"How would you like your hair done?" I asked my new customer.
She contemplated what I said. "Um, can you put my hair up it a bun?"
I nodded. "I sure can."
The girl made a little squeal of delight. "I can't believe I'm having my hair done by world famous hair stylist, Black!" The girl chirped. I turned her chair around and my hand brushed her shoulder in the process. She let out a gasp instantly. "He touched me…" She whispered.
"Yeah…" I said awkwardly. "How else am I supposed to do your hair?"
She nodded, acknowledging that I was right, quieted herself, and let me continue with my work.
"Ah! It's beautiful!" She said when I was finished. She stood up promptly and began to collect the money to pay me. I just stood there, glancing around when she handed me 400 dollars. "I must be on my way!" She said placing the money in my hand. "See you later!" She chirped as she ran out the door.
"Thank you very much." I counted the money, making sure it was the amount needed. IT was so I put it in my cash box. I was struggling to put the box on its place on top shelf, when someone walked up behind me and pushed it up.
I turned around, flustered and ready to snap on whoever it was. I turned around to see Barry, my blonde, annoying co-worker. "Barry!" I snapped pushing him away from me. "What do you want?" Barry only ever wanted two things: to talk to me or to harass me. Both pretty much ended with me getting pissed off.
"Do be mad at me, Black. Do you know what today is?" Barry asked, ignoring my question.
"What?" I asked, glaring at him.
"Today's our anniversary!"
"What are you talking about?" I asked Barry, who looked overly happy.
"Today is the day we first started working together." Barry explains, acting like this is a big deal. I open my mouth to say something but Barry stops me. "Ah, ah, ah. Before you get all mad and say that you don't care or something like that, I want you to know that I'm here to treat you. So because you get so frustrated doing other people's hair, I'm going to do your hair. M'kay?"
I shook my head. "No," I started. "Not happening."
"Okay, here's the deal. You let me do you hair or…"
"Or what?" I snap.
Barry holds up my diary. "I sell this on eBay."
I reach out for it, but Barry withdraws it. "Give me that and I won't kill you."
"No, I refuse. Or…" Barry says fingering the diary. "You can get it back for a kiss."
I scowl at him. "Let's get this over with." I go to sit in the chair.
"Really? You mean it? This is goi- oh, fine. I guess doing your hair is okay too…"
I raise an eyebrow at him. "You didn't think I was really going to kiss you, did you?" Barry words something. "Never mind, just don't jack my hair up." I say as I lean back in the chair.
Barry walks around the chair and grabs a bottle of conditioner. "Yeah, I'll try not to." Barry says as he pours it onto my hair. Barry puts the bottle down and begins to lather it. He massages it in… just like Gold used to do…
"Ah," I moan. Barry slows down. "Don't stop!" I snap. "Keep going." And Barry continues to massage my scalp…
Wait this is a dream…Who is touching my hair!
I open my eyes, and realize I'm surrounded by girls.
"Oh, his hair is so soft!" Bianca chirps.
I can feel some of the girls playing in my hair. I tilt my head up and see Agatha smiling back at me.
I sit up, making sure not to hit anyone. I open my mouth to speak but Diana cuts me off.
"Black-chan! Your hair is so soft!" All the others girls nod and agree.
"You must tell us your secret." Willamina says, running her hand through my hair.
The only problem is, I don't know why my hair is soft! "I really don't know. Gold just puts some stuff in it sometimes-"
One of the girls gasp, and I stop talking. "Right, Gold-san must know!" The other girls nod.
"Come on, let's go find Gold-san!" Tiara says, giving a fist pump. The other girls fist pump and file out of the room, apparently looking for Gold.
They find him in the kitchen talking with Bianca's mother.
"Good morning, children." Bianca's mother greets. We give her a complimentary 'hello and good morning'.
"Good morning, everyone." Gold says, taking a sip from his mug.
"Gold, we wanted to know what you do to Black's hair to make it so soft!" Willamina explains.
"It's nothing special."
"We still want to know." Tiara practically screams.
"Well… first I-"
The girls push me forward. "Show us, please."
Gold turns to Bianca's mother who nods. So then we all rearrange furniture until we have 7 chairs along the wall and a chair opposite that. Gold tell me to sit in the lone chair while all the girls (and Bianca's mother) take the chairs on the opposite side of the kitchen.
"Ok, first you get some sugar, olive oil, and some melted butter." Gold got all of these things together and then put them in a mixing bowl. "Then you stir it up really well, and slather it over your hair." Gold put some on my hair. "And massage it in." Personally this was the part I liked best and enjoyed the most but I wasn't going to let them know that. So I tried to keep my face as plain as possible while Gold massaged it in. "Then you wait thirty minutes and rinse it out, but with cold water."
"So… now we wait?" Sandra asked. Gold nodded and the next thirty minutes were the most boring in my life.
"Ok, it's ready!" Gold walked me over to the sink and rinsed my hair out. Then he dried it. "Ok, touch it now."
Bianca touched it experimentally. "It's even softer than before!"
"Really?" Sandra asked.
