Cousin games by Sky

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I used to live with my aunt and her daughter who is 2 years older than me during my university days. She's really pretty with nice thick shiny hair till her mid back. She usually goes for a haircut once every 4-5 months and gets her hair nicely trimmed to get rid of any damage. On the contrary I'm a guy who likes to keep his hair longer, with my top being around 6 inches in length while my sides and back are kept shorter with it being around inch or two long. My hair touches my lip usually and when I go for a haircut I just get a trim and get rid of an inch or at max 1.5 inchwhich would result in my hair reaching tip of nose from lip length. While my sides and back are kept shorter with it being around inch or two long.

This story happened during one of the rainy season. My cousin was dropping me to my university on that perticular day in her car as it was raining and I couldn't take my bike to the university. For some unknown reasons I wasn't that close with her so we were just speaking some random things during the journey. She dropped me to my uni and said she would pick me up once I'm done. I had a huge day at uni and called cousin to pick me up. She came after sometime and picked me. As we were heading back at one point she touched my hair and said you need to get a haircut. I wasn't sure what to reply but it was obvious that I was quite overdue for a haircut as I hadn't got a haircut from 2 months. I said I will cut it this weekend with a low voice as I don't like going to hairstylists. She still had hand in my hair observing the length and said that let's go now for haircut. I wasn't sure what to say and just gave a faint smile. She searched for places to take me for haircut and started following the directions.

We reached the salon which was not that far away. She parked the car and I started walking towards the salon. As I was about to enter the salon she stopped me and said let's go to the barbershop which is next to the salon. I was petrified by what she said. I said can we go to the salon itself as they will be knowing the latest trend and also barber won't be able to give me the haircut I want. She said that they have a good review and they will be able to give you the haircut you want. I couldn't say anything and just followed her into the barbershop. We sat in the waiting chair as the barber welcomed us and said we'll be next once he finishes the haircut of current customer. My cousin was observing the shop and slowly in my ear said that she has never been in a barbershop before that was she was adamant on coming to barbershop.

While I was waiting for my turn I was just thinking about if barber will do what I ask for. While I was dreaming barber called next and my cousin asked me to go and sit. I went and sat in the chair all worried. Barber caped me and asked "are we taking off much today". I said no and said that I just want it trimmed like an inch or two off the length at max while cutting my sides and back off the ears and collar. He said ok and took the water sprayer to spray my hair wet. He took the comb and scissors and started cutting the sides and back. My cousin got off the waiting chair, walked towards the barber chair and stood right next to it watching the whole process. It made me very conscious as she was constantly touching my hair and taking off any cut off hair off my face. With all these going on I didn't even realise that my sides and back were taken care of as barber started cutting the length. I was now just anxiously watching barber to see him cutting my length off. He was actually doing a good job as he was just cutting off what I had asked him to.

As he was rigorously cutting the length off, hair started falling on my lap and face. My cousin kept observing all the action intensively at the same time running her hand through my hair as the barber gave regular pauses to see his work. He finally announced that haircut is done and I was literally the happiest when he said that. He asked to check if I was happy with the work. I was soo interested in getting off this madness that I wasn't interested in even checking and was about to say it's perfect and leave. But my cousin was looking at the work and pulling the hair to check. She put my fringes front and it fell just below nose. While she was checking and playing with my hair I was feeling good as well as irritated. It was kind of a mixed feeling.

She stopped playing with hair, looked at the barber and said "can you cut the fringes shorter, it'll get long enough to get into his mouth in no time". She looked at me gave a smile, placed hand on my head, roughled my hair and said start cutting. Barber took his scissors and started cutting the fringe. Another inch of hair came troumbling down to rest on my lap. He now looked at my sister and said "now I'll take some length off the rest to match the newly cut fringe". She straight away said "carry on". He continued snipping my hair off like an inch off. She again instructed the barber saying "chop more off the length". By this time barber was fed up of her games, he directly asked her how she wanted my haircut to look at the end. She with a smile and hand on my face picking little snippets said " chop off the length and give him stubbles look".

My Jaws dropped hearing this. Before I could react barber had already lifted my hair and started cutting scissors over comb. Snip snip snip, all my hair started falling on my face and onto my lap. I was looking at the length he cut. Very long strands started collecting on my lap. I was really anxious and nervous at how my haircut was turning into.

Finally, the barber stopped and looked at my sister. She nodded her head and said " it's enough, it's Nice and short. It is good to have short hair during rainy season" as she ran her hands over my head. My once long hair were now totally reduced to stubbles. My fringes were not even long enough to reach one fourth of my forehead.

Barber took of the Cape, my sister paid him and we exited the salon. We didn't speak a word to each other until we reached home. 

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