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10. hair! dye!

(may 2019)

willow

"How does your voice feel?"

"Horrible," Awsten laughs, stepping closer to me. He bleached his hair a few days ago, and I tried to resist the urge to touch it every five seconds but no luck. It was so soft and it smelled nice, so sue me.

We were leaving the studio in LA, and listening to him record the song was really cool. Lots of screaming, lots of anger, but I actually really liked it. It was the first Waterparks song I heard which made me realize that I should listen to their music. I'm friends with the lead singer and haven't even listened to a song, wild.

Geoff and Otto were very nice, and were fun to talk to, which was relieving. I thought they'd be typical pop punk guys but they were the complete opposite.

Once we get into his car, I immediately turn to face him. "Hair dye."

"Yes, yes, I know you want to dye my hair. I need to go pick up the dye."

"Do I get to know the color?"

He smirks. "Nope."

He runs inside a drugstore and orders me to stay in the car. He gets back, and he has the dye wrapped tightly in a bag.

We get to his apartment and I look around. It's big, a lot bigger than my tiny thing. Obviously, the guy's rich.

We go to his bathroom and I push him into a chair, and wrap the towel around his neck.

"Do you even know what you're doing?"

I grin. "No sir."

He groans and I laugh. "Can I see the color now?"

He hands me the bag and I unwrap it, taking out the container of dye.

"That... is definitely a green," I stare at the container while he laughs at me. "Any particular reason for this color?"

"My breakup."

I raise an eyebrow at him in the mirror while I take off the plastic.

"I went through a breakup a year and a half ago, and it was a neon green, like that one."

I nod my head, remembering about his cool color thing. "Am I that green too?"

"Oh no," he says quickly. "You're- it's weird to explain, but you're every green besides that neon. You range from a dark, forest-y green to a light green, but there's definitely no neon."

I smile and look down at the floor, relieved he doesn't see me as his ex. "That's good, I'm glad."

"Yeah, and it's definitely weird cause my ex was yellow. But her hands were purple and her texts were orange and her face was red, but you're always green. There's no other color."

"I am so happy I'm my favorite color, imagine you saw me as like fire truck red and I had to live with that for the rest of my life," I snort.

For the next 30 minutes I attempt to dye his hair, in which there's a lot of yelling and whining and groaning coming from Awsten, but it was cute, and I was having fun.

We let it sit in the towel for another 45 minutes, then he steps in the shower and I wash it out. He dries it off quickly with a towel, and the end result is cooler than anything I could've expected. It's bright, that's for sure, but it suits him surprisingly well, and it's much better than the cotton candy thing he had going one when we first met.

"I like it," he says, staring at himself in the mirror.

"Are you kidding me? That's the coolest thing I've ever done, just saying."

He giggles and heads out of the bathroom, grabbing a beanie and yanking it on.

"Let's grab dinner somewhere?"

"Yes please, I'm starving," I whine.

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@willow.gray

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awstenknight WHO IS THIS RICH GUY WHY ARE U HANGING OUT WITH HIM
willow.gray @awstenknight hmm, idk, u wouldn't know him
awstensbeard wait she's really pretty 🥺
xlittleviolencex omg if she's dating awsten i will cry she's so gorgeous
noraaaa_ WILLOW