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2. Tattoo Boy

After finishing everything she got her keys and purse and headed to the store to pick some things up. Like the stuff that is Ethan's favorite, she got some chips and some soda that he liked. She got his favorite dessert which was a chocolate cake and then some plain vanilla ice cream; she got some bananas and cherries along with whip cream and sprinkles. Ethan loved his banana splits. Most nights they would sneak down into the kitchen and Eve would make a large banana split and both would share. On top of all that she got some of his favorite coffee and then some of his favorite beer that with her fake ID and also flirting with the guy behind the counter didn't get questioned.

Running home really quick she took everything in, put it in the freezer and fridge and headed back out. She got her new phone which she thought was actually better than her old one and after getting all her numbers and pictures switched she headed to the next place on her list. Pulling in she was nervous, her hand was shaking and heart was racing and she wasn't sure what she was even doing here, but she always wanted one.

Getting out of the car she walked into the old building making the bell ring as the old man behind the counter looked up.

"Hey what can I do for you?" he asked and Eve was surprised by him. For a place like this you would expect some big biker guy with tattoos all down his arms and piercings all over but this guy, this guy looked like someone's grandpa.

"Umm well I want a tattoo." She tells him nervously and he just lets out a small chuckle.

"Well you came to the right place." He told her while looking around the store.

"You're right I did." She laughs.

"Well do you know what you want or would you like to look around some?"

"Umm... I think I am going to look around." She tells him and he nods ok, telling her to let him know when she is ready. Eve walks over to the wall covered in designs and pictures. Debating what she wanted. And the more she looked, the more confused she got and the more confused the more her nerves talked her into believing this idea was just stupid.

"First one?" she heard a deep husky voice over her shoulder as she turned to see someone next to her.

"Umm...yeah." She nods looking back at the wall, "I know I want one but I don't know what." She tells him.

"Well you know you don't have to actually get one of these. I mean if you want something more meaningful they can do that. Like if you want a name or something."

"What?" Eve says, spinning to look at him and actually noticing how cute he is. He has blonde hair that is a little long but not obnoxiously long where it is falling in his eyes covering his whole face, it's more like a little spike thing going to it. He has a little stubble on his chin and then has the most gorgeous emerald like green eyes. Eve soon realized she had been staring at the guy so long she hadn't even heard him repeat his whole name getting tattooed, "Oh no I would never get someone's name tattooed on me. Nothing is that forever."

"Right." He nods with a small smile making Eve smile.

"What are you getting? Is this your first one?" Eve asks but he shakes his head no.

"It will be my second. I have one on my shoulder and thinking about getting a cross right here." he smiles, taking Eve's hand in his and gently rubbing her wrist giving her chills.

"That would be cool." She whispered and felt stupid by her nerves. Boys never make her nervous but for some reason this one; this one she knows nothing about is making her goose bumps go into overdrive.

"Yeah so what you thinking about?" he asked, letting go of her wrist.

"I'm thinking like a little symbol like these." She says finally breaking her long gaze with this guy and pointing at the Chinese symbols in front of her.

"Yeah I got that one on my shoulder." He says pointing at one and Eve nods.

"What does it mean?"

"I think it means fun but they could be lying." He laughs and Eve nods.

"Well I am thinking about getting one that means love or hate. I think they are kind of the same thing." she says with a dry laugh.

"Love and hate being the same thing?" he questions, raising an eyebrow at him.

"Yeah you know I mean love is great, loving someone is pretty fantastic I'm sure but I think the line between love and hate is pretty thin and to love someone you also have to hate them a little. I mean do you honestly think you could have someone having a strong annoying hold on you to get you to do whatever they want with just a cute smile. Personally I think I would hate that a little."

"Well then why not get a crossover between the two like this one." he said pointing.

"Yeah I like that one." she smiled at him feeling stupid for smiling so much over this random guy, "I'm Eve." She smiles, sticking out her hand that he took.

"Jaxx."

"Well Jaxx would you like to do me a favor please?" she asked and he nodded a sure, "Would you maybe I don't know come with me to get it done. Maybe hold my hand through it, needles don't really make me nervous but still." She asked and as soon as the words came out she felt dumb for asking a stranger that.

"Well only if you hold my hand during mine." He teased and Eve just slapped him playfully on the arm.

"Oh sure." She laughed as they walked over to the older man. "Ok I am ready." Eve tells him pointing at which one she wanted and he nodded leading her to the back room. She felt like she was at the dentist or something. The room was all shiny and clean looking, the chair looked like a dentist chair and when she sat back in the cold leather her heart started to race with nervousness.

"Ok where do you want it?" the older man asked, turning in his chair, washing his hands and grabbing some rubbing alcohol.

"Right here..." she started pulling her shirt up and unzipping her jeans slowly pulling them back laughing when Jaxx swallowed hard, "You think it's a good place Jaxx?" she asked, tilting her head up to look at the blonde standing just above her shoulder.

"Umm...yeah I think...yeah that's good." He said keeping his eyes focused on her lower body, making her laugh more.

"Well that I can do." the older man chuckled, getting everything ready to go.

"Wait!" Eve freaked before the needle even touched her skin, "Jaxx hand!" she ordered and he this time laughed slowly slipping his hand in her small one. "Ok go." She said looking down at it and feeling the hot burning as he went, "Ok this might have been a bad idea." Eve freaked in pain.

"No, it's fine; here… don't look at it." Jaxx said moving around and pulling a seat over to her "Look at me talk to me about something. Where do you go to school?"

