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“Hey, we don’t have to stay for the fireworks,” Trevor said “It’s your call”

“What do you want to do?”

He s to o away”

Trevor moved so that he was in front ofthe tattoo along his knuckle Strength That’s what he’d said the symbols meant Or was it…

I ran my thumb across his skin “Which one is this?”

“Courage,” he answered

Courage

I traced the syth

“I want to get a tattoo,” I blurted

“What?” He was set a tattoo I uess so, you know?”

“So you don’t think I’et a tattoo?” I don’t know if I was annoyed or hurt, but I was so

“I think that a tattoo on any part of your body would be very, very cool” His hand grazed ht here,” he ers with his ht It needs to be you, and well, until you turn eighteen, you’d need your parents’ permission anyway”

Oh Right Downer

“Do you want to go back to the cottage?” I asked The rain had stopped, but still, I was done with this place Done with Baton Rouge The only place I wanted to be right noith Trevor back at the cottage, preferably under the covers

“Like I said, I’, but the look in his eyes was anything but The look in his eyes told me that he was as affected by this connection that we had as I was