Outrage…

“Asian Fucker! What are you doing to my daughter!?!” Screamed an older Thai woman that stood screaming & right in front of me. She was quiet a hellcat, and was a hairs breadth from assaulting me physically. However, I just stood there stoically & only moving to help Piya by putting everything in an efficient order into the trunk & back seat.

Piya had already put all the clothes in my car before starting with Yui’s more sentimental items & books. There were a lot of science & math books, more than I thought was possible for a science teacher to own. To me it looked like she was studying to teach as a professor in college. We were fortunate my car was a '21 Toyota 4Runner SR5

“Miss Li, I am Piya’s boyfriend. I am just helping my girlfriend, help a friend.” Of course, Piya chose that moment to walk out of the house with more items. Her eyes twinkled at hearing me call her my girlfriend. It was a little ironic she would react that way to me being so bold, even if it was a smoke screen. When we first met she was purely committed to just being a tease. Now she seemed to want to act as if it was true, so that is what she did.

The mother swore a bunch of profanities that you failed to understand. Then she switched back to broken English. “Bullshit, I know Yui has been going on dates with an American, & now you appear?”

Unable to help myself I chuckled mirthlessly, "You do realize that you yourself, are American?"

“Miss Yancey, Steven and I are quite serious. I know you are concerned, but didn’t you tell Yui that she had to abide by your rules if she wanted to live in your house? This is her answer.”

Apparently, Piya being allowed into the house was beyond the mother’s ability to change… or Yancey had yet to think of it. However, I was absolutely prohibited from entering. Piya’s frankness with Yancey also surprised me, that left you feeling that Piya words were essentially accepted as if Yui said it herself. The mother had obviously already decided to ignore your comment that she was also an American.

“Oh, I heard you dropped pour Yafeu for some handsome American just because he fucked you good. Yet my Yui is not like that. She is pure & virtuous. She would never let her cunt make her decisions.”

Piya’s turned towards me because her face was unable to hide the anger on her face. The tears in her eyes led me to pulling her into my chest and comforting her. I had to admit that was the most hateful dictum that I have ever heard another human being utter. Feeling full blown xenophobia leveled at me was hardly pleasant, but her reaction helped me see past my own emotions. To realize we needed to leave. To have a stranger say hateful words is much easier to shrug off than having someone you saw as equal to your own mother.

Ironically, despite the yelling & words Yancey had yet to actually stop Piya. All of Yui's belongings were packed &.

“Don’t you dare leave! I am not done with you Piya! I will not have you corrupting my daughter!”

Opening the passenger door, I let Piya turn to address Yancey before sliding into the passenger seat. “This whole experience, & that attitude is why she is moving in with me. She is done with your arranged dates & pestering her for pure Thai grandchildren.

“Yes, we are done.” With that Piya sank down into the bucket seat & shut her door. Yancey didn't let that stop her from yelling more obscenities.

Then, fortunately, Yancey didn't try to physically impede me from driving away and back into traffic leaving Yancey feeling impotent. I had a feeling that was a rare occurrence even when speaking to her husband. She was obviously the one who ruled the children & their home. She was unused to someone simply walking away from her.

We took off back towards my apartment. It was across town and so this would be a lengthy trip, but Yui had called you up overjoyed with the success of the event.

However, Piya was silent for a few minutes after I tapped my earbud to cut the call. You was somewhat grateful for the silence as you needed to decompress from seeing your soon-to-be mother-in-law for the first time.

Then without really thinking about what you were saying, “Are your parents like that?”

Piya giggles for three minutes before answering, “Oh yes, they are a great deal worse… They would have revoked Yui's right to enter their home.

"The experiment with Yafeu was partly an effort to appease them, he is a part of the community that sought & was granted asylum from the homeland. They loved having dinner with him. Then last year I realized I had enough persisting income & an abundance in savings that enabled me to move out. They had the same reaction as Yancey but I used ear plugs & continued grabbing just what was mine, though we might go through that again in the future over you," she said mysteriously "Mostly though because my father is the Christian pastor that moved our clan to America seeking asylum after the revolution. I suppose I was preparing myself for you too though…” She spoke.

