F, H & S Part Two Continued Again

Prologue Part 1a Part 1b Part 2a Part 2b

Once Raya got the chicken in the oven and Addison made the cookies, Jasmine pounced.

“Alright girl, get that behind of yours in the shower.” As a way of emphasizing “behind,” Jasmine swatted Addison right in the behind! “Raya and I will pick out your outfit!”

All Addison could think to do was keep walking to the shower. How else does one react to being smacked in the ass? She figured, or at least hoped, that if she kept walking and ignored it that would be the last smack. Addison had discovered that if someone drew attention to something or expressed shock, then they were sure to experience it again and frequently. In the first week Belle had demonstrated her strong distaste for completely white, butt covering, underwear. Since that point it had been a running joke, and Addison had heard plans for some interesting pranks to take advantage of her dramatic reactions. It seemed the goal of all the “roomies” as they began to call themselves, was to get a reaction. As Addison closed her eyes and let the warm water hit her in the face she wondered what reaction Raya and Jasmine were planning to pull out of her.

Once Addison was out of ear shot, Jasmine grabbed Raya’s arm and pulled her into Bella and Addison’s room. “Let’s see what she’s got.” It only took 5 minutes for Jasmine to realize there were no dresses in the closet. “Does she own a dress?”

“I don’t think so. She is about as tomboy as they come. In high school she only wore a skirt when she had to for chapel. I’m not surprised to see a lack of them now too. Besides, if you put her in a dress or skirt she will kill you!”

“I have an idea.” Jasmine headed into Raya’s closet and came out with two outfits.

“What are you going to do, layer it?”

“No! I am going to show her this one and have the real outfit in the room. I want to see if she will react.”

“Oh, you’ll get a reaction alright. We should make her wear her hair down and curl it!”

Jasmine’s smile stretched to a full Cheshire cat grin, “she’ll hate you for that.”

“Yes, but what is she going to do? Disown me? Our parents are such good friends that she will never escape the Chapel in the Hills family. Honestly, though, I am pretty sure she will understand it is all in good fun. Besides, we used to play some pretty harsh practical jokes on each other when we were kids; some of them were even cruel!”

“You know what else we have to do?”

“What?”

“We have to do her makeup!”

With that the door to the bathroom opened and the turban headed, robe clad, Addison stepped out to see Raya and Jasmine standing in the hall grinning at her. “Alright do your best you two. What do you have planned for me to wear?”

Jasmine produced from behind her back a black denim skirt that Addison knew would only hit her mid thigh, a purple spaghetti strap tank top that had pink hibiscus flowers cascading down one side, and a pair of Raya’s heeled sandals.

Addison, with no facial expression, turned around, walked back in to the bathroom, shut the door, and locked it.

Raya and Jasmine could hardly contain themselves. They both emitted several nasal laughs in an attempt to gain their composure before trying to coax Addison out of the bathroom. Eventually Raya succeeded. “Addison, you can come out. We were just joking. Jasmine picked out a different outfit, but we are doing your hair and makeup.”

“Seriously, Addison, I chose a pair of dark denim jeans with a wide strapped plain tank top.”

“Seriously?” was all that penetrated the bathroom door.

“Seriously!” Raya said with a smile.

Addison cracked the door and reached her arm out, “give me the outfit.” Jasmine handed her the jeans and tank and as quickly as Addison opened the door she closed it. In a matter of moments, Addison stepped out of the bathroom wearing the jeans and purple tank.

Jasmine whistled. “You look great in those jeans and purple is definitely your color.”

“Thanks. Raya, are these your jeans?”

“Yep.”

Addison walked out to the family room and turned to look at her butt in the full length mirror that was leaning against the wall. “These actually make my butt and legs look good! Raya, we have to go shopping together next weekend.”

“Definitely, but right now you need to sit in this chair so Jasmine and I can do your hair and stuff.”

Addison raised her eye brows, “Stuff?”

“Trust us.” Raya flashed a smile, “we didn’t make you wear a dress, did we?”

With that Addison sat down with her back to the mirror and tried to relax as she heard the whir of the hairdryer; was told to open this eye, close this one, suck in her cheeks, and “this is going to hurt a little,” all while trying to keep her head still for the curling iron.

“Done!”

Finally, Raya had given Addison the go ahead to look in the mirror. Addison turned slowly to peer at her own reflection. She had to admit she looked pretty good and not too girly. Every fiber of her being wanted to reach up and pull her hair back into a pony tail.
As if Raya knew, she quickly said, “and absolutely no pony tails until the volleyball game tonight.”

The oven timer buzzed and there was a knock at the door that made all three girls jump. They looked at each other, and laughed with their hand in various comfort positions.

Raya answered the back door as jasmine put the skirt outfit away and Addison cleaned up her clothes from the shower.

