Kyle was an adventuresome, inventive, strong-minded young man. In short, he was a smartass. He'd been raised by maids and chauffeurs, and he was spending his college freshman year abroad with the floating University of the Pacific not because he was brilliant—which, in some ways, he was—but because his parents didn't know what to do with him and better out of sight and mind than under foot and always getting into trouble at home, they thought.
For the most part, Kyle had always pretty much gotten away with his adventuresome and unruly ways because he looked so angelic. His unruly ways were matched by a halo of golden-highlighted auburn curly hair and the facial features and lithe, pleasantly muscled, perfectly formed body of a young Greek god. And his smile was electrifying. He was always forgiven his foibles at least once by anyone on the basis of his beaming, innocent, "who me?" smile alone.
The university ship was docked at Singapore that day, and the students had been taken off in groups to be steeped in the culture of the tiny Southeast Asian nation. The culture that the university faculty thought was important enough for steeping was not necessarily the same that Kyle had in mind for his cultural advancement.
The university officials had made three serious mistakes. They divided their students into groups aligned by no system that made the absence of a specific student easy to identify; they had turned the groups over to tour guides who didn't know the students; and they had undercounted Kyle's group by one and revealed that undercount within the hearing of Kyle.
The university's view of a cultural tour of Singapore was a trudge down to the Merlion statue in the waterside park at the original landing pier of the island nation followed by a motor coach roundabout of the small country dangling below Malaysia and a visit to the national museum to study the country's rich and rocky history. Five hours had been allotted for this experience, which would earn each eager and well-heeled student one college credit. Kyle's goals for Singapore were to get hammered and to get laid at one of the massage parlors he heard made the nations of Southeast Asia memorable.
If the university hadn't made its three mistakes and if the venerable Raffles hotel hadn't been within sight of the Merlion, where the tour of Kyle's group started its outing, he probably wouldn't have had his dreams come true.
But Kyle's mind wandered at the funny-accented English history introduction being droned out in front of the Singapore Merlion statue, and his eyes refocused on the grand porte-cochere entrance to the Raffles hotel across the lawns of the waterside park. The wheels of his mind went into overdrive. He'd read somewhere that the alcoholic drink called a Singapore Sling had been invented at the Long Bar in the Raffles hotel. The university's mistakes and his goals clicked into place in the immediate and overwhelming desire to find out what a Singapore Sling tasted like.
He managed to sneak away from the group without being seen. Sneaking away from a scene of mischief was Kyle's principle talent. It was a piece of cake on this day.
* * * *
Kyle was on his third Singapore Sling and slurring his words and finding it a bit hard to hold his feet on the rungs of the bar stool, when the half-English, half-Singapore Chinese, well-dressed, clean-cut, young lawyer type patron at the other end of the Long Bar quietly moved down the length of the bar and took a position next to Kyle. They struck up a conversation, with the Singaporean showing great interest in who Kyle was and why he was there—and, eventually, what he really was looking for.
Kyle wasn't exactly lost to the world on alcohol, but he was naturally adventuresome and had been raised to assume that everyone else there was present to serve his needs and keep him safe in a way that he never bothered to do himself. And Kyle had always been open and straightforward in enunciating his "needs" and wants.
Kyle's new Singaporean friends wasn't the least bit shocked to hear that Kyle wanted a sex massage and to get laid, and, as a matter of fact, Kyle's new friend knew exactly where that could happen.
"Best massage, best fuck, all clean, a little expensive, so maybe you don't want . . ."
"No problem," Kyle said. "I've got plenty of money."
And indeed he had, as the Singaporean had already noted, because Kyle was indiscriminately flashing his wad of money around.
But it wasn't really Kyle's money that the Singaporean man was interested in. It was something far more valuable.
"But maybe you want something really special; maybe you're used to . . ."
"Naw, just a straight massage and fuck to start with," Kyle said quickly. "Just want to lose my cherry fast. I've only got about four more hours before I have to be back on board."
