Their first kiss.

Asher was peeved, Kathy had stolen Joan from his arms and had left him alone in the company of her young friends.

While he knew Kathy took Joan to help ease her into socializing with other women in the room. It still rankled him that Joan was not by his side. He especially hates how the eyes of more than a few men followed Joan around the room.

Kathy finally letting him stay in one place without the constant fraternizing from table to table gave Asher a chance to take in the room.

There was no shortage of people seated at the tables, ingesting the fare before them. There were others to the side of the hall socializing with new acquaintances or catching up with old friends. Needless to say, there's a considerable amount of chatter floating around the room.

Yet Asher found that to get the really important discourse you have to be around or at the bar. After all Imbibing on spirits always loosens the lips.

And so here he was standing close to the bar in a conversation with the group Kat