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The band breaks, and Kit wipes her hairline with her forearo that direction and hop onto the stage before he can get to her He nearly buoes the other way

"Oh my God!" she says, excitement in her eyes as she jumps in place in front of rabs s around my waist She kisses me She tastes like root beer and excitehter against me The owner of the club waves and I catch him out of the corner of my eye He jerks his thumb toward the back of the club I nod and carry Kit in that direction But she’s all hyped up on nerves and attitude And she hasn’t taken her lips fros still wrapped around ainst the wall She’s tangling her tongue with mine, and I don’t ever want her to stop

She finally pulls back and looks atmy face "Did you see that?" she asks

"See what?" I have lost allDid you see it?"

I nod, nuzzling "

"I know! Wasn’t I? Oh s from around my waist and drops her feet to the floor She starts to pace back and forth across the roo at all, but I lean against the wall and s to look at me

"Nothing," I say I walk to her and brush her sweaty hair fro beautiful" She shivers as I blow across her neck

Her hand coet irl I’ve been inside "Thank you for bringingwithti

I lean down and kiss her, because she’s that da froht there," she says, holding up a finger She looks up at et back to work, anyway The owner just sent us back here because he was afraid I was going to fk you on the stage"

She covers hersx back here Are you serious?" Her eyes are wide

I can’t keep fro "Probably"

"Do you do that back here often?" she asks

I freeze I don’t want to answer her Because I have done it She doesn’t push for an answer But she heaves a sigh and shoves herself away from me I feel the loss of her i her face in e my past"

She looks deep into my eyes and says, "I know I didn’t ask you to I just have to go back on stage" She kisses rinning She’s nearly vibrating with excitement

She’s not mad at me Thank God "We can come back to this as often as you want" Any tiers to hold her back She pulls back fro to jerk her back into my arms But she turns and runs away

She hops back up on the stage and I follow her The lead singer turns to her, scowling "You and Logan, huh?" he asks I can read his lips frorins and nods her head

He says soures," before he scowls and turns toward me I point to her and point to ets it He totally gets it He ht not want it to be true But he knows she’s not in his future She’s et Kit a root beer She’s been sweating up there for an hour, and they have another set to do I point to the root beer lever on the fountain and raise er as she fills a glass I point to Kit She nods and drops two cherries into it I turn to take it to Kit and Abby tugs on my sleeve "Where did she learn to play like that?" Abby asks

I shrug I have no idea where she learned to play All I know is that she’s good I can tell by the way the crowd is reacting to her My heart is filled with pride for her And it’s filled with a lot more A lot more that she’s probably not ready to address yet

I take her root beer to her and stand by the side of the stage to wait until she’s done with the song But she s, and she leans over, taking the straw into her reedily, and there’s not a ht that lass Then she smiles at me, kisses e Great Now I have a hard on and so does every man within a twenty foot radius Suddenly, she runs back down the steps She nods toward a cherry in the glass and I lift it to her lips She takes it against the tip of her tongue and closes her lips around it She pops it off the string with a gentle tug She nods to the other, and looks at rin, and I lift it to ue it fro with her, until she leans over, opens her mouth over mine, and takes it back fro turned on that all I can do is look like an idiot

Emily

I crash onto the stool at the end of the bar I’d vacated when I took over the band’s guitar, and lean s at my lips Abby clinks a root beer down in front of !" she says as she tosses in two cherries

I nod It was pretty da to catch my breath I lift o

"You been playing for a long ti

"I think I was playing before I could walk," I aduitar "My grandfather gave uitar" My dad was all for it, until it becaood at

"Well, you can tell" She raises a hand to give h five "That was fantastic" She clenchesI don’t quite knohat to do with that Yet

I look around the bar The place is finally quiet and Logan is stacking chairs on tables for the cleaning crew He raises the tail of his t-shirt and mops his broith it His abs ripple as he bends and a whistle escapes racious," I breathe

"That boy is one fine piece ofto lick her lips

"Makes me want to lick him from top to bottom," I reply softly, more to myself than to her My face floods with heat when I see that she heardyou?"

I point to Logan "He is"