The Hairdresser Diaries

by Jessica Miller

  “No, you don’t,” he smiled and kissed my forehead. I tried to help him clean up, but he insisted he would do it himself.

  I took the puppy inside with me and looked through the Vicki’s bag and tried to decide on which one I wanted to wear tonight. I went with the red and black polka-dots one. I sprayed on some of my new body spray and put on some lotion. I also put on my high heels that hurt my feet after five minutes, but tonight it didn’t matter. I knew they wouldn’t be on that long. I threw on a robe to go outside; I did not want to risk my neighbors seeing me walk outside in lingerie.

  The puppy had issues with the steps so I had to carry her down carefully without breaking my neck. Cole had already set up the puppy bed in the tent for her, hoping she’d sleep in it. I placed her in her bed. She was so worn out she fell asleep almost instantly.

  Cole was already lying down with his hands rested behind his head. “I’m ready for my surprise now,” he said eagerly.

  I stepped over him putting each foot on either side and slowly undid my robe, letting it fall off my shoulders, before I threw it to the side.

  Cole’s eyes gaped wide.

  “You Like?” I asked. He didn’t say anything. He didn’t have to. The look on his face said enough. He sat up and reached with his left hand and grabbed the back of my calf. Then he did the same with the other, slowly bringing them up to the back of knees, and gently tugging until I was straddling him on the ground. His hands moved up my back, neck, and into my hair. I leaned back letting out a breath as he kissed my neck working his way down to my breasts, pulling the straps down, exposing them.

  I pushed him back against the pillows and gave him a seductive smile as I unzipped his pants and pulled them off, then his shirt while I kissed every inch of his chest.

  There was a fire burning in his eyes. The way he touched me and kissed me, it was like as if these were our last moments together.

  He rolled over on top of me and kissed me passionately while trying to take my top off, but was having issues. “How do you get this off?” he asked frustrated.

  “There’s a zipper in the back,” I said too late. He had ripped it apart tearing it off of me. If I didn’t think that was incredibly sexy I would have been pissed at him for destroying it since I just bought it. But at the moment that was the last thing on my mind.

  As I lay there watching Cole sleep I kept thinking. How could I have deprived myself of something so great? To think, what if I never found the courage to tell him I loved him? I gently touched his cheek. He stirred ever so slightly and I just nestled myself against him knowing my life would never be the same now. What I had feared the most was now something I couldn’t live without.

  When I woke up, I found that the puppy had sneaked out of her bed and was curled up next to Cole. Cole was still sleeping. I gently brushed my fingers over his lips, he twitched slightly. I started to kiss his neck slowly making my way up to his lips. This time, nothing, he didn’t move.

  Hmm.

  I took my hand and slowly moved it down his chest, torso, and stopped just short of below his waist. His lips curved into a slight smile. I moved my hand a little lower. He opened his eyes a peek—he thought I wasn’t looking. He was so busted. I smacked him on his stomach.

  “Hey,” he choked a laugh.

  “I knew you weren’t sleeping,” I said as I crawled on top of him and pressed my lips to his. “I see you found a new sleeping buddy.” I pointed to the puppy.

  “She looked so lonely by herself all the way over there.” Yeah, the whole five feet away. “Did you think of name yet?”

  “How about… Nala?” I said.

  Cole looked at the puppy. “What do you think? You like Nala?” She looked up and tilted her head. “Is that a yes? No?” She stood up and licked his face. “I’ll take it as a yes.”

  “See, she likes you,” I said as I leaned in for a kiss. Nala started to growl at me. “Hey, he’s mine,” I told her as she lay her head down on her paws.

  “Jealous?” Cole asked.

  “Shut up!” I pushed him back down on the pillows and laid my head on his chest. “So I was thinking…we should spend every night out here.”

  “What about in the winter, we’ll freeze to death.”

  “There are ways to keep warm,” I said yanking the sheets over both of us and pulling him up on his side accidentally causing Nala to fall over. She whimpered and I quickly picked her up placing her in between us, scratching her telling her I was sorry. Cole rolled his eyes and lay back down.

