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woman.”
    An indignant Ben protested loudly
and slovenly. “Hey! I must be doing something right because this will be our
fifth date,” he said smugly, holding up four fingers. “I can charm the ladies
as much as the next man.”
    James threw in a resentful
penny’s worth. “Unless the man next to you happens to be Ethan.”
    Ben, however, continued to insist
upon his supposed allure. “Tell ‘em Ry, didn’t I have women falling all over me
last night?”
    “Only because you collapsed in
the doorway,” Riley remarked dryly as the men continued to jeer the apathetic
youngster, bonding over the affectionate ridicule of their easy target.
    “Hang on Ethe, weren’t you
supposed to be giving up birds and booze?” asked Ben accusingly, hoping to turn
his friends’ aspersions elsewhere.
    Ethan
laughed dismissively. “I did, last week. It was the worst 30 minutes of my
life.” He recalled making the farcical resolution after waking up one morning
with a dreadful hangover and yet another infatuated girl clinging onto his arm.
    His
merriment was interrupted abruptly as his attention was drawn to a young girl
entering the bar. He watched as she appeared to almost float through the
doorway, wearing a cute denim playsuit, evocative of a 50’s pin-up and looking
as pretty as a picture with her dark chestnut hair sleek and waved around her
shoulders. He had stopped mid-gulp of hisbeer,
captivated by her air of un-assuming beauty. The girl glanced around as if
looking for someone, and then ambled over to the sniggering group of men, with
Ben appearing to be in her line of fire. What happened to Ethan next was quite
extraordinary.
    Time slowed
down around him and yet a thousand thoughts charged through his head. Turmoil
seized his body and magnified his senses. He could feel his heart beating in
his ears, the gasp from his mouth was deafening, and it appeared as though the
girl was striding in slow motion as he became more intrigued with her every
step.
    Ben languidly gestured an
embrace, spilling a few drops of his beer in doing so. “Oh hi babe, I was just
about to meet you.”
    The young girl took the bottle
out of his hand, and with commendable coolness, poured the watery contents over
his head. She watched as the cold liquid dripped through his hair and down onto
his face, and then she flounced out without uttering a word. Ben, in his wasted
state, was slow to react but then spluttered and shook his head vigorously,
like a wet dog drying it’s fur. The whole bar erupted into thunderous clapping
and cheering. Ethan, however, became rather more solemn. Without knowing why, he
raced out after the girl.
    “Pru, wait!”
    She swung around swiftly on
hearing her name. He caught up with her, feeling baffled as to what he would do
next. His limbs appeared to be set on fast-forward with his mind struggling to
keep up, and although he was accustomed to his libido acting irrationally, he
wasn’t used to his heart behaving in the same way .
    “Well I’m guessing that you’re
Pru anyway, after that amusing assault on Ben.” He glanced down at the bottle
still gripped tightly in her hand and then quipped, “Or if you’re the new
barmaid here, shouldn’t you wait for the customer to finishtheir beer
before you collect their empties?”
    Pru’s stern
mood softened under his light-hearted manner and she placed the bottle on the
wall beside them. “No, I’m definitely Pru but let’s get one thing straight, Ben
Mills is no longer on my speed dial.”
    This was where Ethan should have
jumped in to defend Ben’s poor behaviour, but on this occasion, the girl in front
of him took precedence over any of his friends, something he usually regarded
as extremely unethical. His nerves were making him fidgety and he hung his
hands loose and low from his jean pockets, out of a necessity to contain their
movement. “I have to say, I’m really disappointed with Ben”
    Pru was glad of the moral
support. “Thank-you, it’s good to