Second Change
Chapter 28's

Registration file has finally been accepted by the campus administration, residence permit has also been settled. Next, just pack the goods and send them to the dormitory address. Countdown of seventeen days starting from today.

Two glasses of champagne clink tonight at the apartment dining table. For the first time I took a sip of champagne. Thanks David.

"I don't like it." My protest scrunched my face. "Softdrink is just that."

I opened the refrigerator door and picked up my favorite red soft drink. The rest of the champagne from my glass, I poured it into David's glass and filled it with a red soft drink to the brim.

David laughed at my behavior.

"Basic boy." he sneered

"Basar old Bangka." I sneered back.

David nodded my head slowly.

Oh yeah, I never told you that David and I were ten years old. I'm twenty-one and David's thirty-one. No wonder he called me a boy.

Although he was already thirty-one but according to Emi, David never had a serious relationship. He only dated a few times with the woman his mother introduced him to. No wonder for several years many think David is a same-sex lover.

Until appearing. Exactly when David kissed me in public during Emi's wedding, their suspicion of David was instantly cleared. Maybe this is also the reason why I was immediately approved by his family. Though my origins are very different from David.

David stabbed the abalone piece with his fork and bribed me.

"Nake?" tannya

I nodded while chewing with vigor.

It will be one of those dinners we missed. I don't want to think about what's going to happen to us. Can we go through these four years just fine? I really don't want to think about it.

But the other with David.

The third day before my departure, David and I were in a spacious meeting room, with long tables and well-groomed swivel chairs lined up around the table. I sat opposite a serious-looking David looking at me with two black leather maps lined up on the table. He swiped one of the maps at me.

"What'sthis? How serious is that?" I laughed to melt the atmosphere.

"Open up and you'll know" he replied seriously.

I rubbed the leather map with my hand before opening it. It is soft as if it were made of real leather. It looks luxurious too. But I laughed as if after just reading the title of the contents of the map.

'LDR REQUIREMENTS'

"This what?!" I laughed again while holding my stomach.

"It's serious, Lia. Read and sign it under." David still had a serious face.

I realized this time was not the time to laugh at the title of the contents of this luxurious map. I cleared my throat to stop my laughter and turn my attention to the contents that David said were serious. Several times I held my breath to stay calm so as not to voice my laughing heart while reading it.

LDR (Long Distance Relationship)

1. Every call has to be answered. If you do not have time\, then it is mandatory to call back.

2. Morning Call and Night Call.

3. You should immediately notify if you are sick or are having difficulty.

4. If you fight, you have to make up that day immediately.

I'd rather believe the terms of this LDR were made by a teenage snot boy who was just dating for the first time. I glanced at David from behind the leather map and found that he was still looking at me, waiting for my response. I cleared my throat a second time. It works the same, so as not to laugh.

"Dave, is this really what you're doing?" my many. Wish he said, of course it's just a joke. I actually just wanted to take you to lunch.

"You can change it if you want." I think David's really serious.

I nodded small while thinking. These LDR requirements should not be necessary. But if it turns out to have been made, then it must be more extreme and appropriate to be pinned on a luxurious leather map.

"There's a pen?" much

David thrust a black pen glittering towards me. I grabbed it and wrote down a condition that might make David frown or get angry.

5. Cannot meet directly on purpose\, can only Video Call.

6. If one party wants to end the relationship\, then the other party must agree to it.

As expected, David glared at me with sharp eyes that I hadn't seen in a long time.

"Can't meet on purpose?" David squinted his eyes. Even so, his eyeballs were still gleaming furiously.

"To avoid you coming at me suddenly and disrupting my studies."

"Then what if it's turned into, only bole meet if the campus is on holiday."

"Son Dave. There are no exceptions."

"Four years of not meeting? We're actually dating again aren't we?" protestations

"It will test whether we can survive or not. Four years are fast passing, Dave. After all we can video call every day, every time. There's still a morning call, a night call."

"I want to stand up for you, hug you, kiss you and..." David did not finish his sentence.

"If you can't stand it, you're allowed to caress, hug, kiss another woman" I said firmly. Follow me to put a sharp eye like David.

"If we can survive, these four years won't be in vain."

"One more, point six."

"If one of us has no feelings, why does this relationship continue?" hatch me

"Are you serious?" ask her in a deep voice, cold and serious.

I nodded "This is how the LDR conditions should be."

