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Sayeon's hair was getting long again, it was starting to get on her nerves. Dahee was nowhere in sight, she needed the extra length gone as soon as possible.
She settled on asking Ryujin. How bad can she really be with chopping off her hair?
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Ryujin found a pair of kitchen scissors in the dorm kitchen, took it back up to their room. Where Sayeon was waiting in the bathroom.
"So… How short do you want this?" Ryujin awkwardly asks from behind her, twirling the scissors on her fingers.
"I don't know, maybe around here? It's just getting too long, it doesn't need to be perfect." Sayeon shrugs and puts her hand above her shoulder to show Ryujin how short she wants her hair.
Ryujin gathers all of Sayeon's hair back and brushes it out. Ryujin is pretty rough with her brushing, it's tugging and pulling at Sayeon's scalp in the worst ways. Then she gathers it all into a ponytail once its brushed through and starts cutting off the length right under the hair tie, the kitchen scissors aren't the sharpest, so it's sawing through Sayeon's hair and definitely causing more breakage in the process.
It's definitely not even either, after the chunk of hair falls to the floor Ryujin examines under the ponytail she just cut off. It's definitely not straight, towards the end of it Ryujin started getting a bit irritated with how long it was taking and eventually the scissors were no longer parallel to the floor, as they should be, and twisted it at an angle instead to try and get through it faster.
She tries to fix the small part that's sticking out longer than the rest of it and cuts it off. She decides it looks even enough. She takes off the hair tie she put on Sayeon and brings some of her hair to the front again to look at the results.
What Ryujin doesn't know. Is that when you bring all the hair back and cut it evenly, the front parts that were pulled back will be longer once they fall forward again.
"Are we done…?" Sayeon asks, seeing the panicked expression on Ryujin's face in the mirror.
"No! Not yet, I still need to fix the front." Ryujin says as she twirls Sayeon around to face her instead of the mirror.
The height difference was going to be a problem. Ryujin avoided looking Sayeon in the eyes, clearly flustered by the sudden attention on her. Sayeon knew what she was doing, she also enjoyed towering over Ryujin. It was her favorite activity.
"Ugh… Go grab a chair or something, glasses!"
Sayeon does exactly that, returning to the bathroom with a chair as she sits in front of Ryujin. This time looking up at her. Sayeon doesn't miss how Ryujin's face slightly gets red. She's also enjoying the reversed role dynamic of being at Ryujin's mercy (Trusting her to cut her hair and not stab her with the scissors.) Ryujin keeps avoiding Sayeon's eyes, but she was enjoying the feeling of looming over Sayeon, she understands why Sayeon is so obsessed with towering over her all the time now.
Ryujin poorly sections off the front part of Sayeon's head with her fingers and brushes it forward. She realizes how uneven it is when it's all up in the front like this, not only is it noticeably longer than the back, but it's also uneven if you compare the left and right front pieces. She gathers it all into a ponytail again before snipping through it again. Then she realizes she made the same mistake but in the front this time, she should've just cut it without the hair tie.
"Oh shit…" Ryujin suddenly mutters under her breath. Taking out the hair tie and brushing it out again to try and fix it.
"Y'know, that's not very assuring to hear from someone cutting your hair. How badly did you mess up?" Ryujin can still feel Sayeon's eyes on her through the thin strands of hair covering her face.
"It's fine. I can still fix this." Ryujin tries to reassure.
"I'll help you next time." Ryujin sees Sayeon's eyes glow teal from under the hair draped over her face.
"Glasses, what the fuck are you talking about."
Snap!
Ryujin poorly sections off the front part of Sayeon's head with her fingers and brushes it forward. She realizes how uneven it is when it's all up in the front like this, not only is it noticeably longer than the back, but it's also uneven if you compare the left and right front pieces. She gathers it all into a ponytail again before—
"Hey, maybe put the hair tie away, just try to cut it evenly in one line where it naturally falls on my face?" Sayeon reaches her hand out and places it on top of Ryujin's hand, who was in the middle of tying part of Sayeon's hair into a ponytail.
"Ugh. If you know this much about cutting hair, why don't you do it yourself instead of bossing me around!" Ryujin didn't want Sayeon to think she was incapable of such a (seemingly) simple task like cutting hair. She was getting irritated she couldn't get it right either.
"I'm not bossing you around! Just giving you some advice I heard from people in high school." Sayeon successfully finds a decent excuse.
This seems to calm Ryujin down. She lets go of Sayeon's hair and brushes it down normally. She leans down to Sayeon's level, face to face with her. As she tries to cut off the front pieces in a straight line. Occasionally hearing words of encouragement from Sayeon about how straight and even it looks.
It's not, she's lying. She's just being nice and doesn't want to upset Ryujin. It doesn't look horrible so far, but it's not the best haircut Sayeon's ever gotten either.
Ryujin tries to part her hair down the middle and brush it all out together, letting her hair fall naturally into place. She tries to even out some parts of it where there's a harsh difference between the front and back pieces. Sayeon can hear Ryujin letting out various frustrated noises. Eventually Sayeon just tells Ryujin she did a great job with her hair and she liked it. Even going as far as messing with her hair in the mirror in front of Ryujin and thanking her for helping her with it. Ryujin doesn't fully believe that she did a good job but simply tells herself she's overthinking it.
Ryujin decides to go to bed early to get her mind off of the poor hair cut she gave Sayeon, and to get her mind off of thinking about being that close to Sayeon. Touching and brushing her hair, the way Sayeon looked up at her through her hair, and the way Sayeon was towering over her for a few seconds before she freaked out and told her to grab a chair. She shamefully daydreams about being so close with Sayeon for a while before sleeping, her mind wandering to more and more thoughts about Sayeon before deciding to focus entirely on sleep. Sayeon can see how red Ryujin's face was getting again as she tossed and turned in bed, and wondered what she was thinking about.
As Ryujin dozed off, the door cracks open, with Dahee and Tsubaki coming in, noticing Ryujin is asleep, and whispering greetings to Sayeon. Sayeon jumps out of bed and goes over to Dahee, pulling her into the bathroom.
"Ryujin gave me a haircut." Sayeon simply states to Dahee.
"… I can see that!" Dahee replies, not sure where the conversation is going.
"It's all messed up but I don't want to hurt her feelings, do you mind fixing this up for me real quick?"
"Oh, yeah sure…! Let me go grab my hair shears!" Dahee was caught off guard, but enthusiastically agrees.
Sayeon lets out a sigh of relief. This girl has actual hair shears and not the nasty kitchen scissors that were sawing through her hair. She does feel a little guilty for messing with it after telling Ryujin she did a great job on it. It's not like Ryujin will be able to tell the difference by tomorrow anyway.