Ch. 24 Going Back
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Bella's POV
"What is it?" I asked cautiously.
"Marry me Bella…" he said looking at me straight in the eyes.
I gasped. Was he serious? What? Why? How could he do this? We are just starting to get to know each other. It's too soon for any of this! I'm only 17 for crying out loud! I'm not ready for this!
"I…I…I don't understand…" I managed to say.
"Bella…Marry me…be my wife and then what's mine is yours and that includes the money, so you wouldn't have to worry about working." He said pleading me with his eyes.
Why was he doing this to me? It was breaking my heart to see him like this. But it just couldn't accept.
"Edward…I…I...can't. It's all too soon. I'm sorry."
He looked very disappointed, "Bella…just think about it please." He begged.
"Edward…" I started to protest but he cut me off.
"Bella just think about it. You won't have to work and you can go to school and get an education like most people your age."
I sighed angrily, "Edward I don't need an education. I know enough to get me through my life. You don't need to know much to be a stripper!"
He groaned, "You won't have to a stripper! You can be something else! A teacher, a scientist, a doctor, I don't know! Just something that's not a stripper!"
It didn't sound bad but I wasn't good enough to be something like that.
I sighed defeated, "Edward I'm done arguing. I'm sorry but I'm gonna keep being a stripper..."
"Bella…" he tried again but I stopped him.
"No I'm sorry. You either want me the way I am or you don't…" It broke my heart to say it but I had to.
I was scared that he would decide to leave me right this second because he deserved better than a stripper. I knew he did and it saddened me.
"Bella…I'm sorry…" He said sadly.
Oh shit this was it he was leaving me
"I shouldn't be bugging you about this. I love you for who you are and I'm not going to change that." He said kissing my forehead.
I sighed in relief, "But it's still going to bother you right?"
"Yes…I can't stand to watch or know that other men watch you, desire you, and think inappropriate things about you." He said angrily.
"It doesn't matter what they think, I only want you." I assured him, grabbing his face and kiss him.
He was so silly. Why in the world would I prefer anyone that wasn't him? He was the most gorgeous, most perfect, godlike creature/man in the whole entire universe.
"That's good to know." He said smiling as he kissed my forehead then laid us on my bed with my head on his chest as he hummed me my lullaby.
A week passed since his proposal and today was the day I was going back to work. I know Edward wasn't happy about it. He had a tight smile this morning before he left to get changed. Also the days we went to the club to practice or to the meetings, I could tell he was upset but he never said anything because I guess he realized I wasn't going to change my mind.
I felt bad for making this choice but I needed the money and that was the only thing I was good at. Guys loved me! That's why they came to the club, not that I cared because the only guy I cared for was Edward. But guys loving me meant more money. I was their favorite so more money went to me.
For I moment I wondered do I care more about money than Edward's feelings?
No that wasn't it! I was just an independent woman. I didn't like anyone taking care of me. I wasn't used to it. Nobody before Victoria, Anne, and Vivian did, but even I didn't let them take care of me. Plus I loved Edward! I had never felt this way before. He was the one I wanted to be with for the rest of my life.
"Bella c'mon! We got to go!" Vivian yelled from her room snapping me to reality.
"Coming!" I yelled back.
I got my coat and keys and went downstairs.
"Ready?" I asked Vivian.
"Yep! Let's go get our dance on! I am so excited! How about you sexy?" Vivian said punching me in the arm.
"Ow! What was that for?" I exclaimed punching her back.
"I'm excited I told you! I can't control what my body does when I get excited!" She said defensively.
I shook my head at her and decided to change the subject, "So I hope that now that we have a DJ things will be better and more exciting."
"Right? Good thing Victoria asked us all to go in early to meet him and explain how things will go." She said relieved.
"I know, though I kind of hate that it's all going to be rushed." I complained.
"Yeah, but the guy couldn't come before cause of his last job. He must have been good if Victoria has let him miss all the practices."
"That's true."
We got in my truck and looked at me expectantly.
