AN: I've had an idea for a story like this for a while now, but I got talking to a buddy of mine back home and it kinda lit a fire under my ass. He brought up the times we use to go to the strip clubs together and how fun it was. From what I recall it was pretty fun... beside the end bill!
The flashing lights and loud music was tiresome from the start, but now at day three Shadow found them almost intolerable. Shadow pinched the brim of his nose as he closed his eyes and breathed in deep. It was a pitiful attempt to calm himself but all he was able to attempt at the moment, as his current client was about to make her way off the main stage.
"We're up!" Static sang as he slapped Shadow on the back and he made his way to the exit of the stage. Shadow followed behind him as the DJ's cocky voice blared through the sound system in an attempt to edge on the already over enthused male crowd.
"Give it up for Miss Casandra! She'll be back to grace the stage soon enough, but in the mean time you boys should take advantage of some extra personal time with her!"
Shadow rolled his eyes thinking back to how amused Sandy had been that the prominent stripper client shared a similar name to her. The truth was that wasn't even her real name, but just her stage name. That still didn't' stop Sandy from teasing him about the job even more. What really made matters worse was when Static let it slip that she was also a squirrel. Sandy got an extra hard laugh out of that.
Casandra, or Kathern to be more precise, didn't remotely resemble Sandy in the slightest. Besides their shared height, gender, and species, the two women really held nothing in common. Kathern's fur was a dark red that covered her whole body, and she seemed far more delicate in the way she moved and spoke. Her tail was shorter and not nearly as full as Sandy's either, as Static was quite fast at pointing out right after the two of them met her for the first time.
After Casandra picked up the small amount of clothing, from the stage, that she had kicked off during her two-song stint. Shadow wrapped a large fur coat around her shoulders as the two men followed her back to the dressing room. Shadow hated doing work for adult entertainers, as even the backrooms were noisy and full of drama. Having Static on the job with him made it far worse as the male squirrel rarely was quiet either. At least in this case he found a small bit of relief in the fact that this current client also had a short-lived porn career thus making her more of a celebrity and giving her a private dressing room. The short 15-minute trips once and hour or two was the only thing keeping his sanity in check.
"Two and a half more days, and then this hell will finally be over." He thought to himself as he took a seat after shutting the door.
"How'd I do?" She asked smiling at Shadow as she let her coat fall to the floor revealing her very naked body.
Shadow just looked away from her and pretended to not hear her. "You seem to have done pretty well." Static nervously jumped into the conversation after noticing her irritation at Shadow's behavior. "Plenty of tips!" The purple furred male noted as he sat a large stack of money, he had gathered up for her, on her dressing room counter.
"Hmmm." The woman nodded her head in agreement as she turned her back on them and picked out another scantily clad outfit. "The tips are really nothing next to the nightly fee I'm taking in."
"I'm sure your parents are very proud." Shadow finally chimed in sarcastically.
Static took a few steps back and aggressively nudged Shadow. Kathern just looked back at the hedgehog from over her shoulder and smiled as she hooked up her bra behind her back. She then turned and took a few steps towards the two still not wearing anything on her lower half. "Why do you hate me so much Shadow?" She questioned.
"To be fair he hates everyone." Static frowned as he glared down at his seated colleague.
Kathern ignored the other squirrel and kept her eyes locked on Shadow's face despite the fact he continued to look away from her. He stayed silent causing her to finally give up her interrogation and return to dressing herself.
"Can we talk outside for a minute, boss?" Static asked looked down at Shadow. A large sigh escaped Shadow's lips as he stood up and followed Static to the door. "We'll be right back Miss Casandra!" Static promised the woman apologetically.
"Don't keep me waiting too long." She replied still fixated on making herself up.
The two men walked out the back door where they both quickly lit up a cigarette. Static had picked up the bad habit while constantly being assigned to work with Shadow. He was desperately trying to quit since Sandy, their shared friend, had found out. However, he found it almost impossible to stop while working around the taller quill headed man.
"Please don't get us fired from this job too!" Static whined as he started to pace a bit. "I'm already on Mei's shit list thanks to you!" Static took a long drag before finally being able to stop his frantic movements. "I'm so close to being able to get my own place again. Don't ruin this for me!"
