All Characters are Tamora Pierces, I just made them do my bidding for a few pages.

*Little note- this takes place during the summer after Page. In this story, Alanna and Kel are allowed to meet.



1 Chapter 1

Kel looked at her hair and sighed. How could she be ready for dinner tonight with her hair looking this way? It really was unfair. When she had gone to bed that night, it was fine enough, but in the morning, it looked like someone had taken pruning shears and hacked it all off. In fact, someone had done just that! "Ooooh, how I would like to get my hands on…"

"On who?" asked Alanna who had just walked in the door.

"On whoever did this to me." She replied hotly. "It's not so much the hair, it's the dignity of at least having some that doesn't look like a horse chewed it off."

"Here, let me help," replied sir Alanna. "By the way, there is some company for dinner. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."

Hair fixed up, she said offhandedly as she walked through the door," It's not as if…" half whispering as two teens walked up," Neal and Cleon were here."

"Well, flower of the fields, " drawled Cleon, " looks to me like someone plucked your petals short."

"Oh leave off," Neal retorted. "But Kel, what did happen to your hair?"



More later, just need to type it, and I can't type. Hope you like it!