The dictum surprised me enough to also understand the previous comment. “Do you and Yui talk about everything in your lives?”

“Oh yes, we chose each other as sisters. She would drop everything for me, and me her. Our own actual sisters fall far short of inspiring that kind of reaction... We love them, but their priorities are rightfully different than ours.”

“… I had to block my parents' phone numbers, & half my relatives. because of Aor’s big mouth. I knew it would happen but I… just would have been nice to have been pleasantly surprised.”

“So, your parents also think I am your boyfriend?” I ask with an amused chuckle.

Piya turned to look at me with a mysterious expression I found difficult to read. “Oh, you think you aren’t my boyfriend?

“Who met you first? Who kissed you first? Who did you go looking for in the club based on a pleasant memory? Who fucked you first? So, who exactly is Yui marrying?”

That line of questions irritated you, “If that is true, then why did you disappear at college?”

A pained look crossed Piya’s eyes as she looked away to collect her thoughts, & gather a response. “Please take us to my house. We can get some things from your apartment later, before picking up Yui.”

I was confused by the request from Piya. “I am in love with and committed to Yui. I know she loves you but she seemed pretty confident in accepting my proposal.”

Piya half smiled & waved her hand as if to dismiss the concern from me. “That is part of why I am even more in love with you. We are both also in love with the same girl.

"What I want is to join it. I know Yui has fallen for you hard, & I know you can see either of us as a tamed wife… well taming Yui is actually a bit more possible than me. Still if I have to share either of you, to have the other. Then that is what I will do.

“You think I didn’t want you in college? Oh you are funny. I am stronger than I look, Yui is my best friend after-all. I would have never stuck around to be kissed. You are ignorant of your own reputation.

“I looked for a Thai boy like you for a long time. Yafeu was the latest in a long line of boys teaching me that there is only one of you.”

“How will you convince Yui? Because you will have to convince her before I agree to it.”

Piya smiled brightly, “You are missing the boat. If you reacted to what I want, in any way other than that right there; then I would just disappear again on you.

“Your inner morality & ethics. As long as you believe in something, the rest of the world can burn.

“Thai boys are only about responsibility to family. They fail to even think of what a Thai girl may want besides a dick to fuck.”

A minute later, as I continued to my original destination but for a reason inclusive with what she wanted, Piya continued. “That is why I dumped Yafeu that night. I am sorry I abandoned you that night… I didn't really intend to abandon you, I just had to give something meaningful back to Yafeu…”

I reached over without looking and squeezed Piya’s hand affectionately. “I obviously forgave you Piya. Even then I understood some drama unrelated to me was happening that night.”

“That is just it, it was related to you, I just failed to realize it until you stormed off leaving the club. We may have not known each other well in college but you were more well known than you think. I was attracted to you then too; Yet, just like Yancey & Yui, my father would have disowned me. He literally could do nothing less, because he was our Christian pastor in Thai. Our entire clan looks to him for guidance.

“I spent the next couple years trying to find a Thai boy that was essentially you. Ironically, along the way I had some success with a few specific iPhone & Android apps that made me independently wealthy.

“Yet then my father thought his little girl couldn’t be independently wealth & not be tied to a man. So, he tried even harder than Yancey to **** me to accept a man between my legs when I was only half way through college. Therefore, I left home.”

I pulled up to my apartment’s parking lot. Piya finally noticed where we were and looked at me with a pained & betrayed expression but I expected this reaction. “I figured this vehicle still has some spare room. Plus, you have still to actually say why you want Yui & I to live with you.”

Piya’s mood instantly flipped as she jumped out of the car with you. “Oh! OK, well I know how she will react to me broaching the subject. It will be better when she sees that I am accepting you both to live with me. Besides, the house being otherwise empty is why I am always having a party.”