17 and of age

[Dederick Cullen]

An hour later he was holding a bottle of ointment and passing it through his knuckles. They were swollen and he could not move his fingers apart. Whenever he tried to they would clam up poop forcing the space between them back together. Dee winced in pain. It hurt like hell, but it looked really nice so the pain was nothing to how much he enjoyed what he had gotten written on his knuckles. The font was old gothic, readable to those closer to him, faraway you could not tell what it said. Dederick preferred that way, it was personal so whomever he was close to had the privileged to read it. It's not like it would make sense anyways, the word he had chosen would throw anyone off track.


Dederick flex's hand to try and move it, it would no respond, he guess it was to swollen. Dederick put the ointment back in his medicine cabinet, he had already given Briar some. He went back to the living room area of his one bedroom flat. It had been a five minutes walk from the tattoo shop, when he said that he lived close by he really did mean it. Dederick looked over at Briar, "Ready to see what it says?" he hid his arm from viewed and stood in the middle of his living room, almost in front of her since the couch was not to faraway. He moved his arm and showed her what was written on the surface of his knuckles in bold letter, it read BRICK, he waited to see what she had to say about the word he had written across his very own skin.​

 

[Briar Rowan-Cullen]

Briar felt the needle make contact with her skin and tensed slightly herself, that hadn't been like she as expecting. however in a few minutes she was getting used to it and apart form the odd sharp pain when she went over a bone or nerve. after a while it was done and she slowly stood up and felt it sting as she moved her ankle. dee had finished a little while before her but hadn't shown what he had gotten. still curious she knew he would show her when he wanted to (or would do inadvertently). she took his other hand as they headed back through london to his apartment. she kept her shoe off and walked on tiptoes as that meant less moving of the foot and tensed the pain in it.
when they reached the apartment she stayed in the living room as he went into the bathroom. she took some of the lotion they had been given and massaged it onto her foot. she liked the way it looked on her skin. he came back and stood in front of her. she looked up smiling, maybe now she would know what he had not wanted to tell her. "yes I'm ready" she said laughing as he pulled his had from behind his back. and showed her the letters BRICK. "brick?" she frowned as she tried to work out what she was missing. B R I C K? something people build with? then she got it. BRIar dederICK, both of their names merged together. her smile returned wider than before. "dederick, thats awesome." she said standing up and putting her arms around him and kissing him. not even feeling the pain that the standing had caused in her foot.