Chapter 02
"Woah. You dyed your hair again."
Holly Dae greeted me from the other side of the door with a grin wider than Texas. She had tried out a new makeup look. Her eyelids were covered in bright, pink eyeshadow and her mouth was coated in a nude lipstick — this happened at least twice a week.
But that wasn't what captured my attention.
It was her hair that she had snipped off to her shoulders and dyed a sandy blonde.
"You like?" she asked when she noticed me gawking at her.
"It's..." I shrugged and looked at the Harry Styles poster on her wall instead. I was desperately trying to hold back my laugh. "It's different."
"Now we look like sisters!" She grabbed my hand and pulled me into her room.
"My hair is more of a dirty blonde..." I went to say, but the tone of a Britney Spears album playing suddenly silenced my voice.
Holly Dae reached out to tug at a strand of my bushy hair. "Ever heard of a hairbrush?"
I refrained from telling her that the last time I tried to brush my hair — which was a few days ago — the brush got caught in my curls and I had to snap it off to take it out.
"Something happened?" I asked, her hair transformations signaling emotional shifts.
"Not exactly, but I need to show you something."
As she checked her phone, I inquired, "Did you break up with Nik?"
"What? Why would you think that?" Holly Dae's hazel eyes widened. "Is he cheating on me? I knew it! He's been a little dry in sex lately—"
"Of course not! Was just making sure," I mumbled. I didn't need details about her and Nik's intimate life. "Plus, you're still a virgin."
"Oral sex is still sex," Holly Dae told me.
"So God's okay with you sucking dick but not sex before marriage?" I muttered under my breath.
"What was that?" Holly Dae scowled.
"Nothing." I hop onto her bed.
"Get your shoes off the bed! My mom will kill me — you know how crazy she gets."
"Sorry. And she's not that bad."
Holly Dae, mid-message to Nik, retorted, "She is crazy and no one can convince me otherwise. Her and that psychotic boyfriend of hers."
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Teen Fiction❝You find love in the most unexpected places.❞ Small town girl Maxine Hudson always longed for the possibility of something great, a yearning desire to flee from her hometown 'Belle Haven'; a place where she can escape the insipidity of her town. It...