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A puff of air leaves him, strands of hair following it as he struggled to see the paper in front of him, peering at the jumbled mess of words from beneath the mop of hair that he called his own as he struggled to pay attention to what the professor was trying to share with them. Gaze flickers up, peering at the board, annoyance flickering within his chest as a hand shifts to keep the strands away from his face, pleased when they follow through for a few moments before falling back into place. Covering his eyes once more and tickling the back of his ears and neck, grip tightens on the pen in his hands, ignoring the way that annoyance shifted to something else as his focus rests on the long strands of brown hair. It wasn’t fair! Torbek didn’t have money for haircuts let alone the fact that the…the, he couldn’t remember his name, wanted him to have long hair for those weird experiments. He couldn’t focus with it in his face and touching his neck!
None of it was fair and Torbek wanted to chop it all off, or do something that would make it stop from being in his way! He wanted to do something with it instead of leaving it all knotted and everywhere, teeth bit into lip, shoulders shaking as more hair fell into his face before jerking. Eyes wide as they snapped towards familiar blonde, wide blue eyes peering at him and Torbek blinked down at Gricko, mumbling an apology.
“Don’t be sorry! Do you want me to put your hair up! Hootsie likes getting her hair done so I know a thing or two!” Gricko grinned, whispering so the class wasn’t disturbed.
“Torbek would looove that, but Torbek doesn’t have a hair t-“ He stopped, peering to see the older man swiftly move, pulling out a small bundle of black hair ties, shifting so he was now closer.
“ I ain’t got a brush but I can still put it up so it’s out of your face! Then after class we’ll run to Kremy cause he always has a brush!” Gricko winked before Torbek felt fingers scooping up his hair, moving to get all the strands from his face with deft fingers before it was all tied up, nothing touching his neck, or falling into his eyes and the lanky man turned to look at his beaming friend, shifting to hug him tightly and mumble his thanks before a loud cough catches his focus.
“Mr.GrimGrin and Mr….er, are you two done interrupting class?”
“Oh! Yeah! Just helping a friend out teach, please continue on bout er…ya know!” Gricko grinned waving his hand as Torbek shrunk back, peering at the board again, smiling that his hair was no longer bothering him.