Imagine Me and You

Thyme held her phone up to her face with one hand, wincing as the needle pierced her skin. She had wanted a tattoo, but she had never expected it to hurt nearly as much as it was. She was trying to focus on her boyfriend, CC, who was currently not in the room because he was on tour-but they were skyping. He, having too many tattoos to count at this point, was smirking at her and Thyme knew she was being a baby. Who would have thought that getting your first tattoo on the inside of you right ring finger would hurt so fucking much, but here she was and it was fucking grating on her nerves. Thyme trained her gray eyes on CC, her shoulder length blonde hair getting in her eyes as she bit down on her lower lip.

The two of them had promised that they would get tattoos together, but they actually had to be together for that to happen and that was rare these days. The guys were currently on tour, promoting the tail end of their third album and Thyme hadn’t seen CC in person for over two months now. He had actually cleared a spot in his schedule for this today-promising her that he would be there for her when she got her first tattoo, it just wouldn’t be in person.

The pain was finally starting to dull and Thyme could relax enough to notice that CC had been making funny faces at her, trying to keep her distracted. The buzzing in the room-which had been giving her a headache-finally stopped and the tattoo artist let go of Thyme’s hand. She brought her finger up to her face and smiled as she looked at the delicate writing that was forever on her skin.

‘til my dying day’-had been something she and CC had said to one another since they had become a couple and she knew that no matter what happened to them in the future CC would always mean the world to her. Thyme smirked as she held her finger up to her phone screen and saw the look on CC’s face. He had known she was getting a tattoo on her finger, he just didn’t know of what and now that he was looking at it, Thyme could see the tears in his eyes.

This moment was bittersweet for the couple because while it was a time for bonding, it was also sad because CC had wanted to be there with her. As her finger was wrapped up, Thyme looked down into the screen of her phone and smiled.


“So, what do you think?” She asked him and Thyme noticed that for once in his life, CC seemed to be speechless. He smiled at her, his brown eyes glistening slightly and Thyme could feel herself growing emotional.

“I love it. I just wish I could have been there with you babe. How’re you feeling?” He asked, tucking some hair behind an ear and Thyme only smiled. CC was always so supportive of her and she knew that if he could have been here today that he would have been.

“Next time and I’m fine, I’m sure it’ll be sore in an hour or two though.” She said as she looked down at her bandaged finger before rising to head home.

“Well I gotta head out-the guys need to rehearse before tonights show. I love you babe.”

“K-love you too.” With that Thyme looked down at her new tattoo and only smiled-the pain had been worth it.



Two months had turned in to four and Thyme began to impatiently pace across the baggage claim of LAX airport. The guys were due back in the states and of course Thyme had wanted to be there to pick CC up-all of the other girls were picking their guys up as well, but they had gone to get coffee. Her eyes scanned over the arrivals board-Berlin: LANDED. Oh God! That meant that she would see CC soon and Thyme felt her stomach begin to do flip flops. Did she look okay? She smoothed down her Avengers t-shirt, tugged at her skinny jeans and then tried to focus on her shoes. CC never really cared how she looked, but he hadn’t seen her in four months and Thyme wanted everything to be perfect.

The minutes ticked by and soon enough Thyme could see that the luggage carousel was beginning to move. The other girls had shown back up-Ella standing beside her while the others stood off slightly, but all Thyme could focus on was seeing CC. The crowd coming towards her was huge, but he towered over the others, except Andy, and Thyme only smiled as she began to run towards him. She jumped, he caught her and they both spun around as he held her tightly to him. God she had missed him so much and it felt so nice to have him hold her again. They stopped spinning, but CC just continued to hold her to him tightly, his black hair tickling her nose as she tried not to cry. Life was hard when your other half was missing from it.


“It’s you…it’s really you…” She said and she knew she couldn’t hold back her tears any longer. CC only smiled as he pressed his fingers underneath her eyes and Thyme felt her tears being wiped away.

“It is me. God babe I missed you so much.” He smiled down at her and then their lips met softly. Kissing him made everything in her world feel better and Thyme almost felt sad when they broke apart so that he could walk over to get his few bags.

“I missed you probably twice that. Do you have a lot of bags?” She asked as the two of them watched for his luggage, but CC could barely hold still. He couldn’t wait to get her home and just cuddle her-being away from Thyme for any amount was terrible, but four months really had been too long.

“A few, but I have something to show you…” He smiled down at her, dropping her hands and Thyme only cocked an eye brow and looked at him. CC was smirking, that devious smirk he had learned from Andy and only used when he was up to something.

“What is it?” She asked and then gasped as CC held up his right ring finger just below her nose and Thyme felt like crying all over again.

The skin was still slightly pink and sore looking, but their forever was tattooed on his skin and she knew he had done it just for her.


‘Til my dying day’

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