David sat in silence for a few minutes before he finally called Katrine to come in and revise the contents inside the leather folder.

"You're pessimistic?" ask me after Katrine closes the door.

"I believe in myself. But you?"

"I why? You don't believe me?"

"Campus life is not as simple as you might think. Maybe you'll meet someone else there."

"Office life is also more complicated. There are so many beautiful, sexy, mature, established women I met along the way to your room. Or if I wanted to say it more easily, Katrine. You guys work together, everywhere you go together, Katrine knows you better than I do. Katrine is more concerned with your needs than me. But I still choose to trust you. Can you trust me too?"

"Katrine is nothing more than an assistant" he said

"I believe."

David looked at me with a difficult gaze. I replied with a smile that immediately infected her. And we ended up laughing together.

"May I visit you during the new year?" tannya

I'm shaking.

Katrine came into the room at the right time. Stop David from protesting. Katrine put the two maps in front of me and David. I made sure it was appropriate and signed it. I glanced at David who was still in doubt. Katrine took the map from before me and handed it to her Boss who was still glued to her with a luxurious-skinned map in front of her.

"Splash dong. I'm hungry." I urged

"I'll put it off." he said casually then got up from the chair.

I panicked for a moment and meant to hold it. "We'll talk about it later."

An uncertain word when it finally arrived the next day.

By morning at seven I had finished baking bread and smooked beef. But David's tumben hasn't come out of his room yet. I knocked on his door twice and waited for his response. Five seconds passed, no response. Is David possibly sick? Would I rather go in to make sure?

I lowered the doorknob and pushed it slowly while peering inside. It's not good to go into someone else's room without permission. But I'm more curious what made David late today. The door was half open but I didn't see David.

"Dave." call me.

I went inside and looked around. Maybe David's still in the bathroom. I changed my mind. Maybe I'd better get out now before David realizes I'm trespassing.

"Lia."

Be late.

David came out of the bathroom a second after I turned around. My heart feels like it's coming out of my skin. My stomach churned with more shame from being caught. I was glued to the door, trying to think what I was going to say to her. But my brain also froze, unable to think anything. Moreover, the footsteps of David are getting closer.

"Why are you, Lia?" he asked in an anxious tone while touching my shoulder.

"No. Nothing." my voice sounded hoarse and strange. I forgot to cough, but my throat was dry from nervousness.

I turned around with a plan to make sure I was okay. But it turned out that I wasn't okay after seeing David's bare-chested appearance with a towel wrapped around his waist. I'm sure this time my heartbeat could be heard by him. My face was hot and my legs were limp.

"Aren't you feeling well? No more making breakfast. You just take a break today."

"Yes, Okay." I answered spontaneously and ran away.

I entered my room, squatting against the door. Both my hands covered my hot face. I admit that my body reacted when I saw David's appearance just now. But I'll bet all the normal women in the world will react just like me. Disheveled wet hair, firm-looking collarbone, prominent bicep muscle, a muscular line in the abdomen that is firm and a towel wrapped around below the navel. But one thing I just realized, David has clean skin and tends to be white.

This is not the first time I have seen a man's body. But if you want to make a comparison, Tony's body is smaller when compared to David. So when David was angry and cornered me against the wall, I felt very small, helpless and scared. He was like a huge monster that could devour me with a single swallow. But now? Instead of being afraid, I reacted like a little cat who wanted to be spoiled on his big body. At least I didn't show him. Fortunately I ran away quickly.

While calming my mind that was filled with an inappropriate scene, I was aghast at the sound of successive beats on my bedroom door that sounded impatient.

"Lia, are you okay? I'm in ya."

I got up and opened the door before David barged in and hit me sitting behind the door.

"I'm fine."

David gripped both my hands and kissed her alternately. My still-unclear mind is becoming. Why at a time like this does he just kiss my hands, not my lips?

"Break breakfast." take him

He walked backwards and I was pulled to follow him.

Nope, no. It's over too soon. My brain still rules me, don't we sometimes have to live by following instinct. Letting this natural instinct take control and lead us to do things we are not used to. Like me now, I will make this big man in front of me focus only on me. Not on toast and smoked beef at the dinner table or the phone of the driver who will soon pick him up.

I stomped my hand and freed my hand from its grasp and wrapped it around its neck with a small leap. David who did not expect this could only gawk in bewilderment. She also definitely did not expect that I would scoop her lips before she could ask.

The second day before I left, we made love for the first time in the morning on an empty stomach.