Down the road a little way, a bridge crossed the stream I waded across. Shit, if I had kept walking, I’d be on the other side of the bridge, and dry...My stomach growled, and not for the first time, I wished the TracFone my dad gave me for an emergency was a candy bar. Wait, this was an emergency! I dug it out of my pocket and turned it on. It started up and got a signal! The phone had one number stored in the memory, and I pressed it. The phone rang three times before I heard Dad’s voice. He. Bill was a regular client to Jan and the strip club. Jan had even done private parties for him. Tonight he asked the owner if he could have private party at the club for a friend getting married. They would start it at three and lock all the doors and only his special guests would come in. He paid ten thousand dollars for the club till early morning which included the strippers. After the club was locked and no one could enter Bill put a bench on the stage. He also put a chair and sat the man. “He’s not cut.”“Well, Mr. Cunningham,” Helen said almost withindignation in her tone, “I know what gelded means.What difference does that make?”“Thing is,” Cunningham continued, “if any of you ladiescome around,” He blushed at the term. “If it’s thattime of the month, I mean. This pony being inside thehouse and all, he may get a little aggressive.”I could see the realization of what he was saying sinkinto Helen,. I was a bit worried, it hadn’t been my target, but with his diving towards me, his body angle had changed, so instead of his chest I caught him on the chin.As was usual when a competitor got hurt, I turned to face away from my opponent and nealt down in the ring, so I didn’t know how he was doing, but knew it might be serious since paramedics had been called and they moved in to check him out.I sat on my heels for several minutes, from what I could see on the spectators’ faces in my field of.