Chapter 2

Jack's Pov

"Let go you dumbass! You're hurting my arm!" The muscly asshole said from under the other muscly big guy. What was this? Was this a wrestling match that I didn't know of? A brand new TV show where two big burly guys intimidate each other?

The tattooed guy chuckled darkly, "Oh, you think this is me hurting your arm? You should see when I beat you up to the ground and plummet your face to the ground." He growled and gripped the asshole's arm tighter.

I was so stunned by the display in front of me I didn't even realize the purple girl was behind me, I yelped. "You scared me."

She just tilted her head to the side like a bird, her eyes twinkling in curiosity. Then she grinned brightly, I thought I was gonna go blind. "What's your name?" She said casually, like there wasn't two big guys fighting in front of us.

I frowned, "Jack."

Her smiled widened, "Well, Jack. Nice to meet you. I'm Rez." She stuck her hand out.

I shook her hand, "Uh, ditto?" It sounded like a question.

The purple haired girl- Rez, leaned back and watched me with wonder. "What are you doing here, Jack?" She raised her eyebrow at me, "You don't seem the type to be in a place like this, no offense." She added.

I nodded and glanced down at my attire subtly, how did I look exactly? She knew with just a glance I wasn't used to this kind of place. "None taken." I muttered.

"So?" She pushed.

"Uh, well, I was just wondering." My eyes were glued to the still bantering guys in front of me. When will they end this stuff? "And trying to try new stuff." My voice got smaller by the end.

She raised her eyebrow in surprise, "Hmm."

I looked at her, she was quite the view. Scratch that, she was the view, smoking hot wouldn't even cover it. She was that type of girl that parents forbid their children to be friends with.

"Hey-" I was cut off by the sound of cackling laughter of the tattooed guy, the asshole was passed out and laying hopelessly on the ground.

"Rez! You alright kid?" The tattooed guy stood up and walked over to us casually like he just didn't fight and knocked down a guy.

Rez just rolled her eyes, "I'm fine." She gestured with her eyes, "Him, I'm worried about."

The guy's eyes drifted towards me, I kind of felt small and scared with his only stare alone. Say I was a coward but you will cower under that kind of stare too! "Why's this skinny as-" He got a slap from the girl at that, "-guy." He corrected, "In the shop? What are you doing here kid?" He asked me.

What was up with this guy and calling everyone kid, he can't be that older than me, he looked like he was only 24 years old at most. I frowned at him, and was going to answer but the purple haired girl cut me off, what was with this people and cutting me off when I was talking? Find a new hobby fellas.

"He was wondering around. Want to try something new." She glanced at me and winked.

I was just like, "Uh..."

The big guy ear perked up, his eyes shinning. "Really? Well then, I welcomed him to browse as he wants." He patted my shoulder a little too hard and went away, chuckling under his breath.

What's so funny, I didn't get it. I looked at the both of them questioningly, probably like a fish out of water. Rez just grinned at me.

"Come on, I'll show you around." She grabbed my hand and led me deeper inside the shop.

The tattooed guy was hunched over a glass counter, seemed not caring but his eyes never stray far from Rez. "Uh, Okay?" I asked.

What the hell will this girl showed me? I wondered.

"What do you plan on getting?" She snapped me out of my daze, we were standing in front of different displays of tattoos. There were rows and rows of them lining up the wall, mostly black and white and almost as big as me.

"I-I don't know." I stuttered, there were so many of them that I didn't know what I was planning when I decided to come here. "I was just planning to try something daring." I mumbled as I checked out the tattoos in from of me.

Some of the people inside the shop was working on a tattoo on someone, but mostly they were hidden from view in another room, all of them were either tattooed or had tons of piercing. Or they were bulky as hell, I, for one, didn't have any of those characteristics, sure as hell out of place.

Rez just grinned even wider, "I know just what you need." Then she was pulling me along behind her again.

We were back in the from of the shop, where the tattooed guy was hunched over, tidying up the jewelries inside the counter. He looked up, raising an eyebrow. "Decide what you want kid?" He asked.

I frowned. I sure as hell didn't know what can I get.

Rez glanced at me before she smiled and blurted out, "He wanted something daring."

The tattooed guy eyebrows almost disappeared inside his hairline, "Hmm? Oh, really?" He looked up me and down and tutted, shaking his head. "There's a lot of skin to paint and a lot of flesh to be pierced."

I shuddered at the creepy way he said it, "What? Afraid boy?" He taunted.

I shook my head hesitantly, "I just didn't know what I need to get."

The three of us were quiet as we inspect the room around us, talk about awkward. Then suddenly Rez squealed, jumping up and down, making all her piercings glinted. "What about an ear piercing?" She said in joy, clapping.

I looked at her like she just grew three heads, "What? No!" I shook my head furiously. "No, no, no. That is completely not me!"

She pursed her lips and narrowed her eyes at me, eyeing me up and down, the way she did it was too alike like the tattooed guy. Maybe she was his sister? "Then what is you?"

"I-I don't know." I stuttered pathetically. Looking anywhere else besides her steely gray eyes, I could't help but notice how warm they were, unlike her badass appearance, her eyes looked like she wore her heart on her sleeve. So soft, they looked like they were melting chocolates.

"-Right, Jack?" Her voice cut my train of thoughts.

"Huh?" I blinked and asked her to repeat her question.

She shook her head, but there was a little smile in the corner of her mouth. "What about a lip ring Jack? Just a little hoop in the corner of your bottom lip. Not a snake bite." She explained, she actually looked thrilled about me getting pierced.

