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"Of course you're not going to wait out in the car"

Well, at least they agreed on so

Nikki ran her tongue over her teeth and caught Melanie's gaze in thewith me"

"Oh no, I'm not I don't even like musicians" Especially not the tattooed metal-head freaks Nikki lusted after Nikki had a serious bad-boy complex Maybe her father should have paid more attention to her as a child

"Please" Nikki clasped her hands together in front of her chest and er than usual

"Why would you even ask? You know tattooed guys give me the creeps"

Nikki shook her head at her “If you’d take the tinize how hot they are”

Doubtful Just seeing men with tattoos made Melanie’s heart race with fear Her reaction wasn’t intentional She’d been scared by a group of bikers when she was a teen Had she been older, she probably would’ve recognized they were only teasing and meant her no harm But they’d terrified her Her parents had intensified her fear by saying she could’ve been kidnapped, raped, murdered, or worse She hadn’t even wanted to knoas worse than being raped and murdered Her thirteen-year-old s with men who looked a certain way Men like those bikers who’d cornered her in the entryway of an abandoned storefront

As she’d been too afraid to actually look at their faces, all she remembered was their body art and their words The one with a skull tattoo had and told her all the lewd things he wanted to do to her pretty mouth She hadn’t understood what he’d meant at the time, but now that she was older, she knew she’d had a reason to be uneasy and disgusted

One with a barbed-wire tattoo around his arhed at her, but ultimately had left her alone She knew that tattoos didn’ti her fear at bay Unfortunately, going to concerts was Nikki’s favorite thing to do, so Melanie’s fears got a fairly regular workout

“I don’t want to get to know them; I just want to stay away from them”

Nikki wrapped an arm around Melanie’s shoulders and assessed them in the mirror "You’ll be fine, Mel I promise Besides, I need you to help me pull off my ruse"

Melanie’s inner alared even louder "What ruse?"

The crowd in the stadium roared with enthusiasm

"Sole Regret’s set is starting!" Nikki scooped her cosrabbed Melanie by the wrist, and rushed fro biker woman to the floor in her haste