Like No Other Ch. 19

Chapter 19;


When I woke up the next morning I was right. Unbelievable pain swept through me instantly. My back and left arm hurt like a mother, and my head felt like it’s been hit with a lead truck after being used as a baseball by the New York Yankees. I felt horrible.

Kei was beside me with four Excedrin Migraine capsules and a tall glass of water. I smiled and quickly took the drugs. I was wearing black baggy draw string sleeping pajamas. They were Kei’s, and a pale yellow t-shirt. I shrugged and cradled my head in my hands.

“I scheduled an appointment at this fancy spa me and my parents go to every month for us. We can both get massages, and sea weed wraps and other stuff” Kei said trying to help me feel better. A spa day did sound nice, even though I’ve never been to one.

“When can we leave?” I asked. Kei smiled and jingled his car keys in his hand. I slowly got up and slipped my black flip flops on and followed Kei to his car. Kei gave me a pair of polarized sunglasses before we left his room. Thank god, because bi-polar Florida decided to be sunny as hell today.

We got in his car and drove to this Asian themed Spa. It was nice, much nicer than the one Jimmy worked at a few blocks away. There were flowing man made rivers and Koi fish ponds and elegant wooden bridges all over, it was so peaceful.

“Ah…Master Kim, we’ve been expecting you and your guest” said the owner of the Spa. I grinned. Kei’s parents must pay this Spa real well for the owner to treat two teenagers this well.  

“My friend had a really bad fall yesterday afternoon” Kei said in a very professional voice, “His injuries were received after falling thirty feet on his back. He requires your best masseur, nothing less. Meanwhile I will be in my private quarters, waiting for my waxing” he said. I was stunned. This boy was a pampered prince.

“Right away, Master Kim” the owner said bowing. He waved his arms for his team to get with the program. A dozen people started running in all directions getting prepared for Kei and I.

Kei scoffed and turned to me. He was smiling and led me to a private room that had his last name on the door. We went inside and I was awe struck. It looked like a hotel room, complete with a juice bar.

Kei walked over to a rack of silk robes and pulled two off of the rack. He handed me one and started to strip. I did as he did and slowly undressed, trying my hardest not to bring shooting pain back into focus.

I realized Kei also had changed what I was wearing underneath the pajama pants, I was in tight form fitting black underwear, and they were like cheerleader shorts, just barley being defined as shorts instead of briefs.

I took my shirt off slowly and put the lavender silk robe on. It was short too. It only reached down to mid thigh, so my legs were exposed. I kept my flip flops on because they went with the look. I looked back at Kei and smiled. He was wearing almost the same thing I was, but his robe was white with his last name sewn in with gold satin thread.

“Here” Kei said handing me a gold coin. I looked at it carefully. It had his last name engraved in both sides of the coin. “Where ever you are in the spa, show them this coin and you’ll get whatever you want”

I tucked the coin into my form fitting underwear waistband. I smiled and nodded. I winced a little as the pain in my back started to surface. A nock on the door came and the owner of the spa entered after Kei gave him permission.

“Master Kim…your guest’s massage is ready down the hall. Your sea weed wrap and facial is also ready whenever you are” the man said almost quivering. I think, if the man didn’t not wait on Kei hand and foot, then they would lose the business or something.

“Thank you sir, show my friend to his destination and send your team in” Kei said. He smiled and me and gave me a wink. The owner bowed and signaled me to follow. Before I could blink he was out of the door and wind rushed where he once stood.

As I followed the man in the suit four people rushed into the room with rolling carts of Spa stuff. I couldn’t say what was on them because I was focused on not losing the almost running Spa owner.

He led me down a hall and turned a few times before stopping at a door. He bowed to me, which I found kind of weird, and took off behind me. When I looked back, the man was gone with the wind. I shrugged and entered the room.

The door made a loud sliding noise as I opened and closed it. I heard glass bottles clanking together behind another sliding door. It was one of those Asian doors with rice paper and wood.

“I’ll be right out” the masseur said. He was a man, pretty young too. I could see his shadow through the door. “My boss told me you fell off of a diving board, tough break man. But don’t worry, I have magic fingers that’ll fix-” the masseur stopped once he walked into the room holding massage oils. I think my head started spinning, the masseur was Jimmy. “…you right up…” Jimmy finished after completely stepping into the room.

“Oh, you have got to be kidding me!” is what I should’ve said, but the thought never escaped my mind. I was about to bolt right out o the door, but for some reason my feet weren’t working. I kind of felt like I was being haunted by the ghost of boyfriend’s past, but I wasn’t. Jimmy was actually standing in front of me.

“I…I didn’t know you worked here” I finally said after a long pause between our words.

“Yeah…I just started here last week. They offered me more money and better insurance. No brainer” Jimmy said. I started walking towards the door.

“No, no, Alex. Wait…” Jimmy said. I stopped with my hand on the door knob and turned around to face Jimmy. “Please stay…my boss will kill me if you leave. He said you were with the Kim family and losing them as a client would severely crumble the entire business.

“Why should I care about your job, Jimmy? It’s not like we are together anymore for me to give a shi-” I stopped myself and choked on air. I was mixed with emotions.

“Because…even though I was a complete jerk to you…you always care. You can’t harm anyone, you’re too much of a good person to do that” Jimmy replied. Damn it, he’s right. No matter how angery I am at him, I still love the son of a bitch. I sighed and let go of the door knob.

