David Conway sat at the bar of the smoke filled, crowded club, sipping from a glass of rum and coke and wincing at the loudness of the thundering techno music blaring throughout the place. Club Highwire was supposed to be the hottest dance club in town. From what his best friend and partner, Jimmy Chang, had enthusiastically exclaimed, it was also a great place to hook up with single women...not that David was in any mood to hook up tonight.
Beth, his girlfriend of almost three and a half years, had broken it off with him last week, after a particularly routine domestic disturbance had become not-so-routine, and one of the people in the house had opened fire on he and Jimmy. David had been on the police force for four years now, and this had been a first...he'd never once been shot at before. They had been lucky...the guy had been drunk, and had not connected with any of the wildly fired shots, and they were able to wrestle the gun away, but it was enough to scare Beth enough to give him an ultimatum. Leave the police force, or she was ending their relationship. Being a cop was all he had ever wanted to be and he wasn't prepared to give it up...and so, she had made good on her threat.
All week, Jimmy had been trying to convince him that he should use his off-work hours to get out and quit moping around his mostly-empty apartment. Although he'd tried to turn Jimmy down when he'd mentioned coming here this evening, Jimmy's down-to earth nature and relaxed coaxing had finally worked it's magic and here he was. The place was packed, people crammed tightly onto the dance floor, rubbing against each other in an almost erotic way, but in David's dark state of mind, all he could think about was getting out of the cramped club. Jimmy wouldn't notice...the last he'd seen of his diminutive oriental partner, he'd been dirty dancing out on the dance floor with a big breasted redhead.
He set a couple bucks tip down on the bar for the bartender and was about to leave, when he raised saw her from across the room. She was staring at him with an amused smile on her face, her gaze seeming to freeze him into inaction as their eyes met. She was beautiful, but different in appearance from the girls he'd been interested in in the past, her dark hair, pale skin, and sexy, low-cut black dress giving her an almost "goth" appearance. Their gazes locked and held...for how long, he didn't know. Looking into her eyes, he felt like a deer in the headlights, and felt a longing he never experienced before, and he felt almost as if he were drowning in her eyes, falling away from himself...
Suddenly, the strobe lights came on, and the deep bass beats of the techno music intensified, the crowd seeming to go wild, throwing their arms up and dancing with abandon, causing him to lose sight of her. It was like awakening from a trance. Shaking his head, as if to clear it, he put his jacket on, and fought his way to the entrance and walked out into the cool night air. Jimmy had drove him here, so he'd probably have to walk home, but it'd give him time to clear his head...something he desperately needed right now. Besides, he wasn't all that anxious to get home to his empty apartment all that quickly anyway. He started to walk, when he heard a sultry feminine voice come from behind him.
"I saw you looking at me."
He turned and she was standing there, a playful smile gracing her beautiful face. His eyes met hers again, and he felt that sensation of falling again, as she walked towards him. "I know you want me," she said, as she walked forward, taking his hand, her slender, fine boned fingers feeling cold to the touch, "I want you too, David."
