A.N - Man, I love you guys so much. I've got more reviews for this story after 3 chapters then I did after another story of 10 chapters. I'm so glad you like this.

Dedicated to Xx Tohru xXx Seraphina xX for being an amazing reader and reviewer, as well as for helping me out with plot ideas. Hope you like.

Chapter 4

"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."

- Lady Astor (First woman member of the British House of Commons 1879 - 1964)

The bar he led me to was surprisingly classy. Not that I thought that Jesse would take me to a really seedy place with a bad reputation. But, hello, this is New York.

There was a bar area - duh - and a space for tables where people put their drinks while they were dancing. The dance floor was one of those discretely beautiful things again though. Honestly, Paul says that one time, and already I've put it into practise about a million times.

Multicoloured lights rained down on the mess of dancing bodies, glistening with sweat from their exertion.

"Can't wait to dance, huh?" Jesse had caught me staring and his lips were curved into a kind smile.

I blushed - something I seem to be doing a lot around him.

"Yeah," I admitted. "I like dancing."

"Let me introduce you to my friends," he said. "Then we'll go out there, okay?"

He was really offering to take me out on the dance floor? Where I had a totally valid reason for getting all close to him? Hell yeah, that was okay.

"Sure," I replied coolly. I can so control my emotions. Sometimes.

He smiled at me winningly.

He really was good looking.

Maybe when we get home, we could -

No Suze! I scolded myself. You're just about to meet his friends. No fantasising about the two of you.

Even if would be really cool.

No!

"Susannah," I tuned back into what Jesse was saying, hoping that my inner argument hadn't shown on my face in anyway - say, in the form of drool. "This is Adam and his girlfriend CeeCee."

I turned to smile at the couple who were playing a game of pool.

"Nice to meet you," I told them courteously.

"Wow, Jesse," Adam took my hand and kissed it dramatically. "Where've you been hiding this one?"

His question earned him a slap on the arm from his girlfriend, who had very fair blonde hair and pale skin. But that was totally understandable, considering the Winters you could get in New York. Maybe she just hadn't had time to work on her tan yet.

Jesse's eyebrow quirked as he looked at me.

"I haven't been hiding her," he told Adam whilst still looking at me. "She hid herself."

Oops, I guess he noticed.

I looked around sheepishly.

"So," I spoke after a silence. "Anyone up for a game of pool?"

"I'll play you," Offered CeeCee, swiping the cue out of her boyfriend's hands and passing it over to me. "The men can get the drinks."

Adam made a real show of puffing out his chest.

"Of course, m'lady."

CeeCee laughed as he walked over towards the bar.

"What can I get you, Susannah?" Jesse asked me.

"Oh," I replied. "Just a Coke. I'm not really a big drinker."

Nodding, he went to join Adam over at the bar. Naturally my eyes followed. Oh come on, I've said it enough times. The guy is gorgeous.

"So, Susannah, is it?" CeeCee asked me as she lined up the shot to break the triangle of balls.

"Suze," I corrected watching as she potted in a stripe. She was good at this game.

"Suze." She nodded to herself, remembering to call me that. "So, Suze, do you like Jesse?"

My eyes practically bulged out of my head. Oh my God. Was I that obvious? Did he turn around to his friends last week and joke about how his new next door neighbour had this totally obvious crush on him and then they all made plans about how he was going to string her along, only to -

"Woah," CeeCee looked at me funnily. "Your mind looked like it was going a mile a minute there."

Um, that's because it was.

"Sorry." I said, readying myself for my first shot. My eyes scanned the bar, stopping when I spotted Jesse. "Yeah," I added after a pause. "I guess I do."

I'd known this girl for about two minutes and already I knew that it was out of character for her to squeal as she did after my announcement.

"Oh my god, that is so cool!" She said excitedly. "We can double! Jesse needs a girlfriend after what his last girlfriend did to him."

My interest was piqued.

"Last girlfriend?"

She rolled her eyes.

"This total bitch he met when he lived in New Mexico. Her name is Maria Diego. Well, it is now. Jesse said that they were engaged before she ran off with his best friend, Felix. They came back married and Jesse moved here for a new start."

Oh, wow. Jesse had been engaged. That is not something I thought I'd hear.

"Sorry we took so long," Adam said, putting a colourful drink coupled with a tiny umbrella and a straw in front of CeeCee while Jesse put down a glass filled with fizzy coke and ice by me.

I turned around to thank him and saw his face was only inches away from mine.

I swallowed. Loudly.

"How about that dance I promised you?"

I nodded, silently turning around and gulping a mouthful of my drink to wet my dry throat.

His eyes twinkled with laughter again. He knew exactly what he was doing to me.

Taking his offered hand he led me amongst the mass of writhing bodies to a spot of floor more or less in the middle.

Just as I was pumping myself up, reading to start joining the rest of the crowd as they danced rhythmically to the beat of some latest dance hit, the music switched to a song that was much slower.

I hesitated, not knowing if I was crossing some type of neighbourly boundary if I danced with him but Jesse didn't waste a second in wrapping an arm around my waist and pulling me closer to him.

He even smelled good. Was there nothing wrong with this man? Because I was under the impression that there was no such thing as a perfect man. And that's just what Jesse was turning out to be.

I wrapped my hands around his neck and swayed to the slower beat with him.

I shut my eyes as I leaned my head against his chest. I don't care if I was crossing some neighbourly boundary, this opportunity was just way too good to pass on.

"Susannah?" His deep voice rumbled in his chest, sending shivers through me.

"Yeah?" I looked up at him to find him looking straight down at me, his eyes darker then normal.

He didn't say anything else.

My tongue darted out to moisten my lips - an action which Jesse's eyes followed.

Then it happened. Slowly, he started leaning towards me. I shut my eyes ready for the feel of his lips on my own.

And there it was.

Jesse was kissing me!

Right in the middle of a dance floor, in a club full to the brim.

Not like I cared, or noticed for that matter.

Because, on top of everything else, Jesse was also an amazing kisser. And I mean that.

I could quite happily kiss him forever and never get bored.

He pulled away from me and rested his forehead against my own as we carried on dancing.

"You never told me what your new job is," Jesse whispered.

"You never asked." I teased back.

"I'm asking now."

Only, instead of answering, like he probably expected me to do, I leaned up to kiss him again.

Well, can you blame me?