Game of Kings || NJM

Chapter One

"Come on, Jaem! It's just a strip club, people go here all the time!" Haechan exclaimed, pulling the younger male through the doors of Dais.

Dais is a strip club, in the centre of Neo City, right along the After Dark Strip. The strip was a place for drinkers, gamblers, and places for people to get lost in. There were bars, nightclubs, poker joints and even underground fight rings.

Na Jaemin, being the youngest team leader for the Illegal and Illicit Crimes Unit at the Neo City Precinct, didn't normally spend time around this neighbourhood. Jaemin, along with his three closest friends spent their time in the 'nicer' parts of town – In Jaemin's case, that was a coffee shop with a certain brunette barista called Hanuel.

"You know I'm not fond on strip clubs, Haechan." The icy blonde male says as he lets the slighter older male pull him into the dark place. "Or clubs at all, for that fact." Her mumbled the last part.

"I'm sure sweet little Hanuel wouldn't mind if you went to a strip club, you're not sleeping with any of the girls." Renjun, the only Chinese person on their team, his hair is chopped short and is the colour of obsidian, said from behind the two.

"Don't call her that, Jun." Jaemin says, slightly defensive.

Renjun shoved his hands into his dress pant pockets, shrugging slightly. "What? It's not like you two are dating. You just order coffee and stare at her from afar."

He wasn't wrong. Jaemin had spent three, almost four years, in a relationship with his high school sweetheart. When Jaemin started at the police academy and spent a lot of time learning and training, his girlfriend had cheated on him and broke his heart.

It's only recently that Jaemin had let himself start to feel again and now he couldn't stop ordering from the same coffee shop at the same time, every day.

The inside of Dais was different to other clubs, while it was still indeed a strip club that still had silver poles around the room, it was designed by a woman.

The floors were made of a marble, an onyx marble that had jasper and ruby lining the cracks of the black stone. All of the walls were painted the colour of black, creating the illusion of not knowing where the room was ending, the only difference was a few rounds cut out in the wall.

The cut outs house matching marble statues of women's bodies with a bright white light illuminated them, while the rest of the room was lit by intense ruby lights.

The trio made their way to a stage in the far left, sitting down on the plush sofa's that matched the rest of the room, black. It wasn't long before a gorgeous girl with auburn hair takes the stage in front of them, she looked in her mid twenties and had tattoo's running up and down her long legs.

"Where is Jeno?" Jaemin asks, looking away, feeling like he didn't have the right to look at the half naked girl.

"He said he wasn't feeling well, that he was just going to stay home and get some rest." Renjun yells slightly over the loud music, completely memorised by the girl in front of him. He waited for the dancer to come closer before simply handing her the money, not throwing or sticking it her lingerie.

He enjoyed going to the strip club, but he always knew the rules – along with basic respect.

"I'm going to grab a drink, want anything?" Jaemin asked the group, when the two males shouted their answers to him, he looked up at the dancer. "Would you like anything? A water?"

The women giggled, "A water with a lemon wedge, please." She said, not stopping her dance.

Jaemin nodded before making his way over to the bar. The bar, of course, was made of the same black marble, less ruby and jasper bleeding through than the floor, however. The lights where of the same in the wall, creating a subtle but refreshing vibe.