Unpublished work © 2023 Mischievous Imagination. Use of the following material must be authorized by explicit written consent.
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Author's note :
- This tale is part of a series of standalone stories that recount the adventures of a lone traveler. They take place in cities all over the world.
- All the characters are over the age of 18 unless otherwise specified.
- My stories involve a lot of sex that isn't about phallic penetration, I hope you enjoy it nonetheless!
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I stop. Stare. The neon lights blaze before my eyes in the cool night air. My breath mists in front of me as I look around. The streets are deserted apart from the bouncer, calmly smoking his cigarette. The quiet is eerie in such a large city; the cold has people huddled indoors. The bouncer nods my way. I hesitate still. I have always been curious but a part of me wonders if it is wrong. Is it? I look around, not sure what I expect to find and then brusquely make up my mind. I walk over to the door and wordlessly greet the bouncer.
"Have you been here before?" he asks me.
"No, this is my first time."
"All right, I just want to be clear: this establishment isn't a nightclub, it's a strip club..." he trails off as if the implications should be clear. I have no idea what to expect. "It's 20 euros to enter," he adds. I acquiesce and he opens the door for me.
In the dim lighting, the first thing I notice are the scarcely clad half-dozen women leaning against the bar. All of their eyes turn towards me and this only adds to my nervousness. I pay my entry, and am led past the bar to a room in the center of which thrones a stage with a pole bar. A sofa lines every inch of available wall and I see some corners are occupied by clients chatting with strippers. The hostess leads me to a free corner where I sit and order an obscenely overpriced soft drink. A speaker announces Ruby will be on stage in one minute. My drink arrives and before I really have time to get my bearings, I see a beautiful woman walk towards me. I barely have time to take her in as she sits down to start the small talk. Her wavy blond hair reaches past her neckline and stops just short of her black strapless bra. Her voice betrays the slightest accent and I'm pretty sure she's from an eastern European country. I try to keep the conversation going but am repeatedly distracted by Ruby's dance. She's very graceful and her dance seems effortless. She catches my eye, flashes me a dazzling smile from behind a curtain of jet black hair and, without breaking eye contact, slowly and sensually removes her bra. I realize I've just been asked a question and tear my eyes away from Ruby's perfect nipples, trying to refocus.
"Um, yes. I just moved here for a couple of months, I'm travelling around the world actually."
"All right, we've chatted a bit. Do you want to buy a private show or buy me a drink?"
The abruptness of the question takes me by surprise. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Ruby topless, squeezing the pole with her breasts while slowly sliding up and down. It does nothing to help me cope with the situation and all I can manage is a strangled, "Thank you but not right now."
"See you later then," she concludes as she stands up to walk back to the bar. You can tell she doesn't really believe it.
I take a deep breath and try to regain control of the situation as Ruby finishes her dance with a full front split, bouncing her ass up and down against the stage for good measure. I barely have time to take a sip from my drink before I hear a new voice.
"Hi, I'm Jess."
I turn towards the sound of the voice to see a tall blonde woman standing next to me. Like the rest of them, she is clad solely in undergarments with a light black silky jacket 'covering' her back. Her undergarments are red and, as she plops down next to me on the sofa, I immediately recognize her fair complexion and her accent as French. We chat for a bit, discussing how she has always been a dancer and she has moved to more and more sensual dances as time went by.
At one point she asks, "Is this your first time here then?"
"Yes it is."
"Let me explain how this works then. If you like a girl, you can buy a show. There is a table dance for forty euros. We do the same dance as on stage, so up to topless but right next to you. Other clients can see as well. Then there are private shows. You can choose an eight minute show at eighty euros. This one is a monologue, you can't touch the dancer. I dance for the pleasure of the eyes only and go all the way to a full nude for you. Or you can move up to a twenty minute show at 220 euros. This one is a conversation, you're allowed to touch me and I you. This one is the most intimate you can get. Then of course you can choose a longer show if you wish : thirty minutes, one hour, the concept stays the same, the conversation only lasts longer."
I look into her hazel eyes and am tempted, very tempted. But something holds me back and just as I'm about to answer, I hear the microphone announce that Jess will be on stage in one minute.
"Oh, that's me!" she smiles, puts her hand on my chest and softly adds, "Hold that thought," before getting up to dance.
The next conversation is an exercise in multitasking. Jess is clearly dancing mainly for my benefit with prolonged eye contact; repeatedly bending over to give me a full view of her cleavage or her scarcely clad ass. Man those red thongs look good on her, rising high above her waistline. She twirls and exposes small perky breasts while I struggle to keep another discussion going with the stripper that sat down next to me at the beginning of her dance.
But I'm getting the hang of the situation. As I politely refuse to purchase yet another show, I'm almost eager for the next conversation. It's very flattering to have the undivided attention of a beautiful woman. It's frustrating not to be able to enjoy the dances uninterrupted but, by that time, I had made up my mind to purchase a private show. If I was going to do this, I wanted the full experience. I take a sip of my drink and look up at the next woman walking my way. She has dark auburn curly hair reaching just below her shoulders; on which are strapped a beautifully laced pure white bra. It practically glows on her olive skin in the semi-darkness of the room. I have time to take in the matching white panties and of course the transparent high heels they all wear before she glides into the sofa next to me.
She pierces me with intense blue eyes and playfully says, "I hear you're new here; we're taking your virginity tonight!"
She's sitting slightly closer to me than the others were and has my undivided attention. I laugh and answer, "Yes you are. I take it this isn't new for you, is it? Dancing I mean. Not deflowering."
She smiles and answers, "Oh I dance regularly, I'm on a strip tour actually, staying a week in one club, then moving onto the next. When I'm tired of it, I go back home and relax. Then I start again."
"Wow, sounds like a demanding job. I didn't know you could dance in a club just for a week."
"Oh yeah, it's really easy actually, you just send them a couple of pictures and the dates you want to be there. We're entrepreneurs so there is no complicated contract to sign."
"You're entrepreneurs? So the money you make is only based on commissions when a client buys you a private dance?"
"Yes. That and when you buy us drinks."
"Oh interesting. Some nights must be pretty uneventful. Do you make good money?"
"Honestly yes, if you put a minimum of effort into it, you get a good paycheck. Either that or you're ugly."
I chuckle in surprise at the honesty of the comment.
She laughs nervously and quickly adds, "What about you, how's your job?"