She looked  at all of the videos available to buy. Each of them contained 
many women getting their hair cut, or even having their heads shaved. "Why 
would a woman do that? Long hair is so much more feminine".

Next Katie went to YAHOO, and typed in the search field. "Man, I can't 
believe I'm doing this" as she typed in "short hair women" One of the sites 
that came up on the screen was My Beautiful Barberette" "Well, this sounds 
interesting" After the page had loaded, she looked at the bottom at the 
different pages. "Haircut stories....cool"

As she read the various short stories, she realized how turned on she was by 
thinking of cutting hair. Not just thinking of someone else cutting her 
hair, but the thought of cutting off her own locks made her warm. "Wow. This 
Sabrina is a good writer".

After a while, she started to think. "How would I look with short hair?" she 
pulled her elbow length hair up from behind her and looked at it. "This is 
the one thing people are jealous of me for". She thought about cutting her 
hair, and came to the conclusion that hair does grow, and hers grows 
particularly fast.

Katie got up, feeling butterflies in her stomach. "Mom and dad would 
probably be mad.....I could tell them it was a bet....but they would get mad 
at that too. Or, I could just tell them I needed a change". Having hair one 
length all of her teen years had gotten old. She loved to play with her long 
hair, but the thought of running her fingers through it if it was shorter 
made her make up her mind right away.

She went downstairs and grabbed the kitchen scissors. "Mom would kill me if 
I used her sewing scissors, so I'll just use these" she went back upstairs 
to her bathroom. After washing her hair so it would be easier to cut, she 
laid the towel on the floor to catch the hair.

Doing as the people in the stories did, she put her hair in a ponytail 
behind her neck, right at her hairline. "I'll just do it....now....ok. now. 
yeah." Katie stalled. "If I never do this...." She raised the scissors and 
put them above the elastic. She tried to saw through her hair for a minute, 
but only a few hairs had been cut. she lowered the elastic so she could cut 
lower. "Well, I have to eventually go this short" Katie said as she looked 
at the part the scissors had cut, which was at about chin length.

Now the ponytail was about to shoulder length. "Ok, let's try this again" a 
frustrated Katie muttered. She put the scissors behind her head again, and 
tried to close them. After trying for another minute, she opened and closed 
the scissors several times, and found this was a better way to go about 
obtaining her goal.

After her ponytail had been severed, Katie took a long look and sighed. 
"Wow. That has to be more than a foot. Good-bye hair!" Then she looked in the 
mirror. "Man, I need to clean this up" She was never a fan of a straight 
bob, so she decided to make it a little higher in the back. The left side of 
her head was a little below her collar, and the right side varied between 
collar length and chin length.

Katie placed the scissors next to her chin and cut straight back. "If I make 
it higher in the back....it'll be really short, and hard to do..." then she 
tried her best to make the next cut even to the first. "Damn!" she said as 
she realized that the first cut sloped up about two inches. "great. now I 
have to go shorter!"

Katie fixed the first cut that she had made. Now the hair on the right side 
of her head was up to the middle of her ear. After cutting the back, and the 
left side, the hair was still a little uneven. Well, this'll have to do for 
now. She looked in the mirror to see the back, and found that there was 
three inches of hair at her nape. "What should I do with this?" She picked 
up the scissors, and decided against using them again. She went in to her 
parent's bathroom, and grabbed her dad's mustache trimmer. "These'll have 
to work" She turned them on, and placed them at the back of her neck.

"This is a lot harder to do on myself" As she started to go up her nape, she 
realized how much she liked the feeling of the trimmer on her skin. She 
forgot about how high she was trimming, until she felt her hand coming up 
to eyebrow level. "Oh. darn. Now I have to do my whole head!"
Trying to convince herself that she truly was sad. In fact, she was quite 
glad she was going to experience the feel of the trimmer again.

"Well, i'll ruin these if i use them all over" as she said this, she kept 
rubbing the patch of hair that was down to her skin in the back of her head. 
Then Katie realized that downstairs her parents still had the clippers they 
used to shave to shave the dog. "Whose'll be better. I'll just make this 
shorter so my hair doesn't ruin those too." She picked the scissors again, 
and placed them at her forehead. Pulling up the hair that once was her 
bangs, she quickly closed the scissors so she couldn't go back.

All over her head, Katie cut the hair from her head. When she was done, 
there were tufts all over that were longer then others. It was a sorry sight 
to see. All the sudden, Katie realized how much hair she had cut off. She 
felt ten pounds lighter. After finding the clippers used on the dog, she 
went back upstairs. She places these too at her forehead, and turned them 
on.

Katie suddenly got the warm feeling back. Slowly pushing the clippers back 
was the best thing she had ever done for herself. Katie watched the little 
hair she had left peeling away. Finally, the center of her head was reduced 
to about 1/8 of an inch. "Wait. I thought this was like half an inch! Well, 
i can't look like a weirdo clown. I have to finish" She ran the clippers 
over the rest of her head and took as long as she could.

When she was done, Katie put the clippers down and looked at herself. Never 
had her eyes been so large. "You know, I could get used to this" At that 
very moment, she heard the front door open and close, signaling that her 
parents were home. "I have a lot of explaining to do...." Katie thought as 
she looked at the floor, covered with hair.

"Katie! How was your night?" her mom yelled up the stairs.

"Oh, just a Same Old Night...I have to show you something...."

the end