killing, before killing was cool (stripper! reader x frank!)
stripper reader x frank!
again this was gonna be a blurb but I can't stop and I won't stop.
tw: actually kind tame guys. there is smut, but not a lot. this is to me, very very romantic.but yeah lil bit of sex, and physical harm done to a creep at the start.
w/c- 1800 LOL
13 shitty songs and no turn around is pretty fucking bad for an early evening but, not to worry, cause the mood is perfectly murdered when Bella has to kick the man she’s dancing for, upside the head-cause he won’t get his hands off her fucking skirt.
You tug her to the break room by her shoulders, as she mumbles different energetic points of hatred. You walk by donnie, and smile lopsided. Let her be, you know its this kind of night, but he smiles back- stretched out and languid. He’ll make you pay for it later.
Baby why did you have’t kick him? “You saw it, doll- you did- he was fuckin-i mean come on-dont tell me-“ I wouldn’t let him, hush it- show me your foot.
You pull her into the dressing room- onto a chair just by the stage mirror, and tug her pink pleasured heel into your lap, inspecting it for a bruise which is so painfully obvious you feel like kissing her foot as an apology. She can still work, she should still be able to dance. But it looks like it hurts. You look over as she tugs on the small shoulder bag left on the desk, hers. You give her a soft nod, and she pulls out a cigarette and a neon lighter. You nod again and she rolls her other foot to sit in your lap.
You remember when you both started, you remember how often you used to sneak in here and smoke cigarettes out the high vent near the laundry basket. You remember gossip, the flurry of getting ready- you mourned your girlhood together in real time. Volunteering your bodies to lonely men on the i90, arms linked and tied together. You watched her fall for Henry, you watched her get happy with him. You know she’s safe now, but her anger spikes now she’s taken- for some people, self respect is best found in the hand of a partner.
You do it again, just for each other- you talk about the new dancers, you talk about donnie, you talk about your cat. You hold onto her ankle as she laughs so hard she chokes on her newport. When the 16th song of the night finishes up, you tell her to go home n’kiss him for me and she smiles, holding your hand tight enough that her ring imprints on your skin. She’s still just your girl, and you’re still just hers.
Going back out into the hallway- Donnie is already pointing at a man at the bar. Tattooed up to high hell, with a dark beard matching his mop of dark hair. You cant see a face from here- but who are you to care what he looks like. why him? “Looks lonely, just fix it-“. As you walk by- he grazes his hand down the centre of your spine- you suppress as shiver as you try and walk to the beat of the music over to him. He turns just before you touch his shoulder in greeting-
You think about taking a step back, maybe you made him nervous, but he looks down to your heels, then up your stocking clad legs. He puffs out a long breath as he looks at the under bust stain corset wrapped around your ribs- and finally, he chuckles at the wig. bitch. “D’ya have a name?” You consider doing the whole, ill tell you my real name cause your so pretty bit- but he is actually very pretty so you mumble out dolly before you change your mind.
“Like a doll or?-“ Parton, we’re in Texas right? And he laughs at that, cause he’s meant to- your obviously not in fucking Texas. “You-“
And he looks you up and down again, really over all of you. You know you don’t give off what is the stereotypical dancer, but he seems into it. You thank god for the years of study, Dita von Tease, Betty Paige, May West. You have the history down, now you just need the ideal. He coughs before finishing the sentence, “you look-look great”. And you let yourself pretend, like you have to most nights, that you aren’t being paid to talk to him, and he might let him self believe it for a moment too.
You end up talking at the bar for the rest of your shift, at one point you’re sitting on the bar top itself, laughing so hard you nearly fall off as he tells a story about his band, and eating dog food. He makes a showgirls reference and you loose it.
You talk genuinely, about work and dancing, about buying heels being the best part of your week. you talk about the wig- and he boyishly says he wants to see the real hair. And you consider telling him to wait till you get off. maybe he’ll get the hint that you haven’t fucked in a while, but the big beautiful state says you can’t ask him to fuck you- you can only imply for the sweet fee of $13.99 an hour. But if you want him to actually touch you- you have to figure out a way to get his number without being on the premises.
