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“Do you not own hair dye?”
Claudia shook her head. Her mother had always been insistent on only owning what they needed, and hair dye had never fallen into that category.
It wasn’t until Grace came up to her house one day with clip-on streaks of bright purple, red, pink, and yellow that Claudia realized dyeing her hair was an option. And ever since that day, the thought hadn’t left her mind.
So the next time Grace came over it was the first thing she brought up.
”Ok. I don’t have any money on me and I’m not getting my allowance for another week,” Grace said, fidgeting with the candy necklace around her neck as she thought. “We wouldn’t be able to do it for a while then.”
Claudia’s face fell and Grace immediately reached her hands across the table they were sitting at to hold hers. She rubbed her thumbs in circles on her hand, a soothing gesture.
“Hey, it’s not all bad. Your hair is naturally blonde, so you won’t have to bleach it before.”
”Would you dye your hair?” Claudia asked.
Graced giggled and ran one had through her long brown hair. “No, it’s too long. Look at it!”
“Oh yeah, that would take 20 bottles at least,” Claudia said, biting back a smile.
”I don’t think either of us have enough money saved in our piggy banks for that,” Grace added. As soon as the words left her mouth, and idea began to form in her head. Her eyebrows knitted together and she sat up a bit straighter.
Claudia leaned forward toward her girlfriend. “What’re you thinking?”
Grace grinned conspiratorially and leaned in to whisper her plan in her girlfriend’s ear. When she pulled back, Claudia was glowing, completely committed except for one thing.
”How’ll we get into town?”