Lily followed the stranger through the large red doors, her arm being pulled by the blonde. Unknown to her, she was being pulled into Merlin's Kisses. The blonde, a 22 year old named Cassie was the clubs best dancer and had spotted potential in Lily's skinny figure. "So you dance?" Lily asked. "What type of dancing?" She guessed it wasn't ballet. Cassie shrugged, "exotic dancing, letting the men see me shake my booty, makes me a buck load of money" she explained, Lily can't really complain about any of this. The money is what she really wants and needs. Curious, she asks "how much is a buck load?" She didn't plan to actually join, but she wants to know what the dancers could make in a night, since this could possibly be the acceptance Diagon Alley was giving her. Cassie thought for a moment before answering. "Well on a good night I can make up to 300 galleons. As someone who's still in school you would probably only make around 100 to 150 galleons a night. But you're going to have to be good to make David want to hire you. I only picked you because of your stunning looks. The rest is up to you sweet cheeks." Lily was amazed, she had no idea that this club had even existed just 10 minutes ago and now this leggy blonde assumes she wants this job so badly that she's willing to audition there and then. The annoying thing was, Lily was seriously thinking about it. Who would turn down money like that for the loss of some dignity and some clothing. What worried Lily the most was that her dancing may not be good enough for David. She had very obviously never danced exotically or erotically ever and she was now as close to a pole as she had ever been. Her shape has ensured that she is a very flexible young woman and as a child she used to do ballet, again something that isn't going to help her here at all. Before she could really think about it, Lily nodded at Cassie "let's do this" she agreed before she could back down. If this was a chance to earn some money and be able to return to Hogwarts then why should the road getting there be questioned.

Cassie took Lily's hand and pulled behind the stage, not allowing Lily the chance to look at the place before she was being launched into a small office containing a largely build man who seemed far too big for the room. "What the fuck is this Cassie?" He asks in a heavy welsh accent. "Little sweet cheeks, hot enough to melt butter and sexy enough to keep 'em hard, she's pretty cute too" she purred, flirting a little. Lily raised an eyebrow, could this woman not tell that David was gay? He made it pretty obvious in the way he held himself. He ignored Cassie completely and turned to Lily. "Name?" He asked rather rudely. "Lily Evans" she snapped. She wasn't happy about the situation she was in and didn't like rude and obnoxious people. David nodded his head thoughtfully for a few minutes making both Lily and Cassie fairly uncomfortable. Very suddenly he clasped his hands together and announced "your name is Rose, if you can dance well you will dance with Cassie as a devil and angel double act and we will take it from there. If you can't dance you can be a drink server. You're too cute to say no to and we don't want you failing school do we. Cassie get her dressed up and we'll see how she moves." And with that he was dismissing them and had gone back to the paperwork he was working on. "Don't mind him" Cassie said as she led Lily to the big dressing room. "He works long long days and hardly sleeps when he's at home" she winked before pulling a crimson bra and matching underwear out of the dresser . "Sorry if it doesn't fit. Ideally for the double act you'll be in black as the devil but I don't own black and you don't borrow off the girls without asking, rule number one." She passed Lily the underwear and waited for her to change. "Get used to wearing very little around here. Even as the drink girl the most material will be on your shoes." Lily nodded, not questioning and just doing as she was asked and told. She was proud of her body; she looked good and kept herself toned with plenty of exercise. Showing her body off was not her worry, the handy and sleazy type of men that surely come to this place is what makes Lily's skin crawl. "Don't be nervous sweet cheeks, your certain of a job here, enough to get you to school in your own private jet if you so wish." Cassie joked, smacking Lily's arse before pushing her onto the stage. "Move with the music!" She shouted as she made her way over to the DJ booth.

