Chapter 3 – Sex on the beach

“---- Deep in earth my love is lying/ and I must weep alone ----“

2005 July 3^rd, 02.20 p.m., Gentlemen’s Cavern, Nana Plaza,

A ball, perhaps an object shaped of a pumpkin, moved up and down right and left in a momentum. The ball was bigger than that of average football and similar to a pumpkin. But the softness of the ball was not that of a football nor baseball nor basketball nor even a tennis ball but that of a soft massage ball. The softness was as if the pumpkin was filled with foam inside and outer layer was smooth as if applied butter. The ball slowly reached Hwa’s face as if it was showing a bit of ‘echhi’ service to him. A girl, half naked stood facing her rear toward Chin Hwa, dancing. Chin Hwa was at a strip club named, Gentlemen’s Cavern.

“CHIN HWA!!!” Said a loud, rugged lady voice.

“Wut? Did she arrive already, huh? It hasn’t even been an hour that was fast…. Did she miss me that much, huh?” Though processed as Hwa turned to look at the club’s entrance.

“Hwaaa!!” Said a Woman submerged in the shadow from the arch of the building. She stepped into the light to reveal herself. She was an older woman, older than Chin Hwa at least. If Hwa was 26, she might be around 38. Upon a closer look she was wearing grey suit, trying to hide a badge under her coat and she was doing a terrible job at it, incidentally revealing she is a police officer. She had a depressed look in her face like someone, whose boat had sailed in the concept of marriage.

“Chiiiinnnn Hwaaaa~!!” Said the woman as she walked towards Hwa taking bold, loud forced step hinting she was pissed off at Hwa.

“Hiiiii~ Aiko…… Aiko Shio.”

“Chin Hwa, You bastard…. Step out of there you bastard. Even for a profess- business thing…. Is this where you plan the meeting...?” Lashed out in stress, Shio.

“Even if it’s for business is this where you invite a girl? To a fucking strip club? Don’t you have any delicacy, you bastard?” Thought Shio as she dragged Hwa out of the club to the alleyway.

“Heiha…. Please be gentle with me, Aiko-san.” Said Hwa with a feminine pose.

“Shut up, bastard.”

With couple minutes of silence and some awkward stares, Shio opened her lips to ask a single question,

“So, what did you call me here for?”

“Well… Aiko-san…. I was lonely without you. I miss you. I want to feel your warmth Aiko-san.” Said Hwa wiggling like a worm.

“Tch, Bassstarrd~!!”

“Fufufu…. Jokin’, Aiko-san.”

“What’s with the band aid on your fore head?” Asked Shion

“Just a cut from earlier.”

“Anyway about that place at Soi Cowboy, I’m planning to visit it. Not now, but by six at least. Today.” Said Hwa with a serious tone of voice.

“Any reasons? Specifically? The Chin-Hwa, Who avoided that place like a final dungeon, going there willingly? Does this call for a celebration from my end or should I say our end?” Said Shio.

Hwa took out a flask from his back pocket and drank some whisky through it.

“Hahaha…. You can celebrate all you want Aiko-san, but your people, pfft…. Cops, huh? I would rather smoke and hit every red paradise available to overdose and die than be a firework to their New Year party. I wouldn’t even be a single, a single stick of sparkler for cops.” Said Hwa a bit agitated.

“Ha..Ha… it looks like you hate us so much?” Said Shio with a slightly sad look in her eyes.

“It-s … not yo… just – the cops…. Arghhh.” Confused in his own word grunted Hwa.

“It’s not you Aiko san…. In fact I like you, I admire you the most from every person I met in my life, Aiko san. It’s just the cops, they wear the dress claiming to be the people of justice and does every single thing contradicting. It’s almost like the only difference between them and we scums are the dress we wear. The printed beach shirts, white pair of trousers and some stolen pink sneakers.” Spoke for himself, Hwa even though he didn’t have the courage to speak these words out loud, most importantly in front of Shio.

“AH~! Look a rainbow, might be from today’s drizzle.” Said Hwa as he pointed at a rainbow.

“Tch, idiot don’t point at a rainbow, your pointing finger might fall off.” Said Shio grabbing onto his hands.

“Sorry.”

“Anyway leave that thing aside and tell me what should I do now?” Asked Shio.

“I want you to hold off every cop from Soi Cowboy, Pastor’s club, at 6 p.m. sharp. No patrols, nothing. 3 hours at least.”

“Ha! So you have other means to get them shut other than informing a cop…. And you just want us to avoid getting into your way, typical Chin-Hwa.” Said Shio, a bit irritated.

“Well if you put it like that, it sums pretty much everything.”

“You could have at least telephoned or paged me for this trivial thing, there’s no need to meet face to face.”

“I have a superstitious belief is all” Said Hwa in gentle tone.

“And what would that be?” Asked Shio blatantly.

“Well, before doing anything big, if I took a peek at your face I think everything would go my way. I could even say you’re like a lucky charm to me… Remember that day when I opened the club, huh? I even got arrested the day before so I could take a look at your face.”

“Idiot, bastard, Chin Hwa, imbecile.” Said Shio as her face turned light red.

“Haha~ why did you line up my name there as if I am something related in meaning to an imbecile.”

“Anyway I’m gonna head back.” Said Shio, taking a huge loud step away from Hwa.

“Hmm~~.” moaned Hwa in a loud tone.

“What is it? Bastard?”

“It’s just, just you’re wearing boots, is all. And… it…. Is…. near… knee length.”

“I’m in boots so you don’t get to peek sights at my feet, you pervert. I was in my normal shoes till I came to see you, pervert.” Said Shio agitated.

“Well it’s true that I like your bare feet. But do you know what I like even more than that, huh?” Questioned, Hwa in a low deep and slow tone.

“What?” Asked Shio Abruptly.

“I like your feet covered much much more. The suspense of can’t waiting to look at your bare feet even made your socked feet my fetish. The tension of expectation to see whether you would be wearing boots or you would be wearing normal shoes exposing your feet, even though deep down I know you always appear before me wearing boots keeps me on the edge. The suspense, expectation, tension and disappointment has been made into my kink.”

“What are you going on ab—“ interrupted, Shio.

“So basically your legs are now my fetish, with boots. Your boots wearing legs.” Said Hwa, in a somewhat a serious and a laid back tone.

“Fuck you, you perverted bastard, imbecile, perverted fool, I hate you.” lashed out in anger, Shio.

Shio left the scene still cursing at Hwa taking her sweet time even though she was running late for her next errand or an urgent police business.

“Fufufu….. You hate me? I undoubtedly know you carry feelings of love for me… and me for you. It’s just that I’m afraid to confe—WHOA!! Look at her butt cheeks, its round, Aiko-san, your butt clearly stands out in that tight skirt you’re wearing. That roundness, hmm~ Chef’s kiss. Who even said that the perfect round or sphere doesn’t exist in this world? It exist, it does exists and it is in front of me moving away from me.”

“Ah~ Ah~ She left, she disappeared out of my vision.” Said in a tiny voice as he stretched his arms.

“It’s about time I head to the Soi Cowboy."