.." I laughed. "This really isn't a song to dance too," I poked back at her."Come on, Don't make me beg you. Just get up and dance," she pleaded, "The...e's no one in here but us, and the bartender."I didn't want her to beg, nor did I want to upset her, so I compromised. "How about this, Play a slow song, and I promise I'll dance with you." Promise;" Cross my heart!"Before she turned to head back to the box, she raised her glass and toasted to the air, and slammed the second double-shot back like. I looked at it and said, "It's Dad, can I talk to him or do you want to?" Go ahead," she said."Hey Dad, what's happening?" I answered."I came home and found a letter from your mother, put her on the phone!" he directed."Why, so you can lie to her some more, telling her you have to work late, so you can screw your assistant all night on your office desk?" Charles, put your mother on the phone — right now!" No Dad, I won't! All you want to do is bullshit her into thinking that you really love. What if she was not here. It would be my luck….and deservedly so. Holy hell…what if she was feeling the same way I was? My grip on the arm rest tightened…it was time to see where things were going to land….”no expectations I whispered to myself….no expectations.” I grabbed my bag and walked off the plane unencumbered by the earlier hoard. I walked off the plane with a confident stride, at least in my own mind. She would be waiting in baggage claim if anywhere…I’m not sure if I slowed down or. She asked me out.Her cousin Luke was getting married, and the entire family would bethere. So JoJo asked Clay to accompany here. There would be other whitepeople there, she told him.?I don?t care about that,? he said. ?But how will people look at me?Will I be thought of as gay???I don?t know how a hundred other people will think of you, Clay,? shesaid. ?But what?s the big deal about being gay? Do you really care whatthese people think of you? Hell, I?ll be a dress, and I don?t care.??I didn?t.