"What?" I asked.
"You never answered my question from before, are you excited to go back?" She asked expectantly.
I shrugged, "I guess…I mean I am but then I think about how Edward isn't too excited about it…" I said looking straight ahead.
She sighed, "Bella, I'm going to tell you something and you may not like it. You need to do what you think is best for you, screw him if he doesn't accept that. You need to be happy with the decision you make because it's your life not his! Although it might be hard since he's so yummy! I would so do anything for him." She said trying to lighten the mood.
"I guess you're right but still I'm in a relationship, I can't just run off and do things!" I said exasperated, "And by the way he's mine so back off!" I said smiling at her wickedly.
"You're a lucky girl Bella! I need to find a man like that!" She said playfully.
She was right. I was lucky to have a guy like Edward notice me and want to have a relationship with me. He was the perfect guy…
We arrived at The Big Bang and walked inside. The mood inside was party mode. Our new DJ was rocking it already; he was playing "Wild Ones" by Flo Rida ft. Sia. I think I liked him already because that was like one of my favorite songs. The vibe made me excited and prepared to dance my butt off tonight.
"Hey girls!" Victoria yelled over the music.
She waved us over to the bar.
"Hi Victoria, Hi Laurent." We said hugging them both.
"Hey girls!" They both said happily.
"This place is getting me in a partying mood!" I said loudly though, it unnecessary since they both had superhuman hearing.
They laughed, "I know! Isn't it great? You guys will get to meet him soon. We are waiting for everyone to arrive so you all can meet him all at once."
"Sounds good!" Vivian said while dancing in her spot and singing along, "C'mon Bella! Join me!"
I laughed and decided to join her. We were partying when we heard whistling. We stopped and turned to see Angela, Ben, and the four other girls. Jessica and Lauren were there too but they seem to completely ignore us. Whatever I couldn't stand them either. Why did they have to come back again? I groaned internally.
"Ang!" I squealed.
The turned to everyone.
"Hey Ben! Hi everyone!" I said waving at them all.
They all murmured Hello.
"Okay now that all of you are here, let's go meet our new DJ." Victoria said excitedly.
I bet all of you are wondering aren't Victoria's eyes red? Well no she and Laurent's eyes have become an amber color now. So nobody will be suspicious. Well they hadn't seen Laurent before so they didn't know what his eyes looked like before but with Victoria they just assumed she got contacts. As for her new vampire beauty we told them Victoria had to get surgery to recover all the injuries she got when she was "kidnaped."
We all headed over to where the DJ was playing as we neared I saw it was a tall, brow haired, cute guy. He looked around my age. He saw us approaching and turned the music down and then walked around the sound system towards us. He smiled at all of us and let me just say he had a cute smile.
I heard Jessica and Laurent whispering behind me. I guess they liked what they saw.
"Guys I would like you to meet Riley Biers, our new DJ." Victoria introduced him to us.
"Hi!" We all murmured.
"Riley this is everyone. This is our main star Bella…" She said gesturing at me. I smiled and he reached his hand out to shake mine, I shyly reached out and shook it. "Nice to meet you Bella." He said with this penetrating look in his eyes and a sweet smile.
"Nice to meet you too." I said smiling while pulling my hand away.
"This is Vivian…" She said.
Vivian smiled and reached out to shake his hand, "Vic you sure know how to pick them! He's really cute!" She said unashamed while winking at him.
I shook my head and chuckled.
She finished introducing everyone and now Jessica and Lauren were being so pathetic! Asking him all these question and flirting; it was hard to watch. I kept seeing him out of the corner of my eye throwing glances over at me. I tried not to make much of it; it was probably nothing so I just ignored his glances.
"Bella I think Riley likes you." Whispered Ang.
I just rolled my eyes.
"I'm serious! He keeps looking at you! Right Vivian?"
Vivian laughed, "It's true! He looks like he wants to come over here and rip you're close off and maybe also like he wants to talk to you. Damn Bella you know how to get the bait! First Edward now Riley! Damn!"
