I live in a world where whenever one is born, they have a tattoo of some sort on some part of their body. It's like a birthmark but I guess it's kinda magical. Whenever person A falls in love with person B, they get person B's tattoo somewhere on their body.
It's been years since I've been friends with my best friend Martha. Im also in love with her for almost 3 years. We're both girls and both of our parents are homophobes so it's necessary for me to cover my tattoo. It is on a really visible place. On my hand. I've been covering it with different kind of gloves. People always look at me weird when I wear fingerless gloves or regular gloves in summer. Even my best friend thinks it's weird but she wears scarves all the time, even in summer. So I don't know who's weirder. She started wearing scarves every day around the time before I started wearing gloves.
I'm going to graduate soon with my best friend. We always wanted to live together and have the same job. It wasn't me who thought of that. It was Martha.
Today is also my 19th birthday and I decided I'll spend the day with Martha.
"Yo, V, happy birthday!" Said Martha who created my nickname from Victoria. She hugged me until I could barely breathe.
"Don't kill me, Martha, please," I laughed, "so what did you get for me?"
"Oh, I've got two presents for you. One of them you'll get now and the other one you'll get later," she winked. Martha has always been a flirt so I'm used to her doing that. She handed me a colourful paper bag in which I looked in the moment she gave it to me. Naturally, she would give me chocolates which would fill up a third of the bag. There was also a book called Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare. She was one of my favourite authors. I could never shut up about the books. In the bag was also a cute teddy bear. I'm still wondering what the second present is going to be.
"So where are we going before we head to your place?" Asked Martha. We will probably have a TV show marathon at my place. But first we need to buy some more food for that so I decided we should go to the store.
"Lets buy a bunch of food for our TV show/movie marathon," I answered.
"Alright. What are we gonna buy?" Asked Martha while locking our arms together.
"We could buy some fruits and a bunch of salads and also drinks," I answered. We couldn't just eat only junk food.
"Okay! Let's go!" She said cheerfully while dragging me to the store.
"Say hi to senpai," I whispered quietly. Martha heard me and laughed. We both like watching Markiplier's and Jacksepticeye's videos. There are a bunch of other youtubers we watch but we watch them less.
After we bought everything we needed, we walked slowly towards my house which was empty. My parents were out of town for the weekend so me and Martha can hang out on both days before school.
When we were walking, Martha squeezed my arm with her arm. I looked at her, expecting her to be looking at me but instead she was painfully looking at the ground.
"Is everything okay?" I asked her.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just a little bit cold," she answered with a soft grin.
I took out my keys to open the front door of my house. I invited Martha in. We took our jackets and shoes off. We went to my room and put all the food and my present on my table. I took out my laptop and let Martha choose a TV show or a movie. I went to the kitchen to make some popcorn and came back with the pack of hot popcorn and a bowl. I poured it into the bowl. When I turned around, Martha surprised me.
"Martha!" I yelled.
"Sorry," she laughed, "I picked out Iron Man."
"Cool," I said and put the bowl of popcorn on the bed. We put on blankets and started the movie.
At the end of it, we were under one blanket cuddling.
"Let's watch the next one?" I asked.
"Yeah, but first, about my second present," she said and fiddled with the corner of the blanket. She wasn't looking at me but she was blushing a little and a painful look in her eyes. It looked like she was at the verge of tears.
"I don't know if this would count as a present to you but I hope you're gonna be fine with it," she held her scarf, "it takes guts to do something like this."
She took off her scarf, revealing her neck after years without me being able to see it. I could finally understand why she was wearing a scarf. I was speechless and surprised. Martha was waiting for my answer. I couldn't speak a word. I just smiled and took off one of my gloves, where my tattoo is and put my hand on her hand. I was looking in her eyes and grinning excitedly. She started to cry and put her hand on her mouth. Before saying anything, Martha pushed me down on the bed hugging me.
"Woah! Careful! Don't break my laptop!" I said and put my arms around her.
"I'm just so happy. I already knew you were okay with gays but I didn't know what would happen if I told you I'm in love with you," she said and buried her head in my shoulder. I flipped us over so I'm on the top. I looked at her and kissed her gently. Martha kissed back and held my head, pulling me into the kiss deeper. We made out for a couple of minutes before actually stopping.
"So what now? What are we gonna do since our parents are homophobes?" Asked Martha.
"Secretly be a lesbian couple, I guess," I answered and kissed her again. I looked at my tattoo on my hand and it was coloured. It happens when you get together with the person you love. The same thing happened to Martha's tattoo.
We started watching Iron Man 2 but we barely remember what happened because when a couple watches a movie alone, make out sessions happen.
