Lora

chapter four

At Julie's apartment

Julie had been sleeping for nearly 3 hours now but she gets woken up by the alarm.she yawns and takes a look at the alarm,it was 7 pm,she hurriedly took a shower and dressed up so she won't be late for her work which she ought to be at precisely 8pm.on her way out of the apartment she gets a phone call from Jace her boyfriend.

She answers the phone call

"Hey bae" he said romantically

"Hi Jace"

"What's up"

"Am cool"

"So are you home and busy cuz I actually wanted to go out tonight"

"Um am home but sorry not tonight,I and the girls are having a girls night at my house...some other time hmm?" She lied

"Um...sure.. of course,have a good time" trying to sound happy and understanding

"Good night" I said

"Ya"

The call ended

I knew Jace was not really happy and am sure he was getting tired of too many excuses.we had been dating for 4 months now,I met him on my way home from work.

I locked the door to my apartment and headed straight to the bus station,I boarded a bus stopped at the bus stop near my work place.a few turns and I got to the strip club

Ya I work as a stripper but I never tell anyone,the last person I need to find out is Lora,she would be so disappointed and I don't want that.

At the strip club

I head straight to the dress room and I find others dressing too,what actually saves me is the fancy costume mask that I put on so no one really sees my face except the i one I have s*x with and ya I don't worry cuz they agree to the rules of privacy so they never disturb me outside the club, strictly business.

Am dressing up now

"Hey girl"

That's cherry one of the strippers

"Hi"

"Ready for tonight?"

"Julie's always ready darling"

Cherry has never really liked me from the start,and I know it's cuz am better at my job and I get more attention than her so she is pretty envious and she's pretending.some times we do have some beef but that's the way it goes in here,it's a competition.

"Hmm" cherry smiles warily and walks out to the stage

I am done with dressing now but it doesn't matter,it's all gonna be pulled off at the stage, the process is just to keep the men anxious.i never pull off my face mask.i could hear the cheer's from the spectators,cherry was done so I was up

Let's do this........

At loras apartment

I had been searching through my box of old stuffs, don't know why but I have been really bored.i spot a picture of me and my elder sister when we were kids,we were at the beach.i chuckled at the Shell necklace I had wore, way to big for my little body and my sisters annoyed face with her mouth squinting.I remember that day vividly,a boy had accidentally smashed our sand castle with a ball.she was really mad cuz we did put time and effort on the sand castle,I on the other hand didn't bother I actually picked up the ball and decided to play with it while my sister sorted out the issue with the poor boy, I kinda felt sorry for him as I played and watched her yell at him with one hand on her tiny waist and the other pointing at him threatening to poke his eyes.sister moments, the times when we didn't care, when we were close, when we were daddy's little dare devil's but now I can't call us a WE,I am daddy's Lolo while she is mummy favorite.i couldn't help but think of what I had become,a lawyer just like dad wanted and a drug addict definitely not what he wanted.

I flipped through the box and found an envelope,I opened it.inside it there is a picture of my ex boyfriend,a bracelet which he gave me and a birthday gift card with he got me on my 18th birthday.

I just hate this right now every damn content of the envelope,I hate my boredom,I hate my ex,I hate my life.with anger and frustration I flingged the box across the room and stood up abruptly as if I just remembered I had an audition and headed to where the box was and picked up the envelope and headed to the kitchen.in the kitchen I turned on the burner and spilled the content of the envelope on the kitchen counter.i picked up the birthday card and placed on the fire watching it shrink and burn then I placed the envelope after it had burned I picked up the picture taking it slowly to the fire still holding and grinning insanely, I purposely took time in burning the picture and hoped he felt the pain,I felt like tormenting him, needed him to hurt the way I did.realised the picture had burned completely,I felt like doing some thing to myself,I wanted to hurt so I placed my fingers in the flame and allowed the heat burn me until it became unbearable and I removed my fingers suddenly realising what I had done then turned off the burner.i noticed the only thing remaining was the bracelet which I picked up and yanked apart with my hands in anger and disposed in the waste bin,i immediately checked the cabinet for my jar of cocaine which was half way gone, I opened it and poured it on the counter and quickly sniffed the cocaine, again and again until my face became a mess.i slumped down on the floor and began to sob, I cried.