Cornelia felt the horror in her stomach and she could taste it in the back of her throat. There was no way this was happening. There was no way she was this fucked! She started to try to look back on her actions and pinpoint the exact moment where she made the wrong move that led her to this moment and immediately flung the idea out of her mind. She hoped the man didn't notice her flinch with the effort. She was here. This was happening. The whys and hows didn't matter anymore. He was speaking. He just said something she was supposed to respond to, she could tell by the expectant look on his face, but she had no idea what the question was.
"Huh?" What a stupid fucking thing to say. She sounded like a retard. Jesse was right.
"I asked you your name sweetie," he repeated. He didn't sound impatient. Maybe he was nice. The boom of the club's sound system could barely be heard through the thick door of his expensive looking office. Maybe he figured she didn't hear him because of that. He called her sweetie and they just met. He probably called everybody sweetie.
"Cornelia."
"No shit?" He chuckled and looked surprised. He looked calm and she was scared shitless. She hated him for his calmness. "What's your last name?"
"Dugan."
"Cornelia Dugan?" He didn't chuckle again but he still looked amused.
"Yeah. Yes." Her mouth was dry and she could still feel her heart pounding in her chest. She wanted to pee but she could not fuck this up. Don't fuck this up Jesse said.
"So how can I help you Cornelia Dugan?" The question hung on his forehead with his raised eyebrows even after he asked it. It was a cocky look. She hated him more now.
"I was, hoping, I'm looking for work." She hated how she sounded. She was mumbling. He could tell by the wince on his face and the way he leaned forward across the big shiny wooden desk that he did not hear her.
"Say again?"
"Work," she said way too loud. "I'm looking for work."
"What kind of work are you looking for?" He sat back in his big leather chair and steepled his fingers over his paunchy gut. Not massive and blubbery like Jesse's but paunchy. The kind of gut that Jesse would consider unforgivable on a woman.
What a stupid fucking question. He knew damn well what kind of work. This was a strip club and she was trying to be a stripper because Jesse said to and this fucker wanted to ask dumbass questions. His dumbass questions made this harder for her and that was unforgivable. Jesse and Keisha were probably at home fucking and after they would smoke a joint and laugh about her.
"What ever's available," she replied and she got it out pretty steady.
"I'm hiring for all positions, bouncers, bartenders, dishwashers, cigar and tooter girls, dancers, managers. Do you have any experience?"
"No."
"So entry level jobs then. Those are dish washing and dancing. You want to wash dishes?"
"No."
"So what then?"
"The other one I guess." She couldn't look him in the eyes when she said it but she caught the disgusted expression on his face.
"Look sweetie, if you can't even say it this probably ain't for you."
"I can say it. I want to be a dancer."
"A stripper. A girl who takes her clothes off for money. That's what you want to do?"
"Yes." She almost choked on the word but she forced it out.
He waited a long time before he said anything again. He just sat there and looked at her across that big desk. He looked at her from head to toe and then back up. Keisha picked her clothes for her and Cornelia knew she already looked slutty enough. The shorts were too tight and too low. The snap came together about an inch and a half above her clit and only covered about three quarters of her ass cheeks in the back. Her thong panty straps rose up out of the waistband of the shorts and hung off her hips. The tight tube top squished her boobs together and held them tight. The four inch heels were hard to walk in but Keisha said they made her calves pop.
The man dug into his pocket and peeled a dollar bill off his thick wad and tossed it on the desk between them. "So go ahead."
Fuck! "Huh?" she said again but she knew what he meant. This was it. She hated that she was giving him a chance to clarify his demand.
"You want to take your clothes off for money. There's a dollar. Go ahead, take them off and you get to keep that dollar."
Keisha was black and curvy and seemingly most comfortable when she was naked. She peeled her clothes off as soon as she was through the front door every time she came home. Jesse made it a rule but obviously Keisha liked that rule. She thought it was hilarious that Cornelia liked to stay covered up. She said it was a white thing to be ashamed of one's body.
She could not fuck this up. Cornelia reached down to grab her tube top by the bottom hem.
"Stand up," he said. It sounded like a suggestion but it wasn't.
Cornelia stood up and turned around so her back was to him then pulled the tube top up over her head then down her long blonde hair. She turned around to face the man and dropped her hands away from her breasts. She folded her minuscule tube top and set it on the other chair; the one she had not been sitting in.
"Thirty-two, no, thirty-four D. Am I right?"
"Yes." He grinned like he just got a quiz show question right. C's sometimes fit her too. It depended what time of the month it was really. "I've been doing this too long." He chuckled. "Keep going you're halfway there."
She thumbed the snap on her shorts and slid the zipper down. It was a short trip. She hooked her thumbs in the waist and pushed them off her hip flare and down her legs. She bent down and picked them up and folded them and put them on the chair with her tube top. Her panties went next.
There it was. She was naked in front of this man and she could feel his eyes traveling across her bare skin. It was cold in his office and she felt her nipples crinkle and goosebumps rise up on her arms and thighs. Keisha shaved her bare that morning so she knew she didn't even have any hair to hide the lips of her pussy from the man's view. Jesse said that if she got the job he would get her waxed. He and Keisha thought that was pretty funny.
"Not bad. Do a little turn for me."
Cornelia did the turn in three clumsy steps in the high heels. It felt awkward. Not sexy. When her back was to him he told her to stop. "Now bend over and grab your ankles," he said. How could he say it? Did he hear himself? How could those words come out of his mouth so naturally? She hated him some more but she bent over. She heard him take a deep breath. "Okay," he said and she assumed that meant she could rise up and complete her turn.
"So, what? You about five five without the heels and about a buck twenty-five?"
She nodded.
"The tits real?"