Silvia gives me a big hug from behind. “Are you ready to find out who’s gonna be your man of the hour!” Eddie looks over to where Tina is unlo...ding 4 pint glasses onto a table. It’s high time I introduce the little sexpot to her lover he thinks as he picks up the mic and clears his throat. “Hey birthday girl! Why don’t you join me up on stage so we can find out the results of a hard week of voting.”Eddie watches with surprise as Tina takes a deep breath and makes her way up to the stage. . "Pretty low Andy, pretty low."The three of us moved toward the bar on one side of the room and got into talking about what we'd done since school. They were both at uni, Mark studying law and Andy engineering. I was going to start architecture in a month so we talked of uni life.My eyes wandered around the room and saw mum and dad chatting with Laura Maddison and her husband Charles. Christ she's incredible, I thought. Mrs Maddision was standing on an angle to me and I could see her right. But no: she managed to keep her head above water. It was a struggle but she would not let herself think about him more than she had to. She would not think of kissing him – not the simplest little kiss possible. She would not consider how her lips might gently touch his, with barely any pressure as they enjoyed that first touch. After all, she always knew that it was a certainty that she would never be close enough to breathe in his scent. She would never feel the warmth of his arm. She would. "Meg stood up and approached me, coming very close and inspected my face. Then with a small, slightly superior smile, she said, "She's probably right about that, her lips are very kissable, at least to me."I blushed and began to wonder if... no! No way!Meg continued talking as though nothing out of the ordinary had occurred. "All right. I have really dry skin, ya know? At night, I put Vaseline petroleum jelly on my feet and other really dry spots. After, I put on socks, then in the morning my.