Raina Sun is cashing in a gift certificate for a free hairstyle from the town's premier beauty salon and day spa.
No more walking dandelion head, thank you very much.
Life is on the up-and-up-until she finds an attacker holding her best friend in a headlock outside the treatment rooms.
She never thought she would spend her birthday pinned against a rice paper screen, gagging on a mouthful of seaweed, with the attacker plucking at her best friend's weave like a farmwife de-feathering a chi.