Author's Note: This is a standalone story, part of a series of short one-shots I'll be doing alongside my longer ongoing series. This one will feature a fetish for piercings, including an explicit description of the procedure. This is a smutty fantasy so please do not read if you want realism. All characters in this story are 18 or over.
This is part of the 'Sapphire Lane' universe which is a collection of various series all set on Sapphire Lane, or at the nearby Ginerva Academy and Violet Liberal Arts College, each lesbian related but exploring different kinks. Each series is standalone but features cameos with characters from other stories, and potentially crossovers.
The Story
Charlotte, or Charley as everyone called her, excitedly left her house and walked down the road to the home of her best friend. She was 18-years-old, fresh out of high school, with long blonde hair, a thin pretty face with faint blonde freckles, and a slim pale body though her face, shoulders, and arms where a little tanned from summer. She was dressed in a cute pink skirt that had a pattern of white and yellow daisies, and a white tee.
She entered her best friend's house without knocking, having known the girl and her mom her entire life, and feeling like their house was like a second home for her.
"Hi Ms Sandford." Charley called out to the woman in the kitchen.
"Hi Charley, Carlotta is in her room."
Carlotta, her real name also Charlotte, was Charley's best friend, and the reason they both went by nicknames as they spent so much time together that things would have gotten confusing otherwise. They had been friends for pretty much their entire lives, both being born on the same day in the same ward, living on the same street, going to the same nursery, lower school, and high school, having joint birthday parties, countless sleep-overs together and going on each other's family holidays. However, they had now finished high school and the summer holidays were almost over with Charley soon due to start higher education at Violet Liberal Arts College, which was in a different state, whilst Carlotta remained in their hometown, having already started her job as an apprentice at a tattoo and piercing parlour. This would be the first time the two had been apart for so long and at such a distance.
Their strong friendship, to an outsider, would seem unlikely as the two girls were almost opposites with Charley being a well-behaved model student, always having liked girly things and following instructions, with her hobbies including reading, pressing flowers, attending church, and going to barn dances with her mom.
Carlotta on the other hand was a punkish goth, often getting herself into detention at high school (Charley would stay behind in the library to wait for her so they could still walk home together) due to her sarcasm, slacker attitude toward homework, and disrespect of teachers. She tended to wear mostly black, in contrast to Charley's preference for light pastoral colours, with her hobbies including playing violent video games, practicing drawing tattoo designs, messing around with witchcraft, and going to metal gigs. Teachers had often told Charley that Carlotta was a 'bad influence' and advised her to stop hanging around with the girl, but this was the only time that Charley would defiantly ignore a teacher's instruction.
Charley knocked on her friend's bedroom door and entered when Carlotta called 'come in'. The blonde didn't use to knock but had one day walked in on her friend led on her bed, legs parted as she rubbed her naked pussy whilst watching porn on her laptop. Carlotta had just laughed and shut the laptop screen, though not before Charley had glimpsed the video, and got dressed but the blonde had been mortified of intruding on her friend and ensured she gave a warning knock ever since. She often thought of the sight of her best friend masturbating and the glimpse she had seen on the screen of a woman licking another woman's vagina, and had almost looked up lesbian porn online but resisted the temptation as, though she was 18, she felt that watching pornography was somehow naughty and she was a girl who prided herself on her virginal innocence. She did however caress her pussy occasionally thinking about her best friend but always felt guilty afterwards.
"Hey baby." Carlotta grinned, getting off her bed where she had been lounging to hug the blonde. She was a little shorter than Charley, with smooth pale skin that contrasted with her jet-black hair cut with a straight fringe, her thick dark eyeliner, and the black clothes she wore. These were a leather skirt, a black mesh tee so her black bra covering her small breasts was visible, and fishnet stockings on her pale legs. As well as her ears, her septum and lip were pierced, and her left arm was covered with a sleeve of tattoos of black roses and spikey vines.
"Hi!" Charley beamed back, always excited to see her friend though they hung out together most days. She wasn't sure why, but she always blushed a little when Carlotta called her 'baby' as the term of endearment made her feel strangely special. They went over to the noirette's bed, chatting, before Charley pulled out the present she had brought in her bag. The blonde was due to leave home to go move into her dorms at college in a few days, so the two girls had agreed to get each other some kind of parting gift to remember one another by; not that they didn't already have thousands of photos and things to do that with but Charley, who had come up with the idea, thought it would be fun. "Whose gift shall we do first?"
"Ooo, exciting." Carlotta said as Charley passed her the present, prettily wrapped in purple tissue paper as the blonde knew that, besides black, it was the noirette's favourite colour. "My gift to you is a short walk away and we need to be there for 4 o'clock, so plenty of time to do yours first."
"I cannot guess what that could be..." Charley said, pondering what her friend could possibly have gotten her that would require them to walk somewhere, but smiled excitedly as the goth girl unwrapped her present.
"Oh, this is cute." Carlotta said, opening a little box to reveal a ring. It was silver with 'best friends' engraved on the inner side whilst the outer had the mould of a heart. "Snap!" Charley giggled, slipping a matching ring on her index finger (her ring finger was where she always wore her purity ring) and showing Carlotta.
"I shall wear this at all times to remember what a cutie you are." Carlotta laughed, affectionately pinching her blonde friend's cheek.
"Same, this is staying on all through college!"
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The two girls hung out in Carlotta's bedroom until the goth girl said it was time they left to go to the mysterious appointment she had made as a gift to her blonde friend. They walked out of their street, and down a lane that cut through some rows of houses with Charley growing more intrigued, having no idea where they could be going. The only thing, beyond a park and residential areas, she knew was in walking distance in the direction they were headed was a rank of small independent shops that included a Caribbean restaurant, bookstore, convenience store, Thai massage parlour, and the tattoo and piercing studio where Carlotta was an apprentice. 'Could she have booked me a Thai massage maybe... but that's not exactly something I can take with me to college...' Charley pondered as Carlotta chatted but refused to spoil the surprise.
They arrived at the rank of shops, clearly their destination, and Carlotta led the blonde into the tattoo and piercing parlour. 'Has she kept the gift here rather than taking it home... but what could it possibility be... unless...' Charley thought as she entered the reception area with its walls covered in photos of tattoos and various pierced parts of bodies.
"We aren't getting matching tattoos?" Charley asked a little panicked, as though she liked the idea of having something permanently marking her friendship with her bestie, she was definitely not the type of girl to get a tattoo.
"No, it's not a tattoo don't worry. It's something a lot quicker and more private..." Carlotta said, then greeted the woman who emerged from the work area. She was Carlotta's boss; a Hispanic woman in her thirties, with a punk half-shaved haircut and her tanned skin covered in tattoos.
'More private?' Charley thought puzzled.
"So, this is your friend. You're both so different but guess opposites do attract! Hi sweetie, I'm Bella." The woman introduced herself, holding out her hand which Charley shyly shook.
