Baddest

Chapter 33

"Girl, you are just glowing! Jesus what have I
missed since the last tattoo?" My client,
Bailey, asks with excitement. "Are you
pregnant?"

I nearly drop my tattoo gun. "Jesus, no! Don't put that in the universe to come my way." I am quick to correct her. "I have a new boyfriend."

Sweet bailey, she lives in her own world and she's super old school at her mature age of 59. Hard to believe there's someone out there
who doesn't know of colson or the fact that
I'm dating him. She's probably the only
person in the world who hasn't seen all the
media of us. I guess crazier things have
happened, it's kind of nice to be able to talk
about him with someone who doesn't assume
to know everything about him.

"You dumped the asshole?!" She shrieks with enthusiasm.

"Hell yes, I did." I smirk and keep working on her tattoo.

"What a loser, good riddance!" She laughs. "Who's the new honey?"

Oh sweet bailey, I do enjoy our conversations.

"His name is Colson." I begin. "He's a
musician, among other things."

Notice how I didn't say he's just a rapper, because my boyfriend is talented and can do many things. That's my baby.

"Oh when I was young I loved the musicians
too." Bailey informs as she wiggles her
eyebrows. "You know when sex was still
something I cared about and I had a cute
figure. Now I'm just old, flabby, and only care about my cats."

"Bailey! You stop that, you're vibrant and beautiful!" I assure her as I shade another spot. Not care about sex? I seriously never want to think about the day I stop caring if colson desires me, erase that thought from my brain right now.

"I use to have such a cute butt too, it was so perky and lovely." She sighs. "Enough of that, I lived my life! So, colson. Does he treat you right? Does he make Kvle look as had as I said he was?"

I roll my eyes playfully. Bailey told me
thousands of times in every session we'd had
that I needed to break up with Kyle. She
never bought into my bullshit when I tried to
shrug it off and play pretend that I was
happy.

"Kyle who?" I joke and wipe some ink off of
her skin to look over the work I've done.
"Colson is nothing like him, Bailey. He's
exciting, bad, but so sweet to me. he
encourages me to step out of my comfort
zone. He loves my art, he's so supportive. He
makes me feel pretty. Ugh, I won't even get
into how gorgeous he is."

"Wouldn't want to inflate my ego." Colson's voice startles me. I turn to see him looking at me all amused and my face goes red as bailey laughs.

"Oh I see how gorgeous he is..." Bailey winks at me and colson smirks at her comment.

I smile. "Are you trying to take my man, Bailey?"

She holds her hands up. "Honey, I wouldn't be able to handle that ride at this age."

Colson bursts out laughing. "Oh snap. I like her!"

I giggle,what am I going to do with her?

"Alright, Bailey. I'm all done here, why don't you go check it out while I handle this trouble maker over here." I clean the tattoo up before she stands.

I toss all the things that I need to into the trash and turn around to see colson leaning against the counter. Just look at him, all god like and impossibly sexy. He gestures to me with his hand to come to him, and without hesitation my feet lead me in that direction.

Such an obedient girl I've become.

Once I'm close to him he wraps his arms
around me, his hands resting on my ass.
"Don't you have a lunch?"