Chapter 9

Silvy

I’m so glad Goof suggested a night out last week. He knows I love to dance. I didn’t notice how bad I needed it until I got to Harry’s. As soon as I walked in the door all the stress I had been holding melted away. Ratchet was a sweetheart for dancing with me. I know what he was doing and I wasn’t going to call him out on it. He saw a guy not wanting to take ‘NO’ for an answer and stepped in. He knows he didn’t have to help me out. I am just a friend of the club, he didn’t have to step in. Then I danced with Goof to a slow song. No big deal. Do it all the time. So why did this time feel a little different? I’m sure he held me closer than before. And tighter. And he kept looking at me the whole time. Like he was trying to tell me something but I don’t know what it was.

No, I had to be imagining it. All of it. I need to find something to do with myself so I quit thinking of the other night. I have the day off because I am doing a night shift tomorrow. It is Saturday and I hav