I rolled my eyes, "You guys are crazy! You are obviously misjudging him! He obviously is looking for a way to escape from Jessica and Laurent!"
They chuckled.
"Uh huh! Keep thinking that Bella." Said Vivian rolling her eyes.
"Yeah! He obviously wants you Bella. No guy looks at a girl like that just because he is trying to escape someone else. And who can help the guy you're gorgeous Bella!" Angela exclaimed.
"Um guys! I have a boyfriend remember? His name is Edward. He's pretty hard to forget so I don't know why we are even having this conversation! Plus I am very happy with him!" I said angrily before storming off backstage to get changed.
They were being so ridiculous! They sure knew how to piss me off! If I were single then yeah I would be interested but for god sakes! I was in a relationship and that I loved Edward with all my heart!
I arrived in my dressing room and locked my door I did not want anyone disturbing me.
I decided to start with my makeup. As I was about to start putting on mascara I heard talking outside my door then knocking.
"Bella! We are sorry for being such pains in the butt. Please forgive us!" begged Vivian.
I just ignored her. They both needed to suffer for a little and plus I wouldn't be able to talk to them without going off on them.
"Bella? C'mon! You know we didn't mean to upset you. Please open the door and say you forgive us." Angela pleaded.
I just stayed quiet and did my makeup. They kept trying to reason with me but I wasn't going to budge. I heard the music start playing again, I guess dumb and dumber finished bothering Riley.
"Fine! Be that way Isabella!" Vivian growled impatiently.
"Vivian! That's not going to make things worst!" I heard Angela chide.
They soon left to get ready. I finished my makeup then put on my outfit for tonight. Since tonight was the opening act and we were probably going to have lot of clients we had to look very provocative tonight to get them to want to come back again.
We were all wearing the same outfit for our dance performance that we did together.
We had two outfits that we were changing into. The outfit we were all wearing consisted of this bra that barely covered anything. It has a lot of rhinestones on it. The underwear was matching it only covered the crotch part and then had string that went to the side. The strings had rhinestones on it too. Then it had fishnets that went above my knees and these fuzzy boots. My outfit was in red. Everyone had a different color. My second outfit was a cute pink and black set.
I looked pretty sexy. My hair was all scrunched up and teased. It just gave it that sexy effect.
"Bella?" I heard Angela ask as she knocked on my door.
I didn't answer back but just opened the door and let them in. They were both there looking at me apologetically.
"Bella we are so sorry! You know we didn't mean it." Vivian said apologetically.
"Yeah we know you love Edward and we are glad you're with him." Angela said.
I sighed, I couldn't be mad at them, "Fine I forgive you both, but don't ever do it again."
They both walked over and we hugged tightly. When we pulled away we looked at each other acknowledging what we were wearing.
"You guys look smoking hot!" I told them.
Vivian's outfit was in black and her hair was straightened while Angela's was in white and her hair was curled up.
"Bella you're the one that looks really sexy. You got the sex hair going on. The guys are going to love it! They won't even know what hit them!" Vivian said bumping her hip with mine.
I chuckled and shook my head.
I heard the music playing and the noise of people coming. I was so excited to see Edward. I couldn't wait to get my hands on him. My fantasy was for him to get so turned on that he would attack me and have his way with me, but that was going to be highly unlikely. He was going to probably be mad most of the night.
We left my room and walked out to the hallway to get ready the other girls were out too.
Ben and Victoria came up to us.
"Are you girls ready?" Asked Victoria excitedly.
We all murmured "yes."
"Okay so Riley is going to get things going then he will announce you girls up. Ben is the lighting tech now, but he will be here during the break for anything you girls need. Got it? " She asked looking around at all of us.
"Yes." We all said in unison.
"Ok then. Good luck and do your best girls!" She said giving as an encouraging smile.
Then they both left.
After a while I heard Riley speak over the song that was playing.
"Hello and welcome to The Big Bang!" He said animatedly.
