Eye of the Storm

Story 2

You drive your Black Cadillac up to your friend and idol, Brent Smith's house. You get out of the car and start walking over to the door where you are greeted by Brent and his 3 dogs.
  "Hey, come on in." You walk into his beautiful house.
"It's been so long since we last hung out, you look great!" You say.
  "Yeah two years, and yeah I also lost 70 pounds"
  "Wow nice job, I'm so proud of you"
  "Thanks." He smiles.
  "So what do you want to do?" You ask.
  "I don't know, we could watch a movie I guess, I have the Avengers recorded."
  "Yeah, sounds great." You two head over to the couch and turn on the Avengers.
  "Oh, I'll go make us some popcorn"
  "Oh, you don't have to do that."
  "Don't worry about it, my treat" he skips into the kitchen and soon you start hearing the popcorn start popping. Soon he comes back with a large bowl of popcorn. He turns the lights off and sits down next to you with the popcorn. You watch as Loki makes a deal with Chitauri in order to get the energy source of unknown potential.  Twenty minutes later you run out of popcorn, so you get up to go wash your hands to get all the butter and grease off of them. When you enter the living room again, Brent's on the floor next to the couch playing with his little dog Lulu, you sit back on the couch, now wit Brent right in front of you. You hestitantly reach over and run your fingers through his long, soft, brown hair. He slightly jolts and and you let go. "Don't worry I don't mind if you play with my hair." He scoots closer to you now against the couch, and right in front of you. You continue to watch the movie as you continue to play with his long brown hair. You watch and laugh as the other Avengers harass each other. You enjoy when Brent laughs, it even make you chuckle a little bit too. As a little joke you start to French braid his hair. Brown strands running between your fingers. When you finish braiding his hair you take the hairtie off your wrist and tie it around the ends of his hair. When you let go he seems confused. "What did you do?" He says laughing. You start to giggle as he reaches in the back if his head to find his hair in a French Braid "Oh God." He grabs a pillow and whacks you over the head with it. You grab one too and the two of you start to have a pillow fight. The two of you become tired and are now just laying on the floor laughing. He sits up and says "Aww man, you messed up my hair." In a joking matter. You throw another pillow at him and in that perfect moment you hear Hulk in his low voice say, "Puny God" then Loki moaning. Both of you burst out laughing. You sit back up and move over to the front of the couch, to lazy to actually stand up then sit on it. Smirking, Brent stands up and sits on the couch behind you. For a second you were confused as to why he was grinning, but a few seconds later when you start to really focus in on the movie, he grabs a strand of your hair. You quietly laugh then say
  "Oh don't worry, I don't mind if you play with my hair." He laughs at your joke as he runs his fingers now through your hair. A minute or so later you hear him Say
  "Hmm"
  "What?"
  "Uh, well, h-how do you braid hair?"

  You wake up the next morning still smiling about last night. You sit up to see it's 8:30, and you slowly get out of bed and head downstairs to make a cup of coffee. You turn on the TV and get your laptop to start working. Since your job is a software designer so you can work where ever, when ever. You sit there creating a website for a customers with your coffee as you watch your favorite TV showin.The Walking Dead. Around noon you finish the website you had been working on all week. You decide it's time for lunch so you drive over to one of your favorite restaurants, Canes Chicken. You get you usual meal and sit down looking at your Pinterest feed on your phone. Soon you get up to throw away your trash and leave, when Zach Myers walks in. Knowing you, he walks over to you.
   "Hey, what's up?" You ask
   "Nothing much, did you hear about Brent?"
   "No. Why, is he okay?"
   "Yeah, he's fine, did you hear what he did though?"
   "No. What'd he do?"
   "Check your Instagram."
   "It doesn't work on my phone" you say. He smirks,
   "Well, you'll find out soon enough. Bye now." He walks over to the counter to take his order. Knowing that he isn't gonna tell you what happened, you leave and head home. You didn't realize how long you where out sitting there on your phone because I was 1:30. Now trying to find out what Brent did you log onto your computer and sign onto your Instagram account. Yet every time you try reloading your feed it says "something went wrong. You try reloading the web page and it goes back to the sign in screen. Now getting partially activated. You sign back on again. The page a its there with the little spinning loading sign. All of a sudden, he doorbell rings. You decide to set your computer on the table and see who was at the door. You open the door to see Brent standing on the other side, although it doesn't seem like the Brent you knew, this one had short hair. He smiles, your eyes getting wider.
   "Here, you left your hair tie at my house. I don't need it anymore."

    You stand there bewildered for a second. You snap out of your trance and take the hair tie from him and invite him in.
    "Want any coffee?" You ask
    "I'm good, thanks."
    "Suit yourself." You follow him into the living room staring slack jawed at the back of his head. "Sit any where you want." You offer. He takes a seat in one of your comfy chairs and you walk over and sit on the couch.
    "I can't believe you." You say.
    "What?"
    "I can't braid your hair anymore." You say jokingly. He stands up and walks over to you and sits down in front of you. You roll your eyes, but take advantage of the opportunity. Ty start to run your fingers through his hair which is now 5 or 6 inches shorter than it used to be. "Why'd you do it?" You ask.
    "What?"
    "Cut your hair!"
    "Why, don't you like it?"