Troubled Souls

New Hair New Friend (Chp 5)

"Mom. Mom. Mama!Mommmmmmmm!!" I yelled.
"What Matthew." Mama T yelled back agitated.
"Where's Sary?"
"She had work today remember? At least she gets up before 12." She explained.
"Ma I do get up sometimes."
"Yes but in the 2 months that I have lived here you haven't." Sarrice joked as she walked in the door.
"Ok is this gang up and Matt day or some shit?" He complained.
"Matthew Matthew Matthew that's everyday." Scar said as she walked upstairs to change.
There were some loud noises coming from outside.
"Mom what's going on outside?"
"Some new neighbors are moving in and they are renovating."
"Ok you know who they are?"
"Not a clue just a group of young adults. A few years older than you maybe."
"Hey Mom?" Scar called as she walked down the stairs.
"What is it sweetie?"
"Wanna help me with something?"
I sat on the counter and watched them talk.
"Sure what is it?"
"Hair maybe?"
Mom and I started laughing.
"Of course what color?"
"I don't know maybe back to black or I might go red. Matt I can redo your blue it's beginning to fade out as well."
"Yeah I'm down. Let me grab my phone and wallet then we can go." I ran upstairs and I yelled to mom as I did.
"Ma you wanna ride with us?"
"Sure just let me grab my purse."
While we waited for mom Scar called Benji. It was his turn to make a video and we knew he would put it off until one of us volunteered to do it instead.
"Hey Ben." She put it on speaker.
"Hey Scary what's up?"
"Scary? That's a new one." I laughed.
"Well hey she's a scary girl." He joked.
I laughed and then looked up and saw Sarrice's look. She has this look she gives when we are being well immature and mean. Kinda like a look your mom gives that says you better stop messing around.
"Um dude Sarrice is giving me the look."
"Oh I'm sorry Scar."
"It's cool bro I'm just messing around."
"So what can I do for the lovely Sarrice today?" Benji asked.
"Ahem." I have something in my throat.
"Yes Matt?"
"What about me?" I whined.
"Well what can I do for the lovely Sarrice and Matthew? Is that better?"
"No-"
"Yes and have you filmed today?" Sarrice interrupted me. She's good at that.
"Damn it. No I haven't."
"Dude you need to film. You are the only one who hasn't made a video by themselves yet. We all have."
"But Matt I don't like making them it's boring."
"Whatever we'll figure it out." Then Sarrice hung up.
"What are we going to do?"
"You kids ready?" Ma asked.
We nodded and went to the car and naturally I have to drive.
We pulled onto the street and Mom turned on the radio.
"We could play the song game." Sarrice said.
"What?"
"For the video me you Benji."
"Good idea but I don't think he'll want to do it. He's over at Wills actually." I said looking around for cars.
"How the holy hell do you know that?" She asked.
"It's on his Instagram." I said while turning onto another road.
"MATTHEW! Blinker." I received a slap on the head from my mom.
"Why don't you just film dying your hair?" Mom said.
"Like teach them how to dye your hair?" I asked.
"Yeah tell them step by step. But make jokes while doing it."
I looked in the mirror at Scar briefly. She shrugged then nodded.
We continued driving and singing to the pop song that was playing when Scar almost killed us.
"MATT!"
I stopped quickly and turned around to look at her.
"You missed the turn stupid."
I looked and sure enough we were just past the mall entrance.
I pulled some illegal manuvers and soon parked the car.
"Ok so we are here for hair dye only Matt." Mom looked at me.
"But I was thinking of gett-"
"No. Hair dye only." Sarrice interrupted again.
"Fine." I grumbled.
We entered the mall and walked to Sally's to get some manic panic.
"Why are you so picky about the type of hair dye you use?" I asked Sar.
"Because Manic has the best result. It lasts longer." She explained.
"Ok so we have blue red and black. Anything else?" She looked at me.
"Can we get green? I want to try green." I asked.
"Yeah go grab it."
I ran off and found the green but there was so many colors! There was light green and lime. Then dark green and teal. I stood there and scratched my head.
"Um excuse me i hate to ask but can you help me grab something off the shelf?" I heard a voice ask and I turned around. I saw a short girl with pastel purple hair. She was wearing a gamer shirt with a hoodie.
"Sure so what color?" I asked. She still hasn't looked at me yet.
"Uh the blue right there." She pointed and I reached over her and grabbed it.
"Here you go." She looked up at me through her hair and I saw these small sea green eyes surrounded by eyeliner.
