Songs for the chapter :)
Kathleen - Catfish and the Bottlemen
The End of All Things - Panic! At the Disco
WILD - Troye Sivan
Also this chapter is for my good ole pal 2author4you who identifies with me about life & guys. I love you a lot a lot a lot, keep on doing you babe.
I walked back to the closet to acquire the bleach I needed for my client, stopping to speak to Darren.
"Today is the date night, can you take my appointment at five please?" I asked him, pouting my lips and he sighed, nodding.
"I can, if you take mine at three," he gave me a sly smile.
"Fine, but if it's Mrs. Jones I can't promise to keep my cool." I warned and opened the closet, finding the bleach in seconds.
I walked to the mixing table and began to stir it in my bowl as Darren cut a lady's hair. "It's not, but don't you have to pick up William?"
I finished the stirring the bleach and walked back to my client, two chairs from Darren. "Yes, that's why I asked you to get my five."
"Those boys make your weeks so much busier, I swear," I rolled my eyes while tearing off a piece of foil.
"However, I wouldn't have gone to that beauty school to get a job here with you if it weren't for them."
"Yeah because without them you were bored then they're back and you're busy. You cannot win," Darren had a point but I just kept quiet, doing hair.
I brushed the color onto her hair and proceeded to fold the foil over it. This part was the tedious part of hair doing, that and washing it afterwards. I loved this job because I, like Darren, did it for school. After Harry and I breaking up I decided to apply to summer courses online. My credentials allowed me to qualify for the school I wanted and on top of it all I went to beauty school.
Taking care of William wasn't all too hard as I worked and went to school. He tended to watch his TV shows and let me work after lunch for a while. After that I'd have to play with him partly because he wanted me to, and partly because I wanted to as well. I let him go to daycare while I worked and he made friends there. It was a win-win for all of us frankly, I get my degree, he gets friends.
"Excuse me, but aren't you Lilli, the Lilli who was engaged to Harry?" My client asked and Darren and I exchanged looks.
"Unfortunately," I muttered and she shifted in her seat, shit she heard me. "Yes, we decided we were too young and there was mutual interest loss."
I had rehearsed this and said it to everyone who asked to save Harry's reputation, and avoid embarrassment. Though it may not be fully true, one thing was and it was the loss of interest. May it have been only one sided, it was still there in our relationship.
"I'm sorry to hear, I'm a fan," she sheepishly said the last part.
I looked at her in the mirror and she looked to be about my age, maybe older even. She was changing her dirty blonde hair into a natural, yet bleached, Californian light blonde look. She had shown me a photo when she came in, and I could tell all that was needed was bleach.
"Oh it's been six months, no need to be sympathetic," I just kept to applying the color. "Are you getting your hair done for any specific reason or is it just an upkeep?"
"I have a wedding in a week, it's my brothers." I nodded at this and finished off her last highlight.
"Oh sibling weddings are the best, I tend to get a good look at the groomsmen." We both laughed and I walked over to the sink to wash my hands. "Before you say anything, yes even in a relationship I did, I'm not going to lie."
