Clari likes to play Hairdressers a lot, and we've played it many times with various brushes, flowers and hairclips and she once informed me that she wants to be a hairdresser when she grows up (although I've got a feeling Giorgio wouldn't be too happy with that decision). However when we play it mainly revolves around her insisting on being the customer so I brush her hair. When we swap, my turn doesn't usually last very long, and then she's back on the little blue plastic chair telling me that her hair needs to be 'as soft as a pillow'.
We were playing this game when Matt was round, only it was just the two of us as he was in my room doing some work. It came to be her turn again and I switched to sit in the little chair. She started off brushing my hair and twiddling with it and whatnot. Then she told me to close my eyes and cover them with my hands. I did so, but as you've seen before, it's always a dangerous thing to do. I peeked through my fingers and saw her leaning over to her little table. She turned and saw me peeking.
"Close your eyes!" she cried. I closed them again.
I was thinking.. what was at her little desk that she was going to use? She had some headbands over there and some clips maybe. I imagined her using some felt tips to give me some crazy rainbow highlights...
She came back behind me and fiddled with my hair for a little bit. Then it went very quiet and (still with my eyes covered), I heard the quiet sound of scissors cutting through hair. A feeling of horror swept over me and I leapt up and turned around to face a surprised Clari.
"HOW DARE YOU!?" I snatched the piece of hair from her hand and she started to cry. But I didn't care, this time was different. She was not allowed to do things like that.
I went downstairs to find Giorgio. I wanted her to get a proper telling off, something I've not yet seen happen. She doesn't get punished often (to be fair, I've not seen her properly punished at all yet). He came upstairs and we found Clari hiding in her bed. At first he misheard me and he thought I had said Clari had cut some of her own hair. Unfortunately this wasn't the case.
Three quarters of an hour later, we left her room. She wouldn't apologise to me so Giorgio said she couldn't continue playing until she'd come up to me and said a proper apology. She did, eventually, about another half an hour later.
Thank god I have long hair and she'd only cut a bit from the back. I dread to think how it could have ended.
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