I reached up tentatively. It was so strange. There was nothing there. It was smooth. Paula brushed the backs of her fingers over the area next to my own hand.
"Doesn't that feel wonderful?" she asked.
I hesitated, not wanting to admit it to her, but then nodded in agreement.
She picked her scissors up and combed my fringe forward and down to my eyebrows.
"Close your eyes" she said.
I did, but as soon as I felt where she had positioned her scissors, they opened wide, just in time to see what had been my bangs falling to the cape. My perfectly normal bangs were now probably half an inch long at most. The strange thing was that my surprise subsided rapidly. I didn't think that there was anything that she could do now that would surprise me. Then she surprised me!
"I'll take the back higher if you want me to" she said.
I played that sentence over in my head several times to make sure that I understood what she had said.
"Just a bit more" I said quietly.
"Sure?" she asked.