"Thanks." She took the bottle and turned around to walk away and ran into a display knocking some bottles down and fell down, making a loud crash.
"Oh man. Ugh this always happens. I'm such a spaz."
"Oh are you ok here." I picked her up and started moving some things away.
"Matt I should have known you did this." I turned around and saw Scar standing there she looked past me and saw the girl and the mess.
"Oh gosh you need some help?" She asked.
"Y-yeah thanks." Mystery girl began cleaning up the mess with the help of me and Sarrice.
"I'm Matt and this is Sarrice." I offered trying to start a conversation.
"I'm Kalel." She said she's very shy.
"Matt go pick out the green your mom is still waiting to check out."
"Oh shit." I grabbed the green I originally wanted and ran to check out.
I heard Sarrice laughing and walking behind me. We got to my mom and I gave her the dye then walked back to Sarrice.
"Where's that girl at?"
"Over there. Why?" She looked at me puzzled.
"No reason hey um I'll meet yall in the car ok."
She gave me a look muttered a whatever and walked over to mom.
"Hey Kalel."
"Hi Matt, um thanks for earlier you and your girlfriend were really sweet." I started laughing and she just stared at me.
"Sarrice isn't my girlfriend I'm not her type haha."
"Oh, oh my gosh I'm so stupid."
"No it's fine I hear it all the time."
"She's very lucky to have a friend like you then. Why she wouldn't date you is a mystery." She said with a small grin.
"Hah well that's a funny story. Thing is between you and me," I leaned close to her and whispered,
"I wouldn't date her either. See she has a thing for girls."
I leaned back and watched her face go from confused to understanding.
"So hair dye? I personally am a genius with it. I want to be a stylist." She said happily.
"Well me and Sarrice could be, we've done it enough."
"I need to practice more so I have been doing it on myself so I wanted to go blue."
"That's cool. Hey uh listen I was wondering if maybe you wanted to hang out today? You could practice on me. Unless you don't think that's cool then that's ok. Or if you have something to do.."
"I don't have plans. I'd love to just as long as you don't mind a very awkward nerd doing your hair."
"Honey please I am the definition of nerd." I snapped to add effect.
I got a real laugh from that.
"Well sounds fun. Um do you want me to follow you or.."
"You can ride with us if you want just don't mind my mom or Sarrice. They can be a bit eccentric."
"That's cool. Uh here's my phone."
I looked at it and then back up confused.
"You put your number in it."
I face palmed then put my number in and sent myself a text.
"So follow me and we can go."
I walked her out to Sarrice's car.
"Oh my gosh who's car is this it's beautiful!!"
"Haha that would be mine." Sarrice said from beside the car.
"Why are you two not in the car?"
"Because Matthew you have the keys."
My mom explained eyeing Kalel.
"Oh yeah here Sarrice." I went to give her the keys but she was talking to Kalel.
"But where did you get it? I've been looking for a '67 Impala for years and could never find one." Kalel asked.
"My dad bought it for my 15 birthday it was the one thing he and my mom got me that I actually liked." She explained.
"I've only ever seen them in black or blue, did you get the paint job?" Kalel asked. I sat and watched her intrigued by the car.
"Actually no the man who had it before did it. I've always wanted one since I started watching Spn and low and behold there was one in town."
"YOU WATCH SUPERNATURAL." I covered my ears as Kalel squealed.
"Yes I do so does Matt and the rest of our band."
Kalel turned to look at me.
"You're in a band?"
We both nodded.
"Well speaking of band kids you still have a video to film so let's go. We can pick up a pizza as well.
I got in the drivers side and as always Mom say up front and Kalel sat with Sarrice.
"Oh. Kalel you can call me Scar if you want."
"I don't know that seems kinda mean. It just draws attention to the scar."
"Nah that's fine."
"She likes the attention to be on the scar. She likes to be different." I explained.
Kalel made an Oh. Face and then began talking to Scar about the band.
Me and mom went in to pick up a pizza.
"I like that girl. Where did you meet her?"
"In Sally's actually. She is gonna help you dye our hair. She is gonna be a stylist."
We grabbed the pizzas and walked out.
Soon enough we got in the car and were on the way home finally.
"Did Matt explain the whole video idea?" I heard Sarrice ask as we sat down to eat.
"No he didn't what video?" Kalel asked nervously.
"We are going to be recording you and Mom dying our hair." I explained.
"So like a tutorial?" Kalel asked.
Sarrice said yep while popping the p.
