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Authors note: Hope you enjoy!
Laughing Bella tried to take some of the piercings out but she stopped. "Um dad? Dad?" Bella says.
Charlie can't talk because he's too concentrated on evading Renee, whose vehicle was keeping pace with theirs-even when both were now hurtling along the asphalt at 140 mph.
Sighing in worry Bella looks back and sees her hands have clamped together in front of her face.
Unconsciously Bella had lifted three tools out of the bag-they were apparently underneath the small mountain of piercings inside Bella's backpack.
Three tools? Bella was mind boggled-would Charlie really do this for her?
One of the things Bella had experienced between the ages of 12 and 14 was working at a tattoo parlor. The first year Bella gained on the job experience as an assistant to a retiring tattoo artist.
The man had been very skilled and experienced with the application of tattoos, but he was an absolute perfectionist and expert at piercings.
The last month of the first year Gary the instructor had led Bella on a crash course of piercing.
It turned out Bella was more along the lines of a piercing girl than a tattoo girl. Once the second year started Bella took over the tattooing and Gary took over the piercing.
Both the 60 year old man and 13 year old girl worked side by side-respectively excelling in their separate areas.
Despite her more promising talent in piercing and the fact that Bella liked piercings better than tattoos-Bella got stuck with tattoos for the next year.
Bella hated doing tattoos she loved piercings. Gary imparted this wisdom on Bella the first day of tattooing, "What you love you will excel at more quickly than what you hate. Work on what you hate first, when you are perfect at what you hate then move on to what you love."
Sighing Bella replies, "Okay I'll do tattooing."
The schedule wasn't the best Bella would still have to attend school, go home for 4 hours, and then come to the tattoo parlor to work full hours. Without rest Bella would then go to school-she would just use lunch and break periods to catch up on sleep.
"Can you work with that?" Gary says.
"Yes sir. I can work with that." Bella says.
"Bella, call me Gary please." Gary says.
"Okay Gary. Let's get to work our first two customers are here." Bella says turning to the two people that had just walked in the door.
"What can I get?" A young man says wearing brown.
"How old are you?" Bella says.
"19." Brown says.
"Hi. My name is Bella and I do tattooing. The man standing next to me, his name is Gary." Bella says.
"Hello." Gary says.
"He does piercing. So what will it be?" Bella says.
"Ears pierced please. I haven't done anything like this before so just initial piercing today." Brown says.
"Huh. You do your homework before coming here?" Gary says.
"Yes sir. Oh and I also have an older friend who has a few piercings." Brown says.
"Where did this friend get them?" Gary says.
"4 XS in his left ear going from bottom to top spaced evenly. 2 XL in his right ear 1 near top the other near bottom." Brown says.
"Very well would you like the same?" Gary says.
"Yes but half the amount of piercings." Brown says.
"Very well follow me." Gary says leading Brown into a back room environment with trance music ready to go inside a speaker system.
"Hope you like the track I picked out…really just got it off YouTube." Gary says smiling and closed the heavy door sealing off the environment.
"How may I help you?" Bella says looking at the second person who had walked in the door.
"You the tattoo girl?" The 20 year old woman says.
"Yes my name's Bella, what's yours?" Bella says.
"Alex." Alex says.
That first customer was what got Bella started into a long but short career of a tattoo artist-and eventually a piercing artist once Gary retired halfway through Bella's second year.
After recollecting on her past career history Bella focuses on the three tools in front of her.
One tool for piercing one tool for inserting and one tool for adjustment.
Taking special care Bella unbuckled herself completely. Charlie hadn't crashed and they had been speeding for almost 2 hours now.
What Bella perceived to be a mountain of piercings were actually sorted and separated into several bags.
"For now I'll just stick with ears. Hearing's not all that important at the moment." Bella says.
Taking the piercing tool Bella began making a line of holes along her outer ear. Bella had looked into the bag containing ear piercings.
They weren't ear rings they were ear piercings-huge difference.
The bag of ear piercings-once attached would make Bella's normally boring looking ears into works of art.