"Hayley! Hayley! Are you awake yet?"
My Mom calling through my bedroom door. It was a good thing she hadn't walked in on me.
"I'm coming Mom!"
I was! I was! Yes! God yes! I was really close, my eyes closed, breathing hard, hips jerking. Both hands were between my legs, I was thinking of Steve. Steve, my boyfriend! Steve, who I'd been dating for two years now! Steve who I was finally going to give myself to completely tonight! I rolled over on my bed, burying my face in the pillow to muffle the noises I was making as I fingered myself to my orgasm. Which I reached as I thought of Steve gently making love to me under a moonlit sky with the scent of roses filling the night air! Teenage daydreams are so corny! I knew that but I didn't care!
"Hurry up Haley! We're going in a few minutes!"
Mom sounded impatient. I knew I'd better get moving. I rolled out of bed, still breathing hard, my legs all quivery, dove into the bathroom, did the sixty second shower and teeth cleaning thing. Actually it was more like five minutes, but I knew Mom would calm down when she heard the shower running. Grabbed some clean black panties, throw on a black Giordano t-shirt and my black Adidas track suit pants, grabbed my Adidas track suit jacket (black to match of course) and dashed down the stairs. I didn't bother with a bra. I didn't really need one. Small and firm, that was me! I barely jiggled, unfortunately. Hair? I could brush my hair (that was black too, by the way) in the car. Like most cute Chinese girls, I suit black. Or black suits me. Whatever.
Mom was at the front door. Dad was pulling the car out of the garage. She looked at her watch pointedly, but said nothing.
"I know, I know, dim sum at ten with Daddy's clients." I put on my best apologetic yet dutiful daughter face.
Mom laughed. She always tried to be strict and serious but she could never keep it up for long. Dad beeped, Mom and I grinned at each other. Then we raced each other to the car. I won and got the front seat beside Dad. I actually really was looking forward to dim sum this morning. I'd worked out really hard at Tae Kwon Do for three solid hours last night and I was hungry. I was also relishing the thought of the coming evening, hugging my excitement inside me. I was going to need all that reserve energy. I was going to make Steve work hard. In fact, I planned to exhaust him. He wasn't going to be able to walk by tomorrow morning.
"What's the mysterious smile about Haley?" My Dad was grinning at me.
"Sleeping over at Claire's tonight Dad," I told him. "Girls talk and chick flick night."
I didn't like to mislead my Dad, but there're some things about their daughters that Dad's just don't need to know.
My Dad shook his head. "You know Hayley, you should have Claire sleepover with us more often, I feel sorry for her parents, putting up with you all the time."
My Dad liked Claire. Or should I say he liked looking at Claire's tits. My Mom teased him about it, but she didn't really mind. "As long as Claire doesn't mind," she'd told me once. "I know your Dad, he just likes looking." She'd giggled then. "And Claire's definitely got something to look at!" I'd been a bit shocked at my Mom when she'd said that but my Mom was like that. She said things that were totally outrageous every now and then. Problem was I knew she meant them too. Parents! They're just so embarrassing sometimes!
I knew Claire didn't mind at all. She liked guys looking at her. Even my Dad. "He's cool," she told me once when I asked her if she'd like me to tell him to can it. "He just looks and he's always polite and I don't mind that at all." The last year or so she hadn't minded so much that she'd worn really tiny bikinis when we went swimming in the backyard pool. For some reason Dad liked to swim with us. But he wouldn't let me buy a bikini like Claire's. Dads! What can you say! Of course, I'd bought an itsy-bitsy bikini anyway; I just didn't wear it in the pool at home. Like I said! There're some things about their daughters that Dad's just don't need to know.
