I brought it upon myself.

For him.

Big sun coming strong through the motel blinds. I could wake up next to his beautiful face everyday, as lovers not as...forget it, but either way we both know that will never happen not after what I put him through.

I  quickly creep out of the blankets then tip toe my way to the bathroom with only one desire to change and get breakfast before he awakes.

My plan has failed the minute he wakes up and places his hand on the side of were I was sleeping, searching for me "Cleopatra!" He yells , I hate it when he calls me that. Rolling my eyes I respond "I'm in the bathroom , give me a second." Quickly I undress and flush the toilet making sure I don't raise any suspicion.

I jump back to bed with my back facing him. "Tonight is your big night, are you ready..Johnny and the rest will be there at the Pyramid just for you babe" he says stroking my naked spine "yes I'm stoked" I respond with so much hurt in each word yet I don't show it or he might just...you know what forget it.

"Go take a shower and put some clothes on , I'm taking you out to go buy some new costumes for tonight then we'll grab a bite" he says, jumping out of the bed with excitement . All I wanted to do was lay in bed and rest my head on his muscular chest while he strokes my hair, feel his heartbeat, secure my hands onto his, look into dark brown eyes and kiss his soft lips you know..like it used to be when we were young and inlove but as I said it could never be .After all he's just a pimp and I'm just a stripper who works at a strip club called Pyramid..hitting that strip pole keeping his bills paid making it up for everything I put him through.
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After a long two hours of window shopping and fitting all different types of costumes 8n random shops, I suddenly stop- looking back at how far the motel is
"And now? What's the hold up Tori we need to get our shit together before your show tonight you know" Chris says in agitation
"Why didn't we take the car if you knew we were going to take this long and walk this far?" I say placing my hands on my hips giving him the annoyed look.

"Look I would have brought the damn car if I knew that it was this hard to look for an Egyptian outfit. Now we only have four hours so don't waste my fucking time princess" he says pulling my hand tightly in his direction walking forward.

At last we stop by an old looking shop which seems to look like a place were you get psychic reading. As I enter the shop it does not look welcoming at all, I mean there's skulls everywhere bottles of what looks like potions labelled 'love potion', 'hate potion' the list goes on and there are pretty creepy outfits here like for wizards and witches and luckily Egyptian stuff.

"Uhm do you have a 'small' size for that Egyptian set" Chris asks pointing at the female Egyptian set while talking to the shop owner..a very short old woman who looks like a hippy.

"What!!" I remark "I'm not that tiny , I have tits and ass which look better in a medium you know"

"SHUT UP! I know what I'm doing. If you want to impress Johnny you need to give him a reason to give me- I mean us the contract. So if you aiming for that you need to get him excited,  got it Tori?" he says pointing his finger at me giving me the irritated look.

"Fine!" I snap. I dont even know why I'm agreeing to this anyway I never even agreed to this whole stripping thing in the first place. I mean I could've just gotten a regular job
and he could have just taken the money every month but nooo, not my beloved Chustopher Jones. . ever since he met those perverted 'friends' of his he just you know 'changed' and I don't like it -not one bit.

"I look like a slut!" I remark looking at myself in the mirror in the changing room
"Then its PERFECT...Johnny will be all over you" he says rubbing my arm while hugging me from the the back.

After getting everything needed for tonight we walk back and I must say..the walk back to the motel is looooooong and tiring and I can't help but stop in between just to catch my breath.

"What now Tori! I thought we talked about this...we don't have enough time, if you keep taking these breaks inbetween I'll consider you changing here on the road starting with the wig" he says snapping at me
"Carry me then!" I yell.

He stares as me with a smirk on his face tilting his head looking like he's actually considering it..he immediately wipes it off "Fuck! I don't have time for this , we almost there and we only got 2 hours left" he snaps
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We finally arrive at the motel with only an hour and a half left and a shower still needs to be taken and makeup needs to be done.. I mean this Cleopatra thing going on won't be easy since I'm the I'm doing it on my own.
With only just an hour left I manage to put this Cleopatra wig on over my curly ginger hair and covering almost my whole body with jewelry(gold everything/fake im sure) but who cares anyways its not like this Johnny guy will notice right. After all the dress up time is done, I stare at myself in the mirror fixing my hair making sure the wig looks convincing then slip into my 6 inch heels then finish it all up with golden lipstick making me look like Cleoparta....in the flesh. Before I head out to Chris in bedroom to seek his approval on if I look sluttt enough I just take a moment to just look at myself and think.
Tori, tonight is the night were you will loose all your dignity and become Cleopatra...every guy out there is your Samson..especially Johnny.  Make these married men that came here for stress relief. ..be their medicine....give ut your all tonight on that strip pole...its the only thing I'm good at since i dropped out if college for this asshole.

As I'm done I walk in the bedroom, he stares at me with such passion in his eyes like he's seen a goddess.
"Wow princess you look.......convincing and sexy"
He says walking towards me. In just a second I turn my what used-to-be smile into a frown.. For a moment there I thought he was going to say beautiful or gorgeous.
"Lighten up petra, your gonna kill it tonight" he says in a low toned voice hugging me tightly..the kind of way he would used to hold me..when he was mine and I was his. .......only.