go?
“Looking for someone?” he asked.
He had made his way right next to me at the bar. I looked
into his eyes, batting my eyelashes. God he was good looking.
“No,” I said, and I smiled.
He smiled back. “Good, I thought for a moment you were waiting
for someone else,” he said. Was he being sarcastic?
“No, it’s just us.” I motioned my head towards Hallie, next
to me. She was too infatuated with the bartender to even notice the gorgeous guy I was talking to. “It’s my friend’s birthday,” I half shouted.
He smiled and placed his drink down in front of him,
squeezing in further towards the bar, wedging himself between myself and
another girl who was seated next to me. “Sorry,” he said to the other girl. I
don’t think she minded. I stared at his arms as he squeezed in. Those arms.
I waited for him to talk some more, but he didn’t. He just
stood there nursing his drink, looking at me every so often. There was this confident air about him that drew me in, and his smell.
His smell was incredible. I could have just inhaled him into me at that very
moment.
More shots landed in front of us. Hallie was really working
the bartender, and the free shots kept rolling in. “I don’t know how many more
shots I can handle. We should pace ourselves,” I said to her. But she was
oblivious to me at that point. I almost snapped my fingers by her ear to get
her attention, but stopped myself when he spoke to me again.
“So,” he said.
I smiled. I could feel him rub up closer to me. I could feel
that warm body next to mine and it felt really good .
The chemistry was electric. I wanted him to just grab my hair and have his way
with me.
“So,” I said back. Why was he being so awkward?
“I couldn’t help but notice you from across the room.”
“Oh?” I was being coy.
“Yeah, and I just felt compelled to come up here and talk to
you. Like something was calling me, drawing me nearer to you.”
So, he was either reading my mind, or some other magnetic
attraction was in full swing. I smiled. “Really?” I asked.
“Yes, really. It’s the strangest thing actually. What’s your
name?”
“Sydney,” I said.
“Nice to meet you, Sydney, I’m Blake.”
I went to shake his hand and he kissed it. He actually
brought my hand up to his mouth and touched his sweet supple lips to it. I
could have melted right there.
“It’s nice to meet you too,” I said. I felt like I turned
bright red.
He stood there and smiled some more at me. What was he
thinking about? Why did he keep smiling and looking at me like that? It was
starting to get loud in the bar and people were crowding in. I could feel a
mixture of the bass thumping through the space, and the vibrations from his arm
as it kept grazing me.
Electric.
He leaned over to speak with Hallie, and he shouted from
behind me. “Happy 25 th birthday, Hallie,” he said.
She smiled at him. She took her attention away from the
bartender as soon as she noticed the gorgeous guy standing next to me, and she bumped my shoulder with hers. “Who is that?” she
mouthed.
“That’s, Blake,”
I said. I turned back to him, “Wait, how did you know it was her…”
He interrupted me before I could finish. “Let me buy you
guys a round of drinks. How does that sound?”
Hallie was staring at him now, as he pushed back his bronze
tussled hair. She was just as mesmerized by him just as much as I was. I could
see Hallie’s green eyes light up every time he smiled in her direction. Hey, he’s not yours, I thought. But it
was her birthday, so I didn’t dare say anything like that.
“What can I get you guys to drink?” he asked.
I’ll take a shot of
you. That was what I wanted to say. Hallie smiled at him again. She nearly
stopped paying attention to the bartender, who was now up to his ears in
patrons anyways.
“Vodka,” I said.
“Just vodka?” he asked.
“Screwdrivers!” Hallie shouted in my ear.
He smiled. “Okay, three screwdrivers it