Chapter 18

Today was fun. This is why I love being around black people. They know exactly how to lift someone's mood. Mostly everyone at the hair salon was black. I went in, and tension was still flowing around me, but they somehow lifted my mood, and I was laughing and smiling throughout my trip there. They made me forget all about stone, and for a hot good minute, I felt normal again.

Hannah was shocked when she saw how my hair turned out when it was straightened. It reached my mid-back, and it was full of volume and shiny. I loved it.

After that, Hannah took us to get a mani and pedi. I was laughing loudly when the lady was washing my left foot. It tickled a lot. Gladly everyone joined in on my laughing spree and wasn't judging me. I wanted to get both feet washed, but I had the cast on.

Later on, I was starving when we finished getting our nails done. There was this pizza place in the mall, and that's the first place I wheeled myself into.

Hannah paid, and they brought all different kinds of