Chapter Six of the Choirgirl HOTeL…

Written by Kyribelle

Pete the bellboy stared at the lovely young woman standing before him. Kyribelle's sister, Katiribelle had just rented a room on the tenth floor. She made no move to catch an elevator, and Pete was reluctant to start up with her luggage alone.

After standing there in an awkward silence for several minutes, he was about to ask her what she was waiting for when another beautiful young woman breezed through the doors and stopped to talk to Katiribelle. It was her sister, the famous stripper. Pete had heard of her before, but it was shocking to see her in person, especially when the two of them were together.

The sisters had the exact same bone structure, build, and facial features matching line for fine line, however it was their coloring that set them apart. Katiribelle was a stunning golden blonde, with light skin and clear blue eyes, while Kyribelle had a slightly darker tone to her skin, deep brown eyes, and rich chestnut hair. If seen in a black and white picture, one would swear they were identical twins, in fact they were fraternal twins, the darker being the elder by a mere 8 minutes.

It appeared as if they were both going to stay together at the hotel for quite a while, by the looks of the luggage. The two of them took off for the stairs, speaking quick and low... (dancers must stay in shape after all)... leaving Pete to ride the elevator alone anyway, without a bit of information to satisfy his curiosity.

"Can you believe that creepy bellboy? I thought for a minute there that he was going to carry all of our worldly possessions up those nine flights of stairs, just so he could get another look at our asses!" Katiribelle exclaimed as the two emerged from the stairwell.

"Well, I don't care so much about the bellboy as my new boss. Remember him? Well, he stole our exotic dance club idea! The one we have been working towards these past 4 years!" Kyribelle exclaimed, completely exasperated, "And he didn't even have enough creative sense to come up with a new name!

"He simply switched 'Strip and Dip' to 'Dip and Strip', I saw an ad for qualified dancers on the net, and immediately hitched a plane to New York, and called you. I don't even think he realizes whose plans he stolen, and all this time I thought that copy had gotten lost in the mail."

"That asshole! Why do you want to dance together for him, if he gets famous for this, we could never open one of our own, then we'd look like the villains!"

"Hey, don't get too worked up just yet, I've got a plan...."Just as they were rounding the corner, two doors down from their room, (number 448), a loud commotion behind them caused them to turn their heads.

A lady in a well worn Indigo Girl's T-shirt burst out of a door laughing, but the sight of the man who followed through the doorway after her was the one that stopped the golden sister dead in her tracks. The two stared at each other for a couple minutes, and then the man passed out in the hall.

"Do you know that guy Kate?" Kyribelle whispered in her sister's ear as people started to gather in the doorway.

"Well, remember a few years ago, when you were still in LA and I just moved to Atlantic City? That's the guy I was married to for almost two years," she whispered back.

"Oh, yeah, the one who was always out of town whenever I visited, I thought you had imagined him up or something for a while there. Should we see if he's alright?"

"No, it looks as if he's got plenty of friends there... and I don't want to have to answer a million questions...lets just get to our room, quick, before someone says something." and with that, she grabbed her sisters arm and dragged her down the hall.

With one last glance behind her, Kyribelle uttered a quick "I hope he's O.K." before she was pulled into the room.

At the other end of the hall, Karol was busy trying to revive Greg.

When he came to, she asked him what had happened, but he simply shook his head in a stupor. Karol made quick excuses to everyone, and led Greg back into the room. Jaime followed, closing the door behind her, Jenn returned to her room, highly anticipating the gossip that was surely behind this incident; and Miss Amos heading for the elevator and the front desk, realizing that she was locked out of her room. Of course Mulder followed, his investigation was not yet over.

Later, near midnight and the close of this insane day, Mr. Poulvelli wandered down to the hotel pool for a swim, but he stopped short in the doorway, as the importance of what he saw before him slowly penetrated his mind...

The infamous sisters were practicing some sort of erotic, underwater ballet routine together, both wearing revealing string bikinis. Danna suddenly had a vision of what to do with those elaborate water tanks that he had had installed in his new club...he had found them in the plans, but until now didn't really know what he was going to do with them.

So, when they surfaced for air, he sauntered over to the pool edge and called out to Kyribelle, and when Katiribelle turned around as well he thought, 'Perfect! I knew she wanted me to meet her sister, hoping for a job for her, but I didn't realize that they were twins! These two are a gold mine!'

"Good evening ladies, I couldn't help noticing that interesting, uh... water dance you two were just doing. That was pretty good, where'd you two learn to do something like that? In fact I was just telling myself that the thing would be perfect for the new club I'm opening...

"Kyribelle was there today... do you remember those enormous water tanks that were around? Well, I was thinking of training dancers to do their thing underwater...thus the 'Dip' in the 'Dip and Strip', get it?

"But now it looks like I won't need to do any training at all… you're more than qualified already. So, how soon can you start?" he gushed at them, greedy expectancy shining in his eyes. Maybe I'll call them the mermaids of striptease or something like that, he thought.

"Well Mr. Poulvelli, we're willing to start as soon as the tanks are ready...of course, underwater dancing is taxing, we will only be able to do it a couple nights a week, and the rest of the time, we expect to join the other earth-bound dancers. Oh yeah, and we've raised our salary requirement." The two smiled innocently at him.

"Of course, whatever, just stop by tomorrow morning and we'll work it all out." Danna quickly replied, as he made his was to the shallow end stairs.

The former Junior Olympic Synchronized Swimming (doubles) Champions climbed out by the ladder, grabbed their towels, and headed for the showers, sharing a secret smile…