So here it is. "The Show." If you really want to get into the mood to read this, I suggest listening to "The Moneymaker" by Rilo Kiley, "Striptease" by Hawksely Workman, or "Buttons" by the Pussycat Dolls while you read. I also listened to "Beat The Devil's Tatoo" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club while writing this. Anyway, enjoy.
Just as she was getting ready to leave work, Olivia felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. She finished shrugging on her jacket then took out her phone.
She was surprised to find a text message from Alex. When she opened it she was slightly puzzled by the message, but didn't give a second thought to following the directions on it.
As she walked down the street to the club Alex used to work at. She checked the message on her phone again before going into the door. The bouncer smiled at her when Olivia told her that she was looking for Alex. He pointed her inside and told her to go see the bartender first. When she offered to pay the cover he just shook his head.
"Hey detective," Taylor grinned from behind the bar.
"Hey," Olivia smiled back, "I've been told you know where I'm supposed to go."
Taylor nodded, "I do." She ducked behind the bar and started mixing a drink, "But first, you have to chill here for a while." She slid the drink to Olivia.
Olivia started to sip her drink and look around. The night was already in full swing. The club was full and all the stages donned dancers.
"Busy night," she casually mentioned to Taylor.
Taylor shook her head, "This is nothing. Come back next week for the annual strip-off and then you'll see a crowd. Five dollar cover for a full day of dancers. The fir marshal made us kick some people out last year."
"Wow," Olivia raised an eyebrow, "What's a strip-off?"
"Like American Idol for strippers," Taylor grinned, "I made enough tips last year to cover half of my tuition at NYU."
"You go to NYU?" Olivia asked, "What's your major?"
"I have a bachelor's in BioChem and am in my second year at NYU-Med," she opened a beer for another customer and handed it off.
The detective was clearly impressed, "How's that working for you?"
Taylor shrugged, "It's alright. I'm just ready to get out and start practicing, but that's still a ways off."
"Well you've made it this far and there's only what, two more years left?" Olivia asked.
Taylor nodded, "Until internship and residency." She glanced at her watch, "I do believe you have somewhere to be." She smiled and made another drink, "On for the road."
Olivia picked it up, "How much do I owe you?"
Taylor waved her off, "Nothing. Go down that hallway," she pointed to a doorway guarded by a bouncer and a beaded curtain. "Tell Mason you're looking for Alex and then go into the fifth door on the right."
The detective stood, "Fifth door on the right." She picked up her drink and started walking. With every step her heart pounded harder. She heard the ice in her glass start to rattle a bit as her hand started to shake.
When she got to the bouncer she asked, "Mason? I'm looking for Alex."
He let out a sly grin and held back the beads for her, "Have fun."
Olivia was wondering what the hell was going on. She walked though the hallway with doors on each side. She was beginning to think this club was a little shadier than she thought because of the rooms in the back, but she wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt because of Alex's attachment.
When she got to the fifth door, Olivia knocked before opening it. Inside the lights were dim, but she could clearly make out a small stage with a pole in the middle with a long bench seat surrounding it. Then it all clicked. This was the show.
She took a deep breath and slowly lowered herself onto the bench trying to mentally prepare herself for what she was going to see.
She didn't have to wait long. The lights dimmed to where she couldn't seen anything and then the stage lit up, lighting Alex from the ground up. Her lean body was stretched it's entire length along the pole behind her. Her hands slowly started to come down the shiny metal as her hips started to move to the music that started coming out of unseen speakers.
Alex's started to move with the hard-hitting bass line as the rest of her body slinked behind it. The tiny skirt she was wearing didn't leave much to the imagination and Olivia could see right through the white cut-off button down Alex was wearing to the lilac bra underneath. The only thing missing from the standard stripper outfit were five-inch heels. Alex was in bare, perfect feet on the table.
She swung around the pole once to the beat of the music, gracefully landing on the other side. Olivia couldn't quite believe she was watching Alexandra Cabot strip for her. She really couldn't believe how turned on she was and Alex hadn't taken anything off yet.
With every twirl and dip, Olivia felt her heart start to sound in her ears. Then Alex popped open her top revealing the lacy bra beneath and Olivia was beginning to doubt that she'd ever be able to stand again.
The look in Alex's eyes was one of a pure, burning lust. She'd bite her lip at just the right moment to leave Olivia breathless and move her hips with the ease of a seasoned belly dancer. Everything about her movements was fluid and graceful.
Just when Olivia thought her senses were on complete overload, Alex shimmied out of her skirt with a shake of her perfect ass sending Olivia into an excited shiver.
Before she knew it, Alex was on the pole spinning upside down in a sensual act of acrobatics. Had Olivia's mind not been saturated with Alex's body and it's movements she would have worried that Alex might fall.
Finally with her feet on the ground Alex stepped onto the bench next to Olivia before putting one leg on either side of Olivia and one hand on either side of the detective's head on the back of the bench. She rolled her body, careful not to touch Olivia before the detective was seconds away from sitting on her hands as to not touch.
Olivia could smell the sweet perfume and see the individual pieces of glitter on Alex's near naked body. She wanted nothing more than to pull Alex down on top of her and make the blonde feel the way she was feeling right then, but she knew she shouldn't. Plus that was breaking the one cardinal rule of strip club etiquette. Never touch the strippers.
Although it had been at least five minutes, Olivia thought it was more like thirty seconds. The song wound down, as did Alex. Finally she ended by doing the splits on the stage then sat on the edge of the stage and crossed her legs at the knee.
She slyly smiled at the look on Olivia's face. She leaned forward and kissed Olivia's cheek. "I'm going to go change and I'll meet you out front so we can go to dinner."
With that, Alex walked out, leaving Olivia to gawk after her and try to process everything she'd just seen. When she regained feeling in her extremities, Olivia drank the rest of the drink in a few gulps before heading out of the tiny room.