“You hurt me, Jimmy. You hurt me a lot” I said forcing myself not to cry. I turned around and faced Jimmy. He was staring at me with his deep brown eyes, they were watery. His eyes said what his lips didn’t. They told me he was sorry.

I walked to the massage table and just stared at Jimmy. All I wanted were his hands all over me like before, when we were together. But that’s what my heart wanted. My head told me to protect my heart so he couldn’t break it. But being the idiot I am, I didn’t listen.

“Will you at least stay for the massage?” Jimmy asked holding the oil in his hands, “It’s already been paid for and you know massages are my specialty” he said with a smirk. I knew that smirk. It was the smirk he always used to give me right before we had sex. But Jimmy did make a good point, the massage was already paid for and he knew how to give me a massage with little pain as possible.

“Alright fine” I finally said. Jimmy smiled and nodded to himself. I untied my robe and was about to pull it off when I stopped myself. “Okay, you need to turn around” I said scratching my head.

“What? Why?” Jimmy asked.

“Because you don’t get to see this anymore” I said. Jimmy sighed and obliged with my demands. He turned around and walked back into his little nook to retrieve more massage stuff.

I started pulling off my robe and yelped. My back shot blinding pain up my spin until I almost passed out. I was sweating now and Jimmy rushed out of his nook to see if I was alright.

“Are you okay?” he asked. His voice was sincere, which I liked, but I snapped myself out of it and returned back to reality, me and Jimmy were over.

“Yeah…it just hurts. That’s all” I said as I tried to pull the robe off. I felt Jimmy’s hands on my shoulders and he slowly pulled the silk robe off of me. He gasped when he saw the large dark bruises all over my back. I looked like a leopard with the large dark blotches on my back.

“Do they hurt?” Jimmy asked. I nodded, trying not to cry as his fingertips grazed lightly over my back.

“All the time” I confirmed. I heard Jimmy sigh and place my robe on a coat rack in the corner of the room. I grabbed the white towel on the massage table and wrapped it loosely around my waist. I slipped my underwear off and placed the gold coin in my flip flops before lying down on the table.

“Okay, I’m going to need you to relax and try to stay perfectly still. With the amount and size of these bruises, it’s going to hurt no matter what. But I’ll try my best to keep the pain to a minimum” Jimmy said.

He poured massage oil on my back and started rubbing it into my skin. The pain shot through me like crazy. I shot up on my elbows and yelped in pain as Jimmy’s hands lightly rubbed against my back. The pain was excruciating. I started crying, on the verge of sobbing.

Jimmy kneaded my back continuously. I cried and whimpered into the towel pillow at my head. It hurt so badly, but I didn’t tell him to stop. Jimmy was working the clogged blood back into the rest of my body.

A few times he would whisper to me to hang in there, but I was drowned out by my almost desperate screams on pain. It felt like hours, what Jimmy was doing. When in reality it was about fifteen minutes. But even through all the pain, I was glad to have such familiar hands on my body.

When I settled down and most of the pain resided I was finally about to relax. I rested my head on the pillow soaked in my tears and just laid there as Jimmy dug his fingers and hands into my back, giving me a deep tissue massage.

“I got accepted into Miami University” Jimmy said during the massage, “Full scholarship and everything” I smiled and moaned a reply. I was happy he got accepted. Especially after spending hours with him preparing for his interview to get in. But I don’t think I was ready to have subtle conversations with him yet. I wasn’t ready.

“I also wanted to apologize for how things ended. I was a real ass” Jimmy said, “I’m really and truly sorry for how I acted, especially at your job. That was uncalled for and I can’t stress enough how sorry I am. I just didn’t want it to end like that” He said with sincerity. I started tearing through blood shot eyes.

“But you did want it to end. That much is clear” I said. Jimmy stopped the massage for a moment and sighed. He kept his hand on my lower back by my ass, but he just kept them there. He was thinking what to say in reply to what I said, but there was nothing to say, the conversation was over.

After the massage I left feeling loads better. Not only was my back feeling like a million times better, but I also got closure from my break up. I could finally move on. I met up with Kei in a lounge area type of thing. He was getting a manicure and pedicure. He motioned for me to sit down next to him.

Once I did four people rushed over to me. Two women took my feet and a man took one hand. They started massaging the limbs before started the pampering, and the fourth person was another man. He began kneading my shoulders and massaging my neck. I was in heaven. I never received treatment like this before.

“How was your massage?” Kei asked me. I was a little flushed with nervousness. Do I tell him the masseur was Jimmy?

“My back feels much better” I said trying to avoid the subject, but Kei wasn’t.

“How was your masseuse? Was it a guy of a chick?” he asked as he rolled his neck on his shoulders. I heard a few bones crack back into place.

“It was Jimmy” I said in a low voice. Kei’s jaw dropped. The look he had on his face was clear. It was an ‘Oh Shit’ kind of look.

“I’m sorry. If I would’ve known I would’ve never have come here. Oh god, I’m a terrible friend. You must hate me right now” Kei said. His voice was shaking. I think he thought I was going to hit him.

“Actually no” I assured him, “It was nice. I was able to get some closure”

“Oh well, okay then” Kei said flicking his wrists, “Then I’ll make sure he gets a raise”