This story is based on my real life experience with a girl from Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. Names have been changed of course for privacy reasons.
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It was the long weekend. I had a couple of days off work and was bored as hell. Samantha, one of my ex work colleagues called me up and asked if I wanted to go for a drive and of course I jumped at the chance and said yes. It was nearly noon. I headed to her place which was only a 10 minute drive. She stayed at one of the settlements. It wasn't the safest place in town but since I spent many years of my childhood growing up in the city it didn't really bother me. I arrived at her place and she took her time. She finally came out of the house and hopped in the car. We started driving and she said, "Let's go to Lu's place and see if she wants to tag along". I thought that was a pretty good idea since Lu only lived a couple of blocks down the road from Samantha.
Lu, short for Lucy of course, was another one of my ex work colleagues. She has a mixture of heritages from the region and has a very dark skin compared to Samantha who's from the highlands. Lu and I had an affair a while back. We had hooked up on several occasions years back but thankfully Samantha was not aware of it. Lu has a boyfriend now and lives at his family house in the same area as Samantha. We turned in to her street and stopped just outside her gate. There was no sign of her but after a couple of missed calls we saw her coming out of the house with a towel wrapped around her neck. She had just woken up so we told her to get ready and we will come back to pick her up after Samantha gets some "buai" (betel-nut, a local's favourite) which we did.
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As we left Lu's place and hit the road it started to pour heavily. I love driving in the rain and I think it's one of the best feelings cruising on the highway with the wipers moving back and forth. Samantha always loves listening to my Spotify playlists so I cranked up the music and started cruising at about 60. The drive was fun. It mostly consisted of chatting about my previous workplace, all the latest gossips and whatnot. Samantha and Lu kept teasing me about how some of the office girls were hitting on me whilst I worked there. I didn't deny any of it but was glad that Samantha didn't know about my affair with Lu.
We stopped at a run-down motel on the way back. It was dead quiet and the rain had stopped. The waitresses were eyeing me up and down since I'm a "whitie" and not a local. I had a casual chat with them while ordering the drinks. I asked about their room rates. They told me that it was 200 something Kina for a night which was pretty cheap but they also had a day rate which was about 100 Kina. I asked what the day rate was for (as in from what time to what time) which they misunderstood and told me it was a "fuck-and-go" thing. Fair enough and no further questions asked.