"Cherry? You mean . . . You mean you've never . . .?"
Kyle was blushing. "Maybe someone really experienced first . . . someone who'd tell me what to do . . . you know."
How fortuitous, the Singaporean thought. Even more valuable. A meltingly handsome, young Caucasian hunk and a virgin as well. But, "Certainly, no problem. I have just the place in mind," was what he said to Kyle.
* * * *
Less than twenty minutes later, and the taxi driver, who was really one of the Singaporean man's colleagues, had made so many twists and turns in the narrow Singapore roads and alleys so that Kyle would have had no idea where he was even if he had been sober. The taxi stopped at a wooden door in a salmon-colored stuccoed wall in a narrow back street deep in Singapore's Alijunied red light district. The door opened even before the taxi's motor stopped, and Kyle's new friend bundled him into a high-walled, lushly landscaped forecourt and down a bricked path cut through the center of the vegetation and to a stone-block framed moon gate in a solid deep-red-painted brick wall. The space was in the deep shadows from the high walls and tree foliage overhead. There were pin-point lights flickering in the fronds of the palm trees fanned over the vegetation in the forecourt, but the only strong light was pouring out of open moon gate door.
Just inside the moon gate stood a massive Chinese man in a traditional, light-purple Chinese cheongsam. He was smiling broadly and rubbing his hands together in anxious anticipation. His factotum, who floated around the exclusive Raffles hotel trolling for possible well-heeled customers for Wang Jun's House of Perfect Bliss and who had come up with the prize of Kyle, bowed deeply to the Chinese gentleman and proudly presented Kyle for his examination.
Kyle was a little confused—in a way that he attributed to the amount of alcohol he had consumed, however—when his recently acquired Singaporean friend introduced him to Wang Jun, told him that Wang Jun would take care of everything, and then disappeared back through the moon gate they had entered.
Wang Jun was a mountain of a man. Well over six and a half feet and perhaps pushing 300 pounds, most of which was muscle but a good portion of which was fat, earned by gluttonous living. At either side of the moon gate and standing at attention, were two other men, both Chinese, and both as tall as Wang Jun, but composed of much more muscle than Wang Jun was. They were dressed in filmy white harem pants and red silk vests that didn't meet in front over naked barrel chests. Off on either side of the first section of hallway that extended straight back in sections separated by a series of moon gates were two plushly furnished receptions rooms already nearly overflowing with men of various nationalities, all expensively dressed, mostly middle aged. Young women in sarong skirts, their breasts uncovered, nipples rouged, padded among the men with trays of drinks and hors d'oeuvres.
There had been murmuring through the rooms on either side of the wall when Kyle first entered with his friend from the Long Bar, but it increased in decibel rate as Kyle was being introduced to Wang Jun. Kyle felt slightly uncomfortable under the stares of many of the men in the two reception areas.
"Come, young man," Wang Jun said to Kyle after they had stood under lights in the hallway for a few minutes. "Your friend has told me what you are looking for. Come walk with me, and I think we can find something you will want."
He linked his arm in Kyle's and started down the hallway into the interior of the establishment.
Kyle gasped as they entered the first section of central hallway between two moon gates. The hallway was in darkness, but to Kyle's right was a large picture window into a brightly lit room, where a series of young naked women were lying around on lounges on three tiers. As Kyle watched, they all used their hands and bodies to emphasize what they had to offer him and simulated what he could do with them. The appearance of the angelically beautiful young Caucasian man had seemed to galvanize them. Each of them seemed genuinely interested in being chosen.
Kyle could hardly take his eyes off the women. There must have been twenty or more of them. He'd never seen anything like it. His first reaction wasn't arousal. He was scared. His first thought was that he was in over his head. He felt like he could be eaten alive in this place.
"Come, look to the other side of the pathway," Wang Jun said in an unctuous voice. "See, there are three doors. Each door has a window. Feel free to look in. These lovely young women are the picks of the moment from our viewing room."