At A Glance
Author	anonymous
When	It just happened
Studio	Puncture
Location	Brisbane City

This the the story of my belly:

I was at school on the first day of term 3 and one girl in my homeroom had gotten her bellybutton pierced on the first day of the holidays. She lifted up her shirt (Our uniform has a shirt and skirt) and showed us. I absolutely fell in love with it. I came home from school and asked mum if I could get my belly pierced. She just gave me this strict look and I could tell she was going to say no. Lucky guess. She said no. I started to look upset and mum sat me down at the kitchen table and gave me a lecture on how my school is strict on body piercings and how God did not give me a hole in my stomach when I was born. I started to look upset. Mum finally said she would sleep on it. I knew she wouldn't change her mind, but at least I had a bit more time to beg her.

When I woke up the next morning mum said no even before I had the chance to speak. I went to school that day depressed. I asked mum if I could get my belly button pierced every day for the next two years.

Two years later:

I came home from school on a Friday and asked mum the same question "Can I get my belly button pierced?" Mum didn't say anything, she just stood there and looked at me. She told me "I'm going shopping tomorrow. Do you want to bring some friends along?" I said OK. I rang up my friends (Chloe and Crystal) and asked them if they wanted to come along. They said yes. The next day Chloe and Crystal came over to my house in the morning to get ready to go to the city. I curled my hair and put on a small black skirt and a boob tube.

We caught a train into the city. When we got there, my mum lead us away from the main mall. I thought that this was extremely weird. I looked at the shops we were passing and I noticed we had stopped outside this shop called 'Puncture'. I asked mum what we were doing here because no one who I was shopping with had a piercing (Besides standard lobes, once). I followed mum into the shop and she approached the counter and said that she had a booking for a navel piercing. I was so shocked. Mum turned around and looked at me. I was so happy. I never thought this day would come.

The lady at reception gave me and mum some forms that we had to fill out. I filled them out (Chloe and Crystal had to help me with some questions because I was so happy I sort of forgot some things like my birthday. Stupid I know). I finally finished filling out the forms and the lady at the counter asked that I show ID. I guessed mum had already done this. I showed her my school ID card since that was the only thing I had on me that could count as ID.

The lady then pulled out a board with all these different kinds of jewellery on it. I asked so many questions about stuff like which one heals fastest. I finally chose the jewellery that I wanted. It was a cute little banana barbell. It was silver in colour and it had a diamond set in the bottom ball.

I was told that I would be pierced in about 20 minuets and that I needed some sugars. There was a cafe across the road so I just went to that. I pigged out on as much sugar that I could get. I was just worried that I wouldn't have had enough. I ended up eating sugar from the little tubes that you use for coffee and tea. I ate as much as I could and then we went back to Puncture. I sat down in the waiting room. I noticed a timer on the wall that told me how long I had left until it was my turn to be pierced.

The timer slowly ticked away the minuets. When it finally came down to the last minuet I started to have second thoughts. Mum looked at me as though she would kill me if I backed out because I had been nagging her for so long.

Finally a really cute guy came out of a room. Chloe and Crystal started drooling over him. I would have but I was to nervous. He said that it was my turn. I looked over at mum to see if she'd come in with me, but she said that she wouldn't.

I walked in with Chloe and Crystal,the piercer introduced himself. His name was Brad. He took me into a room and said that Chloe and Crystal could watch. He marked up my stomach and sprayed it with some yellow stuff. He explained everything to me as he went. He was also very clean. He changed his gloves almost every time he touched something.

He asked me to lie down on the piercing chair (It looked like a dentist chair). Then he stuck on the autoclaves. They didn't really hurt. He said that he would count to 5, and to breathe in on one, out on two, in on three, out on four and on five he would pierce me. He started to count. I reckon he could tell I was nervous.

One...

Two...

I took one last look down to my belly while it wasn't pierced...

Blasted...

He pierced me on three.

Because I was looking I saw it in slow motion, the needle went through so slowly, and I felt every millimeter of it.

****. I said something that I knew mum would kill me for if she heard it. Brad pulled the needle out of my stomach and slipped the barbell in.

He sprayed it with the same yellow stuff and gave me some instructions on how to clean it.

He then wrapped some tape stuff over it and said I could take the bandage off after four hours.

He let me out of the piercing studio. Mum had paid while I was being pierced.

Cause we were shopping all day, I could take the bandage off at the shops. I set my alarm on my watch to go off after three hours, fifty five minuets. When I heard the alarm, I rushed to the nearest toilets and pulled the bandage off.

As I was walking around the shops I showed everyone I knew my new piercing.

I just came home and I wanted to share my story of my belly button with everyone. I searched the net to find a site that I could do that. I came across this site.

My only regret with my piercing is that I didn't find this site sooner.

It's to early for me to tell if I will reject my piercing or if it will become infected. But I think it looks fine.