He's Like Him [Part 2]

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POV Shawn

I'm not a pussy, what does she think? I'm gonna prove her.

Aaliyah, my mother and I walk into the piercing shop. There are drawings of tattoos everywhere, apparently they're tattooing here too. "Hey, my brother and I both want a helix piercing." Aaliyah says hyped.

"That's possible." The friendly woman looks at me smiling and then shows a number of piercings. There are rings and sticks that we can choose from. My sister finally slips a ring and I go for a stick, I think that's something more masculine.

"Who's going first?" Aaliyah and I look at each other and then she says she wants to go first. Alliyah takes a seat on the chair and wobbles nervously with her hands. "Does it hurt?" She asks the woman. "You'll feel it." She laughs.

She first draws a dot with a marker and as soon as we have approved it, they'll actually pierce it. Aaliyah bites her teeth briefly and then it's already over. "That wasn't too bad," she says laughing, "they were more nerves."

"Shawn, it's your turn." Says the woman laughing. I sit down on the chair and she also draws a dot at my ear. "A little lower?" When I look in the mirror, I think it looks pretty dope. "Go ahead."

"She puts the needle to my ear and rages it through it. "Fuck!" I scold, within seconds the stick is in. "I think I'm going to faint." I say with my hands on the chair lean. My head starts spinning which made me feel very dizzy. "Just sit down then." The woman holds me by her hand so that I can't fall over.

After a few minutes I feel a lot better, but nauseous. I'm not planning on telling them, 'cause they'll know that I'm a pussy. We pay for the piercings and then I say goodbye to my mother and Aaliyah. In the car I must do my best not to go over my neck, fuck, it hurts.

Then I also pull my blouse, completely by accident. "You can't be serious right now?" I mop in myself.

I open my Instagram while I drive and decide to go live. "Hey guys, Uh, yea, I just ripped my shirt on accident."

"I know you guys are probably getting mad right now but I'm genually focussed. My left hand is on the road, my eyes are on the road. Only me speaking isn't on the road." I say to reassure the fans.

"Indy's probably going to hate me after this." I say while laughing. "So yea, I got a big rip in this shirt so I got to rock the whole day with this rip in my shirt." I look at myself in the camera and it looks pretty dope. "Maybe it's kinda cool actually."

I take a look at how the cars turn right and then focus on my viewers. "I took my fiveteen year old sister to get her ear pierced. I've got my ear pierced too and it was the worst feeling ever." I say laughing. "It hurts so bad."

I have to wait at the crossroads and take a sip of my coconut milk. "I hope there's no cops watching this." I close the cap again and then the traffic light turns green.

A girl asks what she wants them to learn from me. "If I could tell you guys one thing it would be," I think for a second, "don't be afraid to feel, don't be afraid to fall in love, don't be afraid to get hurt, because getting hurt is kinda magical is his own way and you learn from it." I know it sounds silly, but somewhere it's kinda logical, right?

"It sucks to live a numb life and be neutral about everything."