Flash Fiction by Devonne Parsons
“I was sorta hoping you’d include me in your plans. You shouldn’ta moved your head so fast, now look what happened,” the hairdresser said. It seemed she was a little bit on the crazy side. “I’m Isabella. Everybody calls me Z. Want me to be your date for the wedding? I have a long dress with puffy sleeves. It’s perfect to wear to weddings.”
The hunk of hair she chopped out was right out of the top. I was lucky I had thick dark curls. I jumped right out of the chair before more damage could be done. I yanked off the barber’s cape.
“Z, I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but I already have a date, and I came in for a trim. Just needed a little off the top. How much do I owe you?”
Z’s eyes filled with tears and she began to sob. She grabbed her shears and threw them at me. I felt the wind whizz by my left ear. I was lucky to keep it.
“You’re all the same. Only out for one thing and one thing only. Do you care about a girl’s feelings? No. None of you do.”
I had a vision of me seating people in a Vincent van Gogh ear patch at the wedding. I threw a twenty on the cash register and ran as fast as I could, got in the car and pulled away from the shop.
When I looked in the rear view mirror, she held my hair in one hand and the twenty in the other, waving and screaming in the middle of the road.
No wonder the sign on the door said “Walk-ins Welcome.” For all I knew she had one stew pot in the back for walk-ins and one for appointments.
Text © Devonne Parsons
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