Starting slow

"Let's not rush it" he thought, kicking his immagination back down a notch or two, "I can start slow and then get up from there".

He made his way to the kitchen where he found out he had forgotten to turn the oven on and his nuggets where still cold, but he didn't care as he opened up the fridge and looked inside before pulling out one of his other flatmate's prepared meals. Stella was her name, and she had the habit of preparing all her meals in advance so that she could take them with her to class if she was ever in a hurry. As Alex picked up one of the tupperwares and looked inside, smiling at the delicious pasta his flatmate prepared, he quickly scribbled his name on the side of it before sitting down at the kitchen table to eat.

"What the..." he heard a voice say as he looked up at Stella having stepped into the room looking at him confused before adding "Sorry, thought that was mine but I must have been mistaken".

Alex grinned as he looked up at her and asked "Hey, you still thinking about getting that new tattoo?".

"Yeah" she replied looking into the fridge in search of a tupperware she couldn't find.

"I have a pretty cool idea for one I think you could like" he lied.

"Mmmmh? Really? What's it like?" she asked.

"Difficult to explain, but I could draw you a stencil" he said.

"I was thinking about getting a back tattoo, but no way I'm letting you draw on my back, you can draw it on my arm and if I like it I'll take a photo to show to the tattoo artist" she said giving up on the search for her pasta and picking up a different, less appealing, tupperware.

"That's fine" he said "It's really simple", his hearth racing as he watched the girl heat up her food in the microwave before sitting down at the table opposite of him and putting her arm forward.

"That better not be a permanent marker, or I'll kill you in your sleep" she said looking at him like she meant it.

"Don't worry, I'm not THAT evil" he said as he leaned in and quickly wrote "Alex's Arm" on her forearm.

"What the..." she started saying pulling her arm back before looking back at him like a lightbulb had turned on in her head "I'm so sorry, Alex! I never noticed I had your arm!".

A smile grew on Alex's face as his mind raced thinking about everything he could do.

"So that's my arm, right?" he asked point at her forearm making her nod as she grabbed a fork with her other hand and started to eat her rice and vegetables.

"And I can do whatever I want with it?" he asked as he grabbed her hand and held it between his caressing it.

"I mean, it's yours so... yeah" she said looking at him like he'd just asked her if the sky was blue.

"But since it's attached to your body I can't control it" he said looking at her analizing her every expression trying to gauge the limits of his power.

"I guess I have to control it for you" she said before quickly adding "By the way can I keep using it for my normal day to day life? I kind of got used to having two hands, and I know it's selfish but you'd really help me" she said as her other hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Sure" he said caving under the pressure "But I expect full access to it day and night whenever I ask".

"Absolutely" she said using "his" arm to make a military salute before going back to eating her lunch.