Gaining Colors [Complete]

Chapter 5

Saturday morning, Casper was already awake when Alexis got out of her bedroom. He was sitting on the sofa, with her laptop on top of his legs and his eyes glued to the screen. Alexis stood in the threshold looking at him. His white eyebrows were frowned and he was biting slightly his lower lip.

Casper was so concentrated in what he was doing, that he gave a small jump when Alexis sat on the couch beside him.

"What are you searching there?" She asked, pointing at the laptop.

"I... Hum... I was looking at men." He said embarrassed.

Please... Let him not be gay!!
Alexis thought to herself.

"I would like to have an idea of how I want to look like, you know?" He continued.

Alexis sighed in relief.
"Oh... Ok... Let me help you." She said, getting closer.

"I thought a lot yesterday and I think that we could try to get you hair by applying a product to make it grow." She said, looking at his bald head.

"Then, we could buy something to dye your hair. With some luck, the color will remain after washing it." She explained her new plan.

"Do you paint your hair?" He asked astonished.

"No, not yet." She said and when he kept staring at her with a curious face, she explained it further.

"When we get old, our hair will turn white, so we paint it to cover the signs of age."

His mouth formed a 'Oh' in understanding.

"Do you know the color you would like to have?" She asked.

"No. Can you help me choosing it?"

"Of course. Let me show you."

Alexis entered a website with multiple choices of products. She showed Casper all, from light blond to black, passing the purple, the blue, the green. He laughed when he saw the last colors. Without her telling, he knew that they were not the usual ones that people was born with.

"What would you recommend?" He asked. He wanted to look nice to her, so he needed to know her taste.

"I would choose or blond or black." She said, looking at him.

"Ok. Can you buy me the blond one?" He had liked that color too.

Alexis nodded. After having breakfast, she went to a shop that sell hair products and bought the one that Casper had chosen. She passed a pharmacy and bought some ointment that would help the hair to grow and stay strong.

When she arrived home, she took him to the bathroom and helped him, applying the product on his white bald head. Touching his soft skin made Alexis's body ignite. He felt so good under her fingers.

"Can we paint it now?" He asked, breaking her line of thoughts.

"No. First we need to see if your hair will grow or not. If it does, we will apply the color." She explained.

Each minute of that day was lived in expectation. Casper wouldn't stop from going to the bathroom to see if he had some hair already. Alexis would look at him from time to time to check the same.

When they went to sleep, Casper was still bald and white and Alexis tried to comfort him, saying that there were a lot of people in the world without hair. It wasn't so uncommon.

Sunday morning, Alexis woke up with Casper entering her room and yelling at the same time.

"Alexis wake up!! Look what happen during the night!?!" He yelled excited.