Out Of Place (Face the Music Book 2) by Shona Husk

Author:Shona Husk [Husk, Shona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

One of the bridesmaids had brought non-alcoholic bubbly to the hairdresser’s—if they started drinking now they’d be too drunk to party tonight. The six of them sat in the fancy hairdressers wearing black smocks. Most of the women were happy to have the afternoon off work. Olivia wished she had a job, not that she was sharing that with any of them.

So she kept her smile in place. She had to play nicely. This was for Julie. And Julie always got what she wanted in the end. As a kid she’d always been fighting to get out of Julie’s shadow. Every time she found the sun, Julie tried to block it so it shone wholly on her.

“You are so lucky having naturally blonde hair. I have clients who would kill for hair like this.” The hairdresser combed through the tangles at the ends.

“I’m about ready to chop it off.” When it was hot all she did was wear it up. Long hair was a hassle to look after and she’d had long hair all of her life.

“Don’t you dare before the wedding.” Julie leaned forward and glared at her.

Olivia bit back the smile that wanted to form. It was tempting, but it would be another change and she wasn’t ready to up end every part of her life, including how she looked.

“How about I take a few inches off instead? Freshen it up with some layers?” The hairdresser smiled. What she was really saying was that in was in dire need of a cut and the ends were split. Olivia knew that, but getting a haircut was well down on her list of things that needed doing.

Olivia nodded. Since Julie was paying and in charge, agreeing was easier—after all, Julie wouldn’t want her sister’s hair to ruin the wedding. Olivia closed her eyes and listened to Julie talk to the hairdressers and the makeup artist. As long as Julie didn’t deliberately make the bridesmaids look hideous, Olivia didn’t really care what they did. For this event she had no opinion. She repeated that to herself as people bustled around her. Brushes tickled her skin as the makeup was applied.

What was Ed doing? Had he been surfing today? Was he at home working, writing?

She tried to picture him sitting with his guitar, playing. If she hadn’t been doing the hens’ night thing—or broken up with him—it would’ve been nice to see him perform. Could she slip into the performance and watch unnoticed? She’d wanted to call and write it all off as a bad day, but couldn’t.

He was not the kind of guy that girls like her dated. Guys like him slept with a woman and then moved on. Right now that didn’t sound half bad. If it were only herself she had to think about, she’d have gone there.

While she’d told herself it was for the best a thousand times this week, she didn’t believe it. Thinking of him made her heart ache, not for lost love, as she didn’t love Ed—although she suspected that would be easy to do—but for lost opportunities.

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