Although Sophia, Ariana and I spent the last four years practically living together through high school, over the course of these months traveling we have practically become triplets. To celebrate our time together and our remarkably strong friendship, which appears to be lasting effortlessly (well, almost effortlessly) we paid a visit to a well-recommended tattoo parlour and began to discuss coffee beans.
We chose coffee beans for a few reasons, not the least of which is a Cat Empire song reference. Obviously we are enthusiastic coffee drinkers, enjoying at least one cup a day, but it is more than that. Over the years, coffee has supported us through the dark winter days of AP classes, overdue essays and, according to Sophia, economic strife. The amount of times we have run out to OK Market for a $1 pick-me-up, met in my kitchen for a freshly brewed mug of french pressed happiness or felt the overwhelming rush of gratitude a large cappuccino bought by a friend and left in your locker brings are simply uncountable. Coffee has kept us awake, kept us talking and kept us together. I don’t know where we’d be without it.
Given all that and despite how close we are, we are still very much individuals and we wanted our tattoos to represent our differences. We all chose a different bean to base our tattoos on, a different style in which to have them done and three different locations. Ariana’s is quite dark and on the back side of her left hip, Sophia’s is by far the smallest, located on her right wrist and mine is light, sketch-like and on the front of my left hip. Separate they are all beautiful and when brought together, complement each other perfectly… According to Ariana, just like us 
