More background info on Cade & his strip club. Let's all be happy! Wheee! XD.
I'm hyper. This calls for another chapter. I have this all planned in advance & it's too addicting for my own good. Oh noes! Not another addiction. I barely have enough room for anymore!
'& you're dead inside.'
The first day of 'work' started after two days of their disappearance.
Jeff had hated everything, the fact that he had to wear too many skirts was not helping him cheer up at all as he had stripped out of the belt of his skirt once more, dancing around a pole and pretending to be as sexually appealing as possible, he actually felt sick inside. And his thoughts were only on Matt. What if Matt had seen him right now? The thought bothered Jeff endlessly...
Just as Jeff was about to finish his shift, he spotted the two last people he wanted to see, Matt and John.
His heartbeat quickened its pace as Jeff was about to leave the building but Matt's hand had firmly gripped onto Jeff's and this caused Jeff to freeze in his place, his heart still beating in his chest as he twisted his head to look at his furious brother and Jeff couldn't blame him. "Jeff! What the hell?! What are you doing here?" Matt couldn't keep his thoughts straight and for three minutes, he kept on shouting and cursing loudly, each word was strong and thick with anger and when Matt was tired out, Jeff finally opened those sorrowful eyes. "Why, Jeff? You scared the hell out of us two days ago and now...I just don't understand. What the hell happened?"
Jeff tried to explain. "Cade did this to us. Remember when I was sixteen and I came home at 1:30 and you grounded me?"
Matt slowly nodded his head.
"I took this lollipop from this crazy guy who's name is Cade and now, he wants me to become 'his stripper' if I want to get an antidote. Apparently, when that lollipop digest, the ingredients are going to make my body attack itself...Matty, I swear I'm sorry-"
"And this is why you shouldn't take things from strangers, Jeff."
Jeff only stared at Matt for a moment and the too loud hyper music hadn't caused any of them to feel any less horrified than they were as Jeff walked off, making Matt and John follow him as Jeff walked into his room, seeing Mike lying down there on the bed, asleep and that peaceful face was enough to make Jeff's heart break as he softly shook Mike's shoulder, making Mike wake up at the soft push. Mike looked up at both of them, their eyes meeting, and Mike sat up on the bed, and just then, Jeff realized how feverish Mike's skin was. "Mike? Are you okay?"
Mike simply nodded his head. "I'm fine."
"You have a fever."
Mike finally gave in and nodded his head and his eyes caught the clock that was glittering 11:50 and he knew that he only had 10 minutes before he himself had to go out there and just as Mike realized that John and Matt were also in the room, a bomb exploded into Mike's heart. "You guys?" Mike practically had to choke out from the joy that was engulfing his body. "I thought I was never going to see you guys again."
John sat down besides Mike while Matt seemed to be lost in his own world.
"Why is Cade keeping you here?"
That caused them all to ponder but they simply shrugged.
"Think any of you can find out why?"
Mike nodded his head. A glimmer of hope in those dead eyes. "I found a laptop on his desk while I was looking for my mentor. Maybe there's something that can help me in one of his files or I could look up his name and see what results I find. Either way, I need it."
"But-"
Just as Jeff was about to object that Mike was too feverish to go out there, Mike had already walked out of the room, leaving Matt and John there alone and Matt looked through the drawers, trying to find Jeff some proper clothing but couldn't. He grabbed onto any one of the stripper clothing he could find and walked into the bathroom and had only got out, dressed in the too revealing clothing and he threw his own clothes into Jeff's arms, "go change or I'll kill you."
Jeff rolled his eyes before he went inside the bathroom to change, leaving both Matt and John alone.
"You know--I never thought that something like this could happen to him. I thought he was safe. That there's nothing wrong with him...that there's nothing that could be wrong with him but no... and he's getting fucked up over something any child would do. It's unfair." Matt mentioned, staring down at the ground as thoughts erupted in his head, too many thoughts all at once and it didn't take long for Jeff to walk out of the bathroom and sit down, Matt finally smiled and held onto Jeff's shoulder, letting Jeff bury his face into Matt's shoulder and John shook his head before he walked outside. "I'll leave you both alone."
'& you're all alone...'
Until now, Mike could barely find anything.
The only thing he did find out was that this strip club was passed on from generation to generation and just as he was about to open another website, he heard the door slowly open and his heart leaped in his chest as he jumped up in shock and fear, a million thoughts racing through his head but to his relief, it was only his mentor standing there but when he realized that his mentor must be on Cade's side, he closed his eyes and prayed. He heard the footsteps of his mentor and then, he stopped and he could almost feel his mentor's body close to him as he opened one eye and stared at those soft cobalt blue eyes of his mentor. "You know that you aren't gonna find anything about Cade from this piece of shit."
