We’re both at a show. It’s loud, loud like ear-ringing-I’m-going-to-be-regretting-it-tomorrow loud. The band is…meh? They’re fine, I guess. They’re from Wisconsin, so, you know. Early 2000s emo has made a comeback in Wisconsin I guess because they’re loud. They’re loud. They’re whatever. I am whelmed.
By now most of the people who came to the show either left, or are still in the crowd but clearly regretting it, or they, like us, went straight to the bar at some point in the last hour. You and I have been eyeing each other for that last hour. Slowly our friend groups dwindled away, and it’s pretty much just us at the bar.
You wouldn’t hear me if I said anything because we’re too far apart, so I wave from across the bar. You wave back and smile a big and beautiful smile that sinks into me like a hook. My heart drops a beat. You motion me over with this kind of cowgirl mosey on over thing. So I do.