And look, doing this isn’t smart, or cute. But he’s both of those things. And watching Bella get driven home in henry’s fat pick up stuck jealousy in you like a splinter. You look over to donnie, and he’s gleefully smiling at loula’s ass moving in circles. So you take a shot and look at frank, his name is frank, dead centre and whisper: I get off in 20 minutes. Do you drink coffee? And he looks like he’s been struck with a lightning bolt. he jumps out of his seat and nods quick, slamming a pocket full of 20 dollar bills onto the table.
You look at him quizzically, and he whispers back “can’t I like-tip you out, so you can leave earlier? Waffle House shuts for the morning clean in like-“ he looks down at his watch, and then back up at you “2 hours and you must be fucking starving I mean, its so tight-“
If you could, you would kiss his cheek and skip out the front door with him. But instead, you whisper the license plate of your car in the lot, and tell him to wait You do pick up the stack if 20’s though. He was right about tipping out.
donnie’s still obsessed with loula, so you take a the opportunity and flip out of the wig, unlace the corset and roll into an oversized white t-shirt. You look in the mirror at the impression of the coset on your stomach, and run you fingers against the risen marks. You think about how much it used to hurt, and then realise how much things don’t really hurt anymore.
He’s waiting by the car with a cardigan under his armpit. When you get close enough he explains. “When you like- go in, the ask to take your fucking jacket? And this is like-all I had so, uh-yeah” you nod, and laugh at his boyish pathetic-ness. He tilts his head to the side, like your cat Louis, but he’s just moving so the street lights illuminate you more. “You look-“
You wait for the cliche, you look better like this, you’ve heard a million times from men trying desperately to end up 6 inches deep inside you, - but he don’t say anything, for at least 1 minute.
“Oh fuck sorry, you look like, exactly the fucking same, I was trying to think about a joke for the wig- but I like the blonde-ish, it suits you, they both do-“
You kick him in the shin and he makes a noise like a teen trying to flirt in class, sheesh.
You go to waffle house, you get coffee and something greasy and warm to eat- he does the same. He talks about home, new jersey, he talks about his band again, the music they make. He talks about traveling all the time. you guys debate the worst place to get a tattoo and mutually agree that its the elbow or the knuckle.
You stay till the morning cleaning break, and get back in your car- he hands you a cigarette, and you swap numbers. You think about asking him if he wants to fuck you. But you know he does. You think about pulling over the car and riding him to tears in the passenger seat, repaying him for his kindness. But actually, he would’ve been this nice no matter how he found you. And for once, you actually fucking like him.
Frank- “don’t- its cool, I get it if you wanna go home- could you drop me?” Nah-look, d’you “no its okay, it’d be weird to go on date I sooo get it-“ frank quit talking, “yeah sure yeah, sorry- what’s up?”
You look over to him, and wrap a hand around the mass of his cheek- and pull him to kiss you. You let yourself fall into it again, cause its a pretty easy thing to do. He kisses back, hands glued to his sides until you tell him to hold you. So he does. You kiss for a while, just figuring each other out. It feels like dancing, in the good way.
You place a hand over his crotch, and he whines like a dog. You tell him that you think he’s really cute, that he’s really handsome too- and he rolls his hips up into you. He cums fast, but he feels big- and he rolls his head back when he finishes like he’s genuflecting. but the compliment is all the same. I mean you were standing in front of him in a corset 2 hours ago.
You lean back and mumble, stay the night, and take me on a date tomorrow, and he nods yes- you can hear cogs turning in his head. Figuring out how to convince you to travel with him on tour, or how he’s planning to eat you out when you guys get back to your place. You let his mind whirr on as you power up the car. The car radio is playing quiet and the air is sticky outside as you drive home. You’ve got a feeling.