The men whistled and hollered.
"I'm Riley and I will be the DJ from now on. I'm sure all of you are excited to be here at the grand reopening of The Big Bang! I know I would be too if I were you cause man are these girls gorgeous!" He said smugly.
The men hollered in agreement.
"Now give it up for Victoria!"
All the guys clapped, whistled, or hollered.
"Hey guys! Welcome back! I'm glad to see lot of you here tonight! I'm sure you guys have missed these gorgeous girls!" She said excitedly.
"Whoa!"
"Yeah!"
"Bella I missed you!"
"I can't wait to see my girls!"
"Bella! I want you!"
The men hollered and I could swear I heard Emmett and it wouldn't surprise me either if it was him I heard.
I blushed at the guys calling for me. It was flattering but it made me kind of feel like a circus animal or something.
Victoria laughed, "I see you guys are excited to see Bella huh?"
"Yeah!" They hollered and whistled.
"What do they see in her? She's not that pretty." I heard Lauren say in disgust to Jessica.
I just rolled my eyes.
"Okay! I won't make you guys wait any longer. Riley take it away!" Victoria commanded.
We all lined up in the order we were exiting out. I was last so I had to go all the way to the back with Angela and Vivian. The thing that sucks is that we have to be next to Lauren and Jessica.
"Back in Time" by Pitbull started playing and Riley started introducing the girls.
The four girls had gone and now Jessica was up.
"Up next we have Jes-si-caaaa!" He announced.
Cheers.
He was good at this, no wonder Victoria hired him.
"Now we have Lau-rennn!"
Cheers.
Now it was Ang's turn she looked a little nervous since it had been a while.
"Give it up for An-ge-laaa!"
Cheers.
Before walking away she gave us a nervous smile and walked away.
"You're next Viv's. Go get them girl." I said encouraging her.
"Thanks! They won't care about me though. They are anticipating your entrance but you got this Bella." She said smiling encouragingly.
"Thanks." I smiled at her.
"Now give it up for Vi-vi-annn!"
More Cheers.
"Be-lla! Be-lla! Be-lla!" I heard the crowd chanting.
"Oh God!" I chuckled.
"Alright! I see you guys know who is coming out next and you guys are excited to see her. I am too, so don't worry I understand." Riley said in a smug tone.
What the hell did he mean? Wait a minute he's the DJ he obviously has to do this.
"Okay now for the one you guys have been waiting for: The one! The only! The beautiful Be-llaaa!"
The crowd went wild.
I took a deep breath, put on a smile on my face, and walked out onto the stage. The spotlight went straight to me.
"Whoa!"
"Bella! You look sexy tonight!"
"Bella!"
"Bella take it all off!"
They all cheered and whistled.
I just winked and smiled seductively at them. I looked out to look for Edward and saw him sitting in the middle with Emmett and Jasper. He gave me a tight smile. I knew he was going to be mad tonight. I saw Emmett give Jasper a look. Soon Edward's smile looked happy. I guess Jasper used his magic on him so I smiled back taking advantage that he was happy. Thank you Jasper!
Once I got to my spot next to Ang and Vivian we waited for the song to change. We were all facing down with our hair covering our faces.
"Dance Again" by Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull started to play and that was out cue to start dancing.
The song started and we still were looking down. Shaking, grinding, and moving our hips. When JLo started to sing we all looked up and started by our body seductively and touching ourselves. Also we had to mouth the words and make it seductive. We then had to go to the people next to you and start grinding on them and touching them seductively. For me it was Vivian and Angela.
The guys were going wild. I'm sure they all were turned on already.
"Yeah! Touch Bella like that!"
"Bella keep touching her like that!"
"Bella I wish that was me you were touching like that!"
"You will love making love to me baby!" someone said quoting the song.
The perverts were yelling. You think I would be furious. Well I kinda am because it's been a while. In the beginning it was hard every time they would say stuff like that I would always be ready to yell at them but Vivian would hold me hard and give me this look that told me to ignore it. I got used to it eventually, well more like I learned to ignore it but I would listen to their suggestions because that meant more money.