Shadow continued to puff on his cigarette before lighting up another and then turned his attention to his subordinate. "You do realize she'll never agree to getting a place with you." Shadow smirked while taking a bit of a longer drag.
"Ha! You're just jealous because she likes me better." Static lightly laughed as he helped himself to another death stick, as well.
"I'm not jealous." Shadow respond before spitting on the pavement then returning his attention to the other man. "And she doesn't."
Static laughed more vigorously now. "Oh yeah? Then why are we going to look at places together this weekend?" Static started to smirk once noticing Shadow's shocked face.
"Not really worth her time after I get us fired tonight." Shadow threw his butt on the ground next to the others as he held open the door waiting for Static to finish up.
"You better not, asshole!" Static flicked his butt in the same direction as he walked back inside as Shadow, now the one smirking, followed behind him.
The two men walked back into the dressing room without knocking. Casandra, or Kathern, smiled at them both as she was now fully ready to go out and drum up some heavily overprice lap dance business. Both men seemed to pay little attention to her compared to the patrons of the bar despite her blood red lace bra and panties barely covered by her not so finely meshed black dress. Their minds were fixated on another female squirrel. One that would likely never wear such a get up beside in their wet dreams.
"Shall we?" She didn't really ask as much as demanded as her red high heels caused an echo to ring out as she exited the room with them quickly falling in line behind her.
Shadow yanked at his tie as they entered the noise fueled hell of the bar. He and Static both stayed close to their client as she greeted fans and gave them hugs before both men had to start pushing them away until they paid for more attention. Shadow truly hated being reduced to this… In order to keep his mind on his work he'd sometimes fantasy he was pushing men away from Sandy, only after a while he'd start to get too aggressive and Static would have to pull him back to reality. "Was she really going to become his roommate? That shameless fuck?!" Shadow tried to push down his rage. For all he knew Static was lying once again just to piss him off. "But what if he wasn't?" He thought again.
Static nudged Shadow as their client seemed to finally began to seal the deal. $300 for a lap dance was criminal… but she was well known in her own regard. Shadow watched as Kathern played into the man to seal the deal. She pretended to be interested in his life and his thoughts on different topics… same old stripper shit he laughed to himself.
Static for once had become very observant and that observation sent their current job to spin out of control. "Holy shit!" Static laughed while running his fingers through the purple, and blond lightning bolt, fur on the top of his head While nudging Shadow. "Is that Sandy?!"
Shadow looked over towards where Static was pointing and saw their mutual friend Sandy, and her loser brother, walk in from the doorman's hallway. She was looking around seemingly shocked before her eyes met his. She then waved at her two friends happily as Shadow's mouth dropped open in shock. Static waved back excitedly before Shadow stopped him.
"I'm taking a break." Shadow growled and he pushed away from his post and stormed towards Sandra and her brother as they took a seat at a table close to the main stage. "What the hell are you doing here?!" He yelled over the music causing more than a few people to look over at them.
Sandy's happy expression didn't change, nor did Randy's as he looked up and down the girls on the 3 stages. "I wanted ta see what this was all about, so I'm taking Randy out fer an early birthday outing!" She cheerfully expressed to the unamused Shadow.
"Your birthday isn't for over a month!" He protested while slapping his hands on the table before her.
"I did say early." She chucked becoming very amused by his worry. "Oh wow!" Sandy shouted as she moved to look behind Shadow. "Them girls take everything off?!" She started to laugh in amusement.
Shadow stood up straighter and looked down at her sternly as he felt his face turn red. "It's…." His breathing picked up a bit as he became uneasy. "You shouldn't be here."
"Why?" She questioned at him as a waitress came up and took an order from her brother.
"It's…." He stopped for a moment before relaxing and looking back down at her. "Vile."
Sandy laughed while slapping his chest as the waitress came back with drinks for her and her brother quickly. "Oh, so it's a boy's only type club." She stuck her tongue out at him before taking a long chug of her drink.
"You are the only female customer here, Sandy!" Shadow shot back.
"What about her?" Sandy pointed to a woman likely in her 60's playing video poker.
"You really think she counts?" Shadow grimiest.
"Ovaries and all!" Sandy held up her glass as her brother quickly hit his to hers.
