Not Pretty Enough by Admans Jaimie

Author:Admans, Jaimie [Admans, Jaimie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-07-28T20:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

September.

Now that I have my brand new blonde hair – I still can’t believe it went right, by the way – I’ve decided that I am going to be a little bit more experimental with it. I’m going to be more daring. Not a single teacher ever commented about my brown hair or the fact that I’d dyed it, so maybe the school rules aren’t as important as they used to be.

Debs and I just happened to have found some semi-permanent bright coloured hair dyes on sale on our last shopping trip before school starts again, and I got one of each colour.

It’s September, the year is nearly over, and so far I haven’t achieved a single thing I set out to achieve. Okay, Lloyd Layton knows who I am, but he knows me as The Crazy Girl (and that’s being kind) rather than His Future Wife, so there is work to be done. I have to do something bold. Something daring. Something that will make him notice me. Plus he’s been to Hawaii on holiday, probably surrounded by hot, blonde surfer chicks for weeks on end, he’s hardly going to notice me after them, is he?

So, I am going to dye my hair blue.

Only the ends though. About two inches or so up from the bottom. It’s not like it’s going to be that drastic or anything, but I need an edge. Just a little something to make me stand out from the crowd and make Lloyd look at me. Make him think that maybe there’s more to me than he thinks there is.

He sits right behind me in French, which is our first lesson tomorrow morning, so I know he will get the full effect of my hair.

Those hair dyes were such a bargain. Debs and I were shopping in town last week, and there’s this new shop opened up. They had loads of these hair dyes for a few quid each – the shopkeeper mumbled something about trying to get rid of them quickly – so I bought one of each colour, spent all my money and had to borrow the bus fare home from Debs. I don’t know why Debs didn’t buy any herself. All she did was say, “I don’t know why you need to mess with your hair all the time, Chessie. It looks normal for a change, leave it alone.”

But all the girls in our school leave their hair alone. I like changing mine, and I want Lloyd to realise that I’m not like all the other girls. If he thinks I’m like all the others then he’ll never like me, because he could go out with any one of them, and they’re all much prettier and much smarter than I am. I have to give him a reason to choose me.

I have to be different.

I saw a popstar on TV a few months ago with blue-tipped hair, but my hair was brown at the time, and I knew that blue would never show up on brown hair.

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