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Claire waved to a few friends from school she invited.
    “ You go, I’ll wait for the drinks.”
    Claire smiled and bounced away.
    Victoria was rocking her head to the beat when she heard a voice behind her she recognized. “What does a girl have to do to get a drink around here?”
    She flipped her blonde hair in Levi’s direction. “Took you long enough,” she said smugly.
    “ Sorry, I can’t even say work was the problem.”
    “ Oh, then why were you late?” This was particularly late, even for him.
    “ Well,” he paused, “I was putting a deposit down on a place.”
    “ No way, really?” Victoria was elated. She felt like Levi was taking this step for her. For them, for their future together. She wrapped her arms around him. “This is great!”
    He pulled back slightly laughing. “Yeah, well it’s just a little one bedroom, so I don’t think Claire will be happy.”
    “ Claire? Wait, what?”
    He dangled a key in front of her. “Well, I mean she won’t have her own room, at our place.” He smiled broadly.
    “ You got a place for us?” She squealed.
    Levi laughed, “Sorry about all the secrets babe. I just really wanted it to be a surprise.”
    “ No! This is an amazing surprise. I can’t believe we’re moving in together.”
    “ This is what you wanted, right?”
    There was no way she could use words to describe how she was feeling about his choice to move forward in their relationship. This was a big step, the real follow up to the promise that they had made last weekend. This was what she had been waiting for. She grabbed the key and then pulled his face towards her with her hands on his cheeks. She pulled him into a sultry kiss. They were interrupted when the bartender asked them if they wanted to keep open a tab. Victoria responded to him, “Yes! And we need two flutes of champagne please.”
    The bartender returned with their drinks Victoria toasted, “To us.”
    Levi added, “And to our future.”
    They clinked their glasses before swallowing down their drinks.
    “So, are you going to tell Claire the big news?” He asked craning his neck around to see where the birthday girl had gotten to.
    Victoria’s shook her head, “No. Tonight is her night, I’ll tell her in the morning. That is if she even remembers me tomorrow.” She pointed across the bar at Claire who was chatting with some college frat boys and enjoying their attention. When she looked back at Levi he was messing with his phone.
    “ What are you trying to do?”
    He laughed, “You know I’m terrible at these things. I just wanted to take picture of us on our big night. Something to remember.”
    She grabbed the phone from his hand and pulled it out take a shot of the two of them. He dangled the keys in the picture. She put the phone on the bar and they continued to drink. When a song came on that was one of Claire’s favorites she came over and dragged them away from the bar to dance with her. While Victoria moved to the music she couldn’t believe how happy she was. What an amazing night! Spending it with her best friend and the one she had promised herself to. It seemed like nothing could go wrong.
    When the night ended Claire left with some guy named Brad. Victoria and Levi were making their way to the car when Levi realized that he had never gotten his phone back from Victoria. “Do you have my phone?”
    She shook her head feeling the alcohol slosh around in her brain. “No… I think I left it at the bar.” She admitted.
    “ Shit,” he said as his hand searched his pockets, “I’ll be right back, okay?”
    Victoria nodded. “No problem, I’ll just wait over near the car.” She pointed across the parking lot.
    “ You sure you’re okay alone?”
    “ Yeah, it’s fine, there are plenty of people around.”
    “ Okay,” He gave her one more quick kiss before jogging back to the club.
    It was dark, too dark, and Victoria walked as fast as she could across the nearly empty parking lot. Her heels