Chapter 2 The Leaked Tape

JAKE

"Holy shit" Tee exclaimed.

"How did you go about that?" His eyes widened.

"I was at the club and one thing led to another. I don't even know how it happened, okay? I just found myself with her the next day" I recounted and sighed.

"Wow. That's some story there man" Tee chuckled and walked to sit behind his gigantic desk filled with medical books.

"That's not the issue" I continued.

He looked up from his desk and stared at me, urging me to spill it.

"I saw blood on the bed after she left" I muttered.

"What the hell! You saw what?" Tee's eyes widened in surprise.

"Do you think she hurt me somewhere that I don't know? I checked myself, and there was no wound opening or some sort or did she hurt herself?" Jake asked naively.

Tee gaped at him unbelievably.

"Oh, I forgot you're a virgin. Fair enough that you bagged a virgin too" Tee murmured.

"So, the thing is" Tee adjusted himself on his chair and faced me squarely. " It is her first time, that means she's a virgin" Tee clarified.

"Stop joking. How can a stripper be a virgin? I heard those girls are as loose as anything down there" I waved him off.

"I'm shocked too. Well, don't let us jump to a conclusion. She might have hurt herself with a sharp object before she left. You know how these strippers always have their own pathetic story" Tee shrugged and continued ransacking through files on his desk.

"When are you going to carry out the test?" I relaxed on the couch.

"Now" He said and brought out a needle and syringe.

I rolled my sleeves up in anticipation.

"A virgin? The stripper is a Virgin? That better be a joke" I thought.

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TINA

"Thank you" I muttered to the cab driver and watched his car speed off.

I sighed again while dabbing my teary eyes with the back of my hand.

I walked towards the entrance of my apartment. It's situated in a good environment and that's what I can afford for the meantime with the proceeds from writing the story anonymously. It's a two-bedroom apartment and I live with Brenda. More like she lives with me just for some time before she gets her apartment.

I knocked tiredly on the door and Brenda opened it almost immediately.

"Where the hell have you been?" Brenda yelled and ushered me in.

"Where did you go after your performance last night?" She asked more calmly.

"The club" I muttered and slumped on the comfy couch.

"What happened to your face? Have you been crying? Did someone hurt you?" She rushed her questions and checked my body for any sign of beating.

"I wasn't beaten" I said as tears gushed out of my eyes again.

"Calm down"

She came closer to me and pulled me into a hug. She tapped my back gently to soothe me.

"Tell me, what happened to you?" She questioned softly.

I sniffed in my tears and wiped it with my handkerchief.

"I slept with someone at the club" I told her.

"Okay?" She said with eyebrows raised, urging me to go on.

I looked at her blankly and her eyes widened slowly in realization.

"No f*cking way" She shouted in disbelief.

"I said the same thing too" I mumbled.

"How did it happen? With whom? I left you at the club yesterday because I was having these bad cramps" She rushed her words.

"I don't even know how it happened. I can't remember anything. I only remember drinking and waking up in the arms of a man with blood stains on the bed and a nerve-cracking pain in my vagina" I relayed tiredly.

"With whom exactly?" She pressed on.

"That's the problem" I face palmed myself.

"What is?" She asked in confusion.

"I don't know him. I don't even know his name"

"What the heck!" Brenda shrieked in disbelief.

"That's not the problem. I need to use a drug that won't make me pregnant" I told her.

"You mean after pills?" She asked.

"Yes yes. How did you know that? I thought you're mother Mary" I chuckled.

"Oh please! I'm educated enough to know that" She waved me off.

"I will need to go to the pharmacy" I muttered and stood up abruptly.

"Like this?" She pointed at me.

I look insane with scattered hair and a ruffled dress.

"I'm broken, not mad. Of course, I have to shower and change. I feel disgusting already" I marched towards my room and rushed inside.

"Be fast and come and have breakfast" I heard Brenda yell from the sitting room.

"Okay ma'am" I yelled to her hearing.

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Tina draped a scarf around her head and wore dark sunglasses. She was trying to disguise herself and enter the pharmacy to buy after pills. As a stripper, she feared that many people would recognize her and be lewd in their responses to her.

This is her first time going to the pharmacy to buy after pills. She had been a Virgin until last night when she had sex with a stranger.

"Oh gosh!" She muttered while hiding behind a wall. She was trying to enter the Pharmacy but it seemed the crowd inside was getting much.

She stood outside and paced for a while. She tried to stall time and wanted the crowd at the pharmacy to lessen a bit before entering.

"Is everyone sick? Why is it so crowded?" She soliloquized and scoffed in annoyance.

"You standing here, are you sick?" She replied to herself. She had mastered the act of talking to herself. That's one of the perks of being a writer. Dialogue within oneself.

Her eyes strayed to the billboard just across the pharmacy and she started admiring it in boredom. An advertisement was on for JakAL company. She has heard of the company and how it's making waves in the business world. Her eyes burst open in surprise when her eyes caught an image.

On the large screen is Jake Alfredo, the billionaire CEO of JakAL company and he turns out to be the man she was with last night. No wonder he looked familiar.

"OMG! I'm doomed" She panicked and paced wildly while fumbling with her phone to call Brenda but she wasn't picking up.

She entered the pharmacy finally and walked towards the counter briskly. The blonde-haired lady behind the counter smiled at her.

"Hi, what can I get you?" The lady asked.

"After pills" She muttered inaudibly and shyly. She was still jittery from her find out.

"Here ma'am" The lady wrapped it into a nylon and gave it to her.

Just beside Tina, people were checking their phones hurriedly and muttering among themselves.

👥Is she not a stripper? That's what they do!

👥Shameless sl*t!

👥She's seriously trending

👥Wait, who's the guy with her?

👥Is he seriously the one?

👥She obviously seduced him with a charm

The people there intoned with hatred. The lady on the counter took her phone and gasped too.

"What's that?" Tina was forced to inquire.

"A stripper's video with a billionaire just got released" The lady exclaimed with her hand over her mouth in shock.

Tina peered to look into the phone and was shocked to see her face vividly in the video. Jake was on top and she was moaning in ecstasy and screaming in pleasure. Her body shook as soon as she saw it. She held the counter for support as her legs wobbled and her eyes watered behind the dark glasses. She hurriedly brought out money from her bag to pay. She left it on the counter and proceeded to run when she was stopped by a menacing voice.

"Hey" The voice yelled at her and she froze thinking she had finally been caught.