Goodbye and the rest of the week.

I am woken in the morning briefly by Yui saying goodbye to me. She’s showered and get dressed for her job at the school. The overnight bag she dropped into my apartment yesterday containing everything she needs to go from my place to the school looking completely professional.

“I’ve got to go to work sweetie,” Yui tells me as she gives me a tender kiss on the lips that raises me into consciousness.

“Hey, sorry. I would have got up and made you something to eat if you’d woken me,” I say feeling guilty that I slept in when Yui had to be up early for work.

“You needed your sleep. That was quite the performance last night,” she says as she gives the bed a playful squeeze over my groin.

“Thank you,” I say at Yui’s compliment, “when can I see you again?”

“I’m having lunch with my friend Aor on Saturday. I’m sure she’d love to meet you,” Yui offers the next available space in her busy calendar.

“I’d like that.”

“Now go back to sleep and get some more rest. I want you ready and able next time I see you.”

And after one last kiss that was exactly what I did.

The rest of my week I looked forward to seeing Yui again. At Uni though I kept seeing Piya everywhere but not in a good way. We had been so close the last couple of years that we had subconsciously moulded our schedules around each other. It made running into each other unavoidable. Lectures would finish one after the other so we would see each other coming out and going in. Our quiet spot in the library where we’d both go to get some reading and study done would be taken by the other already. I’d go to grab something to eat at The Ref and Piya would stand up and leave through another entrance the moment I step inside the food hall. Despite not speaking at all I found it draining on my psyche. I thought it better to give her space rather than risk being on the receiving end of one of Piya’s mouthfuls again. I hadn’t heard what had befallen her and her boyfriend after our dance and kiss at The Loft and quiet frankly with Yui in the picture now, I found myself not caring so much.

By the time it came to Friday I was glad to be done with classes for the week. I only had to make it through work that night and I’d get to see Yui tomorrow. We had kept in touch all through the week and were both extremely looking forward to seeing the other again.

I arrived at The Loft for my shift and took up my position with Aaron, Trey and the other security guards. The run sheet had me down in my normal position on the front door checking ID’s as well as the numbers we had coming in and out of The Loft.

Every bar in my city tended to have a certain sort of crowd favour it. Some places where know as Irish bars for their heavy drinking, R&B clubs would be a favourite of the African and Afro-American crowd, Aussie bars, English bars and many, many others for their own specific clientele. The Loft was considered primarily an Australian bar but also known as an international hangout. Students loved the place which is what brought in the majority of the Asian ladies I was fond of. Tonight, looked to be one such night.

A couple of my old conquests came into the club that night. A Vietnamese girl Min and her Italian bestie Maddie arrived early. I’d dated Maddie a couple of years back and had messed around with Min behind her back when the spark with Maddie just hadn’t clicked. Maddie was happy to chat for a while before going in with Min certainly seeming to be giving off the vibe again that she was in the mood for some discrete fun that Maddie should be kept unaware of.

Later came an old friends-with-benefits that I had and I suppose I still did, as we had never officially called an end to things and I’m sure the arrangement would still be there if I was to ask. Dana was Malaysian with the most incredible curvy ass. Tattoos sleeves down both her arms and a big phoenix tattoo I knew was on her lower back but couldn’t see. Dana was friendly as ever, telling me to call her if I was in the mood to catch up later.

In addition to previous partners, there was a few that I had been in the process of getting to know better. A little Filipina girl Flora called past after I hadn’t seen her in a number of months. A cyber-goth of Japan, Akiri, dropped in for the clubs fast WIFI internet. There was also a small blonde from Singapore, Gemma, that I liked the look of and had just started visiting The Loft.

Still, with all these girls I was focused on Yui and getting to know her better. It was only really our second week of seeing each other and my eyes were locked on just her. I was friendly with everyone as I would always be but kept things strictly business. The night came and went without a problem and I was happy to be done with my Friday night and ready to meet Yui and this friend of hers, Aor, tomorrow.

I was up on the roof of The Loft having a drink with the fellas when someone I hadn’t been thinking of plopped herself down on my lap, bright yellow blonde hair in my face. Holly had saught me out after work and from the way she wobbled on my pants, she’d been drinking while she was meant to be working.