4 pm at last. Lily had been working for 8 hours straight that day, exploring every type of human mouth. She wave goodbye to her last patient that day, an eighty- year old man whose surprisingly still having all of his teeth.
Looking out the window, Lily find herself still feels awe while looking at the giant city of Ripsep even though she had live there for a month now. All the skyscrapers, the expensive looking vehicles, and the city itself, always alive 24/7. At her hometown, everything went completely quiet as early as 8 p.m.
A few months ago, Lily can't believe her luck when her uncle who she never met, who is also a dentist himself asked Lily to come to work at his clinic in Ripsep. Lily who already working at the town local hospital without a second thought accepts her uncle's proposition. First of all, she feels bored with live at her small town and besides, her uncle promise her triple salary.
So, here she is now. Alone in a big city, riding a public bus from home to work and back again, enjoying the sceneries before her very eyes. Her uncle and aunt had asked her to live with them in their mansion but she politely declined.
At the age of 27, she believes that she will be able to take care of herself. Besides, she wants to be free to do whatever she wants. She had had enough while living with her mother when she still working at the hospital in her hometown. Her mother treated her like a small child where she's not even allowed to went to the bar and have a drink with her co-worker after work.
She arrived at her small but comfortable one room apartment after 30 minutes bus ride. Once inside, she throws away her bag, takes off her clothes, and takes a very long shower. She realizes that she took 1 hour in the bathroom.
While laze around in the living room, watching cartoons, Lily suddenly feels bored. She don't have friends to hang out. Most of the other dentists are quiet old to be her friend and do fun things. The nurses, they are all married with children. A good mother and father who love to spend time with their children at night.
"Hmm, I don't have friends. Maybe I should go out and make friends," Lily said to herself while suddenly stand up.
Lily went into to her room, pick up her phone on the bed and turn on her GPS. She's looking for the nearest bar to her apartment.
"Club Clementine, The Ladies' Club. Hmm. The nearest one but still take 30 minutes by car," said Lily.
She's worried that she will not be able to get a ride home late at night, but at last, still decided to go anyway. She will just stay or few hours and then get home before taxis end their services that night.
From that name, she knows what kind of club is that. But she is no stranger to that kind of lifestyle. Even though she never have special someone in her live, never experimented with the normal way and all, she always know that this is what she wants.
Rather than queer people or most normal who like to experiment with different people and all, to try and test, Lily definitely not liked that. She wants to find the one. Despite her abnormal desire, she still has this old fashion ways of thinking.
Wearing her polka- dot peach chiffon dress and a pair of high heels, Lily feels ready to have fun that night. Checking her long brown wavy hair for one last time in the mirror, Lily practically running out from her apartment to get to the taxi that had been waiting for her outside.
That night, the traffic seems clear, so the taxi was able to arrive 10 minutes sooner at the club.
That club looks like an old castle with modern painting. It has two towers made up of pink and purple bricks. In between of the towers, it wrote 'Club Clementine'.
Just below the roof, there are two pink giant roman poles.
Stepping out from the taxi, she did not know what to expect from this club. Not that she had never been to a night club before. During her college years, she visits night club almost every week with her group of friends. But tonight, she is all alone and it makes her feels some kind of nervous.
After queuing, it's finally Lily's turn.
The person who was in charge of the entrance is a very handsome young butch. Maybe around Lily's age. She is quiet tall, about 5" 5". She's wearing blue baseball jacket, tight black jeans and a pair of brown biker boots and half tie her shoulder length brown hair.
"Hello, there. Alone?" asked that handsome butch while looking at Lily with her brown eyes that match her hair.
"Yes," reply Lily.
"First time here? I'm sure I will never forget a cute femme like you," said that pretty butch , jokingly flirting with Lily.
"I am. I'm still new to this city," said Lily slightly blush being called cute.
"You are lucky to come here in this specific night. Today we have dance show by a few hot ladies," said that soft butch and give Lily a cute wink.
After showing her ID and made entrance payment, Lily make her way inside.
That place is enormous, not like a regular night club. It seems like you can fit the whole stadium in it and you might lost in the sea of people who keep dancing on the dance floor in middle of the club. With the big stage, Club Clementine looks like a combination of school hall, theater and night club.
Because she comes alone, Lily never bothered to find a table. Instead, she just settled down in one of the empty seat at the bar.
"Hello, again, cutie," said a familiar androgynous voice.
Looking up, she realizes that it was the same handsome butch at the entrance.
