Starlet - Book 2 - Mate Games

11. Sunlight

Lindsay and I stretch outside the dance studio the next day.

I bend over and touch my toes. I get my head by my knee and stretch into it. Then I get a "Hey baby." I pop back up. I smile at the guy and keep stretching. Then I see a woman with a baby. She looks at us because pretty much everyone is. I ignore her though. I twist a bit and lean to my side.

Collin wraps his arms around me from behind. "Why outside?"

"Trying to wake up. Sunlight helps."

"I have a whole garden back there."

Lindsay gives him a dirty look. "No boys to tell us we're sexy back there." She bends over and stretches her legs. She gets a whistle. "See."

"You 2 are something else."

I give him a little kiss. "She's single. So it's ok."

"And what about you?"

"I need single support asshole."

"I'm the single support sir." I straighten up as he holds me. "You know we'll have to belly dance out here to get customers for that thing." I step back and dance for him.

"That'll be fine baby. It's much more tame than watching you smack your ass and bend over in front of people." He leans in and kisses my marking spot.

"That's definitely waking me up." I get in close and kiss his neck.

"No making out on the porch. Damn."

"Sorry." I turn around quickly. "I'm being bad single support."

"You really are."

I lean back into Collin and relax. He wraps his arms around me and hugs me. That girl is still staring at me. She should have been long gone by now. I see a big rock in the yard. I go stand on it and belly dance.

"Get down from there. I can see right up that skirt."

I turn around and sexy wiggle for him.

"Woman."

I giggle and jump at him. He holds me above his head for a second then drops me down for a kiss. I throw my arms around his neck, and he lowers me to his body. I give him another kiss. "I love you."

"I love you baby."

"YOU 2 ARE TERRIBLE AT THIS."

We laugh and he puts me on my feet.

Then that girl walks up with her baby. "Are you hiring?" Oh, that's what she wants.

"No, not right now. I'm still getting things going."

"Thank you." She turns and Lindsay comes running over. "Is that your baby?"

"Yes. This is Max. We're out for a walk."

Lindsay takes him. "You are precious. She could actually help with sign-ups. The brains confuse the f**k out of everyone who they try to talk to. When are you available for work?"

"After school and weekends. About any hours."

"You're a teenager?" Lindsay about drops Max.

"Give me that before you break him." I take Max and dance with him.

"I'm not sure about the sign-ups then. Those are usually done during school hours. Maybe once the art store opens up there will be something there for you. He'll need help to keep it open, collect payments, things like that."

"That would be amazing. Babysitters and food are expensive."

I hear some snaps and look over. Lindsay is snapping in front of Collin's face. He is staring at me with fully black eyes. I smirk at him and he walks over. "I think they're trying to have a conversation with you sir."

He kisses my head. "I don't know. This is perfect."

"Well, he's obviously in a trance. Next time don't give her the baby."

I snuggle into Collin, and he wraps his arms around me and Max.

"This would be something."

"Yes it would, baby."

I hand the baby to his momma. "He is precious and perfect."

"Thank you. He's my world."

I smile and Collin pulls me into the building. I can't help but giggle. I hear Lindsay say, "I guess they're trying now."

The door shuts behind us, and he pulls me in for a deep kiss. "Seeing you with that baby did something to me."

"I know. Your eyes are still black."

He closes his eyes and kisses me again. It's so full of passion and love. "I want that with you."

My eyebrows shoot up. I'm not sure what to say.

"Not right now baby. Someday. I want all of this to be ours. I want you to be mine, forever."

I hold back the tears. We know that won't happen. I hug him tight and feel the bond. The in-love bond is connected. For both of us. I'm in love with him as much as he's in love with me. "I love you Collin."

"I love you Star." He kisses my marking spot and sits me on the desk.

Then the door flies open. "DO NOT BE NAKED." Lindsay has her hand over her eyes. The girl is leaving. She's walking the path behind Lindsay and cracks up laughing.

He gives me a little kiss. "We're not naked."

"Thank you." She moves her hand. "But you're both looking at me with black eyes. This is weird. Come on. We need to stretch now. We only have 45 minutes. Think about that puke green couch you picked out."

"Oh my god. It wasn't that bad."

"Yes it was."

I roll my eyes and hop down. We go back outside and stretch more. Then people show up to check in. I go inside and make sure the chair is right, and his hat is on it.

"So what are you doing with my hat, woman?"

I hold it up in front of my boobs and wiggle. "It's now the boob hat. I hope you're ok with that."

"I want to see that for real. Then I'll be ok with it." He pulls me into him and I get another deep kiss out of him. He needs intimacy.

"I need some time with you sir."

"Same baby. I have tonight off. We'll do something after the class is over."

"Sounds like a good plan." I get 1 more kiss before they start coming to the back.

He kisses my head. "Have fun. I'll see you in a couple of hours."

