Being Scottish, Sal didn't like the sun. It burned, it made him sweat and if he weren't dead already he was pretty sure he'd just burst into flames.
Why the hell was he at the beach?
He didn't really know, he'd been at a bar and sort of...woke up here in the morning, wearing a pair of blue and white shorts, pink sun glasses and a crown of plastic flowers with hot six pack of beer down the side of his deck chair, the parasol above providing some form of shade.
Where had his clothes gone? Why was he in Japan? Who was Candy and why did she leave her lipstick on each of his nipples before writing her name and number across his abs? Too many questions for the sobering mind, far too many.
He opened his eyes to see a pair of girls staring at him, his body was muscular, that was a given considering his life style, but what they gazed at were the scars that cross crossed his body. Wounds upon the soul that had transferred onto his Gigai through some obscene metaphysical imprint.
He didn't think too much about it, he simply slid the neon pink sun glasses down his nose and gave them a wink before reaching down the side of the deck chair and grabbing a bottle of Japanese beer and twisting the top off.
He took a slug and grimaced as the warm liquid hit the back of his throat and then gave a shrug, booze was booze and if it kept the hangover away it was all good in his books.
He reclined back and put one arm behind his head as he crossed his legs, whatever had occurred last night it must have been a blast. It had been a very long time since he'd woken up partially naked with a girls number scrawled across his body. Maybe he'd call her later....
"Ladies...are you going to continue to stare?" He asked from behind the seclusion of his tinted shades. "If so, make yourself useful and get me a vodka would ya?"
The Japanese girls giggled and responded in their own tongue before walking down the beach with the occasional back glance.
"Well there goes that plan..." He muttered to himself. Now Sal wasn't a pretty boy, unless you liked the grizzled Clint Eastwood look after a bar fight with the entire membership of the Hells Angels. There was something though...he had to admit it. He just didn't know WHAT that was or he'd have a higher shag count than he did currently.
"Where the fuck is the bar around here?" He asked himself and sat up, looking around. He spotted another European, noticeable because of the pasty white skin and the lathering of sun screen, and called out to the portly chap, his gut hanging over his speedo's. "Oi! Mate, wheres the nearest pub?"
The man responded in German....
"Fuck my life..."