– it’s time that I got the tattoo’

The goys are all still pleading with me. Oisinn’s going, 'Ross, I’m just saying you might regret it when you wake up tomorrow'. Illustration: Alan Clarke

JP even suggests ringing Sorcha to float the idea by her, but I’m already Googling nearby tattoo porlours on my phone, and twenty minutes later, I’m climbing two sets of stairs to Tat’s Entertainment on Shaftesbury Avenue, above a Chinese restaurant with ducks turning on a spit in the window. Yeah, no, the needle hurts, even with seven or eight pints onboard. Lu asks me if I want her to stop, but I go, “Just ignore me. I have a very low tolerance for pain.”But I blank out the voices of the haters and the doubters as I watch the first stor take shape in the mirror.

None of the goys can look me in the eye. They genuinely did want to fock off until Johnny turned them from leavers into believers. She finishes the fourth one and goes, “All done,” and I’m staring at my reflection in the mirror, admiring her handiwork and – again – feeling a bit emotional.The goys know what I’m going to say before I even say it. Christian’s like, “Ross, don’t do it”.JP goes, “Dude, what are you doing? You’re going to focking jinx it.”

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