It's All Water Under The Bridge
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Sid, Eugene and I spent a lot of time together in the coming months, well that was until Sid left. His contract had ended and he was shipped back to Alabama. Eugene really missed him. Took it out on me. Snapped at me every now and again. But I was patient. I waited for him to come to me, to talk it over. In that time Halley and I made new friends.
We'd already been introduced to Sid's friends, Robert Leckie, Chuckler Jergins, Runner and Bill Hoosier, so I chose to hang around with them until Eugene came around.
The six of us, were lazing around their little hut. It was hotter than a pistol, and my head itched from the mass of hair on my head that kept my head hot and sweaty. I lazily turned my head to Hal.
"Did I look okay when I did my marshmallow hair that year?"
She turned, just as lazily as I did, wafting herself with an old Batman comic.
"Yeah.. why?"
I didn't answer, I just turned to Lucky.
"Hey, you got an scissors?"
He nodded, pointing over to the little water tower they had made, where the scissors were glinting brightly in the sun.
"Runner, you got a razor? Ah never mind, you've always got stubble, Hoos, have you got one?"
Hoosier shook his blond head, "Nope, but Chuckler has." He nodded to Chuckler, sat in the corner.
"Why do you need a razor?"
"I'm cutting my hair and I need a razor and some scissors. You think the nurses will have a mirror?"
After trawling round the nurses' station for an hour, looking for someone who had a mirror they would lend me, I gave up. Prissy bitches, never saw a mirror. If they had, they'd know that they looked like shit too.
I sighed, just as I rounded a corner, bumping into Holly.
"Oh, hey! I didn't see you there." she smiled brightly. I smiled back, scratching my head.
"Ah it's fine, I probably wouldn't have noticed, had you bumped into me."
"What's the matter? You walking around with scissors and a razor doesn't look safe to me." she smirked.
"I need a mirror. I want to cut my hair, but none of the nurses would lend me one, so I gave up."
"Oh.." she thought for a moment, "Hey, you know what, I have a mirror. You can borrow that."
"You don't mind?"
"Course not. What's mine is yours."
"I hope you don't apply that rule to your boyfriend..."
She laughed heartily, "No you ass, I don't. You need a brush too?"
I nodded, "Yup."
So, off I went, merrily on my way, to chop off all my long locks. I felt a hell of a lot better afterwards. I don't think the guys appreciated the hair cut as much as I did. My long, bum length hair, was now just a few millimetres past my ear on the left side, while the right side, above my ear was shaved off. What? I used to be a scene kid.. kind of. What was left on the right side, was combed over to my fringe and left side of my head.
"What does it look like?" I asked Halley, who was now sat with Snafu, Burgie and Will. Will shrugged, in a 'not bad' gesture and Halley nodded. Snafu and Burgie didn't know what to say and when Lucky and the guys came past, they just stared.
"What happened to your hair?" Hoosier finally asked, stunned and awkwardly.
"A lot of girls have their hair like this from where I'm from. Anyway, I had the other side shaved once. I'd show you a photo, but I don't have one." I told them, scratching the shaved bit where I had nicked it with the razor.
"Oh... well.. it's.."
"Unusual." Lucky put in. I laughed, running a hand through my newly cut hair.
"Look, you can tell me you don't like it. I rely on Hal's opinion anyway."
"Alright. We don't like it." Runner told me point blank. I shrugged, in a 'fair enough' kind of way.
"What's going to happen when someone wants to run their hands through your hair?" Chuckler asked.
"They can used their own hair? Why would they run their hands through mine?"
"If they kiss you?"
"Who's going to kiss me?" I snorted incredulously. They shrugged, so I rolled my eyes at them. "Honestly, you lot think of some weird shit..."
Later, after they'd gotten used to the idea of me shaving my head, and after I'd told them I was planning on shaving the other side, so I would have, in effect, a Mohawk, we were bumming around in their hut. I was just about to fall asleep when an unexpected visitor popper in.
"Uh, hey, is Aph here?" someone drawled in a thick, Deep South accent.
"Yeah, she's over with Lucky." I think it was Runner who replied to him.
"Beware, she's shaved her head." one of them added. Lucky nudged me to wake up. I grumbled and sat up, scratching my head, as sweat got caught in the little shaving cut.
"Wassat?" I mumbled, rubbing my eyes.
"Sledge wants you." Lucky told me, ruffling what was left of my hair. I looked at the door, where he was standing.
"Oh, Eugene. Hey." I greeted, hauling myself up from Lucky's lap. I patted his shoulder, saying thanks for letting me sleep on his bed and walked to Eugene. I beckoned him to follow, leaving to the calls of, 'Aphra has a boyfriend'.
"Shut your traps! You're just jealous he gets to see me all the time." I called back to them, sticking my tongue out.
"So chickadee, what's crackalacking?"
"I assume that means what's going on?"
"Basically, yes." I smiled, shoving my hands into my pockets. "So, what's up?"
"I just wanted to apologise."
"It's alright, it's cool."
"I mean, I wasn't really.. wait.. what?"
"I said, it's cool."
"..Are you sure?"
I nodded and laughed, "Sure Eugene, it's fine."
