Chapter 2 the club

Chapter 2

Veronica's POV

I'm currently fixing my plates so they don't crease.

"Oh Jade, it's good to come in?" I was greeted by my only friend in school who also knows my job.

"Yes. I would have stopped studying if no one was kind enough to pay our hospital bills." I said here.

"Really? Who paid 500 thousand for surgery?" It's already humbling to face me.

It's still gossip hahaha!

"I met an old man at the club one day. I was surprised that when I went to the hospital, that old man had already paid my mother's bills."

I still have to thank Mr. Will. I'll thank you later.

"Huh? Old?" It surprised me.

"Yes. I will still thank him. I don't know how I will pay Mr. Will for 500 thousand."

I arranged my plates and put them on the table to pass later.

"Are you sure about that? Mami, that's an old man you met at the club. Couldn't he have a bad plan for you?" He knew there was a matching forehead.

"It's bad to judge right away Joyce Deluine." I said here. I don't want to think badly of Mr. Will is the size of my debt to him. I don't want to think badly of that person's kindness.

"I mean, Veronica Jade Atara, don't get me wrong, but you said you work at the club as a dancer, doesn't Mr. Will like you?" It whispered to me because I begged not to tell where I work.

"N-no ah. I can see my father in him." I didn't even see or touch my father.

"I don't know about you mommy, I just told you." He said and stood up because my Prof was about to enter CE Shopwork two

My class ended at two o'clock.

"The chem is bad, don't let it go." Joyce complained while her forehead was tight.

"Yes, yes. I have a headache, I'm exhausted." I said too.

"That's why I don't want Tuesdays, there's no breaktime from 7am to 2pm. It would be nice if there was someone who would deliver food to us." Joyce said.

I have a headache because we don't have a class break.

"Alright mommy, I'll go first. I'll go see mom before going in." I say goodbye here.

"Alright mommy, be careful. I can't visit you at the club because dad will scold me." She smiled at me.

"It's ok. Be careful too." Then I had a baby with him.

I visited my mother before going to the club. Mother will be able to go out tomorrow as well.

I still have to thank Mr. Will did what he did so I went to the club early.

"Oh, I guess it's your morning today? You don't have any plates?" Madam Hermei greeted me when I entered the dressing room.

"The deadline is still a little long. Madam, did you tell Mr. Will about my mother?" I asked because I was still wondering how he knew about my mother.

"Yes. He asked before you tabled him." It said. "Oh hey, I'm going out first. Help me serve outside first. Farjan is absent. You serve the reserved VIP first."

I have already dressed in pants and t-shirt to serve first because I will be dancing later tonight.

"Oh it's good and you're done. Go to VIP room number 5, ask Sir Theo for their drink." Madam Hermei said to me that's why I dressed up to go to VIP room number 5.

When I entered, five men met me sitting on the couch while three of them were next to women.

I looked at Odette, Pinky, and Baby who were now next to the three boys.

I smiled at them and they did the same.

"Sir, can I take your order?" I asked while looking at one of the five.

He looks fresh. The two buttons on his long sleeve were still open. His eyebrows just met me.

I can only describe him in one word, he is handsome. Really handsome.

That's Veronica's customer.

I just smiled at him, maybe he would lose his temper when he met his eyebrows.

"Ah Dalmore only Miss. One bottle first then give us 5 glasses. Ok?" It was the person next to Pinky who answered me because the man I smiled at seemed to have no intention of answering.

"Nothing else Sir?" I ask.

"We'll call you later." Then he smiled.

I went out to prepare their order. When I came back, Pinky was kissing the boys next to them.

I don't hate looking at them. I know everyone's story.

No one likes this kind of work. But due to the dire need, they were also forced to enter this type of work.

Pinky's mother and my mother used to work together. They are also dancers of this club. Pinky is the daughter of a British man. Like my mother, his mother also got pregnant and left. With the intensity of Pinky's mother's anger towards her father, Pinky also felt sympathy and was forced to enter it.

It is said that Pinky was still young when her mother brought her here. When his mother died, it was Madam Hermei who brought him back to life and to help, he continued working here. He said, he has gotten used to it so he has lost his shame about what he is doing.

Each of us has a hidden pain that is why we ended up in this situation.

"Oh get dressed in your black panther suit." Madam Hermei said so I got dressed.

As I used to do, I just danced in front of the pole. I was about to hold my right hand when my mask suddenly fell.

I immediately picked it up and put it on. I looked around me and breathed a sigh of relief because no one seemed to notice my face.

After I danced, I went straight to the dressing room when Madam Hermei stopped me.

"Why?" I ask here.

"Go to VIP room number 5 first." It said.

"Alright, I'll just speed up the pregnancy---"

"No more. Bring it over first. Sir Theo doesn't want to be kept waiting for a long time." He said that's why I took their wine to serve them.

When I entered the VIP room it was still the same, there were four of them with a girl next to them. While the other one still raised his eyebrows while looking at his wine.

"Oh, you were the one dancing on the stage earlier. You're here, you're supposed to be next to Theo." The one with the long sleeve said to me.

I was about to refuse when they glared at me, Baby, while pointing at the angry man next to them with their snouts.

Even though I was wondering, I just sat next to it. But this man didn't pay attention to me. He was still thinking about the wine.

