Black and grey rose tattoo on the upper thigh of a person in denim shorts, standing beside a red fixed-gear bike.

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Rose tattoo on a thigh beside a red bike

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A dark rose tattoo sits on the outer thigh of a person wearing denim shorts and a red and white striped top. The shading appears to be black and grey, with bold outlines around the rose head and leaves. The subject stands beside a red fixed-gear bike on a paved surface, with the tattoo shown in the lower-middle of the frame.

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The rose was meant to be in a doorway by eleven, and the shop had already rung me twice. I laid it across the top tube while I checked the lock on the back wheel, a dozen stems wrapped in brown paper gone soft at the corners from the drizzle. The address was a flat above a dry cleaner's on Kingsland Road, and the card said only: Sorry about Tuesday. Please.

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Nobody answers a bell like that without a fight. I leaned on it until a sash window went up and a woman in a dressing gown leaned out with a cigarette she clearly wasn't supposed to have. She read the card, then read the name on my docket, and laughed so hard she had to hold the sill.

"That's Danny," she said. "He's been on my sofa since Tuesday. Tell him the flowers are the only thing he's getting from me."

I should have ridden off. Instead I stood on the pavement with the frame pressing into my hip and watched her consider the bunch through the glass, the way you'd weigh a bad apology against a good bunch of roses. Then she dropped the window and I heard her feet on the stairs.

The rose came down the stairwell wrapped in its paper, and she left it on the step for me to collect. I was the one who had to take it back to the bike, wedge it under the bungee, and ride off with the red wheels spinning and a single bloom knocking against my knee all the way to the next drop.

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