Chapter Twenty Four -Day One & Two-
Can I continue feeling this way?
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We got off our flight an hour ago headed to our hotel room right after. The schedule that manager gave us was quite interesting; we had every other day off. I’m not complaining, but I thought it was a bit odd that they didn’t just compress our schedule to get it over with sooner. Regardless, we had the rest of today, Sunday, off. Being past three in the afternoon, I headed to the minifridge to look for something to eat. After finding a bag of trail mix, I ripped it open and surveyed our room. Aside from the bathrooms, there was just one big room. It had a king size bed, couch on one side, and flat bed on the other. One side was complete windows, giving us a great view of the city below us. I sat on the couch and waited for Tao to be done using the bathroom and stared out at the sky until I heard the door open. He walked out and waved his hands, trying to dry off the excess liquid from washing them. Finishing my snack, I walked to my suitcase I threw on the bed and begun to take out the items I would need. Taking my toothbrush and shampoo & conditioner (yes, I brought my own), I walked to the bathroom and stared at it before placing my items down. The floor was a beautiful cream opal tile while the walls were an eggshell granite. The shower had two showerheads, one each side, most likely put in because there was only one shower, and the doors were frosted glass with an elegant vine design on it. I walked back out when I finished my gaping and saw the teen walking back and forth from different places within the huge room. I leaned against the wall and watched and waited until he noticed me there.
“You… looked like you had a lot of stuff so I thought I would help you unpack…” He trailed off and scratched the back of his head as a small smile crept on my lips.
He talked to me… Well, that’s a start.
“Thank you.” I hesitated, wondering if I should say more but decided to leave it alone. When he finished with everything he put our empty luggage up in one of the extra storage shelves and sat on the couch beside the bed. I grabbed the remote for the tv and jumped on the king sized bed. Sprawling out, I Iay on my stomach with my feet in the air. A kind of childish position, but I doubt I would be able to relax like this without being made fun of from the other members. A couple of hours passed like that, silent but not tense. The shows had kept us entertained, but from the corner of my eye I hadn’t seen the teen even twitch. As carefully as possible, I moved my eyes to the right the slightest bit only to see the little one had fallen asleep.
He didn’t look very comfortable. His head had fallen to the side, and his mouth hung open the slightest bit as if his bottom lip was too heavy to stay in its place. The more time that passed, the more a breath would turn into a snore.
I knew what to do.
And I was going to do it whether he liked it or not.
I turned down the volume on tv and got off of the bed. I reached over on the left side and pulled the sheets up. Walking over to him, I reached my arms up and ever so slightly slipped them under him. I froze as soon as I felt him twitch. I stood there, holding him bridal style in the air, and watched him hoping that no matter what, he wouldn’t wake up.
He leaned towards me in my arms and yawned with his eyes closed.
Oh god. He’s awake. -
After heaving a long sleepy breath he got quiet for a few seconds. Thinking he had fallen back asleep, I took a slow step towards the bed.
“Ahmanmanom” Tao mumbled and wrapped his arms around my neck tightly. I halted my steps once again, my face now a deep shade of pink, and saw that he was still asleep.
Well this wasn’t part of the plan…
Not really sure what to do now, I stood there for another moment and thought. If I try to pry him off of me, he’ll probably wake up. But, if I let him sleep on me, he still might wake up. Especially if I fidget under him. After a few more seconds I decided to just let him sleep on me. Once I got to the bed I had to turn around and climb on with my back. Quite awkward really, but that didn’t matter to me at the moment. Tao kept his arms around my neck, but his legs slipped off of mine and onto the sheets. All of a sudden his left leg came under mine while his right wrapped around the top of mine, wrapping tightly as if holding on for dear life.
Ah! Dear god! Tao, what the hell are you doing?!
He was using me as a body pillow and crushing me in the process.
Lovely.
An hour had passed and he was out so cold some probably would have thought he was dead. Realizing that he wouldn’t be moving anytime soon, I decided I might as well sleep too. I closed my eyes and focused on Tao. His warm breath tickled my arm when he exhaled, and his lip still hung open the slightest bit. Based on previous experience, I would probably wake up with a small pool of drool on my chest.
I listened to his breathing and -without realizing it- gradually began to match mine with his. Having his body heat so close with his slightly vibrating chest somehow lulled me to sleep. I hadn’t realized that I nodded off until a soft stream of light landed on my eyes. I opened them slowly and was about to stretch when I remembered that I wasn’t alone. Looking down, he was in the same exact position.
And like I had predicted, the only difference was a little pool of drool had developed on my chest. It was still early in the morning, but we had a morning shoot so I had to wake us up. I figured it would be too soon to wake him while he was still around me, so I carefully wriggled out of his hold and prayed he wouldn’t wake up. After freeing myself completely, I got up and turned to look at him. His eyebrows were furrowed, his mouth was closed, and his arms were reaching out. It was as if he was upset from the loss of contact.
I wonder if that was true.
The first thing I decided to do was order room service. And then I got the perfect idea.
We could share a meal.
Something inconspicuous to him, but it may be another way to break the ice. A devious smile played on my lips as I ordered. When I was done, I went to take a quick shower. As expected, the shower was incredible. I couldn’t help but almost fall asleep again as the water pressure massaged my muscles. When I walked back out, Tao was still in the same position, eyebrows still furrowed. I basically just sat until I heard a knock on the door. Once I got the food, I thanked the delivery boy and placed the food on a mini table near the glass windows. The table had two chairs on either side so the diners could face each other while they ate. I took the seat nearest the window so that I could discreetly check to see if he was up. I hadn’t eaten yet because I wanted to wait for him, but opened the cover so that the smell would travel through the room and wake him up. Within a few moments I saw a moving figure in the corner of my eye. He walked over to the table and stared at the food. I couldn’t help but look up at him, mesmorized by his bed head and his eyes which I could have sworn were still closed. Before I knew it he had plopped down on the chair and ripped open a pair of chopsticks. It was silent as we ate, but again, it wasn’t tense. We neared the last of the dish and had one piece of meat left. I lifted up my chopsticks to get it but found that mine weren’t the only ones on the plate. Tao had reached for it too. Once we realized what had just happened, we couldn’t help but laugh. He retracted his chopsticks, signifying I could have it, but I wanted otherwise.
“You can have it.” I picked it up and placed it on his plate with a shy smile, meeting his gaze only quickly.
He paused, looked down at it, and dropped his chopsticks. I stared at him, wondering what in the world he was doing. He then took it in his fingers, ripped it in half, and placed one of the halves on my plate with a hidden smile. A slight blush crept up my cheeks at that, and I gave him a smile and nodded in thanks.
The rest of the morning and afternoon was occupied with the marketing event. When we got back to our room, Tao went in first and practically ran to the bathroom. I quickly dismissed it, for he was probably just washing off the layers of paint they had plastered on his face, and stood by the window just enjoying the view.
“Yifan” Tao spoke low, his voice disrupting the silence and surprising me. That was the first time since trainee days that he had addressed me by that name.
Yet, as I replied, I kept my gaze out of the window. “Yes?”
“…Why?” his voice sounded strained and his question made no sense, so I turned to him, confused.
“Why what, Tao?” I asked.
“Why did you kiss Lay?”
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