He grabbed my arm and turned it over to get a better view of the two words on the lower half of my left forearm.
"Are you serious?" He asked me with a shaky voice.
I nodded. He stared at the tattoo.
It read "My Rock<3" and had the date, five years ago today, that I quit using, underneath it.
He wrapped his arms around me and bent down so he could bury his face in my neck.
"Josh," I wrapped my arms around him and rubbed his back, "You are my rock, you have been since day one. If it wasn't for you, babe, heaven knows where I would be right now! You made me get clean, you helped me stay clean. I've been to hell and back and I dragged you with me; Josh, you never left my side and that means the world to a girl who's never had anyone stick around before. You can't even see how much I love you. You've done way more for me than I'll ever be able to repay, so I thought a tattoo might show you how grateful I am."
"I love you so much, Shay." He said, his voice tickling my neck.
"I love you too, Josh."
He pulled away and wiped the tears off of his face when his phone went off.
"Who is iiit?" I asked, leaning towards him to try to see his phone.
"The toothfairy!" He yelled before running off.
I laughed to myself, he was such an idiot sometimes. He suddenly walked back into the kitchen and leaned against the doorframe.
"Just kiddinggg! It's Rosemary."
"Well, just for that, I'm picking the movie tonight!!!!"
I opened the freezer, pulled out a pint of cookie dough ice cream and darted to the living room. I put in Lilo & Stitch and sat down.
"Really, Shay? Really? We've seen this movie a million and four times!"
"Well, it's now a million and five!" I laughed. Josh walked to the kitchen to get a spoon before joining me on the couch to watch the movie.
Twenty minutes, a half pint of ice cream, and what looked like four hundred text messages between Rosemary and Josh, later, I was sleepy.
"Tell her to follow me on Twitter!" I called to Josh downstairs before I shut my door and crawled into bed. The next morning I got up to find a McDonald's bag on the kitchen table.
"Morning, baby girl! Studio with the boys! Here's breakfast! Thank Niallerrr! love you(: xxx"
I smiled before opening the bag and pulling out a chicken biscuit. I sat down at the table and took a picture of my new tattoo.
"@Shailayyy: MASSIVE thank you to @JoshDevineDrums for my birthday present yesterday!!!! love you<3 (: xxx" I wrote before posting the Tweet and picture.
A week later, I was opening the front door of our flat for Rosemary.
"Hey." I smiled.
"Hello."
"Josh said sorry, because he got held in the studio later than he expected, but, he told me to keep you company and not force you to watch Lilo & Stitch eight hundred times!" I said as Rosemary laughed. "By the way, I'm Shailey, but, everyone calls me Shay."
"I know, Josh talks about you ALL the time. I'm Rosemary or Rose, or Rosie, or Mary."
We both laughed and shook hands.
"So, we cannn look at naked pictures of Josh as a baby, go through his underwear drawer, oorrr, watch a movie." I laughed at my hilarity. I was determined to embarrass Josh as much as possible before he even got home.