Lily stood in the middle of the stage awkwardly, strangely aware of the one pair of eyes on her body, taking her in and eating her up. This was a tiny tasting of what the hundreds of guys would be like. Lily gave an involuntary shiver and felt goose bumps on her arms. "Turn." David's shrill voice pierces through the silence of th huge room. Lily nodded and turned slowly so that he could see all of the body. Cassie wolf whistled from the booth, causing Lily to giggle and for the tension in the room to disappear. Taking a deep breath, Lily calmed herself and nodded to Cassie, the universal signal to start the Music. Lady marmalade from the film Moulin rouge began to play and Lily relaxed into the music and began to move. She felt ridiculous really; trying to dance seductively is something that she had very obviously never done before. She was clumsy as she danced her way to one of the polls and she very nearly tripped over her own feet at one point. However, as the music continued, something in Lily changed. She suddenly became carefree and started swinging her hips and giving into the music as Cassie had told her to. Smiling her brightest smile, Lily flirted with the 'would be' crowd. She was comfortable in her own body and a woman like Cassie thought she was sexy and hot, she doesn't seem like the person who would lie. The music ended as did Lily, breathing hard and fairly pleased with herself, considering she had never done anything like this before. She worked hard, getting her breath back, trying not to give away how unfit she felt at that moment. She looked at David who was nodding. "You need work. You have two days to sort yourself out and work on a routine with Cassie. Buy some fitting underwear and I will see you at 7pm sharp on Wednesday." And with that he got up and hid himself back in the office. Lily stood on the stage for a while, waiting for Carrie to make her way down from the booth. She was in a slight state of shock, both not believing what she had just done and where she had just got a job. Carrie was beaming as she came onto the stage "you were beautiful sweet cheeks! I didn't expect you to be that good straight away. So you know rule number one. Rule two is in no way shape or form do the men touch you. As you know all our money are coins, so at the bar they can exchange their money for Merlin's bills so that they can throw them onto the stage and tuck them. You can touch them where and when you want just not the other way around. Rule three is no drinking or drugs. We can't have you passing out or throwing up on the stage, it's bad for business." She walked back into the dressing room, Lily following behind her. Walking past some dressers she stopped near a middle one. "This is your dresser, outfits go behind you, make up sits on the side, not that you need it" she added. "Stay here a minute, get. Feel for the place, I'm going to borrow some money from David so we can get you some clothes." She slipped away through the door, leaving Lily alone in the large dressing room. Looking around for a long time she finally decided her first task should be to dress back into her own clothes. Finding her own clothing at Cassie's dresser she changed quickly and decided to take a look around. She walked into the main room and took in the beautiful tables. It didn't take much for Lily to imagine the chairs full of men, drooling over her dancing on the stage. Drinks flowing from the well-designed bar and Merlin notes flying at the huge stage area. Lily grinned to herself, she had found a job that was in the alley and she would be making a lot more then she had ever hoped. And as it turns out she was rather good at it!

Looking at the time Lily was shocked to see that it was almost 6pm. Her parents will be worried about her if she wasn't home soon. Making her way through the tables and back into the dressing room she ran into Cassie who was on her way out of the office. "Ah, sweet cheeks, here you go" she said, heading Lily a pouch heavy with money. "Buy some nice sets and some heels you can dance in" Lily nodded as she looked at the contents of the pouch. "Meet me here at 3pm and we'll dance" and with that she soared out of the door, leaving Lily yet again alone. Lily looked around one last time before making her way to the front door and walking out onto Diagon alley. It was as if the last two hours in Merlin's Kisses never happened. People were still rushing around, although shops were now closing up. Lily hurried off up the road, hoping the fireplace at the leaky cauldron was not packed, she was already far too late for dinner.

As it was, she really should not have rushed like she was. When James Potter stepped out of his work place, he had the pleasure of being run down by Lily Evans, who had landed right on top of him. "Oh, I'm sorry James, I need to get home" she said, rushing to get up and not stopping to see if he was alright before she started off again toward to pub. James stood and watched her retreating. The only thing going through his mind was that the love of his life had called him James. He shook his head and followed in the direction that Lily had gone in. Today was a good day for both of the teenagers.