Their Game of Family
Before our family’s Thanksgiving dinner, my younger sister, Raina Kirk, suddenly offered to braid my hair.
I had barely sat down when I heard a sharp snip behind me. Seven years of growing my hair out, gone in one cut. She’d chopped it off right at the roots.
Raina froze for two seconds, then burst out laughing, collapsing onto the couch. "Oh, shit, I cut off too much! Hahaha! You look like a man who just escaped prison!"
Mom saw the piles of hair scattered across the floor and started laughing too. "What’s so bad about it? You walk around with your hair all over the place like some banshee anyway. At least now you’ll save money on haircuts."
I clenched my fingers into fists, my throat t