"I thought you work at the entrance?" asked Lily, surprised.
"Yeah, I work at the entrance, at the bar, in the toilet, underground. You name it. I even run this place," said that masculine looking woman.
"Oh, so you are the owner?" asked Lily. Coming to the club, she never expects to find the owner. Never in her life she met the owner of even her favorite club. But now, she's talking to the exclusive looking club owner.
"Uh- huh. Me and my business partner," said that handsome woman again."I'm Jay by the way. Shorten for Jamie-Jane Bauer".
"Hi, Jay. I'm Lily, Lily Cole," said Lily.
"So, Lily, what can I get you?" asked Jay.
"A glass of milk, please," said Lily.
Jay burst out laughing real hard. Lily doesn't seem to be surprise by this.
"I have this disease where my body can't tolerate alcohol. I will get sick," said Lily.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. Wait here," she apologized but doesn't look sorry actually.
Jay went inside some small door behind the bar and come back a few minutes later with a glass of milk. Following her, a big breasted woman saying something in French.
"Here you go, baby girl. It comes fresh from here," said Jay while suddenly cupping that busty woman's breast. Lily almost choked on her own saliva.
"Or maybe you want it even fresher? What do you say?" said Jay again while moves her brown eye brow up and down quickly. The busty woman seems oblivious to Jay's assault to her breast and busy talking to her phone.
"Not funny, Jay," said Lily while glaring at Jay.
Realized that Lily doesn't seem to be amused by her joke, Jay finally apologize.
"Sorry, baby girl. Don't worry. It's cow's milk. Drink up," apologize Jay.
They talk for a while about their live, getting to know each other better. Jay tells her that it had been five years she opened Club Clementine with her business partner. Even though both of them are gay, they never involved romantically with each other.
Lily on the other hand told Jay about her job as a dentist and about being gay for as long as she can remember. But she never went too specific about still being a virgin and all. The last time she did that, most people both men and women keep trying to seduce her to get into her pants. She does not want that. She wants love. Real love.
Suddenly , the lights went out, left the whole club pitch black except the front stage. She realize that most people who was dancing just now already moved to available seats.
"The dance show is about to start. Promise you will enjoy it," assured Jay.
The first show is some kind of break dance by a group of ten girls. They are wearing baggy jeans, black tee shirt and red hat. It's amazing how they can spin their body with one hand, form a human pyramid and throw each other into the air and managed to catch their friends just in time.
After that, there are a few many similar dance, and then salsa dance, Indian dance, tap dance, Japanese traditional dance and many more that Lily can't make out.
At last, the host announced the last and special dance of the night by the club owners. You can heard whistling and cat- calling from the audience when the host mentioned about the owners.
"YOU are going to dance?" asked Lily when she remembered that the person that keep her company all night is the club owner.
"Yeah? Do I not look like a dancer to you?" asked Jay while removing her baseball jacket and revealing her black tuxedo. She looks so handsome.
"Come on, slug. What are you even doing here anyway? I asked you to wait in the dressing room. We are not supposed to do any work before the show," said a female voice who appear out of nowhere.
Like being strike by a cupid arrow, Lily's heart suddenly stopped when she first lays her eyes on the woman who standing next to Jay, taking her hand.
She has the same height as Jay, the same muscular body and the same dominant looking as Jay. The only difference between those two is that woman is clearly a femme with a silky long black haired, some make- up and blue sky tight dress and white high heels.
The woman took Jay's hand and started to led her to the stage.
"Hey, I'm supposed to lead here," said Jay playfully.
"Shut up. You are unreliable sometimes," said that woman. When looking at Jay, she accidently lays her eyes on Lily and she suddenly pause and make Jay to look at what that attract her partner's attention.
"Oh, that's my new friend, Lily. I will introduce you two later. Come on," said Jay smiling and being the one who lead now. She pulled the black haired woman to the stage.
Lily who feels like having an asthma attack just now finally be able to breathe again. She wonder why she feels like that towards Jay's partner, the feeling of very strong longing. She wants to look at those beautiful dark eyes, she wants to hold that sexy body, she wants her.
"I love her," said Lily softly to herself. She touch her own lips, not believing that she feels like that about someone she just met and able to say it out.
Jay and her partner started dancing a very sensual dance. Jay is the one who lead the dance. She is the one who pick up her partner, lean to her and looked to almost kissed. The crowded club fell silent while Jay and her partner doing their routine.
Lily feels a little bit jealous.
