Black-haired neighbor. by Chovanec

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Sorry for me weak English is not my native language. I recently heard the story from a man who was born in 1960.
My name is Peter and I am 14 years old. My brother Raul is 11 years old. Since I remember, my father goes with us every 2 months to the old-fashioned barber at Samson's barber shop. About 2 weeks before the start of the new school year, new neighbors moved in with us. The boy was my age and had beautiful black long hair. They covered not only his ears but also part of his face. At the back, they reached about 3 inches across the collar of the shirt. His name was Ogy. He lived only with his mother. I envied his hair.
One day his mother came to us, said they were new to the city, they didn't know anyone here, and she asked her father if he could advise a barber for her son to look decent when he started school. Her father told her that he would go with me and my brother to Samson's barber shop on Saturday at 9 o'clock, and her son Ogy could come with us. The mother was pleased, thanked her father for taking her son's haircut.
Ogy came to us on Saturday morning. We all went to the barber. When he noticed Samson's barber shop, he asked me if it was a traditional barber shop or a fashion barber shop. I told him it was a barber shop with a barber chair and the barber was an old gray gentleman. Then Ogy told my father. Sir, there must have been a misunderstanding. His father replied that he had agreed with his mother to take him to Samson's barber shop and would do so. Ogy blushed and was obviously scared. There were several older men and a gentleman with two boys aged about 8 and 9 in the barber shop. When the boys left the barber shop, Ogy told me that he felt sorry for the boys with their short hair. I just smiled at him but I was quiet. Soon the barber called another one, and his father asked Ogy to sit in the barber's chair. Ogy got up and walked uncertainly to the barber. I sat down so that I had the best possible view of the barber chair. My father went to Ogy's and told Mr. Samson. This is our new neighbor Oga and his mother asked me to be well groomed before the new school year. The barber asked: How will it be today. Ogy stuck his hand out from under the sail as if to show something on his hair. But the barber looked at our father and he said: Give him a haircut as you give my sons.
Ogymu's barber combed his hair, then lifted it with his comb and cut it with scissors. In a few minutes, much of his black hair was on the ground. When the barber leaned his head forward, he placed electric scissors on his neck and began to climb with them along the back of his head. He put them on his neck again and climbed the back of his head. After them, only a small stubble of black hair remained. The barber cut the hair on his hips just as he did on the back of his head. When he muffled the sound of scissors, his relatively long hair was still on the top of his head. But even the barber lifted them between his fingers and cut them off. He had an inch long hair on top of his head. The barber made a gradual transition from stubble to the top of his head. Ogy was ready to jump out of the barber's chair, but he moistened the stubble and applied white foam to it, which he gradually removed with a sharp razor. My father had already asked me to prepare for his replacement. I got up and approached the chair. His black hair contrasted with the white skin. The barber applied water to his hair that I didn't like. As the barber put his sail down, Ogy searched for his hair above his neck before he could jump out of his chair.
When the barber cut me and I had the opportunity to look in the mirror, I saw Ogy's hands still searching for his hair and finding out what was left on his head. When my brother Raul replaced me in the barber's chair, I joined Oga's haircut. He was watching my back of the head. He told me I had shorter hair than the two boys. I told him: just like me, you have shaved 3 inches above the collar of your shirt and your thumb on the top of your head. I saw his eyes for the first time. They were dark brown and now frightened.

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