John leaned back in his chair and looked across the table at her.John leaned back in his chair and looked across the table at her. "We have to be getting back, Linda --- it's eight forty-five!" She started to get up and he said --- "Sit down a minute and let's talk about your `problem', Linda. I'm willing to bail your car out of hock for you --- providing that you work double shifts and --- providing that you are willing to work `private parties' --- after hours --- for me? You willing to do that, Linda?" The prospect of having her Firebird back, substantially paid off, made her happy, but this was going to be a lot of work --- and it would keep her away from home from 3:00 or 3:30 in the afternoon until 2:45 or 3:00 AM in the morning six days a week. That's didn't count the time involved in the `Private Party' thing, either. She wasn't going to get a hell of a lot of night time sleep if she took this deal, she could see that. She looked at John and said, "I think I can do that --- I'll have to work it out with Johnny and Tammara but I think it'll work." "Before you give me a definite `YES', Linda, I want you to know that my `Private Parties' are pretty 'rough' --- you'll have to dance nude --- AND --- UHHH --- you're going to have to dig out your 'old tricks and talents' and `entertain' my friends in between dancing sets. Is that OK with you?" Shaking a little, having ignored, originally, his reference to `Private Parties', she was now having to deal with the subject directly --- since he had now made it VERY clear what he expected from her. She thought about it and then asked --- "Entertain them HOW? John --- What do you want me to do? --- Specifically?" "Bluntly? --- Dance naked, play with yourself in front of them on the stage and then go down and play with THEM --- any way they want you to and for as long as they want you to --- until four thirty or five in the morning --- maybe longer --- but just on Saturday Nights --- Sunday Mornings," he replied almost noncha- lantly and with virtually no expression on his face or in his eyes. "The first "private party" --- a very SPECIAL ONE --- for some of my `BUSINESS PARTNERS' --- is --- TONIGHT" he stated --- "if you want the money, you have to start tonight, Linda!" And --- having put the cards on the table for her to play with and choose from, he got up and started for the door without another word said between them. |