Break Free

The sound of a tattoo gun was like music to my ears. It calmed me. When I was having a really bad day it made it all better, and when I was heartbroken it soothed the pain and traded the emotional to physical instead. I loved the feeling. Some people say that I am weird for enjoying it as much as I do, but it was my therapy of choice.

Well tattoos and music. I could always lose myself in good music. It helped me escape from my problems. So it was never a big surprise that I didn’t fit in back home. Zara and I were two peas in a pod when it came to that. They all looked at us differently and never thought we would make it here. It had been two years and we never looked back.

The hours slid by effortlessly as I talked with Jasmine. She asked me about my other tattoos and I asked her how long she had been doing it and what made her pick up a machine. I would look over at Austin from time to time and would catch him staring at me. We made funny faces to each other.

“You are all done my dear.” Jasmine says as she wipes all of the excess ink off my leg. “Let’s go take a look at it in the mirror.”

I looked at the reflection. It was perfect. I hugged her quickly. “It’s more than I wanted. Thank you so much!”

We made our way back over to her booth and I pulled out my wallet and she raise her hands.

“Nope, no charge. From one Star Wars nerd to another.” She said smiling.

“Well I am still tipping you.” I tell her handing her two fifty dollar bills. She smiles thanking me and stuffs them into her pocket.

“You ready to go?” I hear someone say from behind me. I jump and turn around. Austin had shunk up behind me. I slap his chest.

“Yes, but I wanna see what you got first.” I tell him

He lifts up his shirt and I couldn’t help but stare at his toned stomach. I shake my head and focus on the large outline on his stomach. It was an eagle. I smile and meet his eyes.

“Very nice. I bet it will look sick when it’s done.” I say to him.

“You will be the first to see it. Now it’s your turn” He replies with a wink. I turn to the side and rest my leg up on the chair so he can get a good look at my Storm Trooper. His mouth drops open and I silently plead for him to be a fan. He holds out his hand showing me the little helmet he had tattood on his thumb. I giggled. “you are officially my new favorite person.”

“Awe, I think that Alan will be slightly upset to hear that.” I joke.

“Yeah right. He is going to into Zara to even care. He was the attention span of a walnut when it comes to anything not involving the band or girls.” Austin tells me.

“Well for his sake and your bands sake he better treat her right. He will have me to answer to if he doesn’t.” I say trying to sound menacing.

“Come on tough guy. Let’s go get some food.” He laughs and grabs my hand heading to the door. He shouts bye to everyone and we get into his car.

I was excited about dinner. One cause I was really hungry. But I was looking forward to asking him all the questions that were running around my head. He had captured my attention from the time I laid eyes on him. I never thought I would actually be getting the opportunity to get to know him though. It was time to set my mission into action.

Notes

And now I shall turn it back over to Stephanie!

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