Sami squirmed in her seat in Nicole's car, fussing over the thin straps of her dress to keep herself somewhat preoccupied. She had simply thrown on a white sun dress, ran a brush through her hair and applied a subtle amount of make-up before leaving her apartment. After briefly checking her appearance in the review mirror of Nicole's car, Sami had decided that for the short amount of time she had spent getting herself ready, she looked decent. As decent as anyone can look when they're about to go witness the man they love 'dancing' with his brothers, she thought, slumping low in the seat of the car. Neither she or Nicole spoke until Nicole turned into a parking lot. Sami looked up to see the neon pink 'Unzipped' sign blinking from on top of the large building and she glared at Nicole.
"Is this some kind of stupid joke?" Sami seethed, "I already told Belle I didn't want to be here earlier tonight. Why do you all have to gang up on me and bring me to this place against my will? I'm not going in. I'll walk home if I have to."
"Sami, can you calm down?" Nicole turned off the car and put one hand on the door handle, still facing Sami, "You have to come in. This is where Lucas is 'dancing' with his brothers."
Sami's mouth dropped open when she realized what Nicole had really been alluding to all along, "A stripper? Lucas a stripper? Please, like that would ever happen. He's probably at his apartment right now, just like I should be at my apartment. I can't believe I ever listened to you. There is no way in hell that Lucas is inside that club, taking off his clothes for money. That's not the kind of guy he is."
"If that's what you think, then you've seriously overestimated him," Nicole's nose wrinkled slightly, "Or would that be underestimated? Anyways, just come inside for a while and I'll prove that Lucas is there. What harm could it do?"
"Nothing I guess, unless you count the fact that it's going to waste my precious time." Sami grumbled, stepping out of the car and slamming the door shut behind her, "Let's get this over with. The sooner I can prove that you're lying through your teeth about Lucas, the better."
Nicole shrugged, not looking even the slightest bit worried, which made Sami feel a rush of insecurity about her convictions. Was Lucas actually inside the club? Had he actually decided to become a stripper?
Her eyes moved up to look at the stage as soon as she and Nicole were inside. Sami could tell right away that the tall, dark haired-man dancing on the stage clad in nothing but a silver G-string was not Lucas and let out a small sigh of relief. Nicole led Sami closer to the stage until they reached a strip of chairs along the left side of the stage. Two women scooted over to make room for Sami and Nicole. Once Sami and Nicole were seated, a woman in a black dress looked past Nicole to look at Sami. Her eyes took in Sami's outfit with distaste and Sami suddenly felt very out of place. In comparison to all the other woman, she looked so... innocent. That's what you get for choosing to wear white when you didn't know where you were going, Sami scolded herself, You should have worn a more neutral colour. Like red.
"So, you're Sami," the woman leaned across Nicole to extend her hand, "I'm Crystal."
"It's nice to meet you," Sami replied with forced politeness, then looked up at the stage. The man seemed vaguely familiar and it took her a moment to place him as the man she had seen with Jennifer on the opening night of Alice's Bar. But it had only taken her so long to figure it out because seeing him decked out in a cowboy outfit was definitely a lot different than seeing him in this state of undress. Unable to stop herself, Sami's eyes moved down the long, hard lines of his torso and sneaked a quick glimpse of the g-string, which left little, if anything to the imagination. After checking the man out briefly, Sami turned back to overhear what Crystal was saying to Nicole.
"You missed this really cute guy, Nicole." Crystal was saying, "I think they said his name was Tyler or something."
"Who's the guy up there right now?" Sami jumped in curiously. Crystal beamed up at the stage.
"His name's Patrick. Isn't he great?"
"Sure," Sami replied just before the song ended and Patrick walked off the stage with a parting smile. Sami held her breath and waited for the next stripper to emerge. She exhaled loudly, both with relief and surprise when she saw that the stripper was Phillip. Sami heard the woman on the other side of Crystal let out a disappointed sigh when she saw Phillip.
"He's by himself this time," the woman complained, "Last time he was with those other two hot guys. What happened to them?"
Nicole turned to give Sami an explanation, "Last round, Phillip, Lucas and Rex all went up there together."
Sami's eyes widened and she scowled at Nicole, "So, that's what you meant by dancing. How could you make me think-"
"Hold it, Sami," Nicole cut her off, "All I said was that they were dancing. You were the one that got it into your head I was talking... horizontal instead of vertical."
"You made it sound like that," Sami shot back, "Besides, it's not like you did anything to correct my thinking either."
"Eh, it was too funny seeing you flip out over the idea of Phillip, Rex and Lucas enjoying each other in ways brothers should not enjoy each other." Nicole fell silent when Phillip came over to take the dollar bill that the nameless blonde woman had held out to him. The woman gave him a big smile and he smiled back but the smile faded when his eyes came to rest on Sami. He looked shocked for a moment, then danced his way back to center stage. Sami took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. It doesn't mean anything, she tried to tell herself, Just because Phillip is here doesn't mean that Lucas is working as a stripper too. It's no big deal.
As if reading her thoughts, Nicole whispered, "If Phillip's up right now, I bet that Lucas or Rex is going to be up next."
"Shut up," Sami muttered, looking down at the floor. She remained silent for the few minutes after Phillip's song had ended and when the next stripper came onto the stage, she found that the lump in her throat made it impossible for her to speak, even if she wanted to.
