Scissors01
*Be sure to read Part 1 first*
Please don’t cut my hair,” Julie pleaded. “I promise to take care of it while I live here and to start helping around the house.” She reached out a quivering hand to stroke her locks and Uncle Jack swatted it and pushed her slender arm back under the bedsheet.
“Your hair is going to be short while living in this house under our rules,” Jack told her. “Honestly, I have never seen such a mass of hair in my life, and we certainly don’t need that clogging up the drains. We don’t have the money for you to go to some fancy salon, either. You are long overdue for a decent haircut, and it will be up to Mary and I exactly how short it will be cut!”
Julie glanced over toward Aunt Mary and cousin Natalie, trying to find any support at all, but they both seemed to be so engrossed in her fate, that they merely smiled back. Julie sat there trembling in the chair, tears forming, as her uncle gathered up his comb and scissors and stepped up beside her.
Julie squirmed as he began to comb through her luscious blonde hair, panicking as she realized that there was no way out of this. Jack smiled a big toothy grin as he had been looking forward to this moment for several weeks, and he was all ready to take pleasure in giving Julie her first major chop!
How short do you think I should take it down?” Jack asked his wife, poised beside Julie with the comb and scissors.
“Let’s start with a regular pixie cut and see how it looks. We can always go shorter later. Who knows, she might enjoying having her hair cut short,” Mary joked. “And don’t forget to add a side part to the pixie, that always makes it look better.”
“Okie dookie, one nice pixie cut with a side part coming up!” Jack exclaimed as he smiled down at his poor niece, his latest victim in the chair. He wanted to relish this opportunity and make the haircut last, so he decided that it would be best to start with the scissors.
Standing beside Julie, he combed up a long shiny blonde lock on the left side near her temple, held the hair out with his fingers and wacked it off with the sharp scissors. Natalie and Mary gasped as Jack tossed the severed hair onto the makeshift cape in front of his niece, who went numb trying to hold her emotions back.
Jack combed out the next strand and scissored it off to the same length. The blonde hair being barbered was so light in color and so thin that he could already see Julie’s pale scalp showing through what remained on top. Working down the left side, more severed locks continued to fall, joining the growing pile in Julie’s lap.
Jack continued to comb out and lop off great hanks of the golden blonde locks, reducing her crowning glory to about five inches all over, while enjoying every second of the shearing. As he rotated around the chair, removing lock after lock, he made sure not to block the view of his captive audience.
Mary and Natalie were focused on every snip of Julie’s beautiful hair, enjoying the massacre. Julie just stared at the pile of her lifeless silky tresses in her lap as tears were welling up in her eyes. She was devastated, having spent so much time caring for the hair, only to have it hacked off by her uncle while her aunt and niece looked on.
“I can’t believe you are doing this,” Julie sobbed. “My parents never would have allowed such a thing. You are ruining my hair!” Julie’s tears began to stream down her cheeks as the last of the long hair was lopped off and dropped in her lap, the snipping of the scissors now silent for the moment.
Slap! Jack smacked her cheek with the palm of his hand. “Don’t you talk to me like that young lady!” her uncle boomed. “If you start fighting me, I will be forced to cut your hair even shorter. Dry your tears right now,” Jack commanded as he placed the scissors on the counter and picked up the spray bottle. “I’m only getting started and you will look just fine when I’m done. Beside its only hair, it’s not like I’m cutting your arm off,” he joked. Julie just whimpered in response.
Holding the spray bottle, Jack spritzed the shortened locks all over, combing the hair back and forth to ensure that it was thoroughly wet down. After some consideration, he decided that Julie would look better with her hair parted on the right.
A line was drawn with the comb and a sharp part was formed, with the blonde hair being combed across the top of Julie’s head. Because Julie had previously parted her hair down the middle, Jack had to spend some extra time rewetting and reworking the hair so that it would lay down properly in the side parted style.
Once the part was nice and crisp, he began on the right side first, tilting her head slightly to make it easier. Julie trying to be difficult, stiffened her neck back to the upright position.
Slap! Jack smacked her other cheek this time and forcibly tilted her head to the side again. “Try me again young lady and I will just shave it all off!” her uncle growled. Julie, both cheeks stinging and both eyes now red, pouted about how unfair this was.
Not letting his niece’s outbursts interfere with his desires, Jack worked on trimming down each strand to an inch in length below the side part, using the comb as a guide. Jack continued combing and cutting, the hungry scissors making quick work of her blonde hair.
He placed the scissors at an angle in front of her right ear and created an abbreviated side burn. The scissors crunched as they continued their path up around her delicate white ear, cutting cleanly so that the ear was now fully exposed.
Jack moved to Julie’s left side, tilted her head over and repeated the process, shortening the hair while exposing her ear to match the right side. Stepping behind Julie, he pushed her head forward to her chest, and shortened up each strand across the nape, combing and cutting to ensure that nothing was missed. Jack ran the scissors along the edge of her hairline, noticing a light pink birthmark that appeared as he snipped the hair away.
Now it was time to tackle the top. Jack decided that he would cut the front with more weight to one side so that it would look better with the side part.
Using his fingers as a guide, he began by combing up the blonde hair at the very front and snipping it down to three inches in length. The hair was combed back into place and then another lock was selected. Methodically, each lock was cropped to a uniform three inches across the top.
Stepping around to the front, Jack combed the bangs straight down. He inserted the scissors partway up her forehead and sliced off some length, cutting at a slight upward angle from right to left. The bangs were combed back over to the side and patted into place.
Jack got the electric trimmers and set about cleaning up her hairline and neck, removing the remaining bristles of fuzz.
Poor Julie sat there all alone in the chair throughout the haircut, petrified, listening the scissors snipping off the lovely golden tresses from her head, piece by piece. She would be haunted in her dreams from this experience forever.
At first large hanks of blonde hair spilled as the bulk was removed, then smaller lengths rained down and the pile of hair around her grew. Her uncle and his ruthless scissors were set on giving her the biggest shearing of her life.
Julie was sick to her stomach, never before experiencing such humiliation. Losing both of her parents at such a young age was horrible enough. But now being subjected to such a drastic haircut in her new home, at the whims of her new family, was almost too much. Julie sobbed uncontrollably, hoping the ordeal would be over soon.
Jack, still acting like giving his pretty niece a short haircut was just everyday business, stepped back and examined the new cut. He thought that Julie looked very sharp in the new pixie cut. The blonde hair remaining on her head was even shorter than the first major haircut that he had given Natalie years ago. He was happy with how the transformation had turned out.
“Well, what do you think?” Jack asked Mary.
“She looks very handsome in this style,” Mary exclaimed as if she were referring to a boy instead. “I think we should stop at this length for now until she gets used to it. Later we can always take more off as we deem fit on account of her behavior. For now, just gel it and let’s call it a night”
“Sounds good,” Jack nodded in agreement. Jack brushed the loose trimmings off Julie’s head and shook the cape while unclipping it. Taking the bottle of spray gel from the counter, he began to soak down Julie’s remaining hair.
Using the comb, he retraced the side part and combed the blonde hair over on the top, ensuring that the front was lifted clear of her forehead. Jack combed the hair on the sides back toward her little ears. The light blonde hair was sleek and shiny now under the glow of the kitchen light.
Natalie had disappeared moments before but now returned carrying a hand mirror from the bathroom. She held the mirror up front of her cousin and waited for her to react. Julie took one look at herself and burst into fresh tears. She did look like a boy indeed; her luscious blonde locks had been reduced quite a bit.
“You better get used to regular haircuts while you live under this roof,” Jack exclaimed. “Your cousin Natalie did and so will you!”
