The Good Hair Family Sitcom

S3 E10.3: Brotherhood

Jayda's POV

Austen swings my hand back and forth as we walk down around the main floor of the hospital. Her puffy piggy tails bounce as she hops along beside me, trying to only step on specific dots of colour on the hard floor.

"I was just as cute as you," I reason. "Maybe cuter."

"Me!" Austen shouts.

"Wow," I mumble. "Narcissistic much?"

She giggles at that then gazes up at me and says, "Jayda, I—I love you."

"Ah, frick," I mutter. "You are really cute."

She laughs again as we wander into what must be the cafeteria. But Austen halts by a glass wall of a gift shop, her eyes going wide. She lets go of my hand and presses her palms to the glass as she stares at a sparkly teddy bear on the other side.

"Pretty!" she says.

Then she starts banging on the glass, and hearing the sound, she giggles and looks back at me.

"You want that?" I ask.

"Yeah," she answers.

"Well, I'm broke."

Austen doesn't care. She keeps hitting the glass. I kneel down and open my purse to search for something to distract her.

"Here. I'm pretty sure I have some lipstick in my purse." I pull it out and hold it up. "Go be a disappointment like I was."

Austen takes the tube and immediately becomes mesmerized by it. She twists it all the way up, but when she opens her mouth and starts bringing the makeup toward it, I realize this isn't worth the twenty dollars this lipstick costed, and I grab it back.

"Never mind. Here. Take a paper straw."

I pull one of those out from my purse instead, and Austen lifts it up and starts brushing it through my hair, finding pleasure in making my locks cover my face.

Hazel's POV

I can tell Wyatt is getting restless waiting for his food to be ready, because he starts taking all the ketchup packets from the dispenser, one by one. Too drained to deal with this, I wince and turn around to focus on something else, that something else being someone else. Sarah waves to a customer goodbye at the gift shop, then she connects her eyes with mine and it's like a sea's breeze guiding me over to her.

As I get up to the till, she leans her elbows on the counter, and I think of something to say.

"I don't think I thanked you for helping me," I come up with.

"You don't need to," she responds. "It was the most exciting thing to happen at work since a random kid had a temper tantrum. Hospitals are very boring when you're not a doctor."

"That's probably a good thing," I say with a laugh.

"Yeah, I guess so," she agrees. "But it was cool seeing you."

I smile, but before I can sink too deep under her blue ice eyes, Wyatt suddenly shows up with a hot dog and a mountain of ketchup on top.

"I think I got too much ketchup," he says.

"Nah," Sarah replies with a chuckle. "That's just the right amount."

Next come two more of my cousins into the gift shop. Jayda walks Austen, holding one hand to pull her away from all the breakable snow globes that the girl's attempting to grab at. Then Austen's eyes brighten when she sees me and Wyatt, and she leads Jayda forward to us.