The two-sibling looked at each other and giggled as their intoxication started to move more heavily through their body. "Don't worry Shadow! I won't let Sandy knock up any of yer fine strippers!" The two started laughing again as Shadow started to almost hyperventilate.
"Sandy please!" He started to beg while realizing she had already been intoxicated before coming here. "You're better than this." He whispered as Static came up behind him and slapped him on the back.
"My turn for a break, slave driver!" Static smiled at him while taking a seat next to Sandy and hugging her as the hedgehog walked off back to their client.
Shadow looked on at them with irritation and more than a bit of worry as his client walked up to him and pulled him close if only to her side. "Who is she?" Kathern hissed as Shadow continued to glare at Static interacting with his love interest so playfully.
"A woman far greater than you could ever be." He spat while continuing to look on at his coworker flirting with the woman he loved.
By the time Kathern had finished up gouging her client Shadow had started to become quite impatient and eager to leave the VIP area. The tall hedgehog pushed the overcharged man back into the main area of the bar while Static helped their female squirrel gather her things so she could head back out and take advantage of more intoxicated men.
"Do you think your friend would like a dance?" Kathern asked while walking towards the exit and giving Shadow a small smile.
Shadow's annoyed facial expression automatically turned to terror. Meanwhile Static started to sport a large grin as his mind seemed to have already started to play out the said encounter. "Leave her alone." Shadow warned as his client walked past him now much more amused.
"She's a customer, too!" She sang back to taunt her taller bodyguard.
"She'd never pa-"Shadow started before Static grabbed his sleeve.
"Hush!" The male squirrel demanded. "Don't take this away from me!"
Shadow rolled his eyes as all three of them left the VIP room and went back into the main bar. As the trio walked back into the main room Shadow took note of Randy, now seated at the main stage throwing money in a pathetic display of desperation to get attention. Meanwhile, Sandy was still seating at the table talking to not just one, but two of the other strippers. Shadow was a bit shocked as it looked like they were having a real conversation and not just the more deplorable women trying to sell her into their trashy wears.
Sandy smiled as she noticed Shadow, and his client, walk up to her. The other two women quickly took their leave without so much as a word. "Hiya guys!" Sandy greeted both of her friends. While she slightly sprung up in shock as their female client gently took a seat in her lap.
"Well hello!" Casandra purred at Sandy while running two fingers lightly under Sandy's chin in an attempt to pull her attraction more into her.
Sandy feeling much destress pulled herself away from the woman now on her lap and even started to push her off. "No!" The southern female belted out. "Don't touch me!" She half laughed and half demanded. Causing the stared stripper to stand again, somewhat surprised by Sandy's rejection of her.
"My apologies." Kathern gave a fake, very overly exaggerated frown. "I just figured, since you are here, that you might like a little attention." The stripper bent down to eye level with Sandy and gave her a seductive smile. "We girls gotta be there for one another after all." She then placed a hand on Sandy's knee and rubbed it ever so slightly as the men seated around them started to hoot and clap in anticipation of some girl on girl action.
"Thanks, but no thanks!" Sandy laughed again as her tempter started to flare even in her mildly intoxicated state.
"I'd like attention!"
The two women looked to their left to see Randy seated next to his sister once again, and grinning from ear to ear.
"You can't afford her attention, Randy." Shadow almost happily announced causing Randy much disappointment.
"Stop being rude, Shadow." Casandra scolded as she smiled and took a seat on Randy's lap. This action causing jealous glares from many of the other men as they weren't even allowed to come too close to her. "Randy, was it?" She questioned as she leaned into his face and tapped a lone finger on his nose causing him to smile like a drunken idiot, as he currently was.
"Well, at least things are back ta being funny again." Sandy laughed as she watched her brother act like a fool as she took another drink from her glass.
"Yeah, I'm Randy." He giggled as he tightened his grip on the seat below him while biting at his bottom lip to try and calm himself.
"It's quite a please to meet you Randy. I'm Casandra." She then pushed her large breast closer to his face as his breathing started to escalate. "Can I get a hug?" She winked at him causing the drunken squirrel to nearly have a heart attack.
Sandy started laughing loudly in disbelief and amusement. "Wow!" She continued to laugh while slapping the table causing the stripper that was successfully seducing her brother to look back over her shoulder at her. "Y'all really do lose yer minds when a pretty lady shows some fur and looks yer way!" Sandy finally was able to push down her laughter and wipe a stray tear of enjoyment from her eye. She then looked over her shoulder at her two friends. "You boys must be in heaven."
