T I K T O K

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briar stepped into the sway house for the second time this week, with charli, dixie and mads by her side. their friend group had decided to get matching tattoos. it was many of their first tattoos, and to say they least they were nervous. briar invited jaden to get one with them and he thanked her for the offer and said he'd love to.

it obviously wasn't jadens, bryces, anthony's, quintons, chases, nessas or blake's first tattoo, but it was briars, dixies, charlis, mads, joshs, curtis's, avanis, cynthias, amelies and griffins.

briar had talked to jaden after she left sway house. they agreed to be friends and only friends. briar had "lost" feelings for the poor kid, though jaden was still madly in love with her. he'd never felt anything like he did with briar, not even with mads.

briar and the girls opened the front door and they wave to their friends scattered around the first floor of the house.

"hiiii bri!" bryce yells from the kitchen, he was sitting next to josh and blake gesturing something

"hey yall." briar smiles and gives cynthia and amelie a hug

"hi honey." cynthia smiles, "how are you?"

"i'm good." the girl smiles. she was telling the truth this time. she truly was good

"i'm happy for you." cynthia smiles and leads her over to the group

"hey bri." josh smiles

"what are you all up to?" she asks

"we were arguing about wether in and out or popeyes is better." bryce shrugs

"sounds like an intense argument." briar chuckles

"good idea for the tats." blake says changing the subject

"thanks." i smile, "i think everyone will appreciate it and hopefully we can raise some suicide awareness."

her attention is diverted when she hears footsteps. coming down the stairs in a pair of paint splattered shorts and no shirt is the boy briar dreaded to see the most tonight. jaden. she'd told everyone she lost feelings for him, and she didn't love him. everyone knew damn well that it was a lie. not only was she lying to her friends, but she was lying to herself.

she swallowed hard as they made eye contact, he smirked at her. she blinked as her throat went dry. he brushed past her, "hey bri." he mumbles

she coughs making bryce chuckle, "hey." she chokes

"when we getting our tattoos ladies and gentlemen." jaden announces

dixie rolls her eyes at his comment, "we're waiting on issac." nessa states

he nods at the energy displayed in the room this evening,  tough crowd. he guessed they were all still pretty pissed off at him for the swype party.

everyone was off in their own conversations until the door opens and there's issac with all of his tattoo guns and ink, "hey bro." bryce dabs him up

"hey bryce." he smiles, "hey bri." he waves

"hii." she smiles at waves back