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A.N.: Writing style is as follows:
-Song-
Wen's Internal Thoughts
Wen's narration
"Conversation between characters"
- If you like your coffee hot
Let me be your coffee pot
You call the shots, babe
I just wanna be yours –
I got promoted. Well between all this – I finally got something of me.
A promotion and to celebrate I drank. I drank because it was better to drink my happiness off. Wouldn’t wanna feel happy. My new job role was about working around on Mariana Food Court. And I am proud of myself to land here because even if promotion meant more perks, it also meant more responsibilities – more time for me to stay out of house.
Somehow that night I ended up at a chicken diner. My celebrations were always around at simple diners. They tasted better at times and of course were cheap. So I could save.
Save and do what Wen? I don’t know… maybe get a condo of my own…
There it was. I kept on drinking until I could get over these thoughts. I don’t remember how I ended up at Moonlight Chicken – I woke up to see a handsome face staring back at me – if I am not wrong – was it concern I saw on older man’s face? Probably.
The moment my eyes met his – I know I know cliché! But honestly the moment I saw into his eyes - my eyes my mind felt something. Had I been sober, still I think I would have not able to explain what it felt like.
I was lost in how kind those eyes looked–
“Would you like me to call a cab?” he asked and I was snatched back into reality.
“No thanks, I’ll call a friend” I replied politely and was transported back in my reverie.
This kind stranger waited up for me and as we did – we had a casual chat.
However casual it was something deeper.
“Is it a beer or a calendar”
“Both”, “My daily reward” he said.
“You can go home if you want, my friend will be here any minute…”
“How about I walk you to the main road?”
“Are you the cell phone culprit?”
The flow of conversation felt smooth. I was chuckling and so was he.
– I had a gut feeling that this is going to be my happy place.
But all of this felt too much. I was happy and yes I am looking for it but no – right now I couldn’t bare it.
“And may I exchange the change for your reward tomorrow?”
He looked surprised. “You must be drunker than me.”
I looked down and smiled
“I meant I want a can of beer.” I said.
He instead of keeping the beer on table handed it to me- and so I made my move.
-Secrets I have held in my heart
Are harder to hide than I thought
Maybe I just wanna be yours
I wanna be yours, I wanna be yours-
We started walking towards the main street with our beers in hand. It was a beautiful full moon that night.
“It’s the moon festival today, that’s why it looks so exceptionally beautiful today”
And then we came across this lady who called Jim out and asked him to pray with her.
He handed me half the incense sticks and looked at me inviting to pray. We both prayed and then he offered our incense sticks. We both were looking at each other when I heard the old lady say
“Here’s a mooncake, share some with him”
And without a beat she said “When you have kids, the will be lovely and good together”
“Thank You” Jim replied.
He did not bother correcting her…
“Um” he shared a bite of mooncake with me and I looked up to him wondering about the small bite of mooncake.
I smiled at the lady and ate it only to realise what Jim had done. I looked at him only to see that he was smiling already looking back at me.
“Is it tasty?”
I smiled more than needed and nodded my head.
And then we moved ahead.
Our game of intimacy continued as the beautiful full moon that night continued to lighten the dark alley.
-Let me be your leccy meter
And I'll never run out
Let me be the portable heater
That you'll get cold without-
The moon lightened the alley, the moon lightened the hope in me. I just wanted to be lost in arms of this stranger …
-I wanna be your setting lotion (wanna be)
Hold your hair in deep devotion (I'll be)
At least as deep as the Pacific Ocean
Now I wanna be yours-
He’s sexy and soft – so gentle.
Along with the beer I was getting drunk on him too.
I inhaled his scent – it reminded me of the place where I saw him, but along with that I could smell his sweat. But I couldn’t be bothered by that any less.
The air between us had changed. There were unspoken words now being spoken in between us. More than being drunk on the beer, I was drunk on the way he treated me
I was enamoured by him. All I was, was a mere stranger and I wanted to be his – tonight I wanted to be his.
With that thought I fell asleep
- Secrets I have held in my heart
Are harder to hide than I thought
Maybe I just wanna be yours
I wanna be yours, I wanna be yours-