Tokyo Girl by Brian Harvey

Author:Brian Harvey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459810785
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2016-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

By the time Sunday evening came around, I had dreamed up enough date scenarios to fill a writer’s notebook. None of them, I’m ashamed to say, involved tragically deceased younger brothers. I got to Shibuya two hours early. The area around the station was an all-out assault of neon and three-story video screens, but I soon found the hill. The Fifteen Love was a nondescript building in an alley of taverns and adult stores. One of the stores was called Joyful.

I picked at a grilled mackerel in one of the taverns. Then I spent an hour nursing an espresso back at the train station. I visited the washroom. I was nervous. It had been a long time since I’d had a real date. Finally, it was time to walk back up the hill.

The Fifteen Love was surrounded by scooters and motorcycles and bicycles stashed under eaves and awnings. Momo was standing in front of a small sign that advertised the hotel’s rates. There were two categories: rest and stay. Another puzzle. There was so much about this country I didn’t understand. Especially its people. As a foreigner, was I treated the way a Japanese person would be? I seriously doubted it, and Momo proceeded to prove it.

She took my arm and grinned up at me. “You know love hotel?”

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