Alright so im never happy till im freakign crazy and i had a few ideas,

my friend got a new tattoo. i'm pure jealous... and so it sorta ran form there at 2 am Friday night...

katie did some work made it awesome..

back on snl in like hte 80's? maybe 90's cant remember Madonna did a skit or two there was somone else in there too and i cant remember but they would act like old women like i think Jewish or something and they would go 'its like butta' well i say that all the time... so dose bella. lol.. so its meant to be there..

Let me know what you guys think... maybe i am crazy.. but im going to have a new collection for outfits on my profile for this story... i promise one day ill finish something lol

*Bpov*

I sat behind the counter scrolling through the play-list on the computer. Social distortion blasted through the speakers of Tiger Lilly. It was a little tattoo shop that sat down town in Arizona. I tapped my pen on the schedule book and cracked up when Emmett, the owner, started to sing along with ball and chain. He had some blonde chick in his station getting some leg piece. I smiled as Jasper finished the chorus at the top of his lungs.

I smiled at the two girls who sat on the black bench in the corner looking at books. One of them was getting some shitty tramp stamp-ish tattoo to make her look super cute, while her friend looked a little green.

The door bell rang and I looked up from the star doodle I had just drawn and almost choked on my own saliva. He pulled the ray bans from his eyes and slid them in his pocket. His short sleeved black top didn't hid the fact he had tribal from his neck to his elbow. He faced the counter looking at me. His eyes were green with a hit of gold, his left eye brow was pierced. He had a ball in the middle of his chin. Shit he was amazing. The girl on the bench shifted her skanky legs a little.

"Hey" His voice spoke pure fucking butta. He looked at me as I bit my lip. Shit he noticed me staring at his arm. From where I sat he had a nice lean build on him, board shoulders and a lean torso. He raised an eye brow and licked his bottom lip.

Shit. Speak Bella. "Oh uh… hey, what can I do for you?" he leaned his arms on the counter and I noticed a tattoo on his left forearm.

"Is Emmett McCarthy around?" fucking butta. He looked at me and did this crooked little half smile and I felt my knees wobble.

"He's in a Tatt but umm… Hold on," I stood telling my legs to be normal and don't give it away. I walked keeping a hand on the counter and turned to him. "Who are you?" I asked. He grinned and licked his lips as he looked me up and down then back at me. I smiled. Yeah that's right check mamma out.

"I'm Edward Cullen," he replied and I smiled at him because I'm stupid and his voice was sending my heart into over drive. Yeah I swayed my hips and ass over to Emmett's station. The doors on each station had kind of a saloon door. The top was a curtain and the bottom was a half door. The curtain was open so I popped my head in. The blonde was sitting on the chair with her leg propped up; she was giggling and smiling at Emmett. He's really not that funny, but nice to lay it on thick.

"Yo! Em some fine piece of ass named Edward Cullen is here," Emmett stopped the tattoo gun on the floor he was doing on her calf and smiled over at me cocking his eye brow at me.

"Send him on back and tell Jaz for me," he said. I nodded and smiled at the girl. Emmett and Jasper were co-owners of the shop, and were like brothers to me.

I walked down and knocked on Jasper's door. He popped his head out the curtain and looked at me." Jaz Edward Cullen is here."

"Hey Bella tell him like you told me" was called as I walked down the hall to the waiting room. A blush rose to my cheeks.

"Fuck you my friend" I called back. Emmett roared a laugh and started his machine again.

I smiled at the lady at the counter who was staring at the tattoo racks. I didn't hear the bell ring but I knew she was looking for me. "Hey mom." Her red hair was all curly and her tight white shirt had paint all over it. My mom and I were close; she is my second best friend. Her eyes made a shift to Edward looking through the tattoo racks on the walls. I noticed she had blue hand prints all over her jeans. Her tattoo that Jasper did a few weeks ago was showing through the sleeve down her arm. Cherry blossom flowers.

"Edward Cullen, he's here to see Em" I said. She licked her lips and I hit her shoulder.

"You think he needs some mother tlc," she asked and I just shook my head.

"Hey Edward, Emmett says go on back third door on the left," I called. He turned around and smiled winking at me and my mom. I shook my head and watched him walk over to Emmett. Oh head he's fine. He had on baggy jeans with a checkered belt that did not do much to hold them up.

"Okay, so is Jasper here? I need to talk to him about a painting," my mother asked. I nodded and sat back on my stool. She walked off and I stared out the window at the street. For it being may in Arizona is wasn't that sunny.

