Chapter 11: Jesse
Arriving at the club, I keep trying to tell Lolah that she is too young to go into the club and that it is too dangerous.
"I'm only one year younger than the age limit! I'm going, and that's that!" Lolah says.
So, Lolah gets out of the car and I follow close behind. We walk up to the bouncer, and show our id cards. Lolah doesn't show hers, but whispers into the bouncer's ear. He lets her go by.
"What did you say?" I ask, once we were inside.
"I will tell you later. Now let's go find the clue before they figure out that I lied," Lolah says.
We reach towards the stage as Lolah skips backstage.
"Lolah, what are you doing!" I whisper nerviously.
"I'm looking for clues backstage."
"Won't they notice you?"
"Again, it is what I told to the bouncer, now go look for clues somewhere else!"
I take the back, while Olivia and Elliot look around the stage. After a few minutes I asked them,
"Did you find anything?"
"Nothing," Olivia says.
Olivia turns around when she notices that someone tapped her on the shoulder.
"Um Lolah is that you? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WEARING!"
"A ." she says as she steps out from the curtain wearing a black Zorro mask and red and black lingerie. Hot. "They think I work here, I found a clue." she leads them backstage as she shows them to a black box. She pulls out a note and hands it to me. "It's for you." I look at the note and it has a big letter M on it.
"If you found this clue, then you are one step closer to your death. Why the Kit Kat Club you may ask? Go look in the audience..."
Just then the lights begin to dim; a big man in black takes Lolah and says,
"What are you doing? All dancers should be backstage at this time!" as he drags her away.
"There is nothing we can do but check the audience, she'll be fine. Knowing Lolah, she will get out of this," Olivia says as she takes my hand and leads me and Elliot to the audience.
"Okay, Elliot, check for anything that is unusual," Olivia says.
"I think I found it," he says as he points to someone in a suit holding hands with another man.
"FIN?" Olivia gasps.
Fin turns his head and he turns beet red.
"Uhh...What are YOU guys doing here?" Fin says.
"We are on a case, what about you?" Elliot says.
Fin was about to say something when his jaw drops,
"Is THAT Lolah?" he asks.
Our heads turned as we see Lolah all alone on stage looking completely blank. Everybody else just stares waiting for something to happen. In the still silence of the club, She opens her mouth and sings.
"...Let me entertain you...let me make you smile..." she sings good, but nervous.
The band gets the idea and starts playing the song from Gypsy.
"Let me do some few tricks, some old and some new tricks, I'm very versatile. And if you're really good, I'll make you feel good, and want your spirit to climb. So let me entertain you, and we'll have a really good time, yes sir, WELL, HAVE... A REALL GOOOOD...TIMMEEEEEEE!" she sings. Just before she turns off stage fallowed by a standing ovation, she comes back out and pulls her strap down a bit and the crowd roars with applause, just like gypsy.
"We should go get her now..." I say, "before they make her take something else off".
Running back stage we find her talking to the manager off the club.
"What ever you did, you need to do that again tomorrow night! The crowd loved you!"
she sees us hiding behind the curtain.
"Well I didn't love it. I quit!" and storms off to where we were.
"That has to be the most embarrassing thing I ever did." she says. "Did you guys find the clue?"
"No, but we found something else way more interesting..." Elliot says
"No, come on. We need to search more." Jesse says.
"..Okay." Lolah says.
We go out yet again into the audience and search like crazy.
"Found it!" Olivia says as Lolah and I rush over towards her.
"It's a picture of the orphanage that Jenna came from..." she says.
"Wait! Look, there's something on the back..." I say, as I turn the photograph over.
"what tells no tale?" it says. "love, M".
"Come on, let's get out if here!" Lolah says as we run for the exit.