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  “You want Lek?”

  Wow! I couldn’t believe it, but that is exactly how it happened. It really was as direct as that. My face was glowing red and I could feel my hands shaking. I had only been there for half an hour and the very first girl I had met wanted to be my girlfriend, and she was pretty.

  “Well yes, Lek, I think you are very nice. Maybe we could go on a few dates and see how it goes. I’m here for two weeks. Where do you work?”

  “I work here.”

  “Here in Phuket or here in Karon Beach?”

  “Here in this bar” she smiled.

  “Wow! Really? And you even come here to meet your friends on your day off?”

  “You funny, Sa-teven. I working now.”

  “Oh! I didn’t know. I just thought that you were playing pool and drinking with your friends. Well, if you can get some time off work one night, then maybe we can go out to eat or something?”

  “Yes, no problem. You want drink?”

  “No. It’s OK, but thanks anyway. I’ll buy the drinks. I’ll have a beer. Would you like a drink? I’ll pay.”

  “I have lady drink. Thank you, Sa-teven.”

  Lek kissed me and then I felt her squeeze my testicles. I wasn’t sure if it was an accident or not. It was very quick and very gentle. I couldn’t think of anything to say, so I didn’t say anything. I just tried to stop looking so shocked. I smiled and nodded and tried to play it cool, as if I had my testicles squeezed every day. I hadn’t read about this in the guide book, so I doubted that it was an official custom, but if it was, then I wasn’t looking forward to being introduced to any Thai men. I didn’t know what a ‘Lady Drink’ was but she seemed like a nice lady, so it made sense to me that she should be drinking lady drinks. I had a Chang beer and we played pool. Lek put the drinks bill in a little bamboo cup and put the cup next to my beer on the table. Lek was really good at pool and she laughed a lot; especially when she saw me looking down her top or up her skirt when she was taking her shots. But I couldn’t help it. I could see everything. I thought that she was just one of life’s sexy people. She was pretty and she really fancied me. She made that perfectly clear the whole time; giving my nuts a squeeze was a regular occurrence during conversation, almost like punctuation. I thought I’d try it myself on Lek.

  “Would you like another drink?” I asked and gave both her breasts a squeeze at the end of the question.

  “Khob khun ka.” (Thank you) she nodded.

  “OK.” I said, squeezing her breasts again.

  “Why you do like this, Sa-teven?”

  “Oh, sorry” I said, without squeezing her breasts and going a bit red in the face, because I’d just embarrassed myself again.

  My day was just getting better and better. Lek was kissing me more and more and putting her arms around me in between taking her shots. I am not exaggerating. Lek really wanted to be my girlfriend. She did little sexy dances, rubbing her bottom into my groin to whatever music was playing, and I started to realise what a great catch I was over here. I developed a swagger as I was walking around the pool table. There was no doubt about it; over here in Thailand, I was ‘Eye Candy’ for the ladies. We played a few more games of pool and had a few more drinks before Lek said “I want to come with you now, Sa-teven.”

  “I don’t know where I’m going” I said, which was true. I hadn’t planned anything.

  “We go get food and take back to your room. OK?” smiled Lek and then she kissed me.

  Actually I was excited about her coming back to my room for a picnic. It meant that I was going to be alone with her and, with any luck, one thing would lead to another and I might get more than a kiss; although I wasn’t counting my chickens.

  “OK” I said. “Where do we get some food?” I was getting hungry and now I was going to eat with a beautiful girl. Lek took the bamboo cup to the bar and used a calculator to total up the bill. She wrote something on the back of one of them before putting it in a black ‘fold over’ wallet and bringing it back to me.

  “1,300 baht!” (£26) I exclaimed in a bit of shock. The sign written on the chalk board read ‘All beers 50 baht’ and I’d only had four beers. That was only 200 baht or £4.

  “Yes, Sa-teven. 200 baht for beer, 600 baht for lady drink, and 500 baht for bar.”

  “Wow! The lady drinks are expensive here.”

  “No. Not expensive. Lady drink same price everywhere” she smiled.

