Chapter 2

Alice was really focused on her set, when she looked up and her eyes locked with Dan's. What was he doing here? How did he find her? A million questions were racing through her mind.

She stared into his eyes from across the room for a few seconds more, before going back to her number, trying to just act like he wasn't there. She smiles at one of the customers, swinging three times around the pole, causing her to land on the floor.

She curved her body upwards, as the man below inserted money into her top.

" Thank you." she says, with a smile, laughing with him as she continued to entertain him and his group of friends in the front row.

Dan couldn't take much more of this. How could she go back to this again? She was so much more than all of this.

Alice could see Dan at the corner of her eye, and would never admit that at that moment she was really trying to make him jelous. Jelously was always Dan's worst quality. At least to her. Alice thanked the next guy in the group as he put a one hundred dollar bill in her belt.

Then suddenly the guy at the back end of the table shifted towards the front of the stage and started grabbing at her chest.

" We're not allowed to touch." she says, in a higher tone since the music was so loud.

" Oh, come on, sexy. Take it all off. Don't save it for the back room!" says the guy, continuing to grab at her, as he laughed with his friends who were chiming in.

" Hey, relax. Take a step back, alright?" says Alice, more seriously this time, as she adjusted her top, trying to get back to her feet to move away from him since she was still squatted on the platform.

" Come on, baby. What are you doing after this? Do you pay by the hour?" says the guy, beggining to pull her back down.

" Aiden!" shouts Alice, to one of the bouncers.

She gently tries to push the guy off of her. He had obviously had too much to drink and had no clue what he was doing. But he just kept on coming at her, and the bouncer was nowhere in sight.

Suddenly, Dan emerged from the crowd, violently pulling the guy off of Alice by the back of his jacket. They both went to the floor in a scuffle.

" Stop! Dan! Stop it!" screams Alice, pulling herself up.

" Bastard!" screams Dan, as he punches the guy.

Alice comes down from the stage, trying to get Dan off of the guy. The bouncers were already making there way to the front of the stage where all of this was happening. They pulled Dan and the guy off of eachother, escorting them to the front of the club.

" No- I know him.." says Alice, to the bouncer who had Dan by the back of the shirt.

" No boyfriends in the club. You know that, Jane." says the bouncer, continuing to the front of the club.

" Alice!" yells Dan, as he is being escorted out.

Alice wraps her arms around herself, not believing that Dan was acting like this. She quickly went to the back dressing room, pulling her regular clothes on. She puts on her boots, and long coat.

" Hey Missy. Can you tell Frank I had to take off?" says Alice, frantically grabbing her purse.

" Sure. He's pissed by the way. No boyfriends in the club. You know that." says Missy, putting lipstick on in the mirror.

" He's not my boyfriend. Just cover for me, ok?" says Alice.

" Yeah, yeah. Go. Deal with him." says Missy.

" Thanks." says Alice, going out the back exit.