A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts.
Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message.
There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
-Lois Wyse
"How the fuck did you tattoo this on yourself?" Emma says as she looks at the tattoo on my left ribcage area.
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"Years of practice." I say as I look at the my tattoo.
"This is gonna look so good on you Sharky." Jessie says.
I'm tattooing the same lion head on Emma and Talia and our matching tattoo is gonna be on our left ribcage area.
"You too moonshine." Leah says.
"I can't even see your katara tattoo under it." Talia says.
My new tattoo also covered up my tattoo of Katara throwing her ass back.
"Pays to be skilled." I say.
"Show off." My wife says causing me to chuckle.
"Who's next?" I ask as I put the protective film on my new tattoo.
"I'll go." Emma says as she takes off her shirt, leaving her in just a sports bra and shorts, then my favorite retired keeper hops up on my tattoo table in my London tattoo studio
We're back in London now after the Ballon d'Or.
In a few days myself, Talia, Emma, and Mikaela will head to America for the August/September friendlies and the first retirement game, which is Tobin's.
"Sweet." I say as I finish putting the protective film on my new tattoo.
After my tattoo is protected and covered up, I clean up and sanitize my tattoo machine, put on new latex free gloves, then I switch out the needle on my machine and get my ink and other stuff ready.
Once everything, including Emma, is set up, clean, and sanitized, I put the stencil on Emma's body then I get both of us drinks as we wait for the stencil to air dry
"You ready?" I ask as I grab my tattoo machine.
"Yep." Emma says so I turn on my machine and get started. "So any problems with the Barcelona fans after your speech?"
"Yeah, but that fanbase is so toxic and fucked up so I'm not surprised." I say.
I also got some shit from media people, but I don't really give a shit about their opinions.
"It felt so good to beat them in the Camp Nou in the Champions league Final." Leah says.
"Mhmm." Jessie, Talia, and I hum in agreement.
"Did you all know there was 90,000 people in Wembley for the World Cup Final?" Mikaela asks.
"I saw that yesterday." Leah says. "Apparently we broke the attendance record for a football match at Wembley Stadium."
"That's pretty cool." Jessie says then I clear my throat.
"So you know how we fucked next to each other?" I ask.
