Crimes in the heart of Blackcliff (part 2)

"It was...yeah entertaining." James said.

"And which would you prefer? Tiffany's raunchy routine that was basically not creative, copying off a music clip, or ours which had some fun to it?" Brittany blurted out.

"I think they are both equally entertaining" Gwen said diplomaticaly

James took a drink and smiled, not willing to give away his answer.

"Oh, keeping quiet... don't worry Tiffany and Brittany, you couldn't get the boys to chose their favourites out of any of us girls, so spare them the agony," Nadine said, "But now that we entertained them, I'd think its more than fair to be entertained by them..."

The girls laughed.

James and William looked at each other not liking the sound of that.

"Now girls that is not fair" Gwen said "These gentleman are not the type to perform, they're better suited for watching our backs and in some cases our backsides."

"Oh now...where's the fun in that?" they teased, "We suggest then that we get paid for our entertainment just then, a drink for each of us?"

"More prone to the backsides though..." James said looking the groupd of ladies over.

"Of course the drinks are on the house today" Gwen said smiling a bit

"I dunno Gwen, I think you would be on our side, if we could rustle up the boys from Manpower to visit one night," Courtney laughed.

"Yes well that's an entirely different situation" Gwen smiled

Jack murmured something under his breath,

James and William kept drinking.

"Let's try and not let this get out of hand", Jack murmured to the other guys.

"Yeah." James nodded.

"just teasing and it was delightful to see the look of horror on your faces, you'd believe that we could be that evil."

"Better be safe than sorry", Jack told her.

Jack cut off the drinkin' and started smokin'. As delicious the alcohol might be he didn't want to fall asleep on the job.

James was sitting at the bar relaxing.

"That's nice", Jack said watching someone perform.

"That's Carmella, our Italian belly-dancer," Nadine answered to Jack. She scanned the girls and tapped Tiffany's arm, "What happened to Angelica?"

"Angela Gounaki. She's shifted to Melbourne, wouldn't even pick up the phone. Guess the shooting frightened her."
"You can't blame her, some people are scared shitless of guns, especially if they've never gone through something like that before," Nadine added.

Destiny hopped off her barstool.
"If we're going to be working closely together, we should all know each others names, it makes sense. Neither of us would rat out the names to anyone who asked. Danielle Cooper."
"Brittany Kendall... not hiding from anything... saving up money to join the dance college in Sydney."
"Maya... that's all you need to know."
"Well, I'm not scared... Jennifer DeRome, but you can simply make it Crystal DeRome too..."

The girls looked then to Nadine and Tiffany.
"Our turn... Tina Ellis... yeah...yeah why do you think I went for Tiffany?"

Nadine looked to William and blushed, "Connie Anne Keach."

William smiled at her a little.

Gwen had slipped away leaving them to talk. she headed back to her office with Roger

Jack listened to their exchange while watching Carmella before noticing Gwen and Roger slip away.