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Yeah, that didn’t make a guy nervous.
Not about the tattooing. The first one didn’t hurt at all, really. There had been a few tender spots, sure, but it wasn’t bad at all.
It was having five sets of eyes on you while you got tattooed that didn’t sit very well with me.
“Can you guys not be in here staring me down while I get another tat?” I asked the room of waiting siblings.
“Well, where are we going to go? It’s snowing,” Avery asked, frowning.
“I don’t know, but somewhere.”
The tattoo artist working on me chuckled to himself as he cleaned his gear, getting ready for my next one. While he was doing my eleven, I told him what I wanted so he was in on the plan, even if my siblings weren’t.
After a moment of discussing, the five of them decided to go to the coffee shop across the street, finally leaving me with the artist and the buzz of the needle.
I dropped my chin to watch as the needle decorated my skin over my rib cage. This wasn’t going to be big, no bigger than the one on my arm, but it made me smile as much as the family one did.
The person who inspired this one made me smile.
***
“What’d you get?” McKenna asked as I entered the coffee shop a little while later.
I shook my head, grinning. “Never mind.”
“It’s probably a daisy or something,” Jonny taunted.
“Oh! One of those watercolor lions.” Caleb nodded a few times.
My brothers were assholes.
I let them know what I thought of them, by flipping them the bird.
“Well?” Avery asked.
“Don’t worry about it.” I was good at being secretive if I really wanted to.
“Damn, it really is a watercolor girly tattoo, or else he’d show us.”
Myke simply stared at me, her eyes narrowed as she tried to figure me out.
She was too much like Dad in that regard.
Unless these five were in my room while I was changing though, they weren’t going to know what it was until next summer at the earliest. Which worked for me.
Only one person needed to see it, and she wasn’t in this room.
