Troubled Souls

New Ink (Chp 12)

(Benji's Pov)
"Guys!" I yelled into the living room. Kids Underground had just left with the exception of Dash.
They all came running in.
"What?" Zeke asked.
"I'm bored and hungry." I whined they all rolled their eyes.
"Which comes first?" Tany asked jokingly.
"Uh food." I said in a duh tone.
"I want Taco Bell." Zeke stated.
We all agreed and went to get food.
We got our food and ate in. Being very loud and annoying.
We quickly got thrown out and again where bored.
"Hey can we go to the tattoo place? I want another piercing and I know Benji wants a tattoo." Sarrice asked randomly.
We all were at the park sitting in a circle on the ground.
"Yeah I'm game." I said looking to the others.
"I don't really have an idea for one right now." Tany said and Zeke agreed.
"So only me Matt Benji and Dash?" She said and we nodded.
"Wait I don't want one." Dash said quickly.
We shrugged.
"What piercing are you going to get?" I asked Sarrice.
"I want to get a fourth ring on my ears and maybe complete snake bites. I dunno." She shrugged.
"Well I know what I'm getting and I'm not telling you guys." I sang at them.
Dash laughed and batted his eyelashes at me.
"I thought we were lovers Ben!" He exclaimed making me laugh.
I pulled him closer to me and kissed his cheek. He pulled away and wiped off his face with a gross.
Everyone laughed and Sarrice's phone started ringing she left to answer it and we all joked.
Not ten minutes later she walked back over with a grin on her face.
"So...?" Zeke asked nudging her.
"So two phone calls. 1 my little brother not relevant, the other was from DD. he said to prepare our set lists and bunk claims and bathroom schedules, because we go on tour in 2 months!" She said yelling the end. We all cheered and decided to go on and get our tattoos.
We walked to the van and Matt drove to the mall.
I got out of the passengers side and watched as Matt climbed out of the drivers side and everyone piled out from the back.
Tany and Matt helped Zeke out and Dash had Scar on his back.
"Oi! Matt give me a piggy back ride!" I yelled and jumped on his back. He stumbled slightly but continued to hold me up.
"Hey!" Dash yelled to Matt. They shared a look then took off running.
Zeke and Tany laughing from behind us.
"Don't get us thrown out before we get tattoos!" Zeke yelled and we slowed down.
I jumped down. Wincing slightly as more pressure was added to my ribs. I held my ribs and my breathing became rugged.
Scar noticed and whispered to Dash jumped down and walked to me.
"You ok?" She asked me.
I nodded held up a finger and pulled myself up straighter.
Still panting I began walking forward.
"Woah there cowboy." She said and grabbed my arm.
"Don't bend over when you can't breathe keep your airway open ok?"
She said to me and I nodded leaning up and taking deep breaths.
Finally I caught my breathe smiled at her and she returned it.
"Can I?" She asked me looking forward to Dash and Matt talking, then back to Zeke and Tany almost reaching us.
"Go ahead I'll be fine with dumb and dumber." I said she looked at me skeptically and I pushed her forward.
She ran and jumped on Dash's back he easily caught her and laughed. He spun her around and Matt pulled her off put her in a firemans hold and started running.
"Teens these days." A group of women scoffed as they walked by us.
Zeke and Tany heard it and started laughing. I spun and looked at them sharply.
"I'll have you know that girl is dying of cancer. She just wants to live her life to the fullest let her do that without snap judgments!" I snapped at them,
Zeke and Tany chuckling.
They sputtered and I grinned smugly and kept walking.
"Dude that was fucking rude." Zeke said grinning.
"Damn I'm so glad I caught that on camera!" A young girl laughed as she walked by vlogging.
She stopped and stared at us.
"Aren't you guys in Harmful if Swallowed?" She asked excitedly.
I nodded and she started smiling and begging us to take a picture with her and saying how much she loved our music.
Her back was to Scar Dash and Matt as they walked up so we got ful view of her freak out.
"OH MY GOSH YOUR MATT AND SCAR!" She squealed loudly and hugged them. Dash stood to the side and raised an eyebrow and cocked his head to the side. He had a kicked puppy look and I laughed at him.
Everyone turned to look at me as I walked over to Dash and wrapped him in my arms.
"See what happens when you ignore your boyfriend? He leaves you for another man." He said and put his head beside mine. I grinned and the fan looked confused.
"Ok fan...sorry never caught your name but this is Dash, you'll see him in our next video." Tany explained.
"Oh right I'm Honey." She said and waved.
We waved back and talked for a little while then continued to the tattoo place.
We got stopped three more times which we weren't used to but it was kinda fun. We finally got there and Scar yelled she was going first so we let her.
"Dash video it she hates needles." I whispered but she heard and shot me a bird.
He got the vlogging camera out and turned it on.
"See Benji you are corrupting my boyfriend." She said with a sigh.