  Once the puppy fell asleep I put her back in her bed and showed Cole just how we could stay warm in the winter. I think I had him convinced after the second time.

  When the sun started to get too hot we made our way back inside. I fed Nala and told Cole he was on poop duty. He looked at me like I was kidding and I let him know I wasn’t. I reminded him he bought the dog, so he has to clean up after her. He tried to pull the ‘it was a gift so it’s yours’ bull crap, but my icy stare won him over.

  Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart…

  - Unknown

  Chapter 9

  The next few weeks flew by. Cole and I spent every day together. We took turns spending the night at each other’s places. And of course Nala went with us everywhere we went and was allowed. The incident at work with Kayla blew over and things went back to normal. Although Kayla did keep her distance from me on days we worked together. And Kristi’s wedding was just over a month away and things were settling nicely.

  As always, when I came home from work, Nala greeted me at the door.

  “How’s my little baby,” I said to Nala.

  “I’m fine thank you,” Cole said mocking me.

  “Hello boyfriend.”

  “Hello girlfriend.” Cole bent down and kissed me.

  “What did my two favorite loves do today?” I asked.

  “Well…Nala and I had a tug-of-war contest with my sock…she won.” I plopped down on the couch and patted it for Cole to sit next to me, but Nala beat him to it. I picked her up and put her on my lap. I took advantage while I could, soon I would not be able to do this.

  “Why do you leave your socks lay around. I told you she would get them.” He was about to say something, but I already knew what it was. “And just because you can buy more is not an excuse.” He quickly closed his mouth.

  “I forgot to tell you, Tommy and Jessie invited us out to dinner tomorrow, and they said they wanted to tell us something,” Cole told me.

  “I wonder what it is. Did they say what it’s about?”

  “No, but I’m pretty sure it’s nothing bad.” I shrugged and rested my head on Cole’s shoulder. Jessie and Tommy started dating just after Cole and I met and have been together and happy ever since.

  I told Cole I would meet him at his place before dinner with Jessie and Tommy. I already talked to Jessie and told her we would be a little late for dinner. I thought I would surprise Cole by showing up at his place wearing only lingerie under my coat.

  I put on the aqua green corset I bought weeks ago, including the matching panties, thigh highs and garter belt. I slipped into a pair of heels, sprayed on some perfume, messed up my hair some to give it that tousled look, and put on my jacket—a knee length trench coat.

  When I got to Cole’s Tommy was still there.

  Crap.

  “Hey Tatum,” he said thinking nothing of it.

  “Hey Tommy…aren’t you supposed to be picking up Jessie?” I asked nervously.

  “Yeah, I’m leaving now…I thought you guys were going to be running late?”

  “Um, yeah, we have to do something real quick beforehand.” At least I wasn’t technically lying.

  “Alright, Cole’s in the bathroom. Have a seat, take your coat off.”

  “No, I’m good,” I said as Tommy grabbed his keys to leave.

  “Okay, see you guys later.” I waved goodbye to him, thankfully, and knocked on the bathroom door. Cole opened it, he was shaving. I
thought to wait until he was done, I didn’t want him to cut himself.

  “Did it get cold out?” he asked looking at my jacket.

  “No,” I said as he finished up shaving and turned to look at me.“I was thinking, I’m kinda not in the mood to go to dinner, do you think they’d care if we skipped it?”

  “Yes, I think they would, and Tommy was real excited about tonight, so I think we should go.” He was completely oblivious.

  “Well if you insist.” He turned back to the mirror to wipe off any excess shaving cream. “But I think I might be a little under dressed, what do you think?” I dropped my coat and leaned casually against the wall.

  “I’m pretty sure whatever you have on is…” he stopped when he finally caught sight of what I was wearing. He grabbed me and pulled me into the bathroom closing the door behind me. “You are a very naughty girl,” Cole grinned ear to ear. He picked me up and threw me on the sink and I laughed.

  “What’s so funny?” he asked.

