Nora's P.O.v

Tonight was interesting and I had really enjoyed myself, but now it was to head home, to head home and sort things out with matt, I didn’t get to see him when I left earlier, hopefully he wasn’t in a mood and he was just desperate to smoke...I hope.

Brian was driving me home, and since we had left the beach, he went very quiet, he had been quiet since I said I loved him but it was forbidden, I was sat staring out the window with papa roach playing quietly out of the speakers...and with that I heard a much exaggerated sigh from Brian.

"You ok?" I turned away from the window to look over at him "This situation just pisses me off..." I saw he had gripped the wheel and his jaw was clenched....yeah tell me about it!

"Brian...move on...get over....it...you have to focus on your family, on Nikki...on your kid....you need to understand I will help you, I will be there for you no matter what, but this ...whatever this is...has to end...it will be hard...but it needs to happen" and with that the car abruptly stalled.

"That hurt, but I guess if that’s what you want then I’d rather have you in my life as a friend than without you at all" I smiled "We are here by the way" then he smiled, I kissed d his cheek and let myself out of the car, before shutting the door I waved goodbye hen watched him drive off, leaving me to confront Matt.

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"Hey I’m home!" I opened the front door and was met by blaring music, loud enough to make your ears bleed "MATT?" I shouted for him, maybe he was in the kitchen and he didn’t hear me because of the music, good choice though I may add Papa Roach “I almost told you that I loved you”...funny Brian was playing this on the way home...was someone out there trying to say something?

I walked further into the house and found myself tripping over cans and bottles "What the fuck?" I whispered... I carried on walking, I knew something was up and the pit of my stomach was telling me to go straight to bed and leave it alone, but I knew very well I couldn’t. I walked into his living room to find him sat on the couch with bottle of JD in hand, don’t think he once noticed I was home, I walked over and sat on the coffee table in front of him "hey im home" he looked up at me and just smirked , he was wearing his aviators inside so I couldn’t look into his eyes , with matt just looking into his eyes you could tell what was up, he did this on purpose so I wouldn’t be able to work him out, I sat back still just watching the man I love, completely wankered, completely and utterly empty within....all this because I didn’t ell him I was meeting Brian?

"Matt baby, what wrong?"

"Nothing" is all he replied with before getting up and walking to the kitchen, and by the way he had a slight stumble in his step, he was drunk, yay let the fun begin...



Matt's P.O.V

I walked into the kitchen, my bottle was running dry so I replaced it with another, my head was banging and since Nora came home, my emotions were on a high. As I opened the cabinet, I felt a dainty hand on my shoulder, normally id feel warmth and safety but it was cold, making me pull away from her "Get off" I huffed, yes it was rude but I wasn’t in the mood.

"What’s wrong?" I turned towards her sharply, I felt foul and was ready to snap "Why don’t you ask Brian?" her face changed, "What the fuck was that meant to mean matt?" I could tell by now she was pissed, making me more furious with the entire situation, however something about seeing her angry was arousing, probably not the best time to want to take her upstairs and fuck her senseless.

"I saw you two, I saw he whole thing at the beach!!"

"What the fuck? Nothing happened...why you were following us!" Her face was full of anger a long with most of her movements and she threw her handbag across the room .

"I didn't follow you! I went to the beach to clear my head, I was so upset about the argument we had when you left, I felt miserable, then I came across you two....snuggling...all couple like and shit, then you kissed, I wouldn’t put it passed you if you fucked on the beach as well!!" The sudden image of hem two on the beach made me feel sick and tears began to gather in my eyes; thank god I was wearing my aviators.


Nora's P.O.V

Did he really just say that?

He had now walked off in a strop to his office, I wasn’t backing down so I followed him, as he was about to the shut the door behind him and I put my foot in the way, he looked up at me and just shook his head. I then watched him walk over to his desk and sit down with his drink and sit there stropping like an infant, I’d had enough of this!

"Look Here Matthew Sanders, I LOVE you, not him, that's why I went and had a talk him... to tell him that I'm fucking madly in love with you, and that I'd be a good friend to him and support him through this thing with Nikki, God Matt why can't you just trust me?”he spun round in his chair and put his hands out to me, I walked over and he picked me up then placed me on his desk and stood between my legs, our hands intertwined. He leaned in and his forehead was against mine.

"I know you love me, and I know you want to be a good friend to Brian, but I don’t believe you, either of you, I can’t do this, let’s just forget about it and go to bed" he kissed my cheek then pulled away from me, what the fuck? Nothing like confusing a girl, I was beyond angry at this point, he started walking away from me, and it was then I flipped my shit.

"What the actual fuck, I can’t believe this, what is your problem, is it because you weren’t the only one who fucked me? Or are jealous of how close we are? Come on Matt give me something, actually you know what you’re a dick!" I was screaming inside and out "MATT!!" I screamed his name before he got to the door, and that was when things turned ugly, I’ve never seen him move so quick except from the night round mine when he turned nasty, his aviators were now off and I could see his blood was boiling, good so he heard me...he lunged forward, grabbing hold of my arms and slamming my back against the wall, his faces inches away from mine, shit maybe I went to far.

