First, Salad and a show.

Yui starts in on Dawn and Lawan almost immediately. Teasing the girls for partying the night before, "and don't try to deny it. You girls can't trick Miss Yui and you know I know.

Lawan nods, turning to Dawn and mouths 'Aor'.

Yui responds quickly, "no, not Aor this time but if you want I can message her and confirm this whole thing," she goes and reaches for her purse and phone, "I know you two were out partying last night because I have eyes and enough sense in my head. I'm not so far removed from being young you know."

Dawn and Lawan burst into a fit of joyful giggling, Lawan covering her mouth with her open hand as she tries to get out, "I know Miss Yui, we just caught you making out on school grounds."

Yui hisses a, "ssshhh," as she leans over the table. Her tight pink dress bending and exposing more of her milky tan skin with a faint appearance of her brown nipple as I can see it from my seat.

"We've caught them doing more than making out you dumb-dumb," Dawn chimes in as she leans back laughing. Her fit young body wrapped in the blue fabric of a dress, similar to the ones they wore on their big, apparently forgotten, night out. Only the dress is framed with what appears to be a conservative white shoulder wrap, but it pretty clearly is Dawn drawing attention to her big breasts.

“Oh right, the blow job in the parking lot,” Lawan says a little bit too loudly and a couple of forks land on salad plates near us.

“Ssshhh,” Yui says again but she is unable to fully convey the kind of teacher like authority she normally does, as her face is flushed and she is trying to suppress a giggle of her own.

“La-la, I swear with all the stuff you do how do you stay so damn innocent” Dawn laughs. “Did you not see the condom in Miss Yui’s office? I’m pretty sure we interrupted round two.” Now with a full body shaking laugh, her breasts bouncing up and down and for a second I’m mesmerized but the voices of Holly and Jessica telling me not to fuck the teenagers. It is sound advice for not screwing things up with Piya, and its sound advice to not be eye-fucking Dawn from across the table. So instead I reach over and grab Yui’s hand, bring it up to my lips as I hold it, kissing the back of her hand affectionately before looking up at her and seeing her eyes sparkling with the rush of the conversation being held.

“La-la?” I ask, trying to redirect the conversation.

“Lawan is prone to spacing out,” Yui explains to me, “so Piya and I started calling her La-la. It is a nickname that I think she hates.”

“I DO!” Lawan exclaims louder still before the sound of her own voice aggravates her hangover and she winces. This causes Dawn to laugh so hard she does the same thing to herself.

“Fuck! Ow!” Dawn presses her hand against her temple. “La-la we are so screwed. I don’t know how we are going to do this feeling this way.”

“Do what?” Yui asks her two students as they grimace through the pain of their headaches, “what are you two up to?”

Lawan looks up and down from her hands to Yui and back as she explains, “we have a special surprise for you, Yui. Well, had. We were going to sing at this dinner, Mother Superior Constance asked us a couple weeks ago.”

“But I don’t know how we can do this in the state we’re in,” Lawan looks over to Dawn to confirm her friend is in the same state.

I reach over and grab both of their water glasses, both almost full to the top, both with lipstick smudges on them. Checking the pitcher in the middle of the table clearly Dawn and Lawan have been chugging water since before me and Yui joined the table.

Reaching for the salt shaker next, I screw off the top and pour large quantity of salt into each of the glasses, then stirring the water into a cloudy salty mixture with my salad fork I hand the glasses back to the young soon to be school graduates, “here drink this, drink all of it and drink it fast. It will help.”

The girls look at me, then each other, then at Yui who nods and shrugs. They both bring the glasses to their lips and start to tilt back, their chins lifted as they struggle to throw the salty drink back.

“Electrolyte thing?” Yui asks me to which I nod. “Oh, you’re so smart!” It is my turn to blush as she says this.

“Not really, I’ve just been where they are before.”

Dawn finishes her glass first, and as she does she gags a little bit and complains how nasty it tastes, “eww! it tastes like watered down cum!”

