Love At First Scare? (PTV & FIR Horror/Love Story)

Chapter 21: Tattoos

(Elizabeth's POV)

I got to my tattoo shop at around 9 o'clock. I had been working on people all day, along with the help of my employees, and it was now 1 o'clock. I was just about to go on my lunch break when Max walked through the doors.

-"Hey babe!" I said. I went over to him and gave him a hug and a kiss.

-"Hey. How's your day so far?" He asked.

-"Pretty good to be honest. I'm really hungry though." I frowned.

-"Have no fear. I brought you lunch." He said holding up 2 Subway bags.

-"Foot long BMT on Italian bread, toasted, with lettuce and mustard only?" I asked.

-"Indeed, my dear." He said and gave me my bag, smiling.

-"Yaaas! You're the best!"

-"I know." He chuckled. "Wanna go to the park and eat these?"

-"Sure. Hey Jasmine, I'm going on my lunch break with Max. I'll be back!" I shouted to my employee and best friend Jasmine.

-"Alright! Be careful and hurry back!" She shouted from across the room. Right now we had no customers, so I had some time.

I grabbed Max's hand and we went to the park about two blocks away from my shop. When we got there, we sat down in the middle, underneath this giant tree.

-"I always did love this tree." I said.

-"Me too. I've always wanted to do this..." He said, pulling out his pocket knife and carving our initials into the trunk.

-"Aww! You're so dorky. I love it." I giggled and pulled out my sandwich. "Ugh, I'm so hungry that I literally would have killed someone if you hadn't have walked in just then." With that said, I unwrapped my sandwich and took the biggest bite out of it. I turned to Max and he was just smiling and staring at me. "What?" I said with a full mouth. "I fucking told you I was hungry!!"

-"You're cute." He giggled.

I finished my sandwich way before Max did. After we were both done eating, we spent a few minutes just walking around the park talking, hugging, kissing, holding hands, all of that fun stuff that couples do in public. Then, I got a text from Jasmine saying that there was someone at the shop wanting to see me. I told Max and we headed back. When I got there, I saw Tony sitting on one of the couches, flipping through a book of tattoo designs. He then noticed that Max and I had walked in, stood up, and smiled at us.

-"Max! How's it going bro?" Tony hugged Max.

-"Hey Tony! Pretty good, man. Just had lunch with my girlfriend here." He replied.

-"Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that you and Stella were dating."

-"Stel-"

-"YES! We're dating! Isn't that right Max?" I said and hoped he caught on.

-"Oh! Yeah! We are! Heh..." Max said.

-"Okaaay...anyways, I told you that I was thinking of stopping by this weekend and, well, here I am!" Tony said.

-"Shit...I'm so sorry. I totally forgot you said that. I was supposed to tattoo Max today too."

-"Oh, sorry. I can come back another day."

-"No, dude. You stay. I have stuff to do anyways." Max said.

-"But, babe..." I said, not wanting him to leave me.

-"I have something special planned for tonight. I have to get things ready." Max winked at me and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek. "I love you. I'll see you tonight."

-"Bye. I love you too..." Then he left.

-"I-I'm really sorry." Tony said.

-"No, no. It's fine, really! So um, what were you planning on getting today?"

-"Um, well a couple of things actually. I would like to get 'Star Wars' on my knuckles and an owl on my throat." He showed me a photo of the owl that he wanted.

-"Wow! This should be interesting. I'll go get everything drawn up and I'll come out and have you take a look at everything when I'm done. Just go ahead and have a seat right there." I pointed to the couch he was standing in front of. 

-"Sounds great!" Within 40 minutes I had all 8 letters and the owl drawn up and ready to show Tony. I went over to where he was and showed him.

-"Everything look good?"

-"Perfect! Wow, I can't believe I'm actually going to get some tattoos done by miss 'Anonymous'".

-"It's not a big deal, really. I'm just another normal person." I chuckled.

-"Well, you're special to me." He looked at me and smiled. I blushed a little and started his throat tattoo first, since that was going to take the longest. It took about 2 and a half hours to complete.

-"How's that? Go check it out in the mirror." I said.

-"Wow, this is amazing! You're really skilled. You know...-" He started to say as he walked back over to my station, "the other night at our show, when I said that you looked like someone I used to be friends with, you really do."

-"Oh really? What was this person's name?" I asked, already knowing that he was talking about me. I started working on his knuckles. Holding his hand felt so...nice.

-"Her name was Elizabeth. She was such an amazing person." He looked away.

-"Aw. W-what happened to her? If you don't mind me asking that is." He sighed.

-"I used to pick on her all of the time. I was good friends with her boyfriend, Chris Cerulli. He would beat her up and take advantage of her whenever he got the chance. I just stood back and watched it all happen, laughing at her in the process." A tear fell from his cheek. He wiped it away with his free hand. "Looking back at what I did to her...I regret everything. She was such a sweet person and didn't deserve any of the torture that she got."

-"Oh...I'm sorry..."

-"Chris and I knew that she suffered severely from anxiety and she had panic attacks quite often, so we decided to scare her one night at a Halloween party. Things kinda went downhill though. He wanted me to kill her...she started crying and hyperventilating and she eventually passed out after her friend Ronnie punched Chris in the face. At that moment, I knew that I loved this girl and that I didn't want anything else bad to happen to her. I carried her to her brother, the bass player of our band, and we took her home. Then some good and bad stuff happened in the next few months and...we haven't talked in 10 years..."  He sighed and looked down at what I was doing.

-"Wow...I'm sure that...if she heard you say all of that, she'd forgive you for everything. I'm sure she knows that you care about her..."

-"Yeah...I don't know. I just wish I could see her again..." 

I have to tell him...

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