Thursday 9th April..Don't stop me now I am having

I push the food around my plate...the food looks beautiful on the plate but everything has that cabbagey stink to me. He looks at me and makes sure the waiters take my plate away quietly. Every few minutes he takes my hand under the table and gives it a reassuring squeeze.

The meal is finishing thank goodness I am desperate to go to the ladies room. A small group of musicians begin to play...it sounds like Marley's, Don't worry be happy. In the ladies room a pink and fragrant girl with a gentle smile says Hi. She tells me it is great to meet me at last as all he has ever spoken about for months is you. She tells me her name and I offer her my hand to shake, instead she hugs me which brings tears to my eyes that I suck back quickly. She takes my arm and says, 'come on these guys will be holding up the bar.'
My new friend guides me to a table near the bar with a large group already sat around it. I am deposited in a chair in the middle of the group. I search the room for him and he is stood at the bar mouthing to me, 'what would you like to drink?' I mouth back suprise me! Dancing in the Moonlight is now playing as he brings over the trays of drinks with another guy. I stand to let him in to sit down and he encircles my waist with his arm and he pirouttes and spins me around, deposits me in my chair, kisses the tip of my nose and disappears with his buddy in crime. I see them go over to the group of musicians and begin to chat. I neck down half my drink and my new friend starts giving me the third degree in a very friendly, genuine fashion.
He appears at myside and then drags me to the edge of the dance floor and deposits me in a seat as does all the other guys with their female partners.
They strip of their jackets, roll up their sleeves, produce their shades and what looks like imaginary air guitars and the song, Don't stop me now begins to play...It becomes clear this is something that they have done many times in the last months to keep themselves amused and semi sane. I am laughing so much the tears are pouring down my face, as are all the other females.

I have not laughed so much in twenty years. A waiter appears and gives each female a glass with bubble gum pink liquid in and informs me it is called a Jesus Christ Superstar. I look at my new friend and we clink the sticky pink glasses. I take a sip and gag. 'Jesus Christ,' I say and she laughs. Here like this she says and downs it in one. I follow her lead and down the hideous, disgusting gloop. The guys launch into a Blues Brothers routine. The applause at the end is enough to wake the entire continent.
My new friend next to me anounces, 'Girls,' what those guys can
do we can do one better.' She turns to me and says, 'I hate to break it to you but you are in on it to.' I cringe and mutter, 'I don't think so,' and grab a glass of the pink gloop and down it in one. He appears by my side and picks me up in his arms, whispers in my ear indulge me and deposits me on the table beside the other females. The pink stuff is now reaching the desired spot. He is watching me with suave interest. Okay no point being a wallflower, you want fiesty...I will show you fiesty. We have a quick chat amongst us gals and tell the musicians what we want them to play. I am supported on both sides by the other females....We launch into Gimme, Gimme, Gimme a man after midnight. Everyone is looking on, cheering and clapping which encourages us all to act up even more. I catch his eye and see he is watching me totally enraptured and clapping appreciatively. This place I decide is fun and in an over-the-top, flirtatious fashion we launch into Blondies, One way or another.
Later on in the evening as we dance to Van Morrison's, Brown Eyed Girl..he asks me how I am feeling and I answer honestly, 'I feel lit up from the inside when I am with you. He looks at me with that look that burns down to my very soul, wraps his fingers around mine, draws me into his arms....I am home.