Author's Note: I know Sami has been missing in action for the first part of this fic but she'll make an entrance soon. I'm just enjoying writing Lucas' scenes with his stripping buddies a lot right now ;). Ugh... I would have had this up so much sooner but ff.net was crapping out on everyone so I'm sorry about that.
Rex hung his head while sifting through the racks of panties, avoiding eye contact with anyone else in the store. Next to him was Phillip poking at some black g-strings half-heartedly while looking up every two minutes to make sure no one was watching him.
"You were right, Lucas." Rex said in a low voice when his brother re-joined himself, Phillip and Mimi, "This is a lot more embarrassing than I thought it would be."
"Yeah, you see, that's why I finished picking out mine quickly," Lucas responded, handing over a clump of red, black and silver material to Mimi, "Hold these for me. I don't want to be seen carrying them."
Mimi rolled her eyes and tossed the unmentionables into the shopping bucket she had set at her feet earlier, "Okay but you're going to have to try these on after Rex, Phillip and Patrick finish picking."
Lucas checked Mimi's face for signs that she was joking. When he saw that she wasn't, he cleared his throat nervously, "I don't think the people working here would be very pleased if they found out there were men trying on their sexy underwear in the change rooms. I'll just take them home, I'm sure they'll all fit me fine."
"Yeah, Meems, don't make this anymore painful than it already is." Phillip scolded her, inspecting a lacy red g-string, "Nope, not this one." he muttered, "Too girly."
Mimi threw up her hands in exasperation, "Lucas and Phillip, you both need to quit being so difficult. It's a necessity that you try on your things before you buy them because they're on sale and you can't take them back if they don't fit. And no one has to know that you're trying them on if they don't see you. Besides, as your official water girl, it goes without saying that I get to see you in your stripping outfits first."
A small smile graced her lips as she pulled something off the rack and held against the front of Rex's pants, "I know it doesn't go with the colour scheme but damn, Rex, this would look so hot on you." Rex looked down at the scrap of clothing Mimi was holding and immediately groaned.
"That's gross, Mimi." Rex said, eyeing the baby blue, see-through thong with disgust. He pushed Mimi's hand away and looked up to see Phillip leering at him.
"I think Phillip would look good in this one." Rex added, pulling out a pink g-string with ruffles and throwing it at Phillip. Phillip dodged the flying panties, then selected a leopard spotted thong from the rack and flung it at Rex.
"We all know you want that one, Rex. Don't deny it." Phillip shot back. Before an all-out war of the panties could be started between the two men, Mimi stepped between them and picked up the panties they had thrown.
"If you don't want people noticing you, then it's probably a good idea not to start throwing merchandise in all directions." Mimi commented, shaking her head a little bit at their childish behavior, "Stop annoying each other and pick your underwear."
Rex and Phillip both went back to looking through the racks and a few minutes later, Patrick returned with his selections.
"Here, Mimi." Patrick shoved the g-strings into Mimi's arms and Mimi sighed and placed them in the bucket next to Lucas'. After that, Patrick diverted his attention to Phillip and Rex, who were only holding two g-strings each.
"Why are you guys taking so long? Are you trying to prolong this? Do you enjoy doing this or something?" Patrick demanded, looking just as embarrassed and out of place as the other three males did.
"I'm trying to find black ones in my size." Rex shot back in a low voice, "I think I'll look best in black, so that's all I'm getting."
"I'm going to get different colours." Phillip added, wrinkling his nose a little bit at Rex, "That way, people won't think I never change my underwear." Rex tried to punch Phillip in the arm but Phillip quickly moved out of the way, "What? It's true. What do you think people are going to think when you always have on black g-strings and nothing else?"
"Fine, I'll get the other colours too." Rex relented grudgingly, yanking out a red g-string and checking the size.
About five minutes later, Phillip sighed with relief and held up a wad of g-strings triumphantly, "Finished! And it's about damn time too." Suddenly he frowned and shrunk back a little into the rack of panties, "Uh oh. Blonde alert. And she sure does look familiar."
Lucas stiffened, but didn't make any movements, "You're kidding right? She's not here, is she?" Lucas croaked, slowly inching behind Patrick.
"Oh, we definitely know this blonde." Phillip realized, "Shit, I hope they don't see us."
"Why now of all times would Sami decide to come into this store?" Lucas asked rhetorically, fully hiding himself behind Patrick. Mimi whirled around to see who Phillip was looking at and then turned back around to shoot Phillip an annoyed look.
"Lucas, it's not Sami. It's Nicole. And some other girl too." Mimi observed, "You can come out now, Lucas."
"No, I can't." Lucas groaned from behind Patrick, "I can't let Nicole see me either. She'd never let me hear the end of it."
"Why don't we all go over to the change room then?" Mimi suggested, "I think Rex is finished finding his stuff."
"I already told you that I'm not trying anything on here." Lucas hissed, peeking out from behind Patrick's shoulder, "Can we just leave without Nicole seeing us, please? You're going to get us kicked out if you make us try the g-strings on."
"Hush," Mimi replied, leading Rex towards the fitting rooms, the shopping bucket filled with g-strings on her left arm, "I'll pretend that I'm trying all the stuff on and I'll take turns bringing you guys into the room with me. You only have to try on one g-string each, since you're buying all of them in same sizes, right? Come on, it will take two seconds."
"I highly doubt that." Rex muttered but followed Mimi towards the dressing rooms. They managed to make it all the way over there without being detected by Nicole and Mimi quickly snuck Rex into one of them fitting rooms. Patrick, Phillip and Lucas sat down on one of the benches outside the fitting room and waited for their turn to go inside and try on their own g-strings. The minutes went by and only muffled noises came from the dressing room Rex and Mimi had went inside. Phillip rested the back of his head in his hands and leaned against the wall.
