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"Okay," I said softly. It had been a while since someone had wanted to take care of me. I was a senior in college who had only ever had one boyfriend in her life. It wasn't because guys didn't try. But when you had already been so disappointed by your dad, you were always on the watch for the same characteristics in the people you dated.
I had dated Liam my sophomore year, thinking that he was a safe option. He was studious, and he was pre-med. The fact that he was studying so hard I thought was a good thing. Because it meant that I would be able to keep up with my studies too.
Little did I know that he was actually "studying" the anatomy of his biology female classmates quite regularly. I only found out when I had stopped to drop him off a little study treat because he told me he had a big test. Finding him balls deep in a cute little brunette with a bubble butt had been a surprise. I knew she had a bubble butt because she had been riding him. Huge surprise to say the least.
When I wasn’t actually that sad about his betrayal, I realized he had been a mistake to begin with. Since then I'd only gone on dates here and there, choosing to keep on the safe route.
"You still there?" asked Danny, popping me on the nose to get my attention. I realized I had somehow managed to go off into Lala land in the middle of our conversation. I wasn't sure how I had done that in a crowded club.
I shook my head. "Sorry," I told him.
"You're doing that thing where you think too hard," observed Danny. “You're supposed to be on a break from reality, remember?" he said pulling me closer to him and causing my breath to hitch as I felt him harden against me. The feel of it reminded me of his little session this morning and how there had been nothing “little” about it. My face started to flush at my thoughts. He cocked his head at me, trying to study my reaction. He was just about to ask me something when Max appeared. "We have a table," he said looking between the two of us suspiciously. Surprisingly he didn't seem too upset about our proximity.
We walked to a table that was right in front of the stage. "Santa's elves coming in clutch," Danny joked, before Max punched him on the shoulder.
"Ouch, I thought that one was pretty good," he said. Max rolled his eyes but there was a little smirk on his lips. I wondered, not for the first time, how these two had become friends. Maybe they needed each other to balance each other out. Just from the little I had seen it seemed that it was almost impossible for Danny to take things seriously, while Max was the exact opposite. He took everything much too seriously.
"What are you singing tonight, Max?" Danny said leaning back in the leather bench that surrounded the table. I looked over at Max, surprised. "You're going to sing?" I asked. That was the last thing I'd expected from him.
Before Max could say anything, Danny jumped in. "Our Max here has mad skills. He also has a secret love for karaoke that he only gives into when we are away from campus," he explained.
Max left the table just then without adding anything to the conversation. I watched as he walked over to the DJ and started to look through the songs that were available to sing. He must've found one because he pointed, and the DJ nodded her head. She was an attractive brunette with streaks of bright blue in her hair. I tried to ignore the jealousy I felt when she leaned in closer to talk to him, revealing an enticingly large chest, right in his face.
"Someone feeling a bit jealous?" Danny whispered in my ear.
"I don't know what you’re talking about," I said as I picked up a bottle of vodka that had just been delivered to our table by a pretty waitress. I quickly poured myself a shot and dropped it back, wincing as it burned my throat.
Danny handed me a glass of diet coke and I gulped it down.
"Easy killer," he said. I was already feeling lightheaded just from the one shot. Max came back just then. He rubbed his hands together, seeming more excited than I'd seen him look.
"What song did you choose?" I asked, curious about what music he liked.
"We'll just have to see," he said with a very uncharacteristic wink.
We watched a couple of singers. This was not like any karaoke that I'd seen. Everyone seemed to be really good. Where are all the drunk people who couldn’t hold a tune?
It was finally Max’s turn, and he walked up to the stage, confidence oozing out of every pore. I was struck again by just how good-looking he was. He was wearing a perfectly fitted black button up, with dark jeans. The top two buttons of his shirt were unbuttoned and for some reason that golden skin peeking out made me feel more feverish then I would if I saw someone else without any clothes on.
The music started and I laughed as Max started to perform, “Luck Be A Lady.” His tone was perfect, but the song was so different from what other people had chosen that once again I'm left awestruck. Danny looked delighted, but not surprised.
"Did you know he was going to perform this?" I asked.
Danny smirked. “I knew it was going to be one of Frank Sinatra’s songs. For some reason Max has an affinity for the rat pack.”
Max had the girls in the crowd screaming...and some of the men. He added in a couple of smooth dance moves that could rival Justin Timberlake and I was feeling the heat.
Danny whispered in my ear just then, distracting me. "I have a dare for you," he said.
“And what would that be?” I asked, a mix of anticipation and dread filling me at the same time.
"You're going to go up there and perform a Christmas song," he stated matter-of-factly. I looked at him in horror. “You do not want to hear me sing," I tell him. "I'm not trying to get out of this because I'm scared, I truly sound like a dying animal when I try to."
He just smirked in that infuriatingly hot way of his. "That's your dare. Surely you're not going to back down now after you threw a snowball at an old man earlier today."
“He wasn’t that old,” I objected.
If you only knew what the bravest thing I actually did was in the last 24 hours, I think to myself as my insides tremble from the thought of what I had caught Danny doing that morning. What I’d done afterward had me blushing wildly.
