original story: Scipio
continuation: RogueAlan
Chapter 18: Back to Work, It's Spring Break
A: Workin' For a Livin'
Sharon braced her hands on the top of her station, fingertips against the base of the mirror as she let her head drop to the table top. She arched her back, stretching, and then gently tilted her hips, groaning softly at the protesting muscles. She knew better than to look at the clock. Sure, it was amateur night, but that was done in the first hour, two hours tops, and then it was business as usual. She was tired, and had only done three sets. Even with the steady work in the back, she would have a couple more before close.
Reversing the curve of her back, she lifted her head, eyes inches from the mirror, and glanced at the heavy make up, and the tousled dyed curl of hair that persistently fell into her line of vision. She brought her shoulders up, eyes dropping to her surgically augmented cleavage, her breasts pressed firmly against the table top where her forehead had been. She smiled, randomly considering that she looked good and could understand why the guys kept asking for her.
She sat up, reaching for the watered down Cosmopolitan sweating on the worn Formica to her right, eyes remaining fixed on the reflection of her breasts in the mirror. The rouge tipped nipples were crinkled and partially erect in the club's heavily conditioned air. She was proud of the new breasts, and enjoyed knowing the men were impressed, as well. She did not bother with a top as she glanced around the room. She resisted the urge to reach up and cup them- the high firm position was so different from the sag she had grown accustomed to seeing in the mirror.
Her gaze fell to the stark lines that were developing. Kelly had explained she was supposed to be tanning but not to do it nude. Instead, she actually glued small triangles of fabric over her nipples and what amounted to a loincloth over her crotch and the crack of her ass, being careful to get the cover in the same place each time, and then spent a few minutes; more and more minutes now that the base tan was set, in the beds in the small rooms at the back of Joyce's salon. The stark pale skin seemed decidedly retro, but the frat or Go or both wanted her to have tan lines, and Sharon had found she enjoyed having those few minutes to herself every day. She had stopped trying to keep track of how much sleep she was getting. Besides, she was glad to be dancing again, because she enjoyed hanging with the other dancers, more than her meager alone time.
Sharon pouted at the knowledge that Kelly and Lisa were out doing a set together. She had suggested joining them, but they had insisted that wait until a later set. Actually, they had seemed down right skittish when Sharon had arrived at the club, but the prize BZ Bitch had not really had time to wonder about it, because one of the bouncers had appeared as she was changing for work, telling her she already had a 'date' waiting for her in the back room. Sharon had nodded, hiding her surprise that a room she did not think was open until 10 was already serving guests, and that someone was 'waiting for her' when no one could yet know she was working that night. It was flattering that one patron or another had a standing request and was at the club just on the chance Sharon might be there. So the married blonde had sauntered half naked into the back offering a man she had never met the most private dance before she went out on stage to tease the night's crowd. From that first set it had been like any other night at Snake Eyes.
Sharon had just finished another session in the back, deftly cleaning up having completed three consecutive 'privates' who had paid to take turns with her all at once. As her body moved and she made the right noises beneath the third guy, she had wondered how he could be excited having watched his buddies take their turns first. Had they drawn straws, or were some guys turned on at the idea of sloppy second seconds? She smiled to herself, acknowledging she had left sloppy seconds for the day behind long before arriving at the club.
The tube of lubricant was still sitting on the counter top to her left. That was one of the changes on her return- the girls were 'strongly encouraged' to use it before 'every customer.' It seemed laughable, no larger than most of her customers were, but Kelly had insisted it made doing their work easier, as well as safer, pointing out that it had a spermicidal included 'just in case.' Sharon did not argue the obvious, and she could admit even a dozen small guys might lead to some friction issues, which would be a problem if she could get Go or one of the frat members to truly entertain her after work. It had made her wonder what the girls who were not working in the back room must think, but she was not about to ask.
Sharon might be comfortable sitting naked in a room of women; she might be servicing strange men as if she had done it all her life, but it was not like the BZ ensnared housewife to rock the boat.
Going along was actually at least part of how she had come to be dancing naked for strangers and fucking frat members and total strangers on a daily basis. It was also why she was at the club on a Thursday- one of the dancers she had barely met had called, begging Sharon to come in to work her shift. Sharon had heard something about being on probation for missed shifts and a sick child, so she had agreed, but only after calling the frat to make sure there would be no..scheduling conflicts with guests expecting her to be home.
The young man manning the phone at the ZB frat had been more quick than she had expected before assuring her she could work the extra shift at Snake Eyes. Pleased at the change, she had let the worried young dancer know the shift was covered, then grabbed her dance bag and headed for her car, only to find she had visitors standing at her front door.
Sharon would still blush if she stopped to consider how calmly she had welcomed the odd pair of older white men into her little home after literally bumping into one of them where they had been standing on her tiny concrete stoop. It was fairly early for such visitors, but she had grown accustomed to callers at all hours of the day and night.
The first man, whom she had bounced off of, was shorter, heaver, softer, and older, with thinning gray hair and a mustache that would have looked perfect on Albert Einstein in his later years. He had seemed as confused as Sharon, at her appearance and obvious intent to depart, stammering that they had an appointment, or at least that he thought they had. He stammered the explanation without really meeting Sharon's gaze- his eyes had not risen past the barely concealed cleavage in the V-neck Snake Eyes T she had thrown on that morning. He had produced a painfully old hand held computer, the HP version of a palm pilot, she had recognized, having purchased one for Chris maybe a decade earlier.
"I'm sorry, but you must have the wrong date," she had said, checking the time on her iPhone, "I'm supposed to be at work soon." Not for the first time Sharon looked around, wondering what her neighbors thought about her steady stream of visitors.
The second guy- slime ball, she had thought at first glance- had pushed around his timid, rotund friend, and past her as well, striding purposefully through the open front door into her small home.
"You don't really want to be arguing about this outside," he had sneered, "Let's just call your employer," he had looked back, eyeing her up and down with a haughty expression on his pinched, rodent face, :"And let them remind you the customer is always right." Sharon had shrugged and she had done exactly that, calling to the frat less than five minutes after her last call. It had been the same guy, not a member she could place, not one of the guys who usually answered the phone. She wondered if that explained how he had told her she could work without knowing she was about to have guests, and felt a pang of guilt that Go might still take the absence out on the other stripper.
She was glad that he seemed to understand the issue, and that he was not reluctant about telling her he was going to have to ask about it. Sharon had waited, imagining a room in the frat with a big erasable white board and the heading 'Sharon Sobel's Sex Schedule.' Before he had put her on hold he had asked for the men's names, which she had gotten, ignoring the rodent's eye roll. She was left watching the men, one looking about imperiously, sneering at the pole where one would usually eat dinner, the other watching her with an apologetic expression while a tinny distorted elevator muzak rendition of 'Baby's Got Back' played in her ear.