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Bonding and Chocolate

Abbey reluctantly opened her eyes, took a breath, and said,

“Okay. I will tell you, but only after you have finished drinking any hot liquids you may still be holding. Ask your Capillus why he ignored my call and has suddenly become so clumsy!”

Zoe went quiet. There was clearly an internal conversation going on inside her head. Then it suddenly changed to a loud, one-sided, and very verbal one.

“He, it, whatever, says I’m too young for boys! But I am allowed girls! How dare you say if and when I am old enough! I will decide that! Not that I want anyone, as I have you, Abbey…”

She stopped and looked at Abbey.

“And just what did happen when old clumsy was pouring hot chocolate all over me as a diversion?”

“Companion and my Hair decided it was time Jilly and I kissed. You know what happens when Companion has me kissing you.”

Abbey then pointed to Jilly.

“Meet our new little sister. She has just joined the family.”

Zoe knelt down and then awakened Jilly by first dragging her up by her Hair and then dropping her.

“Look! The bitch already has dozens of your gold strands amongst her own black hair! That’s not fair! I had to save its life to get my Capillus, and all she did was kiss you! Well, let’s see what happens when I pluck them out!”

“Probably not a good idea!”

Abbey remembered the pain from the one and only time she had tried to trim them! Then a thought not her own appeared in her mind as if to answer her.

“ZOE AND JILLY SHOULD BE FRIENDS. BONDING IS ALLOWED.”

“Back down, Zoe! Please, back away! I really don’t think it’s a good idea to be that close!”

But by then it was too late. Abbey watched the ensuing events as if in slow motion. Jilly opened her eyes. Zoe let go of her Hair as if she had been burnt which was probably the case. Both Zoe’s Hair and Jilly’s Hair grabbed each other and pulled the two together. Then Jilly wrapped her body around Zoe, opened her mouth, and kissed her long and passionately on the lips.

“Perhaps a bucket of cold water? But it’s not like they are actually doing anything, apart from their Hair, which looks as if it has tied them together.”

Abbey’s thoughts wandered as she stared at the two girls lying on the floor wrapped tightly together by various arms and legs but not moving and in some sort of dream state. Abbey now knew that most of what she thought happened between her and Zoe may have been nothing more than a shared sexy dream.

After about thirty minutes, Abbey was bored. She had even finished off all the chocolate she had hidden in her bag, so being careful not to get too close, Abbey used a long pole to pry them apart. As they moved away from each other, they came back to life.

“Okay, so what happened this time?” Abbey asked.

Zoe was staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed. She then stood up a little unsteadily.

“Don’t ask! Please, don’t ask! It was like… just a… er… little group bonding therapy, that’s all. Really, nothing happened at all. No … nothing happened… just a bonding between sisters… I think?”

She sat back down heavily again.

“‘Okay, okay! All right! So I have now been convinced she’s my sister! Ohmigod! That is not the sort of thing sisters should do together, is it? Okay, so I can’t kill her, but no one has ever said you have to like your relatives!”

In the meantime, Jilly had stood up, turned to Zoe, and smiled at her. But it was no longer the cold, icy smile of the past. This new expression was full of warmth

“But I do like you, Sis! Wow! Oh, wow!” Jilly said.

Jilly gently helped Zoe to stand, and as she did so, she whispered,

“Don’t think you can pretend with me. I know how much you enjoyed that, and we will do it again very soon!”

Then she turned to Abbey.

“And I really, really do like you, Abbey!”

As for Abbey, all she could think was, “God! Doesn’t it make you sick!”

This time, Zoe managed to stay upright.

“I’m sure I preferred her before, when she only wanted to kill us! I’m not sure if I can survive being liked! And as to being called Sis, yuck!”

Watching Jilly cross the room to admire her Hair in the large wall mirror, she added,

“Did she just skip across the room? No girl skips across rooms after the age of six! And if she starts to wear pink, like, I’m not going to be seen with her, and that’s for sure!”

Jilly skipped back to the others, which made Zoe cringe. She put a finger to her mouth and pretended to be sick.

“I just love my new Hair, Abbey! Hehehe, and it talks!”

As Jilly spoke, the others saw several golden strands rise and wave to them.

“But Daddy will go spare, so if you don’t mind, I will just show it when we are together, okay?”

Zoe looked up in surprise.

“Er… how?”

“Why, Sis! It’s simple! Stealth mode!”

And with that Jilly smiled, as, like a magician, she passed her hand across her face. All the golden strands turned black.

Zoe was open-mouthed.

“How does she do that? I can’t do that!”

Then she swapped into a one-way conversation.

“Capillus! You never said… so you … I shouldn’t have needed to ask! Yes! Brown! The same colour brown, stupid!”

As Abbey and Jilly watched Zoe’s animated conversation, she turned to them.

“Can’t a girl have a private conversation with her own Hair?”

Zoe then combed her fingers through her now all-brown Hair.

“Okay. Well, as we are now stuck with her,”

she said, pointing to Jilly,

“we may as well take her to the mall and show her the best chocolate milkshakes in town, but only if she promises to stop skipping! And after that, we can have fun watching her drool at the handmade chocolate store as she tries to get used to her new addiction!”

After several milkshakes and a stock up on chocolate, they left Jilly to call for her ride home.

Outside the mall, Abbey turned to Zoe and gently touched her cheek with her fingertips.

“After tonight’s events, I think we could both do with a little TLC.”

Zoe gave a broad smile.

“Now that’s more like it! Chocolate and you! What more could a girl ask for? So, as the saying goes, my place or yours?”