"Hey Panther girl, drink." The man Odette kissed earlier handed me wine.

"no---"

"Come on." He forcefully handed me the wine so I had no choice but to drink it. Especially this man who is angry at the world is staring at me.

"hin---"

"Is it really like this fellow here?" Throwing a red dress at Odette.

"Ah no. Come on Jade, drink it." Odette told me that's why I reached for it again and drank it.

Until I have more. I'm like a fool, refusing but reaching for what they give me.

I just felt very dizzy and I knew I was already drunk at that point.

I also felt someone lift me. And because I know I'm already drunk, I don't know who picked me up. Little by little, my vision darkened. But before I lost consciousness, I heard someone speak.

"Now you can have your hot bed rest, Theo."

And with that, I lost consciousness.

I woke up when I felt something caressing my thigh.

"Oh!" I grunted as I was hurt by the sudden tingling in my thigh. "It hurts."

"Shh, I will pay you later." I was shocked when I heard a male voice. Only then did I feel someone run over me.

"W-who are you? B-let me go." I tried to fight but it was too heavy and I was too dizzy.

"You will like this." He said it in a husky voice while kissing my neck.

"like---" I stopped speaking when he suddenly kissed me on the lips.

I tried to struggle but it was like struggling with hulk because it didn't even move.

"Ugh!"

Shit!

There was a sudden moan from my mouth when his lips kissed my breast.

I can't see clearly on this man's face but I know he's smiling upon hearing me moan.

He just continued what he was doing while I stopped my own pleasure in what he was doing.

I was embarrassed when he touched my pubic area.

No!

I still have many dreams!

Please!

"Please..." I begged him to stop teasing me.

"Sure." He grinned and his mouth moved on my womanhood.

No!

"P-please, don't. I still have a mother to b-support. I'm still studying. Please." Now there are tears in my eyes.

I felt him stop what he was doing.

I had a chance to get up and sit down. I didn't care if I was naked in front of him but I just sat with my back leaning against the headboard of the bed with my face buried in my knees.

"Please, I only work in that place to provide for my daily needs and to treat my sick mother. I'm not a walk out woman who moves around. You seem to have mercy." I said while crying on my knees. "I'm the only one my mother expects. I'm the only one who lives for my mother who was abandoned by my father. I'm the only woman I have because I gave up even my dignity so that we could live. This is the only thing I can be proud of in my future husband. It's like have mercy."

"Shh, you can sleep now." The man said that's why I looked up but my vision was still blurry.

He pulled me and laid me down. It annoyed me. I also felt him lay down next to me and hug me.

I woke up to find myself alone in the bed. The man who almost raped me is gone. I got up to check if there was blood on the bedsheet but I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw nothing.

Didn't get what I was saving.

This is the only thing I can be proud of my husband. Even though I am a girl who dances in front of many men in the club, I keep the only evidence that I am still a virgin to be presented at the altar of my future husband.

I looked at the money on the table next to the bed I was lying on. I saw a letter under it.

Miss Panther,

Take this money with you as a sorry for what I've done to you last night.

That's all that's written in the letter. The person who posted it didn't even identify themselves. But I'm sure the man I was with last night left it here and I'm also sure he gave it to me.

What is this?

Paid for tasting myself yesterday?

I was overwhelmed by the amount of blue money the man left yesterday.

20 thousand?

In all my life, I have never held this much money.

I took it and walked out of the hotel.

I want to not accept the money but I know I have to be practical. This money is a big help to get my mother and I started. I can pay off our house loan. I can now buy my Engineering stuff and I won't have to borrow from Joyce anymore.

"Mom!" I called my mother when I saw her upright in her bed.

"What are you doing here?" It asked me when I entered.

"The doctor said we can go out now. This is it, I brought some food." I said with a smile to my mother and slightly raised the food I bought from the famous fast food chain.

"Get out of here." He said to me and went back to his bed. He turned his gaze to the window of his room.

I just smiled and came closer to feed my mother.

"Mom, eat now." I said and brought the spoon to his mouth.

"I do not want." He said while still looking at the window.

"Mom when---"

"I don't want to!" It shouted and shook my hand holding the spoon.

The smile I forced to release from my lips.

"Mom, I'll just leave this food for you here---"

"Take that." It cut off what I was going to say. But I still left it and left in a hurry because my mother might just throw the food at me.

"I do not like you." My mother said before I finally got out.

Then tears fell from my eyes.

I didn't want to live either.

I didn't like this life either.

But I'm fighting...for you. I'm doing all this for you, so you can accept me too.

I'm going home to get ready to go in and this afternoon I'm going to pick up mom at the hospital.

Since childhood, my mother has always told me that she doesn't like me.

I lived my life taking care of my mother and I never once experienced being cared for by a mother.

I used to get spanked from my mother because I was still studying instead of working. That's why I joined that club because my mother forced me to. He said he wanted me to remember the pain my father suffered from my mother.

I used to cover the bruises I used to get from my mother with concealer and face powder so that it wouldn't be obvious while I was dancing.

I do and endure everything because I believe that one day he will accept me too. My mother will accept me too.

I know my mother still loves me. It was just too painful for him that his love for me was covered by anger.

After all, she is still my mother who gave birth to me even if she had a chance to abort me.

To Be Continued...