The idea for this story came out of my own personal frustration with school and lack of financial aid, and my brilliant beta Fran suggested I spin a story out of it! So, here goes :) I'm not sure how long this is going to be, so we'll just kinda play it by ear, so to speak, and see where it goes!

Me being NOT Stephenie Meyer, I clearly do not own ANYTHING Twilight...*sadface*

BPOV

"Holy fracking shitballs...what the ever-lovin fuck..." I stood in the middle of my kitchen, frozen in place, staring at the piece of paper in my hand.

"Bells? Yoo-hoo...what's up?" my roommate Alice waved her hands in front of my face, snapping me out of my trance.

"Uh...what's up? What's up is I just got a bill from school...apparently, financial aid won't be covering my fucking classes this semester...MY LAST GODDAMN SEMESTER!" I replied, nearly shouting the last part. "I can't afford to pay the tuition myself, my parents can't and won't help me, I have no savings, I have no money, I don't know what to do, I have bills to pay, I can't afford this, what am I gonna do, how...what..."

"Whoa, take a breather...deep breaths...can I see the letter?" My best friend and second roommate, Rosalie, came into the room. I handed her the letter and she skimmed over it quickly, then handed it back to me. "Yeah, looks like something that happened to one of the girls that works at my club, that's how she got into that line of work. She had no other way to pay the bills."

Rosalie was a dancer at one of the three strip clubs in our dinky little town of Forks, Washington...here's the kicker: it was a THEMED strip club. The theme was styled after a very famous album by a very famous "mop-top British invasion"...yep, you guessed it, The Beatles. It was called Sgt. Pecker's Lonely Hearts Club. Clever, I know. The bouncers wore T-shirts that were printed to look like the costumes from Sgt. Pepper, the waitresses wore skimpy versions of the same costumes, and the house band played Beatles songs and looked like they'd stepped right off the cover of the album. It was super cheesy, but Rose made INSANE money. Suddenly I was jerked out of my second trance in as many minutes by the feeling that I was being stared at, which was not an everyday occurrence...Rose and Alice got stared at, Rose because of her job and Alice because of her ridiculous amount of energy (I swear the girl VIBRATED she was so hyper) and the impeccable fashion sense she had.

"What? Did I suddenly start growing purple horns with big green polka dots or something, why the hell are you guys staring at me?" I asked.

"I know how you can make the money to pay your tuition," Rose said.

"Yeah. It's brilliant. OOH! She should wear blue, she looks amazing in blue," Alice gushed in agreement with Rosalie.

I looked at them warily, wondering what scheme they were cooking up, and asked them as much.

"Come work at the club with me!" Rose exclaimed. "We are actually looking for another dancer because one of the girls got married and knocked up...well, not in that particular order but, really, who didn't see that coming? Mike came in every night that Jess worked, stayed for her whole shift, and we ALL know what they did in the private rooms..."

"ROSALIE! WE GET IT!" Alice and I yelled in unison...it was something we'd perfected very quickly in the time we'd all lived together. Rose had a tendency to overshare and ramble and be completely oblivious to both.

"Huh? Oh, sorry...anyway, seriously Bella, you are a great dancer, you just need a little practice on the stage & poles but you're a natural. You have a good sense of rhythm, and you've got curves that all the girls at the club are jealous of!" Rosalie said. Pretty much all the girls that worked at the club had gone to the same high school as Alice, Rose, and me, so we all knew each other and had watched each other go through puberty, which I will admit, had been very kind to me. That being said, however, I didn't really know what to do with my...assets...I had long brown hair which I usually just pulled up into a ponytail, I wore mostly jeans, hoodies, and tennies, or scrubs. I owned 3 sets of scrubs, one for school, one to start my collection, and one that I wore when I was bumming around the house or had to do laundry. I was in my final semester of nursing school and wanted to be a pediatric nurse.

All of a sudden, I heard "Yellow Submarine" playing on the stereo, and I saw Rose and Alice dancing toward me. I tried to escape but they were too quick. They sandwiched me in between them, Rose placing my hands on her hips and hers on mine, and Alice's hands were on my shoulders. I gave in because I knew resistance was futile, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I didn't have any other options. So I figured I'd better learn as much as I could as quickly as I could because Rosalie was working tonight and I would go in with her and talk to Emmett, co-owner of the club and Rose's boyfriend. Alice was coming too, since her boyfriend Jasper was the other co-owner as well as bartender at the club.

A little before 8 PM, the three of us walked in the back door of the club. While Alice headed up front to see Jasper, Rose and I went to Emmett's office. Twenty minutes later, we walked back out, me carrying a bright green outfit made up of a bustier, epaulettes, boyshorts, and go-go boots. Thankfully I had time to take a bath and shave every inch of my body before we left home, otherwise there was no way in hell I'd be putting this outfit on.

Rose and I walked into the dressing room, where a few girls were getting ready for work and a few others were getting ready to go home. I greeted the ones I knew and was introduced to the others. I think they were all girls from the reservation a few miles down the highway. They all gathered around to help me get into my outfit and do my hair and makeup and give me pointers for my first night. We went on stage at 10 PM, but I was ready to go by 9:30, so I started doing some simple dance moves to warm up and get comfortable in the outfit and shoes, I sure didn't want to fall on my face on my first day!

Well...there ya go! Whaddya think? Next chapter is gonna be EPOV, coming soon :)

I had to laugh when I pictured our girls practicing their stripper moves to "Yellow Submarine"...that song is pretty awesome ;) it's one of my personal favorite Beatles songs...