"You too." He goes through the back door and I go to the front. "Should I start the same way?"

"Yea I would. That was fun and got everyone's attention."

"Ok."

This class is much more rowdy and fun. But it goes about the same. I get 90% done and have my ass pointed at my boyfriend chair when I realize my boyfriend's mom is in the class. That's quite different. But I manage to pull the rest off. Thankfully, I was almost done anyway. But I know she recognized the hat.

We get everyone up to the front and I look at Lindsay. We lose it.

"I had no idea she was in the class. I didn't figure it out until we were about done."

"I figured it out about halfway through. You were explaining the showing of the butt cheeks. I figured I probably shouldn't say anything."

"I would have died." I sit in the chair and laugh so hard.

She's one of the last women to come up to us. I try to hide my head. Then she starts laughing.

"Don't mind Whisp. She's going to die now."

I wipe my eyes off. "I had no idea you were in there."

"I wanted to see what my son's dance studio was about. It was something. You are a good dancer. And a very good instructor."

"Thank you for that. I've always loved dance. This is 1 of my favorite styles because it's not about being perfect. It's about having fun and being sexy. And you can incorporate a lot of different styles into it."

Lindsay nods. "Whatever you're feeling."

Collin walks in from the back with his hat on. "Hi mom. What are you doing here?"

"I took the class."

His eyebrows shoot up. Lindsay nods. "I recognized your mom right when Whisp was demonstrating the correct amount of butt cheek to show."

I nearly fall off my chair.

Collin shakes his head.

"Oh, it's about having fun. She's an amazing dancer and instructor. You need to keep her going with this and help her. And I think you girls need to put on a show in the theater. Not this style. But an hour of that aerial. People would pay a lot to watch that. And the more people that see you dance, the more they will want to take your classes. You need to get out there more with the dancing."

Lindsay nods. "Yea, but then we will have to rent the theater... try to find people to work concessions and tickets and stage and cleaning."

"Then we have to figure out how to pay them and I think the castle gets some money."

"And with us just starting out as instructors, people don't know who we are. They're not going to pay to come see us."

"Most people caught us by chance at the last play. Nobody came to see us. We wouldn't even make enough money to pay the people we hired."

"A lot of people saw you girls dance during that play. I think you're underestimating yourselves and how many people would pay to see that again. But you think about it. I need to get home and fix dinner. Thank you for the lesson. It was very informative." We laugh as she leaves.

"I miss dancing like that."

"Me too."

Collin winks. "I think she's right. People would pay to see that. They loved it. I can help you put on a show if you want."

"People wouldn't pay to see it."

"Yea, we'd end up losing money. We have to pay the people we hire."

"We could use brains for some spots. Maybe you could get servants to do the cleaning. Then let the castle deal with the concessions. It's their food anyway. We'd have to get someone for ticket sales. Brains would argue about where people should sit."

I crack up laughing. "They would be placed in alphabetical order or something weird."

Lindsay nods. "Every other row. Boys on 1 side, girls on the other. It would be bad."

"Alright, so why don't we try. If you don't make enough to cover a ticket person and a couple of ushers, I will pay for them. The castle can do concessions and cleaning. You 2 can worry about dancing for an hour."

Dipak walks in. "Did the class leave?"

"Yea."

"Why are you still here?"

"Collin and his mom think me and Lindsay should do an aerial show in the theater. An hour long."

"They don't think people would pay to see them."

Lindsay nods. "Then we'd go broke trying to pay the people we hired. But Collin said if the castle would deal with the concessions and cleaning. He would pay if we didn't make enough for a ticket person and a couple of ushers."

"The castle will deal with concessions and cleaning. But you are permitted no concessions without paying for them. And I will take off the castles fee since we are doing the concessions."

"We'd only need to make enough to cover the ushers and ticket person. I think we could get that after a few ticket sales."

She shrugs her shoulders. "We can make people buy tickets and go."

Dipak rubs his eyes. "When do you want to do this?"

"Saturday night."

"It is Saturday girls."

"The next 1."

"Is the theater booked for next Saturday?"

"Yes."

"Friday?"

"No."

"We could do it Friday night."

"We'd get out of play practice too."

"Let's do 7."

"To close to the end of dinner hour. 7:30 or 8."

"Isn't that too late?"

"It's an hour show and it's Friday night. It'll be fine."

"I'll talk to Tre and get a coupon for an item during your show. He's been bitching about s**t getting old. And we'll sort out an advertisement. Friday is not far. You're going to need to practice this week."

We nod.

"Alright then. Go eat dinner. No reason to stand here."

Lindsay stretches. "Yea it's Saturday."

"I don't know what to do."

She nods. "I'm going to the castle. I'll be back later. We can find a party or something."

"That sounds good."

Collin takes me out to dinner, then we go back to the house. We end up falling asleep snuggled up on the couch.