From Condos to the Streets

6.

6 weeks later.

"Here" Vicky said throwing the plate of food under a small opening at the bottom of the door. "not hungry" I said turning my face towards the wall. "suit yourself" she said, as I heard her heels walk out and a door being closed seconds afterwards.

The 'boss' found out Layla died and he blamed me for her suicide so now I was locked up all day in a room inside of an abandoned house. I wasn't allowed to go out until night when it was my turn to dance and that was with 4 body guards behind me.

Silence was killing me. I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat. All I thought about was my family and Layla.

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"Well hello Skye nice to finally see you again" Vicky put her hands together smiling. meanwhile I glared at her, "so you got a promotion, you are now a stripper baby!" My eyes shot up, "I know right! The clients want you to strip baby!!" She put her arms in the air, "now forget the dance lessons you've been here for a while you smart too, do yo thing okay. your on in 15 minutes"

"But-" she put her hand in front of my mouth to keep me from taking, "no no no, I make the rules you follow them unless of course you wanna end up like yo friend" she pointed towards the door.

Cold ass bitch.

I glared at her as she walked out the dressing room and then turned towards the lighted mirror. "me? A stripper?" I thought as I pulled my robe tighter.

"Skye" I heard joe knock on the door, "you on in 5" "thanks" I mumbled while applying the last of my eyeshadow. Then I sat on the chair and slipped on my 5 inch heels and tied my robe tighter. I walked towards the door and opened it walking all the way up to the stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the stage our girl SKYE!!" I heard as everyone clapped and whistled, "she has a lil surprise for you tonight"

I stepped onto the stage as the song 'how many times' by Dj Khaled ft. Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, & Big Sean started playing. I walked slowly and gripped the pole. I swung my legs and gripped the pole with them and made a couple turns. Then the moment came where I had to take my first piece of clothing off. I closed my eyes and removed my top revealing my breast. Everyone whistled and started throwing hundred dollar bills towards me.

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As I stepped off the stage Vicky was standing there smiling, "you did great!" She said grabbing the collar of my robe, "as a reward you're out of punishment you can live with Trinity again"

I gave her a stale look, "what you're not happy?" She asked as I walked down the hall towards the dressing room.

Why should I? You already fucked my head up.

I opened the door to the dressing room and found a bucket of money with my name on it. I looked to the other side of the room and saw Trinity concentrated on counting her money. She had 1's, 50's, and 100's on the ground separated.

"Trinity?" I spoke softly, "hey!" She said dropping the stack of money in her hand and jumping up towards me, "you back!" She hugged me, "an yo strippa skills is stupid good" "thanks but can we get out of here now" I pulled away from her embrace.

"Uh yea but you ain't gon count the cheddar?" she pointed towards the bucket of money. i signed, "why bother it ain't mine anyways" I shrugged, Trinity raised her eyebrows, "uhm? still you gotta know how much you made" i sighed, "I'll count it at home" i said.

By the time I was done I had a whole pile of pieces of paper with numbers on it and 3 other stacks piled up with money. I sighed and left the stacks right where they were.

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When we got to the house I went into the small dark room and saw the empty bed Layla slept in. I thought about her everyday I counted the weeks she's been dead too.

"Yo you good?" Trinity said from the living room. I nodded my head and turned around walking towards the living room, "you got sum you wanna tell me?" I shook my head in denial, "c'mon Skye I know the typa shit them people did to you I been thru that shit. Nasty ass food, silence, darkness. believe it or not that shit get to you" she said waving her hands in the air.

I sighed.

"Let me give you sum advice" she said scooting to the end of the sofa and closer to me. She leaned in and took my hand, "if you wanna get rid of the pain and forget shit for a while let me kno I got sum shit for dat"

I furrowed my eyebrows, "and what's that stuff? Drugs?" I saw a slight smile run across her face, "uh-hu that white powder" she smirked, "really? Cocaine?" I said with an annoyed expression but slightly taking the option into consideration.

Shit I mean I ain't got no family no more might as well.

"Uh-hu got sum people out there who can getchu sum grams" she winked. "maybe later" I said dismissing the thought for a bit. "aight" she said grabbing the remote and surfing thru the channels.

Right now I just wanted to sleep.

-maybe Trinity isn't bad, maybe she just wants to help Gia, I mean Skye out.
-who knows maybe they'll become really good friends.
-do you think Skye shoula been punished even though she didn't have anything to do with Layla's death?
-do you think Skye should take Trinity up on her offer?

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Thanks, K.