The Fall: Chapter 3. Lust

"You’ve fallen from grace, haven’t you?”

I do not know how to answer that. In fact, I haven’t even open my eyes yet. So I open them. I realize that I have woken up on the laps of a woman.

I know the woman. A blonde-haired, twenty-something, tall and well-endowed woman. She used to work for Huang Ming. Huang Ming loved her very much; not in the romantic sense, but for her capabilities, her diligence, her friendliness… According to Huang Ming, everything about her is perfect; she just had one flaw, a flaw so significant that Huang Ming abandoned her. Had Huang Ming not abandon her, Huang Ming’s life will suffer a drastic turn of events.

“I guarantee that you’ll like this, sweetheart…”

She flashes a smile before removing her light-blue jacket, revealing a tight dark-blue singlet underneath. She caresses my left cheek with the back of her right fingers. She slowly places that same hand on my right cheek, gently stroking downwards.

Huang Ming will not like this.

I realize that the water I drank is drugged. What’s with me and drugs today? Also, what’s with me and sinful people today? Also, I am not wearing a mask. I feel exposed.

She carefully avoids the wound, while slowly bringing her hand to my abdomen. It continues its path downwards. Slowly, yet surely, I understand what she wants. Yet, what she wants is not what I want, because what I want is what Huang Ming wants.

I shake my head. She sees it. Her hand does not stop. I quickly lift my head and turn around, facing her. I remain silent. I have no need to question her actions, because Huang Ming does not like questioning the obvious.

“There is no one here.”

I will not give in to trivial pleasures like this. I must. So I stand up. I run. She chases. It is a seemingly endless corridor that gets darker the further we run.

She starts to pull her tight singlet up, whilst still running. It is the most awkward, desperate act any human can ever do.

“You’ve fallen from grace, haven’t you?”

I wake up on her laps. Again. Her face is blue. Green. Red. No, that is the colour of the sky. No, wait. Now I’m certain that she has drugged me; or drugged the water to drug me; or maybe I’m just an unlucky man who drank drugged water.

I stand up and run. She chases. However, I can no longer run a long distance. I feel dizzy. The world is spinning. She is spinning. I think of Huang Ming, and Huang Ming is spinning.

“You’ve fallen from grace, haven’t you?”

I wake up on her naked laps. She is naked. All of her lustful glory is exposed to the world. Not really. We are in some endless corridor. A rather dark one. But it doesn’t change the fact that she is in her most natural form. This is not good.

I will have to escape before I give in to temptations. Yet, I have been drugged. So I believe Huang Ming will understand. Yes, even the almighty Huang Ming himself will become less of a human when exposed to drugs!

“Come here, baby.”

I am enlightened. An act like this will not be of notice to anyone, as there is music in the background! A piano-driven romantic song. There’s violin! Ooh, a wrong note! That makes my ears bleed! Ah, no one will find out about this! Not even Huang Ming!

“I tell you this, there is no man that have ever managed to run away after seeing me! I am the weakness of all men! This includes you!”

Yes, I’ve changed, my dear! I can no longer listen to Huang Ming’s words due to this song! This beautiful song! And your beautiful eyes! Your curvy natural form! Your childishly playful heart! Everything about you has enlightened me! I realize that I no longer need Huang Ming, I only need you! Come to me, baby! Pleasure me with everything you’ve got!

I approach her lips. I can feel it, her natural, soft, smooth pink lips. It feels so… dusty?

She turns into colourful dust. She disappears into the air. I am alone.

I find a mask on the ground. I pick it up and wear it.

I have to hurry. I believe that I am already late for the meeting. I run.

I hear the wails of a woman. A woman kneeling before me! Her hands covering her sobbing eyes!

“I decided that I did not want to be a man, as I want to experience pleasure from a woman’s point of view; so I sold drugs to fund for my gender change operation. Now, after seeing you, who is masked from the world, escape from me, I realize that pleasure isn’t everything! I am too ashamed to face the world!”

It is a very pitiful story, albeit a bizarre one. In fact, I don’t think that Huang Ming will believe this absurd story, not even one bit! But since it’s told by this woman, who was abandoned by Huang Ming, I earnestly believe every single word of it.

I remove my mask.

“You want to give it to me? That won’t do. No matter how ashamed I am of myself, I have to keep a part of myself intact, as a reminder to the future me of the wrongdoings I’ve done!”

I break the mask into half. I wear the left half, and I give her the right half. I am certain that Huang Ming will not lambast me for tearing the mask apart.

“You are now resurrected.”