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to get the picture of her and Tucker out of my mind, and I shake my head at Sophie every time she gets up to come over to me when she’s not watching me worriedly.
    I straddle the bar and laugh while a group of drunken students slur through singing ‘happy birthday’ to me.
    “I’ll buy you a tray of shots if you can impress me in less than two minutes” one of the students grins up at me.
    “Are you sure?” I ask as I jump down from the bar and pour out the six shots that make up the trays we sell.
    “Yeah, I don’t think you can do it” He says smugly.
    I smirk at him and reach my hand under the bar next to me to grab a cherry, pulling the stem out I hold it up for him to see them slip it in my mouth. Ten seconds later I pull it out with a perfect knot in it.
    “Okay you win” he stutters amazed. I laugh and shake my head at him.
    “Want me to do it again?” I ask laughing when as soon as I’ve said it he calls a group of men over to watch. I stand on the bar and grab the microphone.
    “Hey Andrew!” I call into the mic trying to spot him through the crowd. I finally spot him dancing with Jess. “Get your sexy ass over and up here, I need ya. Don’t worry Jess you’ll get him back in one piece” I laugh.
    Zack our weekend bartender pokes me in the leg and I look down to see he is holding out a handful of cherry stems to me. I take them and one at a time put them in my mouth and tie them in knots them handing them down the guys stood at my feet.
    “What are you doing?” Andrews voice full of laughter comes over the speakers as he walks across the top of the bar watching me curiously.
    “Showing these very handsome men what I can do with my tongue” I reply grinning at him. “Wanna see?” I wiggle my eyebrows at him.
    “Always” is all he replies and watches as I repeat the process and pass him the knotted stem. “Wow no wonder you’re so good at ...” I cut him off by smacking the top of his head making him grin and the crowd laugh.
    “Anytime baby” I sing into the mic at him.
    “So what did you call me up here for?” He asks cocking his head at me.
    “Well” I start as I turn to face the crowd. “As you all know it is my birthday” The crowd cheers and says happy birthday and I curtsey to them making them laugh “Anyway I thought what better way to celebrate than with … a little … bet?” I whisper the last word into the mic and turn to Andrew.
    “I’m up for that, what were you thinking?” he asks.
    I walk over and lower my mic as I whisper in his ear. “Well as it’s my birthday and I should celebrate, I was thinking you should pick the man I’m going to celebrate with, the bet being on if he is still with me in the morning”
    The crowd starts chanting “what’s the bet” so I lift my mic back up to tell them but when I open my mouth Andrew cuts me off straight away.
    “Are you fucking crazy?” he yells into his mic making me wince from the sheer volume of it.
    “Why the hell not?” I demand swinging around to face him.
    “I can think of about a hundred reasons why, the first one being, it’s dangerous. The second one being, have you lost your god damn mind?” he snaps.
    “It’s not dangerous if I use a…” he cuts me off again by grabbing my arm and pulling me into him.
    “HEY!” I hear Matt shout from the table. We both ignore him.
    “You’re not doing it” Andrew says into my ear so only I can hear.
    “I can do what the god damn hell I want” I snap back.
    “What’s this about Brooke?” he asks as he pushes me away but only far away enough so he can search my eyes.
    “I just want to forget” I whisper to him sadly remembering the last photo I looked at last night of me and Tucker hugging at a house party covered in paint from a paintball fight that’s broke out.
    He must have seen the pain in them because he pulls me into a hug. “I won’t let you do it, I’ll follow you around all night if I have to” he says stubbornly letting me know