  I suddenly wished that she had just drunk beer like me. I made a mental note to buy girls beer only from now on and not these fancy ‘Lady Drinks’, which I guessed must have been some kind of expensive cocktail.

  “Why 500 baht for the bar? What does that mean?” I asked.

  “You have to pay bar 500 baht because I go with you. Is called bar fine.”

  “Bar fine! I thought that you wanted to come with me. It was your idea.”

  “Yes, I want, but I should be working. If I leave now I have to pay bar 500 baht and I have no money to pay that much.”

  “Oh!” I said. Now I understood. “So if you leave bar early, you have to pay them back a day’s wages?”

  “Yes, something like that. If you want I go with you, then have to pay bar fine 500 baht.”

  “OK” I said, digging out my wallet. It turned out having a few beers and a few games of (Free) pool with Lek was not such a cheap afternoon. But it was nice of Lek to take the rest of the day off to spend time with me, so I didn’t mind repaying her wages to the bar. I had the feeling I was going to be seeing a lot of Lek and I was already planning to ask her out on her days off. I have a confession to make now. You know that I told you right at the beginning that I had had my fair share of girlfriends over the years? Well, that’s not strictly true. In fact, it’s not true at all. In fact, I have only ever had two girlfriends. I only had sex with one of them and even then it sort of went off in her hand before she could put it inside her, although she still did. But it was pretty much all done and dusted at that stage. I’m sorry. I know I should have been honest right from the start, but it’s a big thing to admit, as a 38 year old man, that you are not an experienced sex expert. So, as you can imagine, to suddenly get a pretty girlfriend like Lek made me very excited and I was hoping to have sex with her before the holiday was over. I know that my dad had told me not to bring home a Thai Bride, but I have to say the thought of a future with Lek was already crossing my mind.

  I paid the bill. Lek grabbed her handbag and a jacket from a pile of other handbags and jackets that were on a table at the back of the bar. She then put her hands together and prayed to the Buddha statue, which was on a shelf high up behind the bar. She grabbed my hand and we left the bar, waving goodbye to all the other girls, who were squealing and laughing and saying things in Thai, which I think might have been comments about me. We walked up Patak Road to some street stalls, which were cooking and selling food. Lek bought some BBQ chicken, fish, some rice and some kind of salad, which I watched the old lady making with green papaya, tomatoes, chilies, long green bean things and some crab claws. She put in some sugar, lime juice and fish sauce. It looked OK, but smelt disgusting. I paid another 200 baht and we took it back to the hotel, waving to the girls again when we walked past the bar on route to my hotel. The girl at the reception looked up at us as we entered.

  “This is my friend Lek” I said. “We are just going to have something to eat in my room.”

  I didn’t really know what else to say, but it just seemed polite to introduce her. The girl spoke in Thai to Lek and Lek then handed her some kind of identification card, which the receptionist kept behind the reception counter.

  Lek set the food out on the floor of my room after she had turned the TV on and flicked over the channels until she found a Thai programme. I just picked at the chicken and had a bit of rice, but Lek really got stuck into the food. She at
e nearly everything and she opened and drank everything from the mini bar too. She must have been thirsty. She got me to try the salad, but it burnt my mouth, made my tongue and lips swell up and made my eyes water. After I stopped coughing she asked me if I liked it, but every time I tried to speak I started coughing again and bit my own tongue. So I just shook my head. Lek took the last two cans of cola from the fridge and we drank them. I was hoping that she was going to stay for a while after she had finished eating. I was desperately trying to think of something interesting to say that might make her want to, but I have never really been an interesting sort of person. If she liked to be bored then I was her man.

  Chapter 3

  We shower now?

  While I was still thinking about something interesting to say, Lek just stood up and peeled her little dress up over her head and wriggled out of it. I tried to close my mouth, but I think I was in shock and my heart was beating so fast. Then she unclipped her bra and tossed it onto her dress lying over the chair. Her breasts were small but perfect. She put her thumbs down the sides of her thong and pulled it down before stepping out of it and flicking it onto her other clothes. She was naked and I was looking at her hairless ‘Nunny’. I could hear someone keep saying “Wow!”, but then I realised it was me. Lek just laughed and held her hand out to me.

