Synopsis: In Mellow Yellow Next Generation, Ch. 1, Patrick Poon lost his virginity simultaneously with Allison Koowootha, his black girlfriend. In MYNG2, Allison's best friend and Patrick's sister, Pamela Poon stalked Prof. Studley-Moore, broke into his house, stole his pajamas and fantasized about her professor using an emergency candle. That episode ended with Pamela's startling admission that she became the professor's mistress. MYNG 3 begins where Allison and Pamela's conversation left off.
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The staff of the restaurant in Sydney's Chinatown bustled around the dining room, ignoring the two young women, one Aboriginal and the other Chinese, seated at the table in the corner. The waitresses and busboys prepared the main dining room for the dinner hour. The aroma of vanilla, coconut and red bean soup filled the restaurant as the chefs prepared the dessert table. The staff of a Chinese restaurant is always too polite to remind diners that the dim sum lunch was long over. Besides, the two women were in such deep conversation that it would be rude to interrupt such a significant interchange.
At one point in the long conversation, the Chinese woman said something that made her black friend's mouth drop. After a long pause, the black woman spoke:
"Did I hear you right, Pam? Did you just tell me that you're Mark's mistress? How exactly did that happen? Usually sexual fantasies and obsessions never turn into real romances."
"It turned out to be easier than I first thought. On Monday, I was scared that the University would expel me for breaking into a professor's house and stealing his pajamas. I didn't hear anything about it in my biology or psychology classes. Mark taught his Monday English 101 class as usual but I noticed that he lacked some enthusiasm or he was somehow distracted. I decided to test the waters that afternoon when I returned the disk with his thesis on it.
'I hope that this has been helpful, Professor Studley-Moore. I'm quite sure I caught all the wayward punctuation and grammar, even though English is my second language. By the way, are you feeling well today? I noticed that your lecture on late Nineteenth Century authors wasn't as spirited as your lectures usually are.'
'Physically, I'm quite all right, Miss Poon. I'm just shaken mentally because someone broke in and robbed my house on the weekend. The police investigated but all that was missing was a personal object. I can't reveal the nature of the object because the investigation is still ongoing. It's quite clear to me that the thief was a depraved sexual pervert. My losses are minimal from the robbery but I feel so violated as a result.'
I almost blurted out, 'No, no. Please violate me. I'm the one who should be violated by your willie.' But I held my peace, given that he believed the unknown thief was a pervert. Instead, I tried to make him calm and suggested some security measures he could take. Then I diverted his mind back to his thesis by going over some of the corrections that I made. That seemed to do the trick.
'Well, Miss Poon, you've done a remarkable job in proofreading my thesis. If English is your second language, may I ask how you obtained such a good command of the language. Most of my students from Hong Kong need some ESL classes to take my course. And don't ask me about the students from the Mainland.'
Finally, Mark was taking some personal interest in me beyond the normal interest he took in all his students. That was a good sign, so I told him my story. 'I was born in Hong Kong but my family and I live in Queensland now. My stepfather is English, Professor Studley-Moore. He's always insisted that we speak proper English. He says that his working class English always held him back in England and among the ex-pats in Hong Kong so, he didn't want us to suffer for bad English the way he did. Chinese children respect their parents so I made special efforts to conquer the English language. But my English skills never seemed to bring me any respect in Bummkrak.'
'I quite agree with your stepfather about learning proper English. Do you know that English people think that someone with a Welsh accent is especially stupid, only fit for mining coal. That's why I came to the University of New South Wales, to get some respect for my work. I suspect it's the same reason you left Queensland as well.'
Oh God, now he was getting personal. I was searching for what to say to get us to the next level of intimacy but Mark took things up a notch himself.
'Perhaps I can make your skills in the English language pay off. I don't know if you're busy this weekend, Miss Poon, but I have tickets for a Chopin piano recital at the Opera House. The person who was supposed to accompany me can't make it and, well dash it all, would you care to go to the concert with me instead?'
Of course I accepted. And that was how I finally got our first date set up. All my studying paid off at last. I had a date with my dream man because I proofed his thesis. I prepared my clothes for the date carefully. If Chopin was on the program, I would do well to emulate George Sand, if I was going to turn Mark's mind towards having an affair with me. George Sand had a lifelong affair with Frederick Chopin and she dressed in men's clothes. So I chose the pantsuit that I bought in a little boutique in King's Cross. Clothing in Sydney is so much more fashionable than in Bummkrak.