[Dave]
I let her throw on some of my clothes for the time being. I haven't told Rose and Kanaya that I have run off with her yet, but I'm sure that this will be a great surprise for them."You sure they won't mind us just walk in in?" She asked pulling her hair up.
"Nah they won't mind." I smile and open the door.
"Oh *hic* Hey Dave, and K-Kiarah are here." Rose grins.
"Awesome!" Kanaya walked in with a bottle in her hand.
"I know you don't want any Dave, but is it okay if she has any?" She waved the bottle at Kiarah.
"Pshhhh he doesn't tell me if I can drink or not." She winked at Kanaya talking the bottle. I rolled my eyes. Rose and Kanaya both have a thing for her. For the longest time before they got back together, they joked that if I didn't take her, they would.
"Nah, you guys have fun with that, I gotta run some errands anyway." I was actually going to pick up the stuff I'd need to doctor their hangover, but before I left I noticed the pole in the center of the room. "Is that...a pole?"
"Yeah, we just got it in, it's one of them moveable ones." Rose looked up at me with her drunken flushed face. Kanaya rushed over and leaned on me to whisper in my ear.
"We got it just in case you ever brought her here to stay. Rosie thinks it would be good stressed relief for Kiarah, since you made her quit her job." I flinched a little at the stench of the hard whiskey they had been drinking. They have never taken their drinks lightly.
"I didn't make her quit her job." I grit my teeth. "I won't make her do anything." I sighed and waved to them before leaving.
[Rose]
I watched her carefully as she sat down. She really is the only girl I'd cheat on Kanaya for, and its probably the same for her.
"So...how long did you say that pole has been in?" She asked pressing the bottle to her pretty full lips before handing the bottle to me.
"Today, it hasn't been used yet. We don't know if it will hold our weight, and even if it did we don't know how to use it." I took a drink and handed it to Kanaya. She gave a devilish grin and stood up in Dave's baggy (on her) jeans and shirt and walked to the pole. Man she looks hot in my brothers clothes...I know I shouldn't think about her that way, but...She's too beautiful not to.
"Well, I can teach y'all..." She took hold of it and swung around once or twice. "It will hold, trust me. Come here Kan." She waved my partner over.
[Kanaya]
I blushed and my heart fluttered. I couldn't believe she was going to teach me to dance. "Wrap your hands around the pole tight enough to support your body weight, but not tight enough to cause too much friction." I blushed when her voice was in my ear and her hands were on my hips helping me ease my weight down.
"What does this do?" I asked feeling my arms burn a little as she walked to sit on the couch and take another drink.
"It gets your arms used to your own weight." She smiled. "Makes it easier for you to throw it around when you dance."
"Is it supposed to hurt?" I asked.
"That's what she said." Rose laughed. I turned redder as Kiarah scoffed.
"Only for a little bit. Come on Rose, your turn."
I watched her show Rose how to hang there, and I grinned as she did so. It's kind of sad she's straight as an arrow, maybe enough liquor can bend her... "Hang there a bit Rose." She smirked as she took a long draft from the bottle, man she can handle her liquor...
"How did you know this works anyway?" She asked. She knows why but Kiarah doesn't know we do.
"It's what I do for a living." She grinned as Rose fell off the pole in mock surprise.
"No way." She said sitting up.
"Prove it." I smiled as she nodded.
"Nah, I'm just not feelin it." She laughed and took another drink, finishing off the bottle.
"What, you aren't scared are you?" Rose asked giving her a new bottle of stronger stuff. The look in her eyes told me she thought the same things I have been thinking. I don't feel so guilty now.
"Scared of what?" She laughed talking a swig. "Thanks for finally bringing out the good stuff Rosie."
"Dancing for the same sex of course, I mean you're straight, so I can see why that would be uncomfortable for you." I answered her.
"Believe it or not, I dance for a lot of girls, they are my biggest tippers." She sighed. "Besides they don't get as rough as men do."
"What do you mean, you only dance on poles right?" I was confused now.
"No, I do lap dances too." She looked weary as she took another drink, so I decided we needed music so we wouldn't ask her about her job anymore. "Oh my God." She leaned her head back and set the bottle down when "Don't Trust Me" by 3oh!3 came on. That was like someone flipped a switch, and she grabbed that pole and swung around to dance with the rhythm. Man she is good. I just wanted to touch her hips and feel her body, especially when the clothes came off... "I can't dance with all these clothes on, hope you don't mind." She smirked, there was a fierceness in her eyes, it was almost like this was a game she intended to do well at.
[Rose]
Oh I don't mind at aaaaaalllllllll. I thought as she shrugged of Dave's shirt and shimmied her perfect little butt out of his jeans. I then noticed what she meant about the men not being gentle. She has scars, and bruises all over her beautiful body. Somehow though when she started moving her body I was able to forget those marks and focus on the beautiful artwork that is the way she moved her body.
That dance ended prematurely when Dave walked in, I haven't realized it had been that long since he left.
"What is going on here?" His eyes skipped completely over his drunken 90% undressed love interest and landed on kan and I with liquor bottles in our hands and more on the floor.
"I told you David, we are drinking." Kanaya glared at him angry at him for making her stop.
"And making her dance?" You could see he was trying not to look at her. "She wanted to Dave..." I sighed blushing.
"Dave, one of the songs I dance to came on, and the pole was there...and I had a few drinks, so I thought why not?" She said coming to my defense, and starting to put clothes back on. "Sorry, but don't take it out on them..."
[Dave]
I bit my bottom lip watching her pull the clothes I loaned her back on. I stopped her at the shirt and examined the bruises and scars I didn't get to see even when she was in her "work clothes" "How many of these do you have?"
"I lost count." She wouldn't look at me, God I wish she would. She'd see how worried I am about her and that I'm not mad.
"Why do you do it?" I sighed.
"Dance? Because when you're broken and you've hit rock bottom, you'd do anything to get out. Anything to be loved. Well that gets you through for a couple months, but then what? You get desperate that's what."
"I know." I shuddered remembering turning to Mr. Jack Daniels after Bro died and I hit my own rock bottom.
"Then at the smallest sliver of hope you get, that one thing you can prove you're good at, that's all you do ,no matter...What? What did you say?"
"I said I know." I sighed and took her hands. "I don't know if you know this, but I'm an alcoholic. I worked hard to hide it after Bro died but the crushing weight of the fact that I'm alone, only got worse when Rose left, and I couldn't hide it. After I saw the way those men treated you the first week in that bar, that's when I decided to be sober. I could see the fear in your eyes and I didn't want that fear to be about me too. Those drunken idiots, they ruined that. My plan didn't work, I can see it when you look at me, and even more so when you don't, and I hate it."
"Why Dave? Why do you care. I don't deserve it. I'm too far gone to be worth anything." She looked down and I could see a tear fall.
"No. You aren't." I lifted her face to look at me and wiped the tear away. "I care because I love you." She had a slight look of doubt on her face so I leaned in and kissed her gently ignoring the drunken cooes of Kanaya and my sister, and the taste of her last drink. I don't know if that was a good thing to do because she froze a moment.
"Dave, I..." She turned very red, pulled my shirt back over her head and ran to the car muttering a good bye to them.
[A.N. Does she love him? Comment your answer and why, or tell me if you like it or if it sucks. Regardless, enjoy!]