Me and Dash high fived.
"So Scar? How can you have that many tattoos if you're afraid of needles?" Dash asked like an interviewer and she shrugged.
"Tattoos don't bother me like I just try not to think about it but getting piercings just sucks." She said.
A guy came in the room and began talking to her getting her to sign some forms and then sterilized the needle and grabbed the ring she wanted.
"Want a countdown?" He asked.
"Nah don't tell me when your gonna do it then I'll freak out." She said and he laughed.
He placed the little pice over her lip and I caught her attention.
"So Matt is getting Kalel tattooed on his butt." Everyone laughed then I heard a click and Scar picked up her hand and felt the ring she grinned.
"Cool! Thanks dude." She hugged him then let me talk to him about my tattoos.
"So I want a cross between my shoulders. And then the band sign which I have both drawn here." I grabbed a pice of paper and set it in front of him.
He nodded and drew a few things to modify and said he'd be call me back soon.
"We all need to get the band sign tattooed together." Zeke said so I told him we all were getting the second one and he gave me a thumbs up.
"Dash are you sure you're not going to get one?" Tany asked and we all crowded him.
"Positive." He squeaked.
We all laughed and looked around the room.
"I wouldn't mind being a tattoo artist." I said and Scar nodded.
"We have a mentorship opening if you're interested." A female voice said behind us we turned and saw a tall girl Zeke's age with brown hair watching us.
I looked at the others and raised an eyebrow.
"Unless you have a branch all over the world or can space out the trainings we wouldn't be too good at learning." Scar said scratching her arm.
"Erin! Is your station cleared? All of these people need tattoos don't just stand there!" A loud deep voice barked. The girl,Erin, jumped and recovered muttering 'asshole' and motioned for one of us to follow. Scar and Dash did.
The boy who had my sketch came back and said he was ready to begin work on my back piece.
"Sorry about Erin and my boss. They don't get along and she asks a lot of questions so yeah." The guy said. Still don't know his name.
"Oh by the way I'm Danny." He said.
"Benji." I replied he smirked and I thought nothing of it.
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure I'm going to be stuck on my stomach for a while might as well talk." He laughed. I felt stinging on my back and knew he had begun.
"Well why do you want an alien and a cross tattooed on you?" He asked confused.
I laughed and tried not to move.
"Uh cross to remind me of my faith and my roots. No matter how involved I am in rock and my friends. I'll always remain a Christian."
"Faith by choice not by sight." He said and I nodded.
"Ok so alien?"
"My bands insomnia is an alien, our fans are the avenging aliens so yeah."
"You're in a band?" He asked.
"Yep."
"Cool. I'm gonna go ahead and assume you are the devil worship type...considering your bvb pentagram on your arm."
My mouth dropped.
"You listen to bvb?"
He chuckled.
"Uh yeah. Did you not see the band merch I'm wearing."
I shook my head and he laughed.
"It's gonna be another hour or two before this is done so you can rest for a little while." Danny said and I nodded laying my head down.
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"How can he sleep while getting a tattoo?" I heard someone ask.
"You'd be surprised a lot of people do." Another answered.
"Well I'm done with this one but he never told me where to do the alien so I don't know. Should we wake him?"
"Nah I'm up." I said sitting up.
I looked up to see Scar Dash and Matt standing in the room.
"This should be easier to do and quicker so where?"
I looked at Scar and she had hers on the back of her neck. Matt on his hand.
"Uh back of my hand like Matt's." He nodded placed the stencil then began working.
"Did you get anything else done Scar?" I asked and she nodded.
"I had extra time during your nap so I got a cross on my ring finger and a small smiley face on my thumb pad thing." Pointing to the space connecting the thumb to the wrist.
"So you're saying you both got crosses and didn't know the other was doing it?" Danny asked and I shrugged.
"We think alike. Don't overthink it." She said.
"Ok your done." He said wiping off excess ink and standing up.
We walked to the front to pay.
"Tany took Zeke home earlier he was tired. So Cougar is picking us up and taking us to my house if that's ok." Dash said. I nodded and we headed outside.
"How was tattoo day with Dash? He's boring as all hell so he barely gets them with us." Cougar complained as we got in the car. We all laughed and headed to Dash's house.

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So basically I forgot what I was going to do with this chapter but I knew I wanted to add tattoos...so the pictures above are the tattoos with the exception of the alien tattoo because I am perfecting the way I want it to look so it'll be a sketch when I do add it... this is just a filler tbh....so yeah have a good day✌🏼️