There was of course a reason why I slept over at Claire's so often, otherwise I wouldn't bother even mentioning it. But let's start at the beginning, which is usually a good place to start a story. I'm Chinese. Yes, that's me. Hayley Chu. Eighteen years old, one hundred and ten pounds of almond-eyed cuteness, five foot three, and black hair that falls halfway down my back and which I usually wear in a ponytail. Slim all around, with slender hips and long legs - and no tits to speak of. I'd been looking for them since I was thirteen but they seemed to have gotten lost somewhere. Well, not really; I had two just like every other girl, but they were small, far more noticeably so when I was with my best friend Claire, who was my antithesis in so many ways.
Claire was five foot nine, and had a very noticeable bust. She was white skinned with lots of freckles and with beautiful auburn (that's ginger to you guys) hair that I just loved. She wasn't quite as slender as I am but she was far curvier and the definition of totally hot and I'd do anything for her. We'd been friends since first grade, when she made me play with her (skipping, so get your mind out of the gutter) when I was the new girl in class and didn't know anyone else.
Anyhow, I was talking about why I slept over at Claire's so often before I digressed. I'm Chinese and my family is Catholic. Think conservative and strict. No boyfriends. Lots of study! Anything less than an "A" is a fail. From Grade One on, I was in after school programs every day of the week, and Chinese School on Saturday mornings. I did Tae Kwon Do twice a week and on Saturday afternoons, followed right after by swimming class. And yes, I am VERY fit and I'm about a year away from my Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. I've also been doing Hapkido training for a couple of years. I'm good at it. Sunday's were early morning Mass (I'm an Altar Girl at 9am Mass), followed by Sunday School (where I now taught) followed by Sunday dim sum with my Mom and Dad and anyone my Dad had invited along. Sunday afternoon was family time. Quite the schedule!
I didn't mind when I was younger. I'd never known anything else. Academically, I always came top of the class, every time, every year. My parents expected nothing less. I was that Chinese girl that always sat at the front of the class that everyone else in the class just looked at and shook their heads and went "what the fuck?" I think they just gave me first prize in everything without even checking for the last couple of years. For me, when I did tests with bonus questions and didn't do the bonuses, a one hundred percent correct result would sometimes take my average down. Well-of parents or not (and we were well-off, Dad had his own medium sized accountancy firm), life's tough if you're a Chinese girl, never doubt it.
But of course I wasn't entirely Chinese; genetically, yes, but culturally, no. My parents had been bought up the old way, but I was the next generation. Actually the third generation I guess because it was my grandparents that had immigrated here. I had mostly non-Chinese friends, we did stuff together, and when I was old enough to be interested in guys, I wanted a boyfriend like my friends had. Or a girlfriend, like Bethany had, but no, just kidding, girls didn't attract me like that, so whatever.
Did I mention conservative and catholic and my parents? Boyfriends? No dice. Boys not permitted. Maybe a nice Chinese guy from a family my parents knew for a carefully supervised date at the Baskin-Robbins. Problem was I wouldn't have been seen dead with any of the very few Chinese guys I knew. No way Jose. I grew up in a smaller town. Wendy Weng and I were the only Chinese girls in my year. There were a couple more a year or three behind us but that was it. When I saw another Asian, I did the same double take all my friends did. "Huh? Who's that Asian guy / girl?"
I mean, unless I looked in the mirror or at my parents or at Wendy, I saw white. So that was what I wanted for a boyfriend. Except! No boyfriend permitted. Verboten. Nein! "You can date when you're eighteen Hayley." I didn't like it but when you've been brought up like I had been, you don't question your parents, except under your breath. Aiiyaaahhhh! Not until you're a lot older anyhow, and even than it has to be pretty oblique.
I got interested in boys, as one does. I met Steve. Back then, he was in his last year at High School, a couple of years ahead of me. I'd been attracted to him way back before then, one of those unrequited teenage girl crush things. He was shy and he wasn't one of those muscle bound jock guys but he was pretty smart which I liked. He was the older brother of a girl in my class which was how I'd gotten to know him. He chatted with me now and then, when I was with his sister usually, and one thing led to another, as it often does when girl meets boy, but my parents were firm.
"No dating until you're eighteen."