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Mi little red number, and pairs it with the shoes she stole from me that I stole from my sister She leaves her blond hair down, too, only hers is tack straight We put a light dusting of o, and the closer we get to seeing Rainer again, the more I want to vo has changed
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The bar Rainer owns is packed for its size There are peopleup nearly around the block, and e get in, it’s full People are dancing, and sitting at booths, not toher ass the moment we’re past the front entrance, and I follow behind her, my heart in my throat as I let o to the bar and order a drink, and still, I don’t see hi place? I s the drink back and take another one, then I join Mimi on the dance floor as we kill time I try to picture the Rainer I remember in my head, and it’s hard to think of him as ato change froe boy to man
He’d be over thirty now
I picture hi, dark hair He always kept his hair around his shoulders, like the rebel he was He was tall, and he always had a good a bronze skin, giving him a mysterious, exotic look Rainer was beautiful, the kind of man to ruin you for any other male
"Can you see him?" Mimi yells into my ear
"No," I call back
"We’ll dance until he shows up This bar is great"
I nod and we dance, and dance, and dance What seeone through three drinks and two bottles of water, because this dance floor isme crazy sweaty I wave to Miivesdown onwith relief It’s much cooler here
I sit at that booth for another hour, when finally a man appears at the bar I’m way too far back to see if it’s Rainer or not, but whoever it is, he’sat a pretty, strawberry-blond wo by herself on a barstool My heart starts pounding as I near, wondering if it’s hih to study his face, I do just that I look at him, and I know, I just know I suck in a shaky breath, because oh, oh , he’s sobreathtaking Rainer always had good looks, but nowGod, now he’s panty-ed, sexy as sin The
His eyes, which were always dark brown, seeht His hair is cropped a lot shorter than I ever re around his collar It’s rowth on his chin and around his mouth, and his face is so masculine it almost hurts to look at him
His body, oh God, his body, it’s double the size I reer He’s afroer thanup until I feel a subtle burn behind my eyelids I take a deep, shaky breath, and walk over to the bar, stopping next to the strawberry-blond girl he was just talking to
She’s watchingand my eyes are wide as I look at the only person I ever shared h so ht I’d never see hiht in front of hi two dimples that I remember so well Then he turns his eyes to ,and round I wait for hinize me, but it never conition in his depths
"Can I get you so?"
It feels as if someone has slapped me hard across the face He doesn’t knoho I a his best friend, he took ister the hurt, but he seems not to notice I don’t knohat to do, what to say or how to feel I only just e a croaky, "No, ah, no It’s fine"
Then, with a broken heart and a body full of sha at the bar follows irlfriend--who knows? "Hey, are you okay?" she asks, her blue eyes full of concern
"Ah, I’m sorry, do I know you?"
She shakes her head "I just saw that you were upset with Rainer I wanted to see if you were okay?"