My phone started ringing I went out side to answer it, it was Jeffree. "Hey" I said kneeling down on the curb. "Hey, what time you guys going to get those tattoos?" he asked me "I don't know for sure, some time in the next couple hours, I'm already ready, I'm letting Ronnie sleep a little bit longer." "Well when you start to head that way call me or something and let me know." "Alright I will." he hung up on me, I put my cigarette out and looked in the bedroom, Ronnie was up, probably going to the bathroom "I'm going to get breakfast, you want something baby?" I called to him "Yeah, there's a Mcdonald's or something just around the corner and I'm in the mood for some fucking pancakes." I laughed "Alright, I'll be right back." I made my way to McDonald's I was only going thru the drive thru, I pulled up to the speaker "Thank you for choosing McDonald's can I take your order please?" "Alright I know I need a chicken biscuit A sausage biscuit two side orders of bacon two orders of pancakes, two hash browns and two large orange juices." I heard her let out a little laugh, "Pull to the first window please." what the crap she didn't tell me my total, oh well. "Hey how are you" the person asked trying to be friendly, "Good." I smiled as she slid my card, "Pull to the second window please" I kept my window rolled down as they began to hand my food out. "Have a good day" the worker told me "You too." I rolled my window off and sped off
Ronnie was already ready when I got back, I sat the two bags of food and the drinks on the counter, and put a straw in his orange juice and took it to him, he got up "Damn baby, me and you combined won't finish all this." he laughed "I couldn't decide on what to get, so I basically got one of everything, plus your pancakes." I laughed taking a sip of my juice "Well it won't go to waste," he smiled as he started going thru the food, "Here's me a stack of pancakes, a sausage biscuit and a hash brown. You can have the rest" he smiled going to sit down at the little table "I'll try, I am kind of hungry." I smiled grabbing the rest of the food. I started to munch on my bacon, Ronnie stole a piece of bacon. "That's mine." I laughed we made our way to High Voltage, I pushed my sunglasses up on my forehead, I just loved the fact that the building was pink. Kat had tattooed me before, it'd just been awhile, "Hey how can I help you today?" "She has an appointment with Kat." Ronnie spoke up, wrapping his arms around me "Okay, I'll go get her." the girl smiled
"Avian!" I heard her shriek "Hey girl, what's up?" I smiled breaking out of this arms to give her a hug. "What are you getting today?" I turned to Ron, "You still have the picture babe?" "Yeah, here." He pulled it out of his pocket and handed it to Kat "This is pretty sweet." he said "Isn't it though, she doesn't think its that good." "Wait... Avi you drew that?" "Yeah, I wanted to add so much to it but I didn't think it was that great when I drew it up in the first place." "Well let me go draw this up, Ron you getting anything?" "Not today, just brought her out here." he smiled pulling me over to the little waiting area "I'm thirsty, I think I need a coffee, lets go grab one real fast." "Tell here we're goin." "I was getting to that... Kat!" I called to her trying to get her to look up from her work. "Vamos a ir a tomar un café, ¿quieres algo?" I asked her in Spanish, Ronnie laughed because he didn't know what I said. Yo quiero un caramelo con leche con un disparo de vainilla y un espresso extra, gracias Avi" she called back to me, I pulled Ronnie's hand out the door. "Okay that sounded like gibberish." "Try Spanish baby." I smiled walking around the corner to the little coffee shop that was just around the corner. "I didn't know you spoke Spanish." "There's a lot you don't know about me baby." I laughed as the lady came to take the drink order. I stood out of the way, while she began to make the drinks. Ronnie had his hands on my sides, I let his fingers trace my ribs. "You know after I get this done, your not gonna touch me for a couple days right?" "Awh baby no, don't be like that." "Well if it hurts as bad as they say it will you'll be lucky if I even touch you." I said leaning back on him. He kissed on my neck as the lady set our drinks on the counter. "If you don't mind me asking... how long have the tow of you been together?" "A little over a year." Ronnie answered her, grabbing the drinks. I sipped on mine as we headed back to the shop
"Avi I was about to text you to tell you I was done with the drawing, come on back, and thanks for the coffee." she smiled, I followed her back to her area, I took my top shirt off, to reveal my bathing suit top. "Damn girl two comments, your pretty fucking ripped, and I didn't think you had so many tattoos! When did you get all these?" "Just when I was on tour with his band." "So where are you wanting this one?" she asked me, "On my ribs, right in this area." I pointed to one of the only bare spots left on that was on that side "Alright, let me put this stencil on you and you can go check it in the mirror. If you want me to shift it around or anything." "Sounds good." I looked in the mirror "Looks good, lets rock." I laid up on her table, I heard the gun start. "Come here babe, just in case I need to squeeze your hand."
"How long ago did you dad pass, Avi?" Kat asked me, "Going on three years," I said looking back on all the memories, I grabbed Ronnie's hand, not out of pain but out of I thought I was going to start crying just thinking of my dad, "I was his baby, he would get me out of trouble, get me out of doing chores around the house so I would sing to his guitar playing, that's why I chose the guitars, he had an acoustic and an electric he would always play." "Awh that's sweet, I knew you was the baby, I just didn't know you were so close." she said looking back down at the tattoo. "Oh yeah, my mom has home videos of me when I was two or three playing the piano at the hospital, and my daddy tearing me away from it, and of course I start crying, and he would tell me that it'd be okay and we would come back in a couple to see my grandma and I would be able to play it some more." "Aw! That's too precious!" she exclaimed "I didn't know that." Ronnie said quietly "Yeah, he was my rock, I would always go to him for everything, they called him 'Cowboy' and all of his friends known me as 'Cowboy's Daughter' they didn't know me by name." "You have two sisters though don't you?" "Yeah, but they were never around when he started getting into bad health. They were done gone and moved out but I stayed behind to help mama with him out, I was his home health nurse basically, I'd wash his feet for him, clip his fingernails put band-aids over his cuts, take him back and fourth to doctors appointments, they said when he passed it hit me the hardest just because I was his baby, and I was with him the longest, but I don't know, the thing that hit me was waking up not hearing his oxygen tank humming, or seeing him sitting at our kitchen table drinking his morning cup of coffee, that's what hit me the hardest." she wiped off some of the excess ink, "Dang, that is terrible, if you don't mind me asking how did he pass?" I was trying to hold back the tears, trying to find the right way to say what I wanted to say with out crying my eyes out. "One night, he went to bed complaining of chest pains, he laid down thinking he just needed some rest to get over it, I went to check up on him, and he was gone, he wasn't breathing, I started to do the CPR compressions but it was too late, it was later said that he was having another heart attack and just so happen he slept thru it and he didn't survive, he just thought that he was having chest pains." I wiped my eyes. "And your the one who found him?" "Yeah, my mom told me to go wake him up." she changed the subject when she saw me wiping my eyes
An hour later...
She put the finishing touches on my tattoo and put Vaseline on it to keep it moist, "Your done baby love, go check it in the mirror." When I looked in the mirror I was speechless, I couldn't believe she turned my art into something this amazing. I wanted to cry "Kat, oh my god, I love it, I can't believe this is my drawing!" "Let me wrap it up." she laughed