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“Where would you even get it?” You ask, eyes still trained down at your DS.
“Double pistols, on my hip bones.” he smiles, sitting in front of you on the couch of your apartment.
You sigh, saving your progress in Pokemon X before setting your DS down as you look up at Jake.
“Are you sure about this, dude? I mean tattoos are permanent and all that.” You sit up a bit from your slouched position on the couch and he nods, well you guess he’s determined.
You sigh and stand up, walking into your room to change back into real clothes from pajamas, it’s saturday at noon, you woke up around two hours ago and did not feel like actually doing shit on your day off but tattoos sound cool so whatever, and Jake may need a ride after since he doesn’t seem to understand how painful tattoos are.
“Alright I’ll take you there, but you owe me dude. tattoo parlors don’t really seem like the ideal place for me to hang out.” You call out to him as you swap out your clothing for black skinny jeans and some band T-shirt that isn’t too dirty. Damn you need to clean the laundry more often. You look in the mirror and sigh as you try to fix the mess that is your hair before deciding on putting on a black beanie, letting your bangs poke out a bit, after you slip on some black vans, you walk back out with your keys in hand and adjust your glasses a bit as Jake smiles and walks out of the apartment and down the stairs with you over to your car.
“Are you gonna get anything done while we’re there?” Jake asks you as you pull out of the parking lot and head in the direction that Jake had told you to go.
“Uhhh… Not that I know of. I don’t really think I’d be able to wear tattoos or piercings well.” Jake snorts at your response.
“Oh nonsense John, I think you’d look just fine in any one that you want.” Jake smiles over at you as he speaks, you shrug.
“I dunno, maybe. I’ve always kinda wanted to get a nose piercing so… maybe.” You respond and Jake's smile grows just a bit.
“Well I think it’d be cool so go ahead and do it, I want the pistols to be detailed so it could take a while.” You shrug again
Eventually you pull in front of a decent-sized parlor with a sign up front saying “Precision Ink” in white lettering, everything else on the building seems like shades close to black so it looked pretty cool, you lock the car doors and walk up to the front entrance, opening it and walking inside with Jake.
There’s a counter with some guy standing, drawing something as he sits at a stool and Jake walks up, you look at the guy and damn you gotta admit it, this dude is fine as hell.
“Hello, I have an appointment for a tattoo with uh..” Jake pauses to think of the guy’s name, you’re guessing but the receptionist interjects before Jake says anything.
“Dirk, yeah he’s in that room over there” He gestures at a door to the right of him that’s propped open, Jake nods a little and thanks the receptionist who you look at again and notice that he’s looking at you. You bite your lip a bit and awkwardly follow behind Jake after looking into the guy’s aviators for a couple moments. He just smirks and returns to the drawing on his desk.
When you both walk in there’s a guy, Dirk, you presume, with the same blonde hair but it’s kinda spiked up and he’s wearing sunglasses too but these ones are kinda triangular and abnormal looking in your opinion at least, Jake walks in and talks to him and you go and sit in a chair to the side so you’d still be relatively near Jake but still out of the way.
Jake sits down and pulls his shirt up, exposing where he wants the tattoo and all that and dirk takes a few reference photos and sits them near his workspace and begins the machine. Most of the time you look around then occasionally at the tattoo making process but you keep stealing glances at the guy at the front, he’s wearing a white button up with a black tie and black ripped skinny jeans and he’s still leaning on the sort of high counter, writing down things and answering calls, normal receptionist stuff.
Once Jake’s tattooing session gets almost boring and you kinda wanna gag at the flirting going on between jake and the tattoo dude, what’s the deal with that anyway? You stand up and tell Jake you’ll be back soon and you walk over to the counter, almost immediately the guy looks up with another smirk, this time you look at all the details you could see on him, a bottom lip ring to the right, his left eyebrow is pierced and his sleeves are pulled up to his elbows, allowing you to see that on his right forearm there’s a black feather that looks pretty good and detailed. Your eyes snap up to his glasses once you hear him clearing his throat and you hear his voice.
“Hey, need somethin’?” His voice is really smoothed out and nice, there seems to be a slight drawl in it as well. You bit at your lip again.
“Oh, uh.. I dunno, I wanted to know if i could get a nose piercing?” You sigh softly and gulp as he nods a bit and stands up a bit more.
“Oh, yeah alright I do those, gimme your name.” He takes out a pen and looks down at a paper that has a list of what you presume is clients and all that.
“Oh, okay then. It’s John Egbert… By the way, what’s your name?” You ask nervously.
“Dave. ‘kay, John let’s go pierce your nose then.” he smiles a bit and once he finishes writing, he takes you into another room to the left of the one Jake’s getting tattooed in, once you’re inside he walks over and grabs the needle a cotton swab soaked in cleaner, telling you to pick a nose ring, you walk over and pick a basic little black ball one so it wouldn’t clash too much. You point it out to Dave and he nods, after setting everything up he has you sit at a chair and you tell him you want your right nostril pierced, then he tilts your head back a little.
“Alright so hold still.” Dave says and you snort, nodding as he clenses the area of your right nostril and then he lines up the needle on a spot he had made as reference and after a couple seconds you feel a sting in your nose and you shut your eyes, surprisingly you didn’t move but you did squeak a little, making Dave chuckle, after he puts the nose screw in carefully, he cleans around the area and everything he backs up and nods.
“Looks good on you, Egbert.” He smiles faintly to himself as he removes his gloves and sets the tools he had used inside some cleaner and then he looks at you again as you stand back up, grinning as you look in a mirror.
“Woah thank you, it looks great!” You basically beam and he smiles, walking back out and you follow as he explains how to clean and care for it. Once you’re at the front you notice Jake is standing up and talking to that Dirk guy again, he’s clearly into him, all giggly and such. You smile at Dave and pay for the piercing, thanking him again and dave hands you your receipt as well as Jake’s and you hand it to him.
“Oh john, I’ve finished up and they look perfect, thanks to dirk here.” Jake grins, nudging dirk a little and he laughs, taking the receipt from him and writing his number on it- damn, Jake get it-he blushes a bit and Dirk hands it back.
“Alright, pleasure meeting you both, I’ll talk to you later Jake, I hope.” Dirk smiles, Jake nodding quickly and you say goodbye to him as he walks back into the tattoo room and you look at dave who’s eyes were already seemingly on you, you just bite your lip and wave goodbye as Jake walks out and you follow after him and out of the parlor.
“That was so much pain but holy shit, John did you see Dirk?” You laugh and unlock the car, nodding as you get in the front seat.
“Hell yeah I did, good job Jake, I didn’t think you had it in you do get the tat AND get the guy. Nice.” You start the car and Jake beams as he enters the number into his phone. You bite your lip a little as you drive and think about Dave a bit.
After a few minutes, Jake breaks the silence again. “So that Dave guy was cute too, and I’m taking notice to a stud in your nose. Did you flirt? Is he interested? Are you?” You laugh a bit and shrug.
“I didn’t get a number, I think he checked me out a few times and yeah, I am… Do you like the piercing?” You glance at Jake who nods.
“I told you it’d look good. And damn, well maybe you’ll see him around. He’s the same age as you and this town isn’t all that big.” You just nod a little and turn back into the apartment parking lot.
“Maybe… Hopefully, heh.”