Fat Excercise

A Chapter by creangel

30/4/15

Woke up at exactly 4 minutes to 5 in the morning to switch off the Air conditioner. My sister came later on and told me to shampoo and condition my niece's hair so she would braid it after she comes from the hospital by 3pm, The maid came later on to give my niece a bath and as usual my niece was reluctant to even take off her clothes but when she eventually took a bath, she wanted to wear trousers and a shirt, but when I looked at her selection of clothes I began to feel sweat forming on my forehead, so I convinced her to wear light clothes.
When the maid was done giving her a bath, I suddenly remembered that my sister had asked me to wash her daughter's hair. But she had already taken a bath so I waited three hours before telling her that her mum had asked me to shampoo her hair. She started to whine and complain, but then I just grabbed a brush and started brushing through her hair as she ran around the room in protest. She got on my sister's health ball and tried to balance herself on her stomach while I got coconut oil to put on her hair to make it a little easier to comb through, because the back of her hair felt like a metal sponge and coconut oil was just the answer to that in my opinion.
After battling to brush through her kinky hair with her occasional ' owie's and ' wah's I finally got it under my command. She refused to take her clothes off, but I made her do it anyways, I had to use my shampoo and conditioner on her hair because I needed to make it soft and her conditioner did not just do the work.
I left her hair to air-dry and went back to reading a book I had found to be interesting lately. 3 0' clock soon came by in a flash and I found out that I had spent thirty minutes giving her a bath and combing through her hair. My second brother then came downstairs to the second floor and asked me to add to his money to order Pizza from Pizza Hut, which was buy 1 take 1 so we would each eat ours separate. I happily gave him P200 and went back to getting my niece to dress up in house clothes.
The pizza was delivered about ten minutes later, and my niece was nagging me to give her a slice, but I ignored her and took it upstairs to my room with her acting as my tail. My brother gave a slice out of his to the maid and put the large Pepsi bottle that came with the pizza in the fridge. I took my half meaty and half cheese and bacon pizza to my study table to eat with my niece staring at me. My elder brother then came and took a slice while telling me that I'm just fattening myself, which left me to think that if the pizza was so fattening then he should cough up the slice he took and give me back. I saved the last two slices for my niece and gave her.
My sister came back a few minutes later, and braided her daughter's hair. She made me watch ' Into the woods' Which I did not enjoy as the characters sang throughout the movie, which reminded me of high school musical 3; another movie which I did not enjoy in the least. Watching ' Into the woods' made me want to watch ' Ghost in the shell' just to get the musical movie out of my head. When the movie had finished and my sister was done braiding my niece's hair, I went back to the room I shared with my niece to clean it up.
My niece had scattered her bed with random books, piece of papers, loom bands and dolls my sister's boyfriend had bought her from their visit to Australia to meet him. I couldn't stand the sight anymore and so I arranged her bed and cleaned the room.
When I was done, my sister came to the room then told me to dress up, that we would be going for zumba. I cringed as she said zumba, my stamina is quite little but I have strength so I worried that I wouldn't make it through the one hour dance session. My niece dressed up in a sweater with a shirt underneath, jeans and sneakers. I once again felt sweaty just looking at her though I had just taken a quick shower after cleaning the room. I wondered if she thought we were going to a cold place or a party, current weather in Philippines was quite warm and getting too close to the hot side for my liking this night.
When we arrived at the dance studio we waited for a few minutes to start our session. When we started, I was faring well with it until I started to feel a dull pain in my stomach, my sister said it was spasm or something along the lines of that. I did only 15 minutes out of the one hour session and left my sister to dance alone at the back. I felt lethargic and disappointed with my body though I laughed it off when my sister pointed it out, it hurt.
Before we left, my sister paid for us and also happened to attract the attention of a woman who looked wealthy that happened to be in the dance class, I felt like I had zero presence, as though I were in her shadow. At this point I started to miss my mother, but I quickly pushed that off my mind and made a joke out of me having zero presence with my sister, she laughed.
When we were a few turns away from the dance studio, she showed me a cake shop and said that they sell the best cakes and that I would be missing out if I didn't eat their cake, I said I wanted to buy one but I left my money in the house, so she paid for me on the condition that I would pay her back when we got back to the house. My niece's eyes were glued to the cheese cake I bought, I said ' no' to her, because I just used some of the money I had left with me, but my sister; being the good mother she is to her daughter, told my niece that I would give her out of my cake to which I said no once more, then she said to just let the niece have a taste.
We got home the same time my brother got back from the gym, at this point he was already looking like half of the hulk. I have eaten my cheese cake by then, It was so expensive and yet my sister gave my niece nearly a third of it, I felt as though my wallet upstairs was protesting that I paid for a really expensive cake and my niece ate out of it when I just had a meager amount of money left until my allowance would be sent to me. My sister told my elder brother that I bought a cheesecake and ate it, I then said that she was the one who showed me the cake shop and told me that I would regret not buying one. I called her a temptress for tempting me with cake and then making jest of me along with my brother for eating a cake right after exercising.
My elder brother then commented that at least in all families there has to be that one fat person in the house, I laughed it off knowing it would be childish to argue over my weight with someone who makes his jokes at others expense, I went upstairs to get my wallet and paid my sister her money back.
When my second brother came back home from school, I could not express the joy I felt when I saw him, I talked to him about nonsensical topics as usual, as he is the quiet type who listens. I played ' let it go' from ' Frozen' the movie on his electric guitar using ' Rocksmith' on the ps3, my niece sang along with me while I played my worries away. My acoustic guitar laid in the corner of the room gathering dust, as I used his electric guitar, gathering it's little amount of contempt for his guitar.
I went downstairs to my room, soon after my niece followed, I gave her a peck on the forehead, forgetting that I put on lip gloss that just happened to be red. The outline of a kiss mark remained on her forehead as she went to bed after I begged and pleaded, almost resorting to threatening her to sleep. I switched on the Air conditioner at exactly 11pm then climbed the bunk bed and laid down ready to sleep.
Right before I drifted off, I heard a little voice from under me say " Goodnight Aunty Lavender"

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