Chapter One
“Mommy, I don’t want to go to the hair salon! Please, leave me here by myself!”
“No, you have to go with me, because you’re the one that has to have the haircut.”
“My hair’s long! I want it to be like this!”
“Well, you have to cut your bangs.”
“Your bangs are way too long.”
“I know it’s up to my chin, but I’ll just move it to the sides and put a clip. Please, Mom! I just don’t want to cut my hair! Please, please, just respect me! I’ll stay here with Teddy.”
“If you want to stay here with Teddy, you have to have a babysitter.”
“Not the mean one again! Not Sophia!”
“Well, that’s the only one I can find online.”
“Please, Mom! I want to stay here, I don’t want to cut my hair! My hair is the most beautiful thing right now. I don’t want it to be horrible! Please, let me Mom. I’m voting for you!”
“Silly, Sandy.”
“But Mom! Please! Or I’ll stay here with Daddy.”
“Well, he’s going to come at nighttime.”
“Well, I’ll wait for him at nighttime when he’s back from the day.”
“Well, I’m going to be back from the day,” said Mom.
“But Mom, I’m already ten. Why can’t you leave me here by myself?”
“Let’s not argue. Your hair is getting way too long, and it’s already touching your toes.”
“So? I like it there. I can make longer braids, tie it up into a bun, etc.”
“I know, but I want it to get shorter like this.”
“No, that’s way too short! I looked horrible when I had shorter hair when I was a baby like this.”
“Then, your hair was almost touching your knees. Come on, let’s just go.”
“Mommy, don’t pull my hair here! I’m not Sleeping Beauty. Even though I liked the movie.”
“Well, okay, fine. Only this once.”
“At least it’s up to my knees. I like my hair this long.”
“Well, sweetie, we have to go. It’s going to close any second.”
“That’s what I want to happen! Well, okay, fine. I’ll go with you. The hair salon is going to be bad. Oh, I have an idea. I can hide from the person that cuts my hair. Well, I think that won’t work. Because I went there last time, and they cut my hair up to my hands, and then I tried to hide, but they found me really easily under the chair. Oh! They never found me under the table. Let me try this time under the table.”
Chapter Two: The Bad Haircut
Oh, I’m here. Where’s the table around here so I can hide? I hope they don’t cut my hair like that guy: his hair, like, stripes. Mom says they put hair dye on his hair. I want pink hair dye.
“You’re not getting hair dye, because you’re too young.”
“How old are you?”
“I’m ten.”
“You have to be 14 to get hair dye.”
“Please, Mom!”
“Okay, fine, only because your birthday’s coming up.”
“Which color do you want?”
“I want light blue that goes to pink. Dark pink.”
“Fine, okay. I’m going to ask them if we can do that.”
“We can do that!”
“Yay!! Thanks, Mom.”
“You’re welcome. But I won’t let you do this again.”
“This is the last time I’m going to do this. I promise this is the last time. But Mommy, there’s a mistake. Tie dye doesn’t come out of your hair.”
“What? No!”
“But we already paid for it.”
“Okay, only this once.”
“But it won’t come out! For this whole year.”
“Fine. It will never come out.”
“Even when you’re a grandma it won’t come out.”
“Can I take my money back?”
“No.”
“No,” said Mom.
“I’m going to have tie dye, ya ya ya ya ya.”
“Okay. I’m going to ask them if there’s any shampoo that can take it out of your hair.”
“No, there’s no shampoo.”
“Oh my gosh, I was almost caught there. I have to hurry, in case Mom says my birthday’s coming up. Can you not cut my hair and only put hair dye?”
“Okay, okay, okay, fine. Only because your birthday’s coming up, okay? You hear me?”
“Yes. Mom. Are you going to put the hair dye on? Or are you going to cut my hair?”
“She’s going to put the hair dye.”
“Well let’s do it, yay!”
Snip.
“No! My hair is ruined!!!”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Now it’s time to put hair dye on.”
Chapter Three: The Hair Dye
Sandy was sad that the hair lady cut her hair. She asked not to, but she did. Sandy was super sad.
“Mommy, I don’t want to stay here in this place. She cut my hair when I didn’t ask her to! I love my blond hair! Please, please, I want to get out of here, and I want to get a wig. Please! Because if she cuts everything off, I can get a wig!”
“If you get a wig, it’ll just fall off.”
