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HunViet: Tangled Up
"Give me a break!"
Lien jumped when she heard Elizabeta cry out in frustration. Elizabeta was still in the bedroom, and Lien wondered what had frustrated Elizabeta so much. So she left the kitchen in order to check.
She found Elizabeta sitting on the seat of the vanity, and she noticed that the hairbrush that Elizabeta was using had come loose. Elizabeta was also panting, as though she had done some running.
"Everything alright?" Lien asked, startling Elizabeta.
"Y-yeah," Elizabeta said. "Except my arms are tired."
Lien walked over towards Elizabeta and took the hairbrush, gently using it on Elizabeta's hair. The Hungarian sighed in relief.
"I read a few years ago that anorexic girls brush their hair to burn energy," Elizabeta said. "I never realised how true that could be. Usually, I just brush my hair a little at a time, and not all at once."
"What changed?" Lien asked.
"I wanted to see how many brushstrokes it would take to completely brush it out."
"And?"
"So far, we're at three hundred and twenty."
Lien felt more tangles as she brushed the other's hair, and she knew that they might be there for a while.
So, I got this little plot bunny while brushing my own hair one day. My hair comes to my shoulder blades, and it's thick and curly. And anyone with curly hair would know how hard it is to brush it. It takes me about four hundred brushstrokes to get it completely tangle-free. And yes, I count them. There's nothing else to do, and I often take breaks during brushing.
In high school I had Consumer Studies as a subject (which is an evolved form of Home Economics). When we were doing the unit about eating disorders, our teacher told us that anorexic girls would brush their hair frantically in order to burn fat. And I understand how. Try brushing your hair four hundred times and you'll understand.