Inmates run the asylum but worst of all, I'm left tealess.

I'm feeling pretty fragile today. A good night out can do that to you I suppose. I honestly didn't expect it to be as good as it was, but then again, we ended up in a completely different place with completely different people.

There was an acoustic set on at Xscape so we abandoned the Counting House for something with a bit more substance. A couple of friends were already there but I was only bothered about 1 person there if I'm truly honest. It seems that everyone else has changed so much over the past few months. Or maybe I have and just haven't noticed it. I found myself not knowing what to say to a girl I've been friends with for 7 years, opting instead to take the easy road and pull faces and screw my nose up whenever I caught her eye. Although, she did have a face like thunder the whole time she was there, so maybe neither of us have changed and I just couldn't deal with her sour mood.

I shunned my usual drink of Southern Comfort and lemonade and opted to reach out, ordering every flavour of fruit vodka they had behind the bar until I found the one I liked the most. Which happened to be Mandarin. We were all sat round a tiny table on even tinier stools, swapping drinks and grimacing as we got one that we didn't like. Hats and headbands were handed round and tried on and pictures were snapped that will surface on the net sometime this week for the sole reason of letting me untag myself in every single one.

The set had already started when I turned up but it wasn't anything I hadn't seen before. The 2 of them have been playing for a while and it used to be a weekly outing to go and listen to them. There was only 1 song that they sang that I hadn't heard before but it was this song that I sat and listened to the whole way through, without joining in any conversation, even though some was aimed at me and without taking my eyes off the singer.

It was beautiful.

It was a good night. Different from most, quieter than most but still a lot of fun.

Now as then is simple truth. Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth.