Marie
I was downtown talking w/ October.
"Marie," she told me.
"yeah?" I asked.
"I'm afraid I've some bad news. You're not. Old enough."
"for?"
"to, do. This line of work. You might have been in Paris but not here. Also I don't know when your last gyno exam was."
"I'm not old enough to work anywhere. I have to wait 2 yrs. And my family needs the money."
"I know. However I also know something else. There's a new club that just opened up called the spiders web. My friend Lucy work there."
"a nightclub?"
"mmm no more like a strip club ."
"oh."
"do you want to check it out?"
"ok."
"you'll have to audition first. But I'm sure once you do the bossll be ok with someone as young as you working there. He takes girls as young as 14. Long as you keep it on the downlow. Which you will. That way you wont be wandering the streets. Be careful around the boss though. You don't talk to the customers you only please them."
"ok."
"that's how Lucy got in so much trouble."
"oh."
"wanna go?"
"ok."
And so we walked a few blocks into the spiders web a big black stone building. When we walked in there were men sitting in chairs tied to them w/ ropes. Which women were holding.
"and that's just one of our specialties," October told me.
A big burly guy looked up from where he was sitting. He nodded at October who nodded back. He came over.
When he got over to us he looked me up and down: "I see we have a new one. Young and fresh just how I like 'em. Shell be a great addition. Lucy," he looked at the dark girl who'd approached us: "show her the ropes will ya? Tell her about the place."
She nodded quietly and he went back to his seat.