The Opening Act (H.S) {Completed - Editing}

This Isn't You

note: back tattoo pictured above

"Alright, let's get you started," Lottie says excitedly. "Lou should be here any minute. And the extensions are on the counter, if you want to look at them."

I walk over to the chair and sit. I glance at the extensions laid out in front of me and I start to get excited.

Lou comes in and sets her bag down next to the colorful hair pieces. She gets to work right away, Lottie being her third and forth hands. The extensions were put it and then my hair was curled. Lottie played with my makeup after that, just because she wanted to. She ended up giving me some sort of faux nose ring that was super cute. I don't know if I'll wear it all the time, but I'm wearing it for the next few days for sure.

I headed back to the tattoo parlour after that, since Harry was still in the studio with the boys. Lou had come with me, eager to spend some more time with me.

"What are ya getting?"

"I wanna get one on my back," I smile. "Also, I'm gonna get my ear cartilage pierced."

"You know what would look ridiculously adorable on you? A belly button piercing."

"I don't know if I can do all of this in one sitting," I joke as we head into the building. I had always wanted to get that pierced too, though.

The girl who did my last tattoo is up front and she smiles at me.

"Hey, you're back! Something wrong, or are you here for another one?"

"I'm here for another one."

She motions me back and Lou follows. She sits in the corner and picks up one of the books filled with designs. I show the girl what I wanted from a picture on my phone and she said she had an enlarged version of something very similar, so she left the room for a minute.

"Does Harry have any idea you're doing this?"

"Nope," I shake my head. "He doesn't need to, anyway. I don't care what he says I'm getting this tattoo because it's really awesome and I love it."

"A'ight. But if he's mad about your piercings don't come to me complainin' cause I was never here."

I roll my eyes and laugh. The girl comes back in and has me lay on my stomach. She pushes my shirt all the way up to my neck and pins it all in a bunch so it doesn't fall while she works.

The buzzing starts up and I feel the impact of the needle. It takes longer for me to tolerate the pain this time, but eventually I get used to it with only a few moments of really bad pain here and there.

It takes way longer than the last tattoo and the cleaning burns so much that I do feel my eyes well up with tears. I was on the verge of tears multiple times while she was working this time. Spine tattoos are no joke. She covers it up and pulls my shirt back down. I slowly get up from the chair, wincing a little.

"Hey, do you guys do piercings, too?"

"Yes we do, you want one?"

"Yeah, a few actually."

//

"Ava, baby I'm back from the - holy shit. Your hair is blue. Why is your hair blue? And your nose is pierced."

"It's not my real hair, and its also not a real nose ring."

"Why, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Cause I wanted to change up my look a bit, I guess. I got some other stuff done too."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. Do you not like my hair?" I frown. He still looked really unsure.

"No, it looks great. Just doesn't seem very... you, I guess."