A Love For Keeps

Efforts

(DAYU)

"I am stupid, right?" BaoBao asked LiYan and I in agony while we are at a small pub, drinking together. "He asked me for a date, I have been waiting to hear those words since time immemorial and what did I do? I said no. I am stupid! I should have said yes and fuck him right there and then! Where is my phone?" BaoBao started looking left and right for his phone.

"Why do you need your phone?" LiYan asked as she snatched BaoBao's phone from the table before the owner can hold it. "What do you plan to do?"

"Call SengYou and say yes to a date that will end with sex. So much sex," BaoBao looked longingly at his phone in LiYan's hand. "Give me my phone," he reached for it with both hands.

"No!" LiYan lightly smacked BaoBao's grabby hands away. "You did good. You did well, saying no to that pompous jerk. Tell him Dayu," LiYan urged me. "Tell BaoBao he did well..."

"You did well," I agreed. "You let your instinct make a decision and your instict was right. That is just laziness, asking you to go down to his office to ask you for a date. That's..."

"That's arrogance..." LiYan supplied the word. "And someone should put down Dr.Wang SengYou a peg or two from his perfect pedestal."

BaoBao squinted his eyes at us, "You two can talk like that because your sex life is not for shit like mine. You two have regular sex!" He hissed at us.

"True that," I nodded in agreement. It's something I cannot deny.

"Not just sex, wonderful sex, in fact." LiYan twisted the knife more.

"That's also true," I nodded to LiYan who winked at me.

BaoBao groaned, "I hate the both of you."

"No, you don't." I took his fork to get some sweet and spicy chicken bits from our shared plate of food and feed it to BaoBao. "We are your friends who listened to your story well and we are telling you, you did good. You deserve more efforts than an examination bed and curtains, BaoBao."

"Right," BaoBao smiled at me, his eyes a bit glazed. "Dayu, you understand. Of course you will understand. Qing threatened his whole family to be with you. Now, that is effort..."

I winced, LiYan laughed and BaoBao drank again. "Ah, I love the two of you." LiYan sighed. "Now, are we all properly drunk? I will call our ride now..."

"Whose turn it is?" BaoBao asked.

"AhnZong," I said.

"Good," BaoBao nodded, clearly tipsy already. "I hate it when Wang Qing is the one driving us home during drinking night. He and Dayu just had to constantly smile at each other while a romantic background music is playing from the car's radio, it makes me sick." BaoBao narrowed his eyes to me. "Hey, train your boyfriend to look at the road when he is driving and not on you, I am always scared that we will get into an accident when Qing drives us home when we are drunk. By the time I get to my condo, I am stone cold sober, I feel like I wasted my money paying for my drinks."

LiYan laughed loud again. I winced at BaoBao, "I will pay for the drinks tonight," I said.

"As you should...you are the happiest of them all...like Snow White except you have pretty fairies," BaoBao points at himself and at LiYan, "Instead of seven dwarves."

"Oh he is precious when he is drunk," LiYan patted BaoBao's head.

"Call your lover boy so we can go home already. I still have work tomorrow." BaoBao slumped on his seat. "I only have two beers and three gin and tonic, why do I feel tipsy already? Ugh, my alcohol tolerance is so low now. I used to drink one whole bottle of tequila without feeling dizzy..."