The Best Man novel Chapter 7

"A little", he twisted his lip to the side. "But you're his childhood friend so", he shrugged.

"Since you're the best man Liv then I'm guessing your my partner at the wedding then", Sarah chipped in, and I turned to look at her with my eyebrows ceased, clearly not getting where she's going with this. She noticed and laughed softly. "I'm Melissa's maid of honor"

"Oh word? That's wassup", I laughed. "But I'm afraid I can't cause I've already asked this gorgeous specimen sitting next to me to be my plus one", I shoulder bumped Anna and she giggled

"Stop it, you're going to make me blush", she air kissed me on the cheek. "You're so sweet"

Kevin was looking at us with one eyebrow raised

"So are you two sure you're just friends?", he air quoted, and we all laughed before Sarah pinched him on his arm

"Stop being a weirdo, Kevin", she warned, and he rose both his hands in surrender

"I heard you're one of the groomsman", I said, and he nodded his head. I was expecting that because they both went to culinary school together after we graduated from high school. "Congratulations on opening a new restaurant by the way"

"Thank you, Liv", he grinned. "You and Anna should pop in some time, my treat"

"Count me in", Anna rose her glass in a toast, and we laughed. Kevin turned to look at Sarah.

"Has Nathaniel surfaced yet?", he questioned, and she shook her head no

"Nathaniel? As in your and Melisa's cousin?", I inquired looking at Sarah and they both nodded their heads.

"Do you know him?", Kevin's eyebrow quirked up

"Not really. We were supposed to have dinner with him tonight but apparently he was caught up with something"

"Well he lied, he was with us the whole day. Sarah and I thought it would be great to show him around the city and get him to loosen up a bit. The guy really looked uptight", we laughed at his last statement.

"I lost him on the dance floor before I bumped into you two"

"He seems to be a party animal in disguise", Anna joked

"No kidding, we clearly underestimated him", Sarah laughed before she pulled out a small plastic bag filled with gummies and chocolate bars from her purse and held it across us

My vision started to get a bit blurrier, seeing every other thing and everyone moved slower around me. I felt my limps instantly moving to the song playing from the loudspeakers, each sound resonating deeply into my soul, in motion with my heartbeat while I adjusted my eyes to the sudden bright light appearing in the room out of nowhere.

.....but then it didn't matter, nothing did

"Liv", I heard Anna's voice disorient

around me and I turned my head to see she was just standing next to me. I felt this extreme urge to burst into laughter...and I did for absolutely no reason as I entwined our fingers together, and we moved to the center of the dance floor. I've never felt this energized in weeks as there was this increased electrical activity in my already burning muscles, I felt like I could do anything I fucking wanted and manage to get away with it because I may not remember anything the next morning.

"I'm going to the restroom", I think I heard Anna say to me, but I was still lost in the distortion suddenly happening around me and I couldn't really explain in words what was actually happening. I turned to notice she was nowhere near me and I just stood there, not even sure what the heck I'm going to do now without her.

A new song started playing, and I started to move to the rhythm, feeling this sudden appreciation for the music, enjoying the pleasurable sensation of waving my hands in the air like I just didn't care. Just when I was about to retire from the dance floor and go look for Anna so that we can leave, I felt a pair of hands rest firmly on my hips, triggering goosebumps to spread all over my body and the person started dancing with me, reciprocating my moves when I began to move my hips in circular motion against him, moving to the rhythm of the song.

The DJ now added a new song to the mix, a slower beat. The crowd went wild for a second before the sound of the beat resonated loudly around the room. The guy I was dancing with, and I started grinding slower and sexier against each other, accommodating the new beat. I felt him pulling me closer to him before I leaned forward and turned my face to look at him. The LED lights circling around the room reflected his clear amber light brown eyes. We locked eyes for a second before he turned me around to face him. His hands travelled up my body to wrap my arms around his neck, with me almost meeting his height even though I was wearing high heels. His hands rested firmly on my hips again, and we continued dancing.

"You're pretty good at this", his lips spread into an even brighter smile, what I assumed must have been his signature smile to woo the ladies, revealing his pearly white, and I realized he had quite the remarkable features, finding myself instantly drawn to that and to the sound of his voice

Damn, it was so deep.