Stick Lessons (FOR PUCK’S SAKE #7) by Crea Reitan EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Crea Reitan
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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HECTOR “ATTY” ATLAS
Hugo stares at me as if seeing me for the first time. He hasn’t
moved since I opened the door, I’m not sure he’s even blinked. Trying to
contain my amusement is getting harder as the minutes pass.
He reaches out, his fingers hovering near my cheek. Am I a ghost? Will
I disperse into thin air if he makes contact? I’m so amused that I let his
fingers brush my bare cheek.
“BOO!” I shout as soon as his fingertips touch me, and Hugo nearly
falls backwards.
I laugh, gripping the doorknob so I don’t lose my balance. That was
fucking priceless.
“Not cool,” he says, glaring. But I don’t miss the way he’s still staring at
me.
“I can’t decide if you like it or not,” I taunt.
“It’s just… different,” Hugo replies. “I don’t recognize you at all.”
I grin and brush a hand over my face and through my hair. There’s a
very good reason he’s reacting to me the way he has. Since I hit puberty and
started growing facial hair, I have never shaved. I mean that quite literally.
Never. About halfway through high school, I stopped cutting my hair too. I
kept myself trimmed and neat, of course, but let it all grow.
It started as laziness. Okay, if I’m honest, I was afraid of razors initially.
All I could imagine was that I’d accidentally cut my artery and bleed out.
But by the time the fear passed, it had been three years, and it seemed to
just be my thing by that point. Why change it? It was what I was known for.
How everyone recognized me!
Therefore, there isn’t a single photo that exists of me without a Viking
appearance. In college, I even started styling it to match classic Viking
imagery.
So why, after all these years, did I suddenly shave my face clean and cut
my hair to a more reasonable, manageable length? Honestly, I don’t know.
Maybe I was tired of the constant upkeep. Maybe I was just ready for a
change.
Since cutting my hair and shaving three days ago, I’ve spent a lot of
time staring at myself in the mirror. Hugo’s the first to see me and I
completely understand his reaction. I don’t even recognize myself!
Once, three years ago, I used a couple online image generators and put
several of my pictures through, asking them to cut my hair and make me
clean shaven. Part of me thinks I did it because I’ve been ready for the
change for a long time.
But I wasn’t sure I liked what I saw. And thus, it didn’t happen until
now.
Thankfully, I don’t look like any of those renditions that the generators
showed me. I like what I see, even if I have to work on evening out my skin
tone now that there isn’t a thick layer of fur on my face.
However, it’s still shocking to see every time I walk by a mirror. I
swear, I see a stranger.
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