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The next Friday, I watched over my sister and Taylor while my parents went to work.

I also changed my names across all my social media platforms, from Dave Robinson to Davis Depp Jackson.

My parents would come back in the evening, and we would watch animated movies together. Me, Dinah and mummy, we like animated movies, but Taylor and Daddy don’t. They just like hanging out with the family during movie time.

Saturday, my parents invited all the family to my welcoming party, majority of them who didn’t even know me. I met my cousins, my uncles and my aunts; they told me that I had no Grandparents because they had died many years ago.

My Robinson aunt also came, that one who was friends with Taylor, the one who brought her home when I saw her first on Christmas.

I discovered that my family was unique in their way: I have a cousin who’s allergic to anything but kind and very smart. Her name was Roxanne.

A talkative aunt who’s very good at narrating stories. She told me the stories of my family background, ancestors to ancestors, but let me tell you, it felt too real like she saw it the day before!

There was this uncle who was always drinking beers even in his car driving.

And another teenager cousins, a boy and a girl who were like showbiz reporters! They were telling me stories of actors, artists, upcoming movies in theaters, and trending songs! My family was so awesome and unique.

They all gave me gifts and the drunkard uncle gave me a signed cheque for 600 bucks saying that I need to drink some beers to standardize me to the family standards!

Sunday morning, we packed up our belongings to prepare ourselves for going to school that afternoon at 13 PM; it was just a 3 hour drive to Taylor’s university and 2 hours drive to my university. 

After preparing our stuff, I invited Taylor to my room. I taught her to sing, and she taught me to dance salsa because she was so good at it. We kissed and did all sorts of romantic things, excluding sex. We had agreed that no sex in parents’ house!

Afternoon, Mummy drove Taylor to her school, and I drove Daddy! Actually, he wanted to drive, but I insisted that I’d be the one to drive. Taylor was going to live in the campus Hostel but I was going to live near the school in a rented apartment. 

“Don’t you think that you’ll impregnate her?” Daddy, he asked.

“wha.... Wait,….” I answered, stammering

“You think that I don’t know?”

“I guess!”

“Ha! I know you do”

“No, she wasn’t in her fertile days of week, so no babies!”

“Now that’s the smart wife!” he said, high-fiving me!

“Wife?”

“Oh, yeah!”

“Don’t you think that it’s too soon?”

“No son. In our family, we all happen to meet one and only true love. None who had ever dated more than one girl”

“Wow, that’s new to me!”

“Yep, just don’t rush things, okay? I know that she’ll marry you. The question is: can you marry her?”

“Of course, yes, otherwise what’d be the point?”

We arrived at my apartment, unloaded my stuff and he helped me to arrange my new home.

Then after, he gave me a thousand dollars in cash and he told me to take care of myself.

“don’t you think that it’s too much?It's governmental scholarship, you know,” I told him.

“I know, son, just keep it. You might need it,” he said, hugging me.

He entered the car and drove home.

That night before classes, I called Taylor, and we talked about their journey. She told me that Mummy asked her about our relationship. FYI Taylor is very good at storytelling and narrations.

“So how's your relationship with Dave going?” mummy asked her.

“Um, pretty normal!”

“Do you love him tho?”

“I do, I love him so much”

“Does he love you?”

“So very much!”

“I bet he does!”

“How do you know?”

“Men in his father’s family are True lovers. They don’t catch feelings just like that, but if they finally fall in love, it is a one-way ticket, there’s no going back! That’s why they only date one and be faithful till marriage! They don’t date girls, they date THEIR WIVES”

“Well, guess it’s my lucky turn then”

“Of course it is” ͏

On the first day in school, everything seemed normal. There were no intros or something but courses. On the other hand, Taylor’s was different. She told me that a lecturer asked for everyone to stand up and introduce themselves to the class.

Later on, I asked my parents if she’d spend détente at my house, and they agreed. It was two weeks’ break so we’ve got no time at all. She came over and spent those two weeks at my house and then she returned to school and everything continued.

My aerospace engineering program was supposed to last 3 years and a year at ISS (International Space Station) in internship, while her Biomedical engineering program was supposed to last 4 years of studies and 2 years of internships, so I had 4 years while she had 6 years.

My parents allowed us to spend all holidays together at my house but warned me about what they called “Terms of Agreements” it was actually 3 conditions to qualify us to be together:

1. While we’ve got no jobs, every expenditure was going to be on my father.

2. We should visit them on every holiday, miss no family event either from Robinsons or Jacksons.

3. Not having a baby before completing our studies.

We agreed and did that. During the holidays, Taylor came and spent that time with me, and we planned a schedule of events that we would do on every holiday when schools were off.

Those schedules included visiting parents, visiting Cory and Brittney, teaching her driving lessons and many others.

In the third year, which was my last year, we found out that her program was designed in such a way that her two last year he’d move to the other institute which was near mine.

At that time, she had her driving license already. We talked about it and we found it okay with her living in my apartment.

Because every expense at our house was being covered by my father, I saved every penny they gave me, and so did Taylor. So we thought that it’s a good idea to buy our own house and a car.

We had enough money for a house and a fancy car, so we bought a moderate-sized house and a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV.

Finally, the academic year ended, and she was promoted in the final year while I was sent to the ASB (Aeronautics and Space Board) for my internship. It was in another district in the principal city while we were in the sub-city.

In the morning before I went to the base, we talked about how we were going to be able to talk since I was going to be occupied all day long and be supervised every second, which meant that it was not easy to talk over social media at night.

We got an idea of writing a letter every day. There were two options, either through email or by the P*F Document. She chose a document, and I chose emailing. She hugged me for like an hour and she cried because I was going to be far away from her.