Love & Death of Cleopatra
(PART 2 OF 5)
“What are you thinking of?”
“How... how come you're here with me?”
“'Cause you've been thinking of me for so long.”
“How do you know?”
“You've been looking for me in this town, haven't you?”
“Give me a break. If you were Cleopatra, how could you possibly speak English?"
“I learned English for you."
The woman sat down right beside Kato.
A sweet smell of perfume tickled his nostrils.
"What kind of smell?" He thought.
It definitely stimulated him sexually.
He had never sensed it before.
However, somewhere in his heart, the watchful self told him, "Do not be fooled!"
Are you still in doubt?
Well...don't you think, you're a bit out of your mind when you meet me like this...in the stark-naked for the first time?
Jeez...are you saying, I'm out of my mind?
Yes, I am. If you aren't out of your mind, you don't have commen sense.
You're talking nonsense. I have more common sense than you have.
Oh, yeah?
Yes, of course. You don't have a common sense to attend the funeral of your own father.
How do you know?
I told you. I've been watching you such a long time that I know everything about you.
But why have you been watching me?
'Cause you wrote about me.
Did I write about you?
Yes, you did. Don't you remember it?
Give me a break. I met you tonight for the first time. How could I possibly write about you?
Actually, I've seen you so many times that you're quite familiar to me...so much so that you're like my husband. hu, hu, hu... Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to appear in the buff like this.
Do you really want me to believe all this?
So, you're thinking I'm telling a fib, aren't you?
The smile vanished completely from the face of the woman for the first time. The cold look floated up on her face as if to face her cheating husband.
Kato pulled himself from her for a moment.
But the woman got closer to challenge him.
Although it was hot and humid in Alexandria, Kato felt a chill deep inside.
Her breasts hardened slightly with the nipples turned up.
The big nipples were those of a mother who gave birth to a child.
Kato saw goose bumps on the skin around the nipple, it was not that cold, though.
He wondered if its cause was anger or lust.
Since you don't seem to believe me, I jot down the story right down here so that you can recall.
When I was an adorable third-grade pupil, 350 pupils of the same grade went to the movie theater near my elementary school to view the animation film called "Son Goku", which is a story about an adventurous monkey. One of the unforgettable scenes was as follows:
The monkey stands on the palm of the giant Buddha who remains seated. The monkey looks up and talks to him. "Hey, you! I'm a great monkey just like a superman. I flew to the end of the world and now I'm back on your palm.
Full of friendliness and mercy, Buddha smiles. "Oh, are you? You can fly from one end of the world to another like a superman, can't you? Why don't you show me some proof?"
"No problem. I can show you the proof. I flew over to the end of the world and wrote my name on the stone pole that stood like a giant finger. If you don't believe it, you should also travel to the end of the world. But I don't think you can do it 'cause you're always sitting like this."
Buddha keeps smiling. "Well, some people see me fly like a superman."
"Don't be silly. You're always sitting like this. How could you possibly fly like a superman?"
"So you've only seen me sitting like this, haven't you?"
Then Buddha slowly expands the palm of the other hand. The middle finger shows the name that the monkey wrote some time ago. "Is this the name you wrote when you flew to the end of the world?"
(To be continued)