  “Sorry, I laugh when I get excited.”

  “Really,” he said with a devious glint in his eye. He grabbed my hips and that was it, but this time I wasn’t laughing.

  The best thing about Cole, he was fun, exciting, and was always up for trying new things.

  Five minutes later I heard a door slam.

  “Cole stop.” He started nibbling on my neck and I started to laugh. “No I’m serious, stop. I think I heard someone come in.” He stopped and listened carefully.

  We heard Tommy and Jessie in the kitchen.

  Cole started to laugh and I put my finger to his mouth to keep him quiet, instead he bit my finger and I jerked back causing my foot to hit the doorknob. We both looked at each other started cracking up.

  “Hello?” Tommy called.

  “It’s just me Tom,” Cole yelled back.

  “Is Tatum with you?” Jessie asked. I shook my head telling Cole to tell her no, but Jessie spoke again before he could. “I saw her car, so I know she’s here somewhere, just wanted to know why she had to make up some lie about running late.” There was no way around this so I thought I would show them.

  “Cole move aside.” I jumped down off the sink and reached for the doorknob.

  “What are you doing?” he asked putting his hand on the door.

  “Trust me. This is the only way to get rid of them.”

  “Would you at least put your underwear back on first?” he said picking them off the floor and handing them to me.

  “Oh, yeah.” I smiled bashfully as I slid them back on and I braced myself. I opened the door, stepped out of the bathroom and walked down the hall where Jessie and Tommy stood in the living room.

  “Do I really need to say more,” I said to Jessie, standing there, in lingerie.

  “I see you went with the green one,” Jessie said trying not to look embarrassed. Tommy stood there, eyes gaping and jaw dropped. “I guess we’ll see you at the restaurant,” Jessie said and turned to walk away while Tommy stood still. She reached back and pulled him out the door.

  I giggled to myself and walked back into the bathroom so Cole and I could finish what we started.

  “Smooth move,” Cole said.

  “Hey, at least I got rid of them and they won’t be calling wondering where we are.” He smiled and that was it.

  After I went home and changed, we met Tommy and Jessie at the restaurant. They sat at the bar until we arrived and then we all sat down at a table.

  “So what did you guys need to talk to us about?” I asked. No sense in beating around the bush.

  “Um, well…” Jessie began. “Tommy and I are going to move in together.”

  “That’s great…” Cole and I both said. “I’m so happy for you guys.”

  “Are you guys going to find a new place?” Cole asked.

  “That’s the thing…” Tommy looked at Jessie for reassurance and she just smiled at him. “Jessie’s lease is up in a few weeks and we’ve got the place till the end of the year…so I was thinking she’d move into our place.”

  I could tell Tommy had something else to say, but wasn’t sure how to come out and say it.

  Cole just spoke up for him, knowing what Tommy was trying to get around to. “You want me to move out,” Cole said.

  “No…and yes,” Tommy stuttered. “Well, we kind of figured since you and Tatum are together all the time…” Again he didn’t finish, but I knew what he was getting at.

  I looked at Cole and wrinkled my brow at him. “Hmm…twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with you…I don’t know. I don’t really like you that much.”

  “Yeah, you snore,” he said and I kicked him. “Hey.”

  We just laughed.

  It would make sense. Cole and I were together all the time, so why not live together and let Jessie and Tommy have the apartment. And that’s what we told them.

  Once that was over Tommy relaxed a little and we enjoyed a nice meal. Afterwards we decided to go out for some drinks to celebrate. Jessie said the gang would be at the club and we should meet them there.

  Everything was going great. We got to the club and met up with our friends. I went to the bar to get some drinks when the girl in front of me turned around and almost ran right into me because I wasn’t paying attention. I was about to say sorry until I looked up and saw who it was.

  Kayla.

  I just rolled my eyes and tried to step aside, but she wouldn’t let me. She stood there and stared me down.

  “Seriously, you really want to test me? Do you not remember what happened last time?” I said glaring at her. She just huffed and walked away as I shook my head.