A few minutes later my mom came out with Jasper. Both a little blood shot eyes. Stoners. I rolled my eyes and Jasper asked the girl if she was ready and went into professional mode.

"Bye Bells" she kissed my cheek and I told her to call me.

My mom owns an art gallery café down the street. She was crazy and my support system for everything. She was all I had growing up, my dad was in and out of my life. He's some where in a small town called Forks, Washington. He's a police chief and has some new wife with a kid.

I got bored and started playing solitaire on the computer. I heard the sounds of tattoo guns and Jaspers girls were very chatty. I yawned and rubbed my eyes, not finding a stupid move.

"Hey Bella, how about you work?" I jumped from my stool at the sound of Emmett being right behind me.

"I am working, and if this king had a queen I'd be on to something new," I replied.

Emmett rolled his eyes. I smile at the girl who was looking at Emmett. He was tall and big, more muscles then Edward who stood next to the girl leaning on the counter. Shit maybe that's his girlfriend. Still why would she look at Emmett like that. He wasn't bad too look at he had quart sleeves and he had a big back piece that made him take his shirt off more. He had short black hair from shaving his head too much.

"Alright Rose you're all done," she smiled at him and gave him some cash and she waved at me and walked slowly out of the shop.

"What you say Bella, an eight?' he cocked her head to look out the door.

"Wow that's a high rating on your scale," I waved my hands around and went back to my game.

"So you know how I need a new tattoo artist in the shop?" Emmett asked and I just nodded at the screen. "Edward here is going to take station 3, could you maybe fill his book out?" he asked and I stopped clicking hint on the game and looked over at Edward. We were going to work together?

"Umm… Uh yeah" I replied like a moron. Emmett looked at me and then said he was going to go next door and get something to drink.

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*Epov*

I pulled around back of the tattoo shop and shut the car off. I needed a new job being back home and all. After being in Oregon and tattooing there I needed something more positive in my life. So I called up my old buddy from art school and asked him if he had an opening at his shop Tiger Lilly. I walked around front pulling the glass door that said tattoo shop and had Emmett McCarthy and Jasper Hale written on the door.

I pulled my ray bans off and stuck them in my pocket. There was a sectional bench in the front that looked out to the street and in the back there was racks of tattoos set up. There was a cubby next to them that I assumed had portfolios in them of work. There were two girls sitting on the bench one looking through a book the other one looked a little sick.

I faced the counter. She sat there taking me in. Her reddish brown hair was all around her face and I saw her chocolate orbs staring into my green ones. Her nose had a cute little pink diamond on it.

"Hey," I smiled at her and she licked her lips and I caught her looking at my tribal that was down my arm to my elbow. I leaned on the counter and she looked at my forearm. She bit her lip and I raised an eye brow still looking at her.

"Oh uh… Hey, what can I do for you?" Her voice was like a sin to my heart. I leaned a little bit more on the counter and tried to look over at her. She sat on a stool all I saw was her nice creamy white arms in that black tank top. I saw her red fingernails and a tattoo on her arm but wasn't sure yet what else was there.

"Is Emmett McCarthy around?" I asked and she looked at me with big eyes. I started to wonder what her eyes would look like if her mouth was around my cock then she stood up. Her jeans hugged her ass and the tank top ended at her hips and I caught a glimpse of what looked like a handcuff tattoo on her hip.

"He's in a Tatt but umm… Hold on," she walked around the counter and she held onto it like it was death if she let go and I smiled my crooked smile that always gets a heart race or two. "Who are you?" she asked. Who was I? I looked at her and smiled. I forgot for a moment what I was doing here and smiled.

"I'm Edward Cullen" oh great Edward that did sound cocky. Fuck she eyed me and nodded walking down the hallway, her ass made a jiggle that made my penis wake up. I distracted myself with looking through the tattoo stencils on the wall.

The door rang and I watched a lady with red curls walk through the door, her face looked like Bella, she looked around a little and then caught my eye and winked. Her white shirt was covered in paint and so were her pants. She wore flip flops on her feet and I noticed the cherry blossom flowers on her arm. I heard Bella yell at someone. "fuck you my friend" as she walked out. I turned back to the rack. Even her curse words were like a song from Fate to my penis.

I heard her call the woman her mom. No way in hell maybe her sister, she looked way too good to be a mom. Bella had to be at least 21 or 22. I couldn't tell what was else said till Bella said my name. Shit if I could walk to Emmett's room I'd be lucky. So I just winked at both of them and made my way back.

