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Hot Stuff
Lily awoke to the sound of Tracy's alarm clock carrying across the den and into her room. She groaned inwardly, "Turn it OFF!" she yelled as she rolled over to look at the time. 11:00am. 'Why???' she asked herself as she rolled back over in bed, and covered her head with the covers.
"Come on. Time to get up." Tracy groaned, stumbling into Lily's room and turning on the lights.
Lily responded by promptly burying herself deeper under the covers.
"Wake UP!" Tracy said, pulling the covers off of her. Lily's toes scrunched up as the cold air reached her body.
"I hate you." She mumbled.
"I hate you too. Come On."
"You don't have to go for another two or three hours, and I don't have to wake UP for another four or five...!" Lily grumbled, trying to feel for the covers.
"We have that bachelor party today. Remember? He reserved the whole place. And Bobby wants us in early."
Lily muttered a series of swear words under her breath, "how long do a group of men need to oogle at a naked woman? It's not like my boobs are any different from any other girls boobs..." she grumbled angrily to herself. Tracy rolled her eyes, and left to make breakfast.
"I'm gonna hop in the shower!" Lily called.
"What do you want for breakfast?" Tracy yelled back.
"Whatever you're having!" and with that, Lily shut the door to the bathroom.
Lily was examining herself in the mirror when the smell of bacon and eggs wafted under the door. She stepped lightly onto the scale in the bathroom. '113... lost weight from last night...' she sighed and turned back to the mirror. "You know what Trace? It's a sick profession we've gotten ourselves into..."
Tracy took that moment to walk into the bathroom to weigh herself.
"I mean really, look at us! We spend every morning weighing ourselves naked just to make SURE that we can keep our jobs, because we've convinced ourselves that clothing weighs at least 2 pounds..." She spritzed her hair with water, "then we spend the next 5 minutes staring at ourselves in the mirror, poking and prodding our waists with our fingers, hoping that no one notices that little bit of tub that's beginning to show itself... Then we eat breakfast, only to do the same weighing, examining routine all over again..." She began to brush her hair, "When we're finally satisfied that we look acceptable, we spend the next 30 minutes doing our hair, and the next 30 minutes after that, doing our makeup and getting dressed, only to go to work, to put on MORE makeup, and take off the clothing that we spent forever picking out that morning..." she said, as she started to blow dry her hair, "Only to go home after that, sleep, and start the same routine all over again! It's ridiculous!"
Tracy had tossed her robe back on, "breakfast." and she was out of the bathroom again.
Lily sighed, threw on a robe, and followed her to the kitchen.
It wasn't much of a kitchen, actually, it wasn't really a kitchen. It was a bit of the main room, partitioned off by half of a wall with a hot plate, refrigerator, sink, and microwave. There was counter space, but very little. They used the half wall as a sort of a bar. Lily pulled up a stool and sat at the wall.
"Bacon and eggs, my favorite." She said a bit sarcastically. They always had bacon and eggs, mainly because it was one of the fastest things to make for breakfast. And Tracy refused to buy that "instant oatmeal" junk.
Tracy pulled up a stool and sat next to Lily, "you know, we should really stop eating so much bacon and eggs…Doesn't it like…cause fat? All that oil on the bacon…?"
Lily nodded, but stabbed her piece of bacon anyway, and shoved it in her mouth, "Wew, iths goo"
"What?"
She swallowed the mouthful, "Well, it's good" she clarified.
Tracy rolled her eyes, finished her meal, and went back to the bathroom to continue getting ready for the day.
"You know Trace?" Lily called from the wall, "I think we should quit our jobs. I mean, it's not a very good job, and it doesn't pay you much money. On top of which it's really quite demeaning."
"You finally figured that out huh?" Tracy called back.
"Yeah, I mean-" she said, coming into the bathroom, "-think about it. We basically sell ourselves…in a way. I mean, not physically, like TO them, but we do sell our bodies for their amusement."
"Yeah." Tracy said, and swept out of the bathroom to get dressed.
"Can I tell you a secret?" Lily called towards the bedroom.
"Sure."
"I don't quite mind being a stripper…sometimes it's fun. I mean, to know that you have that sort of power over a man. And not just one man, but every man."
"You're sick Lily." Was the blunt reply.
