Something's Changed (One Direction Fanfiction)

Chapter 14

Niall's POV

Whilst we were waiting for Deepika to come into the private room so that we could talk, I began to feel quite hot so I removed my jacket and unbuttoned the first few buttons of my checkered shirt; I turned to Harry who had taken off his coat and made himself comfortable.

After a few seconds, the door flung open and smoke filled the doorway so that we couldn't see who was going to enter.

"Hello boys, can I interest you in some red wine?" A voice asked whilst emerging from the smoke seductively.

When the smoke cleared away, we came face to face with a female's back which had 'Peaches' stitched onto the thin wrap-over. I scanned the lady from behind, as did Harry, and she was perfect. She spun on her extremely high heels and faced us but only to shock both herself and us.

Harry's POV

When the girl turned to face us, we saw that it was Deepika who had thought that we were some 'customers'. As soon as we all made eye contact, the bottle of red wine fell from Deepika's hand and smashed into pieces on the floor, spreading the liquid everywhere.

"You guys again?" She squeaked in shock.

"Yeah, us again but are you okay? Did you get hit by any glass or anything?" I asked.

"Nah I'm fine thanks but what in the world are you two doing at a strip club?" Deepika asked, almost disturbed.

"No, the question should be: what the hell are you doing performing in a strip club, Deepika?" Niall said, rephrasing the original question to fit the situation.

"I work here, duh."

"Why, out of all the possible places, would you want to work here?" I asked, genuinely interested.

"Because I like stripping for random males every night and you can't even begin to imagine how much adrenaline pumps through my veins when people rake their eyes all over my partially covered body," Deepika replied, sarcasm dripping off every single word that left her mouth.

I wanted to dig deeper but I knew that I was only going to get sarcastic replies so I left my personal questioning out of the picture.

"Does anyone know about you having this job?" Niall asked wearily.
"Yeah: Paul, Amelia, Ryan, my boss and loads of other people. Amelia and Ryan only know because they work here and they got me the job; Amelia and I work together and Ryan is a bodyguard up at the doors. Paul knows because it had to be written on our applications and he then asked us if we wanted some stuff sorted out so that we don't lose practice and we took up his offer because it's great for keeping us in shape. Don't worry though, this is only a part time job because I do other jobs too."

"Sorry for getting a bit personal but was Lucas a... Ermm," I hesitated in finishing off my sentence.

"Hell no, Lucas is not from a one night stand or whatever shit you were thinking. Then again he wasn't supposed to happen because it wasn't even sex, it was more forced," she whispered the last part, hoping that we wouldn't hear her, but we both heard her clearly.

"Do you know the father?"

"Yeah I do and I haven't seen him for the past 4 years but he suddenly decided to pop up out of nowhere now and he found out about Lucas. We go way back but not in a friendly way, more like in an enemy way. Funnily enough, you both know the father too but he can tell you himself when he actually believes that Lucas is his child," Deepika spilled.

"Wow."

"Listen up guys if you don't have anything else you need me for, I need to go home because I'm tired and Lucas is probably waiting for me."