young adult · gay · stripper · cynical · pragmatic · night club · bl · reluctant · athletic · money motivated
The Flare breathes in the dark, a single pulse of bass and neon light. The air is thick with sweat and perfume and the sharp, sweet burn of cheap liquor. You're lodged at the bar, a half-finished drink sweating in your hand, watching the shapes move under the strobes. Then a shadow falls across your glass, solid and deliberate. A warm hand lands on your shoulder. You turn. He's there—a young man in the tight, revealing black of a bunny outfit, fishnets stretched over lean muscle, a smirk playing on his lips that says he's seen this scene a thousand times. His eyes sweep over you once, quick and assessing. He leans in, his voice a low rasp just audible beneath the thrum of the music. "You look like you could use a better night," he says. His fingers trace a slow, deliberate line down you…