The Hair Extension

One day while I was looking at the trinkets in Mak Ucu’s room, I saw her ‘cemara’. Cemara is kind of wig and is an old version of hair extension. It is usually made of real hair and is used to help make hair chignons. I was fascinated by the cemara. I touched it and tried to look at my self in the mirror with it on my head. Suddenly a small gecko jumped out of the cemara. It was as frightened as I was. In fact it was so frightened it detached its tail, which horrifed me even more. I threw the hair down and must have screamed my head off. Mak Ucu rushed in to see what happened. She was able to calm me down but I never touched the cemara again. And I was always wary of geckos after that.