  “We shower now, Sa-teven?” she smiled.

  “OK” I said and stood up holding her hand, waiting to be led into the bathroom.

  Lek laughed and put her free hand up to her mouth.

  “You take clothes off first.”

  I think it took me about three seconds before I was also naked. I was scared that she would change her mind, so I didn’t want to hang about. I wanted to apologize about the size of my ‘willy’, but I stopped myself. I knew that it would get bigger once it woke up to the situation. We walked into the bathroom and showered together. Lek washed me and I washed her too. I’m not an expert on body language or anything like that, but I was pretty sure that she wanted to have sex with me. Thailand was even better than everything I had heard about it. I had found myself a pretty girlfriend on my very first day and I hadn’t even been trying, and she was sexy. It suddenly occurred to me that nobody back in the UK was going to believe me. I needed evidence.

  “I like you Lek. I want to take lots of photos of you, of me and you together. I want to always remember you.”

  “No problem, Sa-teven. Can do. You pay extra!”

  “No. I have a digital camera. It holds about 500 photos. I never print them, just save them on the computer, so costs me nothing really. But if I don’t take photos to show my dad and my mates, then nobody will believe that I had a beautiful girlfriend.”

  Lek grabbed hold of my penis and gave it a little tug.

  “I like you too, Sa-teven. You very funny.”

  “Thanks.”

  Lek kept hold of me and just started kissing me. After the shower we dried off and she lay on the bed naked.

  “You take photos now, Sa-teven?” she asked.

  “You haven’t got any clothes on.”

  “You want to show your papa and friends?”

  “No, not like that. Not naked. That’s just for me. I’m here for two weeks, we have lots of time. We’ll take plenty over the next two weeks.”

  Lek just shrugged her shoulders and pouted.

  “Up to you” she said. She patted the bed next to her and I got on the bed with her and after a lot of kissing and touching she rolled me onto my back.

  “You have condom?” she asked. She sounded breathless and excited.

  “No” I said, patting my naked thighs as if they had pockets which were empty of condoms.

  “I have!” Lek rolled off the bed and went to her little bag tucked under her clothes. She held a condom up in the air between her fingers and had a huge wide grin on her face.

  ‘That was a lucky coincidence’ I thought to myself.

  She walked back to the bed as she peeled it out of the foil and she rolled it onto me in one easy go and then sat astride me guiding me inside her with one hand. Oh my God! I was suddenly making love to her, I could hardly believe it. I could so hardly believe it, that it took me about the same time to climax as it had taken me to get undressed.

  “Oh! I’m sorry about that Lek.”

  “Already, Sa-teven. You very quick.”

  “I think I must be jet lagged. Usually I go for about two or three hours. Usually, even longer than that” I lied.

  OK. I was making it up, but it sounded good and I was embarrassed about it going off the way it did. I was simply no good at sex because I’d never really had any before. I just needed some practice.

  “No problem, Sa-teven. I am happy you like me so much, make you very quick.” She leaned over and kissed me.

  “It was fantastic” I said. And for me at least, it was. But I knew that I would have to try and do better in future if I was going to keep her satisfied. No girl wants a boyfriend with a ‘Hair Trigger’ penis. But I think I got away with it this time with the Jet Lagged cover story. Lek went and flushed the condom down the toilet and came back with a warm wet towel and cleaned me up, before she got dressed again. I just lay on the bed and watched her. She was turning into a really caring girlfriend and I was liking her more and more by the minute. I could understand why men came to Thailand and fell in love with Thai ladies so easily. They were beautiful and sexy and really caring. I suddenly felt really happy, and really tired; maybe I was jet lagged after all.

  “You tired now, Darling?” smiled Lek.

  “Yes, a little bit.”

  Wow! She called me ‘Darling’. I was thrilled, but just played it cool, obviously.

  “Sa-teven, I go now. You sleep. You see me again in bar?”

