Note: some of my characters will speak foreign languages. I could have left the original text (because of course I'm prefectly fluent in both indi and thai ;-)) but for your sake I decided to translate it into bad english (;-) again). So to signify that the characters aren't speaking in english I've inserted the - sign at the begining and ending of each sentence.
This technical little convention being set, i wish you all a good read and hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have enjoyed writing it...
Comments are highly apreciated.
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1.
The hot spring sun is about to rise from behind the chrome and glass skyscrapers of central Bangkok. The economical beating heart of the Siamese peninsula is buzzing with its twelve million workers having breakfast and getting ready to go to work.
A completely different kind of breakfast is taking place in one of the many back rooms of a miserable Karaoke parlor of the Pat Pong district. LetΒ΄s clarify here, Karaoke parlors are not the same in Asia as they are in America. When in the western world, people go there to sing poorly and drink a lot, in Asia it's a gentlemen's only entertainment bar. The miserable singing and the excessive drinking does take place but it's not the main activity. The main activity involves young poor girls providing older lonely men with the comfort of a warm body and a nice rub.
In the Karaoke parlor we are talking about, the woman who is having breakfast is neither younger than her client, despite the fact that she does look younger, nor warmer, as she's as cold as a Popsicle in the arctic. If she's cold as the dead, itΒ΄s because she has been for quite some time and to keep walking in the night of her native city she needs, from time to time, to have a breakfast like the one she's having right now.
It's a strange breakfast where the traditional warm noodle soup is not the main course. It's a strange breakfast made essentially of blood. No Irish pudding blood but warm human blood taken from the source directly from the neck of the main character, me. I am, or was, a high school boy with all the troubles of a not so popular high school boy could have. What am I doing in Thailand? Well I live here because my parents work here. I've been living here for the last three years and sadly I'm dying here right now. "Sadly", itΒ΄s strictly a manner of speaking as even if I'm technically going to die - all things are destined to die at some point - I'm soon going to be reborn a much more interesting creature.
I'm having mixed feelings at the moment. The avid fangs buried in my neck are quite painful, but at the same time the voracious vagina pumping sweat, saliva and sperm from my sore dick is quite pleasant. It's been a while since I had sex and it feels damn good to shake the webs from my far too often polished genitalia. As I drift away into darkness my last thought goes to my parents who will worry a lot. How sweet...
And indeed as the day goes by and my body goes through amazing changes, people I used to care for start worrying. When I don't show up at school at 7:45 my classmates worry, there's Mary my best friend and confident, there's Fanny, the half Canadian, half Thai weird girl, there's Madeline, the chubby funny girl who always hangs out with an older crowd and there's Tiffany, the so small yet so hot sweet morsel. When I don't show up in class, my teachers worry, especially my Spanish teacher who's always been so good to me. When I don't show up at home my mother worries, she then calls my father who worries in turn. But the sun will soon be setting over Bangkok and I will rise anew...
Absolute darkness surrounds me when I wake up. My lungs are filled with dirty water, my arms are entangled in what feels like seaweed. My first reaction is to panic. I know it's the worst course of action, but somewhere deep inside I'm still human. After a while, realizing that the lack of air is not a problem for me, I start swimming towards what seems to be up. I hit the bottom of the body of water I have been dumped in. I turn around and finally pierce the surface of the Chao Phraya, the large river that cuts Bangkok in half. I swim towards the shore. Sitting on the south bank of the river, I spit and caught the damn filthy water from my mouth and lungs. My pockets are empty and my shoes are gone, taken either by the one who dumped me or by the strong current of the river.
A tuk tuk driver approaches me. By the look he gives me, I must be a terrible mess. He spits something in Thai. Over the last three years, I've learned a very basic version of the language that shouldn't allow me to understand, but to my amazement I understand perfectly.
" - Are you all right? -"
There something odd with his skin, it's kind of ... transparent. I can see his veins and arteries; I can see his blood... The thought of it makes my mouth water. I feel uneasy, hungry and horny. With all the strange illnesses running wild in south East Asia, it's not uncommon to find this kind of freaks. I shake my head and tell him to fuck off. Cursing my mother and my loins, he moves away. I stand still for a while letting my body gather forces. Really soon, I feel much better but I can't shake the hunger and the horniness. Finally I walk away.
2.
The walk home is a long one but as I progress through the crowded streets of Bangkok I feel stronger with every naked step I take. Life explodes around me, people walking, cycling, running, people working, sleeping, fighting, people talking, screaming, singing, people going home, going to work, going out. Each and every one of them appears to me in a new light. It's hard to explain but tiny details I would have missed appear to me in their exquisite perfection. The place and purpose of everything makes sense to me, now. The man has to cross the street in front of the overloaded bicycle that in turn will have to modify its path to cross the trajectory of the truck from which a cage full of chickens will fall, bumping into the motorcycle making the girl on it fall and hurt her hands. I see it as it happens, but I anticipate the outcome as well. The girl is hurt... There's blood on her long white gloves... Blood... I want to get closer, I want to help the girl and help myself, I want to...
An old woman is screaming at me.
" - Foreign Demon! -"
Is she screaming at me or screaming about me? I don't know but people are starting to notice me so I move on leaving the girl with her blood and her pain and the old woman with her racism and her superstitions.
Eventually, I reach the residential quarter of Sukhumvit. My whole life is here: most of my friends live here, my school is here, my house is here. The three stories high residence I call home stands in front of me. My room is on the third floor, my parents have large bedroom on the second floor and the maid lives in a small bungalow by the pool.
Savitree opens. Savitree is the maid, she started working for us a year and a half ago, she's nineteen and it's her first experience working for foreigners. Her cooking is great and despite her poor English we often have a good laugh. She seems highly relieved to see me but as I enter she wrinkles her small impish nose. I must smell terrible.
"Are you O-Kay, Bri-an?" she asks.
"Yes..." I stop for a second.
I haven't taken the time to think about what happened to me. It's still very confusing and the deliciously slender line of her neck is so appealing that I decide to postpone the thinking part to a later time, after a shower for instance.
"Yes, yes, I'm all right."
"Everybody very worry," she insists, "Ma-ma at police, very worried. I call her, her happy."
I can't take my eyes of her neck, of the vibration of life under it. She turns around and goes to the phone. I follow her. My dick is painfully erected in my pants.
"Hello, Ma-dam?"
I want to take her in my arms.
"Good news, ma-dam."
I want to kiss her.
"Bri-an is home."
I want to stick my dick up her virginal twat.
"He smells very bad."
I want to eat her.