Those Black Eyes
Chapter 1
By: Punk Lover
I woke up out of a boring dream, just another adventure that didn’t make sense. I sat up on the couch and looked around. Joel was watching what looked like a pretty stupid show, Paul was sleeping and Billy was looking out the window…still. “Billy, what are you looking at?” I asked him my voice all scratchy. “He’s probably looking for some chicks, although they would be hard to find since we’re on a highway where no girl would be walking.” I realized that Joel wasn’t really watching TV; I guess Billy was more interesting. Billy just kept on staring out the window, his eyes wide and eager.
“ I can’t wait until we get there!”
“Well he does speak. Welcome back my friend.” I stared at Joel and gave a little chuckle. Then I realized that something in Billy’s eyes were really excited about getting back to Maryland. I tried to figure out who else he left behind. I thought of all his old friends and I knew he didn’t leave a girlfriend behind. I guess he realized I was looking at him because he stared back at me catching me out of my daze. “What?” I guess he seemed pretty freaked out that I was looking at him because his voice sounded surprised.
“ Why can’t you wait to get back home? Do you miss your parents already?” A little laughter was coming from Joel as he gave Billy a look of a lost little baby. The truth was we’d only been gone for a month and our parents were the last ones to see us.
“ Actually, I found my old friend Skeylee’s phone number and I called her up about a week into the tour. We talked a bit and then I told her that we should ALL get together. I guess I just want her to meet my best friends. Makes sense; us being friends and her never meeting you guys.”
“ When are we going to meet her?” Paul sat up which kind of freaked us out since we thought he was still sleeping. He toke the words right out of my mouth though. I figure that the mention of us meeting a girl woke him up.
“ I’m supposed to meet up with her at her work downtown at around 11:00 when she gets off.”
“ Wow! She gets off work pretty late. What does she do?” Paul asked giving a questioning look. My question exactly; any girl that works until 11 at night must have an interesting job. Like a striper or a drug dealer. I had many ideas and pictures in my mind thinking of different and exotic jobs this girl could have.
“ She’s a tattoo artist, a really good one too. I’ve seen her work and it’s pretty cool.” I looked up at Billy not believing that he had a friend that did tattoos. He probably could have gotten us cheaper tattoos then spending 100 bucks for one. I didn’t bother giving him a lecture since as soon as I looked at him he added that we could get good deals if we decide to get any. The rest of the trip back home was again quiet since Paul fell asleep and Billy kept staring out the window. I decided to watch TV with Joel since there was nothing better to do.
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“Benj, wake up. We’re here…wherever here is.”
I looked up and realized that Paul was shaking me a bit. I guess I fell asleep because as soon as I got up I got a little cramp in my neck. I looked around and noticed that Billy was already gone and Joel was putting on a hoodie while trying to find his way to the bus door without running into something. I laughed when I saw him miss the last step and fall onto the ground unable to stop himself since his hands were all caught in his sweater. He got up and gave me a look of pain and walked off to were Billy was impatiently waiting. When we were all finally together, we had to quickly follow Billy into a small, run down building. We all stood inside a little cramped together and waited for Billy to do something. He looked a little nervous but then rang a bell on the counter top. Coming out from the back was a huge guy full of tattoos on his arms. We all toke a small step back, nervous that if he talked we’d piss ourselves.
“ Ummm…is Skyelee here?” Billy asked hoping he wouldn’t regret it. Everyone was silent for a minute waiting for the huge guy to say something. The guy walked closer to us and we all tried to keep our cool. He looked us all up and down, which made me really nervous, then looked Billy right in the eyes.
“ The girl or the symbol?” Billy looked a bit confused. Symbol? There was a symbol that meant Skyelee? We all had confusion in our eyes and were breaking down from the silence.
“ Uh the girl if that’s possible?” The man gave us all dirty looks then burst out laughing. We just stood there all kind of freaking out and wondering what he was laughing at.
“ You guys look like your gonna piss yourselves. What’s wrong? Scared of a big tough guy? Ha! She’s in the back probably playing with something or giving herself another tattoo.”
We all stood there for a minute before Billy started walking into the back room. Sure enough there was a girl sitting on, what looked like a dentist chair, tattooing herself. Everyone kept walking towards her but I stopped dead in my tracks. I stood there just staring at her. She had medium length hair that was black in the back and pink in the front. It was all spiked up in the front and feathered in the back. She had amazing black eyes that I’ve never seen before. For a minute I thought she was wearing contacts but it looked to real to be contacts. She also had the best looking tattoos, all graffiti writing. She was wearing really baggy black pants and on her left pant leg it said “KORN” She was also wearing a black tank top that had a pair of red lips on it. I don’t know why but I couldn’t stop staring.
“ HEY!!! What’s up?”
“ Hey! Not much with me, just finishing off this tattoo. I was really bored waiting for you guys so I decided to tattoo “GOOD CHARLOTTE” around my arm. What do you think?”
“ It looks great! How long is it going to take you to finish?” She looked away from Billy ignoring the question and stared directly at me. She gave me a smile and let out a little giggle.
“ Are you just gonna stand there or do you wanna come over and talk to me?” I stared at her for a second before moving in towards the guys. “ That’s better don’t you think? What do you think of my newest creation?” I stared at the tattoo and just nodded my head. She looked over at the rest of the guys and smiled. “ Does he always act so quiet?” Everyone then just stared at me like I was a freak.
“ He’s just being retarded. I bet he hasn’t seen a girl in a while.” Joel stated while starting to laugh.
I looked over at Joel and elbowed him lightly in the ribs. They all laughed and then went silent. I find we were doing that a lot lately. Skyelee quickly finished her graffiti “good charlotte” writing and cleaned and put everything away. She grabbed an atticus hoodie and her black bag and motioned us towards the door. “ I’m outta here! See ya on Monday hey Skip?” The guy, now with the name Skip, just waved her down and started packing to leave for his home too. We all walked outside in the cool night air. It was about 1 am before we got outside into the streets. We were all pretty tired so we decided that we would all head to Skyes house since it was a 20 minute walk and closer then our own homes. As we all walked, with Billy talking to Skye, Joel and Paul talking to each other, I was left by myself behind all of them just thinking about nothing and waiting for someone to notice my existence.