"Oh, wow. I'm going to try it when I get home!" Diana squealed.
"What do you think of it Victoria? Is it softer?" Agatha asked.
Vicki petted my head. "Yeah, it is soft. Isn't it?"
"So now that we all know how Black gets his hair so soft, do you all want to watch a movie?" Willamina asked.
Bianca cheered. "My mom has tons of good movies!" Bianca turned to her mother. "Don't you mom?" Bianca's mother got a box down from a shelf. She placed the box on the floor and I could see from my place in the kitchen that it was filled with movies.
Agatha pulled out a movie called 'Deception'. "I love this one!"
"What's it about?"
"I don't want to spoil it." Agatha chimes, hugging the movie to her chest.
"Well, ok. We'll watch this one first then." Bianca says, putting the movie into the DVD player.
The movie promptly began and we all huddled on the couch.
"Bianca, can you get the light?" Bianca's mother asked.
Bianca turned off the light, and we watched the movie…
In short the movie was about a girl and a boy who lied to their parents to see each other. In the end the girl drowns because they tried to cross a river and the girl didn't know how to swim and the boy wasn't strong enough to carry her.
"That was stupid," Gold remarked, when the movie was over. "No one would try to cross a river if they knew they couldn't swim."
"So what should we watch next?" Vicki asked.
"Can I pick a movie?" I asked.
"Sure, why not?" Bianca's mother replied.
I dug around in the box until I found a movie that I thought was good. It was named "The little Shinx".
"We haven't watched that movie in a long time!" Bianca chirped.
"It sounds interesting…" Willamina added.
"So what are we waiting for?" Bianca's mother asked cheerfully. "Put it in!"
Nothing really interesting happened in the movie. They had some good scenes like when the Shinx got his head stuck in a hole and almost fell off a cliff, but some other ones were typical 'happy go lucky.
When the movie was over Bianca's mother announced that she had ice cream, so we all crowded around the kitchen table to eat.
"So what are we going to do next?" Bianca asked, in-between a spoonful.
"We could go to the mall!" Willamina suggested and the others agreed.
So after we all finished our ice cream, we headed back upstairs to Bianca's room and added some of her accessories to our clothes.
Most of the girls picked more personal things like purses or make-up, but I stuck with a hat and a scarf.
When everyone had decided what we would wear, we went outside and headed in the general direction of the mall.
We stopped shortly in front of Bianca's house.
"IS your mother coming, Bianca?" Agatha asked.
"I guess so…" Bianca told her. "Mom!" She yelled, cupping her mouth in her hands. "Are you coming?!"
"Yes, Bianca dear." Bianca's mother replied as she walked out the door followed by Gold. She locked the door before joining us on the sidewalk. "So is everyone ready to go?"
Bianca nodded. "Yes, mom."
"Ok, then. Bianca, lead the way."
So we all followed after Bianca who was discussing with Diana how her outfit looked. "That pin really makes your hair glow!" I heard her say. I glanced at it. I guess she was right; it did make her hair glow.
"Aww," I heard one of them say. "Look at Black-chan! Doesn't he look cute?!"
I looked around and everyone had stopped walking and was now staring at me.
"I like blue on you." Willamina stated, and then all eyes were on her, "I… Um, I mean the hat! The blue is the perfect color for his eyes and the white on the brim is the same color as the… Uh, scarf."
"I agree," Vicki piped in. "The scarf and hat go together, almost like it's a set."
"You see! Vicki agrees so can we get going before the mall gets crowded?"
Bianca let out a giggle. "Whatever you say, Willy." Bianca told her, before we started walking again, and the conversation dissolved.
"So what are we going to do first?" Agatha asked, when we finally arrived at the mall.
"I know!" Bianca chirped. "We can show Black-chan our favorite stores!"
"Ugh, I should probably go." Gold sighed. "Well, I'll see you later Black." He said, as he left.
"Ok, where to first?"
When I finally made it home, it was after six. I stumbled into the house and headed straight for the kitchen before sitting at the table.
"So, did you have fun."
"It was okay I guess." I said as I laid my head down on the kitchen table and tugged irritably at the scarf Bianca had given me. 'Oh! You like them so much,' she had said. 'and I don't wear it them much so take it and the hat.' "Bianca gave me the hat… and scarf." I explained to Gold.
"That was nice of her." Gold replied.
"Yeah, it was. I'm going to bed now. Ok?"
"Oh, Black. Before you go, That guy from the post office said he be able to take us to the castle on Wednesday, ad that he'll be in town until then."
I nod before going to bed. I stare at the ceiling, as I drift to sleep. There's only one problem… Wednesday is in two days… only two more days until…
With good movies being the equivalent of a chick flick… and then the challenge was thinking of a movie a group of little girls would watch…
Wha? They still have DVD's? What happened to Blu-ray? People, they send letters through the mail to someone who lives across town… and then they don't know where the castle is… so if they don't have GPS why would they have Blu-ray?
As a general default, Black has no hat -_- This is so much a filler chapter…
Going to chapter 7 without even thinking of chapter 6 = Ph. Acidity…