Chapter 2

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As I walked, I realized that I had missed the bus and would have to walk the rest of the way to work. My head swirled with reoccurring thoughts of the guy that was obviously in disguise. He seemed nice, 'but who is he and why is he in disguise?' I asked myself in my head. My spacing out gave me a few shoulder bumps from rushing people.

"Urg!" I screamed in frustration, as I walked to work. "Why do I always miss the bus!? It happens way too much!" I yelled to myself gaining the usual strange stares from passing people. Also as usual I ignored them.

It took ten minutes to walk to work, and it turned out that I was a few minutes late. The hair salon I work at was filled with one worker and a customer. Since it was early there weren't many customers. The only customer in the room was just finishing up with paying.

The person behind to small counter made me cringe. I was my co-worker Janice, my torturer. She looked at me and I felt a shiver run down my spine as I saw a smirk spread across her face. I looked around taking in the familiar scene.

I scurried to the back of room putting the piece of curtain behind me. Inside the room was the apron hangers and certain tools that we don't have enough space for on our little workspace.

I selected my apron and walked out from the safety of my little room and out into the salon.

As soon as I felt the cold air of the building of which I work, Janice stood in front of me smirking. "My don't you look amazing!" she stated sarcastically as she twisted a lock of my hair on her finger.

I swallowed nervously, and she looked me up. "How did get here? Cosmetology!? When you look like," she pause. "Well like that" she gestured all of my body. "Well if I looked like that I'd never show my face, yet here you are." She shook her head disappointingly.

She put something behind her into her back pocket. "Here let me help!" She smiled in a sickly way that scared me. "I'll give you a little hair do!" I hadn't notice how we'd moved back until I fell into the chair behind me. She took out a pair of slender scissors. My eyes widened in terror and I couldn't do anything because I felt powerless.

I struggled of course, but she had handle on my hair. I didn't look at the mirror because I was terrified of what she was turning my hair into. It took a couple of minutes, but I was saved the horror of the rest of the 'hair cut' by the tiny ding of the door indicating that a customer had entered.

I breathed a sigh of relief and stood opening my crammed eyes and nearly screamed. My once long hair now was uneven, jaggedly cut short, with layers that I couldn't even comprehend. I touched my hair with shaky hands. I looked behind me and Janice was talking sweetly to the mother and her children about the little girls new haircut.

I felt tears prick at my eyes, but I blinked them away and walked to the back.

My body was sagging in shame as I looked at myself in the mirror. All the confidence I had gained during my time in the bathroom was long gone by now. I saw all the flaws now. The bags that hung below my eyes, the red of my eyes from all the crying I do after work before Samantha gets off work, zits and blackheads everywhere.

I examined my ruined hair, trying to see if there was a way I could attempt to save it. My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the tiny bell. I ran out to greet the customer.

_-_-_-_-_-_ a few hours later -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Work dragged on with no problems. When the end of my shift came closer, I shot looks at the clock every few seconds. The day was slow so I wasn't ruining people's hair or anything. Janice had left an hour ago and a different employee that actually liked me replaced her.

"Hey Carie!" I waved right as she walked into the salon. She looked up at me and smiled. "Oh it's a slow day eh? Why don't you get home? You might need time to fix Janice's mistake." she ruffled my hair.

I looked at her happily. "Really? Oh Carie! Thank you so so so much!" I hugged her tightly. She wrapped her arms around me and let go while turning me around. "Now go get your stuff and get on your merry little way!" she giggled and left to sit down.

My feet carried me quickly into the back room. The darker room had my stuff and I grabbed it all and ran out of the salon, but after hugging Carie.

I was so excited to leave the hell known as work, I practically danced my way to the bus stop home. I pulled out my iPhone 4 from my purse as well as my head phones. I plugged it in and started to listen to 'This Love' by BigBang's G-Dragon.

I sang along quietly as I waited for the bus to arrive to take me home. My foot tapped lightly to the beat of the song.
'This love yeah yeah yeah
This love for my thugging g's and uh
I'm straight fallin that's right
Yeah yeah yeah
This is a song for y'all

Oneul-eun dareun nal bodado kwanhi deo seulpeo-jinae
Niga bogo shipdago
Ijaeneun ireon maldo hal suga eobshi dwe beorin geol
Keujeo yeop-aeseo jikyeo bol su jochado eobseo
Jeongmal kkeuchin geol
Amuri bwado babo katasseo
Heot-dwen kidaeman bupulyeo chak-gakman hesseo
Keurae neon namja chingu-ga itneundae
Naneun keugeol aneun-dae
Wae keuraet-neunji keureol-surok niga-irae
Chingu-deuli na bogo byeong-shinirae
Gyega mweoga keuri jal natnyago
Jeongshin chari-rae gajigo nongeorae
Sang-gwan eobseo amuryeom eoddae
Ireokae-rado neol bol soman itdamyeon
nan kegeollo jokhae

Chorus
This love
Dashin sarang-ddawon haji anha neomu-na ae-won
Nae moseup-eul baraboni
Wae iri babo kateun-ji
This love imi ddeona-beorin
Japgi-aeneun sarajyeo-beorin dora-ojido anheul sarama
Meolli Meolli naraga jeo gureum dwi-ro
Maeum-aedo eobneun nae yaegi
igeoseun machi like hana bbaegi il
September 19th neoye saengil
Hollo nama
Alone Imma fall in love shorty

Gieok-eun nani?
Nijip apaeseo bami da kadorok
Neol kidarin nae mami daltdorok
Jangmi han dabal deulgoseo mameun imi deul-ddeosseo
Kidaewa-neun dalli
Neon an na-ogo biga naeryeosseo
Keu jaeseo-ya Naneun mameul jeongri hae (Ni anae)
Nugun-ga itgetji
Nareul werohae mi-an hae
Keu geotdo moreugo neol dang-hwang-gae hessuni (yesni?)
Ddo dashi nineun honjaga dwess-euni one love!

Chorus

Na eoddeokae haeya dwe neoreul sarang-haneungae
Jwejin geotman kateundae jigeum neomu manhi himdeundae
Neoye keu namja-aegae chajaga mal hae-jullae
Uri ireon andwe-janha
Now I'm crazy without you for me.

This love ijaen ijjyeo beoril
Shigan sokae mut-chyeo jyeo beorin
Gieok sokae heunjeok jocha
Wae iri gaseum apeunji
This love
Neomu nado yeorin sarang ira hagiaen eorin
Keu chueokdo gieokdo
Da meolli meolli naraga jeo gureum dwiro
This love this love this love
This love this love this love
This love this love this love
This love this love this love
Ooh ooh ooh yeah ooh ooh ooh yeah

Hey J how you doing
After you left it ain't the same
I'm not what I used to be
It hurts so much you know
I need you girl. I'm thinking about you,
This love.'

Just as the song ended the bus pulled into the bus stop. I stood up, my feet moved by themselves and I listened to Lies. My seat on the bus was near the back but not all the way. The bus started and I headed home and soon after the engine started my eyes drifted closed and I fell asleep.

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