Roadtrip

Jimmy’s POV
I didn’t understand, why would Mia send me that message and then not reply to any of mine? I’ve been texting her all day yesterday and I just didn’t understand. She herself asked me to keep in touch, but she was as far out of touch as she could be.
What was going on?
Why would she write me and then just don’t reply anymore?

“We are here, Golden Lounge!” Johnny said excitedly.
He told us that he had talked to his friend, the owner of the club and that he had a job for us.
I was excited, we haven’t been to a strip club way too long and maybe these naked girls could get my thinking away from another girl who was occupying my thoughts.
“Come on, let’s get in… I can’t wait for it.” Zack jumped out of the Van, looking all excited.

The other guys climbed out of the Van but I stopped Johnny with a hand on his shoulder.
“Hey Short Shit, do you know what our job will be?” I asked him with narrowed eyes.
My first thought was about something like a bartender or maybe bouncer? Or helping the girls get dressed or well undressed, but we were 5 guys…

“Well.. I know something.. but he didn’t say directly what it is…” Johnny twitched around.
“What do you mean?” I lifted my eyebrow at him.
“Alright, he told me that he had bachelorette party this evening and he is missing the main act as bad boy cop performance or something, the pay is amazing, believe me and we can keep all the tips.” Johnny said and I opened my eyes wide.
“Wait? You mean one of us has to strip?” I gaped and couldn’t believe my own ears.
“Well, yeah.. and I described us and well I can tell you that Matt should be the one. We just have to convince him…” Johnny shrugged his shoulders.
“Are you kidding me?” I couldn’t suppress my hysterical laughter. I just dropped down on my knees and bend over laughing so hard.
“Jimmy.. come on man. We need to think of something…” Johnny grabbed my arm and pulled me up and I whisked the tears from my eyes.
“Think of something? How.. how will you get Matt into stripping? I mean Johnny for real… ?” I shook my head and laid my arm around Johnny shoulder.
“Good, come on.. let’s see what we can do.”

We walked into the strip club and I hoped to see naked girls all around but… nothing.
The club was still empty and the normal lights were on the other guys were talking with a tall guy at the bar.

“Johnnny??!!” The guy yelled and walked towards us.
“Good to see you, Gary, it’s been a while.” He hugged Johnny and held his hand out to me.
“Jimmy, hey.”
“Hey… so you guys need a job, right?” We nodded but I couldn’t hide my smile at the thought of Matt’s outburst when he knew what Johnny had assigned him for a job.
“Perfect, really guys your timing is perfect! I got this huuuge event this evening and I need you guys.”
“Yes, amazing. But before we agree to anything, we did some lousy ass jobs in the last two days, so please tell us the payment is good.” Matt said and I had to turn around not to laugh loudly again.
Johnny elbowed me in the side and I tried to concentrate again.
“Yes, alright. We’ll come right down to business. So the whole evening, with flexible closing time,... if you are doing this good you will earn you about 800 Dollar + you can keep the tips of course, and on events like this, believe me you will get a lot of tips.”
“800 Dollars? For real? For one evening?” Matt’s eyes grew wide.
“Yes, like I said + tips so you will be at… let me say 1000 Dollars… I would guess. Oh and you get free drinks, for my friends helping me out, free drinks and food. We got this catering service for the evening who will come over later to set everything up.” The guy said and motioned to the back.
“Come on, I show you your room behind the stage where you can shower and leave your things.”
“Alright, perfect.” Matt nodded and we followed him.

Brian’s POV
Something was wrong… he still didn’t tell us what our job would be… and 1000 Dollar for one evening, I mean.. this can’t be an easy bartender job, can it?!
And why was Jimmy grinning like an idiot now?
Did he receive a message from Mia finally?

He was already way too deep into this whole situation with Mia… poor guy.. always gets his heart in the open way too soon… not that we didn’t warn him… often… but that was just Jimmy…
I was different, thank god, I wouldn’t let me be tied down to one woman… I would enjoy the women as long as they were near and when they were gone, so were my feelings for them.. easy as that.

“So, here is the bathroom… the dressing room, and here you can have a little drink before the show.”
“Alright, so will you tell us what to do, this evening, what is it for an event, what do we have to do?” Zack asked finally.
“Oh Johnny didn’t tell you?” He looked at Johnny who actually was blushing. Johnny blushing? I had a bad feeling now.
“We got this bachelorette party 15 - 20 women coming over.” He said and I lifted my eyebrow.
“And our job would be what?” Matt asked.
“You-” He pointed at Matt “Will be our main act and your friends here will support you.”
Jimmy’s smile fell from his face and we all stared at the guys.
“Wait… what? What do you mean main act? And support? What?”

“Guys, come on, this is a striptease bar and you we have a bachelorette party with girls who want a naughty police officer. Here is your outfit-” He held a police uniform out for Matt and I had to laugh at Matt’s stupid face, looking at the uniform.
“And this is for you guys.” He held out a bowtie with a boxer short in black satin to each of us. I shook my head, my smile forgotten.
“No – No – No!” Matt shook his head.
“I won’t be wearing that!”
“At least you got more fabric to cover yourself then us.” Johnny took the boxer and held it up.