“Just… please, Mom. I promise you.”
“No, you can’t do that.”
“I asked for a shark hair, with teeth.”
“I know, that’s why she made those big things. You can’t paint them.”
“Oh, that’s why. Please keep doing what you’re doing, Ms. Hairstylist. I forgot that I said I want shark hair. But don’t make it too big, because I still want to make rays on my hair.”
“Okay, I’m sorry that I cut it and you didn’t say to, but you said to make shark hair, and I’m sorry that I did. I can put your hair back with glue, then.”
“What? You can?”
“Only if I cut all of your hair out and put a wig on your head.”
“Which type of glue?”
“It’s like edible glue.”
“What? I don’t get what you’re saying, Ms. Stylist lady.”
“Well, I believe in you. Do you believe in me?’
“It’s not a poem.”
“Well, you know that you, miss little lady…”
“I’m not a little lady, I’m a kid. I’m ten years old. I’m turning eleven. I hope that you keep on doing your shark teeth, but not up to my forehead, because then I’d be really sad.”
“Okay,” said the hair stylist. “I’ll make them up to here, is that okay? To your knees?”
“Sure. Well, no, only up till my ankles, okay?”
“Okay. Up to your ankles. One cut, shark teeth, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and then… well, okay, I’m done. Now to put the hair dye on! First I’m going to get a brush and start putting the hair dye on your hair.”
“Okay! I hope it shines like my friend’s does. Wait, why are you putting my hair in the water? The hair dye will come out!”
“No, it’s to get your hair wet, and then it’ll come out lighter.”
“Okay, fine. I love my hair. It’s wonderful. I’m going to look in the mirror! Ooh, I look like I’m in a shark place where the sharks play, at the end of the sea.”
“You’re welcome! That’s 24 bucks!”
“What?? That’s way too much, I need to go to the bank. Wait, there’s Cece and her mom. Let me ask them if they have some money.”
Sandy asked Cece if she had any money.
“Oh,” she said. “Hi, Sandy?”
“Do you have any money for my haircut?”
“Oh, I love your hair!”
“I know, that’s why I need money to pay for it. Do you have any money?”
“Oh, I only have 24 bucks.”
“Wow, that’s perfect! Because I only have 100 dollars. So only give us 24 bucks, cuz that’s the right amount that I need to pay for my hair. Yay! I can pay for my hair, and I’m going to show dad when he gets home. He’s going to love it.”
Chapter Four: Getting Home
“Wow, my hair is so adorable! No wait, there’s a problem! There’s going to be a thunderstorm coming, and we’re only going to arrive in 30 minutes. And there’s so much traffic! If we get late, Dad will be mad, and also, we can maybe even get hurt, because our car is made out of metal. We need to go quick.”
“Okay, let’s hurry! Let’s take the shortcut.”
“Okay, let’s get home. Go down to 32, veer 34. It’s only one block. No wait, we’re in Columbus. We have to be in Broadway. We live in Broadway, not here. But this is where our cousin lives. Let’s ask them if we can sleep there for one day.”
But when they got there, they already had someone at their house.
“Oh man, I guess we have to take another traffic the right way.”
“Okay, let’s go. Oh wait, wait a second! There’s no more traffic and no more thunder! Yay, we have all the street for ourselves!”
“No we don’t, because look. There’s still a little bit of traffic up ahead.”
“But still, I’m happy that we’re almost home, so I can show Daddy my hair. Yay, yay, yay, we’re almost home! Let’s go home. I’m so worried that Daddy gets hit by thunder.”
“That will never happen! He’s already home.”
“Let me call Daddy. I have a phone cuz I’m ten.”
“You’re actually eleven.”
“Well, I’m not eleven yet. Well I know tomorrow’s my birthday but tomorrow’s gonna be raining like today so we have to do it today at home, because we are going to vacation tomorrow to celebrate there. But we can’t go, because there’s a traffic jam- a big one!”
“Finally, the traffic jam is done and I can see home. FINALLY! Finally, we got here at home.”
“Where were you?” Daddy said.
“We were at the hair salon, and I got a new hairstyle!” Sandy said.
“I love it! I want to go there!
“Not now, please. I can’t drive anymore. So many traffic jams.” Said Mom.
“Okay fine, another day.”
“I’ll go by myself tonight.”
“Don’t, please, it’s terrifying getting back home.”
THE END