Tasha

The Acceptance Letter

Tears overflowed and started to drip down my cheeks. My hand lost grip and let go of the paper causing it to fall gracefully towards the ground.my palms made its way to my mouth as I tried to relive what I just read.

“Tash? What’s wrong?” Dave asked his voice filled with concern as his smile vanished and look of worry took over his features. “I... I got accepted...” I said my voice barely a whisper. The next thing I knew I was squashed against Dave’s hard chest as he hugged the life out of me. “Can’t breathe Bear.” I whispered as I tried to breathe.

“Oops sorry!” Dave let go of me as soon as he heard my voice and looked at me confused. I smiled at him. I started to laugh at Bear’s confused face.

“I GOT ACCEPTED!!!!” I screamed out in happiness my mouth breaking into the biggest grin. “Now there’s the Tasha I know and love!!” Bear chuckled as he picked me up and spun me around making me erupt in a fit of giggles.

By this time my cheeks were hurting from smiling so much but I didn’t care. My dreams were coming true! It was one of the happiest moment of my life and it felt so surreal.

“What’s the commotion!?” a sleepy voice made its way to us. I turned around to see my best friend sleepily walking towards me while trying to rub the sleep from her eyes.

Her uncovered eye met Dave’s and her eye grew wide. She quickly brought her hand down earning a soft giggle from me.

I always knew Rosanna had a crush on bear. I mean who wouldn’t he had features that looked like an Arabian prince! With his fair skin, stubble beard, double side shaved man bun and the prettiest green hazel eyes.

His mum Zoe Stanton Dhillon is a beautiful woman from Britain and his dad Abeer Dhillon, is a dashing North Indian. In short he looks like a celebrity. Like the famous singer Zaid Dhillon.

I have always had a doubt if he was from Zaid’s family. I wouldn’t be shocked if he was though he already had the same surname.

Ro cleared her throat and looked me dead in the eyes. “You better have a good enough reason for waking me up T!”

I picked up the letter from the ground and walked towards her. “Is this a good enough reason?” I whispered to her with a smirk on my face as I stretched my hand out to show her the letter. Her eyes grew wide and her hand moved faster than lightning as she snatched the letter from my hands.

I watched as her narrowed eyes scanned the paper before growing wide again. “Wait! Is this for real!” Ro exclaimed. “I GOT ACCEPTED!!!” I screamed making her cringe at my sudden outburst. I chuckled at her reaction.

“CONGRATS T!!” Ro replied screaming. “WHERE IS MY HUG?”I replied screaming again. “WHY ARE WE SCREAMING!!?” We heard bear’s voice screaming behind us. We turned towards bear to see him plugging both his ears like a toddler.

Ro and I gigged at his actions. I winked at her and she nodded. we walked up to bear and stood on either sides of him. We then proceeded to unplug his fingers and look at each other grinning.

“SORRY” we both screamed into his respective ear at the same time. “OWWW!” bear cringed and rubbed his ears causing us to burst out laughing. “Oh you're so dead!!” Dave warned causing us to run around the house squealing.

Growing up I did Dance while Ro did Track. I was never an athletic person and I was never able to run fast enough so I never bothered with it. Ro on the other hand won medals so it’s safe to say I was at a disadvantage here.

Ro moved as fast as a cheetah as she ran across the hall, leaped over the couch and up the stairs taking two steps at a time. She then dashed in to her room and locked her door.

Me? Well I was about to reach for the stairs as Ro closed her room door. I felt Bear’s hands snake around my waist. I squealed as he lifted my up. He threw my on the couch and straddled my waist. He looked at me with a smirk. I knew what was coming but before I could say anything Bear stated tickling me.

I erupted in a fit of giggles and screams. In case you didn’t already guess I’m the most ticklish person you will ever meet. SERIOUSLY.

“STOP! STOP! BEAR- NO!”I tried to stop bear who was enjoying this tickle fest. Well, at least somebody was enjoying this!! I then felt another pair of hands joining in on the fun. “Damn it Ro!” I tried to open my squinted eyes but I was laughing too much.

“OWW!”I heard bear’s pain filled voice. Ro stopped tickling me removed her hands from my belly. I jumped up from the couch and looked around to find who I hurt.

Dave was lying on the ground holding his groin. Ouch! “I did warn you... Tickling is harmful!” and I was right I did warn him in fact he knew how I was dangerous when tickled.

We were playing 20 questions once and I told him that I was very ticklish. And I mean VERY... I also warned him that I tend to kick people from the excessive leg movement. He didn’t believe me. In fact he was laughing his ass off!!

I knelt down next to next to Dave. “Are you ok? I did warn you…” “No s**t Sherlock!” bear grunted in pain. I looked around to find Ro missing. “Rosanna Mendez!!! Where are you?!”I shouted out to her. “Coming!!”She shouted back.

Rosanna was definitely stifling a laugh but left the room because she didn’t want to offend Bear. i just knew this girl too well.

Ro came out of the kitchen with an ice pack in her hand and redness on the face. Her face being redder than a tomato proved my theory to be right.

She threw the ice pack at Bear. He grunted in pain as Ro let out a snort. “Ro… don’t…” I tried to warn her with a stern face but I couldn’t help the smile making its way to my lips. Ro and I stared at each other trying to keep each other from laughing.

Minutes felt like hours as we stared at each other speaking through our eyes. Unable to control any longer we both burst out laughing. “Oh! Come on guys! Really!?” Bear cried out... “Aww honey… I’m sorry boo..” I cooed at my pained brother. I seriously felt bad. He was in a lot of pain and I could tell.

