"Are you still here?" I immediately asked Jackson when I sat in front of him, he texted this morning that we would meet tonight so I left Tabitha with Six first. “No, I just arrived also, so, what do you wanna eat?” he gently said as he smiles at me, he watched my every move as I arranged my hair and my bag on my lap. "Anything" I answered his question so he laughed, "I know you would say that," he said and he seemed happy with the situation we both, I just frowned at him before he called the waiter and ordered food. “We would like to have some roast chicken and lasagna, garlic salmon, sweet and sour fillet, and two iced teas. Would you like some desserts, Erille?” I immediately shook my head when she asked me, and I also saw how the waitress looked at me, she looks at me from head to toe. “That would be all, thank you” Jackson said, this woman smiled at him before

"Leusam, please let go, my daughter needs me!” I weakly said and broke down, fell on the floor and cried.He slowly let go of my hands and asked, "What did you say?" I was a whisper of confusion."My Tabi needs me" I'm fainting, I feel sorry for my daughter, she doesn't deserve this, she never deserves any of this. My poor Tabi, this is all my fault."I-my daughter needs me" I could hardly say what I was going to say properly because I was crying so much when something bad happened to her, I couldn't forgive myself."Your Daughter?" Leusam whisper and slowly kneel down to look at me, I kept crying facing him, my eyes were blurry because of the painful tears I have right now. The only thing I could clearly see from him, was his eyes like Tabitha's."I'm s-sorry, I'm s-sorry" trembling I reached for his hand and kissed it, as I caught my breath. My heart hurts so much, "I'm sorry" I whisper."So, you're telling me that my daughter is my

THE GREATEST STRIPPER EPILOGUE3 years later, I step out of the door, slowly walk towards the pole and the music starts playing. “I've seen the world, done it all, had my cake now, diamonds, brilliant, and Bel Air now, hot summer nights, mid-July when you and I were forever wild, the crazy days, city lights, the way you'd play with me like a child” I grip tight on the pole as I let out some gravity off my body and slowly lift up my body.I move so slowly and follow the wave tone of music, a maxime trick above the pole. Those dark eyes were locked into my body movements. The way I sway my body around the pole my hair keeps following. “Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will, will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?” All lyrics of the music turn into a bea

 “Darlin, how much is your rice cake?” I instantly smiled at the customer as she stood in front of my small place here, as I sell little rice cakes. “10 pesos each, ma’am,” I answered and quickly grabbed a plastic bag from my apron pocket. “I’ll buy 6 pieces,” she said. I nodded joyfully and put 6 pieces of freshly cooked rice cake on the plastic, then handed it to her.  “Here’s the money,” she said as give me a crumbled 60 pesos and left. I smile and count the money on my belt bag before I continue selling my rice cake.  “Rice cake, it’s delicious and affordable!!!!” I shouted, “Justine!” I glanced at the side when I saw my mother coming. “Ma,” I uttered and tightened my grip on my belt bag, where I put the money in.  “Justine, how much have you earned today?&

  "You'll be a stripper, Justine," my eyes immediately widened because of what he said. My whole body went cold and I couldn't seem to move for a few seconds due to panic.   Will I be like the woman on stage?!     Out of fear, I backed away and shook my head, saying, "I don't want to!" I said, I don't want to be like the woman on stage. I looked at it and I was softened to see how much the men around her coveted her.   Throwing money like a female kind of person, I can’t afford to be like this.   “Justine, don't you want to earn money, this is the only thing I can help you to earn a lot of money without having to go through the long process of finding a job. And you can combine it with your studies because you only do this work at night. ” she tapped my shoulder and fix some strand of my hair, put it at the back of my ears.   "But I can't do this kind of