Chapter 26: ✓ Guarded.

"I don't want to do that dance, it's very complicated." I repeat for the thousandth time.

"It should be fine, you're supposed to be a dancer." He says with a bad mood.

"I'm sorry Mr. Jim, even if I'm a dancer, that's not my strength, a very high category for me." I kindly comment to calm him down.

"Anyway I want to make a complaint, it is not well seen that a burlesque woman does not want to learn. It's unheard of, an insult to me as to others."

He sighed deeply but silently.

"I'll give you a paper and a pencil to complain, Mr. Jim." I say with a wrought smile.

When he was coach mode he was totally angry, so he would still have to do what he proposed. After the act of such a man I sit down again, I worked on this on weekends or the time that being a resident in the hospital allowed me, but in this job I would have to live in anonymity. No one knew my identity, except Casey, Ruben and their henchman, after years of long time and work I managed to become one of the best known, mysterious and hot burlesque girls. I did it in a very short time, time to be the last of the list to be the first in it, proud of my effort to reach my goal, not for what I did. Now it is me who gets the reservations, everything has changed completely, although work has given me a lot of money I have had to pay all that and without being able to discount anything to give myself something, but it is something that does not take away my sleep because I must be responsible, part of it I deposit it to Gema, and that is that I do not care to give it because she was and continues to be like a mother to me. I start with the exercises, I look forward to Rubén walking through the door with a very moody Jim, I knew I had to do it, yes or yes, not that it was different. The girls who practice with me are not very communicative, they are very involved in improving me and in a certain part I need one of them to do it, because very soon I will leave the game, and it will be definitive. Enter the beautiful body of my boss, I would not lie if I said it is not, of course everything has a limit but in this case it is different because it makes me too much to make Rubén punish me. In a way, I am the only one who has a very close trust with him, although he always ends up punishing me. He says that it is a discipline for me, but in reality what he does is go to the room where they see us training for the clients' fantasies, but when it comes to punishing me, it is Rubén who comes up.

"Now what happens Chloe?"

Arrives in a bad mood. I look at him without stopping my training, behind him is Jim who looks at me annoyed.

"I'll break my back if I follow what he says, he wants me to incline it and make a slow movement, and then fall open." I comment as I continue with the squats.

Rubén got angry very easily, so much so that it could be dangerous for me.

"If you do it wrong, you will obviously break your back."

He comments wryly. I roll my eyes angrily.

"You will do what he says, so there is no other way." He says annoyed.

"Or do you want to lose your job?"

He asks cynically. Everyone is quiet, I just continue with my training, I could not reply why it would be stupid besides that I did not want to lose my job.

"I asked you something, Chloe, do you want to lose your job?"

"No boss. "

I ride the electric bicycle.

"Jim I want everyone to know the choreography, the one that does it best will be the main one." He says, and then leaves.

"It's for today, so go ahead."

How can be expected, I don't put so much effort, but I don't make Jim angry either, but I wasn't doing it one hundred percent either when we had to present the dance to Rubén, it didn't go very well for me.

"Is that the best you can do Chloe? " Asked defiantly.

"Yes boss, this is where I can get." I say without hesitation.

"Okay, I choose Carla." He says taking his things.

"You can go."

Carla and the other girls celebrated, they didn't include me but it wasn't that I needed it either. When my work is done I retire to my apartment, so I can finish fixing it. Today I could take my car, I had obtained something to pay for the fuel. I pass the street and see in the rear-view mirror a black truck, I have seen it and I know that it is the same one that has been watching me for a few days.

It has not scared me for the simple reason that I do not care what happens to me, but I want to face it at once because it is bothering me that he chases me and does nothing. I keep driving, and in every street I cross the same black trucks chase me, I won't deny that that scares me, but I should face the situation or better stay still. Whoever is in those trucks must be looking for someone or something, which obviously has nothing to do with it.

I stop the car and visualize that no people pass by, only some cars, this is because it is 11:30 at night and there are still streets to get to my house. I quickly turn to where I think the black truck is, right there it is stopped, I have an internal fight if I get out of the car and go to his direction, but as I said before I am not afraid to do it, because I simply do not care what happens to me.

I make the decision to get out of the car, although it has not been my best decision, I assume it responsibly. I'm walking right where the trucks stopped, when he got to the first one, he knocked three times on the passenger window, of course they don't open right away.

"I know there's someone in there, so please could I lower it at least." I say, sounding sure of myself, but the truth is that I'm nervous.

In the seconds that for me it was an eternity the rear window is the one that is lowered, I take a step forward to see the person behind the car better.

"Do you want something? "says that young man.

"Do not..."

" I try to say something but he interrupts me. "Then stop wasting my time," he says voracious.

" Wait a minute, you're the ones chasing me. It's not that I want to waste your time sir, but I have engraved your badge, it's the same one that has followed me for several days. "I comment with disgust.

" Do you think we would follow you? Why would we do it? " he says irritably, smugly.

" I don't know sir, but ... "

"But nothing, if I remember correctly you were the one who jumped a red light, now you come to tell me that we are chasing you."

Her tone showed annoyance, I understood. It was surely my paranoia, I felt bad about it so I did the only thing to do.

"Sorry, I have disrespected you and I didn't do it with intention." He didn't even look at me, he just rolled up the window of his vehicle.

I made a face of disgust, it hurt to be a hindrance to society and I didn't want to do it because I felt more and more that I didn't even deserve to breathe. I turn around quickly before I shed my tears at those men inside that vehicle, despite everything I was proud. I keep driving for a while longer, my whole body hurts but I feel relieved that I have finally reached my home, I thank my father for having left this for me, our apartment was very comfortable and it was a luxury that he allowed me because he had made it clear in his will that he will think two thousand times before selling it. And yes, I could never sell something that my father would not have wanted me to sell. The truth of all this was because I don't want to get rid of anything that has to do with him. When she got home, I undress and put on my old pajamas, I love her too much even if it is torn and ugly for my eyes it will still be the best pajamas. I lay down on my bed, rarely using it and little by little I was knocked down by Morpheus.