“You are kidding, right?” Zack asked looking bewildered at us. “We are not doing this, right?”
“Yes, this is stupid. I won’t undress myself in front of 20 strange women.” Matt shoved the uniform back.
“Wait? What.. come on guys, really I need you to help me out. Alright, I double the payment. 1600 Dollars for the evening, come on guys. I really need to you.” Johnny’s friend looked desperate but for real, dancing around in… nearly nothing… I… can’t believe what I am saying but…
“Let’s do it.. come on.. I mean.. 1600 Dollars for one evening, we can get drunk afterwards we have food, drinks.. I think our friend here will also get us a room to sleep, right?”
“Yes, sure. I got an apartment next door where you guys can crash down for the night.”

“Then you wear the uniform and do the strip and I take the boxers.” Matt wanted to hand me the uniform.
“No man, they want you, you are the muscled bad boy…”
“If we can stand there in nothing but boxers you can get undressed.. come on Matt it’s just a job. You wanted not another lousy payment, be a good leader and take one for the team.” Jimmy said and laughed.
“Ahhh fuck… alright. But I need to get a good buzz going before I need to get out there… best if we start the drinking now.” Matt said and grabbed the beer bottle Johnny was holding out for him.

Izzie’s POV
After we arrived in Reno yesterday we hadn’t left the apartment much. Tim had been very nice to us. He told us not to worry about leaving so soon and that Reno would be a great city to be for us pretty girls. He already set us up for a big bachelorette party tonight and told us there were more jobs if we wanted to. Reno would work out great for us.

During our drive over, Mia had received a few messages and I was pretty sure they were Jimmy’s. I saw her look at her phone with a painful look and putting it away again, so I guess she was back to not answering him. She looked hurt and I didn’t know how to fix it. I just hoped she would cheer up a little when we got to a few fun jobs and maybe make some money.

I was looking around the strip club we were at, maybe a bachelorette party with strippers would do the trick, getting Mia’s mind of things. A tall guy came towards us and put his hand out to give all of us a hand “Gary, glad you could make it”. Eve, the girl managing all of this for Tim, got to the back with Gary, taking all the specifics about this night while we were setting up tables for all the food, cleaning glasses for the champagne and assembling the chocolate fountain.

“Damn, those strippers are hot!” She sighed when she came walking back at us. “Very bad boy, tattoos all over” I looked at the shirt I was wearing. I was a cheesy one, with those fake tattoo sleeves, apparently the waitresses needed to go with the bad boy theme too.

The bachelorette and all her friends starting to get in and it wasn’t long before the music was blasting and the lights flashing. We were walking around with cocktails and little finger food, serving the ladies as they build up the anticipation for the main event, getting really drunk in the meantime.

Gary came on stage in the spotlight and yelled “Ladies… please calm down, here is your main act of the evening! Police officer SHADOWS!” Finally the lights went out and I felt Mia stand next to me and look at the stage, both flabbergasted by what we saw.

Jimmy’s POV
Showtime!
Matt really wanted to do this… I thought he would back out at the last chance, but I guess I was wrong.
He was dressed in his uniform, with his aviator sunglasses and the police hat, the chains dangling from his trousers. He should have thought about a career as officer, or stripper maybe if the singing wouldn´t have gotten him this far.

I looked at the others, well except for me and Brian, who looked pretty cool in our boxers and bowtie Zack and Johnny were rather uncomfortable.
We talked about what we would do, but honestly I think we just had to improvise… the worst job was for Matt anyway.
But we got an excellent payment and free drinks and free food, so what else do we want?
And Matt and the rest of us put a good use to the free drinks, we needed this to encourage ourselves to go out there.
We heard the girls or women yelling outside, waiting for their main act and I just hoped we wouldn’t embarrass ourselves too much.. or the other, I don’t get embarrassed… I will just do my thing, pretend I’m in a club dancing… with our without clothes I’m comfortable both ways.
“Ladies… please calm down, here is your main act of the evening! Police officer SHADOWS!” A voice yelled into the mic and the lights went out and we planned that we as assistance walk out and Matt would came through the back and pull the music is too loud speech or something… I don’t know what he would come up with.

“Let’s go.” I murmured to Brian and we walked forward through the curtain on the main stage. Brian and me on the right side, Johnny and Zack on the left…
When we moved on the stage the woman began to squeal and yell and I couldn’t understand a thing, somehow I was wishing I had my drum kit to disappear behind but I kept staying there, the music was turned up and the lights were flickering again, in the back I could see the catering women standing around.
When one in particular caught my eye my mouth was hanging open, MIA?!
I elbowed Brian in the side and whispered, “That’s Mia!”
Brian followed my gaze but shook his head, “Damn Jimmy you are seeing ghosts.”
“I swear I saw her.”

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