The Stripper Alliance

Chapter 13

I know that if I don’t stop Estelle, me and my girls are going to prison for a very long time. I can’t have that. I follow Estelle out of the dressing room. She is gone and so is everybody else. I whisper, “This is weird!”

I pop my head into her office and I find her punching in 911. I jump on the table and rip the phone from her hands. Estelle takes the cigarette out of her mouth and yells, “What the fuck was that for?”

I say, “Estelle, we cannot let the police know about this.”

Her eyebrows furrow and she spitefully asks, “Why not?”

I smile and say, “Because, we cannot go to prison.”

She smiles and calmly sits back down in her chair. She blows out some smoke and maniacally says, “Well that’s not my problem. Now, give me my phone!”

Before I even think about giving her the phone, I say, “Actually, it is going to be one of your problems. Once word gets out that someone was murdered here, this place will go out of business and then turn in to some parking lot.”

She leans back in her chair and rubs her forehead. She quietly says, “I did not think about this.”

Estelle turns to face me and then says, “Well, what the hell are we going to do with the body?”

I grin. I am starting to consider myself a master at hiding corpses. I am sad that I will have to be hiding my best friends’ corpse, but I have to do what I have to do.

I walk out of the room and Estelle follows close behind. I make my way through the vacant room of stripper poles and find myself back at the dressing room. Rose and Melanie are sitting on the ground and staring at Hannah. I clap my hands and intensely say, “We need to hide the body, ASAP!”

Melanie forces out a tear and yells, “Why can’t we call the police department?”

I shrug my shoulders and sigh. I look across the corpse and see Rose thinking. I yell, “Eh, Rose! You got an idea?”

She shivers and then asks, “Estelle is there a chimney somewhere inside the building?”

She scoffs and says, “Uh, in my office.”

Rose hugs herself and then says, “We should burn her in the chimney.”

I look around the room and see that both Estelle and Melanie agree with Rose’s idea. I clap my hands and yell, “Ok! Grab a limb!”

We hoist her up and then continue out of the dressing room. We carefully maneuver her bloody corpse through the poles, trying not to spill blood on any of them. We find Estelle’s office and the door is wide open. We proceed into her office.

Estelle leads us to the chimney. I yell, “1, 2, 3,” and we all toss her body into the unused chimney.

Estelle pulls out some emergency gasoline from her desk drawer and soaks the corpse with it. She takes her lighter and throws it in to the chimney. Hannah’s body deteriorates in a towering inferno.

Estelle puts a guard in between the chimney and ourselves, so we don’t get burned. As we stare at the burning body I sigh and say, “You know that we cannot tell a single soul.”

I look around and they are all nodding their heads in agreement. I think to myself, “You have killed two people in a span of three days. Bravo!”