Illicit Liaison (A Romakota AU)

Wer ist das?

(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Throughout this story, Dakota and Roman, as well as other actors in the gay pornographic industry who would appear as characters will only be referred to by their respective stage names for privacy and security reasons.)

It all started a few days after the new year came along. During New Year's Eve, Dakota cooked dishes for a simple feast held at his father's house where he was living at the time when his relatives and in-laws decided to come over and celebrate.

A week after celebrating the new year, Dakota enrolled himself for the second semester of his sophomore year in college. He used the money that he earns from a work-from-home job at a company he applied to at the time as numerous establishments were still mandated by law to observe safety protocols due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Since the university where Dakota was taking his bachelor's degree in offered educational technology software, he soon received a list of the classes he was going to take, as well as the names of his professors, after 24 hours since paying his tuition.

Dakota then proceeded to look through his professors' names.

One name that caught his attention was his P.E. teacher named Alex Mecum. Dakota said to himself, "I've heard this Mr. Mecum guy is made for P.E. classes. Other students keep saying that he's got such a banging physique. How true is it, though?"

Dakota shrugged his shoulders afterwards.

All of a sudden, Dakota stumbled upon his Ethics class and the name of his professor: Roman Todd. He thought to himself, "Ooh... I've never heard of this professor before. The name doesn't ring a bell at all." Dakota then stared at his laptop after that.

A few minutes later, Dakota came up with an idea.

He said, "Well, since it's gonna be my first time seeing who this Roman Todd is within next week, I better look up the name. Who knows who I might find, right?" Dakota then opened Facebook on a new tab in his laptop and looked up Roman's name.

Only one result popped up afterwards.

Dakota then looked for his university's name as Roman's indicated workplace to make sure that it was him. When he found it, Dakota sighed in relief and said to himself, "Thank God I found him quickly here on Facebook. And I gotta say, he looks nice."

Dakota then clicked on Roman's profile.

Once Dakota looked through Roman's photos in the latter's profile, Dakota silently gasped once he saw a shirtless photo of Roman while at a beach taking a vacation. He then gulped and stared at Roman's torso, using his laptop's trackpad to zoom in.

After that, Dakota noticed a tattoo on Roman's stomach.

Upon observing it, Dakota thought to himself, "Those intertwined faces look nice, but why near the stomach? Of all places? That must hurt like a bitch." Dakota proceeded to caress the tattoos on his arms and said, "Just y'all wait 'til he meets all of you."

Dakota proceeded to look up more pictures of Roman.

A few clicks later, Dakota found a photo of Roman's back and saw another tattoo, which were Germany's and Italy's flags. Dakota then said to himself, "Wait... he's German and Italian? How the hell would he be able to understand us? Does this guy even speak English?" Afterwards, Dakota tried looking through some of Roman's Facebook posts.

Unfortunately, Dakota soon found out that Roman does not post public Facebook statuses, which made him sigh loudly in disappointment.

He thought to himself, "I guess I'll only really find out within next week, huh?" All of a sudden, Dakota suddenly remembered that he watched Germany's franchise of Netflix's reboot of Queer Eye. Dakota asked himself, "Where did I save that shit?"

Dakota then looked through some files on his laptop.

Shortly afterwards, Dakota found a document that he created which contained a list of greetings, expressions, and other words in the German language. Dakota chuckled softly to himself and said, "I knew you'd be put to good use sometime."

After that, Dakota started reading the document.

Because Dakota does not understand some of the letters, as well as the sounds of the vowels with umlauts, he thought to himself, "I honestly need more help with this if I wanna make a good first impression. Looking these up from some website on the Internet offering German for Dummies won't mean shit if I don't know how to say them."

Dakota stared at his laptop again afterwards.

He then sighed and said, "I don't have time for Duolingo, though. My classes already start next week, and I cannot deal with how slow I'll learn with that green owl. And I don't trust Google Translate, either. Is there some other translator on the Internet?"

Dakota opened Google shortly after that.

After searching for online translators, he stumbled upon DeepL. Dakota thought to himself, "I've never heard of this app before. If its tagline claims this to be the most accurate translator there is, I'll need to test it by cross-checking with Google Translate."

Dakota then typed in some German phrases on DeepL.

To be continued in Part 2...