We kept dancing seductively and then during the chorus we went around dancing with the other girls. So yes there was a point where I had to dance with Jessica and Lauren which wasn't the greatest thing, but we had to pretend to be okay.
Angela, Vivian, and I ended up front again and we danced really provocatively pretending to lean in to each other to kiss and pretending that we were going to take our clothes off.
That really got the men going.
"Take it off!"
"Stop teasing us!"
"Yeah baby!"
"I wanna be your playmate for sure!"
Wow they kept quoting the song. That's why we picked this song because we knew they would enjoy it and for the girls that actually slept with the guys made more money this way because they would quote it while they had sex or while seducing them.
The song ended and the guys yelled for more.
We danced three more songs then everyone headed to their dressing rooms to get changed.
"Give it up to the ladies! They were amazing! Now we have to wait for them to change for their solos so while that's going on take advantage of this time to go get a drink and snacks over at the bar." Riley announced.
I got into my dressing room and grabbed a towel drying myself off.
There was a knock at my door.
"Come in!" I yelled.
It was probably Vivian coming in to comment about something.
Soon I felt strong, cold hands around me and I was suddenly turned around and being kissed.
"Well hello to you too!" I said breathlessly.
He chuckled, "You were so sexy up there. It took everything in me not to run up and take you." He said in a husky voice.
Man he was talking about my fantasy. For I moment I wondered if he could read my mind and was lying to me this whole time.
"You should have!" I whined hugging him tightly.
"And be hated by all those guys?" he teased.
"So? It would have been worth it." I teased back.
He groaned, "You are going to be the death of me."
I smirked at him.
"I love you so much." I said turning up to kiss him.
He kissed me then said, "I love you too. That's how I manage to handle men looking and thinking terrible things about you. You know I have a complaint about that new DJ he kept thinking these horrible things about you. He likes you Bella and wants to ask you out! The whole time you were dancing he was thinking of the things he wanted to do to you." He growled.
Wow so Angela and Vivian were right about Riley…
I chuckled at his jealousy. "Edward I don't like Riley. I only like you! Him thinking those things isn't going to change anything."
"I know but it makes me angry because he's your age and human! He is probably good for you despise his thoughts." He said exasperated.
"What the heck Edward? I don't care that he's human! I only like you! I don't care if you think he's "good" for me because you're wrong!" I whispered harshly so no one would hear.
He sighed, "Sorry about that. I didn't mean to go all jealous, insecure boyfriend on you. Please forgive me love."
"It's okay. You know you're kind of hot when you're jealous." I said playfully.
He smirked, "Really?"
"Yes… Edward I don't know why your insecure you have nothing to worry about. You are the hottest, sexy, gorgeous, sweet, caring, responsible, unselfish, and perfect man I have ever met. I wouldn't want to change anything about you." I told him honestly.
"Thank you. That's great to hear." He said smiling and then leaning in to kiss me until out breaths were ragged.
"Well I'm going to leave you now so you can get ready for your next performance. I can't wait to see you." He said in a husky voice before leaving.
The rest of the show went great guys went crazy during my performance but I got a decent about of money from it. I had a lot of hundreds which I'm pretty sure Edward threw in. I gave out six lap dances. One of them was to Edward and he was so happy that I picked him. He should be surprised. As long as he shows up I will give him a lap dance; if not here in the club, later at my bedroom for sure.
I got changed and walked out to talk to Victoria and Laurent as I waited for Vivian.
"You did great tonight Bella!" Victoria gushed.
"Thanks." I said self-consciously.
"You're welcome. So Edward seemed to take things fine." She noted.
"You're right. He seemed pretty excited." Laurent said teasingly.
I winked at him, "You know it! But yes he was fine. I mean it still bothered him. He went backstage to talk to me about it but I reassured him he was the only one. He worries too much and is too insecure. He doesn't know the hold he has on me."
