Worth a Thousand Words by Stacy Adams

Author:Stacy Adams [Adams, Stacy]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: book
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2010-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

27

Indigo checked the time and willed herself not to pick up the phone and call Yasmin.

Where was that girl? It was four p.m. and Indigo had an appointment. So what if it was at the salon, with Eboni? If she wasn’t sitting at the shampoo bowl in another five minutes, Eboni’s next client would show up and Indigo would either have to stay later than she wanted or miss getting her hair done altogether.

Visit Brian with some jacked-up hair? That wasn’t going to happen.

In the meantime, she couldn’t leave the reception desk unmanned, so she sat here answering calls, trying to remain professional. She was scheduled to leave for the airport first thing in the morning and wanted to make sure she didn’t forget anything. Plus, she needed to get to bed at a decent hour. Dark circles and bags under the eyes did not equal fabulous.

Indigo pulled a magazine out of her bag and chuckled. Shame on her for fronting. She hadn’t picked up this copy of Bride since Yasmin brought it home two weeks ago. She was going to read through it while she sat under the dryer today, so she’d have some idea of what to say when Brian began peppering her with questions about their wedding.

Truthfully, she wasn’t feeling as resistant to the idea as she had been. She loved this man. Getting married didn’t have to be equated with a death sentence, just like ending her summer internship early hadn’t been.

She had seen a lot by working at the salon for just these few weeks. Everyone had a story behind her smile, and often, it wasn’t pretty. Some of Jubilant’s most successful women, with thriving careers, beautiful families, and respect in the community, would sit in the private salon area and weep (from stress, they insisted), while Eboni or Carlotta styled their hair. Or sometimes they just wanted to talk, to get things off their chests.

Somehow Indigo had found herself serving as the salon’s “mini-Melba” —listening when clients wanted to share a heartfelt need or prayer request, calming frazzled or hurried clients, and even taking photos of the more interesting customers who happened to explain why they were getting their ’dos done on a particular day or share something else special about their lives.

The practice had become so routine that now many of the regulars would ask where the camera was if they didn’t see it in its usual spot on the reception desk. Today, she had snagged photos of a new mother and baby when the woman came in to introduce her six-week-old son to Carlotta and the rest of the staff.

Then Ms. Harrow had surprised her by showing up with an oversized arrangement of red, yellow, and purple cut flowers.

“When I heard you were here helping Melba these days, I decided to stop by with this dose of sunshine,” she said. “Thank you so much for the lovely spread of photos in the newspaper.

I’ve had neighbors come by just to talk and sit in the garden ever since they were published.

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