The entire walk down the hall connecting the restroom to the gym is only about a five or six-meter stretch, but it feels like it's the entire length of the Great Wall of China she is trudging. All the while, her stomach is doing backflips and somersaults and all kinds of acrobatics inside her. The low humming of the band playing that carries in the air is soon muffled by the violent throbbing of her heart inside her chest. The atmosphere is charged with something so palpable that one or twice she almost trips on her shoes.
She's having one of the best times of her life, insofar as expectations of the affair are concerned-a night for creating memories to go back to in old age, to cherish and to never forget. Friendships form and bloom. Social circles are forged and broadened. It won't onl
