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Author: Byacolate
Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Reviews: 5 - Published: 01-17-09 - Updated: 01-20-09 - id:2623292

It was a Sunday morning that he awoke to find himself on the bathroom floor, his hair turned a bright blue. Graham didn't quite know what to say. He tried stuttering for a moment, and when that didn't pan out, he took to combing the apartment for his first (not to mention only) suspect. She was lying asleep on the couch, hugging Toblerone to her chest. Not for long, though. This time, Graham was going to set her straight.

"You!"

Mindy blinked herself into waking and released her hold on the schapso. She sat up. She yawned. She had the audacity to stretch. And she looked expectantly at him.

"Yes?"

"I... my... you...!" Back to stuttering. Graham drew in a breath of composure and pointed to his head. "What color is my hair this morning, Mindy?"

Celery-green eyes looked on innocently. "Well, I'd say it was blue, captain."

"Right. My hair is blue."

"Shocking blue."

"Yes. Shocking."

"Dare I say... electric blue?"

Graham narrowed his eyes. "I don't know. Do you dare?"

"I'd better not. You look pretty mad."

His hands clenched into fists at his sides. "I am. Oh, I am. People don't just grow blue hair over night, Mindy."

She thought on it. "No, no they don't. But you never know. You Asians are pretty eccentric."

"And such a fete couldn't have been easy," he replied. "Especially for someone of the Asian persuasion."

"That was cute, Dr. Suess."

"First of all, my hair would have to be thoroughly bleached. And then I would have had to wash the bleach concoction out. And then I would have had to take the time to apply the dye. And let it sit. And rinse that out. And then I would have had to proceed to do a bunch of other things you would know that I wouldn't because I've never dyed my hair blue before in my life."

"Probably." Mindy kicked her legs out in front of her and bounced a bit. Toblerone climbed into her lap.

"So." Graham crossed his arms. "How did you do it?"

"Ether."

He blinked, caught off guard. "Wait. What?"

"Ether."

"You couldn't get a hold of ether, Mindy. Don't lie to me."

She shrugged. "I don't know how else you're going to explain to your pals how you attained blue hair, but that's a pretty good excuse, right?"

"No," Graham answered. "No, I don't believe my colleagues would believe that my insane landlady knocked me out with ether, dragged me into the bathroom, and dyed my hair electric blue. Somehow, I don't think that will go over well for me."

"I bet they'll get a laugh out of it." Mindy pushed Toblerone onto the floor and stood, brushing dog hair off of her old gray t-shirt. "And you got that second bit wrong. You were already in the bathroom by the time I struck. I knocked you out before you got into the shower. Why waste precious water, you know?" She gave his arm a pat and disappeared into the kitchen.

Toblerone gazed at Graham's hair for a good minute before trailing off after the woman.

"Traitor."


Name: Graham Liu.
Heritage: Taiwanese (father's side), Marylandian (mother's). Asian/Caucasian hybrid.
Height: 5"9.
Features: Brown eyes. Blue hair.
Resides with: Minn Cassidy Duff.
Education: Law major.
Cannot dance.
Cannot sing.
Enjoys Polka music, springtime, and fried squid.



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