A Planet with No Name by Alan Black & D.E. Black

Author:Alan Black & D.E. Black [Black, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-31T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Four

After Veronica showered and washed her hair, she went out to sit on a comfortable chair in her enclosed, interior courtyard. She was relaxed and topless with a towel wrapped around her waist. It was sunny and hot—not the burning hot of mid-afternoon—but the waning residual heat of a brutally hot day. She brushed her hair, letting the dry season air suck the moisture away from the long strands. It was a quiet day, the first quiet day in a while. There were no crickets chirping and no birds tweeting. The children were all well out of earshot. This planet with no name was strangely quiet when you got away from other people.

Typically, she left her hair braided, wrapped, and twisted in on itself to shorten its length. It was an old habit from growing up in Phoenix. It was easy to put it up on hot days. It was as hot and dry on this new planet in the middle of the summer as it was in Arizona. This evening she planned to leave her hair down for a while.

She was not sure why, but most men preferred long hair on women. Her mother always reminded her of that when Veronica threatened to cut hers short. She then remembered another Veronica she used to teach about in her film history class. The woman was beyond pretty in her day. Miss Lake started her own fashion fad, wearing her long hair swept over her right eye. While it covered her beauty, it gave her an air of mystery.

Veronica knew she was not as beautiful as Veronica Lake, but she was going to try the little hair-over-the-eye trick anyway. Back issues of Cosmo in her database offered up several flirting tidbits using long hair.

She had thrown a few lures at Maine, but now it was time to jiggle the line, get him to strike, and then set the hook. She was pleased with the analogy and it made her chuckle. Her father, the great outdoorsman, loved using sportsmen’s metaphors whether they were appropriate or not. This one was right on the money because she was trying to catch Maine.

She slipped into a pair of not quite see-through panties without adding shorts or jeans. She did not expect to been seen below the waist and being partially dressed gave her a vampy feeling. She hoped the feeling would translate into her voice. She put on her best pushup bra and covered it with a button-down shirt.

She looked at herself in the mirror. She may be a few years older than Maine, but not enough to matter. She could pass for younger. While running her fingers through her hair to fluff it out she thought it was a silly thing to do. Why did I bother brushing my hair if I’m only going to mess it up again with my fingers? It seemed strange and contradictory, but the Cosmo videos recommended doing it that way. Her hair now had a half slept in look, sleek, but touchable.

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