As she blurts that out one of the nuns is walking by and is stopped dead in her tracks, staring at Dawn until Dawn apologizes. The nun then walks away shaking her head.

“What do I care, I'm graduating anyway,” Dawn says defensively.

“I still work here Dawn,” Yui says with a playful smile as she throws her napkin at Dawn.

“Actually, I feel better already! Thanks A.F.” Lawan blurts out before getting slapped on her thigh by Dawn and getting a vicious **** stare from Yui.

“Do I have a nickname too?” I ask a now suddenly suspiciously quiet table.

The pause lingers before Yui finally speaks up, “Aor…” Yui falls back against the back of her chair, taking a deep breath before starting back up again “Aor has given you a nickname, it’s short for Asian Fucker.”

“I’m sorry I called you that, Aor is a gossipy bitch,” Lawan says sincerely to me.

“Be nice, she is our friend!” Yui reminds Lawan, “besides she didn’t call him that to his face.”

“I don’t mind,” I answer honestly “It certainly seems to suit me lately.”

The table erupts in a relieved round of laughter and we all settle in to eat our salad as we see the service starting around the tables collecting plates.

After the salad course, the group of nuns at the front table all take turns and give toasts and speeches to their graduates. They’re all lovely speeches, they don't mean much to me without knowing the school or the faith of these nuns but it makes for a lovely evening. Then Mother Superior Constance rises at her seat and begins her speech.

It is an impassioned plea for the girls, now leaving the safe harbours of St. Magdalena’s school for girls to live their truth. Advising them all to be open for whatever life has in store and again to embrace the fact that they must follow their own path in life. She says how they will meet people, love people, they will be challenged and they will be blessed in ways they have never imagined.

Her tattooed face panning over the dining room as she speaks, asking them all to remember the virtues her and the faculty have been trying to instil in them. Her speech ends with a vivid and practically illicit appeal for the girls to embrace the bliss of womanhood. I turn to Yui and ask her, “is she talking about cumming?”

“You caught that huh?” Yui responds with a blown kiss and a wink.

“And on that note, I just want to say how proud of all of you I am,” the Mother Superior says warmly “you’ve turned into remarkable young women and to celebrate this special night Lawan and Dawn are going to treat us to a beautiful song in their native language before the main course. Please enjoy their performance and the rest of the evening. St. Magdalene’s will always have a place for you in its heart.”

Yui and I look over to the girls as everyone in the dining room claps. They are already close to the front row of tables. Before they start, Lawan addresses the crowded dining room.

“We, want to dedicate this to all the faculty and the sisters who have taught us all so so much. But I want to make a special mention of Miss Yui and my sister who did so much to help me become the woman I am today.” I look over to Yui and I can see she is tearing up slightly. She looks back at me and says “Piya taught her how to sing, but the only problem is Piya cannot sing. Or at least she doesn’t think she can.”

“My sister couldn’t make it tonight but she is responsible for my love of singing. The only problem is she can’t sing,” Lawan says to the crowd

Yui grips my forearm and squeezes, “this is a great story!”

Lawan continues, “but my sister saw how much I loved it, and she did everything she could to help teach me. We couldn’t afford lessons but that didn’t stop Piya from teaching herself how to teach me. She would rent books and tapes from the library and learn just enough to teach me something new until I could sing in English and Thai. I love my sister and all my sister's friends for taking such good care of me.”

With that, the girls start singing the most beautiful melody. The two of them weaving in and out of octaves as they command the entire room’s attention.

I lean over and whisper into Yui’s ear, “wow! is that true, that's amazing. Piya never told me that.”

Yui looks over at me, brimming with pride over her friends and her students “Piya, likes to keep her secrets. Aren’t they amazing?!”

Looking away from my gorgeous date for a moment to see the performance, I look back and see Yui has her phone out, recording the whole song. “Piya is going to cry like a baby when she sees this.”

Yui is the first one standing and clapping when the girls finish and head back to our table. When they finally get back to our table the servers are bringing out the main course.

“Ladies that was amazing, I wish I understood the words!” I say as I stand for them returning to the table.