275 - Inked

2021

     Jesse         Esmodonti          Racolo            Aless   

Late Monday night in the living room …
















JESSE:

… Not bad.


ESMODONTI:
I wanted ‘em in different colors, but Roc said no.
















RACOLO:
I never said that.


ESMODONTI:

Ya didn’t? Well, you gave me such a look when I mentioned it.   


RACOLO:
You could’ve had them in any color you wanted.





















ALESS:
Here we g-go again. They’ve b-been bickering
like this all night.
















JESSE:
I like that they’re solid black. It’s bad-ass.


ESMODONTI:
I’m starting to dig ‘em too. Oh, and we already
tested one - and it worked!
















RACOLO:
‘Course it worked. 


ALESS:
It sure d-d-did. I c-cast a s-s-simple sl-sleep spell on her
and it d-didn’t take.
















ESMODONTI:
And I felt it too. I was like tingling all over. 


JESSE:
Tingling, huh? 


ESMODONTI:
Not a bad sensation, right.





















JESSE:
So what happens next?
















RACOLO:
We’ll know when the sun comes up. 





















RACOLO:
… Es, you should try not to stay up all night. If all
goes according to plan - you could be on
daylight time from now on.
















ESMODONTI:
Won’t that be fab! I’ll get to be with my little elf-kin all day long.


RACOLO:
He’ll love that.


ESMODONTI:
I better go check on him. Then I’ll be off.
My last night as a true creature of the night.





















ESMODONTI: 

… And thanks again Roc, you too cherie.
















JESSE:
It’s so great to have her back. I hope this all works out for her.


ALESS:
M-me too.


JESSE:

So Roc, what’s next with you?


RACOLO:

Me?





















JESSE:
Yeah you. She’s back, and soon she’ll be less vampire-like, and
wasn’t that the problem, I mean your problem with her?
















RACOLO:
You don’t know anything.


JESSE:
I know that you and Es have this weird relationship without  
any benefits. And man, you could really use those benefits.
Why don’t you ask her out? Go on a date or something.


ALESS:
I th-think th-th-that’s a gr-great idea.
















RACOLO:
No it isn’t. You just don’t get it.
Just stay out of my … Oh forget it.

Racolo storms off.















JESSE:
Hey Al, maybe I should take Es out? Then he’d get jealous
and that might snap some sense into him.  ‘Course I could end
up with a black eye, but I can take it. 


ALESS:

He’s r-r-really  b-being a dufus about this, isn’t he?


JESSE:
Oh yeah, absolutely.
























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