Title: Headband Nightmare
Author: sailorraspberry
Theme: Image
Genre: Humor / General
Version: Anime
Rating: G
Minako pressed her palms against the cool surface of her vanity, drinking in the appearance of her flushed, pink face.
Summer had come hard, dragging along an unbearable heat wave. And as she glared into the mirror, she felt sweat prickle out of her pores. She was not a very big fan of the heat.
Sliding onto the sticky bench, she picked up a headband and examined it against the sunlight. It was an atrocious thing, pale pink and lacking the personality that the rest of her wardrobe consisted of.
A cloud drifted in front of sun, creating a moment of cool relief, and then she had a thought.
She was in a meadow of some sort, surrounded by dazzling pinks and oranges as the browning grasses swayed around her feet. Her slacks where caked with muck – from playing hide-and-seek – and the shirt, blotched with what looked like fruit punch, covered the pale tan lines on her shoulder blades.
And as she produced a banjo, of the sort, from somewhere behind her, and balanced a piece of grass between her lips, she began to sing.
The headband was perched on her head.
Minako screamed, a loud, shattering, terrified scream that sent her tumbling over the bench and to the floor. The headband rolled around on the carpet beside her, and as it rested beside her trembling fist, she scrambled away, grabbing her purse and slipped on a pair of flip-flops, tripping over herself in her hurried efforts to get away.
Artemis burst through the door, panting and protective. "What? What is it? What's wrong?"
Minako slung the bag over her shoulder, cheeks flushed and eyes wide with fear. "Artemis, if anyone asks where I am, I'm out shopping."
And with one last horrified, quivering glance at the headband, she ran out the door.