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  Chapter 3 - Keep your promise to Laura

  She smiled and walked away into the crowd then turned around, blew me a kiss and stepped on stage and started playing. Her sister brought me another drink.

  "Don't screw with my sisters head. She's picky and she picked you."

  "I won't". I said looking at her up on stage.

  "Just don't break her heart hun."

  I listened to a few more songs and had a few more drinks. I was getting the munchies and needed to eat. I finished off my last drink and called her sister over.

  "Keep my tab open okay? I'll be right back; I got to get something to eat."

  "Okay hun. Remember your promise." She said.

  I nodded, looked up at the stage to let Laura know that I was leaving but she was leaning into her microphone and singing her heart out. What a girl I thought to myself and started to leave when Laura looked up and saw the girl that I was dancing with following me trying to get my attention. Laura looked at her sister at the bar and pointed to the doorway. Her sister saw her making a bee line for me as I got closer to the front door.

  "Ah hell nah that bitch aint goin' after my sisters man" she said under her breath.

  Laura's sister signaled to one of the other bartenders to watch her section as she began walking towards the door to head off the girl that was chasing after me. She caught up with her just as she was about to step outside the door and grabbed her by the arm.

  "Where the hell you think you goin' hun?" she said in a stern voice.

  "You better lose me bitch!" The girl said pulling her arm away from Laura's sister.

  "Keep your hands off him whore or you'll see me times three!" she said in a spitting voice at the girl.

  "Screw you bitch" she said then disappeared into the crowd.

  Bourbon Street was full of people and more were gathering as they poured in from everywhere. I was walking and pushing my way trying to find some place to eat that was quick and easy so I could get back to Laura. The ladies I had passed earlier that were hanging over the patios for the "Boobs for Beads" show were pulling up their shirts and flashing the crowds of men that were gathering and looking up with beaded necklaces in their hands trying to toss them up at the waving girls.

  I finally found a small eatery that served togo gumbo by the bowl with a mini French loaf. I was about to order when I felt soft arms wrap around my waist that turned me around.

  "Surprise, it's your dancer friend Becky from Court of Three Sisters!" she said in giddy voice.

  "O', hello" I said in a surprised voice. I was shocked to see the girl I had danced with earlier standing before me.

  "You still owe me a dance remember?" she said.

  "Ahhh. Yeah" I said still surprised. "I am just getting a quick bite to eat, you want something?" I offered.

  "Yeah. I'll have what you're havin'." She said.

  We took our tray of food and sat at picnic table. She smiled.

  "Sooo, are you going to dance with me any more tonight? You're a good dancer." I ate a spoon full of gumbo before answering.

  "I already have plans tonight with someone else."

  She scooted close to me, lean over near my ear.

  "I don't see her? I know this great bar just up one block up from here called the "Voodoo Lounge" with a DJ that plays kick ass music."

  "Nah, I have plans tonight" I said. She put her right hand on my thigh.

  "We can dance for a little while then go to my place or yours for cocktails. You have some beads and I don't have on a bra. See? She smiled pointing at her large breast. My husband's out of town so tonight is my naughty night out."

  There I was with this hot married woman throwing herself at me and Laura who's going to be waiting for me when her last set is over.

  Chapter 4 - Someone is waiting for me

  Becky took my hands a put them under her T-shirt. I pulled my hands back.

  "Look, I really appreciate your offer. Really I do. But my heart and my mind is on someone else right now. Someone that is very important to me. Besides, do you really want me with you thinking about another woman?" She crossed her arms.

  "NO! You're no fun. Tonight could have been your lucky night." She got up from our little table and disappeared into the crowd as easily as she appeared.

  I pushed my bowl and bread aside and headed for "The Court of Three Sisters". I looked at my watch. 'Damn!!!' I said to myself. Her last set is nearly over. She is not going to wait for me if I am a second late. Shit! Shit! I hurried through the crowd pushing and shoving as I got closer to the club.

  The band wasn't playing anymore. "Shit! Shit!" I cursed to myself. "That's it! She's gone. She's sure as hell ain't waitin' for my ass." I said to myself again. I reach the doorway and stepped in hurriedly. I stood there looking around for her. The DJ was already playing music. The crowd was dancing and shouting to the DJ "Rock the house!" I looked at the bar, but she wasn't there. I scanned over to the stage thinking I would see her putting away her guitar, but she wasn't. The covers were draped over the equipment and the amplifiers were turned off.

  I felt as if a bomb had dropped on my world. I walked over to the bar and looked into the mirror at myself and shook my head asking myself "Why didn't I just turned around and come back? Why didn't I just listen to my heart and stayed close by?" I couldn't hear anything. My world was silent and I didn't care. People were bumping into to me trying to order drinks. I just shoved them back. Then I felt a soft hand slide over mine.

  "Michael, you kept your promise" the familiar voice whispered. It was Laura.

  "You came back to me." A sigh of big relief came over me as I turned around.

  "Laura, I didn't think you were here. I, I thought you were gone and had given up on me" I said to her softly holding her hands.

  "My sweet, sweet Michael, how could I have given up on a good man that didn't give up on me" she said with a big smile. I cupped her face with my hands and kissed her deeply.

  "Laura, I don't' ever want to feel this way again. I don't want to feel this feeling of losing someone that came into my world and told me to trust my heart and a heart would be given back." She smiled.

  "Mama always said? Baby, a good man will find you when you least expect it and when he finds you just ask him for a simple promise to come back to you. That's how you'll know he's the one."