Disclaimer: This is a work of pure fiction, some details described in this story can be seen as extreme body modification. If body modification, tattooing and piercing isn't your thing, please choose another story.
Chapter I:
My wife, Sally, and I had been trying for many years to have a child, after many IVF sessions we had decided that if we were unsuccessful by the time she was 40, then we would have to accept that it wasn't going to happen for us and never mention it again.
As the result came back negative in the weeks leading up to Sally's 40th birthday I could see that it had taken its toll on her. We had learnt that she has an auto-immune condition that means that she heals cuts, bruises and injuries very quickly, but that is probably also the cause of why her body rejects every fertile egg that gets implanted.
On her 40th birthday I made a big thing of celebrating her and suggesting that we have a day of doing what she wants to do.
"I'd like to go into the city centre and do a bit of shopping, and we can grab some lunch whilst we are out, if that is ok with you?" she asked.
"Of course, it's your day so we will do everything you want," I replied. She's not just my wife, but she is my best friend. All I want and all I have ever wanted is for her to be happy.
Off we went into the city centre and had a little look in some of the shop windows, but nothing really caught her eye, then we went past a Tattoo & Piercing shop called Eternal Body Transformations.
"Maybe we could go in here?" Sally asked.
"It's your day, we will go wherever you want," I replied.
My wife has never shown an interest in this sort of thing before and only has her ears pierced twice in each ear, so I was surprised but went along with it.
She had a look around at the hair dyes and the clothing and then she finally went up to the counter.
"Hi my name is Sadie, how can I help you today?" asked the heavily pierced and visibly tattooed woman at the counter.
Sally replied, "Well I'd like to do something to reclaim my body as it's my 40th birthday today, but not sure what to get?"
"Well if a pretty woman like you doesn't have her navel pierced I think it would look good. Maybe a nose piercing if you wanted something visual, or nipples and clit hood if you wanted something fun and to spice things up," Sadie replied with a cheeky smile.
My wife looked at me and said, "What do you think, the nose or the navel?"
"Why not go for both, if you don't like them you can always take them out," I replied.
"Please can you pierce my navel first and I'll see if I'm brave enough for the nose after that," Sally said to the shop assistant.
"If you can take a seat over there and fill out this consent form I'll get everything ready for you. Any jewellery in particular that you would like? We normally pierce navels with this jewellery, it's called a bananabell and you can choose a gem colour for the balls on it. Also the nose studs come in a variety of colours too, so if you can pick one of those out as well, I'll get it all ready."
My wife picked out a pink gem colour for both the nose stud and the navel jewellery, paid the assistant who then went off to sort it all out. I thought my wife would be super nervous, but instead she looked excited.
"All ready guys, if you want to both come in, you can hold your wife's hand if you want?" said Sadie.
We both walked in and saw the extremely clean and sterile piercing room with a chair like in the dentists just sat in the middle of the room.
Without any hesitation my wife tucked her top into the bottom of her bra and lowered her skirt a little and sat in the chair.
"Nice to see someone excited to be sitting in the chair, most of my customers are usually very nervous at this point," Sadie said.
"I'd be more nervous if I was having the other piercings you mentioned," Sally said jokingly.
"Maybe next time for those then," replied Sadie and gave a cheeky little wink.
"So what I'll do first is mark up where I am going to pierce, then I'll clamp it, count to three and pierce it on three, are you ready?"
"Yeah, I'm ready when you are," replied my wife, looking a lot more nervous than she did a minute ago.
As the piercer marked where she was going to pierce a smile came back onto my wife's face.
The piercer attached the clamps and started to count.
As the piercer started her count I said, "I'm proud of you baby," just as Sadie pushed the needle through my wifes navel.
"Oooo wow," was all my wife said as Sadie quickly followed the needle with the jewellery.
"All done, ready for the nose now or do you need some time to recover?" Sadie asked.
My wife turned to me and said, "Honey, can you go next door and grab me a can of coke, I'm feeling a little thirsty, I'll meet you out front in a bit."
"Sure," I replied, and off I went.
