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the crowd.
    "I know, isn't it great?" Heather yelled
back, eyeing the dark-haired piece of eye candy named Damien, who
currently danced on stage, in nothing more than a scrap of cloth
covering his bare essentials.
    He danced and flexed his muscles for the
ladies lining up to see him and his smile was intoxicating. He
worked the crowd into a frenzy. Every woman standing at the stage
got a chance to touch him, her tip accepted with a small kiss on
the cheek, before he'd move to the next lady.
    The girls all laughed and stared at Damien
dance and they all knew the excitement of the night had only begun.
Paige watched her friends get as animated as the other females in
the room. They were standing, clapping and yelling Damien's name
while he performed and even though watching half naked men dance
had never been on her list of things to do, she had to admit the
sight was one to behold.
    Drinks flowed and laughter ensued as the
evening wore. The whole group sat shocked when Kim paid for a very
seductive lap dance from a man wearing nothing but a g-string and a
cowboy hat. Paige thought she would die laughing when Kim grabbed
his ass and pulled him down on top of her and started grinding her
hips into him. They had all whistled and cattle-called. The dancer
seemed to enjoy her practically dry humping him in front of one
hundred and fifty screaming women. One look at his face proved
that. He enjoyed the dance every bit as much as she did.
    When the last dancer exited the stage, the
girls all sat patiently, watching a man in a tuxedo walk onto the
stage with a microphone.
    "Ladies, if I can have your attention
please," he said. "The moment you have all been waiting for is
almost here, so please, take this opportunity to refresh your
drinks and grab the smelling salts as our next performer prepares
to entertain you!"
    The roar of the crowd was deafening. The
girls looked at each other when the entire club seemed to take the
noise level up ten notches. They had no idea why, but as the crowd
became more animated, their enthusiasm also rose.
    Jett returned just in time to refill their
drinks and Paige happily drank hers down before ordering another.
The more she drank, the less embarrassed she felt. A good stiff
drink was all it took to let her inhibitions go and she was having
the time of her life.

    * * *

    Simon looked out from behind the curtain,
scanning the crowd. The roar of applause for him floated to the
back stage area and caused his smile to widen. He loved this part,
the anticipation of his arrival.
    "Rowdy crowd tonight," the announcer said
stepping back stage and stopping beside him.
    "Looks like."
    "Better watch the brunette at table five.
She's a little on the grabby side," the announcer said laughing.
"But that's never been a problem for you, now has it?"
    "No, can't say it has." Simon stretched his
neck to look over at table five. He smiled when he saw the table of
six women. All beauties from what he could see. They all seemed to
turn towards the stage at once and he stared at each one, taking in
the way they were dressed. They weren't your average crowd. These
ladies knew how to dress-to-impress.
    His gaze landed on one of the blondes and
when she smiled, his heart nearly stopped. He'd memorized that
smile. Seen it in his dreams a thousand times. He searched her
face, his eyes widening before looking back at the others.
    He knew them. Knew them all.
    "Oh fuck!"
    "Problem?"
    "Depends."
    "On what?"
    "On if they recognize me or not."
    Images he tried to forget flooded his mind.
Images of their faces alight with laughter at his expense. The
hateful words spat at him daily and the constant taunts and
ridicule for the boy he once was paralyzed him. He stared at them,
knowing his worst fear had just been realized.
    "You know them?"
    He never answered. His eyes
sought her out again and when they finally landed on
her , his breath
caught in his throat. His angel. The one thing in the world he
would have given anything to have.