“Just sit at the table boys. We will bring dinner out to you.”

Addison heard Ian say, “Will do.” Her heart began to race as she wondered if Chase would be the new mystery roommate of Ian’s.

F, H, & S Part Two: Continued

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“I’ll clean the kitchen. Why don’t you guys go get the food,” Narissa said as she walked back toward her room. Then just before she walked back into the room, she looked right at Addison and said, “when you get back the real work can start.”

Once Jasmine had disappeared behind the door, Addison grabbed a mug and poured herself some coffee. “Wow! That wasn’t subtle.”

“She means well.”

“I know, just don’t let her make me into something I’m not. You know I like to dress up occasionally, but not all the time. I don’t want to give any false impressions.”

“It’ll be okay. I’m going to go get dressed.”

“Alright, I’m just going to go like this since I’m the next project anyway.” Raya vanished into the same room as Narissa and left Addison to sip her morning coffee alone at the kitchen table.

Addison smiled as she thought about the events of the last hour and a half. Her jog had been great! Of course her jogs always were. It was the one comforting constant she continued. Her jogs were the one time Addison felt she didn’t have to fit in. No one was there to judge her or wonder why she was doing what she was doing. She didn’t second guess herself when she jogged all she had to do was put one foot in front of the other and cover some ground. Over the course of her high school career, Addison had second guessed herself and focused on planning the future instead of taking things one step at a time. She had gotten distracted from God’s purpose for her life. That distraction, like so many for young girls, came in the form of a young man named Stephen. When the bottom fell out on their relationship, Addison ran from the memories and found herself at the small Southwestern College campus in Phoenix. After that catastrophe, Addison had promised herself she wouldn’t think about future plans until she had finished college. She needed three more years to practice trusting God for the next step.

She finished her last sip of coffee just as Raya walked out of her room. “You ready to go?”

“Yep, just let me put this in the sink and grab my purse.” As Addison grabbed her purse off her desk she found herself thinking about Chase and getting a little excited about dinner that night. “It couldn’t hurt to just meet him. I have to get to know people right.”

“What did you say?” Raya yelled as she started to her car out the back door.

“Nothing.” Addison ran after her.

“Are you going to make a habit of talking to yourself? I just want to know when I should listen.” Raya shot Addison a smile over the car roof as she unlocked the doors.

“Sorry, I guess I just got lost in my thoughts. I’m a little nervous about tonight.”

“There’s nothing to be nervous about. I invited all the roomies so it wouldn’t feel like a set up.”

“How long did it take you to fit in with everyone?”

Raya started the car and looking over her shoulder as she backed out said, “I don’t know a little while though. It didn’t happen overnight if that’s what you were thinking. Once this year or even semester is over you will look back and think the same thing. Heck, I bet people won’t even realize you weren’t our roommate last year.”

“I hope so, but I am getting a little homesick. This is a little harder than I thought it would be. Back at CU I had my friends from high school and AWANA to hang out with and introduce me around. I am not sure exactly what to think of some of the roommates.”

“Well, some of the roommates didn’t know what to make of you only a week ago so I think you will find you all have more in common than you think.”

“What do you mean?”

They pulled into Fry’s parking lot and headed in to the store.

“Well. Take Bella for example. Grab that bag of chicken. She didn’t know what to make of you when you first got here, she was actually scared of you.”

Addison stopped in her tracks and snickered. “What!” She grabbed Raya’s shoulder to stop her from grabbing the Italian dressing and look her in the face. “You’re joking right.”

Raya smiled. “No, I’m being entirely serious.” She turned back to grab the dressing. “She told me you were kind of intimidating and tough looking.”

“Seriously?”

“Seriously! Why would I lie?”

“Oh, I don’t know, to make me feel better.”

“I don’t like you that much.”

The two girls laughed and finished getting the salad mix, garlic, French bread, soda, rolled oats, and cocoa powder so Addison could make her mom’s no-bake cookies for dessert. Once they loaded the groceries, Addison closed the car door and as she pulled the seat belt across her lap she came back to what Raya had said. “So why did Bella find me intimidating?”

“The first thing she said was you were a giant.”

“A giant? I’m not that tall.”


“Well apparently you looked tall to her and she mentioned that you didn’t talk much. She wasn’t sure about you until she took you to that party at Mitch’s house.”

“What do you mean?”

“I know you had a drink or two. Don’t get all secretive. I don’t care.”

“Sorry. Why at the party though?”

“She said you loosened up and were joking around. The guys thought you were pretty funny too.”

“Great. A clown. There’s the first impression every girl wants.”

“Well, you can redeem yourself tonight after dinner. We are going to start up our night volleyball games again.”

“That sounds fun. I still can’t get over Bella being scared of me. I am going to give her a hard time.”

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