"Ok well Sarrice you might want to change your shirt that's a nicer green day shirt wouldn't want it ruined." Kalel said.
"You like Green Day?" I asked loudly from excitement.
"Uh duh." She looked at me while rolling her eyes.
"I'll be back." Sarrice yelled five minutes later she comes back in my shirt.
"That's my shirt."
"I know." she grinned smugly.
"Listen that is my dads Ozzy Ozborne shirt don't mess it up." I said.
"Matt I won't I promise."
"Ok guys get the camera ready and me and Mrs. T will set everything up." Kalel said.
Soon enough we were ready to begin.
"Hello human race its Sarrice and Matt from Harmful if Swallowed. This week Benji put off filming again really sorry guys we'll work on getting him on camera. So few announcements before we begin."
I took over from there.
"We still haven't gotten word back from sending in our demo so we don't know much more than you guys at this point."
"Good news being. There are over  50k Avenging Aliens!! You guys our alien race is growing." She wiped a fake proud year and sniffled.
"Seriously guys thanks for listening to our band we may be idiots but we love you guys." I stated then remembered to add,
"Also we have a set date on when we will post another cover video. This one will be an actual video not just us singing and playing so yeah fun stuff."
"No on to the actual fun stuff. This is our new friend Kalel and she is going to be dying our hair with the help of our Mom or Mama T."
They walked in and stood behind us.
"So we have everything ready if you guys are." Kalel said.
I looked at Sarrice and we nodded.
Kalel began applying bleach to my hair because of my already blue hair that needs to be green. I looked to see Scar helping my mom bleach hers as well.
"Ok so while they apply bleach to our hair we are going to answer questions and tell jokes. They are possibly and are probably going to be mean jokes so don't hate us." I said.
"Matt lean your head forward please." I heard Kalel say. I did as told and then Sarrice began speaking.
"So the first thing in dying your hair is?Kalel answer please."
"If you are going outrageous like these two,  then try and talk yourself into it."
We all laughed and she continued.
"Actually if you have dyed your hair before then you would know if you are changing from blue to I dunno green," I felt her tug my hair a bit,
"Then you have to bleach it to a neutral color so a white blond. Also in Sarrice's case from black to red bleach it then add the color later though."
"Kalel is an expert if you can't tell by the amount of bleach that just rolled down my neck."
"What shit." She began looking for the bleach.
"I'm joking Kal sheesh."
"Did you just call me kal?"
"Like the food kale?" Sarrice asked while laughing.
"Yes I did."
"Ok so Sarrice tell me some jokes please or something I'm getting bored."
I heard Ma say and busted out laughing at her.
"Ok Mom, what do you call a nun in a wheelchair?" She asked.
"Virgin mobile." Sarrice finished.
We all laughed and I actually had to wipe tears from my eyes.
"Ok Kale what's the difference between Michael Jackson and a Walmart bag?"
*I actually love MJ so no hard feelings but I needed a joke sorry.*
"I don't know what?"
"One is white and harmful to kids the other you put groceries in."
I heard Sarrice snort then start laughing while Kalel hit me on the head.
"That's mean. But it was kinda funny."
"Ok Matt your bleach is set we just have to wait for 20 minutes." She was just running her fingers through my hair and I have to admit it felt so good. I sighed and closed my eyes. I was dozing off when my woke me back up.
"Kalel wanna come help me finish up on Sarrice her hair is just so thick." Ma asked.
"Sure." Her fingers left my hair and she was gone.
I began falling asleep again.
"Matt. Matt."
"MATTHEW." I jumped up.
"What." I whined.
"You need to come rinse the dye out." I looked behind Sarrice to see Kalel.
I walked to the sink in the kitchen and began washing it out.
"Here." Kalel picked up the spray piece and washed out the dye from my hair.
"Hey Sary can you bring me a towel please." Kalel called.
"Here you go."
"Alright here Matt dry your hair and your mom is going to add dye your hair. I'm gonna help Sary then put the dye in her hair."
"Ok."
I walked to the living room where we set up and began towel drying my hair.
"Matthew."
I looked up at my mom.
"Have you and the rest of the band decided on moving?"
"We wanted to go a few months ago. I don't know we haven't pushed the matter yet."
"Ok well let's begin."
Not long after Sarrice came back hair dry and Kalel began dying her hair.
"Alright guys so thanks for watching this video hope we bored you to death. You guys know what to do all links below for social media and don't forget to subscribe."
I held up my hand and counted back 3. 2. 1.
*Kiss noises*
"KISSES ASSHOLES."