look,” said the younger girl. She offered her own signature moves, something equally raunchy she must have stolen from a music video. Leigh gave it a go, until the little girl dissolved into giggles.
“What?”
The child pointed to Leigh’s butt.
“You got no ass,” said the older girl.
Leigh laughed, faking offense. “Sure I do.”
“You all flat back there. Like all them skinny, rich white ladies.”
“I can’t help that.”
“You oughta eat more,” the smaller girl announced loudly, earning a reprimand and waggle of grill tongs from her mother. “Sorry.”
“Anyhow,” Leigh said, “you can dance with whatever size butt you’ve got. Show me any moves you have, I bet I can do them as well as you.”
“Bet you can’t,” the older girl taunted.
“Bet I can. Go on, let’s see what you’ve got.”
Will wandered over. “Careful, girls. She was in a movie about a dancer and everything.”
For a stinging second, his comment made Leigh feel like even more of an outsider, but she was grateful for the credibility it seemed to earn her with this tough crowd. Two sets of eyes widened. “You was in a movie?”
“I was. And I was the star. It was about a girl who learned how to tango. You want to see?”
Vigorous nods answered her.
Leigh demonstrated a flourish of moves, and her skeptical audience warmed before her eyes.
“That’s cool,” the bossy girl said. “How you do that?”
Leigh offered lessons, accepted tips in return from her young acquaintances. Before long the grown-ups were finishing their dinners and fetching fresh drinks, dancing in pairs on the sand. Seeking a partner of her own, Leigh scanned the growing crowd, but found Will busy at the grill, giving their pregnant hostess a break. No matter.
Leigh danced by herself, enjoying the beat and the atmosphere, the flicker of firelight and the deep indigo of the sky overhead. She shut her eyes, absorbing the laughter and music, feeling free in a way she hadn’t in years. Feeling a high no vice Hollywood traded in could ever touch. Just some nobody girl, dancing on some nowhere beach. Just Leigh, for the first time in forever.
Across the sand, Will caught her eye again, laughing at a friend’s joke. That damnable smile… Her energy shifted, dropping low in her belly, warm and curious, and Leigh wondered if maybe it wasn’t high time to get busy making some bad decisions.
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