Love Me

Chapter TWO

"Yamada-kun where have you been!?"

I opened up the door to the shop and the first greeting that I got was an angry Yabu-san. Hikaru Yabu, the assistant manager to the second salon shop of 'Sensations' looked sternly at me.

"You're half an hour late and we're supposed to have a new recruit joining us today" he lectured.

"I'm sorry Hikaru-san!" I bowed in apology. Ugh... This is so embarrassing.

"Mou~ Hika don't be so mean to Yamada-kun. The new recruit isn't even here yet" Kota Yabu came and placed a hand on Hikaru's shoulder.

Hikaru sighed before adjusting his glasses. "I'll forgive you this time Yamada-kun but I want diligence in this salon. Do you understand?" he said in a commanding voice.

"Hai!" I immediately said. I then mentally hit myself. I can't believe that I forgot to never mess with Hikaru whenever it involved time.

"Good! Go change into your uniform first" I nodded then bowed before going inside the changing room.

When I entered the changing room I quickly slumped on the seat. I stared tiredly at the bag that I held. I opened it and took a clean pair of my uniform, and slowly changed into it. I then checked my face in the mirror, making sure that I didn't look like a complete mess.

"Good" I said when I was satisfied with what I looked. I sighed in relief, knowing that I didn't have any bags under my eyes or that it didn't look red.

But then a frown soon formed on my face as the memories of yesterday came back to me. I had confessed to my best friend Yuto Nakajima about my feelings for him. I hate myself. I hate how happy and sure I was that he might accept me. I hate how I had my hopes up for nothing. I hate feeling this way.

I clutched my shirt, my chest felt tight every time I would remember what had happened, and worst of all was that I even slept with some drunk. Wait! Not the sleep as in a sexual way but just sleep as in sleeping on the same bed.

Urgh! That was so embarrassing! I can't believe that I thought of that Chinen guy to have the same feelings as me. He was just some narcissist who's in love with his self!

I hate myself but what I really don't like are narcissist. They care mostly about themselves, and how people would view them like they were like some kind of jewel. I also dislike how they don't show feelings towards others. I've only heard them talk about how great they were but never about others. Urgh...

"Yamada-kun are you okay?" a sudden knock from outside brought me back to reality.

"I'm fine! I'm just about to finish" I said to Kota Yabu-san. I opened up my locker and roughly tossed my bag inside. I then opened the door to see Yabu-san smiling brightly just like usual.

"I thought you were on your period or something Yamada-kun. What took you so long?" he joked.

"N-Nothing... Manager-san stop teasing me!" I pouted a little at his silly joke. Kota Yabu-san smiled brightly then ruffled my hair. He is Hikaru Yabu-san's older brother. Kota is the manager while Hikaru is the assistant manager.

I'm currently working at the second salon that was just opened a year ago. It's called 'Sensations'. Being the oldest son meant that Yabu-san was the one who took over the second shop while their parents were in charge with the first one.

I used to work part time at the first shop but now I was hired to work full time at the second shop. I'm often praised by Yabu-san at how good I was at styling people's hair. Well, it's just because I love hair!

Every time I touch hair I'd feel entranced by it. That's why I aimed to be a hairdresser, and being able to work at Sensations has fulfilled that dream of mine. Many come to our shop and we often get praised that's why it's always busy here and that's also the reason why we needed to hire a new recruit.