His mentor sat on a chair and Mike, still alert, sat back down, finally letting his tension go away and letting relaxation seep. "This all started with a couple, Dehlia and Ricky. Dehlia Mizanin was around 17 years old when she met Ricky and she was everything he was looking for, charming, smart, charismatic, funny, and she doesn't take shit from anyone and she was very rebellious. And when she turned 22, he proposed to her, and she accepted. She got into Ricky's business, which was running this strip club, and she loved it. She loved showing her true naked form in front of everyone. It was just something she loved. This is why she was known as a slut. And all seemed fine but there was this one weird quirk about her, after her shift, she would suck on a lollipop. Always. He never questioned her because he didn't want to anger her.
"During one of her shifts, he found her in bed with another man and he was so furious with her. He walked towards her with this dark look on his face and ripped a lollipop from her pocket and he shoved it in her mouth, and he let the entire lollipop slip into her throat, he was choking her and he loved every moment of it but he also still loved her too much and when he forced the entire thing down her mouth, it couldn't go past her lungs and this restricted her from breathing. She just died. At that moment, he realized how he let his insanity get a hold of him and he grabbed onto another lollipop from her other pocket and before he choked himself, he just said that 'death would never taste so sweet' before he choked himself with the lollipop, same as her. The guy that Dehlia had been seeing behind Ricky's back was Ricky's brother, Vick. He was the one to supply her with all those lollipops and Vick had gotten them from a boy named Fabian and they were supposed to be a treat but only after Dehlia's death did Vick look through the body and he found an enormous amount of poison. She would've died in two weeks anyways."
Mike was silent for a while. "Dehlia Mizanin?"
His mentor nodded his head. "Yeah. Your family and the Casanova's had been enemies before. Dehlia and Ricky's story didn't take back too far. Not so far that it was 50 years ago. It was about 20 years ago, and Dehlia is related to you. She's your aunt. Cade still feels vengeful, feels like your family haven't suffered enough and he was always sadistic so when he got ownership of the strip club, he started planning his revenge, doll."
"This guy is nuts." Mike shook his head. "And you know this how...?"
Silence engulfed them both.
His mentor looked into Mike's eyes. "Mike..."
Mike bit down his lips as his eyes widened as he realized the man in front of him. "D-Dad...?"
"Mike-"
"I can't believe you."
Mike was just about to leave, but his father had grabbed onto his arm. "Mike, just listen this out."
"What? You let your son become a stripper?"
"Mike, you're feverish."
"And?"
"Mike, please."
Mike didn't let another word slip out of his tongue as he walked off and coldness resided in his eyes as he stepped out of the room, still unable to believe what was happening and as soon as he walked into his and Jeff's room, seeing that Jeff was asleep and Matt was staring at the blonde, admiring his brother still, Matt's eyes finally locked with Mike's before Mike let out a sob he'd been holding back.
Matt pulled his hands out and Mike jumped into them, crying and sobbing, and Matt tried to piece together what happened.
"My dad...jerk...I...he..."
Matt rubbed his back, trying to calm him down while he tried to piece together what happened but still, with no avail at all.
"How could he do this to me?"
Sob.
"He fucking let me become a stripper!"
Sob. Tears.
"I hate this!"
Matt finally wiped away Mike's tears and continued to rub his back, soothingly and without knowing what was wrong, all he wanted to do was comfort the brunette. "Calm down, Mike...it's all gonna be alright...shhhh...."
Sob.
"Shhhh..."
Jeff's soft green eyes opened and seeing his brother and Mike in that position, his heart shattered but he pushed that thought aside but as both Mike and Matt's eyes linked with each other, the moment passed and Matt pressed his lips against Mike's and that was it, Jeff's heart was utterly shattered as he shut his eyes and he tried to repeat the lie he'd been telling himself for far too long I'm not in love with Matt let Mike kiss him there are other fish in the sea I-I'm fine I-I'm really f-fine and he let out a soft whimper in his lip but it was inaudible that Jeff could barely hear it. Jeff finally fell asleep because of exhaustion.
Mike pulled back and shook his head. "You know that I like John."
Matt chuckled. "I guess that was just at the heat of the moment."
Mike nodded his head. Dehlia's a slut... what said that I wasn't? He bit down his lip and shook his head. He was not Dehlia. She was related to him, blood related, but that didn't mean that he was completely identical to her and somewhere along those lines, Mike had fell asleep from the tiredness of his body and mind. Matt laid him down and stepped out with John standing there.
"You saw the kiss?"
John nodded his head.
"Do you like Mike?"
"I dunno..."
"We're gonna track down the source of the lollipops tomorrow. Me and Jeff, that was what we decided. When Mike's doing his shift, you look out for him, okay?"
And John and Matt both walked into any other empty room and decided to fall asleep, completely not knowing how they were going to clean up this huge mess that now all of them were entangled in.
'& you're all fucking scared on the inside.'
Okay...this will hopefully turn interesting. ;) Reviews, darlings! I know this was way shorter than intended but then again, I'm trying to build things up 'til the next chappie so yeah! XD.
X Sam.
