Sorry if it is slow between chapters. My health and work have been taking it's toll. Hopefully this chapter will make up for the previous one being so short. Anyone who wishes to receive a notice when I post send me your email address. Thanx everyone for the votes and feedback.
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After the emotional breakdown, things go smoother. She tells me she doesn't want it covered, just made better. It doesn't take me long to think of an idea. I explain I will have to make the heart a fraction bigger to give it dimension. Then darken the initials and wrap barbed wire around it. I give her the option of a thorn piercing it and a drop of blood. She chooses no blood. I put on a Social D mix and get started.
The talk comes much easier now. Certain songs reminding us of different things we shared. We steer clear of emotional and stick with amusing stories. We are laughing so hard at times I have to stop working. Then she tells me about her college years, meeting Drake near the end of sophomore year. Talks excitedly and endlessly about her little girl. Shows me a few pics she brought. The girl is as beautiful as her mother. Somewhat shyly she admits Drake is the only other man she has slept with. I am not to surprised, she was an all or nothing girl. Then she does shock me when she says she married him because she was pregnant. Not that she doesn't love him but she hadn't planned marriage before finishing school.
To change topics she asks me about the big hickey. I tell her about Candice. She remembers her from the party. Says when Drake first met me he was surprised that I was her ex. Guess he didn't expect the tattooed, dirty punk. Then after I left with two girls he was asking weird questions about me. She thinks he was jealous that in his terms 'a guy like me' could pick up two chicks. He never said anything but she knows him well enough. I admit it was my first threesome. Then she drops a big question.
"How many women have you slept with?" I begin to sweat.
"Where'd that come from?"
"I'm just curious. I know you were with some girls before me so, how many after?"
"It was with four chicks before you...six years later, who knows how many after..." Trying to avoid an answer.
"Come on. I know you have some kind of count."
"I really don't know. I'm not the kind of guy who puts a notch in the bedpost."
"Wait you said four before we got together? You always told me three."
"Did I say four...ok three."
"Who was she?"
"You never asked who they were before?"
"You told me about losing your virginity to the neighbor. We're not in school anymore so humor me. Who were the others?"
"Jennifer McGafry and Michelle Parker."
"Oh my god. You and Michelle? She was the nerdiest girl in school."
"Yeah but she had a great rack." Grinning. Remembering Michelle letting me tit fuck her. Good times.
"So the fourth....."
"You won't believe me."
"Try me."
After I get her to swear to complete confidence I tell her about having sex with Bryce and Jackson's mom, Sharron, when I was sixteen. Of course she doesn't believe me so I must elaborate. I tell her how the summer before Junior year I was sleeping on their couch one night. It was when I was still having nightmares and not sleeping well. She came home from a pathetic date. We talked on the couch for awhile. Then she asked if I took direction well. When I said yes she led me to her room and taught me several ways to please a woman. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I swore to her I would never tell a soul. You know the minor thing and being my friend's mom and all. Until now I have kept that promise.
"Well us women should thank Ms. Powers for your skill." We laughed long and hard after that.
Then of course we get into the Kayla debacle. She knows because Bryce flaunted it on stage like I was a sideshow at the carnival. Now I will never know if my threesome was just a pity fuck. Who cares, I've been getting plenty of pussy since. Katie grills me until I tell her the whole story. Rebounding virgin, pathetic cheating tool. I do explain that it was a first for me, cheating on a girl, I have been the other man but never wandered. There was just something about Vivian. Then she makes me explain how I met Vivian and such. I tell her about everything only excluding the vampire thing. I know she wouldn't judge but I don't think Viv would appreciate it.
I'm finishing up her tat when 'King of Fools' comes over the sound system
"This should be my song now, not Sick Boy."
"You are so much more the Sick boy than you were in school."
"Yeah, the bikes and tats I know, but I am seriously the King of Fools with love."
"You appear to be doing okay with your recent breakup."
"Hardly. I have been trying to fuck her off my mind." Sound familiar? "I really did give her my heart and she used the parts she wanted and ignored the rest. I am the King of Fools."
"Well then you should put it on your skin with the rest."
"Are you crazy?"
"No. I think it would look sexy right here." Running her hand over my jean clad right thigh. Just above my other Social D ink.
"You haven't even got the skeleton, you said you were going to get it right after you turned of age."
"I know but we had broken up and Social D was sort of our music. I couldn't even listen to it without crying for months." I remember her making me dance to all the slow songs. No matter where we were. Alone, in front of our friends, at the record store. Our friends would make so much fun of us. The girls all thought I was the most romantic man. I tell her as much. "So if I get one you'll get the other?"
"Who's going to do it, you?" She shrugs. I roll back and hit the intercom. "Janet." I keep repeating in a singsong voice until she responds.
"Yes?" So much hostility.
"Hey is Jerry available?"
"Think he is working on a sketch. Want me to get him?"
"Send him back here if you can. Also will you order some pork sandwiches from Halstead's?"
"You buying for everyone?"
"Ballbuster"
"Womanizer."
"Love you too." Hitting the disconnect button. Katie lets out the laugh she was holding in.
"What?" Smiling. I slide back over to add the finishing touches.
"She knows you well."
"Yeah well you know. Janet has been here since I started."
"You fuck her?" She turns beet red. "I'm sorry I don't know why I asked at all or in that manner." This time I bust out laughing.
"You are so cute and yes."
With that Jerry comes in. I ask about his schedule. He's got one coming in shortly. When he questions me I tell him about the tat I was thinking of getting.
"Has to be now?"
"Yeah."
"Mario just got in. Nothing on his calendar."
"Mario is not allowed to touch my skin with his needle."
"Kid it's been what five years? Get over it."