Valerie Amanda Spinelli (peek_a_boo) wrote in genome_project, @ 2012-08-13 11:25:00 |
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Entry tags: | august 2012, open |
Who: Valerie and Open
What: Getting a haircut
When: Backdated to Saturday August 11th
Where: Haircuttery at the Mall?
Rating: Low unless there's Val-punching involved :D
Val was a lucky girl despite it all. Having a birthday that landed just before the start of school meant you had the last awesome party of the summer in your name. It also meant time spent with her parents going to get school supplies and clothes, everything a girl needed to start off the school year right. Among those things was her yearly haircut. There were stories of these haircuts, infamous stories that Val never believed but were still passed around during family dinners and get together's, stories that granted Val the title of "Hair Stylist's Worst Nightmare".
But Val wasn't the little Mexican jumping bean that she used to be. Once she developed a sort of sense of style and realized that the more she jumped around, the worse her hair would look, Val began to behave while getting her haircut. And much as she would have liked to forget, Val knew she was growing up and that she had to undertake certain responsibilities. She liked being a kid, running around and playing with the boys, getting dirt and mud all over herself. But try as she may, she knew it wasn't going to last forever.
She was sitting in the chair as Marcia, the lady who had cut her hair since before Val could remember, was combing out her straight blonde locks. Marcia slid her fingers under the ends of Val's hair and showed her about an inch of hair that she was going to cut off. Val nodded and held her breath a little so that she wouldn't move. She didn't want it to come out crooked, even though Marcia was used to her fidgeting and usual antics. Val couldn't help but look over though when someone sat down next to her and started to get their own haircut. She squinted at them and said, "Hey, do I know you?"
Val was never one for staying away from strangers.