Emmett had started finishing the hibiscus flower on the girls calf as I peeked my head in,

"hey man, come on in I'm almost done" he dipped the needle into yellow then a little red before pressing on the pedal and putting the needle to the girls leg. I sat down at the bench that was on one side of the wall and noticed his cart had magnets and bumper stickers all over it, his desk sat cluttered in the corner and he had two cabinets on each side, the room was bigger then what I had back home.

"Looks bitchin' Emmett," her flower ran from her foot up her ankle to her knee, he handed a few little tiny petals around vines. The girl smiled really enjoying Emmett touch her leg. She had a koi on her left arm I could see with a Hawaiian flower.

"Rose this is Edward he's going to be my new tattoo artist" Emmett introduced me. I grinned but Rose didn't say much.

Emmett finished with the tattoo and I watched him help her to a mirror. She looked down at her leg and beamed up at Emmett. He checked her ass out in the mirror.

"So are you ready to work?" he grinned and Rose placed her leg on the stool so he could bandage her up.

"Man you have no idea how bad I need to get back into some real work" I replied relieved. Emmett did a roar laugh and Rose I swore must have came in her pants.

"Well Jasper and I have been so busy lately we need another person to help around, I've got station 3 open for you, it be mostly walk ins till you got your own work," he said and I nodded I knew all about apprentice work and walk-ins.

"Well I'm going to have Bella start your book, and then just hang out, I'll show you your station and shit maybe a few beers later."

I grinned and we walked down the hall. Emmett helped Rose down the hall. Sitting in a chair for so long made her stiff.

Bella sat with her back to us and her tank top lifted up and I saw part of wings poking through. She was cussing at the screen of the computer when Emmett snuck up behind her and looked around at her work.

"Hey Bella, how about you do some work?"

She rolled her eyes at him. I walked closer and saw she was playing solitaire.

"I am working, and if this king had a queen I'd be on to something new," it was Emmett's turn to roll his eyes. He leaned over me and got some paper work for Rose and told her she was finished. She handed him cash and he pocketed it.

"Edward here, is going to take station 3, could you maybe fill his book out?" He asked Bella and she waved him on. "Umm… Yeah" she looked at me and licked her lips again. Nervous habit. Emmett announced he was going to the liquor store next door and walked out the shop.

"Alright so, station three," she stood up and walked to the file cabinet and bent down at her waist giving me full opportunity to eye off her ass. She pulled out a black binder and then sat it on the counter and pulled the other bar stool next to hers.

"Alright come sit" she patted the stool next to hers and she sat on one of her legs. I watched her as she added sheets to the binder; it was time sheets, and appointments.

"Alright so all I need is your name, I need a copy of your work so I can get prints on the computer and the website, and I need to take your picture to put on a business card" she wrote stuff down on a posted note as she handed me a contract sheet.

"So you do all the book work?" I asked looking over the contract agreements.

"Umm, I pierce too," she looked at me. I licked my lips. Damn, got to love a girl who wanted to put a hole in you.

"That's cool," I said playing it off. She chuckled and wrote something down on a post-it and then gave me the three she had written out.

"Alright, this is the shop number, this is Jaspers cell, I assume you have Em's, mine, and this is the alarm code." I looked at her scribble on the paper. She had written her number out nice and neat, the others not so much.

"Alright so" she pursed her lips and I heard the pink blackberry on the counter buzz. She beamed at the screen and hit a reply the fastest I have ever seen.

"Okay, now what else…" she let out a huff. And tapped her black nail painted finger to her chin. I was memorized by this girl.

"Oh work weeks, we close on Sunday's, umm, Emmett closes early on Monday's and Thursdays are black listed you can't have that day off," she frowned on that one.

"I'm with whatever," I wiped my hands down my jeans. She was really making me sweat and nervous and she smelled terrific. Edward Cullen doesn't get nervous and sure as hell doesn't say terrific but damn.

"So you want me to put whatever on your work week?" she turned in the stool. Clicking on the computer and saving her game and pulled up a folder and I watched her label it Edward.

"Umm...Well no," I rose my eye brow again. She giggled and I watched her eyes beam as she laughed. The door pushed open and I watched her. Her face looked like she prayed it wasn't Emmett.

"Belllllllllla…" the tiny voice rang. A girl about maybe 5 foot walked through the door her hair was jet black with little red highlights through it.

"Alli!" Bella beamed at the girl.

"Hi baby," Jasper called from his station. She giggled and looked at Bella, then at me.

"So you're Edward, huh?" she came around the counter and eyed me. She squinted her eyes and pursed her lips and then back at Bella.

"Alright I agree," she said and Bella laughed and shook her head. The small girl sat on the counter behind us.