"Umm...I go to..." she starts but trails off feeling her body want to jump and remove the hot burning needle.

"Don't look there, look here." he said lifting her chin to look at him and Eve almost got lost in his green eyes.

"I go to, well went to Henry N. Beckinsdale high"

"You're only in High School?" Jaxx asked a little surprised because he didn't think she was in high school, she didn't look like she was in high school.

"No, I mean I was but I graduated." Eve tells him and he nods.

"Ok let's see what is your..." he trails off trying to come up with a question, "Oh what's your favorite food? Like what would you be craving right now if you could have anything?"

"Oh I want some French fries."

"Ok how about I take you to get some French fries when we're done here?" Jaxx suggested making Eve smiles.

"I would like that." she smiled just staring at him and forgetting about the pain on her skin. Then after a few minutes passed the drill stopped but both were so busy just smiling at each other didn't even hear the older man tell Eve she was done. "Oh..." Eve said, breaking her gaze from Jaxx and thanking him.

"I'll be right back. I am going to go get some bandages to cover this up stay right here." he said getting up and walking out.

"How does it look?" Eve asked as Jaxx looked down at the small inked spot.

"It looks good. Does it still hurt?" he asks looking at it then back at her.

"Umm...it still burns a little." She tells him and swallows hard when she sees him lean forward towards the spot before letting a cool breath go over it and Eve bit her bottom lip and did all she could not to let out a small gasp.

"Better?" he asked looking at her and Eve just nodded yes not sure what would come out if she opened her mouth.

"Ok here we go." The older man came back in and Jaxx backed away from her as he put on some white gauze and medical tape explaining to Eve about making sure to clean it and stuff but Eve just half listened and just nodded as she kept her eyes focused on Jaxx who was actually listening to the guy. "Ok so you know what you're getting?" he asked Jaxx who nodded yes and switched places with Eve.

Eve stood there and watched as they got Jaxx ready for his. He wasn't nervous like Eve. He didn't flinch when the tattoo guy rubbed the alcohol on his wrist to clean it and he didn't move a muscle when the guy started. But he still held Eve's hand.

He still sat there with his hand in hers and talked to her about random stuff as the guy did it. Eve was surprised at his tolerance of pain because she thought it hurt like hell but he didn't seem to care at all.

"Well I feel like a baby." Eve laughs as she and Jaxx walk out of the tattoo shop and onto the sidewalk to get something to eat.

"Why?" Jaxx laughed.

"Well I sit flinching and freaking like a baby but you just lay there cool as a cucumber."

"Well I have had one before, so I knew what to expect."

"True but still. But I like it. Love and hate are a good combination." She smiles while peeling her jeans down looking at her bandage, "My brother is going to kill me."

"What. He's not big on tattoos?" Jaxx asked opening the door and holding it open for Eve.

"No he doesn't like.. hate them but I don't think he will like me being inked for life. I will get that; what were you thinking Eve that is forever speech." Eve shrugs with a laugh doing her best Ethan voice.

"Yeah I have heard that one. When I got my first tattoo I don't know like two years back my roommate was like dude you are stupid, dude what are you doing? Like the whole time I was getting it done. But it was funny. As soon as his girlfriend got one he was like damn baby that's hot." Jaxx laughs as he orders Eve and him some food and two milkshakes.

"God boys are so dumb." She laughs while pulling out some money.

"I take offense to that." Jaxx pretends to pout. "And put that money away I got this."

"Well I'm sorry but it's true." She teases, "But seriously I got this."

"Well it's not and no you don't." he tells her paying quickly before she can hand the cashier any money. "Ha I win." he smiles proudly and Eve rolls her eyes.

"Again boys are dumb." She laughs, taking her milkshake and finding a table to sit at. "So Jaxx tell me something about yourself. You're not from here right?" she asked and he gave her a funny look as he sat down across from her, "Ok that might have sounded weird but Beckinsdale is really, really small and I know pretty much everyone or at least their face and I would have remembered your face."

"Well why would you have remembered my face?" he smirks at her.

"Well I mean...umm...you just have one of those memorable faces." She says biting the inside of her cheek and taking a long sip of her chocolate milkshake.

"Why is it so memorable?" he teases and kinda enjoys the cute shade of pink she turns and how she seems to have trouble searching for words.

"Umm...I don't know I guess...err..." Eve stutters feeling completely dumb. Dumb for stuttering and dumb for being all stupid over some random guy she has known for all of an hour but in her defense he is very, very cute.

"You guess what?" he asks, leaning on the table looking at her innocently like he didn't have a clue what she was thinking. He wasn't cocky, not really but he knows he isn't ugly and he also knows Eve doesn't think that either.

"Fine because you're gorgeous, happy?" She growls with fake frustration as she grabs a fry popping it in her mouth.

"Oh very; I like when a hot girl says I'm gorgeous." He laughs while taking a sip of his drink.

"You think I'm hot?" she asks, raising an eyebrow figuring if he can tease so can she but she should have known better.

"Yup see I am not embarrassed to admit when a girl is gorgeous. Just like I am not at all embarrassed to admit I was totally hitting on you earlier." He shrugs, leaning back in his seat, smirking at her, making her blush more.

"Well at least you're honest." She says finishing off her food and trying to regain her composure and stop her cheeks from burning so much.

"Very." He smiles leaning on the table looking at her and getting insanely close to her face.

"Well honesty is always good." Eve whispered with a smirk leaning close to him but then pulling back leaning against the back of her chair and sucking the rest of her milkshake down.