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of them.
    As the barn fills up they make their way to a large round table near the dance floor and take their seats. Lou keeps sending flirtatious looks at her barman and flicking her hair about.
    “You’re wasting your time, babe, he’s working tonight. You’d be better off getting his number and saving it for another time.” Mollie tells her.
    Lou gives her a look. Leaning in and keeping her voice down, she says, “Yea, whatever. I saw you winking at the other one. What if we just save them for later, period? At least we’re covered if nothing better comes along before then. You’re staying at mine anyway, so who’s to know?” She says with a wicked glint in her eye.
    Mollie gives it some thought for about two seconds, “Good plan, it’s been that long since I got any, I think I might actually be a virgin again! I’ll take anything I can get.” They both laugh even though it strictly isn’t that funny.
    Two hours later they are all having a great time and consuming the free alcohol at an alarming rate of knots. Luckily all the guests are tucking in equally well and so the volume of noise coming from their table is lost in the general roar of the room. The band has just started their first set and the atmosphere is electric. Mollie feels slightly hysterical and her desire to enjoy herself has grown wings. She is rotating between laughing madly, talking animatedly and singing loudly.
    Lou is keeping up admirably and they are having a fabulous time. They are spending a large amount of time at the bar in order to flirt with their respective barmen. Perhaps this may not seem the best idea in the morning, as they are both drinking much faster than usual.
    Mollie has been chatting up Andy the barman, who is very charming. Not quite as good looking as Lou’s barman, another Dan, but he is nice and adequately shaggable. He’ll do.
    Dan and Andy are more than happy to participate in the flirting, and more. After all, the girls are stunners and what both their wives don’t know won’t hurt them.
    Mollie is glad that Lou’s chosen Dan as that would just be weird. Who wants to have random sex with someone sporting the same name as your brother?
    Mollie has just returned from yet another visit to the luxury toilet, and the band are playing Black Eyed Peas’, ‘Tonight’s Gonna be a Good Night’. She dances towards Lou who has now taken up residence on a bar stool right at the bar hatch.
    Heading to the bar, her ample assets swinging, she is drawing admiring glances and knows it. She feels like she did BD (before David). It’s been a long time but each drink frees her a little more and she intends to enjoy the feeling.
    David and Kevin have stayed away. Probably scared of Jim and Dan, Mollie hopes it stays that way.
    As she reaches Lou, she sees that she is smirking, “What? What are you smirking at?” she asks her.
    Lou laughs loudly, “You complete tart! I was watching you dancing over here. You nearly made Mr Cleaver choke on his beer, you Jessica Rabbit you.”
    Mollie snorts, “Serves him right, bloody old perv.” They laugh loudly.
    Kieran is at the bar in close proximity to the girls. He hears their conversation and had watched Mollie dance over. Jessica Rabbit is a perfectly good description of her. She is gorgeous up close and instantly recognisable from last week, but he still hasn’t copped a proper look at those eyes.
    He turns to see where she is. She now has her back to him, and is up against the bar, her elbow on the top of it, her chin resting in her hand as she laughs with her mate. Leaning in close he whispers over her shoulder just to the side of her ear.
    “Is there any man that you actually like?”
    Mollie nearly jumps out of her skin. She spins round and comes face to face with Mr Buff from the tree the other night. She’d recognise him anywhere, even though it had been dark.
    She catches her breath. He’s very good looking up close. She sways slightly and not just from the alcohol.