"Just shut the fuck up, all you have done is caused trouble, maybe it isn’t Brian, maybe I just keep choosing whores...I’ve had enough of this all you do is break my heart and I’ve had a fucking enough of I!!!" he slammed his fist next to my head against the wall, scaring the shit out of me "Is that what you want to do eh? you want to hit me, will it make you feel like a man, go on I dare you, you hit me and you will just be like Adam, no better off!" and all of a sudden he slapped me, splitting my lip, shit I know I dared him but didn’t think he'd actually do it, but then things changed its like he automatically sobered up and reality had just hit him, he had just hit me.

"Nora.im sorry…I shouldn’t…shit.." he tried to come close to me to apologize bit I pushed him away, of all the people who could of done this, I never though in a million years he'd hit me...I ran out of the room and grabbed all of my stuff with Matt following me "Nora listen I was drunk im sorry, i was just so..."

"Just so what?! You can’t believe me, you don’t trust me, and nothing will change whilst your jealousy RUNS OUR RELATIONSHIP….just... Leave it matt, if im such a burden, such a whore, then you shouldn’t be feeling guilty, and don’t worry you won’t be seeing me around anymore" he face changed, his mouth dropped and with that I walked out of the door slamming it behind me, and it was then I felt a sharp pain in my chest, my heart was breaking...and so was his…

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I started walking, walking anywhere, I needed a drink…I could not believe it, there was no more us, we were over.

After walking for a fair bit I found a bar and decided that there was where I was gonna stay till I felt stable enough to go home without bursting into tears. I was sat at the bar, ordering shots after shots of tequila, the thing was it had no affect due to it was once my poison when I was with Adam, so kind of became used to it. I perched on the bar stool minding own business when I got tapped on the shoulder, I turned round to see a face I thought I would never see again “Hey an I buy you a drink, you look like you could do with a friendly face” I just laughed, the old fool hadn't recognized me, but if I didn't recognize that Texas accent, I wouldn't have recognized him either “didn't realize what I said was funny” I smiled and insisted he’d grab he stood next to me.

“Sweetie I was laughing at you, it’s just we actually know each other, but it’s been so long that you haven’t realized who I am” he ordered to beers and smiled back at me “I’d think I would remember you darling” I shook my head, I couldn’t believe he was here “Well why don’t you get to know me and maybe your start to remember?” he smiled and shook my hand as a joke in agreement “ Sure, ok im Kol” he shook my hand and winked

“Hi Kol, My name is Nora” and then his entire face changed, he’d clicked and then a massive grin appeared upon his face “Nora…as Nora Myles…shot blonde gobby Myles…Oh blimey” I nodded my head and he smiled even more and welcomed me in a warm embrace.

“Oh my god it’s been what…3…4 years”

“Five actually”

“Holy shit, Nora you look great…not exactly blonde anymore” that made me laugh, bringing back memories of being my natural colour, I was naturally blonde, took after my mother apparently whereas my dad was dark. I was blonde until I turned 21, when I dyed it red with Alex. I knew Kol from senior year of high school and some of college, he joined senior year after transferring from another high school, Alex, Kol and I became great friends, but when I met Adam, he felt threatened by Kol, so I ended up watching him be forced out of my life, we had some contact at the beginning but then he left to study business in college halfway across the country, and we lost all contact. Looking at Kol now , he hadn’t changed much, Kol always looked older than he actually was, and now he had facial hair which didn’t help, he was always a looker with a heart of gold

“Nope but still gobby as ever!” we clinked our beers and started the catching up straight away.

“Since when did you live in Huntington?” I was curious to know since I hadn’t spoken to him for so long “I moved here about 2 years ago, I bought an establishment and started a business up”

“What sort of business?” he smiled and downed the rest of his beer “Entertainment, yeah you could say that” he smiled, was he hiding something? “You could say that? What’s that supposed to mean, well to be fair it’s none of my business, but seems like a good plan”

“Ha okay…so miss red-head…wow never gonna get used to that…why did you move here?”

“I moved here to get away from trouble”

“Adam by any chance?”

“How’d you guess?” I laughed, it was probably written on my face ad he never liked him anyway, we even fought when I told him and Alex that we were together.

“Well you don’t have to tell me, but im kind of hoping your gonna say you two are no longer together and that whole thing ended many years ago, and he never hurt you or anything” I turned away grabbing hold of my beer and chugging the rest of it down “Yeah we no longer toge5ther, went there twice, drink and drugs got involved so did mental, sexual and physical abuse, but he’s gone now and all is good” I sarcastically smiled and watched his mouth drop “Sweetie close your mouth before you start catching flies “ his face changed to a smile then, that’s better “You’re ok now though?” .....”Yeah never better” I smiled full on knowing what had just happened, Adam was still out there and the man I thought loved, I just left so yeah was real peachy right now.

