26 Chapter Twenty Six

Angeline POV

I couldn’t stop wringing my hands together nervously.

What am I doing? This is so… not me!

I hate attention more than anything, and today that’s exactly what I’d be calling to myself, attention.

I’ve been working at the groomers for some time now and have acquired two weeks' worth of pay. I’m just glad I finally have my own money, I can finally treat myself.

The first thing I bought was accurate shampoo for my hair tight, nothing with sulfate or silicone. In the school library computer, I found an entire subreddit called r/curlyhair dedicated to hair like mine. They even had terms like “scrunch the crunch” and “ pineapple”, where you pull up all your hair to look like a pineapple so your curls don’t tangle while you sleep. All techniques I wish I knew before.