Breathless | Colby Brock ✔️

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hi guys!! This ^ is how I picture Nora and Gwen :) the actress is Florence Pugh. Let me know how you picture them !!

In between classes, I called the best rated tattoo and piercing parlor and scheduled an appointment (after checking if Gwen was free, which she was). When I finally got done class for the day, we left for the shop, and she was giddy with excitement. I hadn't told her where we were going yet, but she was bouncing up and down in her seat.

"Is this my birthday present?" She asked with a grin, raising her eyebrows.

"Yes, but you have to wait to find out what it is," I told her. Gwen rolled her eyes at me, but the smile didn't leave her face. She leaned back, enjoying the breeze coming in through the open car window.

We could have driven the remainder of the trip in peaceful silence, if it wasn't for Gwen and her big mouth.

"So you finally fucked him?"

I almost choked, trying to remain concentrated on the road. "What makes you think that?"

"So you did?" She didn't even open her eyes.

"Yes," I said slowly, tightening my lips into a line.

She laughed. "I knew it." Gwen sat up straight in her seat, opening her eyes to give me a hard stare. "You used protection, right?"

"I'm on birth control," I sighed. "You know that."

"And you know that it isn't one-hundred percent effective. And that it doesn't protect against STD's."

I turned for a brief moment to give her an expression of anger. "He doesn't have an STD."

"That you know of. Did you even tell him you were on birth control?"

"No," I realized, my brows furrowing. I frowned, thinking for a minute. "Maybe he just assumed, since I didn't say anything about a condom or whatever."

Right as Gwen opened her mouth to reply, I pulled abruptly into the parking lot of the tattoo parlor. She looked at it, then at me, a grin returning to her face. "You didn't."

"Time to finally get your nose pierced," I said smugly.

Her jaw dropped. "Are you serious?"

"I called earlier, and they had a cancellation. They squeezed us in."

"This is the best birthday present ever," Gwen breathed in shock, glancing back at the shop.

"C'mon, we can't be late," I took the keys out of the ignition and opened my door, making my way towards the building without checking to see if my sister was behind me. Her heavy footsteps alerted me that she was, and she was excited as all hell.

The inside of the place was nice, really nice, and it was a comfort compared to the dust your shop I went to at home to get all my tattoos.

Gwen already had both of her nostrils pierced, and she had been talking about getting her septum done since we were teenagers. She'd never had the time to go do it for real, though, so her enthusiasm was overflowing. "I can't believe it. You're amazing, Nora."

We got there just in time for our appointment, so after signing a few papers, we were taken back to a clean, sterile room where they would pierce her. A heavily tattooed woman with bright blue hair came in, smiling at us.

"You can skip the spiel, I've had it way too many times," Gwen said, growing jittery. "Just stick the needle in and get it over with."

The woman laughed, raising her hands. "Alright, good to know. I'm Claire. Let's fire it up, then?"