Chapter 8
Hair salon
The car arrived at their first destination, the hair salon, it stopped beside the road.
They can see the beauty salon, the building isn't that luxurious and the store only occupied one third of the buildings shared together by a cafe and fitness center.
After paying the driver, three of them get out from the car, while walking closer to the building, Eve suddenly said.
"Uhh, should I call you sister now? Btw what name should I use to call you sister? Sister Lucy? Sister Lucia?"
Already prepared with this scenario Lucius say with a bit of determined expression
"You can call me Sister Lucy, ohh Lucia for sister Sophia then, it's almost the same as my original name so it's still comfortable"
As always Eve responded with a bright smile and never forgot to keep her energetic character.
"Alright Sister Lucy! Let's go!"
Eve with a cheerful gaits getting faster and arrived first on the salon automatic door.
With a bright smile she entered, followed by Sophia and Lucius in a composed manner.
The siblings immediately caught everyone's attention, especially the last two who entered after the younger energetic ones.
Both of them radiate an aura of composed beauty, one of them even more beautiful because of the gorgeous dress she's wearing, of course the younger and older ones also wear really great dresses although it's a little bit old in a fashion sense, it still brings out a great appearance.
After all there's a saying that any outfits will be great if the wearer's material is great.
Sophia, as the ones who know about the store moved to the receptionist and asked for a reservation for one of her sisters.
She asks the receptionist if one of their best hairdressers with the name of Sinta is available.
"Excuse me, I'm here for one reservation for my sister here"
The receptionist asking for a name of the sister whose going to be the ones who getting the treatment, and ask Sophia what plan they will choose for.
"Her name is Lucia, please go with plan B, for the styling she will choose herself after discussing with the hairdresser,
"Is perhaps hairdresser Sinta available?"
After getting the name and plan to go, the receptionist tells Sophia that hairdresser Sinta is available and ready to go now.
So after the reservation was ready the receptionist told Lucius to follow her to the salon chair to wash the hair.
Meanwhile Eve and Sophia are waiting in the guest area, then suddenly Eve stops Lucius and tells him about the request.
"Sister Lucy, please don't cut your hair short! It will be a waste to throw such beautiful hair! Btw this is my request"
She winked at him then leaving with a giggle followed Sophia to the guest area.
Lucius just sighed and continued to follow one of the receptionist girls, arrived at the salon chair he sat and told to wait for a minute, the hairdresser will come shortly, told the receptionist girl.
'I'm a bit nervous now, i haven't even choose to pick what haircuts i want, should do it now while waiting'
Lucius opened his phone looking for a great haircut that he felt would be good for him.
As a man with a gaming hobby, also an avid reader of fantasy novels and manga, he also sometimes watches some anime if he is interested in the story.
One way to go for a great haircut is to look at his collection of anime girls in his game or manga.
With quite a difficulty looking he narrowed the choices into 3 different haircuts,
First choice is a wolf cut with a bit of combination between layered cuts, also known as Hershey, second choice is long layered cut combined with bangs, and the third choice is a c-curl long hair with a curtain bangs.
Hairdresser Sinta just coming close after Lucius is done with the search, a bit nervous for the cuts and the interaction, he not realizing that he makes a quite cold expression.
"Hi! You should miss Lucia right? Nice to meet you. I'm your hairdresser Sinta, so.. Should we start now?"
After hearing the greetings Lucius also greet her back followed by a request for an opinion regarding the haircuts.
By showing the picture of his choices of haircuts to Sinta, Lucius asks for an opinion if any of these will look great on him.
"Don't worry Miss Lucia any haircuts will look great with your looks,
"I'll explain the vibes that those three bring out, so please choose which one suit you the best,
"This wolf cut is meant to look bold but still give more feminine feels, as for this layered cut it will enhance your natural look and shape of your head, as for the c-curl with curtain hair will bring out a more playful look"
Thinking for a bit without making much expression, Lucius asks about Sinta's personal opinion.
"Which one do you think will suit me the best?"
Sinta, having studied Lucius for a while, noticed the aura or the vibes he brings out is more composed yet rigid, and has a bit more masculinity in it.
While smiling sinta give her opinion.
"In my opinion this wolf cut suit you the best, it matches with your vibes miss Lucia"
Feeling a bit satisfied with the first choice he decided to go with it.
"Alright please do with that, I'll leave it in your care miss Sinta"
As Lucius is still a bit tense around strangers, especially women, he hasn't made any big smile, only composed expressions and a bit of polite nod.
All the process took a couple hours, from the cut, hair wash, and the styling.
Done with the styling, Lucius looks at his own appearance on the mirror in front of him,
A bit stunned with how different the cut brings out his vibes he is a bit surprised.
'Wow… this is me?'
Lucius feels quite proud and satisfied with the new haircuts, by moving his head from side to side to look at the full appearance of the new cut, he can see all the features.
