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touched my
hand, I really thought I felt something indescribable. Maybe I forgot what it
felt like to have a man touch me and I mistook that feeling for something more.
    We walked back to the bar. Julie stopped me and could see that my
expression had done a one-eighty. “Don’t listen to her, Aubrey. She’s a total
bitch. Forget what I said before. Go for it. Go for him. Fuck her. You are so
much better than she is. She’s been around the block so many times that if she
had an odometer it would be broken from spinning too much.” We both giggled.
    Back at the bar, Alex was talking to a hot guy and Tyler. I
looked over at Julie and noticed she appreciated the group as much as I did. She
looked at me and winked. Alex looked our way and smiled; he stood and pulled
out bar stools for us.
    He introduced us to his friends. “Aubrey and Julie, I’d like you
to meet my friend, Brett, and, Aubrey, you already met Tyler.” I noticed Alex was
curt when he spoke about me having already met Tyler.
    Brett was extremely attractive, about six feet tall, with light
brown hair and hazel eyes, and he had a great body. I could appreciate Tyler
even better now since he wasn’t behind the bar. He was tall and slim. He had
the body of a runner. I pictured him strutting on a catwalk. Julie began to blush
when she shook Brett’s hand. I knew that look of hers. He must have sensed it
too because he asked her if he could buy her a drink, and she shyly nodded. What
happened to my outspoken friend? He had her resorting to nodding. I looked at
her and raised my eyebrows. She just shrugged and grinned.
    I turned back to Alex and smiled. He returned the gesture, laid
his hand on my shoulder, and whispered in my ear, “Would you like to dance?”
    I loved to dance. “Sure, I’d like that.”
    We weaved through the crowd. The beat of the music was
intoxicating. There were people everywhere. It took us a while to get to the
dance floor since everyone stopped Alex on the way over. He had men wanting to meet
him and women wanting to touch him and get a moment with him. He took my hand
in his and laced his fingers with mine; we fit together perfectly. He brought
me to the center of the dance floor. There were quite a few couples dancing. I
was a little nervous and grateful the music had slowed down a little. It wasn’t
what you would classify as a slow song, but it was slow enough that Alex held
me close to him. Our hips connected, and my knee slid in between his. We swayed
to the beat of the music as he led me through our first dance. I wondered how
many dances we would share. I hoped this wasn’t the first and last.
    His arms slid around the small of my back while mine were draped
around his neck. He pulled away a little and looked in my eyes. “I’m sorry
about the woman at the bar. That’s what I meant when I said it’s complicated.”
    I just looked up at him. I realized I was playing with the back
of his hair, so I stopped and moved my hands to his shoulders.
    “This club consumes my life, and I’m here all the time, so
relationships are hard to keep because of that. It’s not that I haven’t had a girlfriend;
it just makes it complicated.” He shrugged his shoulders. “If I had a girlfriend,
she’d have to put up with my hours and the women who are constantly here; they
aren’t exactly shy. I’m sure Julie told you that I don’t have the best
reputation.”
    I hated to admit that Julie and I had talked about him, but I
nodded.
    We were dancing slowly to the music and never realized the music
changed to something faster. We glanced around and noticed the floor started getting
really crowded and the dancing got a little crazy. He took my hand and brought
me back to the bar where Julie was talking to Brett. I looked around and noticed
that Tyler was at Leah’s table and that they were practically in each other’s
laps. Leah was running her fingers up and down his chest, and I swear she had
her tongue in his ear. Alex grabbed my