A boy girl love

Chapter 13: Life's hard

We arrived at the huge new mall in the nearby town that everyone was talking about. The girls dragged me around to branded shops and made me try out different clothes. It was so much fun because they actually had many comments about my clothes when I come out after trying it in the fitting room. If I was shopping with the boys, they usually don't even bother wearing it to check it. So long as they liked the design and think they could fit it, they buy and quickly leave the shop. I liked to look at everything even if I was a boy. So with the girls it was really fun. I felt like I was choosing the best clothes I could possibly buy. After an hour everyone agreed on letting me buy a sweatshirt saying "Naughty Boy" on the front in black. I was surprised when the girl at the counter said it was 180 dollars. I usually bought t-shirts less than ten dollars on sale.

"What's wrong? Do you want me to pay? I can pay." Daniella said and I blushed. A boy should be able to pay for his stuff, I thought. So I quickly paid it. The next place was a place for shoes. The girls said a dark blue converse looked very good and asked me to try it. In the end I bought it too. It was for 140 dollars after discount.

I looked at the amount of stuff the girls were buying as well. They honestly bought a lot more than me. I guess fashionable people usually buy a lot of things. They were very different from the penny pinching Levi. Well, it's fun to just spend sometimes.

"Hey guys, don't you think Ellie would look good with a hair cut like that?" One of the girls asked as she showed the picture of a male model advertised in a saloon.

"Hey, his name is Elliot. Not Ellie." Daniella said and I smiled at her widely. For once, someone appreciated the fact that I was a guy.

"Oh..sorry. Do you like to be called Elliot?" Natalie asked me and I shrugged.

"My friends and mom calls me Elle. Levi calls me Ellie though." I told them and Daniella rolled her eyes.

"He's obviously trying to make you into a woman. You shouldn't lose to him, okay?"Daniella said and I shrugged. I will be what I am.

"Yeah. People like him try to confuse you. You are a boy and you know it. You don't have to listen to anyone else." Daniella said. I smiled uneasily. Daniella was a good speaker. I didn't know what to say to that.

"I don't like how Levi is making you wear girl clothes. Why did you agree to that?" She asked me and I cringed. I didn't want to tell them I did it in exchange for protection. That wouldn't sound very manly.

"Don't preach so much Danny. Let's try her new haircut." Natalie said as she dragged me into the saloon. Everyone else followed with us.

"Um, what's wrong with my current hair cut?" I asked them.

"It's too long and girly." Natalie told me. I glanced at myself in the mirror infront of the seat where they had forced me to sit. My hair wasn't long. It was very short like a boy's hair.

"When you are in a girl's body and you know you are a boy, you have to show it and let people see it too. If you look in the mirror and see things that look more girl to you, then you'll always be confused." Daniella told me.

I frowned but nodded reluctantly. I heard them tell something to the hairdresser. The guy nodded and told me he would make me into a very handsome boy. I smiled tersely and nodded. I saw him take a hair shaver and kind of froze at it as he slid it vertically through my hair locks. In the mirror I could see an almost bald line in the centre of my head. I just stared as he buzzed off all my hair. Only something like 5mm of hair remained on my head. Something about seeing my head sort of all shaved off felt wrong. I felt a tear slide down my cheek. The hairdresser still kept working making some kind of design on my head by doing a complete shave through the design he was making on my head. When it ended I just stared at myself.