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toilet but since they didn’t know the code, there
were never any bad situations. Dee punched in the number and went
through the first door and then headed through the beaded door
curtain on her right. She could hear Keisha before she could see
her. As she stepped through the beads, Keisha shouted her
way.
    “ Girl…..” she
drawled. “Them boots !”
    Dee
laughed and approached Keisha who was sat in front of the mirror
applying her eyelashes. She’d seen Dee’s boots in the
reflection.  Keisha swung around in her seat to get a better
look.
     “ Are these
the Giuseppes ?”
    Dee
nodded. Giuseppe Zanotti shoes were one of Dee’s favourites. She
busted her ass to save enough to buy a pair but it was worth
it.
      Keisha started to feel up the leather on
her boots and gushed about how much she loved them. Dee laughed and
hit her on the arm playfully. Keisha was older than Dee, 27 in
fact. She had three little boys, her oldest was ten and her twins
were four. When Dee had first started working at the club a year
ago, sheand Keisha had instantly hit it off. Keisha had her first
child at seventeen, Dee had hers at twenty.  She would always
ask Keisha for advice and between shifts they’d share stories.
Keisha’s baby daddy was serving a life sentence for murder,
starting last year when the youngest were three. He had been in a
gang since his teens and finally, the law caught up to him. Keisha
didn’t talk about him very often, and Dee didn’t like to bring up a
sore subject. She didn’t hold back asking Dee about her child’s
father though.
     “ You heard
from Trey ?” Keisha asked as she turned
back to the mirror to finish applying glue to her eyelashes. Dee’s
face darkened as she flopped onto the leather sofa
opposite.
    “ No. Son of a
bitch won’t even answer my calls .”
    Dee
wasn’t with Trey anymore, and she hadn’t been for over a year but
she wanted her son to see his father, it was only fair to allow
that. Lately Trey had been avoiding her calls, not answering her
texts, and despite only living a couple blocks away, he was never
home when she practically knocked the door down. She was tired of
him messing her son around Tushaun was only two years old and
deserved better. Dee and Trey were only fourteen years old when
they met. From fifteen, they were an item. High school sweethearts
she guessed other people would call them.  They were, for the
five years they lasted, but as soon as Tushaun was born Trey
changed. He turned from a devoted boyfriend to a distant one. Then
there was the cheating.
      As Dee drifted off into her thoughts, a
shout interrupted them.
     “ Dee !” Evan shouted. Evan was the
manager of the club, a bald man in his forties.
    “ You’re
up .”
    Dee
stood up and said goodbye to Keisha, thinking of Trey and his
bullshit the whole way to the stage. But as she took her place at
the pole and the spotlight shone down on her, her thoughts
evaporated with the sound of the music. Showtime.

Chapter 3 – Club X
    Jason
    When Tom
organised a night out for the two of them, he certainly didn’t
leave anything to the imagination. He had it all covered: food,
drinks, entertainment. Jason knew there was a reason he chose Tom
as his PA; and not just because they were friends. They’d started
out the night at this nice Italian place in an upscale area just
outside of the hotel. He’d never seen a menu so extensive; you
could choose from anything and everything. In the end, he ordered
pretty much half of the menu for he and Tom to try. They obviously
weren’t going to eat it all but he liked to be able to taste
everything. Money wasn’t an issue for Jason, and it wasn’t that he
was cocky with it; he just honestly didn’t even notice it anymore.
He wouldn’t think twice about going into a store and buying
whatever he wanted without looking at the price tags; he just knew
he could afford it. He wasn’t greedy with his money, he never had
been. He wasn’t born with money and