DWC: "Why are you crying? You know I'm only fucking with you, right?" 💗
Borderline NSFW for some explicit talk.
@ricksanchezdwc
A mistake was made.
You don’t know what you were thinking! You’d seen it in a fashion magazine? It was too hot, and it was driving you crazy? Maybe it was just temporary insanity?
Whatever the reason, you’d gone to the salon and told the stylist to cut your hair short.
He complied, and now you think you know what freshly shorn sheep must feel like.
Your head was lighter, the air on the back of your neck was startling, and you looked different. You hated it.
Hated it.
You tried to avoid looking into any reflective surface after the stylist showed you what he’d done. You couldn’t blame him; he’d only been following orders. You couldn’t prevent your fingers from reaching up to touch your hair. It was an unconscious habit, though, and each time it was a shock to you that it was gone.
You drove home in a daze.
Walking through your front door, Rick belched a greeting from your sofa. When you didn’t answer, he managed to look up from whatever crazy show he was watching, and did a double take.
It would have been comical if it was directed at you.
“What the actual hell?” he blurted incredulously.
You couldn’t answer him. You could only shake your head a little bit.
You felt his eyes take your appearance in. Then he burst into peals of laughter so hard he snorted.
“Holy shit!” he cackled. “What did you do, join the army?”
You’re silent.
“Are you going through some kind of, of existential crisis? Is this a feminist thing?” he continued, between bouts of laughter, waving his hand at you as he doubled over. “Or, or, or, wait–are you into girls now? Not that there’s anything wrong with that–I could totally get into sharing the bed with an extra woman, baby–”
You bit you lower lip in both an effort to not scream angrily at him and not to cry. You feel an inch tall. It was a mistake, you are well aware of that, and there isn’t much you can do about it now. Even the consolation you’d told yourself that it’s hair and it’ll grow out wasn’t much use now in the face of snorting laughter and insults.
But you need to get away from him, because you can feel the breakdown that’s coming rushing close.
You hurried passed Rick, who tried to grab your wrist. You attempted to shake out of his grip.
“There’s a few nice wig stores downtown, fuzzy duck–” he said, and that was the last straw.
You burst into tears.
Not cinematic, beautiful tears either. Opened-mouthed, wailing sobs with a flood of tears and snot immediately pouring down your face. You sob so hard you can’t breathe for a moment.
Just like his earlier double take would have been funnier if you’d been in a better state of mind, Rick’s startle to your response was something you wish you could have recorded too. He’s stunned and momentarily wordless in the face of your visceral reaction to his teasing.
“Hey, hey–” he said, now unsure of what to do. “Why are you crying? You know I’m only fucking with you, right?”
You shake your head, unable to form words through the physical pain your sobbing is causing you.
Rick’s still unsure, but put a hand awkwardly on your shoulder.
“Baby, baby–it’s okay, calm down–”
You found your voice. “Don’t tell me to calm down!” you shriek hoarsely at him. Your voice cracked. “I know this hair cut is awful, don’t you think I know?! And you, and you just … you just are you–”
Your voice failed then. You covered your face with your hands and continued weeping.
Rick doesn’t say anything to that. He does, however, pull you closer. You wanted to fight against him, wanted to force yourself to storm off, but he’s too insistant and you’re too consumed with being upset to fend him off. His shirt smelled like old sweat.
He let you cry yourself out.
Although it seemed like forever and you’ll never stop, eventually you brought yourself back under control. You’ve left a huge wet mark on the front of his shirt, but since apparently he hadn’t washed it in a while, you don’t care.
Rick ducked his head to look at you.
“Baby,” he said, in a much softer voice than before, “it’s not that bad.”
Tears started welling in your eyes again. “Y-y-yes it is!” you blubbered.
“No it’s not,” he contradicted. He brought one hand up and brushed some of the strands of hair that were now tear-dampened off your cheek and behind your ear. “It’s still long enough to push back, right? And let me, let me see …”
His fingers moved to the back of your head in a way that’s familiar. Gently they tighten, getting enough grip that you can feel it. With a little more effort, you know he’d be able to direct your head anyway he wanted to.
“There. See? Your hair’s still long enough for me to grab hold of it.” He didn’t loosen his grip, and his voice dropped silkily. “I know you like it when I give you a little hair pull when you’re going down on me.”
You managed to chuckle a little. Of course Rick would try to cheer you up with dirty reminders of your sex life. “And you like it when I return the favor.”
Rick gave you a lop-sided grin. “Fuck yeah, baby. I love it when you can’t control yourself and yank my hair when I’m between your legs, eating your pussy.”
He let you go. You watched as he actually takes a good look at your new haircut. He opened his mouth, considered something, and closed it again without a word.
“What is it, Rick?” you asked, resigned to whatever he thought about saying.
“I was going to say this really isn’t–it really isn’t the worst,” he told you sincerely. “The way I see it, you have two choices. I can whip up something that’ll make your hair grow out overnight, or–”
“That one! That’s my choice!” you interrupted, and earned a stern look.
“It’ll make all your hair grow, baby. So you’ll get your long hair back, yeah, but it’ll, it’ll also make the hair on your arms and legs longer, and your armpit hair grow, anything you have on your upper lip or toes, your pubes … you’re gonna look like a lot like how people think Bigfoot looks tomorrow morning until you shave it off, buttercup.”
You hadn’t considered that, and the thought of it paralyzed you for a moment. In your silence, Rick continued.
“Or you could get used to me calling you Pixie until it grows out on its own.”
You survived Rick Sanchez teasing you to tears. If the only two choices available where the ones Rick laid out for you, “Pixie” didn’t seem like such a bad option.
fin.













