The dancing challenge

Grace couldn't believe she'd agreed to this. She should be at home. In bed. Getting ready for another long day of work. Not here...

Grace actually felt like she was wearing too much clothing. She was standing in a strip club after all. The outfit had been Maya's idea. Telling her to play into men's Japanese school girl fetishes. She hoped it worked. As a backup she'd brought the choker along...but she really didn't want to have to use it.

The challenge they'd agree to was simple. The three of them would work at the club tonight and try to make as much money as possible. They got to keep whatever they earned, plus 1 gem per dollar. Except if they failed to reach $1000 they would have to draw penalty cards...

Maya had assured them it would be easy. There were three of them after all. She was on stage now, very into it despite her recent aversion to men. Eva was off drinking, she needed it with her trait. Which left Grace waiting in the wings, talking to the other strippers. Most of them seemed to make a few hundred a night. The three of them earning $1000 seemed like a stretch goal.

Grace peeked out from backstage. Maya looked like she was having a really good time. Maybe she'd picked up some exhibitionist card, or something that made her love dancing. Either way the crowd was eating up her enthusiasm. She would hate to have to follow that act.

Oh wait. She was. Soon Maya walked over stage, fistfuls of bills in her hands. She winked at Grace, "You're up. Knock em dead."

Grace looked past her nervously, "How did you do that? You seemed so...confident?"

Maya smiled, "Honestly...I don't know. I just...got out there and the music started and I just felt it. I don't care that all those pricks were looking at me, I was just dancing for myself. Don't worry so much. You'll do great!"

Grace wasn't so sure. She might be an expert in heels now, and not shy about her body, but she'd never done anything like this. Suddenly she heard the MC call out her stage name and Maya swatted her on the ass. Slowly she walked out, the lights momentarily blinding her. She took a few steps but could already see boredom in the audiences eyes. Oh no.

She kept walking towards the pole, trying to swing her hips in an exaggerated fashion. She reached the pole and did a twirl around it. She didn't feel sexy. She felt dorky. She didn't have Maya's coordination, and had to stop twirling to undo her buttons. Someone in the audience got bored of waiting and shouted, "Show us your tits!"

Her trait took over. With strength she didn't know she possessed she ripped her shirt open, sending buttons flying and exposing her tits to the man who whooped. At least her ever present smile hide just how uneasy she felt. She grabbed the pole again and gave another twirl, trying to shake her breasts for the audience. She bent over and flipped up her skirt to show off her thong clad ass, then twirled and let it fall down again. As her song was nearing it's end she shimmied out of her skirt and tossed it aside, and then shook her body to the music. It wasn't graceful, or particularly sexy in her mind. Still, she managed to get a few tips. Her song ended and she collected the money on the stage and went back to meet Maya.

Grace counted the bills, "I uh...got $12..." She felt pathetic.

Maya shrugged, "I only got $43. The real money is in the lapdances. That was just advertising."

Grace swallowed. She sure hoped so. She was hoping this challenge would end up removing traits, not adding them. She gaze around the club looking for Eva and spotted her sitting on a man's lap chatting with him. Eva saw Grace looking and said something to the man then got off and walked over towards Grace and Maya.

"Mistress!" She said excitedly, "You looked so hot on stage! I just wanted to run up there and..." She blushed, "Um. Sorry. A **** shouldn't express their desires like that."

Grace shook her head, "No. Eva. I want you to express your desires..." She thought for a moment, "Although ya...not the time. Ok we really need to get on earning money. We won't win just sitting here talking."

Eva nodded, "Mistress...I think we need to use the choker. I will wear it."

Grace wasn't sure if it would even work for others, it had been her reward after all, "Eva...I can't. It's not fair. You aren't in your right mind. I'll do it." Grace turned but saw Maya had disappeared. "Where'd she go?" Grace hurried back to her purse, but the choker was missing. "Shoot." She didn't have time to look for it. She needed to earn some money.

Luckily for her men still wanted lapdances from her despite her performance on stage. She was no better at those than dancing, but seeing her nearly nude up close made them a little bit happy at least. Still, it wasn't enough.

Towards the end of her shift she'd only racked up $156 dollars and she was getting ****. Another lapdance request and she paid the bouncer to look away. She did her best to turn the guy on then made her ask, "Do you want a blowjob?"

He did, in fact, want a blowjob. She decided not to set a price, partially because she didn't know how much to ask for, and partially because by this point she was really, really hungry. The man lasted only a few minutes before filling her mouth with his salty seed. He left quickly, but he did tip her $60. The next man also said yes, but only tipped $20, and the man after that only paid the flat fee for the song and nothing more. She was full of cum, but barely any closer to her goal. She shuddered, she was going to have to have sex with them or something.

Just then she saw Eva coming out of a private room. A man came behind her and wiped his lips. Eva ran over giggling, clutching $100 bills. "I just sold my milk!" She said.

"What?" Grace asked.

"Ya. He gave me $200 to drink from the source! Win-win!" Eva said.

Maya appeared beside them suddenly, wearing suspiciously normal clothes, "I did it girls. We won!"

"Huh?" Grace turned to look at her. Maya was wearing the missing choker. "What did you do..."

Maya winked, "I made $1000 all on my own. Whatever you girls did is just gravy."

Grace pointed to the choker, "And? What did you have to do?"

"Ok it was totally gross. I mean, not like you think. Or maybe like you think. I just asked this guy straight out for $1000. His trade was he wanted me to pretend to be his girlfriend. I actually had to put more clothes on. We held hands, went for a late dinner. Took some selfies. Really fucking weird. Oh and I let him grope me a little. But no sex, so that's a win!"

Grace shook her head, "Maya...that could have ended really badly..."

"But it didn't! Now go grab your clothes you sluts. Let's get out of here!" Maya grabbed their hands and led them to the back.

They were dressed and waiting for a taxi when their time expired. They'd earned $1654 together, and that many gems, rounded to the nearest 100. Grace was tempted to save for a legendary box, but decided to splurge and get the rare right now. The others decided to buy their own too.

Grace closed her eyes and prayed for a trait removal...nope. But she did win $10000 which was actually better now that she thought about it. For once, her smile was genuine.

Eva got a double or nothing. She could pick one trait and flip and coin to remove it or upgrade it. Grace felt bad about it but she ordered her to pick the **** trait. To Grace's great relief Eva landed on nothing. She was free. Eva frowned, "It's weird...I'm almost disappointed."

Grace could kind of understand. It must be nice having someone else to rely on to make your decisions. But she was glad to be free from that burden.

"Ok Maya, you're up." She said.

Maya bit her lip, "Actually...I changed my mind. I'm going to save up."

"Oh. Ok. Sure." Grace didn't know why, but she almost felt slighted that she'd changed her mind after they all agreed to buy the rare boxes. Oh well, it was probably the wise decision in the long run. "There's the taxi. Let's go home. I'm beat."

"So Mistress," Eva said cheekily, "Are we all sleeping in your bed?"

Grace looked at them both, "Share my bed with two horny lesbians?" She laughed, "No thanks. You haven't found a sublet yet. Just sleep in your own bed. Maya can take the couch tonight and we'll think of something better later."

Maya gave a thumbs up and opened the door of the taxi, "Works for me. Let's go." Grace nodded and got in. Time to go home and sleep.