Another Lak.

[chuckwoww]

Another Lak. This one has hooded eyes. I notice her as soon as I walk into Thermae. Something familiar about her. I like the way she leans with her back to the bar. Taking on the world. I ask her if she wants a beer. OK Heineken.

 

I get a couple. Bring them back. Why you buy me beer? She asks.

 

Because I think you are beautiful I say. The most beautiful girl I?ve ever seen. I want to marry you and take you to my big house.

 

It?s a line that usually goes down well. But she does not laugh. This one?s been hurt.

 

Still can?t place her. You remember me? She asks. I?m trying.

 

Later in my room when we are both naked on my bed it all comes back. Auckland. A tacky cabaret on Customs Street. Photographs outside. Thais mostly and Filipinas. There among them was Lak. A Superstar. I?d had nothing to do so I?d wandered in.

 

I?d watched her dance. She was the most attractive girl in the place. Probably a come on. Some Maori bikers sat around. Big guys. A few lost punters like myself buying expensive drinks for girls from Buriram, Khon Kaen, Leyte.

 

I?d bought her a drink then too. It was nice to speak Thai again even though she clearly didn?t like it. The old jokes and phrases. I hadn?t wanted to fuck her anyway. Not even feeling lonely. Just passing time. Enjoying a beer.

 

That was then. Now here we are together again. And now I have her to myself. For an hour or two. I ask her how it was in New Zealand.

 

OK she says. A gangster took her there. She?d met him in Patpong. He it was who owned the club. She had lived with him for 3 years. One time they had gone to Rotorua. Bad smell. She had walked by the lakeshore, seen the bubbling mud pools, smelt the pungent sulphur fumes. And she had wondered, like me, how those pretty little trees with purple flowers could grow there.

 

The strip club was OK she says. Twenty dollar bills stuffed in her panties. Casino every night. Then came some unspecified trouble. The gangster found somebody younger. She moved in with a Maori guy called Frank. Got picked up by the police and deported back to Thailand. Right now she has a couple of possibilities. There?s an old Dutch guy who phones her twice a day and wants her to move to Rotterdam. Or an Australian dike who wants her to go to Sydney and sell pussy. You want fuck now?

 

Sure, since you ask so sweetly. In my mind I'm back among the geysers but we do it anyway. Just another girl. Great conversation. Mediocre fuck.

[MrX]

"Chuckwwow is better"

[Encore]

Hey Chuckwow, didn't realise you're a Kiwi.

 

i only once went into one of the custom st places, and walked out again after ten minutes, boring once you've been in LOS.