(Saturday) continued

Grace and Zenobia were waiting when I got there. We didn’t see Ben (he was gonna meet us) but decided to go in anyway. He was already in there when we got there and bouncing off the walls hyper. (he’s been a clubbing fanatic as of late) Poly Esther’s is a neat place. It was my first time going but it reminded me a lot of Have a Nice Day Cafe in Baltimore which i really loved!

Here the place was broken up into 3 floors. The first floor is 70’s and there’s all sorts of funky decorations from the 70’s everywhere. The second floor was closed (I was kidna pissed cause they kept hypoing how you get 3 different floors, 3 different kinda of music all for ONE cover) But it was the 90’s floor which is basicaly every other club anywhere so it wasn’t so bad. The third floor was all 80’s. Lots of Pac Man decorations on the wall. Very cool 🙂 The one annoying thing is that there are these women who work there that bring around trays full of shots for $2 each and they keep following you around and pestering you to buy one. They even follow you onto the dance floor, which is already crowded!

I was a littler nervous about how I looked when i first got there. I’m not used to showing off my body this much at this size (when I’d lost 40 pounds my junior year of high school I went into a total let-it-all-hang-out phase, but I was thin then. Now that I”m heavier i feel funnier about it) I was wearign the sleeveless sparkly spandex shirt (cool alliteration lol) I picked up a couple of weeks ago and the aforementioned black pants. But i knew it was all about attitude — I’ve seen girls heavier than me wear similar outfits and they looked cool, confident and sexy — so I said the hell with it and just had fun.

It was kind of weird at first because it was like a girls night out…and Ben. I mean we all knew each other from Central but it was still kind of weird. And it’s not like Ben and I were even together. But I’d invited him so I kinda felt like I had to look after him and in some ways i was just wanted to hang with the girls. And of course I”m always shy about dancing at first and Ben, Zenobia and Grace all have rythm unlike me. But as the night went on I loosened up. The four of us were all dancing and having a great time. We switched off between the two floors. I espescially liked the 80’s floor. It was so much fun dancing and singing along to all the songs we all knew from childhood. “Blister in the Sun” is really fun to dance to and it was followed up by “I Wanna Be Sedated” And it was really funny when “1999” came on I turn to Zenobia and screamed “This is SO two years ago!” She laughed.

When the 80’s floor got too crowded we went back down to the 70’s floor, but it was alos crowded because by this time it was midnight and the place was really packed. We eeked out a space for ourselves and continued dancing. I took a break around 1am when my feet started really bothering me (I NEED to find a pair of comforatble clubbing shoes. No more heels!) Grace Zenobianad iwere gonna go sit at the bar and i went to tell Ben and when I turned around they were gone. I looked for them a litlte while then Ben looked ofr them so I could sit. Eventually we all found each other. It turned our they’d also been sitting at he bar but evne though i must have walked passed that spot 10 times I still missed them. It was all good. Ben bought himself a soda and a water for me (my hero! I was sooooo thirsty but also cheap) and Grace finally broke down and bought a shot from one of the ladies pestering us. She split it with me sing she had to drive. It was pretty good. I think it was Tang and something w/alcohol. I originally wanted to buy one but I hate being pestered so then i didn’t buy on on principle (I”m stubborn like that) Ben said he really liked my outfit and put his arm around me. It was weird. And I can’t even say it’s cause he was drunk cuase he doesn’t drink.

At 1:30 we left the club cause we were hungry and thirsty and went to a diner. Ben wanted to Grace to drop him off at Broad and Erie so he coudl catch the bus home from there. But as Zenobia put it “I don’t evne go there in the day time!!” So between the two of us we convinced Grace to drive Ben all the way home (he lives in Chestnut Hill, so far out there it’s barely philadlephia) I offered to come along cause i knew the way an this wya she wouldn’t have to drive alone. So we piad for our meals and then headed for the car to drop Zenobia off. Ben gave me a hug in the car. I hugged him back but it was awkward especially since Grace and Zenobia were there. But on the way there I rested my head on his shoulder and rested his head on my head and we were just kinda flirting like that.

It’s really werid. We were kinda like that on July 4th too when me and him and Vash hung out. The next week we admitted that we were both sort of crushing on each other. Truthfully I think it’s just that we’re both single and love to cuddle. I really cant’ see anything beyond that happening. He’s cute and all, but he’s like family, somewhere between a brother and a cousin. And I don’t want to wreck the firendship. Btu still it’s weird…

It was cool after that. Zenobia got out and I got up front and to direct Grace and then we dropped Ben off and she took me home. It was 3:30am by the tiem I got home. i asked Grace to call my cell as soon as she got in so I know she made it home safely. I found out this morning that she called at 4am but I was so tired I was asleep by then and didn’t even hear the phone ring.

Steph