"No really, think about it. I am what most guys fantasize about! Me, My body, Little Lily, the always 'Cute' one…I was never the good looking one. That was you Trace. I was always 'cute' or 'adorable' or something to that effect. But now, I mean, I'm hot! It's kinda like we switched places except you're still good looking."
"Just not as good looking as you huh?" Tracy said with a sad smile.
"That's not what I meant!" Lily went to her bedroom to change.
"That's exactly what you meant. You're saying that you're the good looking one that everyone wants to see naked, you're the one that everyone wants to sleep with. It was ME at school, but now it's you, and you like that. That you're finally the center of attention, that you can get any man you want. You like that feeling of having power over men and, thus, power over me. But let me tell you something Lily Evans. Regardless of how 'hot' or 'sexy' or 'fiiine' you get, I will always have something you don't. And that is self respect. The difference between me and you is that I won't bend to the wishes of a club owner who wants me to strip. I won't let men treat me as an object, and I certainly wouldn't use my looks to get them to fantasize about me. Especially if I don't even KNOW them, and I DEFINITELY wouldn't use my 'looks' to sleep with my best friends boyfriend." And with that, she walked out of the apartment.
"That's not what I meant…" Lily said sadly again. She finished dressing, and she too left the apartment.
"Go figure my main act shows up late." Bobby said mournfully to himself, mumbling about the current absence of Lily Evans to Tracy.
"I'm sure she'll be here soon" Tracy assured him, as she pulled up her miniskirt.
"I'm going to kill her when she gets here! You know she's always late, why didn't you wait for her?"
"There was absolutely no need to wait for her." She looked at herself in the full length mirror in her dressing room, "Very tasteful." She remarked , her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"It's not so bad. Anyway, that's the theme." Toby said, appearing in her doorway.
"Do you men mind giving me ANY form of privacy?" she remarked. The two men quickly vacated the room.
Tracy had a chance to observe herself in the mirror. She was wearing a crimson corset, with a matching thong. Clips from the corset extended to mid-thigh, where she had them clipped to fishnet stockings. She turned around to look at her butt. With a vain effort, she attempted to stretch the string that was the thong to cover her butt, to no avail. She sighed angrily, "I refuse to wear this."
She was in the process of removing the fishnets and thong, when Toby once again made an appearance. She calmly threw on a robe, "Don't you people ever KNOCK?"
Toby was making an effort to shield his eyes, "Sorry, I just was sent in here to tell you that Flower was here now, and in my defense you were dressed when I first came in here. How was I to know you would be undressed when I returned?"
"Just get out Toby." Tracy said, shoving him playfully through the door.
She shut and locked it after him. Looking through her wardrobe, she managed to drum up something a bit more modest: a black satin mini skirt, with a very large slit up one thigh. But when she tried to put her regular underwear back on, it showed. She swore under her breath as she put the wedgie back on.
"Look Lily, it's not that bad."
"You couldn't have told me this LAST NIGHT??"
"You wouldn't have come in this morning. Anyway, it's still really not that bad!"
"Oh really? I show up, all ready to do my regular routine, when I'm told all of a sudden that I'm supposed to strip completely? No! I refuse to do it. I will do my regular topless act. That is all." She said, pulling on a blood red ball gown that hugged her curves.
"Look, I'm not asking you to get completely naked. Just…take off the dress!" Telling women how far to strip down to was not Bobby's good point. He hated doing it, but if it got the customers, he was prepared to go to any length. He justified it by saying that it was all just business.
"To a THONG, Bobby. That's just as bad." She said, as she turned her back on him to face the mirror and comb her hair.
Bobby decided to try a different tactic, "Look. You'll be up there, all those men will be looking at you. Just you, slowly stripping for them. They'll eat you up. You're the number one act kiddo. They come for you. No one else, just you."
Lily looked at her reflection in the mirror. It was certainly tempting, all those men there just for her. She knew she was the star, and she also knew that Bobby was just playing to her ego, "Fine. But I get a raise."
"Done. Anything you want."
"And more dresses. These are getting old."
"Yes. Yes. Anything. Just do it." Bobby stood to go.
"One more thing Bobby."
He stopped in the doorway and turned to face Lily, "Yes?"
"Tracy gets an act, and a raise."
A/N: WAY SORRY this took SOOOOO long in coming!!!! Went to Hawaii just recently and then have been so busy at work! But hopefully more chapters will be coming out just as soon as I get a few spare moments! Hope you enjoyed! Reviews are awesome!