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This story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of the characters to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
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Rika's Menagerie
I was the only American working at the Tokyo office, and the only tall, white, red-headed woman. In the sea of grey suits and black hair, I stood out like a poppy.
Rika stood out too. Not like a poppy, but like a fire. As the young secretary of Takahiro Sato, the senior partner of my unit, you'd expect a quiet, timid eager-to-please 'office lady' but Rika was different.
With her black pixie-cut hair fringed red at the tips and her tattooed arms brazenly bared in short sleeves, you immediately knew she was a cut apart from your typical Japanese 'office lady.' She always wore a slightly mischievous smile that made her seem like she was up to no good or someone had just told her a dirty joke. She had perpetually narrowed eyes that observed without fear and haughtily invited you to say anything to her and receive a salvo of sharp wit in return. A sullen Bushido rebelliousness about her made her difficult to approach. I guessed she would have a tough time finding work elsewhere in the corporate world, but Takahiro adored her for her subversive aesthetics. He wanted this firm to break from the traditional corporate Japanese mold. I suppose she embodied that spirit, or at least she was a distillation of it.
She might have been ten years younger than my thirty-five, perhaps more, but that age difference, nor our stark hierarchical divide didn't change the fact that I secretly crushed on her. I often caught myself glancing at her like a high school girl fawning over a cute classmate sitting across the room. It was an infatuation I was surprised at myself for having, not the least because she was my boss's secretary but also because she was certainly not my type by any stretch of the imagination. I couldn't figure out why. Perhaps it my loneliness that did it. It didn't help that, in spite of her Edo-punk aesthetics, she was very easy on the eyes. Unusually for Japan, she was adorned with bountiful breasts that protruded prodigiously from her chest, giving her small frame a voluptuous shape even if she wore a sweater. But besides her sexiness, there was an air about her I couldn't quite put a finger on. Perhaps it was that, because like me, she stood apart from the sea of grey and black and because I had that commonality with her, she was something I could latch onto. A substrate for a connection to this city despite not having shared more than a few words of greeting since Takahiro first introduced her to me.
It took a month before I would have my first conversation with her, but when that conversation happened, it would launch me on a course I would never guess I would take in a million years.
That fateful conversation occurred in a cocktail bar at the top of the Ritz-Carlton in Shinjuku during a company outing. I spotted her out on the terrace alone, a Manhattan in her hand, staring wistfully at the distant outline of Mount Fuji, which glowed like a silver eclipse against a velvet purple sky. Despite her petite frame and young face, she held herself like the queen of the Yakuza.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" I said as I went out onto the terrace.
I wasn't really paying attention to the view. I was eyeing her. Mostly because of the way she filled out her black cocktail dress. She turned to me and gave me one of her famous mischievous smiles as she brushed her flame-tipped pixie-cut hair from her eyes to look me up and down.
"Gorgeous," she answered. She might have been talking about me. So, I blushed. She gave a barely perceivable bow. "You're Jen Williams, right? The new partner?"
"That's right," I said. "And you're Rika."
"Yes, I am. Are you having a good time in Tokyo so far, Williams-san?"
"I'm having an alright time," I answered honestly. "And call me Jen when we're out of the office. I hate feeling like I'm at work all the time."
"Ok, Jen it is. So, just alright, Jen?"
I glanced back at the men that lined the cocktail bar. Their red faces laughing at a joke that probably would have been beyond me. Jokes that, if I were there right now, I would be making a stilted effort to join in the laughter.
"Still trying to get my bearings," I replied.
Rika smiled. "So am I. Come watch the sunset with me?"
My heart began to patter. I glanced over my shoulders to the men at the cocktail bar again. It was an involuntary act derived from a gut instinct that told me that joining her would be taboo. But of course, it wouldn't be. I was allowed to watch the sunset with the boss's secretary.
Rika saw my trepidation. "Don't worry, I don't bite, Jen," she teased.
I blushed.
"I know that. Sure, let's watch the sunset,' I said, my heart pattering.
Rika's Manhattan looked nice, so I ordered one. She finished hers quickly and ordered a second. We got pretty tipsy as the stars appeared in the glittering night sky. The moon hung above Mount Fuji, making the snow-capped peak glow pale blue. We ordered more cocktails as the others filtered out, and the moon disappeared behind silver clouds. Before long, Rika and I were the only ones left beside the bartender and the waiters. It was near closing time, but I didn't want our night to end. Neither did Rika, apparently.
"I know a place with good live music. A band I think you'd like is playing tonight," she said.
"Ok," I said. At that point, I had thoroughly convinced myself there was nothing wrong with hanging out with Takahiro's secretary for just one night. It had been so long since I'd had a friend to go out with. I was in dire need of a girls' night out. If Rika was the one to give me that, then so be it. Sato-san would understand.
The place was in Kabukicho, a district known for its distinctively grungy nightlife. We took a taxi and rode in silence. She sat close to me and smelled wonderful. Her warmth made my heart melt and my body rigid. A part of me was very cautious about crossing any lines, but another part was curious to know if she liked girls. It didn't take long for Rika to satiate my curiosity and cross all sorts of lines simultaneously.
After the taxi dropped us off near the bar, Rika pulled me out from the streetlights into an alley.
"What are you doing?" I chuckled.
She didn't respond with words. She leaned in to kiss me. My eyes went wide. I stood rigidly as she put her lips on my mouth. For a moment as fleeting as a firefly light, I wanted to lean right back into that kiss. I wanted to put her against the alley wall and put my tongue into her mouth. She tasted so wonderful. Her lips were so soft. But that desire lasted only for a fleeting moment. I managed to pull away from her before she could suck me into her arms.
"Woah! Rika. You don't do that!"
I chided her like I used to chide my cat for bringing in a dead bird. She watched me like my cat used to. Hearing, but not listening.
She laughed. Wiped her mouth. A smirk twisted onto her lips. "Sorry, I don't know what came over me," she said innocently.
"We really shouldn't be doing that, Rika," I said.
Words uttered without any heart because my heart wanted her to try that kiss again. And she could tell. But she didn't try again.
"I understand, Jen. I hope you forgive me."
"Forgiven. Let's just forget that happened and check out that bar, ok?"
She nodded. "Sure, it's just right around the corner."