As soon as I left the room my wife said to Sadie, "I am very ready for the nose piercing to be done now. However, I'm feeling brave after the navel. Do you think a septum piercing would suit me?"
Sadie replied, "Hell yeah, it'll look hot, I was kinda hoping that when you said you wanted your nose pierced that you'd want a septum."
Sadie went off to grab a horseshoe ring and then found the sweet spot on my wifes septum and pierced it.
"I guess you want to surprise your husband with this one then, do you want me to flip it up inside your nose so it's not visible?" Sadie asked.
"Yes please, that way I can surprise him later," Sally replied.
Sadie looked at the smile on my wife's face and said, "I have a funny feeling you'll be back soon for those fun piercings I mentioned earlier."
"We'll see how these go first, but I really enjoyed the experience, thank you so much," Sally said as she got off the chair.
As Sally walked out of the piercing room I could see a big wide proud grin on my beautiful wife's face and a little sparkly pink gem in her navel.
"Your top is still tucked into your bra, perhaps we need to pick you up some cropped tops to show off your new jewellery?" I asked.
"Yeah, that was my plan after this, then we can go and grab some lunch," she replied.
"Thanks again for today," Sally said to Sadie as we started to walk out of the shop.
"See you again very soon," Sadie replied.
As we went into some clothes shops I could see a massive change in my wife, she was buzzing around looking like she was free and unburdened. She picked up some lovely long leather boots and some towering heels to match her new outlook on life.
Of course all of the fertility treatment was stressful but I didn't realise how much of a burden it was and how much it must have been weighing her down. We picked up some cropped tops, one of which my wife kept on so she could see her piercing.
As we sat down for some lunch, Sally couldn't stop looking at her navel piercing and smiling from cheek-to-cheek.
"How are you feeling now after the navel piercing? When the piercer said see you very soon I guess you are considering going back for the nose piercing? I asked.
"I feel like myself again and not in a period of limbo. I know that you are disappointed that we aren't going to have children and I am truly sorry to have failed you," Sally said as the smile disappeared from her face.
"You haven't failed me at all. All I want, and all I have ever wanted is for you to be happy. I think we should go back to see Sadie after this and get that nose piercing that you wanted earlier," I said, trying to change the conversation back to making her happy.
She put her hand on my lap and said, "I am still wanting the nostril piercing, but I think I'll have to wait a bit for this one to heal," as she winced when she flipped down the septum piercing.
"What do you think? Actually I know the answer from the bulge in your pants, do you like your wife's new hot look?"
"I love it, more importantly because it has made you happy, and that makes me happy," I replied.
It really did look cute on her especially as it brought back that big smile of hers.
"Did you get anything else done whilst you were there?" I said jokingly.
"No, but can we pop back in on the way back as I do want to ask Sadie about something," she said excitedly.
"Of course it's your day, but I need to take you to a jewellers to get you a nice ring to wear for your birthday, but we can go there after that," I replied.
Off we went to a jewellers to look at rings, there was a beautiful eternity ring with white and pink diamonds that I thought would be a lovely match for her new navel piercing and she agreed.
"Hi, how can I help you?" the shop assistant asked.
"We'd like to look at the white gold eternity ring with pink and white diamonds in it please, but I don't know what size," my wife replied.
As the shop assistant returned with the ring sizers and the ring in its box she said, "This one is a size O, but we can order it in a different size."
"That might be perfect actually as I'd like it to fit on my thumb," my wife replied.
My wife looked at me and said, "Today is the start of a new me, so time to be different, I'd like a thumb ring if you don't mind" and gave me a big kiss.
"I'm happy for you to wear it wherever you want," I replied.
As it happened it fitted perfectly on her thumb on her left hand, "It's perfect, we'll take it and he's paying" she said to the shop assistant and nodded my direction.
"Anything else you'd like today?" the shop assistant asked.
"Yeah I'd like two pairs of big silver hoop earrings if you have two pairs in different sizes slightly smaller than these?" my wife said as she picked up some big hoop earrings about the same diameter as a can of coke.
"We have that size and a size larger but nothing smaller sorry, the big sizes are very popular at present," was the reply.
