Sleeping with Erica
On Thursday at work, I was pondering as to whether I should book a hotel room or not. I kept thinking about how she seemed to blame me last time for not making any plans after dinner, and how she said she wanted to sleep with me (even though I understood it to mean literally 'sleeping' with me, no sex).
At lunch, I went to a jewellery store and bought a chain with a heart pendant.
In the afternoon, I finally did it. Instead of booking for Thursday, Friday and Saturday night like I had envisaged/fantasised, I booked for Thursday night only, figuring it could be easy to extend if required.
I eagerly waited till 6pm for her to call. She sent me a message saying she'd be late, and asked about 9pm.
9PM?!?!?!?!?!?
I sent back a message "9pm?" with a sad face. Then I didn't hear from her until about 7:30pm. I had gone for a walk because I didn't want to stay in the office. I walked to the hotel I had booked and realised it was quite far away in the city. I had sat down to play some games on my phone when she messaged me. She said she'd be late, then asked about 11pm, then said something about seeing me tomorrow.
Needless to say, I got pissed off. I said "I paid for hotel tonight..."
She replied "no" and "hotel? no".
I said "I already paid..." and "and bought present"
She said in Korean, sleep over she does not do, then sighed, and said she'd call me later.
I was pissed. I had starved until now, and she had the audacity to even suggest meeting tomorrow. I thought this was just great - fighting on Valentine's Day. What the hell was she doing anyway? One of her messages said something about dinner. Was she having dinner with friends? Or was she out with another guy?
I didn't reply to her messages and went to eat Macca's. It was about 8pm when she called. I was eating and didn't want to answer anyway. She rang twice and then SMS'd me asking me to call her.
I thought about just going home and forgetting about the whole thing. But then part of me didn't want to blow this up. This was also my thought when I had those fights with Bo. So after I finished eating, I called her back, and after some problems with our phones, I finally got to speak to her.
Almost angrily, I asked "where are you?" and she didn't seem to understand at first. She said she was in the city and I said I was in the city. I repeated "where are you?" with more urgency, and she shouted back "hair!" which I took to mean she was having her hair done. I said to call me in an hour and we hung up.
I went back to my office and waited until 9pm. At 9:10pm I decided to just go home. I had to go out to Campbelltown the next day for work anyway, so I took the suitcase out of the office and started walking to my bus stop, when she called. She asked me where I was and I said city. She asked me where to meet and I said her place. She sounded reluctant and wanted to suggest elsewhere but didn't know how to say it. I asked if she was home, and she didn't answer, but I heard some girl in the background and her speaking in Korean.
Finally she agreed to meet at her place. I went back to the office to put the suitcase back and then went looking for her. She called me asking me where I was, and I said I was walking there now. She said she was at Hungry Jacks.
I found her at Hungry Jacks and she was on the phone. She gestured for me to walk. Sometimes when I would walk with her, she hushed me to walk in front of her. I wondered if she was talking to a guy. It's not like I could understand what she was saying anyway.
We made it to the part of the road across from KFC when she finally hung up. She said her manager had seen her with me on Monday. I asked if she got in trouble and she said no, but she said that's why we can't be seen together. She kept hushing for me to walk ahead of her. I decided to avoid this goddamn main street but it seemed like there were just so many people no matter where we went. It was like I had a mind blank where I couldn't think of anywhere else to go other than the bloody main street.
I finally went downstairs to Town Hall and then back up to QVB, with some complaints from her about stairs and walking.
I asked if she wanted to see the hotel and she said yes. We took a taxi there, and we held hands in the back seat. I noticed she was wearing jeans with large holes in them. Her white shirt also had holes and had one shoulder exposed.
We got off in front of the hotel, and we began walking in when I asked her if she wanted to, and she said no, so we turned around. I asked again and said we could just have a look. I said we could just talk and she agreed. So I checked in and we went up to level 16 and found the room.
It was nice, but the view wasn't that great. She sat down on the chair and I gave her the chain. She studied the card I had written for her, which was just "To: Ericaaaaaa, From: [insert name here]". Then she opened it and said she liked it as she looked at it. I took it from her and offered to put it on, standing behind her and fitting it on as she held her hair up.
I said a few times that this room was expensive ($450) and she asked how much. I didn't say, and she said when her manager saw us on Monday, she told her manager I was a customer, which meant she had to fork out $2000. I suddenly felt so much guilt - after being angry at her for her tardiness, she had to incur such a loss for me. And she didn't even ask me for the money. I kissed her on the lips.
