I.D. by Vicki Grant

Author:Vicki Grant [Grant, Vicki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
ISBN: 9781551436944
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2007-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It’s all about looks. That’s how people decide what they think about you. You look poor, they think you’re stupid. You look rich, you’re the smartest guy around. You look like Chris Bent, your life is crap. You look like Andrew Ashbury, who knows? I was ready to find out.

I was only going to buy the blond hair dye, a razor and a pair of scissors, but I saw some cheap reading glasses up by the counter. The brown ones were kind of like what Ashbury was wearing on his driver’s license. I bought those too. Glasses make you look intelligent. The saleslady told me how to get to the public washroom.

I cut my hair. It was pretty much a hack job. Once I found work, I’d go to a barber and get it done right. I shaved off my beard. The razor was toast by the time I was done.

It felt weird. I’d had a goatee before, and a mustache, and even just a soul patch for a while, but I hadn’t been clean-shaven since I was a kid. My skin felt really sensitive, as if I’d just taken off a wet shirt on a cold day. I liked it.

I’d watched my mother dye her hair for years. It wasn’t that hard. I took off my T-shirt, put on the plastic gloves and squished the stuff all over my head. I rubbed some into my eyebrows too. Mine were too dark for someone blond.

I didn’t want anyone to see what I was up to. I sat in a cubicle and waited for the dye to work. It was pretty boring. After a while, I took the wallet out again. If I was going to start applying for jobs, I needed to find out everything I could about Andrew Ashbury.

I already knew his address and his size. I memorized his birthdate and his postal code. I took a pen out of my backpack and practiced his signature, just in case I needed it. Four loops and a line. It was almost too easy.

What else did I need to do? I figured I should know something about his family, what he did for a living, stuff like that.

I looked all through the wallet again. There was nothing about his family. It didn’t matter. If anyone asked, I’d just make something up. Joanna and Blake, those would be his parents. He’d have one brother, Bryce, and a sister, Ann-Marie. No, Marina. Bryce and Marina. When I’m rich, that’s what I’m going to name my kids.

I thought about giving myself a dog too, but what I really wanted was a Doberman. Andrew wasn’t the type to have a Doberman, and I didn’t want some wussy little rich-kid dog. JJ probably had a cat. I could talk about her cat, how it bugs me, sheds on my clothes, hisses when I kiss her. Guys never like their girlfriends’ cats.

I needed a hobby too. I thought of sailing, but I didn’t know anything about boats.

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