Our seemingly banal exchange didn’t curb the wild current charging around us, drawing our eyes together like magnets and forming a bubble against the noise and movement from the rest of the club. My earlier insecurities, exhaustion, frustration…they all fell away as my body came alive with anticipation. This was why I’d changed my mind. This heady sense of possibility. The exhilaration of dipping my toe into something forbidden. Whatever happened tonight, the rush of this moment was worth it.
