- what am i • daniel seavey • ✔︎ -

-chapter 44-

[Emma's POV]

"Emma, are you sure about this?" Amelia asked me as we drove to the tattoo shop.

"Yeah, this is a forever decision." Elisa added in too.

"Yes. I absolutely sure. I want a tattoo." I said rolling my eyes. I parked in the parking spot, and the girls got out of the car with me. I had gotten pretty close with Elisa and Amelia. Elisa had become more bubbly as we got to know each other and Amelia was just well Amelia. She was the most responsible, yet the most immature person, I had ever known. Other than Zach and Jack I guess.

"How can I help you ladies?" A man behind the counter asked as we entered. His name tag read Devin.

"I'm here to get a tattoo, and they're here because," I paused turning back to my friends. "Wait why are you guys here?"

"Emotional support." Elisa spoke up and Amelia nodded. Devin gave a confused frown, but nodded with a chuckle.

"Ok do you have a preference on which gender does your tattoo?" He asked me as he guided the three of us to a larger room. There were tables and chair and all the equipment for tattoos.

"Um female." I answered. He nodded and then left us standing there. A woman came into the room, replacing Devin. Her name tag read Kora. She had blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. Her hair was dyed blue at the tips though.

"Hi I'm Kora! I'll be doing your tattoo today." She announced and sat down at a table. She then motioned for me to sit down in front of her. Amelia and Elisa awkwardly stood behind me. "You two can pull up chairs." She nodded towards them as she got the equipment ready.

"Ok so what are we doing today?" Kora asked me, still getting the ink and such ready.

"An 'X' on the inside of my left wrist and then like dashes leading to it. Like 'X' marks the spot." I told her.

"Ok have you ever gotten a tattoo before?" Kora turned to me and set the stuff on the table. I shook my head, indicating that I hadn't. "Ok you might want to have your friends hold your hands or something. It hurts."

Amelia and Elisa grabbed my hands, and sat on the empty sides of the table. I made sure my wrist was upside down and Kora got right to work. The pain from the needle stung so bad, but there was no turning back now.

She traced over the 'X' mulitple times, leaving a dark black stain from the ink. Once she was finished with that, she moved on to the dashes. She did the same thing with them, tracing over and over again.

After half and hour, she had finished, and left my arm aching. She put a fancy type of sticky paper over it, to protect it, and guided me to the front to pay. Amelia and Elisa followed.

Devin, the man from before was there, and stepped out of the way to let Kora do things. She grabbed a few pamphlets, probably holding instructions, and then asked for my credit card.

I handed it to her, and she swiped it. Kora gave it back, along with a receipt and a pen.

"Please sign this." She told me. I wrote my signature at the bottom, and thankfully I'm right handed. I would not have been able to do it with my left. "Thank you!" She said taking the receipt and pen back. She handed me the pamphlets, which held instructions.

"Have a nice day!" I told her as we exited the store. Kora responded with a wave, and then disappeared to the back.

"Did it hurt?" Elisa asked as we hopped in the car.

"Yes." I groaned and massaged my upper arm, where the sticky paper wasn't applied.

"Well that's your fault." Amelia said, with a little laugh.

"Yes, I know." I laughed too. "Do you guys want to stay over tonight?" I asked, turning to Amelia in the front seat and Elisa in the back.

"Sure." The both shrugged.

"Ok you can borrow my stuff, if that's ok with you?" I said, pulling out into the street. They nodded.
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"Emma! Welcome home!" Claire greeted me as I walked into my room with Amelia and Elisa. "Oh hi Amelia. Hi Elisa." She greeted them too.

"Mel and Lisa are staying over tonight." I informed her. "You can hang out with us too if you want." I offered. Claire was only two years older than me, and I had grown to love her as the sister I never had.

"Ok!" She said, and grabbed the laundry she was folding from off the bed.

"We'll be down in the movie theater." I told Claire.

"I have to finish up a few things and then I'll be there." She said and disappeared into the house. I turned to see Elisa and Amelia already digging through my drawers, looking for pajamas.

I pushed them playfully out of the way, and opened the one drawer they hadn't dug through yet. I pulled out a tank top and t-shirt and handed them to the girls. I also found a pair of plaid pajama shorts and pajama pants. They took their pick, and left to go get changed in my large bathroom.

I found a cropped t-shirt, and leggings, and slipped them on. Amelia and Elisa reappeared from the bathroom, Mel in the pajama pants and tank top, and Elisa in the shorts and t-shirt.

We left and went to the basement of my dad's mansion, and into the movie theater. I picked out Back to the Future.

We watched the first one, and right at the beginning of the second one, Claire came to join us. She had on an oversized hoodie and spandex.

We finished all three movies, and went back up to my room. Claire had set up three air mattresses, one for herself, Amelia and Elisa.

"Oh my gosh! Emma! You got a tattoo?!" Claire exclaimed as she finally noticed it.

"Sh!" I hushed her. My dad couldn't know about it. "My dad will here you!"

"Oh right!" She whispered back and took my arm to examine it.

"Well I'm tired." Amelia spoke and chose one of the mattresses. She went under the covers, and we followed in her footsteps.

"Emma? Why'd you get that tattoo? Like does that have some sort of significance to you? Are you secretly a pirate? Do you are a treasure map? Can I see it?" Elisa started blabbering on and on.

"Goodnight Elisa!" We all yelled over her talking.

"Goodnight." She huffed.
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well she got a tattoo!

X marks the spot ;)

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Huge time skip coming up I think!
Probably in the next chapter

I'm going to try to end this book at 50 chapters but most likely it'll be longer than that

Actually nope nope nope it's gonna be a lot longer than that I think

Let me know of mistakes

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