Cast of Characters

I’m sure that throughout these postings I’ll be dropping some names here and there, so I think I should take some time to introduce these characters. And trust me, characters they indeed are.


***Side Note***: After finishing, I just realized how dreadfully boring this whole thing is to read through. Please feel free to use it solely as a reference.


Deena is my closest friend at the club, and I guess the only girl I would really refer to as a “friend” at all. Not that I don’t get along with the other girls; I don’t have any trouble with anyone. I just trust her, we get along and stick by each other. We both started at the same time, about a month ago, but Deena has danced before. I remember the first week into it she looked at me and said “you’re the only other normal girl here.” She has the build and look of a supermodel: 5’10”, lithe figure, olive skin with big brown doe-eyes. Her high pitched voice and giggly demeanor become endearing once you see hat a genuinely sweet person she really is. Deena’s two years older than me - 24 - and has a three year old. She nannies during the day and, like me, keeps her dancing a secret. Everyone thinks she waitresses at night. She doesn’t do any drugs, or even drink.

April is young. She just turned 21 the other day, but from what I gather she has been dancing since she was 18. On my first night, Jim (the manager) put her in charge of giving me the tour around and showing me the ropes. She also let me borrow one of her outfits, seeing as I didn’t really have any of my own yet. Like most girls she can go both ways with her demeanor; playful and friendly with me sometimes, but never forgets that I’m competition. She rarely comes in to work not stoned, but this seems to be kind of the standard with a lot of the girls. She jokes that her typical day is sleeping until 3, smoking a few bowls, and coming in to dance. The make up artist has also made references to a time where she did heavier drugs, but it wasn’t enough to damage her looks like some of the others. She lives with Ali, another one of the dancers who I get along with usually. One of the regulars has told me that Ali has a pimp, and that both April and Ali work together on the side as call girls. I try not to think about that too much.

There’s a few other girls that I’ve been told are “dirty”, but I need to take it with a grain of salt given the amount of locker room gossip that flies around. Barbie, who I will call such because she is doing her damnedest to resemble one, has a porn site and allegedly is known for her “extras”. She is over tanned to the point of ridiculousness, has white blonde hair extensions down her back, and ONLY wears neon orange and pink outfits. Krystal is another one that is rumored to have similar antics. On one of my first nights, I heard Jim yelling at her after coming out of the champagne room. I heard a few of the girls say she had gone to get a condom. She’s over tanned as well, but with dyed black hair. She’s pretty, I suppose, but definitely looks like she has some miles on her.

You can tell Lara used to be beautiful at one point. She still has a nice body and from far away, under the make up and blacklight of the stage you can see the lovely, sandy blonde girl she used to be. But drugs have sunken in her whole face, yellowed her skin, and ruined her teeth. She’s allegedly cleaning herself up; I hear her talk about it with the Tracy, the house mom - an ex-addict herself. The fact that she’s a single mom makes me all the more happy for her getting off drugs.

Bianca’s another one that seems to be struggling with some substance problems; my guess is heroin from the long lace sleeves she always wears as accessories on her arms. She’s young as well, maybe even younger than April but I don’t know for sure. She has a pretty, but blank face and a piercing below her lip and in her tongue. She was friendly at first, offering to let me use outfits and giving me tips. But she’s drifted just in the three weeks I’ve been around. I don’t think Bianca had a lot of friends there to begin with; Henry told me to stay away from her, that “there are certain people you don’t want to associate with, because other people will draw certain conclusions about you.” Cryptic, but succinct.

Christie, Jolene, and Amanda are our three foreign girls. Amanda is from England, Jolene from Israel, and Christie from Russia. Both Christie and Jolene speak perfect English. As a matter of fact, I thought Jolene’s accent was from New Jersey when I first met her. Christie gives the most sensual lap dances I’ve ever seen; not raunchy or explicit like some of the other girls, she just moves and looks in the eyes of the client in a way that makes them feel like she is theirs, and theirs only.

There’s way too many girls for me to keep going like this, but that’s a good chunk of them. People come and go so often that I’m sure a lot of them will disappear, and I am still so new that it's very possible that my perception is skewed.