I do know

Part 14: I have a date with Destany

We walked into the Great Cuts and saw an empty waiting room. Good. I sat in one of the black seats and picked up a hair magazine. I began to flip through it when Laremy sat next to me.

Laremy: I just got called in from work. Here's thirty bucks to pay for your hair, and just go back to the house when you get done. It IS only two blocks away after all.

Me: Okay, see you when you get back.

Laremy: Oh, and I'll try to get you a new phone before I get back.

Me: Thanks. See you later tonight then.

As Laremy left, I walked up to the counter and checked in. The front desk lady was a short woman with purple dyed hair. Her hair was weave, so it may have just been purple weave. She had a nose piercing in her right nostril and eyelashes so long, I wondered how she blinked.

Clerk: Hey honey, you'll be with Destany.

Me: Okay, how soon?

Clerk: She'll be out in a minute, come sit in one of the barber chairs.

I got up from the waiting area and walked into the cutting area. I sat at a chair. The chair was torn and old. After about 5 minutes of waiting, Destany came out. She was a thin woman with hair that was shaved on one side and short on the other.

Destany: Are you ready for your date with destiny?

I thought she was talking about her, and not the phrase.

Me: What? I'm only sixteen, and you're an adult.

Destany: What? No no, you are a child, and I'm 23. I was talking about the phrase anyways. What do you want done to your hair?

I never thought about it, what DO I want?

Destany: I can make you look like Halsey or Amber Rose?

I guess she thought I was a girl, but I didn't feel like interjecting, so I just played along.

Me: Nah, just make me look like less of a 2005 dyke and more like a 2016 dyke maybe?

Destany: I'll see what I can do.

After about 15 minutes of snipping and me wincing as hair fell, I was told to look in the mirror. I was horrified. My hair looked like hers, but still blonde. After a moment of loathing my new hair, I asked for another request. I asked that she'd style it like the men I saw walking by outside. Their hair was shaved all around, but had hair on the top.

Luckily she extended it and parted it all to the left. My hair looked good for once. I was... Happy. Today was a good day, and almost nothing can bring me down.

I got up from my barber chair. I walked up to clerk from earlier and paid the $20 dollars for the haircut, and gave $10 as the tip. That was the greatest date ever... my date with Destany.