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"I'd be delighted to and the meal was delightful." he replied watching them leave the table. Carl turned to Brooklyn, "how did I do?"

"You were wonderful," she replied. "Amazing. They adored you." She took his hand, grinning.

"I'm glad though I would have settled for tolerated." he teased

She laughed. "Above and beyond tolerated. You were great!"

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"Yeah?" he forced himself to look at her

"Where do...what..." She sighed. She needed to know what happened now but she was afraid to ask. What if this destroyed their friendship? She couldn't loose him, she would do anything to keep him in her life. Anything.

Carl chuckled, "im glad." He said again then lifted her hand to his lips gently kissing the back of it.

Jeff searched her face trying to read what she was trying to say, "where do we go from here?" He asked in clarification

Sam nodded. "Yeah," she said quietly. She needed to know, even if it hurt she needed to know

"honestly I don't know Sam." He sighed ,"if definitely changes this doesbt it?"

"I can't lose you," she whispered. "I'll do anything, whatever you want. But I can't lose you."

Jeff reached up touching her face, "you won't loose me Sam...it just might change things a bit."

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Carl chuckled, "im glad." He said again then lifted her hand to his lips gently kissing the back of her hand

Brooklynn smiled sweetly. "So now what would you like to do?"

She put her hand over his. "change things to what?" she asked. what would this change things to? a relationship? Or pretending it never happened?

Carl smiled sweetly, "its not a school night so how about we make the most of it and go out...do something...go crazy tent a limo." He had never seen the appeal in dressing up und getting a limo...but maybe shed enjoy it...then an idea struck him. His smile grew a little more

"sam...I...I don't know....I mean thjs...between us..." He sighed, "its big...its going to take some time for both of us to process."

"You're right," she said up. "We need time to process before we make any decisions."

She smiled. "That sounds like fun," she agreed. "What kind of fun did you have in mind?"

"im sorry Sam...I wish I could say more." He said propping himself up on his elbows

"how about you go get that fetching fifties dress back on and we go swing." He grinned

She grinned. "Sounds perfect," she said before kissing his cheek and running up the stairs. She changed quickly, also putting on a little makeup to go with the dress. She was back downstairs within ten minutes.

Carls face almost split with s smile, "you look great...the limo will be here in about 3 minutes."

"I'm excited," she smiled. She couldn't wait for him to realize that she'd been practicing and how much better she was than their first time dancing.

"Dont...dont apologize," she said. "We have plenty of time to figure this out."

He put his arm out for her. This was going to be a great night. He led her out and there was a stretch limo waiting for them. He opened the door for her.

"yeah...plenty of time." He sighed

She looked down at him. "Unless you don't want to figure this out."

"Wow, you weren't kidding," Brooklynn said as she got in. "This is incredible."

"Sam...you are my best friend. Of course I do." He sounded offended at the suggestion

He slid in to the car with her abs the driver turned around. It was Lloyd.
"you two all set?" He asked
"we want to go dancing." Carl replied and they were off, "my parents own this so it wasn't that impressive to get it." Carl explained

"Well it looks impressive," she replied, kissing him on the cheek again. "Hi Lloyd," she added with a grin to the driver.

She looked away. No matter what they decided it wouldn't be easy. "I shouldn't have kissed you."she said quietly. "Not that I didn't want to," or enjoy it she thought. "But I shouldn't have, not while we were drunk."

Carl took her hand enjoying ever second of the ride

"dont do that Sam." He shook hos head, "what's done is done. We can't keep going back and playing the coulda woulda shoulda game."

She looked back at him. He was right, they couldn't change what happened, they could only move forward. "We have to figure this out," she said.

"and we will." He assured her as he got up and slipped into his boxers

When they slid of the car, Brooklynn was practically buzzing with excitement. "Come on," she smiled as she pulled him into the club.

Sam got up and started pulling her clothes back on, she needed to clean up the broken glass. She wanted to say they could just pretend it never happened but they couldn't and she knew it.

Ooc: with the big thing that is happening soon do you girls want me to just write the whole thing including what happens to your characters ans let you puck up the pieces or only do it to a point to where you interact during it.

I'm cool with you just writing it. I'm willing to pick up the pieces afterwords.

You can write it, that'll be easiest.

Carl was glad she was so excited and followed her in. The song was a fast one and in the middle of the set, "you want to wait toll the next one?" He asked over the music of the live band

Jeff too got dressed Nd followed her out of the room, "ill get the glass cleaned up."

"No, let's jump in," she smiled, pulling him into the dancing crowd.

This surprised him but he followed her taking her hand ready to spend the evening teaching her

She grinned as they jumped into the dance and she kept up well, feeling as if she actually fit in with the dancing crowd.

Braden smiled from eat to ear as they danced. She was actually good. Once the song stopped his atm was around her waist as he had just spun her in, "impressive."

"Thank you," Brooklynn replied with a grin. "I've been practicing."

Sasha had disappeared and Jaimie lay with her head in Braden's lap as they sat on the couch. "Why do you want to marry me? After.... after all the trouble you got in?"