Breaking and Entering

Outside Olongapo City in the Philippine islands in 1976

Mommasan stands wiping to bar with a damp wet rag. Three tired bar girls slouched on the barstools at the far end, chattering to each other in Tagalog like monkeys in a tree. To the right of the bar was the small Sari Sari store that filled the rest of the downstairs area of Mommasan's house. Little Maria, Mommasan's 11 year old daughter was busy sweeping out the store and generally cleaning and straightening up the somewhat limited number of items on the shelf. I turned up the bottle of San Miguel and chugged the last third of the bottle and set it on the bar. "Mommasan, you ain't gonna have any business tonight. My ship is having a party at Baloy Beach and there's no one left in port that will come here but me." Mommasan looked at me with owlish eyes and said. " You shut up you. I have plenty customers come round when you not in port." I waved my hand around the bar indicating its empty interior. "Yeah Mommasan I can see how busy you are." I laughed at my cutting humor; I wanted to plant the idea of closing early in her head. Mommasan looked around the bar and sighed.
Ailee, one of the bar girls slipped from her stool and moved in behind me, wrapped her arms around me and began to run her fingers lightly across my crotch as she whispered in my ear. " You take me to party pretty please? I make you so happy I go with you." She leaned forward and kissed the side of my neck and licked my ear. I reached back with both hands and cupped her firm young buttocks and pulled her tightly against my back then moved her back and forth by her hips from side to side against me. "No Ailee I ain't gonna take you to the party. I know you'd be gone in a flash trying to hook up with one of the officers." She pulled away from me and playfully slapped my shoulder as she said, "No no, I no butterfly, I go with you, I stay with you." I laughed and spun around on the stool and jammed my knee between her thighs and pulled her back against me and buried my face between her halter-covered breasts and faked a loud moan. Aliee began laughing, as did Mommasan as she watched our antics from the end of the bar. Mommasan sighed heavily and looked around at the empty bar, the silent jukebox and the girls sitting idly whispering back amongst themselves and threw her rag on the bar with a loud splat! "AIEEE I no make money tonight. You girls, you go now. Go home to families and come back tomorrow and make me money." 
Mommasan turned and called Maria to her and as the young girl came near, pulled her close and began whispering rapidly and gesturing towards me. Maria began to grin and nod her head enthusiastically as her mother took something from the pocket of her dress and placed in Maria's hand and folded the girls fingers over it. Maria then ran through the beaded curtain to the family rooms in back as Mammasan strolled over to me with a look of mischief in her eye. I eyed Mammasan with trepidation; she had a reputation for devious mischief that I knew well having been taken advantage of several times by her wiles. 
"It all you fault I got no business. You owe me big time."
Mammasan walked around the bar and sauntered sexily up to me and wormed her way to stand between my knees, her crotch pressed tightly against me. She reached out with both hands and leaned forward to rest them on either side of me effectively holding me prisoner. I looked at her with as innocent a look as I could muster and said, "What do you want Mammasan?" 
"I want night off too. I got boyfriend in 'Po city and hubby work all night tonight."
"So?" I cautiously replied wondering just where she was going with this. Mammasan leaned her body against me and gently ground her crotch against mine and grinned.
"I need someone to take care of Maria tonight. You help me and you not be sorry. I promise." She pressed herself more tightly against me and brought her lips within an inch of mine and shocked the hell out of me by whispering, "Please?"
Mammasan was an old-time Olongapo resident; she had never in her life asked a favor and used the word please that I knew of; I was speechless for several seconds as she looked at me anxiously.
"Mammasan, I want to go to the party. I can't watch Maria for you."
"Yes you can, you take Maria with you to party."
I tried to argue with her, to get her to see the foolishness of this idea. "Mammasan there are going to be over 300 drunken sailors there and very few women and the ones that will be there will be there for sex. You don't really want me to take Maria to something like that do you?" I looked into her eyes hoping that she would see reason but fearing that she would not.
"I know you 2 cruises now, You good man. I know you take care of Maria fine. You know Maria like you, think you as her secret boyfriend." 
Maria came bouncing back into the bar. She had changed into a cute peasant blouse and short denim skirt and white sandals. Mammasan pushed off the bar to stand upright before me and took my hands in hers and pulled me from the stool saying, "Maria, you take good care of Paul, he good customer and good friend." and lead me to the door with Maria following us. It was hopeless; Mammasan had out maneuvered me again. Maria ran past me and climbed into the back of the jeepney and sat down looking expectantly at me. I sighed and began to climb in but Mammasan grabbed me and whispered in my ear before I could get all the way in. 
"Be gentle with her she still cherry girl." 
Mammasan then pushed me into the back of the jeepney and it started away before what she had said had registered in my brain. I was stunned. Maria grabbed my hand in both of hers and pulled me down to sit next to her and beamed up at me and said, "We gonna have great time together." And snuggled close. I looked out the back at the rapidly shrinking figure of Mammasan as she stood with folded arms watching us go. I could almost swear I saw I tear trickling down her cheek just before the jeepney rounded the bend and moved out of sight.

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