"Even if I was completely naked, I owe my loyalties to Marina," I said my cheeks burning with embarrassment.

"Hey," Shane (the bouncer) said pushing Jenny away from me, "you’re not allowed backstage Jenny. Marina’s already told you."

"I was just complimenting the dancer," Jenny said with an innocent expression.

"Yeah right I heard what you said, get out," Shane growled.

Jenny raised her hands and said, "think about it Bette. You can go to that ballet academy you wanna go to much sooner!"

"Out!"

"Thanks Shane," I said softly.

"No problem," Shane said, "and don’t listen to her, she wishes she saw your nipples. I was watching the show too, trust me you couldn’t see anything."

+

Unfortunately the blonde woman wasn’t there for my second act, so I finished up then went home to my loyal pitbull Grunt. I lived in an abandoned warehouse and I had found Grunt as a puppy living in the garage. He was homeless like me, so we made a home out of what we found. I live on things I had found at dumpsters and stuff, you know one man’s trash is another man’s treasure (namely me).

My welding job is what made me enough money to pay for electricity and water. Plus I got to buy extra clothes and real furniture. It was really a blessing when Shane got me the job.

I have spent the day working on the pipeline and it was a relief to finally be on my lunch break in my little isolated spot against one of the portable offices as usual. It’s far enough away that the loud clatter of the construction site was muffled. Probably the quietest place you can find in this city anyways.

"Hey."

I looked up when someone addressed me. It was that same blonde woman I saw at the bar! She was wearing a construction hat, oh my God does she work here? Does she recognize me? No, it was too dark, no she can’t. Could she?

She crouched down in front of me and said, "your the dancer from The Planet."

She does recognize me! Ahh!

She smiled, "Marina pointed out to me that you work for me yesterday. I can’t believe I never seen you before." She extended her hand, "I’m Tina Kennard."