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let’s get together and feeeel alright .”
    He
was actually a talented singer, and he definitely did not mind having all eyes
on him.  I clapped along, as he started to grind his hips and do a dance to the
music.
    “Come
join me!” he yelled in between lyrics.  “ Let’s get together and feeeeeel
alright.”
    I
jumped back on the stage, held his hand, and we started to groove slowly to the
beat.  We sang in harmony for the final chorus, “ One looove, one heaaart,
let’s get together and feeeel alright .”
    We
started laughing as soon as it was over, and Rex gave me a hug.  I don’t know
if it was the exhilaration of singing, or if it was the way his hands moved
ever so slowly down my lower back, but I felt a surge of electricity stirring
in my stomach and coursing throughout my body.  I closed my eyes and leaned
into him, smelling a mixture of sandalwood, soap, and a hint of cinnamon.  We
slowly separated our bodies and looked into each other’s eyes for a second,
before I looked down with a little laugh.  I wondered if he could also feel the
magnetic pull between our bodies.  Our intimate moment came to a sudden end,
when we heard clapping from the crowd.  We jumped away from each other and
looked out to see the groups of tourists cheering and Rex’s bodyguards whistling
and pumping their fists in the air.
    “Looks
like we have created a bit of a stir,” Rex laughed.
    “Yes,”
I replied knowingly.  “We have.”

FOURTEEN
    There
was an hour before Derek’s gig started at the Three Kings Tavern south of
downtown, and I was trying to decide what to wear.  I laughed out loud,
remembering what happened when I said goodbye to Rex yesterday.  After driving
home from Red Rocks, I parked my car in the underground parking, and we went up
to my condo for a few minutes.  When he walked in, Nina hissed and ran away,
but he was determined to cuddle her.  He followed her into my living room,
picked her up, and exclaimed, “I’m going to hug you ‘til you love me!”  I burst
out laughing and thought it was such a funny expression that I would have to
remember it.  After some adamant cuddling and cooing, Nina eventually stopped
resisting and nuzzled into his chest. 
    As
he rocked Nina back and forth, he asked when he could see me again.  I told him
that my friend was performing a show at a bar on Friday night, and I couldn’t
help but invite him along.  He was more than happy to accept my invitation, and
commented on how lucky he was to get to experience this city like a normal
person.  As he was leaving my condo, I explained that the lighting at the
tavern was dim, but it would still be better if he put on his ball cap and tried
“not to act like a royal heir at all, okay?”
    My
mind snapped back to the matter at hand: what to wear tonight.  I stared at
myself in the mirror, currently wearing a white lacy dress and brown knee-high
boots.  The tavern was not fancy by any means, but I still wanted to dress up
and look pretty.  Not that this was a date, Rose .  I was pretty much
just Rex’s tour guide. And there was so much I didn’t know about him.   Why
was he even here in Denver?  I felt I shouldn’t get too close to him, since he
must have to leave soon.   I looked at myself in the mirror, and the
happy girl about to go on a date had disappeared.  Why did I always put the guy
down before I went on a date?  I sighed.  Probably to lower my expectations. 
No expectations meant no disappointment.
    I
couldn’t deny the connection between me and Rex though, which seemed to be
amplified at the amphitheatre.  It felt like an explosion when we embraced.  I
wondered if he could feel it too.  I looked at my face in the mirror.  You
could do this, Rose.  Get to know him better.  Let him in.  Just go with the
flow.  
    I
decided to run the risk of looking overdressed in my white lacy dress.  I
couldn’t help it.  Sometimes a girl just needed to feel pretty.  As much as