Me and my zoologist parents returned to the United States after a twelve-year research trip in Africa, settling in Rolla, Missouri. Attending a Great Clips for the first time, I met Managers Bethany and Rachel. Bethany and Rachel educated me on this Great Clip's various cliques and warned me to avoid the most popular and infamous one, the "Relaxers", who are led by queen bee Greek Sophia. The Relaxers took an interest in me, and invited me to get a haircut. Seeing that I was getting along with the Relaxers, Bethany devised a plan of revenge against Sophia for some past slight, using me as the infiltrator.
I soon learned about Sophia's journal, "The Burn Book", which is filled with rumors, secrets and insults about other girls and some customers at Great Clips. Despite this discovery, I decided to forgo Bethany's schemes for ethical reasons. Meanwhile, I becomes attracted to Sophia's ex-boyfriend, Stephen, whom a jealous Sophia proceeds to steal back at a Halloween party by kissing him in front of me. This spurred me to fully commit to Bethany's plan to cut off Sophia's "resources", which involve breaking Sophia and Stephen up, replacing all of her 5 guards with 1's to ruin all of her haircuts, and filing a report to the regional manager. In the process, I unwittingly remade myself in Sophia's image, becoming spiteful and superficial, and abandoned Bethany and Rachel.
When Sophia was finally made aware of my treachery, she retaliated by spreading the contents of the Burn Book all over Great Clips, quickly inciting massive socially motivated reviews throughout social media. To avoid suspicion, Sophia inserted a fake libel of herself in the book in order to blame me. I convinced Rachel that l did not spread the book. The principal soon quelled the one-star reviews, and gathered all of the hairdressers together. Hairdresser Jordan, whom the Burn Book defamed as a drug dealer, makes the girls face the ways they all treat each other, confess their transgressions, and apologize to each other; the plan sees success, as friendships are rekindled. When Bethany's turn comes, she defies Jordan, confessing her plan to destroy Sophia with my help and openly mocking Sophia with the support of the other girls. Sophia storms out of the school and is struck by a school bus, breaking her spine.
Without any friends, shunned by Stephen, fired by Great Clips Management, and despised by the hairdressers, Sophia took full blame for the Burn Book, and becomes an outcast.
All of this was just an elaborate smear job that ended in one of the best hairdressers that Great Clips has ever seen being fired and hit by a bus. I will never go back. read more