“Speaking of changes, when did you get these?” I grabbed hold of his arm, he had a tattooed sleeve and love and hate on his knuckles, he saw me motion to these and laughed “ Yeah got these, what do they nor suit?” he said flexing like an idiot showing of his muscles, and my god did he have muscles “No I love them, I have a one myself” and with that I turned round to shoe him my pentagram on my neck” “Nice, sexy..” he winked at me making me Chuckle “Oh don’t start that” I playfully punched his arm with him then pretending he was hurt badly.

“So do you dance much anymore?” dance, ahh yes, in my senior year , without dad knowing, I joined a strip club as a dancer, not to get the attention from men but to feel in control, with high school bring shit and bullies etc. it was a place I could go and control the situation, I always liked the feeling of being in control of both men’s pleasure and wallets “Nah, haven’t done since I was 19, I kind of had to stop remember?” “Ah yes, Adam…again...”

“I do miss it though; miss the movement on the pole, the roar of the audience”

“Yeah you were great, did you headline at one point”

“Yep, was the main event for ages till someone got in the way” he smirked as he drank another beer he had just ordered.

“Fancy getting back into it, I know how much it help to distress you” he was kidding right, this was kind of out of the blue…maybe I misheard of him.

“Excuse me?”

“I know someone who owns a strip club, quite successful however are looking for a main girl, headliner if your wish, hey want talent and experience, paid rather well too, if you’re interested I could hook you up?” It sounded very tempting and somehow would make me feel better about ending things with matt, guess it wouldn’t harm anyone.

“Ok, why not, kind of miss my figure” he smirked “You never lost it Nora”.

“Aren’t you charming” he laughed and shook his head “So when do I talk to this guy?”

“Come with me, he probably is at his place, we can speak to him now unless there is somewhere you need to be?” I shook my head and took his hand as he helped me off of the stool, we walked out of the bar and down the road to a very large dark building with lights on the front, and the club was called Xposed. We walked in, everything was shut off but the place was huge, not to mention the stage, with cages in each corner and a VIP area, separate lounges for party’s and private sessions, oh how did it bring memories back “ So where is the owner then?”

“You’re looking at him” Kol pointed to himself before reaching over the bar to get a bottle of JD and two glasses “this is what you meant by entertainment ha brilliant why didnt you say anything”

“I guess I thought you’d think I was odd” I sighed and shook my head “Really, I am the definition of Odd sweetie, you’re doing fine”.

We walked over to the bar and he poured to drinks, then went out the back and grabbed the contract I was to sign, it was simple and well easy to get out of if I wanted to, I signed as quick as a flash, I was excited to start now “So that’s it?”.

“Yep, Nora come in at 7 every night, if you can that is, and you will probably always perform on the main stage over here” pointing to the large red stage with light is a pristine looking pole “ Is that ok?” I just simply nodded “While we are here is here anything you want to add to the contract etc. before I file it away?”

“There is one thing” he nodded and urged me to continue “I want a stage name, and a few things to disguise my real identity, like a wig and contacts” he smiled “Sure thing, write them down and I’ll get them, actually I may have some in the wardrobe bit, Halloween last year we had loads of contacts and wigs that were never used, you could choose from them” we headed into the back to choose my disguise and my costume in general, I needed a signature look after all, after about 20 minutes of searching through the costume I found what I needed, a black bobbed wig to disguise my red locks an red contacts, I know odd but I’ve always wanted red eyes, thought it be cool to have red eyes, I put them on and turned to Kol.

“I like, and actually I have the perfect outfit out back, brand new, never worn before, would look smoking with the wig, be right back” and with that he rushed off, I turned to face the dressing table and saw myself, I was really loving the bob “Here we go, should be your size, try it on then come back out”
I came back in fully dressed, the outfit consisted of a corseted violet and black dress, short and ruffled but the skirt was removable, just so easy to unclip when you were on stage! I wore laced panties under to match and some small and easy to walk heels

“What do you think?”

“You are gonna cause a riot!” he whistled making me laugh, I looked in the mirror and I looked so different, I didn’t look like me at all.

“You wouldn’t think it’s you Nora, by the way thought of a stage name yet?” As I kept looking at myself, only one name seemed suitable of a character so strong, so independent, so beautiful, I chose to use my mother’s name, I needed to channel her strength for the stage.

“Anastasia…my name is Anastasia”

Notes

So to start with im sorry i took ages to update, been so busy with college lately :)

Second what do people think about the argument, didn expect that did ya, bet it was the same with anastatsia, she was out of the blue, but love th idea of nora being a strippe, dont you? :P

as usual please free to comment and give ideas for the story progression :)

hope you guys liked it X

p.s. Anastasia's outfit :http://www.polyvore.com/anastasia/set?id=138463563