talking

PEE AND PUKE'S ROOM - THREE A.M.
pee, naked but for wet underwear, comes in from their "bathroom", which is just a dripping tap, a hole in the floor, a mirror above a shelf with whitening creams. the smell of pee's apple blossom shampoo mixes with the sweat and the dirty plates of the tenants snoring on the same floor. cars are splashing by in the rain on the expressway few meters from their open window. it is a hot and sultry night. puke, in wet underwear too, is squatting on the floor, washing their clothes in a plastic bucket.
pee (trying to dry his body with a soggy towel): you know…
puke giggles.
pee (giggling too): … tonight's farang…
puke giggles.
pee: … said, "let's talk!" i think he means about what he wants, but he gets out notebook and pen and asks me, "where are you coming from?" i say, "uttaradit province."
puke (giggling): normally, you're from lampang…
pee: don't talk about lampang! i hate lampang.
puke (giggling): don't talk about lampang!
pee: i want to talk about lampang…
puke (giggling): will it not upset you, brother?
pee: i want to be upset. i hate lampang, you know uncle teacher…
puke (giggling): khrap?
pee: he makes me cooks for him… and at night… normally, i sleep on my mat in the school building, but one night, he is drunk…
puke (giggling): never mind!
pee: is a student no human being?
puke (giggling): would you like to drink some water?
pee (violent): i kill him for sure! he is a sadist. that evening…

LAMPANG - FIVE YEARS AGO
a wooden village house on stilts, open windows, one electrical fan, a small tv. uncle teacher is sitting on an iron bed, watching the evening news, drinking whiskey.
uncle teacher (wiping the sweat from his face with a dirty handkerchief): don't be so difficult, handsome one!
pee: please, uncle teacher sir, there is homework to do!
uncle teacher catches pee's arm and pulls him onto the bed. uncle teacher's sticky body smells of the chinese medicine that he is using to stay strong. he pushes pee flat on the belly and rapes him, hurting him.
when uncle teacher has finished, pee runs out of the room, pulling up his shorts, crying. some rowdies playing taekraw outside the showers see him stumbling down the wooden stairs, guess what is going on and shout, "come here, assfucked! we want to have fun with you too!"

PEE AND PUKE'S ROOM - THREE A.M.
pee lies down on the cool terrazzo floor with his head in puke's lap. puke is massaging pee's neck.
pee (crying): i hate lampang.
puke (giggling): what did the farang want to know?
pee (smiling with tears in his eyes): khun boss sent me to the hotel oriantan.
puke (giggling): you get a good tip…
pee (giggling): listen, brother!

ORIENTAL HOTEL PARKING LOT – TEN P.M.
security mani [in thai]: come here, chink! where are you going?
pee (showing a paper slip) [in thai]: sir, this farang has called for massage.
security mani: no massage!
pee: how much is your fee, sir?
security mani (facing away impolitely): six hundred baht! give me your id! use the stairs!
pee: sure, sir!

PEE AND PUKE'S ROOM - THREE A.M.
puke is massaging pee's shoulders.
puke (giggling): how much did the farang tip you?
pee (giggling): listen, brother!

ORIENTAL HOTEL
pee emerges from the service stairs and knocks at the door of the gore vidal suite.
after a few seconds, the door opens.

PEE AND PUKE'S ROOM - THREE A.M.
puke can see that pee is getting in the mood
puke (giggling): what type?
pee (giggling because puke's thing is pressing against his neck): the door opens, and there is…
puke (giggling, pushing up his crotch): khrap!
pee: half a farang!
puke (giggling, rubbing his thing against pee's back): half a farang?
pee (giggling, touching himself): half a farang, khrap!
puke (giggling, flexing his thing): so you get only half a tip?
pee (giggling, pushing down): through the door, i can see only the right half of this farang... because he is… fatter than professor klump! i want to run away, but khun boss will fine me…
puke (massaging pee's face): how much do you spend for the taxi?
pee (biting pee's hand): i think "fifty minutes" and slip out of my shoes.
puke (reaching for pee's thing): today must be our lucky day. i go to the hotel row…
pee (lifting his head): why do you go there?
puke (pushing down pee's head): i fear three geeks want to share one barman, but it is only one chink…

ROSE HOTEL
a middle-aged chinese businessman in a hotel terry robe, smelling like fried alaska about to self-ignite, opens the door of room 112 and stares at puke.
khun han: you no! you black!
puke: no black.
khun han: black. you go!
puke: no black. money taxi, you?
khun han: you go!
puke: money taxi, you!
happily, a room-service waiter carrying a tray loaded with dirty plates passes by and, eyeing indiscreetly what khun han's slipping robe reveals, sides with puke. after besotted remonstrations, khun han hands puke hundred baht.

PEE AND PUKE'S ROOM - THREE A.M.
pee (biting into puke's underwear): you black!
puke (playing with pee's ears): did you top?
pee (one hand inside puke's underwear): i'm not a mahout. i suffer from vertigo.
puke clutches pee's hand...
pee (pushing puke's hand away): the farang asked me to come and live with him in germany.
puke (pulling pee towards him): do you like white elephants?
pee (giggling): he is rich. i will go!
puke (sniff kissing pee's forehead): take me with you, brother!
pee (pulling puke's head down to french kiss): no, you black!