  “You can stay and have a sleep with me if you want to Lek.”

  “No. I go now. You can see me again later if you want to.”

  “If I want to! Yes, of course I do.”

  Lek covered her mouth with her hand and laughed.

  “Sa-teven, you are so funny. OK, I go now.”

  “OK. Thanks Lek. I’ll see you later.”

  “You forget something, Sa-teven?” she said standing by the door.

  “What? Oh! Sorry. How rude of me.” I jumped out of bed and opened the door for her. She was a girl who obviously wanted a man with good manners. We were perfect for each other. Lek stepped up to me and kissed me.

  “Sa-teven, I need some money.”

  Wow! That came out of the blue. I liked the fact that she felt comfortable enough to ask me for money. It’s what girlfriends and boyfriends do. Our relationship was just whizzing along. We were like an old couple already. She was calling me ‘Darling’ and asking me for money. It suited me if she wanted to go shopping while I had a sleep.

  “OK darling. How much do you need?” I smiled, hiding my naked body behind the door as a couple of holiday makers walked past my room.

  “1000 baht, darling.”

  That was £20 in English money. She must have wanted to buy something nice. I suddenly realised that she probably wanted to buy me a present. I couldn’t stop the huge smile that spread across my face.

  “Why you laugh?” she asked.

  “I’m just happy.”

  I found my wallet and handed Lek 1000 baht note. She held it between her fingers and wai’d to me.

  “Shall I meet you in the bar later?” I asked.

  “Sure, I wait for you.” She kissed me again and skipped out of the door. She turned and waved and smiled and I closed the door. What an amazing day I was having. I went back to bed with a huge smile on my face. I can’t remember ever feeling so good before, but jet lag was really kicking in and my eyes were closing. I slept like a baby.

  Chapter 4

  My first night in a tr
opical paradise.

  When I woke up it was dark and for a few moments I didn’t know where I was or whether it was day or night, but it was hot and I was sweating. Then I remembered the lovely Lek and remembered that I was in Thailand. There was some yellow light from the poolside lights that was creeping through the gap in the curtains, enough for me to find the switch for the bedside light. I looked at my watch; it was 8:00pm in the evening, but my body felt like it was tomorrow morning. I was suddenly excited all over again and I decided that I would shower and dress in one of my nice Matalan shirts and go and find my new girlfriend in the bar. After a shower and a shave I dressed and checked myself out in the mirror. I plucked some unruly hairs from my nose and splashed on some aftershave - not on my nose, more on my face and neck really. I looked and felt really cool, that was until I stepped outside of the air conditioned room, then I started sweating again. I knew that I had a swagger in my step. I really couldn’t help it. I had never felt as happy as this before. When I walked past the girl on reception she was looking at me, so I did the ‘fingers pretending to be guns’ thing and, after waving them around, I pretended to shoot her. She just looked down and shuffled some papers. Maybe something got lost in translation, but suddenly I wished that I hadn’t shot her with my fingers. It just didn’t seem as cool over here as it did on the factory floor back home. I smiled at her, but she wasn’t looking, so I walked out of the hotel and along the cul-de-sac towards Patak Road and Lek’s bar. I knew that she was already my girlfriend, but I still had butterflies in my stomach because I was so excited to see her again.

  Well, I was, until I actually did see her, wrapped around some old bloke who had his hand up her dress. She had her arms around his neck and they were kissing. It stopped me in my tracks as I tried to take it all in. He was old enough to be my dad, let alone hers. He even looked like a granddad. He had a bald head with a pelmet of long grey hair around the sides. He was fat and looked ridiculous in pink shorts and a yellow shirt. I just couldn’t understand what my eyes were telling me. I couldn’t work out what had gone wrong from this afternoon, when everything seemed so perfect and romantic between us. It suddenly occurred to me that he may have drugged her. It seemed like the only explanation. I had heard of date rape drugs and that was the only thing that could account for what was happening here. I suddenly realised that I had to save her from this old pervert. I walked straight up to them without really knowing what I was going to say but I just knew that I had to say something.