Everybody's got a weird-ass reason for gettin' a tat, so I can feel 'em for not really asking.
[It'd been years since he had to do tattoo maintenance, but he had to do it with the added layer of subtlety- he had to hide it from his mom for as long as he could... until he fucked up and she saw it anyway, and tore his ass a new one. That was a night he didn't wanna remember. She was pissed, and he was in middle school and thought he knew everything. It helped that he looked older, fooling the tattoo artist.]
[But what she'd said brought him pause. Then he looked down briefly, pink-faced.]
Y-yeah, I don't- I don't mind. Cool water'll beat the heat and it'll probably feel pretty good on the back right now.
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[It'd been years since he had to do tattoo maintenance, but he had to do it with the added layer of subtlety- he had to hide it from his mom for as long as he could... until he fucked up and she saw it anyway, and tore his ass a new one. That was a night he didn't wanna remember. She was pissed, and he was in middle school and thought he knew everything. It helped that he looked older, fooling the tattoo artist.]
[But what she'd said brought him pause. Then he looked down briefly, pink-faced.]
Y-yeah, I don't- I don't mind. Cool water'll beat the heat and it'll probably feel pretty good on the back right now.