Lia

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"Lia, Lia wake up." I quickly woke up, confused about where I am and the unfamiliar voice that's waking me up.

I looked around and I suddenly remembered where I was.

Work, getting tattoos, meeting Lucian and Dante, falling asleep

"Uh sorry for falling asleep, I was just really tired since Grammy woke me up early today for god knows what reason. Actually it was because she had made me some of her delicious apple pie but yeah I promise to not fall asleep again." Can you tell I ramble when I'm nervous. Hehe.

Oh yeah, my tattoos!

"Woah! These are awesome, thank you so much." My tattoos are even better that what I had imagined them to be like. It had so much detail and I can tell a lot of passion was put into it.

I jumped out of the chair and hugged Lucian tightly, even though my face barely reached his chest and repeated 'thank you' over and over again to hopefully show him how much I appreciate it.

At first he immediately tensed up and I realised I may have invaded his personal space, I went to pull away but was stopped by him wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me back to him.

It feels like I'm being hugged by a warm bear. Bear hugs are now my favourite hugs.

We stayed like that for a while before I pulled away again and he reluctantly let me do so. We walked out the room right when Carlos and Zara came out of Dante's room, repeatedly looking at their tattoos in awe like I did.

"Guys, look at my tattoos!" We all admired each other's tattoos, promising the two other men that we'd definitely be back soon.

After saying our goodbyes we reached the door and was about to leave when I told my friends that I forgot something and would be back in a second.

Of course I didn't actually forget anything but I wanted one more of Lucians bear hugs before I left.

What can I say, I'm a hugger and Lucians bear hugs are now my favourite.

I found Lucian in the same room we were in before, putting all the equipment away and cleaning up so I quietly walked into the room, went up to his ear and said "Boo!"

Seriously.

He didn't even react.

If that was me, I would've screamed and screamed and screamed but no, this man just continued cleaning as if nobody was in the room with him.

I continued to look at him in disbelief, with my jaw open and eyes wide, still shocked and confused about how he didn't get scared.

"H-how-what- how's that even possible."

"I heard your footsteps and when you entered the room I could smell your perfume."

"Dammit. Don't worry I'll make sure to be sneakier next time. Anyways I'm here for one more Luci bear hug before I leave."

"Luci?"

"Yep! Oh, and I probably should've warned you but I really like hugs and you're officially my favourite person to hug so bring it in." I opened my arms, allowing him to give me a hug but he didn't even move.

"Luci, this is the part where you give me a hug."

He stood still for a few more seconds before walking up to me and bending down a little to put his head in the crook of my neck.

He must've gotten tired of bending down because next thing you know I'm basically flying in the air when he stands up to his full height, still keeping a tight grip on me.

"So this is what flying feels like. Thank you Luci for completing one of the things on my bucket list. Wow, I wish I was a bird if this is what they experience everyday."

He only grumbled some incoherent words into my neck then let me go, taking me back down to Earth.

"Bye Luci!" I gave him a small wave and huge smile before leaving and going back to Carlos' car so I could finally go home and tell Grammy what I've been up to.

This'll be fun.

"So Ami, what exactly did you forget?" That was Carlos. Always been the nosy one.

"None of your business Carl." I then put on my airpods hoping to drown out the questions they were asking me.

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU." Hehe.

"Of course she can't, just leave her Carl, we can ask her when she decides to STOP BEING A BITCH."

Okay that last part was definitely being targeted at me but because I'm the better person, in response I stuck my tongue out at her and continued to ignore them.

They dropped me off first since my house was the closest so I said my goodbyes and they drove off after I got out.

I quietly closed the door behind me after entering, because I didn't know if Grammy was still awake or not.

I walked into the kitchen hoping to get some more of the apple pie from this morning but to my surprise saw Grammy baking something.

"Grammy what are you doing, its 2 in the morning!"

"Well when my granddaughter decides to not update me of her whereabouts and comes home at 2am I stress-bake."

Oh. Now I was gonna cry.

I walked up to her and gave her the biggest hug ever, "Im so sorry Grammy, forgive me. Me, Zara and Carlos went to go get tattoos after work and I was so excited that I completely forgot to tell you."

"It's okay darling, I understand. I remember when I was a young girl like you and would always stay up late with your grandad going on adventures and whatnot then I would come back home to my parents getting ready to leave the house to come look for me." She had a small smile on her face while telling me the memories of her youth.

I love it when she tells me stories about her childhood. It's so interesting to me to know that my Grammy has so many memories before I was alive and that her life didn't start when mine did.

Suddenly, her small smile tuned into a massive, mischevious grin, "So Ami, have any boys you're interested in?"

I immediately started blushing then changed the subject before she could catch on. "Tattoos! Yes tattoos, look Grammy I got tattoos!"

"I see what you're doing darling, but I'll let it slide... for now." She gave me a small wink then looked at my tattoos, loving each one and asking me what they meant.

"Well the butterflies are for mama and papa, the only memory I still remember of them is when I was younger and they used to take me to a garden filled with butterflies."

"You're parents loved you so much, and they would be so proud of the beautiful young lady you've become."

I smiled and kissed her cheek before explaining the  reasoning behind my two other tattoos, then telling her goodnight and going to my room.

I quickly had a shower, removing my makeup and being careful of the tattoos. After my shower, I dried and moisturised my body, doing my nighttime skincare routine, then put on my pyjamas and went to bed.

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-R