chapter 1
I hear a faint beeping sound in the distance, I listen hard for a moment as the sound gets louder and louder as if its moving closer to me, I open my eyes and look around my dark bedroom for a few seconds, I roll over to discover the beeping sound is coming from my alarm clock sitting on my bedside table, I sit up in my bed and reach over to press the stop button on the alarm, I stare at the clock in shock for a few seconds trying to remember why on earth I would set it to go off at four in the morning, I can't for the life of me remember, as I am trying to remember my bedroom door opens and my mum Chloe walks in.
"Oh good you're awake, hurry and get dressed or we'll miss the flight" she grabs a suitcase and a duffel bag that are sitting at the end of my bed and hurries out the room with them, I'm starting to wake up a little more now and I remember why I'm up so early, I jump out of bed and run into the bathroom for a quick shower, as I wash myself I can't contain my excitement.
I should explain, you see a close friend of one of my mums previous boyfriends used to go to Thailand every year at Christmas because he loves it there and he hates cold weather, so winter was the perfect time to go, anyway every time he would come back he would always tell my mum and I what it was like and we've always wanted to go, unfortunately when my mum left her boyfriend because he was no good she also lost contact with his friend and we haven't seen him in years, anyway we were planning on going on holiday somewhere as a family with my mums current fiancé Sean and he remembered mum telling him about Thailand and our interest in going so we booked the tickets and here we are, we've also booked tickets to go to a kickboxing match, our whole family loves kickboxing and we watch it any chance we get, we booked to see the main match of the night, we've heard the fighter is amazing and we want to see for ourselves, he's Thailand's champion and his name is Tong Po, he's fighting an American champion called Eric Sloan, we've seen him fight on TV and he's really good, he has a lot of power too.
I finish showering and step out to dry myself off, I grab the fresh clothes I brought in with me and slip them on, I feel refreshed and more awake after my shower and also now that the excitement has kicked in, I walk back to my room and grab my hair dryer from my wardrobe and switch it on, I grab my hair brush so I can detangle and dry my hair it at the same time, when my hair is as dry as I'll get it I switch of the dryer and put it away, I'm just sharing mums while we're away because we don't see the point in taking two, I grab a hair tie and head downstairs to the kitchen, I walk in to find some cereal on the table for me, I sit down and start to eat, once I'm done I wash my dish and put it away.
"Are you ready to leave, Sean's in the taxi with the luggage" mum asks
"Yeah I'm ready lets go" I answer back
We grab our jackets and head outside where the taxi is waiting, once we're all buckled in, the taxi pulls out and starts to drive in the direction of the airport.
After a long day of travelling we finally arrive in Thailand it's late afternoon and we have just enough time to drop our luggage at the hotel before we have to head to the arena, when we get there we show the man at the door our tickets, he say's the other fight was delayed and has only just started but our seats weren't booked and are free so we were welcome to go and watch the rest of the current fight we go in and make our way to the front row quickly so we don't disturb anyone's sight, we sit down and start to watch the match, as the fight drags on I find I can't get interested in it, I think it's because I don't know who any of the fighters are, and the fact that nature is calling, I lean towards mum and say.
"I'm gonna see if I can find the toilet"
"ok, just be careful honey" she say's as she gives me a concerned look
"I'll be fine mum I am twenty five years old after all" I answer jokingly more to reassure her than anything.
"I mean it Sian just please be careful" she say's back
I nod at her showing her I understand, oh and yeah I forgot to mention my names Sian, I think it's a Thailand name but I'm not sure all I know is my mum heard it from a movie based in Thailand and when she gave birth to me she said it just seemed right, I make my way through the crowd to a door that looks like it could lead to a bathroom, I go through it and since no one stops me I guess it's the right way, I walk through a long corridor looking for any signs of toilet doors but there's not a single door here, so I carry on following the corridor until I reach the end, there's a door here so I open it and see a set of stairs leading down, I follow them and end up in another corridor at the bottom, it goes like this for a while following corridors and stairs until I finally give up and admit to myself that I'm completely lost, that's when I hear it.
BANG…..BANG…..BANG I make the decision to follow the banging as it might be a fighter warming up and if so maybe they can show me to the lady's room, as I walk down the corridor I turn a corner and see a door way to a room inside there is a robe and a pair of boxing gloves hanging on a set of hooks attached to a wall, I hear the banging again and know it's coming from the room, taking a deep breath I advance forward, just before every bang a hand appears and then swings out of view and then the bang happens and at the same what looks like a hair plait also swings round, I stop dead in my tracks I can't even see the person yet but I know who it is, the most brutal fighter ever heard of and also the only fighter I know to have a long black plait of hair, I am about to come face to face with TONG PO and ask him where I can pee, that's a bit embarrassing, I debate turning and heading back but I didn't see anyone else down here and I have a weak bladder so holding it in isn't really an option for me, there is only one option I must face the most scariest man on earth and ask him if he know where I can pee, of course I'll ask him in a more ladylike manner so I keep some of my dignity, as I advance towards the doorway he comes into sight and HOLY FUCK, HE'S KICKING ONE OF THE BUILDING PILLERS, HOW IS HE NOT BREAKING HIS LEG, I stand there and I cannot help the gulp that I swallow down, he suddenly stops, oh shit he knows I'm here , he turns around to face me and HOLY FUCK, I'M GOING TO NEED A NEW PAIR OF PANTIES.