"You have to put yourself in his shoes. Imagine him being the stripper and seeing all these girls all over him and thinking dirty things about him." Laurent said.
I thought about it and the thought made me want to rip apart all those bimbos in my imagination.
They chuckled at my expression which was probably murderous.
"So you understand now?" Laurent asked.
And before I respond Riley asked, "Understand what?"
"Riley! You did great tonight." Victoria gushed.
"Thank you." He said smiling at her then turning to me, "You were great out there."
I blushed, "Thanks."
Things started to get awkward and decided to get going.
"I'm going to go look for Vivian and head home. See you guys tomorrow." I said smiling at them and heading to the dressing rooms.
"Bella wait up!" I heard Riley yell.
I stopped and turned around. I'm pretty sure I knew what he was going to say.
"What's up?" I asked.
"I..."he started and took a deep breath, "Bella… I think you're gorgeous and I know we just met but… I would love to get to know you more. Do you… Would you like to go out sometime?" he asked nervously.
I knew he was going to ask that. He was really sweet and I hate that I was going to reject him but nothing could happen between us. I would love to be his friend though. He seemed like I nice guy.
I took a deep breath, "Riley I'm sorry I can't. I have a boyfriend."
He looked sad and embarrassed, "It's okay. Wow I'm dumb! I should have known you weren't single. Of course you would be with someone you're gorgeous. He is very lucky."
"Riley I really am sorry! You seem like a great guy and maybe if I wasn't in a relationship I would have said yes. We can be friends though right? I would love to be your friend." I said genuinely.
He nodded, "That would be great. Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow."
"Yeah bye." I said smiling kindly.
He turned around looking down and walked away.
I felt so terrible! He looked so sad as he walked away. I looked up and saw Victoria and Laurent smiling at me sadly. I just nodded showing them I was fine.
When I got home, Edward was already there waiting for me.
"Hey stranger." I said cheerfully. I was so happy to see him.
He didn't say anything just stared at me. He had this cold look on his face. His arms were crossed on his chest. His Knuckles white.
I panicked, "Edward, what's wrong?"
"What's wrong you ask?" He growled.
Before I answered he growled. "That little boy asking you out is what's wrong!"
I stood there shocked. So he heard that?
"What the heck Edward? I turned him down and he understood. We are only friends. You know I only want you! We went through this already!" I yelled frustrated at him.
"Friends? His thoughts were something else! He's going to fight for you Bella! What if he wins you over and I lose you?" he yelled angrily.
"Edward you won't lose me! He can fight all he wants but I only love and want you!" I yelled trying to get it to stick in his brain.
He sighed angrily, "For now but humans change their minds Bella!"
"You are impossible! I only want you! When are you going to understand that? The only person here worried about losing the other is me! Edward I'm not perfect for you! You can do so much better than me. Every second I worry that you will meet that perfect girl and leave me!" I finally let out. Tears started brimming in my eyes.
His expression changed from anger to concern.
He grabbed my face and held my gaze, "Bella. My Crazy, beautiful, silly girl. You think I can do better than you? That someone else can hold my attention?" He asked.
I nodded and he chuckled, "Bella you're the one that needs to get in her head that I only love you and it will always be you! No other woman can hold me the way you do."
By now I was a crying mess. His words were so beautiful. I didn't deserve this man.
He kissed my tears away, "Please don't cry love. It hurts me to see you like this."
I shook my head, "You're too good to be true." I blubbered.
He pulled me up into his arms and carried me to my bed. He pulled the covers back and laid me down gently. He quickly got into bed with me, wrapping his arms around me and he kept giving me kisses everywhere he could reach.
"I love you." I said.
"I love you too and don't ever forget it. I will always fight for you Bella." He said passionately.
And I knew that he meant it.
oooh someone wants Bella!lol What do you guys think about Riley? Do you think he'll add some trouble in this story? Let me know what u guys think about the chapter! and thanks so much for reading and being patient with me! i'll try upoading soon!
3 Angelica