Hao kisses the bronze natiform bulge, David on the lips, ears, the egg face with the handlebar moustache. Dips his toes into the pool. Laughs. Laughs at bikini girl with a hairy chest, at David sticking his hand in an ice bucket, at the long skinny blinking over his glass. Kisses the pug nose with a toupee. Sticks his hand in the ice bucket. Laughs. Kisses the satin bottom. Wriggles his fingers in the pool. Does ten jumping jacks to the clapping beat. Laughs at David’s outie belly button, his thin waist. Kisses the furrow of hairs leading his shins. Lies prone on the deck and wades an arm in the pool.
“Mr. Chen-li? A phone call for you sir…. Please answer your cellphone out in this balcony as per the rules.”
Hao skips after tutu man into darkly lit balcony. Tutu man hands him his phone.
“I want cotton candy,” Hao says on the phone.
“Hao? Hello? It’s me Micheal—”
“Micheal! Micheal! So long, so long. I loved you so. You ditched me for Judy and Seattle. I cried you know… Cried for in my bed…. Cried when Aunty Mei went out of her to make me braised pork belly …. Micheal! Micheal! so good, so great, so gay, gay. Are you gay yet? Say you’re gay. Please be gay. Crying for a straight guy would be sad. Really mean of you. You’re not mean are you? Please don’t mean. Micheal! Micheal! Are you one dan yet? You better be one day after fifteen years—”
“Are you drunk or something—”
Hao giggles. “Of course not, silly. I am … I want to play in the water!”
“God, Hao, you’re high out of your mind.”
“High, what do you mean high? If I were high, I’ll be in the clouds and the clouds… so full of popcorn. So much popcorn and candy floss. I’m hungry now. Hungry, hungry. Hehe. Big head was jealous of you. Micheal! Micheal! I want to fuck you. Hehe, I said fuck. Fuckikkyty-fuck. Fuck that fuck in the fuck who knows where fuck. Micheal fuck me. Tutu Man looks like a coon cat with makeup.” Hao promptly informs tutu man that he wants to fuck him. He says back to Micheal. “You’re special. I never cried for Big Head, not even after Big Head disappears. Not cried, not even once—”
“Actually I called you to invite to my wedding.”
“Wedding! There must be a cake, ten feet cake. Sky-high with dicks … I’m itchy. I want to swim now.”
“Did you learn how to swim yet?”
“Big head says I should just jump in and let nature take over.”
“You’ll drown.”
“But I trust nature.”
“Just promise me you won’t jump in the pool. You love me, don’t you?”
“Do you? Did you ever?”
“Please don’t make me say it …. Damn it! I cried too, remember?”
“I knew it. Micheal loves me. Micheal loves me … don’t you tell your wife—this makes wife number three?”
“I know Hao. Terrible, terrible, but three’s good number.”
“A very good number. Life, marriage, death. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Ass, balls, cock, fuck, fuck, fuck. Hehe I said fuck. Now I owe Yuu twenty bucks. But Yuu called me a yellow dog whore for the capitalist enterprise. Fuck him. He doesn’t get my twenty bucks. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Three’s a good number. Just make sure there’s no fourth wife. Four is a bad number, number of death—”
“Yeah, yeah, just promise me you won’t swim tonight.”
“If you say you love me.”
“Yes, Hao I do. I love you. That’s enough?”
“Hehe, Micheal loves me. Big Head will be jealous.”
David peers in through the doors. Hao gives phone back to Tutu Man then promptly kisses David’s ear. The night is still young and dark.
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Dead Stones [manxman] [boyxboy]
ChickLitMeet Hao lovelorn and alone. Meet Luke bereaved and alone. They meet over the game of go. And then love happens more or less. LGBT themed. Any go players here? Weiqi? Baduk? Here's a story for those who don't mind a little gay drama around the game.