"I told you so," Nicole mocked Sami but Sami didn't even bother trying to respond. Her eyes stayed locked on Lucas. As soon as he had come out on the stage, he had looked right at her, so obviously Phillip had already told him that she was there and where she was sitting. But his dark chocolate gaze stayed on her for a few minutes, lines of anxiety creasing his face. He certainly wasn't surprised to see her but he did look a little afraid. Sami sat stiffly on her chair, her expression detached, not making any movements that would reveal how she was feeling. After a few more seconds that stretched on for a longer than they should have, Lucas finally broke eye contact and a new song began to play.
Sami released a leaden breath as she watched Lucas begin to rock his hips back and forth in time to the music. He writhed sensuously on the middle of the stage, causing more women to move closer. The then the lyrics of the bouncy, explicit song filled Sami's ears.
I wanna li-li-li lick you from your heads to your toes
As if he was using the song as a prop, Lucas brought one finger to his mouth and pumped it in and out several times in an explicit fashion, before trailing that finger down his bare chest, while Sami continued to watch with rapt attention.
And I wanna move from the bed, down to the, down to the floor
I wanna ah-ah, you make it so good I don't wanna leave
But I gotta kn-kn-kn know, what's your fan-ta-sy?
Her breathing quickened when Lucas brought one hand up to tease his own nipple and a low moan could suddenly be heard despite the loud, throbbing music. Sami bit her lip, hoping that she hadn't been the one to moan out loud but it only took her a few seconds to realize that it had been Crystal.
"Oh, I would do anything to fuck that." Crystal said in a breathy voice.
"Don't listen to her, she says that about all of them." Nicole told Sami without taking her eyes off the stage.
"I don't care," Sami lied but in all honestly, she wanted to slap the stupid whore sitting next to Nicole senseless. She had no right to talk about Lucas like that. He wasn't hers, she shouldn't be thinking about him in any non-platonic ways. But her anger wasn't directed completely at Crystal either. It was also directed at Lucas. What the hell was he doing up there, parading around shirtless, exposing himself to hundreds of women? He might as well have been naked and Sami knew that naked was definitely a possibility in the near future of this dance.
With another sinuous rotation of his hips, Lucas turned his head back to the left side of the club and his eyes came to rest on Sami again. He lowered his chin once their eyes met and he looked at her through dark lashes, his tongue curling out to wet his lips, baiting her. The suggestive actions made Sami aware of the way her nipples had tightened painfully, along with the corresponding ache between her thighs. She crossed and uncrossed her thighs and squeezed her legs together tightly, willing the ache to stop. But it was a lost cause and she felt herself getting wetter as Lucas' hands brushed their way down his chest and stomach until he reached the waistband of the tight, black pants. Sami closed her eyes for a split second, silently willing Lucas to keep the pants on. She knew if those went, she would get even hornier and that was a very bad thing. It was already killing her to watch his explicit dancing while he wearing the pants and if the pants weren't on, she'd end up wet enough to flood the entire club.
When she opened her eyes again, Lucas' hands were still lingering on the top of the pants while more and more women began screaming for him to pull the pants off. Shut the fuck up, Sami directed her frustrated thoughts at the screaming women, You're all so stupid, you don't deserve to see him with no pants on.
His eyes sparked in the shimmering lights with some untold challenge as he looked at Sami and abruptly, he ripped the pants from his body. He flung the pants near the back of the stage and Sami's eyes couldn't stop themselves from moving down to the tiny, revealing red g-string. The small scrap of material hinted and what was underneath it in a big way and Sami knew from personal experience, if he did end up taking it off too, no one would be disappointed. It took all of her willpower but finally Sami pulled away to look at the other patrons in the club. All of the women's eyes were on Lucas, most of them screaming and cheering while other just sat, looking completely captivated. She could see the lust in their eyes as they watched him and she hated it.
Once again, a wave of resentment towards Lucas washed over her. He shouldn't be doing this. It was sickening, watching him putting himself on display for all these faceless, nameless women. And yet, she was probably more riveted by his promiscuous dancing than any of the rest of them. He was certainly getting her worked up but it wasn't totally anger. A good percentage of her worked up state had a lot to do with the pulsations coming from the lower regions of her body.
A mournful whimper welled up in her throat as Lucas moved around the pole expertly, his hand fisting the cylindrical metal. He ground his body up against the pole, sliding slowly along the metal. He pressed his almost completely naked body against the pole a little bit more and moved up and down it, his smooth, hairless chest slipping and sliding effortlessly.
"Do you think they'd let me be a stand in for that pole? It gets even more action than I do." Crystal commented, never taking her eyes off Lucas.
The screams became even louder and all over the club women were waving dollar bills frantically. Lucas finally diverted his attention from the pole and went around the room collecting the money, flashing the women big grins at the same time. Sami watched him from behind, her eyes focused on his tight, muscular ass that the g-string did nothing to conceal. God, he has such a hot ass, Sami thought, then realized what she had just said to herself, Of course, he needs someone to spank that ass after he's decided to show it to the entire female population of Salem. And I might just have to be the one to do it, Sami thought, gritting her teeth as she made a promise to herself to pay Lucas a little visit after he and the other strippers had finished for the night.
