It's been five long months since my boyfriend Oliver has been on tour and tonight was his first night back. His band Infinity was playing at this quaint little African Restaurant/club called The Blue Nile located in Minneapolis, and I was more than excited to meet him and the rest of the band there.
I wanted to make sure he appreciated what he had missed the last five months so I dressed to kill. I smiled in confidence as I walked the distance from the parking ramp to the club as I saw the mouths of many men and some women drop in admiration. My short leather halter dress with the lace-up front matched with thigh high self-holding fishnets and black strappy heels got everyone's attention. Not to mention my long loosely curled hair bouncing against the silky smooth skin on my back and bare shoulders. I liked the attention I was getting, but I only really cared about the reaction of one, my dear Oliver.
I walked into the club and admired the décor. The club section of the joint was fairly small yet the ambiance was amazing. The white stucco walls were covered with the most unique tribal murals painted on them and the lighting was dim but not too dim. The wonderful smells coming from the kitchen also helped to create a comfortable yet hip environment. I didn't see Oliver or any of the other guys at first but I saw my best friend Julia at a table sipping on her favorite drink, captain and coke. I snuck up behind her and gently tickled her sides.
She let out a small screech and turned around to see me smiling at her with my famous impish smile.
"Tori you bitch!" She cried out playfully.
"You say that as if it's a bad thing!" I said as I sat next to her.
"So Julia, did you come in with the boys?"
"Of course, I may as well; Jon and I live together after all." She said referring to her boyfriend Jon, the lead singer of Infinity and Oliver's best friend.
"Where are they? I miss Oliver so much that I want to rape him right here right now!"
"Tori, he feels the same way. You are all he talked about on the way here. Tori this and Tori that. You know I love you Tori but I almost smacked him for talking about you so much."
"Well, where are they?" I asked her again.
"Right behind you." A male voice said from behind me.
"OLIVER!" I screamed as I literally jumped out of my seat and into his arms.
He picked me up and hugged me so tightly for a moment I couldn't breathe.
"Did you miss me?" I asked as I looked deeply into his blue eyes.
"Fuck you for even asking that, you know I did!"
Together in unison we leaned in and gave each other a much needed deep kiss.
We stood there and made out right there on the club floor, my body trembling as his hands slid over the leather on my curves, prompting me to cast a soft moan into his mouth. We were interrupted by Julia's voice.
"Alright kids, I know you haven't seen each other in a while but this is a club not a brothel." Even though Julia was a voyeur, she wasn't much for public display of affection.
Infinity was to play first that night so the guys sauntered off to make sure everything was set up and ready to go. Julia and I went to the bar to get a couple drinks. As we waited for the bartender, I noticed Julia had a shocked look and a blank stare on her face.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Tori, that guy across from us at the bar, isn't that your old internet friend from California?"
My eyes widened as I shot a look to the other side of the bar and sure enough, there was my asshole former pen pal Ace.
I had stopped talking to Ace just a couple months before I got together with Oliver. I must admit one of the things that attracted me to Oliver in the first place was that he resembled Ace quite a bit. Both of them were tall and a bit underweight with dark blonde hair and glasses, a bit on the computer nerd side. They were both highly intelligent like computer nerds too, yet a bit more on the devious side. Oliver was much more friendly though where as Ace was a bit anti-social. His anti-social and scathing behavior is what ended our long distance friendship.
I tried not to maintain eye contact with him as I did not want to encourage his presence. I didn't know what he was doing here in Minnesota but I am sure it had to do with me and I was worried.
"Oh shit, here he comes!" Julia whispered to me.
As I looked up to see his empty barstool it was too late.
"Hello Tori." I heard his all too familiar deep sarcastic voice behind me.
"Hi Ace." I said returning his bitter tone.
"I'll go grab our table before someone else takes it." Said Julia as she walked away, glaring at Ace with a hateful look in her eyes.
Ace snickered at Julia's stare and returned his eyes to my hateful glare. Seeing my anger caused his already gleaming evil smile to spread further on his face.
"Well my old friend, it's been awhile hasn't it sweetheart." He said.
"Almost a year, not long enough!" I replied.
"Don't kid yourself Tori, I know you miss me." He replied in his cold hearted matter of fact tone.
"What makes you think I miss you?" I snapped.
"Just look at your boyfriend. He is nothing but a cheap imitation of me."
"Get off yourself Ace, you're not that great!"
"Keep telling yourself that luv, you'll be in my arms soon enough."
He quickly caressed my cheek with his right hand and walked away, still snickering.
I was so mad, not only mad because of his showing up here with the obvious attempt at coming here to regain my affections, but also the fact that as usual he was right. As much as he pissed me off, I did miss him.
As I returned to the table Infinity was starting their set so I didn't have a chance to tell Julia what had happened between me and Ace. I looked at Oliver on stage to see his facial expressions, hoping that he didn't see me talking to Ace. Oliver caught my glance and winked at me. I was sure at that moment that he hadn't seen anything. I had briefly mentioned Ace to him before, but only that I had a friend in California I had lost touch with. He knew nothing of the online romance or the bitter end of our friendship.
I tried to get Ace out of my mind and enjoy the music but I kept feeling his hot telepathic stare on the back of my neck. Sure enough every time I looked behind me Ace was sitting there with his beer in hand and a sly look on his face. He was looking me up and down, claiming me with his eyes. I knew our exchange of words wasn't the last of him; Ace always had more tricks up his sleeves.
As soon as Infinity's set was over I grabbed Julia's arm and drug her to the ladies room.
"The nerve of that jerk!" I screamed.
"What the fuck does he want?" Julia asked.
