Down the Dead-End Street

A new begining to life

Gen looked at him with her jaw literally touching the floor, her face a mixture of horror, shock, amusement, excitement and God knows what. "You can't be serious about this... I mean you want me to come to the carnival with you...??", she asked him, although she already knew what his answer was going to be. "No I want you to strip dance standing on that table of yours...", he pulled out his tongue at her, "Yes bubble-gum, you heard it right... You are coming to the carnival with me...", he finished with an amused expression on his face. "No... but... I... can't...", she mumbled words that didn't even made any sense, her mind puzzling why does this letting-go business have to start from a stupid-college-carnival.

"Stop thinking sexy... Just do as I say... Trust me you're gonna thank me for this afterwards....", he said as if reading her mind. She took a deep breath before meeting his gaze, "Oki.... but.... fine when do we have to leave...??", she finally said. "Yay!! That's like my baby girl... Okay so here's the whole plan...", he said getting excited like a small kid, "First 'm taking you to your favourite salon to fix the mess you've created with yourself.... Then you're getting dressed like old-times.... & then we're gonna do some paaarrrtttyy....", she couldn't help but smile at how cute he looks when he's behaving like a kid with sugar overdose. But then it got to her. "What...?? There's no way 'm going to any salon.... I mean whats the point...?? There's no one I need to dress-up for...", he cut her short, "Yes way.. you are going to the salon and the point is, you need to look good to feel good... And frankly speaking, I don't think I can bear with such an ugly-witch hanging at my side, all through the carnival..", he teased her in a mocking tone. She punched him on his chest pretty hard, but got her hand hurt instead because of his well-toned hard muscles. She groaned, rubbing her knuckles, and he laughed at her. "Aww... got yourself hurt, baby girl...?? Tch tch tch...", he mocked her with a smirk on his face  and she felt like wiping that smirk off his cocky face, but looking at her reddened knuckles, she thought better of it. He took her damaged hand and gently fingered her knuckles, sending jolts of electricity throughout her body. They stood there, gazing in each others eyes before he shaked his head, as if to shake the thoughts out of his head. "Come'on, lets get you all pretty...", he said with a grin on his face and she replied with rolling her eyes in return, before following him out.

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Gen was sitting on one of the salon chairs, getting her hairs high-lighted, while listening to the hair-dresser go on and on about how her boyfriend doesn't give her enough time, and she patiently tried to put her to the back of her mind. Zack had dropped her here at the salon and then gone back to his own apartment to get ready. She had already changed and now she was waiting for her hair-job to be complete, which was almost done. All this while thinking how being with him has suddenly made everything almost alright.

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Zack was pacing back and forth, impatiently waiting for Gen to show up, at the door of salon. He'd been here for about half an hour now and she was still getting her hairs done. He hated waiting so just to pass his time, he was checking out every girl around there and flirting with the pretty receptionist. And that's exactly when he turned around and saw her walking towards him and felt his heart skip a beat. She looked beautiful, and this for a moment made him regret bringing her here. After all he forgot how badly she affected him and made him want her more. She used to have hairs that almost reached her hips, now they were cut to waist-length, the deep-red high-lights bringing out the brown-maroon shade of her hairs. She was wearing a white sleeveless top with a baby blue over-all and skinny jeans and her blue converse shoes just completed the look perfectly. Her eye-liner brought out her light-brown eyes which didn't looked as lifeless as they did a day ago. She cleared her throat with a smirk on her face and he realized he was gaping at her. He felt so embarrassed as she openly started laughing at him. And suddenly he felt like he'll get embarrassed over and over again if only it made her laugh like that.