24 December, 2021
Christmas With Your Strict Professor
I Want You for Christmas
You spend the Christmas holidays with Andrew, but some memories of his past begin to resurface.
{ Shortly before Christmas | On campus }
- Listener and Andrew are leaving university for the day, walking to his car. Andrew is reconfirming that Listener still wants to spend Christmas with him instead of going home.
- Luca calls out to Andrew and they have a brief conversation.
- Andrew and Listener get in the car and drive off.
{ Christmas Day | Andrew’s Apartment }
- Presents from Andrew: the shoes that Listener saw but thought were too expensive, and a necklace that Andrew custom designed for them.
- Andrew makes Listener a cup of milk tea. They have a small tiff about family.
- Andrew tells Listener about his relationship with his parents and his disillusionment of the Christmas holiday because of them:
- Andrew’s parents are devout Catholic Evangelists, and were very strict towards Andrew and Twin.
- They favored Andrew over Twin after Andrew began excelling in his studies.
- They also practically disowned Twin after finding out he had been in a relationship with another man.
- But during the holidays they acted like nothing was wrong with their relationship with their sons and conveniently ignored their own poor behavior towards them.
- Andrew reveals some of his secrets to Listener:
- Coriander tastes like soap (indeed it does)