The music was pounding, the vibrations made my body feel like it was humming from the inside. I leant back against the bar, looking out onto the room. There was barely a single space among the crowd, people were dancing in every corner, bodies pressed against one another. The volume of people crammed inside was making the temperature soar, but I didn't care. Even as my skin flushed hot and I craved an icy cool down, I smiled at being back in my favourite place, and looking forward to an ordinary night once again. Well as ordinary as it could be for me, given that my heart still felt like it had suffered a blow of some kind, a dull ache radiating from it knowing that I wasn't here for the one man I wanted.
"Drink up!" Evan shouted from next to me, holding out a shot.
"With pleasure." I gr
