Chapter 10
Sherry
I slept for a little while, but I woke up around two in the morning and found that I was still alone. I had to wonder what the guys were up to, but I knew that I wasn’t going to find out by asking them about it. I was going to have to figure it out myself, no matter how impossible it felt sometimes. I had been figuring out Charlie’s secrets for as long as I could remember and this time wasn’t going to be any different.
After I lay awake in bed for what felt like the longest time ever, I decided that I was going to have to do some snooping. It wasn’t what I had in mind when I first decided to figure it out, but now I was sure that it was going to be necessary.
Starting in the kitchen, all I could gather from the mess that I cleaned as I went was that the two guys that lived here really needed a maid. It was a mess, but that was nothing too strange. The living room didn’t have any clues, but whatever it was, there was a lot of money involved. The place was well decorated and everything looked expensive. My brother was doing well for himself, even though I still didn’t know how he was doing it.
I kept running across these matchbooks for a club not too far from here and I pocketed one of them. I wanted to see what that was all about, but I hadn’t quite zoned in on it yet. I knew that there had to be more.
I went into Charlie’s room with very little bother, but it felt strange to even step foot into Rex’s room and when I flicked the light on from the doorway, I still saw more than I was supposed to. It wasn’t quite as messy in this room as the rest of the house, but there was certainly questionable décor. There were naked pictures and posters of strippers on the walls and scattered large print photos on a coffee table by the bed. My eyes fell to the silver sati sheets on the man’s bed and it made me blush just to think about what it would be like to be in the middle of that bed with him. The flash of his nakedness the night before flashed into my head and made me gasp.
It wasn’t long before I was clicking the light off again and closing the door behind me. I was starting to think that Rex was a true sex addict or something of that nature. I had never seen so much sex in all of my life and my senses were assaulted with it all.
I heard the door open and I jumped about a foot out of my skin. It was the guys coming back and I didn’t think that I could face them after seeing Rex’s room. I had guilt for snooping and a throbbing in my nether regions from the idea of Rex in all kinds of vexing scenarios. I knew seeing him naked was going to drive me insane.
Not wanting to get caught awake and then have to face them, I ran back to the room I was staying in and got in the bed, closing the door softly behind me like a coward. I stayed there for a moment and strained my ears to hear them. It didn’t take long to pick up their conversation with the quiet in the apartment.
“That new bitch is going to work out just fine. I told you Charlie. You always worry too much.”
“I just don’t like that she is from Hartford. She may go home one day and tell someone what she does for a living. Do you really think she has any shame in it? That girl is a pro and she is loose lipped as hell when she has a couple of shots. I don’t know. I just don’t like it. Every time you get your dick wet, we get another girl on the stage.”
“It’s not like we don’t need them. The extra stage in the back is getting us more people and revenue and we need more girls. When is the last time you actually did a schedule for a week?”
There was a silence and I was so intrigued with it all. I was starting to put it all together and it was Charlie and Rex that was finally giving me the clues. Snooping had done nothing to help me solve the mystery.
“I told you that I would do it next week.”
“Good, because they are all asking for the weekend off for the festival.”
“How the hell do you do that Rex?”
“What?”
“How the hell do you get me off the subject so that I don’t even remember what I was saying?”
I heard Rex chuckling and just the sound was enough to get me going. I had no idea what exactly they were talking about, but I was still lost on the dick wet comments. Did that mean what I thought it meant?
“It’s nothing, both questions. Candy is going to be a great dancer. She is hot as hell and very willing to please. You will like her.”
I gasped and covered my mouth to hide the sound, sure that they were going to find out that I was in here listening to them. The two men walked away and my mind was back on Rex. Was he offering Candy away and did that mean they had slept together. Was she the one that he had gotten his sick wet with? Why did I hate the idea of any of it so much?
Laying there for what felt like hours, was the only way I could process what was going on. If I wasn’t completely off, my brother and Rex had started a club, likely the one that I keep finding on match books. It was a strip club. I wasn’t sure how to feel or respond to that. I didn’t know how to act. I hoped that the next day at breakfast, I would be able to hold myself together. It was a lot of new information to take in with no comment.