near the back of the room and Dave walked through wearing a black shirt with the top button undone, a black blazer on top of it and nicely fitted dark denim jeans that looked quite expensive. He looked very well put together, very nice. He saw me wave at him and he came over.
“Hi Alex, how are you?” he said as he gave me a kiss on the cheek and gave me a hug.
“I’m good thanks.” I smiled back at him. Then I gestured to Lisa and Chris. “This is my roommate Lisa and you remember Chris from the other night right?”
Dave held out his hand to them both and acted like the proper gentleman smiling politely. He must have had a very ’proper’ upbringing I thought.
“Hello, very nice to meet you Lisa, Chris how are you my man?”
“Couldn’t be better. So when’s the band on?” “Should start at ten. At least that’s the plan.”
I took a sip of my rum and coke. Dave looked at me. “Alex, you look amazing.”
“Thanks. You don’t look too bad yourself.” He really did look great, very handsome.
“I need to go check on the band and make sure they’re behaving, honestly, sometimes I feel like I’m babysitting.” He rolled his eyes and laughed and I laughed with him.
“OK, see you in a bit.”
“Yeah, the stage is just through those doors there, in case you haven’t been here before.” He pointed at the doors he had walked through earlier.
“OK,” I replied.
He turned and walked away but just as he opened the doors he turned his head to look at me and smiled a very charming smile. I felt admired and it made me stand a