"Edward that's Alice, Jaspers wife."

"Hey not yet," she held up her left hand and pointed to the empty ring finger.

"Common law is 5 years love bunny," Bella replied and Alice flicked a paper clip that sat next to her at Bella.

"Jasper your wife is a whore," Bella said and Alice mocked hurt.

"She's not my wife, and don't say common law" I heard the gun go back on. He had to take a few breaks with the girl he was tattooing, she was a squirmer.

"Alright so I guess just hang out, because I'm done filling out shit" she sighed and kicked up her feet on the counter. She wasn't wearing any shoes. She had small girly feet and there was a sparrow on it that said freedom.

She noticed I was looking at her feet so she put her feet down. "I don't like shoes," she said and Alice laughed.

"What she means is, she disobeys the rules and walks around barefoot almost every where" Bella looked at Alice and stuck out her tongue.

"Hey only if your going to use it" Bella winked and Alice made a wink face.

Soon after Emmett came back saying hello to Alice and told me to come check out the room. It wasn't as big as Emmett's but it had everything I needed.

"I have a supply closet in the office in the back, and you can use whatever," he shrugged and we checked on Jasper who was trying to get through his tattoo. He showed me the office and supply closet I told him I had my own gun and some ink.

We hung out a bit and Jasper finished the girl and her tattoo. It was a fairly slow day for them on Tuesdays. I was told Alice and Bella were the stores eye candy and basically brought a lot of men in.

"So what's Bella's deal?"

"She's Alice's best friend, they grew up in Phoenix and when I came down from Washington to here remember I looked up Jasper Hale from school and he was trying to open this shop so I helped and he introduced me to his girl and this small little girl named Bella, she was about 18 when I meet her. She's our baby of the group and her mom is fucking hot."

"I'm just glad to be done with James and his crap" Emmett nodded. We joined the girls out front, Jasper was hugging on Alice.

"Can I go the fuck home now?" Bella smiled at me.

"Do you want to go get some beers?" she pursed her lips and looked at Alice and then at me.

"Are you buying, because my boss hasn't paid me yet so I'm fucking broke," She said and Emmett threw the pen at her.

"No, Edward the new guy is."

I shrugged.

"Alright sure, but Renee is going to want to come" Emmett told Bella we would go pick her up and then walk to the bar a few streets down.

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*Bpov*

Me and Alice walked arm in arm to the bar, after my mom passed and went back talking to some client about painting something for him. She was more flirting than selling her art. But she told me once your body is an art canvas.

The guys strolled behind us talking shop and bullshit. I had slipped my high top pink chucks on and frowned at Emmett when he told me I was going to get some e. coli from walking around barefoot everywhere.

Granted I reminded him I mopped the fucking shop twice a week so he let me slide. Dumbass.

Moon tavern was a small dive bar down the street from the shop. The owner Jacob black was a chill guy he only employed really hot girls to work for him and they were all super nice. He did have guys who worked in the kitchen that the only food they made was like fry's and nachos and this fuck amazing sloppy Joe thing.

"Hey Bells" Jacob sat at the door. He was throwing dice on the counter with some costumers.

"Hey Jake, this is Edward the new dude at the shop" Jacob did an eye sweep over Edward as I grabbed his hand.

"Hey" Edward said Jacob did a nod and went back to his game.

"Don't worry" I whispered "just tip his girls nice like Emmett and Jasper and you'll get on great" Edward and Emmett went to the bar and ordered drinks.

"Alright y'all fucking suck, good night loser" I gave Emmett a kiss on the cheek after a round of pool and losing. Alice kissed Jasper and said see you at home. I could never afford my own place so I moved in to Alice and Jaspers love condo a few years ago. I had my own room down the hall from them and had my own bathroom. Jasper didn't mind and Alice well we never left each other sight since my mom and her mom pushed us out. Exactly three months a part, same day just she's July and I'm September.

We walked back to my car and I noticed the silver Volvo that sat in a parking spot away from mine.

"Must be Edwards" Alice shrugged and took my keys and hopped in my little crappy truck and we went home. I climbed the stairs to my room. Telling Alice that I'll make pancakes tomorrow and yelling I love you bitch as I slipped in my covers. She would wait up for Jasper I played that game once, but I don't have time to wait up till 2 maybe 3 in the morning.

My phone buzzed on it charger and I scrolled to my messages. It was from a number I wasn't sure of.

'Bella it was good meeting you, have a great night

-Edward'

I smiled at my text and saved his number. My dreams wondered off to his green eyes and lean body fornicating in my dreams.