The sunlight shone through the gap in the curtains, the bright light falling over the folds of the bed sheets. It had been a whirlwind night, neither one of them expecting anything to happen. John slowly opened his eyes, looking around to see her still asleep next to him. He gazed at her partly covered body and recalled the previous night's events.
He hadn't felt like going out when his mates showed up. He was looking forward to a quiet night in, but they managed to convince him to come out for a drink. They all piled into their cars and set off to their usual haunt. John knew they had a local band playing that night and that the bar would be humming with people; as it always was when there was live music. They parked up and walked to the entrance shortly after 8pm. John was optimistic of still getting a bit of a quiet night if he didn't hang around too long.
As he had expected, he band was loud and the room was hot and sweaty. The group made their way to the bar, gently pushing through the crowd as they went. They ordered drinks and started looking around for a table, not really expecting any of them to be free. They were right, all of them were taken. They decided to push through and see how close they could get to the band, who were already in full swing and had been for about an hour.
After a couple of minutes they found themselves a couple of rows from the front. The crowd was trying to dance to the music but the number of people in the room prevented anybody really dancing. The room was jumping; each body was pressed up against at least 3, if not 4 others. John's luck seemed to be in tonight, right in front of him was a woman dressed simply, nothing showy and certainly nothing as revealing as some of the things a lot of the women in the crowd were wearing. As the people around him moved to the music, John found himself pushed closer and closer to the woman in front; on a couple of occasions he very nearly bumped into her but managed to hold back and to only lightly brush against her back. The lighting was low and colored spotlights flashed on and off on stage lighting up the audience as they span in rhythm with the music. John could see that she had dark blond hair; it swayed in time with her movements to the music. He struggled to stay back, but couldn't help being thrust ever closer to her back, brushing her body with his with metronomic regularity.