Chapter 4

• Rio stared at the wooden wardrobe in his boarding room.
• "Which clothes should I wear for my first day at work?"
• Knock....
• Knock....
• Knock...
• "Yon, Yono, Riyono. Open the door to your room."
• A voice knocking on his door made Rio stop choosing his clothes. He immediately closed the wardrobe door and walked to open the door.
• "Hello Mas Riyono, Darling," greeted Prima, his uninvited friend who was already in front of his boarding room tonight.
• "Why did you come here?"
• "Just had a fight with my mom," said Prima as he entered without being invited.
• Rio just watched as Prima entered his room and immediately lay down on the bed.
• "Bro, your mattress is so thin, please replace it."
• "Where do I get the money from?"
• "Ask your parents in the village," Prima answered casually.
• "Do you think my parents have a lot of money?"
• "Well, they may not have a lot of money, but they have hectares of rubber plantations. Your future is bright. As bright as the morning sun."
• "Damn!" Rio commented on Prima, making her laugh.
• After a while, Rio left Prima to take a shower. When he came out of the bathroom, he saw Prima playing his PS 4. Considering he needed money, Rio tried to offer one of his most valuable possessions to Prima.
• "Prim, instead of just coming here to play PS. I'll pawn my PS to you."
• "How much do you want to pawn it for?"
• "Just seven hundred thousand."
• "Are you sure it's enough for you to live and eat?" Prima asked because he knew Rio needed money for his daily life.
• "Yes, because I will start working with Aunt Retno tomorrow."
• Prima immediately stopped playing PS and now she stared deeply at Rio.
• "Why are you looking at me like that?"
• "You're not going to be a gigolo, are you, with those Aunts?"
• Suddenly Rio fell silent, stunned, and then he cursed fluently.
• "Damn! Bastard! Devil! I refuse to be a gigolo. I'd rather be a laborer or something."
• "Actually, being a gigolo is nice, you just have to satisfy her until she can pee comfortably, then you just have to finish."
• "Damn!"
• After saying that, Rio left his room and immediately went to the warung in front of his boarding house. As usual, he would add to his debt pile to Pak Sarwo, the warung seller. Whether he liked it or not, until he received his salary from Retno, Rio had to owe Pak Sarwo as he had been doing since the pandemic hit the world.
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• This morning, Rio had to struggle with the traffic jam in Jogja because he woke up late. This was all because of Prima who slept in his boarding house and snored, not to mention his neighbor next to the boarding house whom he believed was on night duty with his girlfriend. And these two incidents successfully prevented him from sleeping all night, he could only close his eyes at four in the morning. When he was feeling the dream world lulling him, the alarm on his small clock and his phone were already ringing to be turned off, unfortunately he couldn't do that because it was his first day of work and, unfortunately, he forgot that now every morning Jogja was as congested as Jakarta or Surabaya. Especially during long holiday seasons.
• Several times Rio cursed while driving his 125cc automatic motorcycle.
• "Damn! Bastard! Cow!" Rio cursed repeatedly because he still heard the moans of his neighbor's girlfriend from the next room last night.
• It was a risk that he had to accept and understand because he chose Las Vegas or LV as his place of residence. Although his neighbors in the boarding house did not officially live together with their partners, they often stayed in the same room 4 to 5 times a week. Some even stayed together continuously and only returned to their boarding house when their families came to town or during semester breaks. It was a common secret that boarding houses in big cities nowadays are all free, unfortunately Rio did not follow that trend not because he was religious, but because he did not have a partner and his debit ATM balance was just enough. Moreover, in this day and age, where is the woman who would only eat his stick and two live eggs? Of course, there is none, nowadays women prioritize logic over feelings. Rio would not blame that woman, because he believed that prioritizing logic over feelings is better than just being a mere sex slave.
• After almost half an hour of struggling with the residents who were also fighters in life like himself, he finally arrived in front of the tall and grand gate of Retno's house. The first time Rio saw Retno's house, he shook his head. He did not expect that his friend's aunt was a wealthy woman. Rio tried to ring the bell and shortly after, a woman in her early twenties opened the gate.
• "Excuse me, is this Aunt Retno's house?"
• "Aunt?" the woman repeated.
• "Yes."
• Because the woman knew that her employer had a hobby of collecting and experiencing the feeling of a young man, she finally concluded that it was her habit to immediately invite men to enter the house. Although a little surprised, Rio finally entered while pushing his motorcycle.
• "Just come in, Sir. I'm going out to shop, I'll be back in the afternoon," the woman said and quickly left Retno's house and closed the gate. The housekeeper did not want to disturb the activities of her employer who was about to be attacked.
• Rio finally entered the large, luxurious, and modern minimalist house. The three-story house was quite large for Rio. As he walked to the living room with wide windows showing the swimming pool area, he could only swallow his saliva because he saw Retno wearing a two-piece swimsuit. Everything he imagined about Retno yesterday disappeared, because the Retno he saw now looked more challenging, tempting, and truly arousing. If Retno asked him to unite all the tiny particles in their bodies together, wherever it was, Rio would not refuse. For Retno, he would try to be a tough stallion until Retno was exhausted from facing his long-hibernating passion explosion.