Chapter 2
“Don’t touch me.”
“You’re a feisty one”. He laughed out as he slowly moved his large hand off my chin; his girlfriend faced the other way while my brother moved the tattooing machine around slowly.
“And you’re annoying.”
“Watch your words beautiful.”
“Don’t call me that”. I insisted.
“I can call you whatever I want”. He hissed moving his hand to take a grip of my arm.
“Let go of me”. I tried to keep my voice low, either way my brother wouldn’t hear since he has his music blasting.
“What’s the magic word, love?” His grip got stronger making me squeamish. What is wrong with this kid, barely knows me and grabbing me like this.
“I don’t know, just let go of me”.
“You’re no fun”. His eyebrows curled seeing his hand was no longer grabbing my arm. I grabbed my wrist and massaged it slowly seeing he left some red marks.
“What’s your name anyways?”
“No need for you to know it.” I told him as he rolled his green hues.
“Hey, Ruby have you asked the costumer if he wants something to drink”. My brother stopped tattooing to look at me for a couple of seconds and headed back to finish the bird on Evie’s neck.
“So, Ruby. Are you going to ask me if I want something?” He emphasized on my name, I hate my brother sometimes.
“The refrigerator is in the back next to the bathroom door”.I smiled as I turned my attention to the ringing phone.
“Hello, Brody’s Tattoo Parlor, how can I help you”. I saw the curly head fix his beanie and leave to the back of the store, hopefully he doesn’t steel anything.
“Would, you like an appointment?” I finish the conversation with the person on the phone seeing the curly head come back with a blue monster.
“Alright, we will see you on Tuesday . Bye bye.”Hanged up the phone and opened the calendar to add the new appointment. The curly head drank his monster in silence , grabbing his phone and then heading toward his girlfriend as he whispered something to her. His girlfriend nodded as he came back to the front desk.
“How long more till he finishes?”
“An hour or so”
“I’ll be back in an hour then.” He gave me a smirk and a quick glance at Evie a couple minutes later he was gone.
*30 minutes later
“Ruby come here and clean up her tattoo, she’s all done”. I turned off the screen to the computer and made my way toward Evie seeing her excitement in her eyes. I grabbed a white cloth and used it to clean the excessive ink.
“Are you ready to see it?” I asked Evie.
“Yes, I’m so excited”. She stood up and I walked her to the large mirror, giving her another mirror to reflect her tattoo on.
“What do you think?” My brother asked her.
“It’s awesome. Totally perfect”.
“Alright, Ruby will wrap it up for you”. I headed to the table and grabbed some tape and plastic covering the small bird on her neck and placing two pieces of tape to hold the plastic.
“There , your all done”.
“I should call Harry”. So that’s the curly heads name, Harry.