At long last, a love scene! She felt like her mother must have felt when she met her father. Towering over her in a black leather jacket, he asked her to dance. She smiled up at him on the red and white checkered dance floor in the fifties rock and roll bar. He smiled down on her as he casually danced the Twist. People her parents' age jitter-bugged around them.
"That's the jitterbug!" she cried out to her longtime friend Liz. She enjoyed this new setting.
"I'm going to have a cigarette," he said.
She felt his leather jacket against her shoulder. He came back with two cold glasses of beer.
"Let's go look at the chopper over there," he motioned. They stood on the stairs looking at the motorcycle on its small platform for a while. A blond-haired bouncer told them politely to keep off the stairs. He walked over to the glass windows and placed her on the red stool beside him. They looked down at the dark river.
"Let's pretend we're riding a motorcyle," he said. He grabbed her waist.
"I have to go find Liz," she said. "I'll come back."
"Hope you do. I like you," he said.
He had dark brown hair, straight, with a round face and squinting blue eyes. He reminded her of her younger sister's first boyfriend.
Is this how her mother felt when she met her father? Her father, with his James Dean hair, and his passion for motorcycles.
"Oh, father, you never wanted to hurt me," she sang in her mind, laden with meaning. In an interview, Madonna had explained that the song is about how you marry your father.
"When's your birthday?" she asked.
"August third!"
"Right before my father's!"
And then, "How old are you?"
"Thirty."
"Thirty! You look so young. I thought you were twenty four or twenty five."
She would have sworn he were only twenty four.
"Well, I'm twenty eight. Same," she said.
"Thirty one," he admitted.
"I like to dress up," she said.
And then, "You look great!" he burst out. He looked at her sleek black dress, black stockings, high black heels.
That made him a Leo. The Leo qualities encapsulated her father. Aquarius Moon, she thought of herself. That makes us opposites. Opposites attract.
She reveled in her Aquarian inner qualities, her eccentricity, her rebellious attitude, her own curious intellect, her outright craziness and individuality....GUESS YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FOR LOVE -- again! See ya here Tuesday.
