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When I called, “Come in,” Lark stepped into my room with a look of concern on his face
He gestured at his outfit and asked, “Is this too much? I know this is a work event, and you and Yolanda have to, like, ood impression with your bosses and stuff That’s why I don’t want to see black pants, black high heeled ankle boots, and a cropped dark red sweater with long sleeves, which exposed about six inches of his midriff He’d co to his blond hair to lossy
“You look perfect Don’t ever change for anyone” He beamed at me, and I asked, “Could you show me how to do that to my hair? It never does what I want”
You would have thought I’d just given him a present His eyes lit up, and he exclaiht back”
Lark darted from the room and returned less than a minute later with an ared in a shiny, red blow dryer, then grabbed a spray bottle and began spritzingon the counter I covered rumbled, until he put down the bottle and attacked my hair with a round brush and the blow dryer
He was determined to have a conversation, even over the roar of that appliance, so he yelled, “I’ve always enjoyed doing hair! I think Iand should have beco in so noith being a ca to answer to anyone”
After a few minutes of that, he turned off the blow dryer and set it aside Then he dispensed soether, and ran them over my hair He stepped back to assess his work just as Eliot came upstairs, and Lark called to hi to tame Casey’s hair for the party”
Eliot stuck his head intoAfter scrutinizing me for a moment, he told Lark, “You made him look like a wolfman” Then he proceeded to his room at the back of the house
“Oh no,” I muttered When I felt my head, I detected some definite puffiness “What did you do?”
“I ht have added too much volurabbed the water bottle and spritzed ain
I let hi for about five more ood enough”
He stepped back as I stood up Then I pulled on e I’d just done to his creation So seemed off, and after a moment I realized what it was He was norht hiht
Lark told h I had no idea what he had left to do—and while he took all his hair stuff back to the bathroom, I went downstairs
I found Yolanda on the vintage purple couch in the living roolass of wine She was dressed in a stylish, black pants suit, black heels, and a red silk shirt She’d also put on a bit of lass “You look stunning, Yo,” I told her She grinned and glanced at my hair, and as I took a seat on the other side of the coffee table, I asked, “How bad is it? I’m afraid to look”
“It’s…different Not bad, just not what you norh”
I pushed backto comment on the jeans?”
“Nah I know those are your ‘good’ jeans, and you’re not wearing sneakers, so I can tell you made an effort”
“I did” I settled in, crossingready?”
“Oh yeah I expect her to finish about five minutes after the cab arrives” A sweet s up It reminds me that I really need to take her out ether, we’ve turned into such homebodies”
“I’ve definitely beco to say that’s been the case ever since I moved to San Francisco, but maybe I’ve always been this way”