Eye of the Storm

Story 1

As you sit on the couch watching some TV and messing around on your computer, your love Brent walks into the room. He sits on the couch and Belle jumps on to his lap. Earlier is long brown hair was in a pony tail, but he must have just taken it out.
"Hey." You say. He smiles. "Anything on your mind? You seem lost in thought."
"Eh." He says clearly hiding something. But you know he'll spill within a few minutes.
"Okay let me know if you have anything you want to talk about." You say generously.
"W-Well," he stammers. "I was thinking, I, well I kinda thought I should, cut my hair." He mumbles.
"Um okay. Its your decision." You offer.
"Cool. I'm just not quite sure what to do?"
"What ever that means." You laugh.
"You know what it means." He winks.
"Yeah, yeah. I'll look up some websites to find you some cool hair styles." You say typing in search terms into google to find some hairstyle making website. As a joke you choose goofy ones like blue hair or dreads, which you know he doesn't plan to ever get. You get a list of about 18 different ideas, half of which are a joke. You hand him the computer. You watch his facial expressions as he looks through different hairstyles.
"I don't really think any of those suit me maybe a little bit shorter. Those dreads are longer than my hair already is now."
"Yeah, those were jokes."
"Yeah, I realize that." He chuckles. He turns to his phone to look himself. The two of you sit there, you are watching TV, and him looking for haircuts on his phone. Whatever show you were watching ends and you walk out of the living room and head to bed. It was probably around midnight or one anyways. You get ready for bed and jump in on the left side. You plug your phone in, then lay down and close your eyes.
Within fifteen minutes Brent walks in and announces he found a haircut he liked. Great for him, but couldn't he have told me in the morning, You thought.
"Good for you." You say "Now get to bed. Or at least turn the light off."
"Got it." He says as he smiles at you, and walks in to the bathroom after turning the light off. Within a few minutes hr comes back out and gets in bed next to you.
"Did you want to tell me what you decided on or is it a secret?" You say with a caring tone.
"Sure, it's a surprise, but I will tell you it could be five to six inches shorter than it already is."
"Okay then. That's a lot, but do whatever you want. I understand that you want a change, especially since you did loose a lot of weight." You tell him. He smiles, happy you were okay with it.
"Okay, well goodnight." He smiles.
"Night." Both of you close your eyes. After a little while it seems that Brent fell asleep. You reach over to feel his long, light brown hair for probably the last time in a while. It is so soft. After a while you, also fell asleep.
Brent wakes you up while sitting up and getting out of bed around 8. He walks into the bathroom to take a shower. After a little while he walks out with shorts and a brown tank top on, accompanied by his wet brown hair.
"Hey, so remember your friend Kristen?" He asks.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Well, isn't she a hairstylist?"
"Oh yeah, want me to call and see if she can squeeze you in today?"
"Sure, that'd be great. Thanks"
"No problem." You say picking up your phone.

You get off the phone after talking to her.
"Okay, so here's the deal, she doesn't work Saturdays, but she said she would definitely be able to come over or she could get you Monday. Both work for her.
"Well I do have the I'll follow you video shoot, so if it isn't too much trouble if she could come over that'd be great."
"Cool, wanna tell her that?" You say handing him the phone. "I'm sure she would love to hear from you."
"Yeah, sure." He says taking the phone. He walks into the other room to talk. You hear chatter and laughter coming from next door.
Soon he gets off the phone and you walk into the living room, where he sat.
"She'll be here around 3." He says.

The time flies away and suddenly it was about 2:45. You tidy up around the house and make sure all of the dogs are fed. Soon the door bell rings. It's Kristen. You welcome her in. Brent turns the corner and sees the two of you.
"Hey you must be Kristen." Brent says holding out his hand.
"And I'm guessing your Brent, I love Shinedown, so its an honor you let me come over."
"My pleasure."
"So do you know what kind of haircut you want?"
"Yeah I think so, is it alright if we do it in here?" Brent says leading her into the office. "Its one of the only rooms with wood floor, I don't think carpeted rooms would be a good place for haircuts."
"Fine with me."
"Plus we have dogs so we can close the door if you want."
"Awwww can I see the doggies?"
"Yeah sure." All three of you walk around the house looking for the dogs. After finding them you hang out talking for a little while until Brent decided it was probably a good time for a haircut. Kristen grabs a few things from her car and soon Brent is sitting in a chair with a leopard print barber's cape around him. He quietly tells her what he wants, you didn't hear what he said. After a minute or so, when he says he's ready, Kristen grabs a lock of his brown hair and swiftly cuts it off. Brent doesn't move the whole time. You are sitting there, biting you finger nails watching hair drop to the floor.
Within half an hour or so. Ish. She finishes and Brent stands up not looking like Brent and heads off to the bathroom to take wash the excess hair off of him. You and Kristen go sit on the couch. You talk about how he just out of the blue he decided to cut his hair and talked about how soft his hair is. Weird conversation. After a while Brent sneaks out of the bathroom and behind you and startles you. The "new"Brent sits down adjacent from the two of you in the couch.
"Like it?" you ask.
"Yeah its great. But it's so weird and different." he says. "Thank you by the way Kristen"
"Yeah its my pleasure." Kristen assures. You sit there staring at Brent's short hair. It was longer on top and a bit shorter on the sides. He didn't look like himself. Hopefully it'll grow on you. He runs his fingers through his hair.
"Its so weird, I haven't had short hair since I was like 16."
"Don't worry you'll get used to it. change is a good thing." Kristen promises.
After everyone finishes their conversations, Kristen leaves and you and Brent go find something to eat. You heat up some leftovers from the previous night and sit down at the table. Soon Brent joins you.
"So how do you think the, guys are going to react to your hair?" You ask.
"Oh who knows, I'm mean I'm sure Zach will definitely harass me about it but I think the other guys may say one or two things about my hair, but honestly I don't really think they'll care." he explains.
"That does sound like something Zach would do."