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We've been getting the place ready for Saturday night's housewarming party for Adrian's family, and since the place is in good shape but without full accessorization (or, for that matter, without full removal of the boxes yet) we have some work to do. However, we'd agreed last Friday that THIS Friday we'd go to Apex (the club that used to be Badlands when we lived here before). I'd heard they'd renovated, plus Dancin' Mike bartends there on Friday night and I haven't seen him in a while, and finally, I just needed to do some dancing because I hadn't been out since Velvet Nation closed.

Adrian was pretty tired though, and so I went by myself, which is OK to do every now and then but I don't want to make a habit of it. Most of our friends don't go dancing (though Angelo and Josh do visit Apex sometimes, but they were being all domestic last night) so it's not like I'm going to go out and have friends there that I can meet up with.

Anyway, I got there and the dancing was great, and the drinks were exactly what I needed after this week, and the boys were, shall we say, hot. Well, lots of them, but not all. I was getting a little bit of attention, just enough to keep my ego happy, and had danced with a couple guys before this one shirtless hottie came up and got all up in my business and that was ok, because he was, well, shirtless. Hmmmm. Anyway, he was actually starting to hit on me pretty hard, and then he said he had to go to the bathroom and asked if I wanted to go with him. At that point this became a little more "Errrrr" then "Hmmmm" and I declined, saying I needed some water. I went back to where Mike was bartending and said, "Could I get a bottle of water please, oh, and I may need you to pretend to be my boyfriend for a few minutes." Hey, what can I say, the guy seemed nice and if I had to turn him down I didn't want to hurt his feelings and since my partner wasn't there I wanted a backup boyfriend to point to. Fortunately Mike was on the scene and had my back and gave me the whole "seductive looks and licking the lips" routine just in case, but the guy had apparently faded away and we didn't have to implement the whole plan.

Nice to know Mike's got my back, though. If anyone needs a pretend boyfriend, I recommend him highly. If anyone needs a real one, I recommend him even more.