The loud rock and roll in the lounge and the top shelf whiskey was all I needed. I’d heard that dancing is the vertical suggestion of the horizontal...position. If that was true, god he was good! When they played the first slow dance I tried to beg out of it but he pulled me close, fire ran through me and my heart began to race. I slipped my hand under his coat and felt his beat beneath his shirt. His arms were wrapped around me, his hand dangerously close to my ass. He pulled me even closer and. .I'm Kendra, dressed as Arianna?" said Kenny meekly."Perfect, and that'll be the last time we discuss that! Don't forget I'myour ride home later and you don't have a phone, wallet, or ten cents onyou!" said Trisha smiling. "Now let's hit the party...ladies!" Whoah!" said Maggie looking at Trisha. "I've never seen this side of youbefore Trisha, but I like it!" Well consider me a new woman," said Trisha with confidence. "A changedwoman who's done putting up with shit as someone's doormat!" I love. .. go where?Then she heard a wonderful sound! It was peaceful!Familiar ... beautiful!Her ears shut out the diner’s noise and focused on the lovely sound.Why was the dining room changing colors?How could she be looking up at a blue, summer, midday sky? It was the middle night in a terrible blizzard!But... She listened... ... and the sound began to come clearer.Warmth????Where did this beautiful warm air come from? “Oh, I’m warm. Finally I’m warm!” she said to no one. “God! I am warm! I feel it,. ’ ‘Great,’ I responded, throwing my hands in the air. ‘So you’ve made a date. Congratulations, what’s the problem? Not some dog is she?’ ‘No not at all,’ Tim shot back, all smiles. ‘She’s really rather gorgeous.’ ‘Gorgeous as in gorgeous, or gorgeous as in not bad looking,’ I queried, knowing just about all the women that Tim had dated, none of whom were exactly gorgeous. Nice girls nearly all of them, even the barmaid from the Squeaky Duck, once you got used to the way she dressed, but.