Looking at Once Was but Never Will Be
By geekypnai13
Nervous fingers shakily handle the glass of whiskey, nails lightly tapping the glass. He looks up, eyebrows raised, as he looks about the club. He lifts the glass up and takes a small sip, repeating this every 5 minutes. He closes his eyes, and breathes a short sigh. He's looking to his left, seeing all sorts of couples on the floor, women with women, men with men, women with men, men with women, men with women and a man... all sorts... except for him. He lifts the cup and downs the rest of his whiskey and flags the overly pretty bartender down. Bartender ignores his weak attempt at getting his attention. He attempts to shout over the loud music to no avail.
A hand lifts up by his face, a voice booming in his ear, "HEY!"
The bartender looks up, slightly annoyed, but as if seeing who the man was, lifts the corner of his mouth to a smirk. He heads towards them and asks what he can get them.
The man looks down at the empty glass before answering, "Two shots... actually..." the man pauses and looks down at the poor helpless man, "How about four?" He winks at the bartender.
"Hey, saw you were trying to flag this guy down from across the room, what's your name?" the man asks.
"I'm... uhh, uhm, Patrick, sorry... Just... I don't know, everyone seemed so preoccupied with who they're with, totally didn't think anyone was going to... come up to me", he introduces shyly, stuttering out of pure anxiety. The man laughs, giving Patrick a long stare in the eyes before looking down to the floor.
"My name is Dom... Dom Basaluzzo," he introduces smiling very broadly, holding his hand out. Patrick stares at the hand for a long moment, before flailing his own hands from his lap to shake it. Dom laughs again, a nice genuine laugh, "You're pretty cute."
Patrick face flushes in embarrassment, "Oh god... Am I making a fool of myself already?"
"No way, definitely cute. Seems like you've never been to a place like this before. You new to this whole... openly gay thing?" Dom inquires. The bartender is back with the fancy colored shots, interrupting their sort-of conversation between the two. Bartender smirks again, almost too excitedly.
"Uhhh... Soo... you two know each other or something... or...?" Patrick asks, taking one of the shot glasses into his hands and lifting the glass up towards his nose to sniff. Dom takes one and knocks it back swiftly, clenching his teeth at the intensity of it.
"Well, I'm not new here like you... Quite frankly, he's my type..." Dom smiles, picking up the other shot glass, "Just like you." He knows back the other one, taking this one with far more ease.
Patrick once again feels his face explode with heat, he finally takes the shot, noting its fruity yet powerful taste. He coughs a bit, not used to this strange flavor. He grabs the other, while still grimacing about the other shot and knocks it back before he could regret it.
"Uhm... Well..." Patrick lets out a small cough again, "I'm not... necessarily new here... I'm just here alone since my roommate... he found someone here... a bit ago... they're sort of a thing now so I decided to try this out... by myself", Patrick explains, hands beginning to vividly move about.
"That's cool, I can only assume that he was the more... outspoken one in the duo?" Dom asks.
"Uhh... yeah... totally was... He was always the one trying to hook me up with random guys here, "Patrick laughs uncomfortably, unsure if he should tell this new guy who might actually be interested in him these things, "Didn't really have a good choice..."
"Well... How about we go dance real quick. Perhaps with my killer dance moves you'll see that I'm quite the catch," Dom says, grabbing Patrick's hand and leading him out to the floor. Patrick's face contorts in surprise, quickly placing the glass back down onto the bar, resisting all the way to the dance floor. Dom starts swaying to the beat, holding Patrick's hands to get him moving along. Patrick moves cautiously, as if the people around him will jump back and bite. Dom smiles and releases Patrick's hands and starts dancing more vigorously to the upbeat music. Patrick smiles and starts laughing at how silly he was jiving. Dom laughs along and Patrick finally lets loose. They both start shaking their shoulders, breaking out into silly dance, bobbing their head to the beat like they were the only two in the world.
