I was shell-shocked to say the very least, I felt like I was completely out of my skin, utterly confused, I swear my jaw must've hit the floor or something, why would he hire me after that?

"Wait, wait…what? You can't be serious, you haven't even looked in my folio" I said as his eyebrows rose trying to match my facial expression

"well I would certainly hope after that speech and comparing yourself to the Mona Lisa that you would at the very least have a decent folio to show us" he smirked at me, stupid crooked smirk that makes my words jumble.

"How about Jaz here and I take a look whilst you get a coffee or something actually scratch that I doubt you need any caffeine" Edward chuckled as I tried hard not to punch the smirk off his perfect face.

"I'm more of a chai girl anyway" I giggled back, I fucking giggled I'm not even kidding, stupid ovaries, "…so I'll go get a chai and come back and see what you guys think, don't get any shit on my folio or there will be hell to play" I said as I pointed my finger directly at Edward as he held his hands of up in a defensive position

"come back in twenty, we'll have shit figured out by then, it's like fucking judgement day in here with all this tension, but yeah twenty minutes" he said turning away and signalling to jasper to follow as he grabbed my folio off the counter.

I sighed and headed towards the front of the shop to leave pushing the door open and walking down the block to the closest coffee store. Twenty minutes, sounds like years right now.

"chai please, oh and six of those pink vanilla cupcakes too" I asked smiling at the girl in front of me who looked around my age.

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"Jasper, Edward" I nodded to them as I walked back into the store, looking over to the gold couches they were seated on, hunched over looking at my folio on the table in front of them, with a guy who looked like he would be no match for Godzilla himself had a toothy grin on him

"I'm Emmet and your work is fuck awesome, I wandered over to see what the boys were talking about and saw your folio, thought it was one of the guys but now I see you all lace and shit and all I can think is I'm fucking terrified what you can do with a needle in your hand but I'd loved to see" he said looking at me with eyes that were glazing over with brightness

I couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"You're terrified of me! You're like three times my size you could hold me in one hand if you really wanted to" I said, turning my attention to Edward who was gazing at me, he turned his attention else where once he realised I had caught him.

"we, ah looked at your folio as Emmet said in some sort of words, we all agreed your work is competition for the Mona Lisa…we just got to ask you some questions kind of like an interview but we want you to be honest about everything none of this trying to make yourself seem like the best candidate alright?" jasper drawled out in a quite prominent southern tone which I wonder how I had missed that when I first came in, I simple nodded waiting for what's next I chucked my bag on the ground and sat on the couch across from them

"how long have you been tattooing? How old are you? Anything else you can do?" Emmet said smiling at me, clearly I had already won him over, one down, two to go

"since I was fourteen, I know Illegal much but I loved it more then anything and no I never even started out tattooing any sort of produce like oranges or melons I skipped that and went straight for skin at the first shop I worked at, I'm nearly nineteen and I finished school last year back in Australia, I can also pierce, I've been qualified to do that since I was like seventeen my piercer at the time offered to train me so I took her up on it and I make a killer pasta bake I think that's the most important fact here" I said as I took a sip of my chai to sooth me as the boys had matching looks of shock on there faces

"your not even nineteen? Fuck we thought you'd be at least 21, ergh okay other then that, your works great, your lines are smooth which is what we've been looking for, I'm kind of wary cause your so young but it's up to the other guys, I'm happy enough to give you a shot, I think it would be a loss on our part if we gave up this opportunity your shading especially with portraits and pin ups is outstanding" Jasper spoke as though he was speaking for all of them, I simply nodded trying to work out what to say to them next.

"we've been looking for a piercer as well for some time if your interested in doing both?" Emmet smiled at me awaiting my answer

"I'd love to, piercing is nearly important to me as tattooing, I had to wait till I was sixteen to get my nose pierced and since then I've built on to it so I love to help others do the same" I was beaming right now, inner child in me was slowly sneaking out through the cracks of my façade.

"sweet alright, well when can you start?" Edward said, I flinched when I heard him speak, I had completely forgotten he was there he was so quiet for so long I thought he didn't even want me working for them after he saw the folio

"as soon as you need me too" I simply responded, there was no way around it, I needed this job more then it needed me.

"how's tomorrow sound?" they said in unison which made us all crack up laughing, even Edward which surprised me.

"tomorrow sounds perfect gives me time to perfect my lack of testosterone, oh and I got cupcakes if you guys want one?" I said smiling looking back at them I knew straight away that my choice to move here was finally making sense, I just had to keep everything in order, work as much as I can, keep up the smile and I'll get through it, I couldn't let them know that I wasn't all brass knuckles and whity one liners, LA is going to be my backbone for now, whilst high voltage saves me.