She said she was hungry. I thought she said she couldn't eat today, but I figured what she meant was she hadn't eaten all day. So I said we could go get something to eat. She asked if we were coming back, and I said yes. She said she didn't want to come back. I said fine then. As we walked towards the lifts, she said we could sleep afterwards, but only sleep. I said ok, figuring maybe I was getting one step closer.
We went out and she wanted a Korean restaurant because she wanted soju. I said there were no Korean restaurants around here and decided to take her to Pancakes on the Rocks. We started walking and she started complaining about walking. She said in Korea she didn't walk. I asked her how she got around. She said car and I asked if she drove. She said no, but she had many guys. I laughed.
She asked me where her flowers were because it was Valentine's Day. I said she didn't like flowers because they died. I said if I buy flowers, they die. If I buy her chocolate, she gets fat. She started laughing. If I buy her pendant, she wants chain. If I buy her handbag, she says it's too small. I noticed she stopped laughing and was about to take me up on that last point but didn't. I continued, saying if I bought her the world she would want the moon. If I bought her a BMW she would want a Mercedes. She said she liked Audi and I said I did too.
She asked me where I was taking her and I said just a few minutes as we kept walking. At one point she punched me very hard on the left arm.
I thought maybe we had walked past it, because I didn't remember it being this far. I started looking backwards, and she teased me "first time?" and I said no. I finally found it, and when I saw that there was a line, I was disappointed. However, I think she was impressed because it meant it was good. She looked at the menu that the couple in front of us were holding. I asked if she wanted to wait or go somewhere else, and she said we could stay.
Sometimes we'd joke and I'd pretend to hit her face, and she said something about how in Korea you could never touch a woman's face, and she got pretty pissed when I tried to do it the next few times. I joked that she would pay for this meal, and she said "dutch", which I was impressed with.
When we got closer to the front of the line, she checked out the menu and said she wanted the pork ribs. I said I'd get the beef ribs. She asked if I had eaten. I lied and said no as I was waiting for her.
She wanted the booth and so I asked and had to wait a bit longer for that. When we got it we sat down and started looking at the menu again. She said she also wanted a chicken caesar salad. So we ordered that and two beers.
We waited a long time for our food, but talked as we waited. I started rolling my sleeves up, and when I had done my right one, she offered to do my left, being very very careful as she folded it back. I then jokingly offered to do hers, even though it was basically a sleeveless shirt. She said I was crazy.
She said some customers used the drug ice and offered it to her, and she said they were crazy. She asked if I was a lawyer for drugs, and I said yes, then showed her the translation for "prosecutor". She nodded to show she understood.
I asked her what she was doing last Valentine's Day and she said she was with her boyfriend. I asked if she was sad they broke up and she said no. I asked if he was sad and couldn't really understand her answer. She tried to explain why they broke up but I couldn't understand. She asked me why and I didn't answer.
I asked her where my Valentine's Day present was. She said she would give it to me on something day. I couldn't understand what. She said it was in March. When I got home, I looked it up and apparently there is a day called White Day where women give presents to men.
We talked about me learning Korean, and she made fun of me saying I learnt only the basics, and said "my name is" in Korean, and said even she knew that.
She said her visa was expiring in March and waited for me to react before laughing (I didn't really react), then she said her visa was expiring in June, and put her hands out to ask "visa". I slapped her hands. She said she didn't want to get the student visa because it was too expensive. She asked if I was a permanent resident and I said I was a citizen. She said she wanted to stay here to work, but if she had to go back, she might keep working in this field for another year and then work with her sister's shop doing make up I think it was.
She said she would send money back to her parents. She asked if I would be going back to Hong Kong permanently, and I said no, I am going to stay here.
She asked me if I made a lot of money and I said maybe. She said she made a lot of money.
She said she loved me but as she said it, a waiter walked past with some food which immediately caught her attention as she was hungry, and I made fun of her because it seemed not genuine.
The food came and we started eating. I cut off a piece of my beef and fed it to her which she ate. She did the same in return with her pork, and as the night went on, we did that a few more times and would sometimes just cut it up and put it on the other's plate. She said she didn't like the pork as much as the beef, so I gave her some more. Sometimes she'd just take it from my plate. She offered me her wedges, which she didn't eat much. The chicken caesar salad was really good.