The two men responded to her at the same time before glaring at one another for interrupting the others conversation with Sandra.
"No!" Shadow scowled.
"Not really." Static shrugged.
"I've never seen either of them happy until you walked in here!" Casandra laughed as she turned her line of sight back to Sandy's brother as she pressed herself into him and getting a more than defeated moan out of him. She didn't even have to look back to know that both her bodyguard's faces had gone red in embarrassment. "Guess some guys still are into the whole innocent country girl thing." She looked back at Sandy's somewhat bewildered drunken expression and giggled with thrill at dusting things up.
"Yer seeing things that ain't there, gal! These here boys are just good friends! I sure do love 'em, but I ain't dumb enough ta think…" She started to laugh before looking back at their shameful expressions as they looked away from her gaze. Sandy's laughter abruptly stopped after looking at her now very uneasy friends, as they looked anywhere but at her. Sandy shook her head thinking she was likely seeing things now that she was drunk. "They are good men." She looked back at her friend's client.
"How about we make a deal?" Casandra suggested as she pushed herself off Randy's lap causing him to whine pitifully.
Casandra once again sat in Sandy's lap, as the southern female showed her full disapproval on her face, but waited for the other woman to express her so called deal… if only for her friend's sake. "How's that?" Sandy asked not even trying to hide any hint of her frustration with the other woman's touchy, feely, nature.
Kathern leaned into Sandy so she was whispering in her ear, but it also looked like she was rubbing against her, causing many men to start to clap wildly. Sandy didn't like the idea of her now being used as a prop in this degenerate show, but figured it was a price to be paid for wanting to interact with her friends on the job. "Let me give you a lap dance right here. It'll draw up my business and then you can take a break with both of your boys." The stripper ran her hand under Sandy chin again and brough her face up so they were almost touching lips.
"If it get's ya off me fer the rest of the night." Sandy half chuckled.
"Great!" Kathern jumped up and clapped her hands a few times. "I'll let the DJ know." She blew a kiss to Sandy, which caused the female customer to cringes, before winking and turning and walking to the man on the large platform in the corner.
"Sandy?" Shadow walked up to her to question as his client continued to talk to the DJ.
Sandy looked up to her tall friend apologetically. "Just make sure she leaves me alone after this." Sandy laughed before finishing the last of her drink and pushing the empty glass to her brother in order to show him she wanted another.
Shadow looked at her worriedly, but before he was able to speak his client walked back up and pushed herself between him and his female friend. "You're all mine now!" She shouted loudly as the DJ started playing upbeat dance music again and turning a spotlight on the two females.
Sandy's face went annoyed once again as she picked up her new drink and took a sip before the overzealous stripper made her way on her lap once more. Only this time she pushed herself into Sandra far more than before and even started to disrobe. Sandy had enough of a buzz so she just looked on at the other woman almost amused. Sure, she had a nice body, but really? Why did men each this shit up? Sandy giggled a little as the other female disrobed down to her panties. Casandra kept rubbing against her to get a rise out of the men around them. Sandy didn't even make an attempt pretend to enjoy it. She found it very irritating. She knew full well she was being used as a prop, but she would do it for her friends…. At least this once. By the time the other woman was fully naked she was off Sandy's lap and dancing around her. This, made Sandy very happy, as she could now finally hold her drink and not worry about her friend's whore of a client spilling her drink.
Sandy shook her head for a moment. "She isn't a whore." She scolded herself, but then looked around at the droves of men, her brother included, clapping for the stripper. At that Sandy placed her drink down on the table and clapped for her too…. And in doing so earned herself a kiss on the lips from the other woman. Sandy was not amused. As the other woman slowly pulled away Sandy gave her a dfull-on glare.
Sandy's outrage only seemed to excite the adult entertainer more as her grin grew before mockingly winking at her. "Hope to see you soon, love." She whispered but loud enough to get the hooting of men at tables around them.
"Oh no you don't!" Sandy grinned back menacingly. Sandy now leaned into the other woman seductively. "If I ever see ya again I will destroy ya."
