While his stance appeared relaxed, tension radiated off of him and filled the room.I froze. Hoping the distance between us and the darkness hid the ra...id rise and fall of my chest and how gratuitously I drank in the sight of him. Just him. Alone. For years we had stolen glances, bantered flirtatious comments, but we were always insulated by people or distance, we had never been truly alone. Without the presence of others to dampen it, the buzz of attraction that had always been there now grew. She seemed surprised to see me and I just handed her the money and told her "Mark said to give you this. He enjoyed the lap dance."She stuffed the bills down into her blouse and Said, "Tell him it was my pleasure." Then she looked at Steve and he told her, "You're lucky... Me and Mark used to ride together in a motorcycle club so we have a history. I should fire you for fucking a customer out there in the bar but I'm feeling charitable so I'm going to warn you not to do that shit again and I'll. When his friend pressed for an explanation he told him it was something he had picked up years before that went back to the Aborigines in Australia. They believed that sometimes as you walked through life you would hit a crossroads, a time of decision. Usually you chose your path and walked on. But sometimes if you weren't careful, only part of you would take the path, the other part leaving to go the other way. And over time you would become lost to yourself, until one day you looked and. In the evening we drank wine But every hour she would go outside for a cigarette and every time she would tell me who she had been talking to , and each time she was gone longer taking the bottle with her,Most of them were guys working away from home and would stand outside to smoke, But there was one lad who was only 20 from the south and she really had the hots for him , she even took a photo of him to show me , he was a really good looking lad ,Anyway the next evening she came back to the.