Two Feet Off the Ground by Suzie Carr

Author:Suzie Carr [Carr, Suzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461089940
Google: 1StVKQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1461089948
Goodreads: 12195764
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2011-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Challenges of the human spirit always intrigued me. The more someone resisted, the more I couldn’t help but to dig further. That didn’t always work to my advantage. Like the time Pat Swift stormed through the front door at Bella and demanded someone fix her ruby-red roots or else suffer a curse. Now, most logical people would laugh at such a threat, chalking it up to some mental disorder, but the girls at Bella were a little more gullible. Pat told the girls that she was a witch, and everyone, including me, believed this to be true. In fact, I sensed Pat was fully armed and ready to toss her evil darts if someone didn’t throw her down in a chair that second and plop some serious ash brown on those flame-throwing roots that the salon around the corner gave her.

Everyone, including Deogie scoured off into the break room, leaving me fending for a life free of Pat’s curses all on my own. After all, Pat was suspected to be the one who destroyed the wax machine after Dolly, an esthetician, tore off one of her eyebrows by accident. An hour after Pat left, huddling her hand over her eye like a frantic pirate, the wax machine mysteriously boiled over, dribbling hot, molten wax all over the cart and tile floor below. The huge mess cost Aziza nine hundred bucks to clean up. Aziza should’ve been the one shaking up at the front desk, repelling Pat’s negative force. Instead, she was the first one to plow through the back room doors to safety.

Thankfully, I managed to massage the lady’s ego into submission. Pat left smiling and praising the ground I graced. From that day forth, she proclaimed me to be safe under the sun for the rest of my life.

Maybe this proclamation was what lifted me off my seat on the bus ride home and head straight to the source of my angst. We were a quarter into the drive home, when I scooted up to where Chuck and Amber sat. “Hey, mind if I sit for a minute,” I asked Chuck, cocking my head over to the empty seat next to Paula so he’d get the hint and move out of the way.

Thankfully he squeezed out of the seat. “Be nice,” he whispered to me on his way past.

My whole goal was to be as nice as possible. To be the bigger person. To be Paula’s first girlfriend to ever climb to the Mount Everest of winning Madam Amber’s approval. But, befriending her would no doubt be harder than anything.

I’d swallow my pride and curse words and rise to the challenge. I’d break through the ice and plunge naked into her frigid world if that’s what it took. Okay, maybe not naked, but I’d at least attempt to be sincere in my efforts nonetheless.

I slid into the seat beside Amber and smiled. “Thanks for watching the boys last night.”

“I only did it because Chuck promised me a massage later on.

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