Chapter 10

Over an hour later, Josh and Andy were wrapped in each other's arms on the dance floor. Andy had her arms wound tightly around his neck and her head was resting on his chest. His hands were placed low on her hips.

"Did I tell you how beautiful you look?" He whispered in her ear.

"Only about a dozen times," Andy replied, blushing.

"Then have I told you that I love you?"

"Yes, but I wouldn't mind hearing it again."

He nibbled on her ear lobe.

"I love you."

"I love you, too," she replied, sighing. She never could have imagined a more perfect night.

"Looks like Greg and Heather are hitting it off," Josh said, looking over his shoulder. Nearby, Greg and Heather were just as tightly wrapped in each other's arms as Andy and Josh were. Smirking, Andy looked up at him.

"What?" He asked, knowing that she was giving him one of her inquisitive looks.

"What pink sequins dress?" She asked.

He knew that she wasn't going to drop the dress thing. He wished Heather had never come over to them in the first place. He would have rather have sat at a table with Greg in social isolation than have had Heather walk over to them and talk about her stupid, pink, sequined dress.

"I don't know what you're talking about," he insisted, taking her hand and twirling her around in a circle. For two people who had never really slow danced together before, they acted as if they were pros.

"Oh no, you don't get away that easy," she said when she was back in his arms again. He bent his head to kiss her, but she pulled away. He was just stalling, trying to get her to forget about the dress, but she wasn't going to forget. "Okay, now you're scaring me." She stopped dancing and took her arms away from his neck. He held onto her tightly, noticing the sparkle was gone from her eyes.

"Andy, come on, it was nothing," he stated.

"Then why won't you tell me?"

"It was more than a year ago…before you even moved here and it was only one dance. And it's not like I go around asking you about your old boyfriends."

"Oh, so she was you girlfriend then?"

Josh hesitated. Andy pushed Josh's hands away from her body and stormed off the dance floor.

"Andy wait!"

A sense of déjà vu flooded over him. He had experienced this before, Andy getting angry at him and storming away through a sea of people. Only then it had been at the cancer benefit and they hadn't actually been dating. He had promised himself then that he never wanted to see her walk away like that again.

"Andy, she wasn't my girlfriend," Josh exclaimed as he maneuvered his way through all of the happy, dancing couples to catch up with her. He found Andy sitting at their table. She took off one of her shoes and began rubbing her foot. Every inch of her foot was aching. She was mumbling under her breath something about how high heels were man's worst invention and whoever decided they were stylish needed to be exiled to some deserted island.

Josh knelt down in front of her and took her hands in his. She wouldn't meet his eyes.

"She wasn't my girlfriend, Andy. You have to believe me. She was just a girl I went to a dance with. Nothing happened and nothing ever will."

He touched his fingertips to her cheek and she looked at him.

"I'm sorry," she said, a tear threatening to fall from her eyes. "I overreacted. It's just these…" she pulled off her other shoe. "Damn shoes. They make me cranky."

"It's the shoes fault, huh?"

"The shoes and maybe just a little bit of jealousy."

"Trust me," he said, kissing her cheek. "You have nothing to be jealous about. You're the one I want, Andy."

"Even if I'm not as pretty and my boobs aren't as big?"

He would never understand women. How, after he had told her she was beautiful dozens of times in the last two hours could she possible think that she wasn't? Josh never thought of Andy as being insecure. As matter of fact, he always thought she was the type of girl who didn't care what other people thought, but he realized that, below the surface, she still was a girl with all of the same insecurities as any other girl.

"Number one," he began, "your boobs are more than adequate and number two…" he leaned in to whisper in her ear. "You are the prettiest, most amazing girl in this entire room." He took her shoe out of her hand and put it on the ground. "But just so we don't have any repeat incidences of what just happened, how about we leave the shoes off for now?"

"Good idea. I left my flip-flops in the limo."

"I'll get them," he volunteered. He stood up and turned to leave.

"Josh," Andy said, pulling on his arm.

"Yeah?"

"There were no boyfriends."

"What?"

"You said that you never ask me about my old boyfriends. Well, if you did, I wouldn't have anything to say because I've never had a boyfriend before."

"What about the time we were making out in my room and…"

"Which time?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

He couldn't help but smile. They did have a number of fond memories sneaking in and out of his room.

"The first time. You told me to go where few men had gone before, remember?"

"Yeah, well…I was just making that up."

"So now you tell me."

"I didn't want to sound…inexperienced."

"No, you just wanted me to feel you up."

"That too."

"Well, as long as we're coming clean. I…ah…had never touched a boob before."

She smiled. "I knew that all along."

"Yeah, well, I knew that you had never been with another guy."

"No you didn't."

"Yes, I did," Josh insisted.

"No…okay, you know what? It doesn't matter."

"You're right, it doesn't matter."

Josh leaned in to kiss her. As their lips made contact, the slow song that was playing turned into a fast one. All the couples on the dance floor broke up and began dancing around each other, laughing, and otherwise having a good time.

"Josh," Andy whispered against his lips.

"Mmm?" He replied, beginning to kiss a line across her jaw bone.

"My flip flops?"

"You interrupt my seducing you to ask me to get your flip flops?" He asked playfully.

"We'll get to the seduction later. Now I want to dance."

"Later, huh?" He asked, raising his eyebrows in a cheesy, seductive fashion.

"Josh! Flip flops!"

"Yeah…right. I'll be right back."

He gave her one more quick kiss before walking away towards the main doors.

Author's Note: This was a fun, quick chapter to write. Thanks for reading!