Dear friend, I love you

4. Go where you breathe free

Erica

I woke up to my alarm at 8am, in hour Verneri would come to pick me up. Ville slept next to me and he didn't even wake up to the alarm. I stood up and made some coffee. I also received a message from Aleksi, he asked that when would I have time to hang out, it made me smile. I panicked for a moment that what will I answer, but I texted him back that I have only one client today and my shift ends at 4pm. He wanted to pick me up again, who is this man? Such an gentleman.

I ate something small as a breakfast, I don't really like to eat at the morning, just not my thing. I changed my clothes and put some food for Ville and changed his water. then I was ready to leave, Verneri also texted me that he was waiting for me at the parking lot. I left my apartment and walked the stairs down. As I walked to his car, I saw him smiling.

"Morning." I greeted him as I opened the passenger seat door and took a seat.
"Morning, will you do the tattoo for me today? I can do a tattoo for you as a repay." He suggested and started to drive.
"That would be nice, I haven't had any new tattoos in a year." I said and he gasped, it made me grin.
"In year? Well we have to change that. When would you want it?" He asked and I thinked for a moment.
"Next week maybe?"
He nodded as an answer.
We reached the studio, he wanted me to do it right away so I prepared everything ready.
"What you want and where?" I asked.
"I would want a text to my chest, you can decide it." He smiled and I got shocked.
"What? Are you sure?" I raised my eyebrows and he chuckled.
"Yeah yeah, I know you can do it. Any text, quote or whatever." He smirked and then walked to the back room. Well, what should I do? A deep quote about life or something funnier?

He layed at the chair, shirtless and I was about to start my work. Then, like a thunderstorm came inside to the studio. The door flied open and then closed, we both flinched a little and turned our heads. There stood a red haired woman, and she looked angry.
"Lotta, what are you doing here?" Verneri asked very confused and sat up in the chair. I just sit in my chair, watching this scene confused.
"I knew it! I fucking knew it that you had someone else!" She hissed and looked at me, I looked at her and Verneri my eyes wide open.
This can't be a good thing.
"Lotta, we broke up two weeks ago. What are you doing here? And she's my worker here." Verneri sighed.
"You know what? You're a piece of shit! You only care about yourself. You better watch out him." She looked at me and then left the studio as mad as she came here.

I turned my head slowly to Verneri, we both were confused. Then he looked at me and layed down again.
"Sorry about that, Lotta is just jealous that I broke up with her." He said and I just nodded and pressed that needle against his chest.
"Don't you care why we broke up?" He then asked and I gave him a confused face.
"Well, it doesn't belong to me.." I said and focused to my work.
He didn't say anything, I just felt his eyes on me but luckily it didn't bother me. That much.
"She was right, I was a bad boyfriend. But I broke up with her because she was always so jealous and everything." He then explained.
"I don't want to give any advices or anything, but isn't jealousy just a good thing..?" I asked carefully and he chuckled. Great, made a fool of yourself in here as well Erica.

"Why it would be a good thing?" He asked.
"Doesn't it prove the true love? In my opinion it's healthy and it would trouble me if my boyfriend wouldn't be jealous. I mean, if he would not be, he doesn't care. Or I don't know." I explained myself and he just nodded.
"Do you have a boyfriend?" He asked and I chuckled and shook my head.
"You don't? That suprised me." He said with curious tone. Why he even cares? It's not his business.
I didn't say anything and I felt his eyes again on me.
"You don't want to know why I got suprised?" He asked and I sighed.
"No."

"It's done." I said and he stood up to walk to the big mirror, then he looked down on it.
"What does it say?" He asked.
"Go where you breathe free" I said and cleaned the chair.
"Does it have a deeper meaning? To you?" He asked and looked at me under his eyebrows.
I took a deep breath.
"Kinda." I answered quietly and continued what I was doing.

My shift ended, it was 4pm and I walked out of the studio. Aleksi was waiting for me in his car and it made me smile.
"Hi." I opened the door and hopped in.
"Hi, are you hungry?" He smiled.
"I am. Now take me where you want, I need food." I grinned and he nodded amused.
He drove to the mcdonalds drive in and we ordered our foods. After we got them we decided to eat them in the car, at the parking lot.
"How was your day?" He asked. I like how he's actually interested about my day, it kinda feels weird that someone is really asking that from me.
"It was good, I really love doing tattoos and I would do nothing else than that." I took a sip of my drink and he nodded while chewing french fries.

"What work you used to do before that?" He looked at me.
"I was in salon as a hairdresser, but it wasn't my thing after all." I said and he nodded again.
"What about your day?" I asked and he waited for a moment so he could swallow his food.
"A normal day at studio, nothing special. But it was good." He fixed his hair and looked at me.

After we ate he drove us to home. We talked about his job and it was really interesting to know how things are working, I could also listen his voice forever.
"I'm sure that Ville is mad at me because he's hungry." I chuckled as we walked out of the elevator.
"I think Rilla is too. When I could see Ville?" He smirked and I smiled.
"Is tomorrow fine? I don't actually have work then." I suggested.
"Tomorrow is better than fine, I'll just have to visit at the studio in morning and that's it." He smiled and I nodded.
Then we were silent, holding our keys and waiting for whichever does something first. But this didn't felt so awkward, and that or something is suprise to me. Usually I would die because of the silence and staring contest.
"So yeah.." I decided to start and walked to my door slowly.
"Tomorrow we see again." He continued.
"Excatly, I will text you." I turned to look at him smiling, and he showed me his adorable smile as well.

"Hi Ville." I greeted my boy as I walked to the kitchen to feed him. He just stared at me from far away, with suspicious look, it made me chuckle.
"Don't be like that." I said to him and opened the can of food and emptied it to his plate at the ground.
He runned to eat and I walked to my bedroom.
I layed down to the bed and opened my phone, I was about to text to Aleksi.
We agreed that he will come here at 1pm, we would eat, watch movie or something like that.
I just smiled and looked at the ceiling, what is happening to me? I shook my head and walked to shower.
I need some cold water to freeze my thoughts.
What thoughts? Nothing.
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