Paper Airplanes

Chapter 23; Tattoos

*Dacota's POV*

On the next Monday, school started again. Sadly, Harry and I couldn't really kiss at school, so that made us both sad, but we could secretly hold hands at lunch.

"You want to drive or me?" he asks. My parents aren't home yet.

"You. Too tired." I'm so used to sleeping until 10:00, that getting up at 6:00 is really early now. We get into the car; it's really cold, since it's been sitting outside and hasn't been used in about two weeks.

"Do you know if Lainey will be back yet?" he asks. Lainey texted me that she was feeling a bit better a few days ago and that she had had pneumonia.

"I don't know," I say, sighing.

"Oh," he says and turns the car on.

"So, are we going to tell anyone?" I haven't thought about that.

"I don't know. Probably Emily and Alex, but I don't know who else, if there is anyone." We were half way to school now.

"Okay. I think starting with Em and Alex is good." He smiles and pulls into the lot. We're almost late. I run through the building to homeroom and open the door to see everyone there already.

"Ah, Dacota, thank you for joining us," Mr. Green says. "Is there an excuse for you're tardiness?" Mr. Green is pretty cool, so I say something I've wanted to say forever.

"Somebody told me to go to hell. Couldn't find it at first, but now I'm here." I shrug and sit while everyone laughs. Mr. Green smiles and writes something down. A few hours later there's lunch and I find Harry in line.

"Hey," he says. We stand behind everyone and he secretly grabs one of my hands. Tingles are sent through my arm at his touch. I smile at him.

"Hi," I respond a move a bit closer to him. He fills the remaining space and lightly kisses me on the lips. I look around to see if anyone had seen. No one had.

"Have you told Emily?"

"No, I'm about to, though." I point behind him at Emily and Alex approaching us.

"Hey guys!" she says and hugs me. Alex bro hugs Harry and they laugh.

"So, have I missed anything? News, details, tragedies?"

"Well," I say and laugh a bit. "I actually got a boyfriend," I say. Alex leans in and gives Harry a sorry look. Harry shrugs trying to hide a smile.

"WHAT?!" she shrieks. "WHO, HOW, WHEN, WHAT?! DO I KNOW HIM? WHATS HIS NAME? IS HE CUTE?"

"You know him," I say. "He's more than cute, he's..." I take a second, "sexy." She laughs. "His name," I start to say but Harry cuts me off by grabbing me by the waist and kissing me. I hear them gasp and I laugh into the kiss. We rest our heads on each other's and look at them. "His name is Harry," I say quietly and Em nods, her mouth wide.

"Good job, mate," Alex tells Harry and Emily takes me aside.

"So, you and Harry hooked up?" she asks.

"Well, yes and no. Yes, we got together," I say and she giggles. "No, we did not have sex."

She giggles more. "Still a virgin?"

"Still a virgin." I laugh. "But are you?" I wiggle my eyebrows.

"Of course I am!" She hits me.

"Wanna know what I want to do?" I say.

"What?" she asks eagerly.

"I want to get a tattoo," I whisper to her.

"I do, too. Let's do it. After school?"

"Let's do it!"

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So, a few hours later, we're in a tattoo parlor. We already know what we're getting, but we're not telling each other until after. A girl calls me in and a guy calls Em in. We wave and go into the rooms.

"Hi, I'm Jen," she says and I introduce myself.

"What do you want for a tattoo?" she asks.

"I would like this." I show her a picture of a paper airplane. It means so many things. My grandmother giving me the necklace. Harry.

"Okay, where at?" I point to the back of my right shoulder and she nods. "Just an outline, correct? No color?"

"Right."

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An hour passes, which is full of some pain and some tears but I finally get to see it and, "I love it." I smile and thank her. I walk out at the same time as Emily and we go to the car.

"What'd you get?" I ask her. She showed me her left arm. It's a type writer font and it says, 'It gets better.' I show her mine and she smiles.

"Really cute." She smiles and we head to my house where the boys are. They don't know we got tattoos...

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Hey!

So yeah, I thought of something kind of like Divergent because I flipping love those books, so that's how the tattoo idea came... yeah...

*Sammie 🐷*