"Those two might be a while. Although I really don't understand why they can't go five minutes without a quickie in some random semi-private place." he quipped, his comment winning him a dirty look from Patrick, "Hey, don't look at me like that. I'm not making fun of Mimi, I'm just telling the truth!"
About five minutes later, Rex and Mimi finally came out of the dressing room, their faces slightly redder than before and Mimi's hair was undeniably wrinkled.
"I never realized trying on clothes could be so strenuous." Phillip said as he got to his feet, "You look positively flushed, Mimi. Couldn't resist G-string boy's advances?"
"You don't know what you're talking about." Mimi said, the pinkish-red colour in her cheeks darkening slightly. She tugged on Phillip's arm and dragged him over to the dressing rooms, "Come on, it's your turn." Mimi told Phillip. Phillip followed her over to the dressing rooms, a bunched up g-string in hand but stalled in front of the dressing room Mimi and Rex had come out of.
"I don't think I want to go in there anymore." Phillip murmured, looking at Rex and Mimi knowingly, "I think we should go in this one." Phillip walked into the dressing room next to it and Mimi followed him inside, looking irritated. They left the dressing room soon after that, taking only about a fifth of the time Rex and Mimi had. Now Mimi looked over at Lucas and tilted her head towards the dressing room.
"You have to try yours on now." Mimi instructed him and Lucas reluctantly followed her into the dressing room. Once they were inside, Mimi looked down at the article of clothing in Lucas' hands pointedly.
"Go ahead and try it on. Don't let me stop you." Mimi's smile widened at the awkward expression on Lucas' face.
"I think you're enjoying this a lot more than you should." he complained, "And uh, I think I'll just try this on over my pants."
"That's what Phillip did too." Mimi returned, "Just make sure it fits really tight and then you'll know for the most part if it fits or not."
So, Phillip tried his g-string on over his pants and yet Mimi doesn't mention Rex? Wow, maybe Phillip really wasn't exaggerating, Lucas thought, almost cringing at his thoughts. He tried to push away mental images of Rex and Mimi doing the nasty in the dressing room as he stepped into the tiny g-string and pulled it on. Once he was finished, he looked up at Mimi, who was pursing her lips to keep from smiling.
"I think it... fits." Mimi finally managed to say without bursting into laughter. Lucas looked down at the g-string, which was pulled over his jeans, self-consciously.
"It looks really dumb, doesn't it? Everyone is going to laugh at me just like you are, aren't they? Dammit, I can't do this." he stated, snapping the thin strap of the g-string angrily.
"No, no, no," Mimi protested, "You only look funny because you're wearing it over your pants. Once you aren't wearing the pants and are out there stripping, you won't look funny, I promise. You'll look really great and everyone will love you. Same with Phillip and Rex. It won't be funny once you start strip-"
"Ooh, ooh, is the G-string guy in here?" a voice outside their dressing room asked and whoever it was flung the curtain aside. The woman that had entered the store earlier with Nicole squealed with delight upon seeing Lucas, then frowned almost immediately after.
"Lose the pants, they take away from the whole effect, you know what I mean?" the woman eyed Lucas critically, "But I'm sure you could definitely do that red g-string justice if all the other stuff wasn't being so obstructive."
"Crystal, stop being so-" Nicole stopped dead in front of Lucas and Mimi's dressing room, her blue eyes growing wide with surprise, "Lucas? Oh my God, what is wrong with you? When Crystal and I overheard Phillip and Rex talking about the guy in here trying on G-strings, I never thought-"
"Nicole, get out!" Lucas exclaimed, his face burning, "No one wants you here."
Crystal looked shocked and her eyes moved between Nicole and Lucas, "Oh... you two know each other?"
Nicole raised her eyebrows and nodded slowly, "Yes, actually we do. Crystal, meet my ex-husband- Lucas the cross-dresser."
"Your ex-husband?" Crystal shook her head in amazement, "Damn, Nikki, you sure do get around. Maybe even more than I do and that's saying something because I'm a hooker."
Lucas couldn't resist chuckling at that comment, almost forgetting Nicole's comment about him being a cross-dresser, "I think I'll have to agree with you there."
"Um... at least I'm not a guy that goes around trying on G-strings, you freak." Nicole spat out angrily.
"You don't know what you're talking about." Lucas struck back, "I happen to have had a very good reason for trying that thing on."
"Like what?" Nicole challenged.
Mimi stepped between the two incensed people and held up a hand, "Okay, I think we're going to be leaving the store now." she piped up, "Come on, let's get going, Lucas. See you later, Nicole." Mimi practically dragged Lucas away and she, Phillip, Rex and Patrick all made their way towards the front of the store. Patrick reminded Mimi that he hadn't had the chance to try on his g-strings but Mimi simply told him she was sure they would fit. All four men got Mimi to pay for their g-strings and once they had all left the store, Lucas turned to glare at Rex and Phillip.
"Why the hell did you send Crystal and Nicole into my dressing room, you assholes?" he demanded, "That was totally uncalled for."
"We didn't mean to," Rex retorted, "All we did was say something about how you were in there trying on g-strings and how funny it was and then Crystal overheard and starting flipping open the curtains looking for you. We didn't mean for it to happen."
"Whatever." Lucas broke off conversation with one hostile word and kicked at the ground with his foot. A few moments later, Mimi's cheerful voice broke the heavy silence.
"Hey, don't worry about it so much. Just think, in two nights, you'll all be stripping at Unzipped. I'm sure Nicole and Crystal will see you and then it will all make sense to them. Then you won't have anything to worry about. Aren't you excited?"
"I can't wait." Lucas said sourly as all six of them made their way out into the parking lot, in search of their cars.