We ate so much food, and she went through a few beers, and at the end she asked me where the toilet was and I said downstairs. The bill came and I paid for it, it was only $90 anyway. We went to the till together, and I said let's go. She stood there, and I wondered what she wanted. She waited for the change and took it. I said I wanted to leave a tip, she said not in Australia, but you can leave tips in Korea and America.
She kept the $2 coin and gave me the 20 cent coins back. Weird.
We started walking back and she took out her cigarettes, slowing down to light it up. I decided I wasn't going to always pander her so I just kept walking. After a while she still hadn't caught up, and so I turned around and she was nowhere to be seen. I started walking back to find her, and she finally came out from behind a car, lol.
We held hands a bit until she stopped to look at the water. I asked if she wanted a closer look and she said no. I asked what she was thinking and she didn't say.
We made our way back to the hotel, and immediately she got into bed and asked me to turn out the lights. I did, and then got into bed. At first there was a bit of space in between us, but then we ended up holding each other.
I thought it'd be hard to sleep, but I eventually fell asleep. I would wake up occasionally throughout the night, being conscious as to how our bodies were. Sometimes I would hold her tight, sometimes our legs would intertwine. Sometimes I had my legs over hers. At one point I turned to face the other way and she held me like I had held her, draping her leg over me. Sometimes we held hands with our fingers intertwined.
As the night went on I got a bit more daring, cupping her breast, and she didn't complain. I remember some movement woke me up, and I mumbled "Erica" and she said "mm?" and I said "I like you" and she said "I know". I said it again later on and she didn't say anything.
Also, it got kinda hot at one stage, and I didn't want to get all sweaty, so I took my shirt off and threw it onto the chair. She felt my arms as we returned to holding each other.
In the morning I heard her alarm, and then shortly after my alarm went off. I got out of bed, used the bathroom and got dressed. I said I had to go to work and she woke up as well. We left and caught a taxi back. I said she'd get off first and she understood. We held hands, almost in silence as she was dropped off. I got dropped off closer to my office and got ready for work.
It kinda felt like a dream, like I needed to ask myself if that had just happened. But I was pretty sure it did.
Other than a game invite she sent a few hours later, and me sending her the photos from the night, we haven't had any contact.
I wonder now, is this a good time to end things?
At lunch, I went to a jewellery store and bought a chain with a heart pendant.
In the afternoon, I finally did it. Instead of booking for Thursday, Friday and Saturday night like I had envisaged/fantasised, I booked for Thursday night only, figuring it could be easy to extend if required.
I eagerly waited till 6pm for her to call. She sent me a message saying she'd be late, and asked about 9pm.
9PM?!?!?!?!?!?
I sent back a message "9pm?" with a sad face. Then I didn't hear from her until about 7:30pm. I had gone for a walk because I didn't want to stay in the office. I walked to the hotel I had booked and realised it was quite far away in the city. I had sat down to play some games on my phone when she messaged me. She said she'd be late, then asked about 11pm, then said something about seeing me tomorrow.
Needless to say, I got pissed off. I said "I paid for hotel tonight..."
She replied "no" and "hotel? no".
I said "I already paid..." and "and bought present"
She said in Korean, sleep over she does not do, then sighed, and said she'd call me later.
I was pissed. I had starved until now, and she had the audacity to even suggest meeting tomorrow. I thought this was just great - fighting on Valentine's Day. What the hell was she doing anyway? One of her messages said something about dinner. Was she having dinner with friends? Or was she out with another guy?
I didn't reply to her messages and went to eat Macca's. It was about 8pm when she called. I was eating and didn't want to answer anyway. She rang twice and then SMS'd me asking me to call her.
I thought about just going home and forgetting about the whole thing. But then part of me didn't want to blow this up. This was also my thought when I had those fights with Bo. So after I finished eating, I called her back, and after some problems with our phones, I finally got to speak to her.
Almost angrily, I asked "where are you?" and she didn't seem to understand at first. She said she was in the city and I said I was in the city. I repeated "where are you?" with more urgency, and she shouted back "hair!" which I took to mean she was having her hair done. I said to call me in an hour and we hung up.
