Author's note:
Be advised this chapter definitely focuses more on the drama part of this story. Also please understand that Thailand is a kingdom and there are different levels to society. Many Westerners see the red-light districts in Thailand and think that the entire country is that way. Thai women tend to cover up when in public and public displays of affections are a rarity not the norm. Appearances can be very important for people.
Living in Bangkok, Thailand, trying to work for a family-owned import export company from China started out as fun but now can be a bit awkward. The head office in China has recently been sending my long over-due pay, and my housemate and I once again have money to spend. With money to spend, I figured that it would be a good time to take my neighbor out on a date. My neighbor and I have a weird relationship where I stole from her (when I was out of money), she held me up with a sword (she keeps an ancient Thai sword), she may have forced me to do sexual things (sexual things I might have enjoyed), and we have kept all this a secret from everyone (I do not think she has told anyone).
Rather than just screw around the house, I could take her out and treat her to a nice restaurant or something. I know she is a school teacher, so I assume she does not get out very much. While we do have sex, we do not have any formal relationship, so I was not sure where a date would put us.
We live in cement rowhouses that are connected with little fenced courtyards in front of each house. Previously I had jumped the fence into her courtyard to get to her house, but as our relationship has progressed, I tend to just go up and knock on the door. Since we still keep things mostly secret, I checked to make sure her housemate's motorbike is gone before knocking. It takes a couple knocks for her to come to the door. My cock jumped a little in my pants at the sight of this young Thai woman, even with her still in her teacher's uniform. She looked around making sure we are alone, then waves me into her house.
"I want to take you out to dinner. You know... maybe a date night might be kind of fun."
"Date?" Confusion clouds her face.
"Are there any restaurants near Central World you would like to go to?" The giant shopping mall of Central World seemed like a great excursion for a young couple... or not actually a couple. There have to be many restaurants we could choose from around the mall, just a short ride on the airport raillink train, and girls always love to go shopping.
She responded quickly, "Central World! Mai, mai, mai! No, we can not go there."
"Where should we go?" She is the local. She has to know better places to go.
"Mai dai, we can not date," she tells me to my shock. She tells me that I belong to her during intercourse, then she says we can not date. I am confused with what she wants.
"Why not?" I frustratedly ask.
"No date, we meet first," is her reply. I thought we had already met. "I need to ask Pi Toy. She will know where." So, my neighbor will ask her friend where we should go on a 'meet', a 'meeting', I am confused what to call our 'not a date'.
"Does your friend know about us?" I wonder. Her face turns red.
"No! Never, mai chai! No one knows." Her determined response sounds less convincing than a simple 'no'. "I message you where we meet."
"But I do not have your number? How should we message?" I point out how we have not even connected by cell phone.
"You tam line rew messinjerh?" I guess she is asking what do I use to send messages. Most Thai people use Line.
"I can do Line." I pull out my cell phone and we look each other up with a QR code. The name 'Pim Rose' appears on her profile. I ask if that is her name.
"No, you can call me Pim." This is the first time I have used her name. An odd couple that we have gotten this far without names, but I am sure Pim is just her nickname. Most Thai people have long names that are difficult to pronounce, thus they usually go by a nickname.
Having swapped contact information, all we needed was to wait for Pi Toy, Pim's friend, to tell us where to go. I found my way back to my empty house.
The next day a ding on my phone alerted me with a message from Pim. The messages named a bar near Lumpini Park. We would meet at the rail-link station around 7:30 pm. I wonder if her friend Pi Toy will be there.
Arriving on time to the train station, two Thai girls waved me down at stairs leading off the street level. I hardly recognized Pim with her makeup, a pleated brown denim mini skirt, and a white crochet poncho over her silky red crop top. Good that she waved me over, otherwise I might have passed up the fun party girl looking for a school teacher. "An ni Khun Mike. Mike this Pi Toy, she is my friend." Pim introduced me to a girl that reminds you of a stick figure with how thin her arms and legs were. Pi Toy was also matching Pim's party style with a stylishly-torn black jean skirt and a long sleave dark green shirt that had laced-up side slits with the stings tied in bows on each of her hips. What is it about seeing bit of skin revealed under laces on a slender woman that makes you want to untied those stings?
"Uh, hi, Pi Toy, how are you?" I mutter to be barely heard over the sounding foot traffic.
"I am so glad you could make it, Mike," Toy says with familiarity making me wonder how much she does not know about me. We swipe our phones at the gates and head toward the train platforms. I used the opportunity to lean into Pim and ask, "How much does Pi Toy know?"
"Know about what?"
"About us?"
"I tell her we neighbors. We go on date to the club. Chai mai kha?" Pim says as though she has only told her friend ten words about me. Though it seems more like they spent hours talking about me.
We find our way to the platform heading into the city center. We did not have long to wait as a train could be seen rushing toward the station.
"So, how close of a friend is Pi Toy?" I inquire.
"Been puen sunit ti suet, she is my best friend."
After find seats on the train, the girls mostly looked at their phones like it was a habit of how to act on a commuter train. Getting off at the Ratchadamtri station, we hopped into a taxi that took us the last couple kilometers to the bar. It turned out to be a nightclub styled bar with live music and dancing on a Friday night. Paying the cover charge to get in, we worked our way through the darkened loud crowded venue. People mostly seem to be sitting around enjoying the loud music and looking at their phones.
Without any open tables open on the first floor, we climbed up the stairs to the second floor. Pi Toy quickly led us straight to a tiny table with two chairs. Before I could comment about the table not having enough chairs, Toy told one of the neighboring tables that we would be borrowing their empty chair. I caught a passing server by the sleeve and asked the girls what they wanted. They wanted tequila sunrises, and just to make it easy we just ordered three.
The music was not as loud as the first floor but it was loud. We try to talk but it is hard to understand each other not just because of the music but also the language. I was still confused, why would Pim not want a private first date? Why had she invited her best friend from university to be a third wheel? How were we supposed to talk at a loud bar? I did not know what to think.
Pi Toy asked me a lot of questions, where did I come from? What did I do? What did I think of Bangkok? In our struggle to hear each other we had to lean very close. It took a lot of effort to look into their soft brown eyes, and not down at the soft brown skin exposed by their low-cut shirts, though every time Pim or Pi Toy would lean toward me they cautiously covered their cleavage with their hand. Normally Pim wears a perfume that gives hints of violets or lilac to teach at school. Here at the club dressed as a party girl, she steamed of incense and jasmine. I was experiencing a different version of her.
A couple of drinks into the interrogation, they asked if I wanted to dance which was more of them telling me they were going to dance. The place was starting to fill up, and we gave up our table to work our way down the stairs.
The band was playing their versions of Thai pop songs. We found some open space for us on the dance floor for our little trio. Our dancing was nothing special but as one guy with two good looking Thai girls dancing around him, I felt pretty special. We each raised our arms and rotated with the music in our own individual way. We were clearly dancing together, yet the girls were careful to never purposely touch me. They would sometimes rub up on each other, creating a bit of girl on girl action, but never so much as a hand touched me. How come a Thai woman who wants to suck my dick behind closed doors did not so much as want to touch me on the dance floor?
After some wiggling around on the dance floor, we devolved into taking selfies and photos for social media. The photos inspired a trip to the toilet which had the long line for the ladies room. After some time outside waiting for the girls to finish, I started to consider getting another drink. Then the girls emerged from the abyss of the lady's room, to inform me that we were leaving quickly. It sounded like something had gone wrong but it turned out we were just meeting some more friends.