Colour tattoo of pink cherry blossom flowers and two buds on the forearm, shaded to look soft and realistic against dark clothing.

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Pink cherry blossom on a forearm

Botanical · Forearm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows two open five-petalled cherry blossom flowers and two closed buds, with fine dark dots marking the stamens. The petals use soft pink and deep magenta shading, with lighter edges that give them depth. The motif is grouped loosely on the forearm, with one bud and a single loose petal set apart from the flowers on the left.

Botanical Forearm Cherry blossom Flower Petal Bud Stamen

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Margaret had promised herself she would not look at the old cloakroom, but the reunion was held in the same hall where the coats used to steam on wet Thursdays, and her eyes went there first. Someone had hung a banner over the stage: Class of 1989, Twenty-Five Years On. Beneath it, a paper tablecloth lifted every time the door opened.

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Gemma found her by the squash. She had the same laugh, though it came out thinner now, and she held a plastic cup of wine as if it were an argument she intended to win. "You kept it," she said, nodding at Margaret's wrist, where a faded sticker from the school fête still clung to the watch strap.

They had once pressed cherry blossom between the pages of a dictionary behind the science block, the spring the tree by the bike sheds flowered for only nine days. Gemma had wanted to pick a whole branch for her mum's birthday. Margaret had talked her out of it, so they gathered the fallen petals instead, sixty-odd of them, sealed in a sandwich bag with the atlas.

Margaret opened her handbag and took out a small brown envelope. Inside were two petals, brittle as tissue paper, faded from pink to the colour of weak tea. "I found them in the atlas when we moved house," she said. Gemma took the envelope without speaking, and for a moment neither of them looked at the room full of people trying to remember each other's names.