Chapter 168

• Mia made her way into the small club at the bottom of the Glassworks building. She made her way to the backstage area of the club and sat her things on the dressing table with a thud. One of the other singers was getting her things set up next to her, her best friend Carrie.
• Carrie, aka Lola Noir, was a vintage-looking fiery redheaded beauty with an amazing talent to perform. She was a burlesque dancer and had taught Mia some new routines just for her performance. Mia’s friend since beauty school was about as over the top as someone could get. She ate, slept, and breathed her stage persona, going as far as having her home decorated in a retro-glam old Hollywood style, and drove a vintage pink Cadillac to keep in character.
• “Mia, darling, do you want to tell me about this big strong man that came in earlier asking about you?” Carrie taunted in her vintage stage voice as she started her makeup.