Split Ends

Author:Kristin Billerbeck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

chapter 12

As an unmarried woman,

was thought to be a danger.

~ Grace Kelly

Yoshi didn’t fire me. At least not yet. In fact, he hasn’t mentioned the mishap and Alfalfa style from yesterday. Kreata walked out of the salon on lanky colt legs, her hair plastered down on top with an abundance of styling paste. She will wait ages for that to grow out, and I did that to her. I made her something to be mocked.

And I’m still orange.

I feel like death. Well, what I think it feels like to almost be lifeless, anyway. My legs are actually shaking, as if I’d spent the day hiking to the top of the Tetons just from walking on that stupid bamboo floor all day. Get this Sarah. Wash that, Sarah. Clean up that mess, Sarah. Extra foam, Sarah. Clean the scissors for the students, Sarah.

Being a student of Yoshi seems to entitle you to treat Sarah Claire Winowski as your personal slave. That would never happen if I’d been born in Newport Beach! “Curse you, Sable, Wyoming.”

I shake my head as I see someone look at me like I’m talking to myself and press fingers to my ear as if to readjust one of those Borg-like cell phones. Everyone else is talking to themselves, why shouldn’t I? It’s cultural, for crying out loud.

I should just call a cab and call it a day, but I want to walk Rodeo Drive. I’m orange, and if there’s ever a night to walk, it’s when I’m wearing my own headlight. If this all ends tomorrow, I’m not going home without a little sight-seeing. Nearly three weeks here and I haven’t seen the ocean, and I haven’t cut hair. With the exception of Kreata, who I unintentionally maimed.

Ann—long, lanky, blonde Ann—comes up beside me on the sidewalk. “Don’t worry, we all looked like you in the beginning, Sarah. Just use extra concealer under your eyes with a little Preparation H for swelling until you’re past this. The first month is the hardest. If you’re not going to make it, Yoshi wants to know before he’s invested too much.”

“I’ve invested too much already. I can barely walk.”

“Yoshi can teach anyone to cut hair. He can’t give people a personality, so make sure he sees that!” A black Mercedes pulls up onto the street, and Ann waves at the driver, who remains cloaked in a mystery of darkly tinted windows. “You need a ride?” she asks.

I do, naturally, but I’m too proud to take one, and right now I want to be around my coworkers (read: slave drivers) about as much as I want to invite Isabella to dinner, and she made me orange. Even a limo doesn’t look the least bit inviting if filled with Yoshi employees. “No, thanks. I thought I’d check out the Golden Triangle and get my bearings. Thanks, though.”

“All right. Well, don’t forget tomorrow night is mentoring group. I left an open invitation on the employee board; we can always use more people. We’re having a securities broker speak on investing.

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