Ro laughed even louder at my choice of words. “What is he 4?” Ro mocked. “Oh shut up!” I flipped her off laughing.

After a few minutes of painful hisses, laughs and lots of icing Bear was feeling a lot better. He was still in pain but he could walk and function without hissing and grunting.

He still had letters to deliver but it would have looked bad if we went house to house grunting and hissing in pain because knowing neighborhood we were living in the, situation would be well misunderstood.

“Would you like some tea before leaving?” I asked Bear. “Tea!? You owe me MORE than tea for the damage you caused! I may never be able to have kids!!” I giggled at his response.

“Oh stop being a drama queen would ya? How about a movie night? Although it might be just the both of us though... Ro has night classes I think.” I saw as bear’s face fell but he recovered quick trying to hide his disappointment. I smirked at him as the though of Bear having feeling for Ro ran through my mind. I could already see how cute they would look together. I should thinking of a ship them.

“Umm... Why are you smiling so much?” Bear asked me. I snapped out of my thoughts to see him looking like he saw something weird. “Nothing bear..” I said as i smiled innocently at him. “Is movie night on? We can have a sibling movie night?” I said enthusiastically.

“Aww you want to spend time with your brother?” Bear teased me... “Pshh..Who me? Yea right! I just wanted to watch you walk like a penguin around the house!” I laughed and stuck my tongue out at him

I squealed as bear messed my hair up and stuck his tongue out back at me. “I'm gonna get you back for this Tashy! I’ll see you at 7! I’m gonna stay over!” My annoying brother shouted as he walked out the front door.

“Don’t be late!” I screamed after him and he responded with his thumbs up in the air. I rolled my eyes and closed the front door and went back to the living area. I picked up my empty coffee cup and brought it over to the sink with Cuddles chasing after me. I washed it and kept it back where I took it from. I looked over at Cuddles to see him gulping down water from his bowl. The poor boy must me thirsty from running around with us.

I scooped some dog food into the microwavable container I had for Cuddles and placed it in the microwave for a minute. After refilling Cuddles water bowl I opened the microwave and took out the dog food.

It looked and smelled amazing. Cuddles food consisted of vegetables and rice. I placed the bowl of warm food next the his water bowl and Cuddles went for it like as if he was racing to see who could finish their food first except he was the only participant.

I then made my way to the couch. Ro was in her room blasting music while she got ready for work and I was seated on the couch watching MTV. It was safe to say that the house sounded like a club.

After 20 minutes Ro came down wearing her Starbucks uniform with some black skinny jeans. Her hair was pulled up in a ponytail and a strand of hair hung on either sides of her face framing it.

She wore light makeup and looked beautiful as ever. Rosanna is the kind of girl that looks gorgeous even with a bare face, pajamas and a messy top bun. She was what you would call an effortless beauty.

“I’ll be back at 5!” Ro said while walking towards the door. “Firstly isn’t it still early??” Ro looked at the clock. “You’re right my clock is fast. I thought I was going to be latte.” Ro said as she smirked as she jumped on to the couch. ” oh come on not another one of you coffee puns!” I said as Ro died of laughter.

“Anyway.. I was about to ask you how you would be back at 5pm when you have night lessons until 10pm…?” I asked confused as I lowered the volume on the TV.

She looked up from her phone and gave me the cheesiest grin. “Sorry!! My classes are canceled... I guess I forgot to let you know. Well, now you know!!”

“Oh great! I guess you are joining us for the movie night then…” I said nonchalantly. “Movie night? With who!?” Ro rushed. “The sibling sleepover bear and I planned for tonight.” I told her as I inspected my nails like it was no big deal.

“WHAT!! WHEN WERE YOU PLANNING ON TELLING ME!!” Ro screamed “cool love! I thought you had lessons tonight! Besides you know I’m a good wing woman.” I winked at Ro and she looked away pretending trying to hide the blush forming on the cheeks.

Just then our favorite song started playing on the TV. Our heads snapped as we stared at each other eyes wide with excitement. We stood up and started to sing and dance to the song.

We sounded like dying seals and we danced like monkeys but who cared! It was OUR song! We collapsed on the couch as the song came to an end. Ro looked at her watch and sprung up from her seat.

She picked up her bag and ran out the door as she screamed “IM GONNA BE LATE!!!!! AND IT’S YOUR FAULT!!!” I stood up laughing “see you too” I said to no one as I made my way to the front door and watched as Ro’s car drove away.

I then closed the front door, switched off the TV and walked up the stairs to my room with Cuddles trailing after me. Cuddles was cozy on the couch asleep. You could see how sleepy he was as he slipped while walking up the stairs. Feeling bad I carried him with all my might and walked to my room with Cuddles snuggled up in my arms.

I sat him down on my bed and let out a sigh of relief as Cuddles got comfortable and immediately fell into a deep sleep. I smiled at him, gave him a kiss and walked towards my study table. I sat down and begin to do my outstanding assignments. I took up a veterinary nursing course when I moved to England. I was currently completing my final module so it was just on time that I got accepted into university now. To be honest the thought of university scared me. I had to move again.

I wouldn’t have Ro with me or Bear. I had to manage Daisy all on my own. Would I be able to provide her with everything she needed? Would I be able to be her mum? I decided to concentrate on my assignments first instead of stressing about the future.