Eric continued to dance with Brooke, Lauren and almost every woman in the room while Stephanie looked on from a distance together with James who asked why she wasnīt joining in for some fun. But she decided to wait (always the strategist). Eric took a little break from all fast dancing as the evening calmed down to night. Samantha walked up to Eric with some coffee and offered to drive Eric home. He told her he might take her up on it before Stephanie walked up to them. Eric told her they hadnīt danced and asked her out to the empty dance floor as Samantha frowned (haha!).

They started dancing to what seemed to be the only slowdance of the evening as everyone looked on, including Samantha and Sally who werenīt very happy about that knowing they had been beaten by Ms Queenie.

While slowdancing, they talked about how good it felt to really know each other completely and how they always would. He also thanked her for tonight and how he needed it. She knew something was bothering him but didnīt push him into telling her what it was. They felt it was nice to have someone they didnīt have to hide anything from and a person who wouldnīt judge them. So she hadnīt judged him while he was playing a party animal, he asked? No, she hadnīt. Cause she loved him. He gave her a kissed her on the forehead and they continued to dance as Ridge and Thorne were smiling at each other from across the room (arenīt they cute?!).

The next morning, they woke up together in Ericīs bed. Eric seemed to have forgotten about what had happened since he started partying the evening before. But everything was all right. He started to remember how he mixed champagne and martini and he was the one who asked her to stay over night. They both agreed on not asking the question “where do we go from here”.