Davi: Venom

At A Glance Author davi Contact davi@chickmail.com Artist Derek Lowe Studio Body Work Productions Inc. Location Cleveland, Ohio

In school a few of my friends decided we needed to get pierced. We picked out a date which we were all available for. I called in appointments for the three of us. Between the three of us there was a navel, tongue and scrumper piercing.

The day came. My friend called me up and said she was coming over to pick me up so we could head out on our way. I got dressed and I splashed water on my face and waited for my ride.

I saw the car pull into the drive way. As soon as the car entered my piercing jitters hit alittle. I got in the car and noticed there were 3 girls and me. Which... is 1 more than I called in a n appointment for. I felt bad for the piercing studio cause it was a Saturday and walk ins kinda suck on weekends, but I'm sure they would understand.

So, we were on are way. During the car ride we basically made fun of everything we saw to ignore our jitters. It worked for awhile until we reached the studio. I noticed the driver's hands clinch on the steering wheel. "Adorable", I thought. We pulled into the studio and got out of the car. My friends asked me to enter first cause they were that scared. I thought that was even more adorable. So, I entered and saw a friendly pierce smiling at me. I waved, smiled and said "Hello". The greeting was returned. I told my friends to follow me and I brought them to the counter where they would fill out forms. I talked some of the piercers before I filled out my form because I knew the form would be filled out fast for me since I've read it over before. So I yacked it up alittle. I then grabbed a form before they got ignored with me. I filled it out with shaking hands half because I was chilly and half because I was nervous out of my mind. After I finished quickly, before the girls got half way through, I brought it up the counter. I then was taken to the last piercing room in the studio and sat down and got my scrumper looked at. Sadly enough, I didn't have the room for a scrumper piercing. So, I requested another piercing. My dream piercing. The "venom". I've requested this before but Body Work Prod. isn't fond of them so I wasn't sure. So, I gave the puppy eye. And... it worked! I went out and filled out another form and went back into the room.

This was the longest time I've ever spent on getting a piercing in my life. Since it was a busy day I said I would only get 1/2" of the venom done. Derek agreed that, that was the best plan. So I sat and got all the measurements taken. Marking the dots on where the best place for the piercing to go took about 10 minutes. Then Derek took a forceps to my tongue and squeezed so he could make sure nothing bad was around there with pressure on it. everything was fine. I drooled everywhere and lost the dots. He marked them again. I drooled. He marked them again. I drooled. You get the point. This cycle lasted for at least 15minutes(goah). Finally I was forced again and ready to be pierced. I've heard many times a tongue piercing was painless. I said to myself "This should be quick and easy". He told me to breathe in and out and I did. While breathing deep, I shivered hard. The needle came down. BAHHHH! What the fuck. This hurt so much more than I could have ever guess. This was 2x the pain than my septum had. I drooled a large amount of a mix of blood and saliva. Derek laid me back and soothed me by telling me I did great. That's always a nice thing to hear after you bleed all over yourself. He than gave me a cup of iced water, which I got blood on, so he gave me another. I than waited a few minutes got up and meet up with my friends which all got pierced and were waiting in the lobby. I found out that extra girl was able to be pierced and she got her rook. It's so pretty! The other friends got pierced and were all happy. So, I took out the One-use camera I brought with me and took pictures of all of our piercings. We than drove home talking about our experience and how cool we now were(we speak in sarcasm, of coarse). We got to my street was I got dropped off. I showed my mother and her eyes rolled. I went to the bathroom and stared and smiled.

So now I'm waiting for it heal, so I can go and retrieve the other half of the piercing. It was a great experience in entirety.