I went back to my office and waited until 9pm. At 9:10pm I decided to just go home. I had to go out to Campbelltown the next day for work anyway, so I took the suitcase out of the office and started walking to my bus stop, when she called. She asked me where I was and I said city. She asked me where to meet and I said her place. She sounded reluctant and wanted to suggest elsewhere but didn't know how to say it. I asked if she was home, and she didn't answer, but I heard some girl in the background and her speaking in Korean.
Finally she agreed to meet at her place. I went back to the office to put the suitcase back and then went looking for her. She called me asking me where I was, and I said I was walking there now. She said she was at Hungry Jacks.
I found her at Hungry Jacks and she was on the phone. She gestured for me to walk. Sometimes when I would walk with her, she hushed me to walk in front of her. I wondered if she was talking to a guy. It's not like I could understand what she was saying anyway.
We made it to the part of the road across from KFC when she finally hung up. She said her manager had seen her with me on Monday. I asked if she got in trouble and she said no, but she said that's why we can't be seen together. She kept hushing for me to walk ahead of her. I decided to avoid this goddamn main street but it seemed like there were just so many people no matter where we went. It was like I had a mind blank where I couldn't think of anywhere else to go other than the bloody main street.
I finally went downstairs to Town Hall and then back up to QVB, with some complaints from her about stairs and walking.
I asked if she wanted to see the hotel and she said yes. We took a taxi there, and we held hands in the back seat. I noticed she was wearing jeans with large holes in them. Her white shirt also had holes and had one shoulder exposed.
We got off in front of the hotel, and we began walking in when I asked her if she wanted to, and she said no, so we turned around. I asked again and said we could just have a look. I said we could just talk and she agreed. So I checked in and we went up to level 16 and found the room.
It was nice, but the view wasn't that great. She sat down on the chair and I gave her the chain. She studied the card I had written for her, which was just "To: Ericaaaaaa, From: [insert name here]". Then she opened it and said she liked it as she looked at it. I took it from her and offered to put it on, standing behind her and fitting it on as she held her hair up.
I said a few times that this room was expensive ($450) and she asked how much. I didn't say, and she said when her manager saw us on Monday, she told her manager I was a customer, which meant she had to fork out $2000. I suddenly felt so much guilt - after being angry at her for her tardiness, she had to incur such a loss for me. And she didn't even ask me for the money. I kissed her on the lips.
She said she was hungry. I thought she said she couldn't eat today, but I figured what she meant was she hadn't eaten all day. So I said we could go get something to eat. She asked if we were coming back, and I said yes. She said she didn't want to come back. I said fine then. As we walked towards the lifts, she said we could sleep afterwards, but only sleep. I said ok, figuring maybe I was getting one step closer.
We went out and she wanted a Korean restaurant because she wanted soju. I said there were no Korean restaurants around here and decided to take her to Pancakes on the Rocks. We started walking and she started complaining about walking. She said in Korea she didn't walk. I asked her how she got around. She said car and I asked if she drove. She said no, but she had many guys. I laughed.
She asked me where her flowers were because it was Valentine's Day. I said she didn't like flowers because they died. I said if I buy flowers, they die. If I buy her chocolate, she gets fat. She started laughing. If I buy her pendant, she wants chain. If I buy her handbag, she says it's too small. I noticed she stopped laughing and was about to take me up on that last point but didn't. I continued, saying if I bought her the world she would want the moon. If I bought her a BMW she would want a Mercedes. She said she liked Audi and I said I did too.
She asked me where I was taking her and I said just a few minutes as we kept walking. At one point she punched me very hard on the left arm.
I thought maybe we had walked past it, because I didn't remember it being this far. I started looking backwards, and she teased me "first time?" and I said no. I finally found it, and when I saw that there was a line, I was disappointed. However, I think she was impressed because it meant it was good. She looked at the menu that the couple in front of us were holding. I asked if she wanted to wait or go somewhere else, and she said we could stay.
Sometimes we'd joke and I'd pretend to hit her face, and she said something about how in Korea you could never touch a woman's face, and she got pretty pissed when I tried to do it the next few times. I joked that she would pay for this meal, and she said "dutch", which I was impressed with.
When we got closer to the front of the line, she checked out the menu and said she wanted the pork ribs. I said I'd get the beef ribs. She asked if I had eaten. I lied and said no as I was waiting for her.
She wanted the booth and so I asked and had to wait a bit longer for that. When we got it we sat down and started looking at the menu again. She said she also wanted a chicken caesar salad. So we ordered that and two beers.
