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commanded.
    Alyssa looked disgusted, but
managed a simple, quiet, “Thanks.”
    She’d picked up a few moves
after tossing back two drinks and the tips began to flow like an
open faucet. Later that night, the girls accumulated in the back
room for some special meeting to which she wasn’t privileged enough
to receive the invitation yet.
    ‘Ugh, I’ve got to keep doing
this?’ She thought to herself as she switched back to her civilian
clothes before leaving the nightclub.
     
    On her way out, an older woman
wearing a fur coat and dark red lipstick eyed Alyssa up and
down.
    “You must be new,” she said
meandering on past and entering the inside of the building.
    Alyssa sent a text message to
Chase with an update: “Almost in with the girls. I deserve a raise
for this. –A.”
    Chase dialed her up on his cell
and told her, “If there is a bonus for wrapping this case up with a
nice little bow, you will be the first to know. Find anything
out?”
    Alyssa settled into her car
before speaking.
    “The women in this place are so
seriously pathetic. Granted, some of them probably haven’t
graduated high school, but this place is littered with drug users
and prostitutes.”
    “Keep at it if you’re
comfortable and I will check back with you soon.”
    They hung up and Chase sent a
text message to Michelle with the update on the situation. Alyssa
put the key in the ignition and turned it, but her mood was
interrupted by a woman who ran up to her car and placed her hands
and body on the driver’s side window.
    ‘What the ---‘ She thought as
she jumped nearly out of her skin.
    She pushed the button to roll
down the window and looked to her left. The girl at her window was
young with messy, curly blonde hair and tear-stained mascara
running down her face.
    “Hey, do you got any coke?”
    “Coke? You mean drugs. Um, no I
don’t.”
    “You suck,” and just then the
girl removed herself from view and allowed Alyssa’s exit from the
darkness of the parking lot.
    Alyssa texted Chase: “Just got
propositioned for Coke. You owe me.”
    She locked her doors tight and
sped off.
    Another few weeks passed before
Alyssa was able to blend in enough to be trusted by the woman in
charge. She wore a nasty bright pink skirt with a torn dirty white
t-shirt and her hair was a total mess. She had gathered that she
was going about this thing the wrong way.
    Upon the close of her shift, she
was greeted by one woman who was missing several front teeth and
was complaining about the lack of Johns this time of the year.
    “Hey, I’m Lorraine. You’ve
probably seen me around.”
    Alyssa tried hard to look out of
it.
    “Yeah, I’ve seen you. What’s it
to ya?”
    “Don’t get all defensive.
Listen, I’m here to help.”
    “Go on.”
    “Well, the broad in charge,
let’s call her Andrea, she said that you looked like you could use
some extra cash. So, Andrea sent me over to you to see if you’ve
got a boyfriend.”
    “No. No boyfriend.”
    “Okay, so do you want to make
some money or what?”
    “It depends, what do I gotta
do?”
    “You get a boyfriend for the
night.”
    “I can do that.”
    “Follow me and keep your mouth
shut unless you are spoken to.”
    Alyssa climbed in Lorraine’s
beat up 2001 Ford Taurus. She breathed in the funk of an unwashed
person, cigarette smoke and noticed stains everywhere. She thought
back to a time when she was in college and never thought she would
find herself among prostitutes and drug addicts.
    After driving for a short while,
Lorraine announced that they’d arrived at their destination. It was
an upscale hotel of which she’d seen in her younger years.
    She thought to herself, ‘This is
more like it.’
    “Andrea stays here. Come
on.”
    Lorraine didn’t bother locking
the car as it was already missing its radio. Alyssa followed
closely behind her so that no one at the ritzy hotel would
recognize her. Lorraine led Alyssa through to the elevator, up to
the eleventh floor and to a