Chapter Six: Flip side

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‘Just do it!’ Calum said laughing at me freaking out. He wanted me to colour his hair and I don’t really know what he was expecting from me considering I’ve never dyed anyone’s hair ever.

‘Calum what if I fuck up?’ I said panicking with the gloves on and the brush in my hand.
‘God damn I knew I should’ve got Michael to do it’ Calum said, and then I went quiet. It’s been 3 weeks since Michael delivered the pizza to my house and since then I’ve only seen him when I go to band practice with Cal or when he comes to see Lana and Missy after school with Luke. He’s been ignoring me and Calum tries not to talk about him when we’re together. Since that night at my place Calum and I have been spending a lot of time together and we kind of just became a thing.

Calum’s expression suddenly changed to a quiet one. ‘Sorry’ he said rubbing the back of his neck and looking at me.
‘I don’t care, he knows more than I do about dying hair, now shut up and let me do this’ I said trying to change the subject. We’ve been sitting in Calums bathroom for half an hour because I’m too scared to actually put the dye in. If it looks bad it’s going to be my fault and I don’t think I’m willing to live with that.

‘CALUM I’M OFF WORK AND LUKE WAS TELLING ME YOU DYED YOUR HAIR WHERE ARE YOU’ an all too familiar voice called from the front door. I knew we should’ve locked it. Michael opened the bathroom door and looked at us. ‘Fuck’ I heard Calum mutter under his breath. Michael looked between me, what was in my hands and Calum.
‘Move over’ he said walking in and taking everything out of my hands. ‘Hey!’ I said annoyed at Michael for just coming in without any warning. He looked at me, ‘have you ever done anyone’s hair before?’ he said raising his eyebrow.
‘No’ I said and stepped back.
‘Michael what are you doing here?’ Calum asked sounding slightly pissed off.
‘I told you, Luke said you dyed your hair and what kind of best friend slash band mate would I be if I didn’t come to judge whether I liked it or not’ Michael replied, ‘plus I am the king of colouring hair’ he added with a smirk.
‘Whatever are you going to do this or not’ Calum said defeated.

Without another word Michael started painting Calums hair with blond hair dye, not the whole thing, just some streaks. They both started talking about some song Michael wrote for the band and that they need to practice next rehearsal at Ashton’s house. I kind of zoned out and got up to go get water. ‘Where are you going Lily’ Calum asked when I opened the door.
‘To get a drink, want one?’ I asked quietly.
‘Umm, no I’m okay’ he replied and I closed the door behind me.
‘Yea get me one’ Michael called out like a smart ass.

I went to the kitchen and got myself a glass of water, I skulled the whole thing in one go and put it on the counter. I sighed and once again a million thoughts were flying in my mind at the same time. I picked up the glass again and refilled it with water and went back to the boys.

‘Here’ I said handing the glass to Michael who was laughing at himself for dropping some hair dye on Calums face when he looked up.
‘Oh’ he said taking the glass and taking a sip. He placed it on the sink and looked at me, ‘I didn’t think you would actually do it’
‘Shut up man hurry up and finish I told Luke and Ashton to meet us at the lot at 1 and its already quarter past twelve, Lana’s coming Lily I was hoping you would come too’ Calum was trying to avoid any awkward conversation between Michael and I. Michael opened his mouth to respond but I cut him off, ‘Can I invite Margret and stuff I told them I was going to see them after this’
‘Yea babe, doesn’t bother me’ he said smiling at me. I smiled back and sat on the bath waiting for them to finish.

‘Dude is it meant to burn my head like this’ Calum said half an hour after Michael had finished putting colour in.
‘Yea its bleach you idiot what did you expect’ Michael replied,
‘wash it out Calum’ I said looking up from the game I was playing on my phone.
‘How long has it been?’
I looked at the time, ’30 minutes’
‘oh’ Calum said and stood up. He walked over to the sink, shoved his head in and demanded Michael to turn it on.
‘GOD DAMN SHIT ITS REALLY COLD’ he screamed from under the water and Michael and I laughed at him as he turned the other tap.
‘DAMMIT MICHAEL ITS TOO FUCKING HOT NOW YOU IDIOT’ Michael was laughing at himself and I had to get up and change it before Calum pissed himself.

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