The Time of Her Life by Tracy Bloom

Author:Tracy Bloom [Bloom, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2023-12-11T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Three weeks went by and she found herself wandering into the kitchen to find the Ryvita and low-fat cream cheese as she did every lunchtime. It was easy, required no preparation and she could kid herself that she was being healthy. She was just spreading the last of the Philadelphia over a cracker and wondering if she had the energy to go and buy some more when Sonny came barrelling into the kitchen.

‘Will you cut my hair?’ he gasped, bursting into the kitchen.

Kim had been dying to cut Sonny’s hair ever since he arrived. It was too long, curls bouncing over his collar and on the top of his head like an overexcited crowd at a Harry Styles concert. It was the perfect reflection of Sonny’s personality, bouncy and cheery, a bit in your face and a bit quirky. Totally unique, it just needed a decent stylist like her to pull it into order.

‘Of course,’ she said, happy to have something to focus on. ‘Shall we do it now? My kit is upstairs.’

‘Oh, would you?’ gasped Sonny. ‘You are such a lifesaver.’

‘Why don’t you go and give it a wash and I’ll set up in here. I’ll be ready as soon as you are.’

‘Brilliant, just brilliant,’ he said, walking up to hug her. ‘Absolutely brilliant.’

Kim felt a tiny sigh of contentment as she unrolled her cloth case surrounding her scissors and combs. They gleamed at her as if to say, ‘welcome back,’ and she felt a tinge of regret that she hadn’t gone further afield to try and find a job in a salon. Still, she was committed to the chip shop now so would have to content herself with perhaps being on hand to do the boys’ hair whenever they needed it.

Sonny bounced in, wet hair dripping on his T-shirt, blue towel clutched in his hand.

‘Wow,’ he said, stopping in his tracks. ‘You have a cape and everything. So you are actually like a real hairdresser?’

Kim laughed. Sonny really was the best person. Even when he was half insulting you, you couldn’t take offence.

‘Yes, I am a real hairdresser,’ she said, indicating for him to sit down. ‘I had over fifty clients back home.’

‘Mum kind of cut mine,’ said Sonny. ‘Well I told her what to do whilst I watched in a mirror. I was kind of going through a whole New Romantics thing, you know, a bit Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. I even dyed it once. That was fun.’

Kim draped her black cape around his shoulders and picked the blue towel up from his lap and lightly dried his hair with it as he carried on with the history of his hair.

‘I put some highlights in,’ he giggled. ‘Dad went mad. Said I looked like an idiot.’ Sonny shrugged. ‘But I thought they looked dead cool.’ He looked up at Kim. ‘You would have been horrified at them, I would imagine. I’m sure I did them all wrong.’

‘Not at all,’ said Kim, grinning back. ‘I bet you looked a knock out.

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