Brief Dance
Timeline - during the time Perry Mason was in SF. Just a scene I had to get out.
Obviously not my characters - except the ones you don't recognise I won't blame them on ESG they're in my head.
"May I have the next dance?" Perry asked with an easy grin, leaning in enough to interrupt her conversation with Liza Fortus but not enough as to imply too great an intimacy. Della glanced at Eric who winked at her, letting her know he was comfortable with her dancing with her old boss and kept talking to the pretty young lady who had engaged his attentions.
"My partner is not offering so I guess you can," she replied with a smile. Swift as anything Gordon Parker, who had been sitting on the other side of Liza, offered to dance with Della's conversation partner. Liza had an enormous crush on Gordon but was unsure of his intentions so was playing hard to get. At his invitation Liza winked at Della before turning to accept his invitation with apparent, complete, indifference.
Perry lead Della to the dance floor before swing her into his arms as the music began after the short break for some announcements. They were joined by at least twenty other couples eager for the music to recommence and allow the evenings entertainment to continue.
Della laughed when she heard the song, "Oh Perry, your dancing to Waylon, I always thought you should love country so much more than jazz."
"A man can enjoy both can't he?" he asked, it was a slow waltz and he held her firmly, not crushed up close like they used to. She gave the matter of his music diet some thought and then gave a considered serious nod,"Yes,... I guess you can."
"You don't care what you dance to as long as its romantic, " he observed wryly as they elegantly covered the dance floor. They didn't have to think about what they were doing so familiar were they in each others arms. She chuckled when he sang along.
"It's been a longtime, since I've had a good time, I think it's high time we did***..." His voice was lower than the singers and she chuckled, it was just out of the joy of being in his arms, the fun of dancing with him and how much she loved they could be together with only a pleasant, familiar and ignorable tension between them. She sang the chorus with him, their voices both low but combining and winding around each other harmonizing. She gave him a slow exaggeratedly sultry wink, he grinned back, "Do you think they will let me into heaven?" he asked after they had sung the chorus about being waltzed to heaven.
"Not if they've put Hamilton Burger on the gate," she replied, mirth written all over her face, cheeky grin sparkling eyes, it made him laugh out loud.
THE END
*** Song Lyrics from "Waltz me to Heaven" by Waylon Jennings (composed By ) Okay so timeframes aren't going to match here if you know when the song was released but have been raiding parents record collection.
A/N - I've been avoiding the site trying to finish a story - so thanks to all those writers who have given me so many stories to look forward to reading in December.