I was sitting in the waiting area when Tatt walked in. "Aunt Tatt!" I called out to her.
"Hey,hey. Come on, lets get you a tattoo." I jumped up and walked to the back with her. "Okay, so I know you've got a whole sleeve done, and the tattoo of the rose, but for this one I'm putting numbing cream on your palm."
"Why?"
"Because you're still new to tattoos and this is an extremely painful spot." I shrugged and nod. "Okay."
"You wanna know what I came up with?"
"Yes!"
"Okay, so I came up with a hypnotic rose. It'd be the design of a rose and have the depth of the rose, but it'd be a black and white spiral design. You cool with that?"
"Hell. Yes." Tatt laughed and checked her watched. She took my hand and thumped it "feel that?" she asked and I shook my head no.
"Let's do this then." she started up her gun and dipped the needle in the ink.
"So. What's up with you and Danny?"
"Uh, nothing. We're just friends."
"I don't believe that. I think he likes you though." she shook her head.
"He just broke up with his girlfriend. I'm pretty sure he doesn't."
"I think he does. He blushed the other day when I asked him." she rolled her eyes.
"So what color are you dying your hair?"
"Red."
"What shade?"
"Bloody. Are you redying yours dark purple?"
"No. I'm doing a lilac. Danny told me not to do the dark purple." I giggled as she rolled her eyes.
"What about piercing?"
"I'm gonna do my nose. I want my nostril done."
"Ace is gonna love that."
"What are you doing?"
"My dimples. I've always wanted the done."
"That's gonna be cute."
"Definitely. So are you excited about school?"
"I don't know. I've never been to a public school before, the adoption agency just had teacher come to the house and teach us."
"I loved and hated school. I loved getting to go and see everyone I loved and things of that nature, but I hated dealing with all of the drama. Especially when I started getting my tattoos, everyone was so judgmental. Especially the Christians. Watch out for them." I nod and she turned off the gun. I looked at the tattoo and started jumping up and down with excitement. "This is so cool. Thanks Aunt Tatt." she smiled and cleaned then wrapped it.
"Now come on, hair time" I smiled as she grabbed my bag and walked out the door. "Bye May" the lady waved and Tatt led me to the truck. She grabbed her iPod out of the glove box and her phone and called her friend.
"Yeah. My friend, Riot, is getting bloody red."
"She is, So I'll see you in like 15 minutes." She hanged up and plugged in her iPod and some Spanish song came on.
"Las manos arriba
Cintura sola
Da media vulta
Danza kuduro
No te canses ahora
Que esto solo empieza
Mueve la cabeza
Danza kuduro" she looked over at me and saw that I was looking at her crazy.
"Hey. My adoptive parents are Hispanic. I grew up on stuff like this. It wasn't till I was maybe 13 when I started listening to people like Pierce the Veil and Of Mice & Men. Stuff like that."
