5 Boys and the Beginning (5 Boys Book 5) by Evie Kady

Author:Evie Kady [Kady, Evie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evie Kady
Published: 2019-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

24. SETH

“WHAT’S THAT?”

Conor tilts his head at my sketchpad, his brows furrowed as if there’s something to understand about it. It’s not that hard to figure out. It’s a page consisting entirely of flowers, drawn when I had a spare hour away from Leon’s drill sergeant act to chill out in Cally’s garden. But maybe Conor’s expecting there to be a dragon hidden among the flowers, like I’ve secretly drawn some kind of optical illusion. Subliminal messages about dragons sounds like Conor’s idea of hell.

“Just an idea. Maybe for album art, or...”

Conor raises an eyebrow. “Or?”

I’ve never told anyone this. But... “I think I’d kinda like to get a tattoo.”

I’m not sure Conor’s eyebrows can travel any higher.

“After all this is gone, I mean,” I mutter, gesturing to my bandaged arm.

I was wrong: Conor’s eyebrows can go higher. “You want it on your arm?” He sounds amazed, like the idea is somehow diabolical and he’s not sure if he likes it.

“Yeah. It’s something a lot of burns patients do down the line.” Instead of staring at tight pink raw flesh, why not turn your body into a wild canvas of art? Better to stun one way than the other.

But I’m in a band of goody-two-shoes, and I’m supposed to be the goodiest-two-shoes of the lot, so no wonder Conor’s staring at me that way. Only Leon has a tattoo and I’m pretty sure he’s regretted it ever since. Tarek seems the type to decorate himself head to toe in ink, but he just isn’t into them. Pretty sure he once called Leon’s tattoo an ugly abomination on top of an ugly abomination.

I sigh.

“Flowers, though,” Conor points out, looking semi-repulsed. “Flowers?”

“What?” In my mind, flowers represent beauty, growth, rebirth. If anything, the symbol is so obvious it’s entered Clichéville.

But Conor just mutters, “I don’t know. I kinda think getting the garden of Eden tattooed on you would light up the Internet with crazy conspiracy theories.”

I hear his emphasis and roll my eyes. “You know you made your own garden of Eden for Cally? You remember where we had our first proper kiss, right?”

He stares at me like he’s been struck. “Is that... You’re not doing it because of me, are you?”

“Well, I’m not doing it because of Adam, am I?”

Conor quiets at that. But then he adds in a funny voice, “If you were getting a tattoo because of me, I’d like it to be the words ‘Conor was here’ in my handwriting. Preferably somewhere more intimate.”

I snort. He actually would. That’s almost the problem.

“What are you two doing?” I hear the voice before I see him. Tarek’s lounging against the door of the warehouse, watching the two of us sharing a bed. I try to ignore the weird fuzzy warmth that runs across my skin like static. My most private carefree self is being studied and examined by someone who rarely gets to see it.

“Uh, album art,” I say, flicking back a couple of pages to a collection of hearts I once tried to draw.

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