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Alex was sitting on his couch when he heard his doorbell ring.
He walked to the door and opened it to a very excited Jack Barakat.
“Lex!” He cheered and handed him the walmart bag he was holding before letting himself in.
“Look in the bag!”
Alex opened the bag and found two boxes of bleach and two boxes of pink hair dye.
“What?”
“We’re dyeing my hair” Jack paused and seemed suddenly nervous. “If you want obviously”
“Why now? Wait. Why me?”
“Cause I want to and cause I uh want you to”
“Hmmm lemme think about it”
“Please please please”
“Mmm should I?”
“Lex! Pretty please”
“Yes Jack, of course I will”
“Yayyy”
Alex led Jack to the guest bathroom and dumped the hair dye boxes into the sink and picked them up and set them on the counter nicely. He hung the plastic bag on the door handle and started opening the bleach.
“You sure?”
“Yes, now let’s kill my hair”
“Okay man, let’s go”
Alex poured the bleach powder into the oxide liquid. He shook it up and watched it turn blue. He put on a pair of gloves and poured the weird blue concoction in his hand.
He mixed the bleach into his boyfriend’s hair making sure to coat it well. He poured more of the mixture into his hands and threaded it through the strands. He made sure it was fully ‘saturated’ as the box said and set a timer on his phone for 15 minutes.
“Okay, now we wait”
Jack stood up and looked at himself in the mirror. It looked a bit odd but he didn’t mind, it was just Alex after all, he’d seen Jack look so much worse.
Jack felt a dull burn and itch but ignored it, instead focusing on scrolling through instagram.
When Alex’s timer went off they went into the bathroom to rinse his hair.
Jack leaned over the bathtub and Alex turned on the water.
He grabbed the detachable showerhead and pulled it down to rinse out the bleach in his lover’s hair.
He ran his fingers through Jack’s hair making sure he left none in. He felt Jack relax under his touch.
“How’s it feel” Jack asked him.
“Like straw”
“Wow”
Alex hummed as he massaged in some shampoo.
“Is your scalp okay? It’s a bit red”
Jack shrugged.
“It should be fine”
“Okay man, tell me if it starts burning when we do pink, even the slightest bit”
“Fine, dad”
“Dad?”
“Would you prefer Daddy?”
“Jack woahhh”
“Not denying it”
“Shut up and let me do your hair”
Jack chuckled, but shut up as Alex conditioned his hair. Alex ran his fingers through the blonde locks one final time before grabbing a towel and drying Jack’s hair.
Alex grabbed a hair dryer and dried Jack’s hair thoroughly..
He opened the pink boxes of dyes and mixed them up.
He did the same as he did last time and mixed it into Jack’s hair. He realized how bright this pink was. He figured Jack knew what he wanted so he kept mixing the coloring in.
He finally finished after doubly checking every piece of hair.
He set the timer for an hour and they went to make lunch. They cuddled and ate pizza rolls on the couch while the hair dye settled in. Alex ignored all the pink hair dye that had gotten stained all over their hands and bathroom. He sat there in comfortable silence with the love of his life.
When the timer went off he hurried Jack into the bathroom to rinse his hair.
It took a while but they finally finished and Jack had pink hair.
He took a picture and posted it on instagram with the caption "my mom's gonna KILL me"
They were lying in bed together a few hours later when Jack finally spoke up.
“I think I have chemical burns from the bleach”
“What!?”
“Yeah, it burned and itched while we did the bleach but when we did the pink it was fine”
“Where is the part you found out about this?”
“Like a minute ago I realized my scalp still hurt and googled it”
“Oh my god Jack, I love you, but you are so fucking dumb”
“Thank you, I love you too”