#radixalturtles

Vriska had pointed out that maybe Aradia could do something with her hair because of the dirt that kept getting into it. Aradia shrugged and had said that she had tried putting it in a ponytail, but the stray hairs just went everywhere, and she really didn't care too much about the dirt, it was no problem! Really Vriska it was okay. No she wasn't going to cut her hair. Vriska you cannot cut her hair--Vriska. Vriska put the scissors away.

"I could braid it you know," Vriska said, shrugging, a few days after the scissors incident. Aradia had banned her from sharp implements for a while.

Aradia looked up from her notebook. "You can braid?"

"Well, obviously. It's not that hard--Kanaya used to do it for me, I can just figure it out. Here, get over here."

Aradia sighed and stood up, sitting down on the ground so that Vriska could see the top of her head. Vriska ran her fingers through Aradia's hair.

"Did you even brush it today?"

Aradia shrugged. "I didn't see a point."

"Well whatever, that's okay, I could do it anyways." Aradia closed her eyes as Vriska took her hair in her hands, splitting it into three parts. "See, you just have to put it in the three sections, and then the rest is easy. I'll teach you--you can do mine next and--"

"You want to match?"

"Obviously." Vriska said. "It would look awesome. And we could probably weave bandanas in or something, or pirate flags--" Aradia snorted, and Vriska ignored her. "See, you just have to go one over the other, one over the other, until it just works itself out. I saw Kanaya do this really cool thing with the Jade human the other day, it was like a braid crown--holy shit I dunno, it just looked sweet, we can do that and--hmm, uh--yeah, we can do that, and--"

"Everything okay back there?" Aradia said, her eyes closed.

"Yeah, of course, I just--" Vriska paused. "Nevermind, we're good, I'm almost done--I think, um--"

"Can I see?" Aradia said, turning her head a little bit.

"Well, you know--"

Aradia ignored her and put her hand to the back of her head, trying to feel the little parts of the braid and how it worked together and thought about how cool it actually looked and--

"Oh my god it's just one big knot."

"I tried really hard, okay?" Vriska said, taking out the rubber band and attempting to undo whatever it was that she did. "Here look I'm taking it out."

"Watch your hands!" Aradia said.

"Look, there it goes--all better," Vriska said, removing her hands from Aradia's nest of hair. Aradia patted the back of her head, looking for any more knots, but was satisfied when she found none. She turned to look to Vriska, and then looked at Vriska's hair.

"Let me do yours," She said, smiling.

"No fucking way!" Vriska said, standing up. "You're just offering for revenge!"

Aradia stood up with her and gave Vriska a little kiss. The latter flushed a light blue, and Aradia smiled.