Page 1 of Bourbon Sins
Chapter One
“Work Bitch”
GOLDIE
“Where the fuck are my titty tassels?” Lyla announced, as she dug through her locker.
She was always losing her tassels. To be honest, I didn’t know why she used them to begin with; they were more eighties porn than New Orleans strip club, but she swore they drove the men crazy. I wouldn’t know, since I was always stuck on drink duty, but that wasn’t my choice.
“Seriously, Goldie, have you seen my tassels? I’m on in five,” Lyla pleaded.
“I haven’t. Maybe you should try something other than mini curtains hanging off your boobs, huh? Maybe wear…oh, what do they call it…a bra?”
“Where’s the fun in that?” Lyla asked, shimmying her naked boobs in my face.
There was a reason Lyla, my roommate, was center stage at Kitten’s Castle every night. She was drop-dead gorgeous. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t get a little lady wood every time she was up on stage. She was one of those women who lucked out by having parents with perfect genes. Her skin was a deep brown color, her eyes were light green, and her hair was pitch black. Exotic is a pretty accurate word to describe her.
Lyla gave up on the search for her tassels and threw a white, cropped T-shirt over her naked breasts.
“I’ll just do my wet T-shirt routine tonight. There’s a bachelor party out there that has a lot of money to spend,” she said, wiggling her eyebrows.
“When is there not a bachelor party out there?” I responded. “It’s New Orleans for fuck’s sake and we work at one of the premier spots for men to get away with murder when they’re away from their girls. You know, since the lighting is pretty much non-existent in here.”
Lyla crinkled her nose. “Hey, I like the fact that the lights aren’t very bright in here. I’d rather not have a spotlight shining up my who-ha while I’m dancing on stage.”
“Easy for you to say; you’re not the one delivering drinks in the dark. I swear, Marv is trying to kill me out there.” I slammed my hand on the vanity and said, “And when the hell am I going to get my chance on stage?”
“Down girl. You get paid well.”
“Yeah, but I get groped every time I pass a hairy, horny man and, as we know, that’s pretty much every guy in this dump.”
“You got to work it, bitch, if you want to get the hell out of here, so stop complaining and put on your garter belt. We have some willing customers out there with some fat wallets. Time to make some money.”
I huffed and waved Lyla off as she raced out to the stage to get ready for her act.
I looked into the mirror and studied the reflection that looked back at me. Ugh, I hated that my life had become an uphill climb of trying to pay off bills and debt that were, unfortunately, not even mine, but my dead parents’. Every day, I have to practically sell my soul to skeezy men just to make sure I don’t go hungry and can pay off the stack of bills piling up on my counter.
I’ve spent the last nine years of my life trying to climb back from the hole that Hurricane Katrina put in it and it hasn’t been easy, especially since I have no degree and no job experience.
That’s why I’m currently sitting in front of a rusty old vanity with piss-poor lighting, outlining my azure colored eyes with cheap-as-hell eyeliner and praying that only one man tries to grope my ass tonight. Amongst the pervs, it was a common occurrence.
Kitten’s Castle, the premier location for any bachelor party, was located right on Bourbon Street, where sins were committed every night, but washed away by the most fantastic sanitation crew the next morning.
This will be year nine that I’m working as one of the kittens and year five that I’m still working the floor, which is the worst of all the kitten jobs. When I first started, I was the girl at the entrance, enticing all the male customers to come take a peek at the naked girls in the castle. I would shimmy at them, flaunt my ass and make obscene gestures. It was rather entertaining to see tourists pass by and judge me for wearing next to nothing and begging customers to come try our very own grenades while the kittens strutted their bodies up and down the stage.
Then Marv pulled me inside and made me work the floor. He said I was more valuable as a waitress because of my petite frame, but voluptuous assets. I had to admit, I had a good rack and a sweet ass, which was why I was the money-maker out of all the waitresses. I was able to get the men good and liquored up, run their tabs up, and make excellent tips. If only I didn’t have to split my tips with the rest of the ladies I worked with, I would have been off of Bourbon Street and living far away from the sin that encased me every damn night of my life.
Marv came into the dressing room; he never knocked, the pervert, and said, “Goldie, we need you out there. There’s a huge bachelor party and they’re ready and willing to get drunk.”
“I have five minutes until my shift, Marv. Cool it.”
“Get your ass out there. Don’t make me ask again,” he said, looking me up and down and picking his teeth with a toothpick.
The man was a total cretin. Picture someone whowouldown a strip club on Bourbon Street: creepy, fat, and balding…with a small dick. Yup, that was Marv. I didn’t actually know if he had a small dick, but by the pattern of his receding hairline, the mole that protruded off his nose, and the amount of hair poking out of the back of his shirt, it all added up to me assuming the manhadto have a small dick. No questions asked.
I put my mascara in my makeup bag, fluffed my caramel-colored hair, and shoved the rest of my items in my locker, right before I adjusted my garter belt.
“I’m getting paid for these extra five minutes,” I said to Marv, as I started to walk past him.
