Tattoo Love

Chapter 11

 As he works on my tattoo for a little bit we don't talk. I just lay there and listen to the music playing. "So you're from Louisiana?" He asks me suddenly. 'Yeah." I respond wondering what prompted this question. "So can you make any good food?" "Well of course, I can make Gumbo and Beignets from scratch. Jambalaya, red beans and rice with sausage. Corn bread. I am working on perfecting King Cake." Okay okay you're making me hungry talking about all that good food. So make me some one day?" He asks me looking directly at me for like the first time. "Maybe if you deserve it." I respond giggling. He looks at me and starts laughing as well. "I always deserve it." He goes back to work on the tattoo and I watch him for a minute. "You should really just leave Nat though. You truly deserve someone who treats you right." "Yeah maybe..." "Nah for real Paige, I mean if I was him I would treat you right. Take you places. Take you to see your family in Shreveport. We would have adventures together." He tells me looking at me like he is seeing into my soul. "Making a lot of plans when I don't even know how to say your last name right darling." I say laughing. "Ohhhhh you flirting you called me darling. And its Lu-cer-ro." "I am not flirting. Mr Lucerro." We both laugh and he finishes up the tattoo. "So what are you gonna do now?" He asks me while cleaning up his station." "Well honestly I have to go pick up Nat with my mom because his grandparents are going out of town for the day tomorrow and asked if he could stay with us." "So let her go get him and you stay here with me?" He asks me so sweetly. "I wish I could." I say turning to get my stuff together to leave. "Paige you almost ready hun?" My mom asks coming inside. 'Yeah Jake just finished my tattoo. Come look?" I say to my mom. "Oh it looks good, great job Jake." My mom says and Jake hugs her. She goes back out to the car and I sit down on the couch to find my phone,Jake comes and sits next to me. "So my mom gets a hug but I don't?" I ask him trying to look really hurt. He pulls me closer and hugs me really tight for just a second. But in that one second being in his arms I melt. It is like every horrible thing that has happened these last few weeks is just disappearing in his arms. When he lets go I look to the floor and act like something has my attention so he does not see how red I am from blushing. "Well I should get going." I say to him. "Oh uhm yeah. Text me?" He asks while walking with me to the door. "Yeah, you gonna reply?" I ask jokingly. "Promise." He says and gives me a little hug before I walk outside to my moms car. What in the world was that? I ask myself. I get in the car and text him but as I am texting him Nat calls and asks if we are still picking him up to stay the night.... Ughhhhh why! I tell him I'm really tired but he insists. So we head to his house and I go back to texting Jake. 'Nat is wanting to stay at my house ughhh kill me nowwwww.' I text Jake and he replies almost instantly. 'Come back here gorgeous.' He called me gorgeous ughhhh Goddess help me,'I wish I could.' I respond and the after a little bit of mindless chit chat he sends me a text that makes my heart jump out of my chest. 'Let's go on a date tomorrow.' What!? I cannot believe what my eyes are reading.

Nat gets in the car and we go home. I respond to Jake 'Okay lol :)'. 'Where do you wanna go?' 'I don't know lol. The park?' He asks to snapchat so I say yes. He wants to see how the tattoo looks after it's washed and has a fresh coat of Aquaphor on it. So I wash it and before I change into my pjs my mom takes the picture. And I send it. We go back and forth for a while but then I fall asleep.

That night I dream of my life in Louisiana. Before moving to Dallas. I dream of my home in Haughton. I dream of the boy I loved there. Alic Noah Caros. He is this tall, golden eyed perfect being. He was honestly originally this girl Serna's boyfriend, but she treated him horribly. We started hanging out after I met him at her house. He would actually walk to my trailer sometimes... He lived like 8 miles away but he would walk to see me. After him and Serna broke up we would "intimately" shotgun cigarettes. I fell in love with him.

But in this dream things were so different. He was here with me. We were together and happy. Alic was even taller, tanner, had a cross tattoo on his arm. But he was here with me in Dallas. Must of been staying up so late that made me have that crazy dream. Alic hates me... Nat actually caused that he called Alic this like loser who would not get over a girl who already moved on. Truthfully though I think I am still in love with Alic, I never truly stopped loving him. But why did I dream of him????