My First Haircut #15

Poor Ariel is forced into some embarrassing moments. Why?

Ariel, a homely girl with buck teeth is framed by Lucy and her friends for stealing from the bookstore since she would not help them cheat on a test. Lucy orchestrates a painful and lasting punishment for Ariel. With no other way to defend herself, Ariel agrees to put herself in a compromising position.

The next afternoon, Lucy forces herself into Ariel's bedroom brandishing a pair of scissors. She holds out her hand demanding Ariel's purse. Ariel lowers her purse to her wrist to surrender it to Lucy. The others watch from the open window as Lucy finds the keys to Ariel's new car and takes them from her captured purse. Lucy demands Ariel to strip for the others.

Ariel takes off her blouse and skirt to reveal heart print underwear. Among her stuffed animals, in the one place that was until now her private sanctuary, Ariel brings her knee length tresses in front of each shoulder. She takes the scissors to her hair. Lucy holds Ariel's hair at her shoulder. Shaking, Ariel cuts her own hair for the first time in a crooked line at her jaw. Lucy holds the cut hair in victory as the others cheer.

Ariel cuts the other side of her hair. Lucy parades Ariel outside in her underwear and forces her into the back seat of her own car. The four drive Ariel's car to the park where Ariel is left out to walk home on her own while the others take off for a joy ride in her car.

Ariel makes the journey home amidst stares and cat calls to cry in her room, holding her shorn tresses. Her car is returned later that night covered in mud and out of gas. After having her hair evened into a short pixie cut, she must lie how she decided she cut her hair of her own free will for the first time in her life to her parents!

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** Condensed, one of a series of painful undeserved punishments dealing with the lasting effect on the victim of bullying.**

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