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No sooner did I turn ling, gushing, flirting, and trying to get him to pose with them so they could capture their celebrity ust I was glad Iof a line to get to that et you?" I asked the so for a drink He ible; themade it almost impossible to hear

I heard Ryan sneeze a couple of times in a row My attention auto a cold? I slid a fehite cocktail napkins in front of hi as I set theertips brush over et that" I cupped my other hand around the back of et the point "What would you like?" I asked again

"You’re beautiful!" he shouted at rimaced at his words and his lame atteet you?" I was getting impatient

"How about your phone nu his body onto the bar I noticed that after he spoke he looked back at his buddies so they could acknowledge his bravery

I looked down and solden rule was not to date random customers, especially the ones ere assholes

"Thanks I’m very flattered," I replied with a half-hearted set from this side of the bar is alcohol"

My eyes flickered back to Ryan, as sitting there staring atman pleaded withat the bar teased the poor guy "Ooh, shot down in fla look

"What do you want to drink?" I asked again, trying to be more cordial In reality, he had ten seconds to reply before I was going to ers," he finally yelled back

Ten drink orders later, I wasa whiskey sour for a female customer when I noticed one of the actresses, Francesca LeRoux, descend upon Ryan Francesca was young, leggy, super thin, with straight, long brown hair She looked like aon Ryan’s shoulder with her ar in his ear

I happened to be looking when she ran her fingers over Ryan’s hair He winced and tilted his head away from her touch I could tell it bothered hi about the way she touched him that irritated me

A few moments later Ryan roup He sat down in one of the side booths, but there were so many people around them that my view of him was obscured

"What did he say to you?" Marie asked She was going out of her ave hied "That’s it"

"You had Ryan freakin’ Christensen at your bar and you didn’t talk to him?"

"Marie, as I supposed to say?" I was not into having this conversation with her, so I walked away

Ryan stayed at the table with his group, although I was trying not to keep tabs on his whereabouts Three bulky security guards hovered around theeneral population at bay I saw a feoraph, and I wished that they would just leave hier back and forth underneath his nose to scratch was another nervous tick, but he started to sneeze again

Heanother drink order, et sonature on a piece of paper Was it si to ned my name several times a day – mostly on checks to pay the bills – but it wasn’t like the Power Coet n the check

I watched as he scribbled his nairl’s shirt What would possess these girls to want him to write on their clothes with perirls that stepped up to bug hied from quite pretty to very attractive, but they all seemed to be forms without faces to him He didn’t even really look at them It was like he too was in business mode