WARNING: If you don't like stories where the cheater gets away with it or gets forgiven for it, this story and many others in my catalog are not for you. Unless otherwise labeled, my stories are fiction no marriage has been endangered to create this story. This is not our universe though it has similarities. STD's are not an issue in this universe, unless they feature in the story line.
Who's My Dad
I am folding laundry when the phone rings.
"Hello"
"Mom, we need to talk."
"Sure dear, do you want to come over? Your dad is cleaning the garage."
"No, I need to talk to you alone. Can you drop by at 1? James and the kids are in swim classes from 1 to 3."
"OK, what is this about?"
"I don't want to say over the phone."
"All right, I will be over at 1. Are you sure you don't want me to bring Terry?"
"I definitely do not want dad to be involved in this conversation. Not yet at any rate."
"OK, see you then, bye."
"Bye"
Weird, what could have Lynn so upset. Why does she not want Terry to be involved?
I arrive at Lynns place about 5 to 1.
"Come in, would you like a glass of wine?"
"That sounds lovely." I kick off my shoes and find a place on the couch.
Lynn brings through a tray with a couple of glasses of wine and some cheese and crackers. She puts it on the coffee table and sits beside me. I put cheese on a cracker and grab my wine.
"Mom, I don't know how to ask this, but did you have an affair?"
"No, why would you think that?"
She pulls a paper from under the tray. "Here is my ancestry DNA test. It shows I have a half-brother. His surname is Wagstaff."
I look at the results. I slump down and take a drink of my wine. "OK, this will be a long story."
"Does dad know?"
"That you are not his? No, though we understood that there was a significant risk that you were not his. We debated for some time whether or not to get an abortion, so that we could know who the father was for sure. In the end we decided to roll the dice."
"So, he knew?"
"OK, it is complicated. I need to start a bit further back. The economy in the early 1990's was rather grim. In December 1991 Terry lost his job. We thought we were OK, I was still working and we had lots of savings. But things got worse, and I was cut back to part time. By June we were starting to realize that we were in real trouble. Terry had spent six months shopping his resume to everyone who was a potential employer with no luck."
I had also been looking for something that paid better, with no luck. We figured that by the end of September we would be in danger of losing the house. I was desperate, and thought my body was in good condition, maybe I could become a stripper. Strip clubs were advertising for girls.
I signed up for an amateur night at a strip club. I figured that I could try it and if I thought I could handle it, then Terry would probably be OK with it.
They said to show up at 6:30, the club would open at 7. I arrived in plenty of time, but sat in the car shivering in fear. Finally, I got out and the bouncer at the door asked if I was there for amateur night. I said yes, and he let me in. He told me to go into the main room and find a seat. By 6:30 there were 7 of us. One other girl, Annie, looked like I felt, terrified. So, I sat next to her and we chatted. Both of us were there because we needed the money.
The club manager introduced himself, and asked each of us why we were there. One said she had done it before and it was fun, so she wanted to surprise her boyfriend who would be there tonight. The two of us said we wanted to find out if we could do it, because we needed the money. The rest were there because a friend, a boyfriend or a husband wanted them to do it. Most of them were a bit nervous.
He took us on a tour, showed us the stages with the poles, and the VIP lounges for private shows, and finally through to the changing areas. He gave each of us a locker for our street clothes, and passed us over to 'Angel' who would get us ready.
Angel laid out the rules.
There were a lot of costumes we could choose from. All of us looked quite fit, so there should be no problem finding several costumes that would fit.
We each would do up to three sets over the evening. Each set consisted of three songs, on the first we would get down to underwear. By the end of the second we should be naked, and the third was a nude dance. After that we would come back and get dressed. If we wanted, we could offer lap dances in the main hall, but no total nudity and they were not supposed to touch us. We could also do VIP rooms. There we would get nude, and the guys would want to touch, which was up to us. A final warning that in the VIP rooms we would be pressured to have sex, and we would be offered a lot more money. If we agreed, there were condoms in a bowl in the room. We should avoid groups of men in the VIP room if we did not want to have sex.
Annie and I agreed that there would be no VIP rooms, but were concerned that if we took a job, then we would have to be willing to have sex. Neither of us was willing to do that.
Then we were told to pick out costumes and put them on. There was a bin of panties, and we were expected to throw the panties into the audience when we took them off. I looked at one, it had the club's name and logo on the front.
The costumes were all break away and she showed us how to rip one open and toss it back toward the curtain where someone would pick it up. We all tried it.
Next, she showed us various moves on the practice pole in the back. By that time, I was feeling a bit more confident about it. We were offered drinks. I had a rum and coke.
She finally asked who wanted to be first, and the girl who had done it before volunteered to be first. Annie and I both wanted to be last, but she said no, the two most likely to crap out were not to be together, I ended up third.
As I was waiting my turn, my nerves got bad again, I peeked out and realized there must be 40 men in the audience. Angel said it was a slow night.
Finally, I was up. Out onto the stage, dance around the edge as instructed, move to the center, and rip open the shirt, toss it to the back. Dance around in my skirt and bra, then back to the center and pull off the skirt. Toss it to the back, and the song ended.
I return to the center, the next song started, and someone shouted "Take it off".
I panicked. The bra from the costume unclipped in the front, but I could not do it. I bolted for the back, found a corner in the change room, and cried.
The audience was roaring. There was no way I could go back out there. Angel came over and gave me another rum and coke. She got me calmed down. "Look this isn't for everyone. It is tough. There is no shame in not being able to do it."
She helped me get dressed, and Annie got dressed as well. She was not even going to try. I had too much to drink, I could not drive, and Annie drove me home.
I told Terry what I had tried. He hugged me and cuddled all night. In the morning, he drove me back for the car. It was pretty clear that I was not going to make the budget balance by stripping.
At University, I had done strip teases for boyfriends, and in one case for a group of 4, but I knew everyone. The thing that terrified me was that I had no idea who was out there, or what they were like. I had no problem getting naked with people I knew, but not for an anonymous crowd.
Our financial situation was getting worse. I started to think about what I would be willing to do to keep the house. I came to the realization that I was more comfortable with the idea of having sex with someone who I did not know than I was with being nude in front of a crowd. I did a bit of research and then booked a meeting with the manager of a massage parlor.
We talked about the working conditions, about the security that the business had, and how they handled bad customers. Condoms were required by policy, but occasional non condom events occurred that I would have the option of attending. She said that bad customers were rare, because everyone knew there were other people in the building and that if a girl called for help, someone would come. She also said that the police were aware of what they did, referring to them as a bordello. When she called the police when they had a bad customer, they responded fairly quickly and arrested the guy for assault. The officer explained how it would go down, and how they would present the organization in court. As long as everyone stuck to a specific set of wording, the bordello would be immune, and the girl attacked would not be charged with prostitution. The police preferred the bordello to street prostitution which generated a lot of public backlash.
I was given a tour and we discussed the financial compensation. I told them I would consider it.