A haircut

"I want a haircut" Veronica told me, but surely, that couldn't be right.

"I think I misheard you. Could you repeat that, please?" She was not actually asking me to use a tool that could bend reality in so many different manners just to give her a new haircut, right?

"Alright, let me repeat myself." She got a little closer to me and put her mouth right next to my ear. "I want a haircut." She then backed away and pretended like her fingers were a pair of scissors cutting her fringe. "Got that?"

Betty started laughing, probably over seeing my dumbfounded face after being asked to cut her hair with this almost limitless tool of power.

"You are aware that this is a thing that can basically do anything, right?" I ran my hands across my face. "Why are you asking me for a haircut?"

"Because, the day I was going to break up with you, I had meant to go get a haircut after that, but with all that happened afterwards I completely forgot." She patiently explained with a smile that seemed to be sincere and yet still managed me to annoy me. "At this point, I feel like that means you owe me a haircut."

"I think I get that." I really didn't get it. "But why something so simple? I could just give you the money to got to a hairdresser if you want." I should be happy about this, she could have demanded a lot more out of me. But why didn't she? "Are you sure you don't want something more?"

She laughed in my face, pulling me towards a hug. "You don't get it, do you Petey?"

"Is there something to get?" Was shes testing me? What could she be testing here? She seemed happy, did I pass?

"To be fair to him, I don't get it either." Betty approached us and only now do I realize that her increased bust size has caused her chains to not longer covering up any of the parts of her that they were meant to cover up, due to her new proportions. Well, it was possible that she could have fixed that and simply didn't want to (it would seem as something she would, or rather would not, do). Still, this wasn't the time to distract myself with her exposed nipples and crotch, specially not now that Veronica was ready to explain this stuff to us.

"I wanted to see what happened if I asked you for something small. If you would be glad that I was only using a fraction of what you could do, or if you wanted to do something bigger because you thought I deserved better than to waste my wish." The words she was saying made a lot of sense, and now I fell rather silly about not having expected her to come up with something like that. I knew she was a pretty smart person, why would I have thought she really did just want a haircut.

"Because if I did the first I would be a shitty boyfriend with a lot of power that you couldn't really trust in, someone that would only do stuff for you if I felt under like I had to. And if I did the later then you know that I valued your best interests, which means that you can count on me to give you a leg up whenever you need it." She nodded before giving me a quick kiss on the lips.

"I still could use the haircut, though." She laughed as she swiped away a few hairs that had gotten over her eyes. "Think you could do that for me?"

I chuckled, as I thought of the best way I could formulate the wish I had in mind. "From now on, Veronica shall always have her hair look exactly as she wants it at that precise moment, changes happening whenever she's not being observed by people who don't know about the Reality Ring."

After having my finger slightly toasted, I could see the effects of the wish take place. The hair simply seemed to grow back all around, but the change was a little more dramatic around her forehead. Her overgrown fringe had changed into something a lot more stylish. "Nice bangs!" Me and Betty said at the same time, which made us turn to face each other within a second. "Jinx!" We yelled at the same time, but before we would go for it again she decided to play dirty by burying my head on her chest.

"Jinx!" The cheating cheater yelled, with intent to cheat.

Veronica, seeing the great injustice that happened in front of her, laughed. "Peter" She later managed to say my name in between her breaths, once she calmed down. I would have taken this chance to say that I shouldn't have had to remain silent because that wasn't a legal jinxing, but Veronica held a hand out to let us know she wanted to say something. "Mind telling me how we're going to get Cynthia into this?"

"Oh right, I had forgotten about that"