White It out Like Glittering Wax Butterflies

Quinn gripped my hand as the employee cleaned off my lip. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Of course I am! I've wanted to get my lip pierced since I was fourteen!"

I gripped his hand a little tighter when they held my lip still to put the needl in.

"Okay," the employee said. "on three."

I held my breath.

"One... Two..."

I tightened my fists.

"Three."

"OW!" I clenched my teeth and shut my eyes tightly.

"There! Now were just have to put in the ring."

I opened my eyes. Quinn was smiling sweetly at me. Meanwhile, the person who just pierced my lip was putting the ring in.

*****

Quinn and I walked out into the lobby where Ember, Hazel and Jeph were sitting.

"Oh my GOD! It looks so frickin' rad! Hazel squeeled in excitment.

I half expected them to tackle me, since they seemed to do that quite often, but no.

Jeph and Quinn seemed to like it a lot. Makes me wonder what Bert's going to think... Eh, I guess it doesn't matter much...