(Note: while Angie is the principal narrator, the narration shifts occasionally to other relivant characters and always noted.)
(This is essentially the part 1 story told from Angie's husband's perspective.)
(David)
My wife, Angie, and I had been married about 2 years when she called me at work and asked me to take her out somewhere after dinner. She didn't want to say where on the phone but we'd talk about it when I got home. I hadn't a clue as to the mystery but where would she want to go on a Thursday night? Movies? Shopping?
As soon as I came in the door she came running up to me, planting a big smiling kiss before I could even get my coat off. "What's this all about?" I asked her, "Did we win the lottery?" She was so excited that now I was getting excited.
While at the dinner table she's just smiling like the Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland and now I gotta know what's up. "Angie, what's going on? Are you pregnant?"
"No"
"What, what, what?"
"David, do you think I'm sexy?" she asked tentatively.
"I hope that's a rhetorical question," I said, "because you're the reason my dick gets up in the morning. (she laughed) Angie, you're an incredible beauty...the hottest of the hot."
And she was. A 5'4", gorgeous, dark brown haired Latin-American with a stunning figure, brilliant mind and an electric personality that I must have tricked into marrying me because how did that happen? When we were in the bedroom she was adventurous and open to anything and just looking at her got me rock hard.
"Why are you asking this, Ang?"
"Because there's something I have to do and I want you to help me with it."
"Ang, you're killing me. What is it?"
We kept eating for awhile until finally she just blurted it out. "I want you to take me to The Pleasure Palace so I can enter the amateur night contest. If I win I make a hundred and fifty bucks but I don't really care about that. I just really want to do this..."
Blindsided. "Ang, that's a strip club. You want to take your clothes off at a strip club?"
"Yes, I've thought about this and I really want to do it. I need to feel what it's like when random men are looking at you like that. I just need to try this. I know you're going to get jealous if they like me but do me this favor and be with me so I'll feel safe."
"Well, I don't want you to go there," I pleaded, "but if I can't stop you I sure as hell wouldn't let you go alone!"
"Does that mean you'll take me?" she asked enthusiastically.
"NO..............or yes, I don't know. Why do this? And then I have to watch other men drool all over you? Are you sure you want to ask me this?"
Short pause. "Yes," she said firmly.
Longer pause. "Okay," I said, immediately regretting I said it. But I didn't know what to say to stop her. I'd seen her single-mindedness before and there was only going to be one answer anyway so I could have said 'yes' right away and not lost 10 minutes of my life to the inevitable. For sure this was going to make me very uncomfortable. Maybe I could hide in the bathroom during her performance...but she'd never forgive me for that. Oh, shit.
"What time does it start?" I asked, dejectedly.
"10 o'clock. We have to check in by 9:30."
Nothing much else was said during dinner. We cleaned up the kitchen and messed around with menial chores around the house until 8pm when she announced she was getting ready. Forty-five minutes later she came out of the bathroom glammed to the max and wearing the tightest little purple dress you've ever seen. If it had been any shorter it would have been classified a shirt.
She brought with her a shoe bag and I thought, 'How long has she planned this?" I mean, she's done her homework and shopping, she's got a wardrobe and I'm only hearing about it now? I didn't understand all of this but maybe I wasn't satisfying her and she was looking for another outlet for her sexual energy. I had a million questions and now I'd backed myself into a corner and all I could do was go with the flow.
We were there a few minutes before 9:30, checked in with the DJ and she was ready to go. Despite the fact that the place was packed I lucked into a booth in the back and immediately tried to anesthetize myself with martinis. Angie went into the bathroom to change shoes and when she came out and walked towards the DJ staging area with the other amateurs I almost fell out of the booth. She wore the purple dress I'd only seen for the first time tonight and 5 inch black high platform stripper shoes with ankle straps. As she walked through the room I watched the eyes follow her and, clearly feeling those eyes, she started working it. She'd gotten halfway down the bar area and some guy stopped her, put his hand on her rear and whispered something in her ear as she playfully laughed, tossed her hair and kept moving. She was smiling like she'd already won. Even the pros were watching her.
They lined up according to performance order and the DJ put Angie last for what I thought were obvious reasons. If she danced as well as she walked the place would go nuts. With the exception of Angie, nearly all the other contestants were at the upper range of college age, either in the last year of school or locals that were egged on by their boyfriends. A couple were, in my martini fog opinion, pretty hot, backed by their loud entourage. But most were so nervous there wasn't enough beer in the bar to calm them down. They wore the gear they came in with and when they finally took off their jeans and t-shirts patrons were encouraged to slip bills into their panties or on the floor around them.