda civic (the current year is 2012) and we sat in the parking lot talking about what had just happened to me.
"I know exactly what you need!" She pulled out her cell phone and called Sango. As they talked I stared out her window when I saw a black Lamborghini Aventador pull into the parking spot next to us. My jaw dropped, I wasn't majorly into cars, mainly since I couldn't even afford a crappy one, but I knew this was one of the fastest cars in the world. I had a major thing for fast cars; I just wanted to ride in one. Just for it to take me far away, of course I knew this person must have been from way out of town and stopped for some of our famous coffee.
I was interested in seeing the man that would get out of this car but before I could see we started leaving the parking lot. I looked at Kagome confused, since I had just missed the conversation she had with Sango.
"We are going to Sango's for a girl's night! And since I know that both of us have off tomorrow, we're going to go with Sango to work for breakfast and probably lunch! Total girl's weekend," Kagome looked at me and smiled. I couldn't help but smile back because I realized just how wonderful my friends were.
I leaned back into the seat and sighed, "You know Kagome; I really just want to get out of here. I've been stuck in this town for so long, I've been working at the same place for much longer then I planned, and I don't even have a diploma."
Kagome gave me a sad smile and replied, "You know how smart you are and you could easily just go and get your GED. I know you are sad about your dad leaving but you do realize this is better for both of you. He is getting the help that he desperately has needed for so long and this is finally your chance to do things for yourself." I knew Kagome was right. School came easy to me and I had always been in advanced classes. I could start studying and get my GED and start off at a job like Sango's.
Once we reached Sango's I realized something, "Uh Kagome, I'm all sweaty and have like no clothes with me!"
"Oh hush! I realized that I have a half-naked girl in my car! As weird as it seems, Sango was as short and small as you her sophomore year of high school and she still has some of those clothes for some reason! So you'll just borrow her clothes for the night and tomorrow!" This did make me somewhat excited because Sango always had cute clothes.
We arrived to her parents' extremely nice house (there 18 so of course they still live with their parents) and I jumped out of the car and ran straight to their new garden set up. Kagome let me be since her and Sango were used to me always going there first thing. I sat in front of the fountain and looked at the new flowers they had planted. So many bright colors, it was almost impossible to not feel happy when sitting here. I stood up and made my way into the house and into Sango's room. Sango was laid out on her king size bed wearing black basketball shorts with a purple sports bra while Kagome sat on the floor in front of the TV wearing short black shorts with a loose gray tank top.
"It's so hot!" whined Sango as she fanned herself with her hand. She was right though, it was only the beginning of June and it felt like the middle of July.
"Did you go outside during lunch today? I didn't but goodness the back of the coffee shop felt like an oven!" I said as I feel back onto the floor next to Kagome.
"Seriously, bless your soul Rin. I do not know how you are able to work back there all the time. All you do is organize stuff and then you end up making a bigger mess anyways!"
"Screw you Kagome! It's really hard to handle everything when I'm so short and everyone puts everything in inconvenient places!" I tried giving her a death stare hoping she'd cry or something but all she did was laugh. Too bad being little and having huge innocent brown eyes was never a very threatening look…
The rest of our night was simple, I cried to my best friends and they helped pick up my broken pieces. But all I really wanted was to feel loved by someone else, I don't know where this feeling came from, but I was sick of being alone all the time.
I was the first one to wake up to Sango's annoying alarm clock in the morning. I will never understand how she and Kagome get to things on time because they always sleep through everything. I knew how to go about this; I readied myself and pounced onto Sango's bed. Once I landed I started to jump like crazy and then hit her with a pillow.
"SERIOUSLY RIN. Good morning to you to, you ass hole!" Sango said sitting up quickly and glaring at me. Unlike me she was actually scary, so I slowly got off the bed and took a seat on her futon giving her an innocent smile.
"Yeah, be lucky you're cute!" She got up and kicked Kagome as she walked towards her closet to find herself clothes and something for me.
"Why is everyone so violent?" Kagome said sitting up and rubbing her eyes. I laughed, I didn't care that my friends weren't morning people and that we bickered like we were actually related, I loved them.
Sango threw a cute pair of jean shorts to me and a white tank top, which then she also gave me a black cardigan. "You have to look somewhat appropriate since you'll be inside my work!" I then went to the bathroom and slipped on the clothes and brushed out my straight hair. When I walked out of the bathroom Kagome and Sango were already ready to go. Sango had on a dressy skirt and blouse to make herself look good for work while Kagome had on shorts with a cute shirt.
"I'm just letting you two know that there are some new guys working for us because their dad and I think one of them is a friend… well anyways, their dad owns the place. My point is, they are all extremely attractive!" Sango said while holding her hand to her heart. All three of us were single and hadn't had boys in our lives for a while, but we we're like normal girls. When we saw attractive looking males, we stared and would start freaking out about them as soon as they were out of sight.
"I could really use a boyfriend right now!" I said as I got into the passenger of Kagome's car. We followed Sango until we pulled in front of a huge building. It was all glass and beautiful, this was the first time I had been there and Sango was right, it was amazing to look at. We parked in a visitor's lot and found Sango at the entrance.
"I just saw the guys come in, oh my goodness I cannot wait for you girls to see them!" Sango said with a huge smile. These guys must have been very good looking because Sango was always the pickiest one out of all of us. As we walked in I fell behind Sango and Kagome as I looked around, amazed by everything that I saw. All of a sudden I hit something that felt like a wall, but I didn't hit the ground when I stumbled back. Instead I looked into the eyes of an amazing looking man.
Well hopefully everyone likes it! I like to move kind of slow and make things more interesting than having an insanely fast story! Anyways, please review!(:
