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it’s my turn to explain the style I want, Mom says, “Are you sure you want the same as me?”
“You don’t have to choose right away,” Bae says thoughtfully while she plays with my hair in front of a mirror. “We can do your mom’s first, then you can decide.”
“I don’t really know what else to do,” I say, shrugging. “I mean, anything will be better than my boring hair now.”
“What do you suggest?” Mom asks Bae. “We’re celebrating starting our lives over new and fresh, so I think Maddie should do something big and bold.”
Bae purses her lips while she thinks it over. “Do you go to RCHS?”
I nod and her eyes light up. “They don’t have a hair dress code in that school, so you could do a wild color if you’d like.”
Mom’s lips form an o. “Ooooh, you should, Maddie! I think that would look so cool! Maybe a rainbow of colors?”
Bae nods. “I could do that.”
I bite my lip. Drastic hair colors? I’ve never even considered it. But we are starting over, and this is a new life, no matter how much I might still think of myself as poor trailer trash.
Plus, Colby thought I was a new girl.
What if I really become a new girl?
My lips twist into a smile and I turn to Bae. “Yes, let’s do it. Only I’m thinking pink. Can you do pink?”
Bae nods, twisting a strand of my boring brown hair around her thin finger. “Totally, honey. I can do as pink as you want.”
Chapter 12
Josh hovers over my shoulder, casting a shadow from the bright sun overhead. “Come on, man,” he says. “Do it.”
We’re sitting on these fancy lounge chairs that his mom and sister use to get a tan. There’s even a hole in the back of it for your face to fit in when you’re lying on your stomach.
“I don’t know, man.” I set my phone in my lap and gaze out at the clear pool water. His pool is way nicer than ours, but then again his parents are a lot richer. “This seems kind of gross.”
“Dude, tons of hot girls at your fingertips isn’t gross,” Josh says, sitting on the chair next to mine. He lays back and rests his hands behind his head. “It’s genius.”
I glance back at my phone, which is on the download screen for a local dating app. All I have to do is press the download button and I’ll be on my way to, what the app calls, thousands of eligible singles near you!
“I’m not sure any meaningful relationship is ever made through a phone app,” I say with a grimace.
“Colby,” Josh says all serious like. He sits up and turns sideways on the chair, lacing his fingers together, elbows on his knees. “You’re still a teenager. Chances are, you aren’t going to find a meaningful relationship right now.” He wiggles his eyebrows. “So why not have a little fun?”
I lay back, letting my head fit into the head hole in this chair as I gaze up at the blue sky. “I don’t know why I let you talk me into this crap,” I mutter. And then I download the stupid app.
Josh shows me how to set it up, but it’s pretty easy. I put in my first name only, my age, and zip code. Then he makes me upload a picture, which he takes of me right now, so I’m wearing blue board shorts and no shirt, which kind of makes me feel like a douche. Josh swears it’s a good thing.
“So now we just wait?” I ask.
He shrugs. “Or you can start picking girls yourself.” On his own phone, he goes to the app and starts scrolling through pictures of girls within a twenty-mile radius. If you like them—based on picture alone, which isn’t very romantic if you ask me—you heart their profile and they’ll be alerted.
Josh hearts just about everyone.
“I think I’ll wait and see who likes me first,” I say, setting my phone on the concrete below my chair. “I can’t believe you talked me into this.”
He laughs. “For someone who’s brother was so damn prolific with girls, I don’t know why you suck so much at getting one.”
“I know why,” I say, taking in a deep breath so
“You don’t have to choose right away,” Bae says thoughtfully while she plays with my hair in front of a mirror. “We can do your mom’s first, then you can decide.”
“I don’t really know what else to do,” I say, shrugging. “I mean, anything will be better than my boring hair now.”
“What do you suggest?” Mom asks Bae. “We’re celebrating starting our lives over new and fresh, so I think Maddie should do something big and bold.”
Bae purses her lips while she thinks it over. “Do you go to RCHS?”
I nod and her eyes light up. “They don’t have a hair dress code in that school, so you could do a wild color if you’d like.”
Mom’s lips form an o. “Ooooh, you should, Maddie! I think that would look so cool! Maybe a rainbow of colors?”
Bae nods. “I could do that.”
I bite my lip. Drastic hair colors? I’ve never even considered it. But we are starting over, and this is a new life, no matter how much I might still think of myself as poor trailer trash.
Plus, Colby thought I was a new girl.
What if I really become a new girl?
My lips twist into a smile and I turn to Bae. “Yes, let’s do it. Only I’m thinking pink. Can you do pink?”
Bae nods, twisting a strand of my boring brown hair around her thin finger. “Totally, honey. I can do as pink as you want.”
Chapter 12
Josh hovers over my shoulder, casting a shadow from the bright sun overhead. “Come on, man,” he says. “Do it.”
We’re sitting on these fancy lounge chairs that his mom and sister use to get a tan. There’s even a hole in the back of it for your face to fit in when you’re lying on your stomach.
“I don’t know, man.” I set my phone in my lap and gaze out at the clear pool water. His pool is way nicer than ours, but then again his parents are a lot richer. “This seems kind of gross.”
“Dude, tons of hot girls at your fingertips isn’t gross,” Josh says, sitting on the chair next to mine. He lays back and rests his hands behind his head. “It’s genius.”
I glance back at my phone, which is on the download screen for a local dating app. All I have to do is press the download button and I’ll be on my way to, what the app calls, thousands of eligible singles near you!
“I’m not sure any meaningful relationship is ever made through a phone app,” I say with a grimace.
“Colby,” Josh says all serious like. He sits up and turns sideways on the chair, lacing his fingers together, elbows on his knees. “You’re still a teenager. Chances are, you aren’t going to find a meaningful relationship right now.” He wiggles his eyebrows. “So why not have a little fun?”
I lay back, letting my head fit into the head hole in this chair as I gaze up at the blue sky. “I don’t know why I let you talk me into this crap,” I mutter. And then I download the stupid app.
Josh shows me how to set it up, but it’s pretty easy. I put in my first name only, my age, and zip code. Then he makes me upload a picture, which he takes of me right now, so I’m wearing blue board shorts and no shirt, which kind of makes me feel like a douche. Josh swears it’s a good thing.
“So now we just wait?” I ask.
He shrugs. “Or you can start picking girls yourself.” On his own phone, he goes to the app and starts scrolling through pictures of girls within a twenty-mile radius. If you like them—based on picture alone, which isn’t very romantic if you ask me—you heart their profile and they’ll be alerted.
Josh hearts just about everyone.
“I think I’ll wait and see who likes me first,” I say, setting my phone on the concrete below my chair. “I can’t believe you talked me into this.”
He laughs. “For someone who’s brother was so damn prolific with girls, I don’t know why you suck so much at getting one.”
“I know why,” I say, taking in a deep breath so
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