"OH my!" Casandra blushed, and giggled, before walking off.
"I didn't mean it like that!" Sandy screamed as her friends looked back at her confused. "Ah!" She threw her hands up in the air defeated before taking a seat next to her amused brother and trying to catch up with his intoxicated state.
"Wow, Sandy you rea-" Randy Started.
"Shut up!" Sandy interrupted before taking another drink.
Randy just continued to laugh, so much so he was barely able to take a drink. However, being the drunk of his caliber…. He found a few moments to take in his true source of life. However, right after, he continued to laugh at his twin sister's expense.
"I don't get what ya find so funny…" Sandy started as her brother still giggled to himself. "I ain't the one hypnotized by such trash." She huffed as she finished her current drink and pushed it towards her brother.
Randy pushed another full glass to her, as she didn't notice he had already ordered up a new one for them both. "Nah yer not, but dang ya must got it bad fer that dip shit." Randy started to laugh again before a new woman walked on stage, making him stand up and take a seat at the main stage.
"What?" Sandy asked, but knowing full well what her brother was implying. She took another drink before fidgeting with her hands uncontrollably. Sure, she came here to check up on her friends, but she wasn't jealous… not at all! Was she? She looked around again at the women on the stages… and…. Despite how much she could prop herself up in her own mind, for good reasons, she couldn't compare…. Not with how they were showing off. Even fully clothed. Sandy started to feel small… and… depressed? She took another large drink emptying her glass… hoping to find fulfillment in the bottom, but she should have known better as her brother was an alcoholic.
She had witnessed him searching for happiness in an empty bottle since they were teenagers, but only now somewhat understood why he tried. Being numb was somewhat nice especially when being confronted with uncomfortable truths.
"Static." Casandra leaned into her younger bodyguard and laid her head slightly on his shoulder. "Would you take payment from all these gentlemen, and make a list while I go get cleaned up?" The famed stripper gestured towards the large crowd of men that followed her back towards the bar after she gave the sole female patron a free lap dance. Static nodded his understanding as he pulled a small notepad out of his pocket. Kathern took hold of the elder bodyguard by the arm and lead him, alone, back to her dressing room.
As soon as the two made their way back in her dressing room Shadow quickly pulled away from the woman that was clasping onto him and then slammed the door shut. He made quickly to his usual chair in the room as he looked at the wall with little interest of what his client was up to.
"I think she liked it." Casandra teased as she looked through her large wardrobe once again.
"I think you're lucky she didn't take your head off." Shadow mumbled still not looking towards the lone woman in the room talking to him.
"I think you're jealous." She smirked while disrobing once more and turning to face him as he continued to look away from her and snarl. Shadow continued to stay silent as he looked away from her. The female laughed again. "Oh, you really are! Did I get closer to your girlfriend than you ever have?" She walked up to him and ran her fingers through the quills on his head before he jumped up and grabbed her wriest before pulled her hand away from him. He looked down at her while his face was full of anger before finally letting go of his tight grip on her.
The male hedgehog sat back down and looked away from her still anger, but now visually showing uneasy. His client's breath had escalated at the slight pain he had caused her with his brief grip. She leaned over him more this time and then brushed her hand against his cheek, causing him to tense up in what she figured was frustration.
"I figured you liked it rough." She whispered to him before biting the tip of his ear with just her lips at first before biting down hard with her teeth causing him to push his chair back, away from her, to escape. She knew full well his anger was boiling over, and was hoping to take full advantage of it. He was very handsome, strong, but more so uninterested in anyone. Well, almost anyone. She was finding a thrill in the idea of holding his interest for just a little while… even if it meant him showing off his full strength. She wasn't the type of woman that could get over being rejected. Now she knew what he wanted, and how to use it to her advantage.
"All I'd like is for this job to be over already." Shadow barked while standing up and taking a more defensive stance.
Kathern walked back to her mirror and looked at herself, fully naked, before pulling a random outfit off her wardrobe hanger. She started putting it on, which took almost no time at all as there wasn't much to it. The female them applied some makeup before looking back at Shadow who was still glaring at her. "Despite what you say… you still agreed to take me safely to my room the next few night, so you're mine until then." Kathern flicked his tie before opening the door, as he grunted in annoyance, and followed behind her back to the main floor of the club.