  While I was ordering the drinks, Logan—of all people—came up and stood next to me at the bar. I didn’t know he was at the club until now. I knew I would eventually end up running into him, but I was kind of hoping by some luck that I wouldn’t. I ignored him the best I could.

  “How are you?” he asked.

  “Wow, really?” Was all I said and looked at him like he was kidding.

  “You look beautiful tonight,” He said to me.

  “Just stop. Apparently I hadn’t made it clear. I don’t want anything to do with you. So please for the last time, leave me alone,” I said to him hoping he might finally get it. He watched me for a moment and I was getting annoyed. I was ready to knee him when Kayla walked up.

  “Logan, what are you doing?” she asked him but she was looking at me.

  I looked at Logan, then Kayla, and back at Logan and started cracking up hysterically.

  “Have fun with my sloppy seconds,” I told Kayla as I pushed them out of the way and headed back to my friends. I sat down next to Cole and tried to hide the sour look on my face.

  “You okay?” he asked concerned.

  I forced a smile and said, “Fine.”

  He took my hand and squeezed it like he always did letting me know no matter what, everything would be okay. Just looking at Cole and knowing how much he loved me made everything else seem insignificant. I leaned over and kissed him, this time not having to force a smile.

  As the night went on, Kayla and Logan became just a distant memory.

  “Wanna dance?” I asked Cole. He looked at me unsure.

  “I don’t think you want to see me dance,” he said. Tommy laughed in agreement. “Why don’t you and Jessie go?”

  Jessie, Kelly, and I got up and went to the dance floor. Landon was already there making a fool of himself, but at least it was entertaining. We joined him and tried to teach him some moves, but he was hopeless. I was having a good time until I ran into Logan and Kayla again, literally. Logan bumped into me by accident and Kayla just grabbed him, gave me a dirty look, and moved away.

  I know I shouldn’t care, but I couldn’t stop watching them. She was all over him. That didn’t bother me, it was that it was Kayla, and it was Logan she was over. I tried to ignore them, but couldn’t. So, I did what I do best and started taking shots…and then some more shots, followed by a few more.
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  I was getting hot from all the dancing, so I grabbed the girls and told Landon to tell the boys we would be outside getting some air. Once I felt the cool rush of the air I started to feel better.

  Kelly and Jessie said they were going to run to the bathroom real quick and meet me back outside. I walked over to the far wall of the patio and looked out over the long stretch of gravel that led to the woods off in the distance. I felt someone come up behind me and assumed it was Cole. I turned around to surprise him with a kiss, but to my surprise it was Logan. I quickly jumped back.

  “What are you doing?” I said disgusted.

  “I know you still want me. I saw how you were staring at Kayla and me.”

  “Please, get over yourself,” I said trying to step away, but he had me cornered with both arms on either side of me. I stared up at him. “Would you move?” My voice was a little shaky and I was feeling very uncomfortable with Logan being this close to me.

  He pressed closer and I couldn’t move at all now. Then, he kissed me. I tried to pull away, but I had nowhere to go. I pushed him, but he was too strong and I was stuck. His lips on mine made me want to vomit and I wondered why I ever once wanted to be with someone like him. He finally pulled away and I could breathe. I tried to smack him, but he stopped me, catching my arm in mid-air.

  “Don’t act like you didn’t like it,” he said with a cocky grin.

  “You disgust me,” I said grimly.

  From behind Logan I heard another voice. “God Tatum, one isn’t enough, you have to have them all,” Kayla said. “I’m sure Cole would love to know what you’ve been up to behind his back.”

  “First off, it’s not what it looks like, not that I need to explain myself to you, and Cole would never believe anything you say,” I said still trying to move away from Logan.

  “True, but a picture says a thousand words.” She smiled holding up her phone, turned away, and walked towards the door. I fought against Logan, begging him to let me go.

  “This is for the best. You should be happy about this, now we can go back to the way things were,” Logan said.

  “You’re delusional if you think I’d ever touch you again. I don’t want you Logan. I love Cole.”