The alcohol was thick on my brain, fogging my surroundings. The wedding and guest falling to the background of my focus. The taste of the last shot lingering in the back of my throat. The sound of the thumping bass vibrating around me. I turn my head and my eyes find him at the bar. He smiles and my heart beats a little faster as I feel my smile spread across my face. Eight very good months with Josh. He had invited me to his friend's wedding as his date. With the last bit of champagne that was in my glass now sliding down my throat, I stand up and start walking towards him.
"Hey beautiful, are you enjoying yourself?" The stubble of a growing beard against his brown skin, the crinkle by his eyes as he smiled, and the way his lips move as he calls me beautiful, makes me tickle. An idea crossing my mind.
"Yes, I am. Much more now though. Let's dance."
He hesitates for a second, "Okay, but I need a shot first if I'm going to be dancing."
With one swift motion, the amber liquid given to him by the bartender is gone. The only evidence of it now on his scrunched face and the shaking of his head. He grabs my hand.
Laughing and dancing I feel the music taking over our bodies. The champagne finally reaching my head, I turn my back to his front. The alcohol and music rolling my hips with a boldness I didn't know I had. His hands find my moving hips and we are moving together.
I can feel eyes on us, but I didn't care. We're moving as one and I can feel him growing hard on my lower back.
"What are you doing to me Joy?" I feel the tickle again as the sound of his deep voice says my name and the warmth of his breath on my neck as his lips brush my ear. His question almost sounding like he was asking himself rather than me. Feeling bold I grab his hand and start to lead him off the dance floor.
"Where are we going?"
"I saw a coat room earlier," I turn to look at him hoping he understands what I mean. When he's eyes open a little wider, I know that he does.
"You are amazing you know," he says laughing. Then stops me, still in the ballroom, and kisses me right there.
His lips soft and his tongue now dancing with mine, tasting of tequila making me drunker it seems. His arm grabbing my waist at the right time as my knees buckle and I fall into him.
"Are you the ones recently married or is us two?" and with reluctance, our lips pull away from each other to look at Josh's friend now standing in front of us with his new wife Shandra
"Alex I am so happy for you." Shaking his friend's hand tight and pulling him in for a hug.
"Congratulations on the marriage," I say to Shandra then to Alex as he pulls away from the hug. I smile at them as if I hadn't been thinking about sliding my hand down their best man's pants a couple of seconds ago.
"It's about time you and Josh got together. He's been talking about you non-stop for weeks now." I look up at my date and his dimples deepen as he smiles down at me.
Josh started, "Lex we'd love to stay but..."