What was with this people and piercings? I looked at her, puzzled, "What the hell is a snake bite?"

She sighed heavily and pinched the bridge of her nose, "I forgot I'm talking to a piercing impaired person." She muttered.

"Hey!"

"Sorry, but it's the truth buddy." She tutted and I just stayed quiet in the corner.

"Snake bite is a two piercing on your bottom lip with a little stud." Said the big guy, staring at me like I was stupid.

I got enough of this already, I was out of here. But what about that little daring act I need to do? To hell with that, I can do something like jumping of from a cliff or something as equally dangerous.

"Thanks for your help, but I'm out of here." I was going to reach the door, just a foot away from my freedom when the big guy slammed the door on my face.

I was speechless, that door almost got my nose! I turned to face him. "Look kid, we're sorry. But no offense, but you really need that little bit of daring act. Because well... You're so stiff.

"It's like you haven't have fun for like a decade."

I stared at him with no emotion. Because honestly? He was right, I haven't had fun for forever. As long as I remembered, I was just sitting on my desk and studying, if I wasn't studying, I was with my mother, going on a family business, events, or family dinner.

"No, not really." My mumbled out answer was unheard to them because they grinned creepily to each other, and right then I just wanted to escape. Run away screaming.

They dragged me inside, the big guy making sure I wasn't going to escape. Was this even legal? Dragging away an innocent person to get pierced? Yeah, I doubted that.

Rez sat me down on a leather seat, it was like the chairs in the dentists' clinics, then realization dawned on me. My eyes widened, "What are you doing?"

"Do you like my piercings?" Rez asked, tilting her head side to side, so I can examined them.

"Uh- Yeah?" I whispered.

She grinned and leaned closer, I was practically laying down on this creepy dentist chair, she hovered above me. "What do you think about it?"

I was in a daze for a moment there but I snapped out of it quick. "I think it looks good on you." I mumbled.

She grinned and stepped back, "Danny? Get the equipment. We need some transformation to do."

My eyes widened, "Wh-what are you going to do with me?" I wanted to scream if I could.

"Just a little piercing to encourage your fun side." She said casually like she didn't basically strapped me down so that big guy could pierce me.

"Aren't this illegal?" I barely managed to ask them that.

Their creepy eyes stared at me silently, "It is, if the person is not willing. But you my friend, is willing. Very much so. You just need a little push in that direction. Then you'll be happy as Lady Gaga."

The hell she meant by that?

Seeing the cart Danny brought in my will was completely blown away from me. The equipment were so nasty and scary looking that I didn't even want to look. I turned my head and stared at the soft brown eyes of Rez. "Have you decide on what you want?" She asked softly, she knew I was going to bolt from this place.

"I don't know but... that lip ring sounds nice." Because it was true, I kind of like the idea, not so sure about any ear piercing because I didn't want my sleep to be disturbed you know.

The smile she wore was almost left me breathless. "Good. Because I think it will look hot on you."

"Say what?" I blinked repeatedly, hoping it would clear my mind I even think about that this girl, this out of this world hot girl said that I look hot. Was I exaggerating or it was what she really thought?

But Rez just smirked at me and winked, shaking her head as she walked away from me. "Yo kid where you going?" Danny asked, looking up from preparing his things.

"The waiting room." She said simply and waved away. And just like that she was gone.

Well I thought she was, but when Danny was going to pierce that hella looking scary needle to my bottom lip, she came. Grinning broadly, like a Cheshire cat, even their colors kind of match now that I think about it.

"Well, you're back. Decided to watch the show after all huh?" Danny said not even pausing from poking my bottom lip with it.

I was relaxing a bit at the fact that it didn't hur- But then it came, I screamed bloody murder. I bet the other room heard me as Danny pierced my right bottom lip corner with the needle. Why didn't they tell me it hurts so bad? Or it was just me acting like a sissy?

I winced when Danny put in the ring that matched the width of my bottom lip. "Ouch." But it came more like, 'ogh.' Because of the foreign object that was attached to my lip.

"You're such a baby." He muttered.

I just glared at him, well, sorry for acting like such a baby, but I was meant to write and enjoy my peaceful ordinary day, and none of it included me getting pierced. Like ever. I sounded like a girl.

"How do you feel?" Rez asked me impatiently, fidgeting from side to side, What do I feel? Hell, I felt like my lip was just run over by a truck. "No, silly. I mean how do you mentally feel right now?" She can read minds?

I didn't know what she was talking about so I just looked at her with a funny look on my face. "Well, it's just three seconds. Give the kid time, Rez."

She huffed, "Fine. I was just curious."

Danny shook his head with a little smile on his lips and strolled the creepy cart outside the room. I stood up slowly and walked to the mirror, even though it hurt like hell I wanted to see if I look good or not. I glanced shyly at Rez, she was nodding and grinning. She was always grinning I noticed.

I gulped and took a deep breath to brace myself if I looked horrible or like a too skinny bad boy doll. I shook my head to clear my thoughts and looked at the square mirror in front of me.

My pale face and green eyes too out of place stared back at me, but now the glinting ring on my bottom lip somehow complemented all of my freakish looks. It even kind of matched me, like a part of me. I looked good, better with a piercing actually.

I glanced at Rez after I was satisfied admiring my new look on the mirror, "How do I look?" I said softly.

"Out of this world hot." She even winked at me.

I thought my heart was gonna drop to my feet.