I signed my last signature and breathed in relief, the club and music shop being mine.

"So, its time you meet everyone. As you know, I'm Austin Carlile. Assistant director of this place. You will have met Gee. He is one of our hookers"

"He?"

"Yeah, he is genderfluid but uses he/him pronouns. He is gay" Austin said, opening the door and gesturing for me to follow him. I nodded and stood up, following him like a lost puppy. "We only have five hookers at the minute, three quit this week" he told me, opening another door and leading me into what looked like a dressing room. "That's Frank, Alex, Gee, Ryan and Kellin. They're the hookers. Then there's Jack, Vic, Mikey, Ray, Alexa, Lynn, Rian and Alan. The strippers. Tony and Jaime are our bartenders but as you saw, we needed a part time hand. However I'm sure they can handle it and if not we can put Rian in there to help. He was a bartender. Mike is our dealer, he is coming down later with tony. Club opens at eight. There's booze being delivered in five, ill go sort it out" Austin said, leaving.

"Jesus Christ, alright. Hey, I'm Liz, the new owner and manager. What kind of music happens here?" I asked.

"It's all pre-recorded top fifty. It's so shit. It used to be good then James started hooking up with Mike for drugs and spent all this places money on them and everything went to shit. There was live metal bands every Thursday, rock every Tuesday and random alternative bands in between. That was when this place was good. Now it's shit. I hope you can fix it" Lynn told me.

"Well, who can play music?" I asked and all of them said yes. "Right. I want three bands for tonight. One from nine until eleven, one from half eleven till half one and one from two till four. We close at five. I want you all in at five pm tomorrow. What time are the others showing up?" I asked.

"About now" said a voice behind me.

"Hi! I'm Liz, the new manager"

"I'm tony, this is mike and Jaime behind me"

"Nice! Tony can you talk me through the bar?"

Three hours later, the vocalist I found was up on stage with Jack, Ryan and Rian.

"Mike!" I yelled.

"Over here!" Came the reply. I walked over to him and patted his shoulder.

"Right, free samples of Dennis the menace. Ill pay for it, give me the price at the end of the night. Aye?"

"Dennis the Menace? I'm going to need to get more of it"

"Alright, stock up. Ill keep this place running. Go!"

A person entered down the steps with a couple of others, all short dresses, long nails and high heels.

By eleven pm, the club was full and everyone was high or drunk.

"Hey! Tone, how's it going there dude?" I asked over the loud music.

"Good! Good, yep, you?"

"Good! Everything is good my end. We need a meeting after though, so stay behind a while"

"This is 'Pity Party'!" Yelled the girl on the stage, before starting to sing. I bswayed my hips to the song playing, running my fingers through my hair.

Someone came up behind me and placed their hands on my hips, resting their chin on my shoulder and dancing with me. I jumped at the contact and turned around to see who was dancing with me and was shocked to see who it was. 

"Lynn?" I asked, surprised.

"The others don't think you can do it. They don't think you can run this place"

"What about you, do you think I can?"

"Can the pope shit through a doughnut?"

"I have no idea"

"There you go. I hope you manage"

"Me too"