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"If you want Most guys don’t" She paused, then added, "We need to record it, though"
My jaw clenched involuntarily "It doesn’t end up on YouTube, or TMZ, or Reddit, does it?"
"It doesn’t end up anywhere, Sam I just have a couple of test woood enough, though, your two et you the job"
I took a long, deep breath in, then let it out slowly I looked around the rooe so quickly It was the fact that I took a giant leap and didn’t let ht What else could I break free froether once, looked at Louise, and said, "All right Where do we start?"
I waved Liam over and huddled with him I wanted to wipe the smirk off his face with a cup of battery acid, but that wasn’t going to help the situation "She wants rin spread across his face as if it were contagious "That’s how Louise works"
"You gotta be shittin’ me," I whispered "Is this for real or is this some kind of elaborate practical joke? Is there a camera here?"
"The only ca to video tape you so she can test you in front of a group of women Unless you do so well that she doesn’t even have to do that"
My eyes bored into his "Let uess, you did so well in your audition that you didn’t have to go through the video thing"
Liaht," he said "See, even you knew that"
"Fuck How do you do a strip tease?" I asked, confused and overwhelht, a couple nights a week, nity
"Just do what they do in those Chippendale shows, or that ic Mike"
"I’ Tatuht and squared his shoulders "Hell no we’re not We’re better"
That h "So the people that you do this for…"
His eyes went hard "Be prepared to dance for your mom"
"What? WHAT?" I shouted Everyone in the room turned and looked at me
"Keep your voice down," he said "Most of these things are chicks about five years older than us and a bunch of their moms Be prepared for these women to just want to touch you, and stick et tips?"
"Hell yeah, you get tips, that’s where all thewith anyone, do you?"
"No No" He held his palht, but I don’t do any of that shit"
"And you stillabout seven hundred bucks a week, just for two nights work Fridays and Saturdays are it, after our band gigs"
"Why do you need to do that kind of work?" I asked hie and did all of that for you"
He rolled his eyes "Dad cut raduated"
"Your dad cut you off?"
"Since I wouldn’t go to law school, or med school, or any of the other visions that they had for me" Eyeroll
I snickered I couldn’t help it, and then put my hand over my mouth "So, do your parents know you do this?"
"Fuck, no, they don’t know that I do this," he said, irritated Funny how Liaed when he didn’t have all the power "But, I can live pretty well on this and whatever we ed "Get ready to take your clothes off, dude"
"How far down do I have to go?"
He pointed to the guy’s dayglow blue g-string "Are you okay with that?"
It was about as bad as wearing a Speedo on the swim team I mulled it over Would I do that for seven hundred bucks a week? Would I let wo, their hands sliding overrabbing Seven hundred a week Ass grabbing For seven hundred a week
Seven hundred a on
"What do I need to do?" I said, in a louder voice, turning to Louise
She docked her iPod into so "Get started when you hear theand just follow the beat, I told et tense while I waited If I just followed the beat, I could do da other than the thought that I was now going to go down to roup of people I’d never
The second tiotten naked in so many hours
The first time was so much better
The ot , and then I decided to play it up to the crowd In one fluidthis for Ah, because aren’t women supposed to strip for men? Maybe that was outdated I focused on Liam, who had seen h plenty of stupid displays, some of them sober Most of them not
And now, if he wanted to sit there with that s ht at hiuffawed, and Lia with the joke I paraded, I pranced, I danced, I gyrated, I did whatever I re By the end, I struck an Olylutes and thighs, as the music faded out Liam was covered in my jeans, socks, shirt, but not, thank God, olf claps--and I couldn’t tell whether they were sarcastic or genuine