Switchblade

Chapter 12: Meet The Girls

(Tw: use of the R word. i.e.: another word for sexual assault)

The car arrived at the club. Killian got out then pulled Tati with him.
"I know how to fucking walk!" she restated.
"Yea, you also know how to run." He put her in front and told her to walk ahead.

The two entered the club.

Loud music, purple and blue neon lights, women walking around in lingerie and heels as they served drinks, and men in suits drinking and talking amongst each other.

Tati looked at the bar and saw it was much bigger than the one she worked at.

Killian led her to a back room to change and put on her proper shoes.

"Take that off and find shoes to wear." He shoved her into the room then shut the door.
She'd almost fallen and was only growing more hatred for him by the minute.

"Does anybody have eyelash glue I can use?" Mariah asked.
"I do. I'll give it to you when I'm done." said Taylor.

They all looked towards the entrance.

Tati looked throughout the locker room and saw a bunch of women in lingerie doing their makeup.

They eyed her back and wondered what she was doing.

"Are you new?" Taylor asked.
"Apparently. That's what he said."
"Who's he?"
"I don't know his name. Some big dumbass." she said as she walked in and looked for the shoes.
"Was it Silas?" Suki asked. "Or Teo? They're like the same height."
"I do not know his name." Tati restated, annoyed.
"What did he look like?" Taylor asked as she applied her eyelashes.
"I don't know. Tall. He has a tattoo on his neck and hands. I don't pay attention to his face so I don't know what he looks like. He's just some guy that's tall as fuck." She finally found the shoes.

Then noticed something.

She turned her head and saw all of the women were looking at her.

"What?" she asked.
"Killian brought you here?"
"Killian?" Tati questioned.
"Oh my god." Layla stated. "I'm fucking jealous. My ego would be through the roof if he was the one who found me and brought me here."
Tati didn't respond. She just went back to look through the shoes.

She grabbed a pair of red high heels.
"I'm gonna break my neck in this shit." she murmured.
She looked around for a place to sit and put them on.

Then she saw an exit door.

She looked back through the room and saw the women conversing with one another about Killian again.

She started slowly easing towards the door. She made sure none of them saw her.

The coast was clear so she pushed through and immediately saw two large men talking to one another.
They looked at her.
She rolled her eyes and didn't even try. She just walked back into the locker room and let the door shut.
"Fuck him." she sighed.

She took off her hoodie and her sweatpants then sat down to put on the shoes.
"This is so fucking dumb." she said quietly.

"Hey, do you want your makeup done?" Taylor asked.
Tati looked at her.
"I just saw you come in without anything and we kind of have to make a certain number of tips or else we get fired. It would help if you had a little something on your face."
Tati thought about it.
"I mean you're pretty without it. It's just the job, you know?" she added.
"Yea." Tati agreed.
"Come on. I think I even have an extra set of lashes." Taylor began rummaging through her bag.

Tati got up and walked over to Taylor sitting in front of the long counter and mirror.
A few women were done getting dressed and walked out.

"So what's he like?" Taylor asked as she started getting everything ready.
"Who?"
"Killian."
"He's an asshole." Tati answered.
"That's how I like 'em." Alana stated.
"Right." Taylor added and laughed.
"Do you like people that kidnap people and threaten your mother?" Tati asked her while Taylor started coloring in her eyebrows.
Alana just stared. "What?"
"He fucking kidnapped me and is using it to threaten my mother. Usually when people say they like mean guys, they just mean somebody who's not friendly enough to cheat." Tati explained.
All of the women stared at her again.

"He kidnapped you?" Taylor asked and stopped applying her makeup.
"Yes!"
"Aren't you too old to be kidnapped? I thought that was for like...children. It literally has the word kid in the word." Chelsey stated with a laugh.
"Oh, I'm sorry would you rather the word abducted? He stripped me from my house, forced me into the back of a car, and locked me in some random room over the past two days."
"And then made you work in a club? Sure." Chelsey scoffed and got a few snickers from some of the other women.
Tati took a water bottle and chucked it at her face.

There were a few gasps and Chelsey looked at her angrily.

"Find something funny about that." Tati instructed.
Chelsey walked out of the room.

Taylor and Suki laughed.

"You're funny." Taylor said and went back to doing Tati's makeup. "I'm Taylor."
"I'm Suki." she stated.
"Nice to meet both of you. I'm Tatiana. But Tati is fine." Tati was always nicer to women than she was to men. Except Chelsey.
She was nicer to women but she never handled being aggravated well.

"I would've kicked her ass if I wasn't in these heels." she stated.
"So he really kidnapped you?" Suki asked.
"Yes."
"Oh my god."
"We knew he was mean but that's like...weird as fuck." Taylor stated.
"Right." Suki agreed.
"I know. And I live in this dull ass room now with no window or decor. Just me sitting there until somebody brings me food because if I starve, it gets in the way of his plans."
"Holy shit." Mariah added as she came to the area to apply her lipstick.
"Yea, no, that's weird as fuck." Taylor began to do Tati's concealer. They were close to the same complexion. Which was the only reason Tati agreed.

"But you gotta admit, he's hot." Mariah added.
"Literally. Bad men can be hot and he's one of them." Taylor stated.
"I don't examine his face, he pisses me off."
"Well I'll tell you what I've seen on it." Taylor began. "He has these full pink lips that look so fucking soft. Like he clearly wears chapstick. I love a man who cares about himself."
"His eyes are blue." Suki added. "But not like a creepy stare into your soul blue. Like a warm blue. They're so pretty but he never holds eye contact with anyone."
Tati remembered she'd looked in his eyes. The first few times were scary but she'd gotten used to it.
"Close your eyes." Taylor said so she could work on her eyeshadow.
Tati followed directions.
"He has like perfect eyebrows. They're like thick and carved but not too bushy and not too huge, you know? Everything on his face just frames it perfectly." Taylor added.
"He has great hair and it's cut low but high enough that you can still tell it's really nice and kinda wavy. It's like a dark brown and since he's hot, having good hair probably runs in his family. Like he's gonna be 60 and still have a really nice head of hair." Mariah stated.
"You can open your eyes." Taylor permitted.
Tati opened her eyes.

"Oh my god his hands..." Suki moaned.
"First of all they're fucking tatted. Men with tattoos are so fucking sexy, it's insane. There's the number 47 written on the back of his left hand and barbed wire across the knuckles on his right hand. And they just look so strong. I swear to god I want him to finger me." Taylor said and the other two girls laughed while Tati just ignored it.
"Don't forget that small face tattoo on his temple. It's a little switchblade. Usually face tattoos are just too much but he got it in a perfect spot at the perfect size to where on him it's sexy as fuck."
"I know it's like 9 inches." Suki stated.
"And pink." added Mariah.
"Two veins. There's no doubt in my mind." Taylor agreed. She began putting glue on strip lashes.

"Well you can have him if I don't kill him first." Tati stated.
"Does he hurt you?" Suki asked.
"No. But I know I piss him off enough that he wants to." she stated.
"Well, my conscious is clean now." Mariah scoffed. "As long as I know he doesn't beat you or rape you, he's still hot to me."
"Right." Taylor added as she began to place the eyelashes onto Tati's eyes.

"Oh my god and he smells so good!!!" Suki added.
"He does!" Taylor stated. "Like...I can't even describe it. Just sexy."
"Literally."

Tati rolled her eyes.