We waited a long time for our food, but talked as we waited. I started rolling my sleeves up, and when I had done my right one, she offered to do my left, being very very careful as she folded it back. I then jokingly offered to do hers, even though it was basically a sleeveless shirt. She said I was crazy.
She said some customers used the drug ice and offered it to her, and she said they were crazy. She asked if I was a lawyer for drugs, and I said yes, then showed her the translation for "prosecutor". She nodded to show she understood.
I asked her what she was doing last Valentine's Day and she said she was with her boyfriend. I asked if she was sad they broke up and she said no. I asked if he was sad and couldn't really understand her answer. She tried to explain why they broke up but I couldn't understand. She asked me why and I didn't answer.
I asked her where my Valentine's Day present was. She said she would give it to me on something day. I couldn't understand what. She said it was in March. When I got home, I looked it up and apparently there is a day called White Day where women give presents to men.
We talked about me learning Korean, and she made fun of me saying I learnt only the basics, and said "my name is" in Korean, and said even she knew that.
She said her visa was expiring in March and waited for me to react before laughing (I didn't really react), then she said her visa was expiring in June, and put her hands out to ask "visa". I slapped her hands. She said she didn't want to get the student visa because it was too expensive. She asked if I was a permanent resident and I said I was a citizen. She said she wanted to stay here to work, but if she had to go back, she might keep working in this field for another year and then work with her sister's shop doing make up I think it was.
She said she would send money back to her parents. She asked if I would be going back to Hong Kong permanently, and I said no, I am going to stay here.
She asked me if I made a lot of money and I said maybe. She said she made a lot of money.
She said she loved me but as she said it, a waiter walked past with some food which immediately caught her attention as she was hungry, and I made fun of her because it seemed not genuine.
The food came and we started eating. I cut off a piece of my beef and fed it to her which she ate. She did the same in return with her pork, and as the night went on, we did that a few more times and would sometimes just cut it up and put it on the other's plate. She said she didn't like the pork as much as the beef, so I gave her some more. Sometimes she'd just take it from my plate. She offered me her wedges, which she didn't eat much. The chicken caesar salad was really good.
We ate so much food, and she went through a few beers, and at the end she asked me where the toilet was and I said downstairs. The bill came and I paid for it, it was only $90 anyway. We went to the till together, and I said let's go. She stood there, and I wondered what she wanted. She waited for the change and took it. I said I wanted to leave a tip, she said not in Australia, but you can leave tips in Korea and America.
She kept the $2 coin and gave me the 20 cent coins back. Weird.
We started walking back and she took out her cigarettes, slowing down to light it up. I decided I wasn't going to always pander her so I just kept walking. After a while she still hadn't caught up, and so I turned around and she was nowhere to be seen. I started walking back to find her, and she finally came out from behind a car, lol.
We held hands a bit until she stopped to look at the water. I asked if she wanted a closer look and she said no. I asked what she was thinking and she didn't say.
We made our way back to the hotel, and immediately she got into bed and asked me to turn out the lights. I did, and then got into bed. At first there was a bit of space in between us, but then we ended up holding each other.
I thought it'd be hard to sleep, but I eventually fell asleep. I would wake up occasionally throughout the night, being conscious as to how our bodies were. Sometimes I would hold her tight, sometimes our legs would intertwine. Sometimes I had my legs over hers. At one point I turned to face the other way and she held me like I had held her, draping her leg over me. Sometimes we held hands with our fingers intertwined.
As the night went on I got a bit more daring, cupping her breast, and she didn't complain. I remember some movement woke me up, and I mumbled "Erica" and she said "mm?" and I said "I like you" and she said "I know". I said it again later on and she didn't say anything.
Also, it got kinda hot at one stage, and I didn't want to get all sweaty, so I took my shirt off and threw it onto the chair. She felt my arms as we returned to holding each other.
In the morning I heard her alarm, and then shortly after my alarm went off. I got out of bed, used the bathroom and got dressed. I said I had to go to work and she woke up as well. We left and caught a taxi back. I said she'd get off first and she understood. We held hands, almost in silence as she was dropped off. I got dropped off closer to my office and got ready for work.
It kinda felt like a dream, like I needed to ask myself if that had just happened. But I was pretty sure it did.
Other than a game invite she sent a few hours later, and me sending her the photos from the night, we haven't had any contact.
I wonder now, is this a good time to end things?
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