Second Chances

Days after I brought Cast to the river, I was getting my stuff set up to give Elissa her tattoo. She e-mailed me the design she wanted done and I sketched it up and was just waiting for her to show up. The rest of the band was hanging out with BVB and after I was done with Elissa’s tattoo I’d be joining them. I looked over at Cast who was sleeping soundly in a patch of sunlight. “I swear he was a cat at one point.” I shook my head at him and went over everything that I had set up just to make sure I had everything I needed. I had the outlining needle already hooked up and the ink bottles out. She said she wanted black and red, so she got to pick the shade of red.

I checked the time and sat back on the bench in the waiting section of the shop. She had ten minutes before her appointment, and I told her that I’d have everything set up so there would only be the little bit of paperwork before getting it done. She mentioned how she was bringing someone with her, only because they were going somewhere after. When she brought it up she was almost nervous, I only laughed at her and said most people bring a friend as ‘moral’ support and no matter what, they end up with Cast at their side.

I heard footsteps on the wooden stairs and smiled to myself, she was actually on time. I stood up and went to get the paperwork. When I went back to the waiting area, I took in her appearance and shook my head at her. Her once plain black hair now had purple and pink in it. Honestly she looked amazing. I let my attention go to the person who looked as if they were all but hiding behind her. “Hey…Havic…”

“Jashire…Umm hi. What are you doing here exactly?”

“Chase, I told you I was bringing someone with me. I hope that it’s okay…”

“Yeah of course it is. Fill out this form and then come on up. If you don’t mind, I would like to talk to Jashire privately. Just come up when you’re done.” I led Jashire up to my ‘office’ and faced him.

“Look I’m sorry I hurt you. Fuck, Havic if I could I would redo everything.” I cut him off and pulled him into a hug. I had no idea what was wrong with me, but I hated holding grudges against my best friends.

“Shut up Jazz, I forgive you alright? Tell me though, what was going through your mind?”

“Well…that’s part of the reason everything happened.” We both heard Elissa walking up the stairs, “Another time. I promise I’ll tell you everything.”

“I hold you to that, asshole.” I smiled a little at Jazz and as soon as Elissa entered the room, motioned for her to sit. “So, where do we want your new permanent friend?”

“I want it on my upper back, like between my shoulder blades if possible.”

“No problem, take your shirt off.” Jashire laughed and shot a mock glare at me.

“My girlfriend kid, paws off.”

“Jazz, I’m in a relationship myself, and I’m sure he wouldn’t…never mind he would probably find it hot.” I set the second chair just behind the one the clients would sit in. “Face the back of the main chair, and let’s see if we need to do anything else.” Elissa did as I said and pulled her shirt off, leaving her in her bra.Her hair was longer than I thought and handed her a hair-tie. “Put your hair up so it’s out of the way, and I’ll put the stencil on so we can see where you want this.” I put the stencil of her tattoo on her and showed her where it was using a second mirror. Once she approved, I went to work on outlining it. It took just over an hour for the outline alone, and I had to give the girl credit she didn’t complain at all about the paint, only that she needed to stand for a bit after the outline was done.

“I don’t know babe, it looks amazing as is. I think you should leave it.” I knew Jazz was joking with her, and by the way she reacted she knew he was too.

“I happen to like having color in tattoos, it looks better with some. And this one was meant to have color.”

Cast and I just watched the two bicker, “I’m not that bad right?” Cast looked up at me, almost as if he were laughing. “You’re an ass, just like Ash is.” He barked happily at that comment, which made both Jazz and Elissa look at us.

“You’re talking to your dog…that’s a sign of being crazy.”

“Being on a bus with four grown men when you’re the only girl is also a sign of being crazy.” After letting Elissa rest a bit I worked on the color. It was during the shading that she complained a little about the pain. Personally, I always felt that the outline was the worst of the process, but everyone had their own opinion. When I was done, I took Elissa’s phone and took a picture of the tattoo for her before bandaging it. “This is probably my favorite tattoo that I’ve done.”

“Yeah, you’ve really outdone yourself this time kid.” I smiled a bit at the praise Jazz offered.

“Hey, call me sometime alright? We do need to talk about everything.”

“Yeah, I know.I’ll let you know what works for me, and you can decide.” As he spoke, Jashire pulled out more than enough money to cover the tattoo.

“Jazz…this is too much.”

“The rest is a tip. You’re an amazing artist, and I noticed that you were running low on some supplies, so go buy more will ya?”

“Understood.” I walked the two to the door and hugged each of them. “It was awesome seeing you both, but alas I have to go. Band meetings and shit.” As soon as they left, I locked the door and went up to clean the room and changed, since I managed to get blood and ink all over my shirt. I let Cast run down to the ‘main’ door before I locked up the rest of the place and went to my deep red Chevy Cobalt. I let Cast into the back seat, got in myself and drove over to where I was supposed to meet the band. I had no idea how any of them aside from Jinxx would take the news of me being in the same room as Jashire.

Notes

This chapter is essentially a filler and an introduction of another character that will play a huge part in the story. It's also for the ever so awesome @ElodieGrimm, as Elissa is essentially her character. And her love/obsession for Jashire made me want to do something special for her, I can only hope this meets your expectations. It was hard to decide on the perfect character to be paired with Jashire. I'm so happy that this story has helped you out my love! Keep being awesome kay? Cuz trust me there is more fun coming for Elissa and Jazz ^_^
Everyone go read her fucking awesome story Sweet Blasphemy <--One of the best I've ever read.

Secondly, I have to thank you all so much for reading and rating this story as you have. I was taking a look through the popular section and was VERY surprised to find this story among them. You're all fucking awesome.

Let's see, I haven't done a "Fact of the day/Random fact" In a while so:
The idea that "the Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people, who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today, and attack passing ships.