Dating Mia, nighttime: As Mia gives the customized ride a spin of her own, you help guide her to the restaurant.

The return trip home was uneventful, save for the occasional tweets you got from Mia, showing selfies of herself inside the customized ride. At the same time, you couldn't blame Mia for her decisions, as it was something that she & her brother had wanted to do for a long time. So when you get to your apartment home, to change into something more suitable for the dinner, & whatever else Mia wanted to do after, you see that a package had been sent to you by the professional photographer, Alex, with Mia's blessing.

Heading inside your apartment home, you change first, and then you sort out your regular mail, before opening the package. You find a wide array of cosplay & modeling photos that Mia had done, including her very first cosplay, when she was that shy, nervous teenage girl. As you look at them, you could see how she evolved both physically & mentally, going from that nervous teenage girl, into the confident woman you see today. You even see photos of her early days of being an exotic dancer, suggesting that she had danced elsewhere at first, before moving to "The Silken Web". The last one on the stack, though, widens your eyes. It's a nude photo of her with a backdrop of a living room setting, with comic books and costume making materials all around. She was wearing just pieces of her lingerie, and a corset with images from the "Shahrazad" comic book series. Her posture was like that of a porn star: nibbling on her left pinky nail, her shapely legs spread open in a sitting position, and you see her free hand spreading her wet pussy--that's right, her hot, wet pussy open for you.

"To my hot fan & friend, Eric." Mia wrote in a corner. "XOXOXO, Mia."

You nearly get lost in time, looking at those photos, that you barely catch the sound of your doorbell ringing. Quickly, you put the photos back in the envelope, and then head over to the door. Peering through the door viewer, you see that it is Mia, and boy does she look hot! She is wearing a predominantly black dress, with long sleeves, and a V-neck that cuts low, giving you a great view of her cleavage, given by her big breasts, for her slim, full-body frame. She has a black satin choker on, with an amulet bearing the symbol of a "Game of Thrones" faction. The colors of her leather corset match the amulet. The ankle-length skirt has a slit on one side, letting you see her garter belt, that holds her black nylon stocking up. The stocking itself has a seam at the back, and lace on top. On her feet, is a pair of black knee-high boots, with laces at the front. She still has her glasses on, though, and she had worked on her hair, to give it a luxurious shine.

"Hey, Eric!" Mia smiles, giving you a hug, when you open the door. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, I am." You tell her.

You head down the apartment building with her, over to the visitor's lot, where she had parked the customized Nissan. She hops into the driver's side, while you ride shotgun. You then switch the big display at the center of the dashboard, to the GPS Navigation menu, and punch in the address of the restaurant, showing her some of the other features that she & Benny hadn't discovered yet.

"We're going to Downtown L.A. for dinner?!" Mia looks to you. "That's not far from Hollywood, where Club Cosplay is being held. I have an extra VIP pass, thanks to Alex. Want to go with me to that club after dinner? It'll be fun!"

"Yep," you tell her, "that's where we're going for our Valentine's Day dinner. As for this...Club Cosplay thing, sure."

"Think of Club Cosplay as a nerdy version of your typical nightclub setting." Mia tells you as she starts driving. "18-20 year olds can stay there and dance the night away until Midnight. The older folks can stay there until 2:00. Sometimes, they do special concerts there, or hold cosplay contests. It's really fun."

"How many of those have you been to?" You ask her.

"Most of them." She tells you, as she drives onto the freeway, where she accelerates to the speed limit pretty fast, before finding a good 70-75 mph freeway pace. "There were a few occasions where I couldn't be at one, because of my commitments at the strip club."

"Speaking of strip clubs," you ask her next, "how long have you been doing exotic dances? I know we've been seeing each other at 'The Silken Web' for nearly a couple of years now. The photos you had Alex send to me, suggests that it's longer than that."

"4 years." Mia tells you. "As you may have noticed on my early photos, I wasn't as confident about myself physically & mentally as I am today. Cosplay helped me find it, it helped me find a sense of belonging. There wasn't much available for a young woman like me back then, to help fund my costume making & comic con trips, and this was during the height of the economic downturn. So I tried exotic dancing, figuring that it would help me stay fit, and I could have that extra money. Well, I spent my first 2 years going to 8 different clubs in the Bay Area because I was so green and different from the other dancers, personality-wise, so I just filled in for any of their star dancers that couldn't perform on a given night. Most of the time, I ended up doing it at low rates because I was dancing at cheap clubs in Oakland."

"So what led you to move down here to So Cal, and settle in at 'The Silken Web'?" You ask her.

"One of my friends and roommates tipped me about it when I was at a comic con in San Jose." Mia responds. "One of her cousins used to dance there, before she moved to New Orleans. That's when I first saw Abbie & Chrissy. The rest is history."