First thing to notice is the different hair color on the left side of the head, after styling and a bit of layered cut it comes out really well,
His bangs are separated into two and parted to the side, after that the styling makes the hair a bit wavy than before,
But not as much as natural wavy hair, it's more of a calm wave like the calm but dangerous waves you see on the huge river.
Lucius gives his thanks to the hairdresser Sinta and goes to meet the siblings and do the payment.
In the guest area Eve and Sophia finally see that Lucius is done, both of them a bit surprised at Lucius' new look, it really suits him.
"Sister Sophia Look! Sister Lucia's new haircuts look really cool and.. And gorgeous! She really chose a great one!"
Having to see his sister's reactions Lucius smiled brightly, removing his tense and cold vibes, hairdresser Sinta actually surprised a little bit after seeing Lucius smiling face, she blushes because the smile is just too stunning.
-In others POV.
Lucia smiled with a radiating air of warmth, her pinkish red lips curves to the ear, a blush comes peeking from her cheeks, her eyes shaped like a crescent moons, with this irresistible, tender and captivating smile, everyone spontaneously puts a smile on their face, some even blushed too, well of course! Lucia right now is like a beautiful goddess smiling upon her devout believers.
-back to Lucius POV
Noticing the gazes of others, Lucius' face blushed intensely, changed his expression to an embarrassing one,
With a bit of a hurried pace he moved towards his sisters and tried to hide behind them, but of course with his height he couldn't hide away from the onlookers.
"Sister Sophia let's go pay the bills, I'm quite hungry now so let's move to next destination and eat our lunch there"
Sophia after noticing Lucius troubled look smiled warmly and immediately goes to the cashier to pay the bills,
Eve and Lucius followed after her, but before she walked towards the cashier her friend Sinta greeted her with a curious smile.
"Hi Sophia! Hi Eve! So miss Lucia is coming with you guys, is this a girl only outing? I don't see your brother Lucius? Is he perhaps waiting outside?"
Sophia of course stopped and greeted her friend back with a smile, Eve and Lucius decided to stay with the conversation.
"Yes she's with us, if you're looking for Lucius he actually just arrived in Europe yesterday,
"Lucia right here is our cousin from paternal sides, she's a bit shy because she only live here for a couple years after moving from Europe"
Hearing the explanation, Sinta was surprised because Lucia Bahasa Indonesia is quite good.
"Wow! Her bahasa Indonesia is really good, is she the same as you girls for always using English for everyday conversations?
"Btw I'm sorry if I'm quite blunt but Lucia is so beautiful! She looks like an angel!"
Eve immediately joined the conversation after hearing Sinta compliments towards her brother.. Or 'Sister'.
"Yes!! She really is an angel! When the first time I saw her it was the only thing that came out of my mouth!"
Lucius or should we call her Lucia from now on when he's outside, is having a troubled look and her face becoming more red, her cheeks, ear and even neck change in color looking a lot like a ripe tomato, she lowered her head and couldn't process the atmosphere.
With struggle Lucia smiled back and give her thanks, but also tugged Sophia clothes, signaling her to immediately finish the conversation.
"Hahaha.. Thanks… i guess"
As someone with a sense of responsibility Sophia noticed Lucia's request and gave her farewell with Sinta.
"I'm sorry Sinta but we're having the following plan to do, and it's almost lunch time,
"So we have to go now, also thanks for the cut, you did a really great job, byebye!"
Eve and Lucia also give their farewell, Sinta reluctantly gave her farewell too.
"Okay guys! Goodbye, and have a nice day! See you later guys if fate gives us a chance!"
The siblings are finally done paying the bills, and their next rented car is already coming close to their current location.
It's a new car that is set for their next destination, the big mall located at the center of the city.
Finally out of the store and having more room to breathe, Lucia finally was able to relax a little bit.
The last thirty minutes are too much for her, it's all her first time experiencing those events after the transformation.
With a long sigh, Lucia says to her sister.
"Eve… sister Sophia.. I almost ran away because of the pressure.. Is this what girls experience when surrounded with a stranger?,
"What intense pressure they got here…"
Laughing a little bit Sophia and Eve explained to Lucia about the experience, Eve said first.
"Actually sister Lucy, it's not that common to get that much reaction from others, especially not from a crowd of girls!
"Most intense experience i have is at the school coming from the boys, especially when we have a PE class, so it's a bit unusual actually"
Sophia also gives her opinion.
"In my perspective this happened because the combination of your excellent looks, outfits and more importantly your expression when you're smiling brightly,
"So it's actually because of you Lucia haha, but don't worry most of them won't have a courage to bother you, because you look really hard to approach from others perspective,
"So i hope you don't feel down, as we are here together"
Finally getting calm and focusing her mind towards the plan she has to tackle in the future, she's able to feel the courage to face anything that comes in her way.