After what Yon had said I decided to take some time for myself. I mainly focused on working and taking up shifts, and I even started painting again. Anything to keep my mind off of him. Speaking of him ever since our hangout he's been keeping his distance as well. I don't know if I should be anxious or thankful about it.
Hearing the jingle of the door I look up to greet the customer who just walked in, just to find Roman looking at me—the very man I've been purposefully ignored for a couple days now. I freeze for a second and watch him approach me and soon enough he's right in front of me.
After a couple minutes of silence, he broke it, "Hi Cléo," He breathed out almost like he was out of air.
"Hey Roman," I say in the same tone.
"I've missed you," He says softly, and I hold back awe and chuckle softly.
"I've missed you too," Walking from behind the counter I walk to Roman and open my arms towards him. He wraps his arms around my waist and snuggles his face into my neck while I wrap my arms around his neck. I feel his breath tickle my neck and I giggle pulling away.
"What are you doing here?" I step back slightly to look up at him. My brain shortcircuits a bit when I find him staring right back at me. Like he's looking through me.
"I told you, I missed you. I also texted you multiple times and you didn't answer so I figured you were busy. First option was your dorm, which obviously was a bust, so your job was the next obvious choice," He says letting go of my waist and I almost miss the family of his arms being around me. Clearing my throat, "As much as I love talking to you, I've realized that there's a small line forming by the register and I kinda want to keep my job, but I do get off in an hour so you can always come back and we could hang out," I say slowly walking backward towards the register, " Cool with you?" I raise my thumbs up smiling.
He mirrors my actions puts his hand in his front pockets and nods while smiling, "Cool."
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Our laughter can be heard by I'm pretty sure everyone in the diner but neither of us could care less.
"Dude what do you mean, pickles are literally the best things in the world, I could eat pickles all day and die a happy man," Rom says as he bites into his burger. We decided to meet up after I got off work at the diner we had gone to last time with the rest of the crew. Today I had finally gotten something other than waffles and chicken, and had ordered a spicy chicken sandwich and specifically asked for no pickles. Now Roman here is giving me so much shit for not liking pickles.
"They're like penises of the vegetable family," He pauses and just stares at me, I stare right back. Soon we both burst into laughter once again and I swear I saw an older lady give me the nastiest glare ever. Which made me laugh even more which caused Roman to laugh even more. In the end, we had to take the rest of the food out to go because we were just causing a ruckus in the diner.
We were walking downtown when we passed a tattoo and piercing parlor and I paused for a moment looking at it and contemplating. Roman finally took notice of my absence next to him and turned around towards me.
"Cléo, you good?" He asks, and I tilt my head towards the parlor and smirk towards him. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" Finally processing what I mean he frantically starts shaking his head. "No Cléo, no, look I think you're just tired and you're not thinking straight," He attempts to convince me otherwise while I slowly approach him reaching for his hands and pulling him towards the shop.
"Come on Rom, it's just one little piercing, please Rom, please," I pleadingly say looking up at him, tagging at his arm. I hear him sigh heavily, "Ok," He says under his breath.
I pretend to not hear him and cup my hand around my eye, "Huh?" I giggle in excitement.
He sighs again, "I said yes Cléo, now let's go before I change my mind," I grin and drag him into the parlor without much of a fight and I fail to notice the smile on his face.
A bell jingles on top of our head as we walk in. We are greeted by an insanely hot ginger man. He is decorated with tattoos and piercings from what I can see and incredibly magnetic green eyes, I have never seen a man that fine before.
"You're drooling," I hear whispered into my ear and I wipe my mouth just to feel nothing. I turn towards him and glare about to spout some not-so-nice words to him, "How can I help you guys today?" Said the Greek god standing in front of me.
"Uh, my friend and I were wondering if we could pierce our ears today, I want both my ears and nose, but him just his ear," I say, "That's okay with you right Rom?" I turn towards him for confirmation, hoping I'm not overstepping. He contemplates for a second and nods. I then turn towards Adonis in human form and smile up at him but I notice that he's not paying much attention to me, but rather the guy who's standing behind me, looking 2 seconds away from passing out. Why the good-looking ones always gotta be taken or gay?
"Ok, just give me a couple of minutes and let me see if I can squeeze you guys in, I'll be right back," He says. As he's turning to leave he turns back, "My name is Jared by the way," He says and walks away.
A couple minutes later we were situated and Roman wanted to go first. He claimed that it was better to go first so he could comfort me when I was in pain, but I knew it was a front because here I was next to him gripping his hand while the piercer was lining the machine with the mark he made on his ear.
"Ok, inhale," Says the piercer Roman squeezes my hand, and I squeeze back. "I'm here Rom," I whisper, and he nods and inhales softly, then the piercer does it so quickly I don't even process it.
"See Rom, it's done, just one more to go," He opens his eyes and smiles at me, he slowly inhales again, and boom the next ear he's done. Damn, he looked good. He mulled over whether he gets a hoop or a stud, now me I'm a sucker for hoops and he got hoops, now I'm not saying,
"Ma'am I can help you now," The piercer interrupts my thoughts and I let go of Rom and walk towards my seat. I watch Roman admire himself in the mirror and I can't help but laugh, "You like your new look?" I say cheekily. He smirks at my direction and winks.
"Ok, now it's your turn to comfort me, come quickly," Stretching my hands towards him and he pretends to walk toward the exit,
"ROMAN," I yell out frustrated and he turns around and smirks at me before walking back towards me and holding my hands. The piercer wipes my nose to make sure it is clean and disinfected, and now it was my turn to inhale. "Alright, deep breathe in," The piercer says I squeeze Roman's hand and I feel his thumb rub against my hand comfort. I take a deep breath in and I feel the needle go through my nose, damn. I gotta do this again.
Soon enough I'm done with my nose piercings and I absolutely love them. We quickly finished up my cartilage piercing and now we're at the register paying for them.
"Ok, you're total for today will be $160," Jared says and I look at him confused, "Wait shouldn't it-" I'm quickly interrupted, "I gave you guys a discount," He says and looks up at Roman and winks and smirk.
"Thank you, Jared," I say, and I softly elbow Roman and nudge my head towards Jared. He sniffs awkwardly, "Uh, yeah, thanks man," He says.
"You're welcome cutie, come back again," I laugh and we both walk out. I keep laughing as we walk out and Roman grumbles as he walks away from me. I jog up to him and interlock our elbows together, " Oh come on Rom, it was cute, he has a little crush on you," I commented.
"Yeah, yeah whatever, go bother someone else Cléo," He grumbled attempting to unlock our elbows. I shake my head in disapproval, "Nah, uh, you're stuck with me," I say as we walk back to the dorms.
Roman's piercing.
Cléo's Piercing.
(Now I know the pictures that I've already uploaded of Cléo already show her piercings but for fictional purposes let's just pretend it's not there :))
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