The hidden truth

Chapter 13 - Dance, Dance

I heard the intro which had been looped so I had time to sort myself out, I swallowed all the pride i had and slowly began my job with a sigh which I made invisible. I started with my jacket, my leather jacket I kept on no matter what but it needed to come off or the rest couldn't. I pushed my sleeve off and let it fall down my arm and show my white shirt before pulling it off and then slowly undoing my shirt buttons while swaying my hips and biting my lip.

I let that fall down aswell to expose my red bra and my stomach which was rather tanned in comparison to my pale body. I wiggles my skirt off and let it fall to the floor before I heard the song actually start and I got in my position to start my dance and swallow all my pride while doing it.

I'm doing it to find my family, the only thought keeping me going, making the liveable.

I bent down and slowly bring my hand up my leg before raising it over my head and hooking it on the pole and going into a front hook to back hook and land on my knees which I take to slowly bring myself up and have my body pressed against the pole before looking at the crowd and dipping my head and hair back and bring myself up off the floor and going into a reverse grab and spin around the pole again which I then land with my legs around the pole and slide myself up the pole making sure to pop my hips/ass out to the crowd. Then going into an air walk, I grabbed the highest point on the pole and use my arms to keep me up while my legs walk around the pole, before going into a floor compass and before doing a hair flip and bringing my hand up my leg and doing the new thing I added in my practice, I brought my hand up to my waist and started to drag down my body and move something like a snake would then going into my inside leghang, Before finishing on my hands and knees. I do this as the music finishes and I put my leather jacket back on and put my back to the crowd so all they can see is my leather jacket, red heels and black stockings.

I heard cheers and screams of amaze, I grab my clothes and walk off the stage to be meet by Adeline at the bottom of the stage squealing.

"You get better and better LJ!, your amazing" she giggled as she followed me back to the dressing room for all the girls, I put my clothes back on and sat in the chair. I had to stop myself from crying due to the pride I had just swallowed, this was my life for what? A family that wasn't looking for me anymore?, a family that could forget I exist. Adeline hugs me as I cry and rocks me back and forth.

"Hey, hey LJ, you've got this. We know why you're here and you've got this babes!, you'll find them and I know he had to give you something after a performance like that LJ, keep your head up; we'll get you out of here soon I promise. We will find them" she whispers to me as she hugs me, I'm not sure who she's trying to convince me or her? I've been here; eleven years and they hadn't found me. They had probably forgotten all about me by now.

"But Addy what if they've forgotten about me and aren't even searching anymore; I'll be stuck here for the rest of my life having men who lie to their wives gawking at me like I'm a fresh piece of meat to some vultures" I cry harder, I needed to do this but it didn't mean I liked it, it destroyed me every time I got up on that stage.

Adeline hugged me more and rocked me back and forth. I didn't even care about how I looked right now. My hope was breaking and it was all I had left and it was slowly fading; the light I held dear was slowly becoming dim and it was breaking my heart.

I finished my dance at 1am and the club started to calm down so we shut early and I stayed to help Adeline clean up, I knew I had school tomorrow but right now I needed to be with people. I cleaned the bar and stage from all the sweat and body glitter that some girls used, I felt my eyes start to drop; I had never felt this tired it was a new one for me.

Adeline sent me home, I got dressed into my normal clothes from my locker and jumped on my bike, I started the engine and made my way to Greendale with the idea of sleep on my mind and I would love to say nothing else but I had a big worry on my mind which was slowly crushing me.

Little did I know, my drawing was currently  with Kevin Keller and his boyfriend Joaquin; who knew Exactly what I had drawn but why I had drawn it, it looked just like the tattoo he had on his fore arm and may other serpents had, which only raised more questions.

While on the Northside of Riverdale, Betty Cooper was looking into high schools and looking for a seventeen year old girl with Green eyes,Ginger hair and a necklace of important when a thought loomed over her head as she had her lightbulb moment.

One that could change lives if she was correct and one that could destroy many hearts if she was incorrect. How would she go about finding out?