The Return

Ever since morning, Luhan felt terrible. All the stress, the lack of sleep and not eating properly began to drain him, on top of that, that was the day Yixing supposed to return from China. He felt uneasy and not ready to face the younger male. He was scared that if he saw him, he couldn’t hold himself back and doing something that he might regret.

The whole group noticed how awful Luhan looked and tried their best to be considerate towards him. They helped him throughout their schedule, coaxed him to eat, and not being too noisy in between schedule and let him took some rest. However, that made Luhan felt even worse and guilty.

But only when the entire schedule ended, Luhan finally giving up. The realization that Yixing might stepped into their room at any given time gave the last blow for his entire defense. He collapsed to his bed, hiding under his blanket and tried to sleep, so he could avoid Yixing even just for a few hours until morning.

Not even an hour after he slipped under his blanket, he could hear the members’ noisy voices on the living room. His heart beat so fast, he was afraid that it might burst. Yixing was home.

“Oh! I think Yixing hyung is home!” Jongdae blurted out from his bed before jumped out from it. “Hyung, Yixing hyung is home!” He said to Luhan.

Luhan bite his lower lip before turned around to face Jongdae. “Jongdae, can you please help me?” He pleaded.

Jongdae could only raised his eyebrows before giving a small nod.

“I… I don’t want to meet him just yet.. Can you.. Can you please make him stay outside until I sleep?” Luhan asked.

“But why?” Jongdae asked, didn’t understand. Because he thought Luhan would missed Yixing the most.

Luhan was too sick to explain. “Just please…”

“Okay…” Jongdae didn’t asked further.

Right when Jongdae opened their room’s door, Yixing was already standing in front of their shared room, carrying his backpack on one shoulder. Jongdae squealed and hurriedly closing the door behind him. “H.. Hi Hyung!” He stuttered.

Yixing smiled his usual smile, “Hi!”

Jongdae wasn’t really good at anything that is not music, let alone making excuses, “So… how’s everything?”He asked still blocking the door.

Yixing started to feel strange about Jongdae’s behavior, he frowned in confusion before answering, “Everything was good!” Still waiting for Jongdae to move.

“That’s awesome!” Jongdae fidgeted.

Silence.

“Jongdae?”

“Yes?”

“I want to come in.”

“Don’t you want to take a shower first?” Jongdae asked, clearly panicked, God! He was really bad at this kind of thing.

Yixing raised his eyebrows, “But my clean clothes are inside.”

“Dinner first then!”

“I ate dinner already. Jongdae, I need to come in, so if you may…”

“NO!” Jongdae squealed again, but then, he also pressed both of his hand on the door frame. “Luhan hyung is sick, so…. I think it would be better for us to stay outside until he sleeps.”

Yixing’s eyes expanded twice of their original size, “He’s sick? You should’ve told me earlier! Move, I want to see him!”

“But hyung!” Jongdae didn’t budge.

“Move Jongdae!” Yixing gritted his teeth, and Jongdae started to feel cold sweat forming on his forehead, Yixing might not that much taller than him, but the boy was all muscle. He pressed his hands harder to the door frame, and also pressed his back to the door.

“Hyung… you can’t…” Jongdae didn’t got to finish his words.

“I said move Jongdae! He’s my boyfriend! And he’s sick! I want to se him NOW! Move before I hurt you!!” Yixing screamed.

Not even once in his life, Jongdae ever imagined Yixing could be that angry. He could only opening and closing his mouth like fish out of water, when suddenly the door behind him being pulled open from inside, revealing a sick Luhan. He cursed under his breath when he was trying to balance himself so that his wouldn’t land on the floor.

“Am I?” Luhan asked to Yixing.

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“Silly boy! When did I ever mention about breaking up with you?” Yixing asked as he tucked Luhan under his blanket.

“I thought you were angry at me and want to break up…” Luhan replied weakly, as he made himself comfortable under the blanket, feeling slightly at ease being babied by Yixing. The guilt was still there though, and the fear was still there too, what if Yixing being nice to him just because he was sick?

“What makes you think I’m angry at you?” Yixing brushed Luhan’s bangs out of his eyes, frowned when he felt how warm Luhan’s forehead under the touch.

“You rejected my phone call, and you didn’t tell that you left for China..”

Yixing sighed, “I did kind of angry with you before I left for China… But I missed you right after I sat on the plane,” He paused to tuck the blanket tighter around Luhan so he felt warmer. “I didn’t rejected your phone call, my phone died when I was about to pick that,” Yixing smiled slightly, “I’m not angry.”

Luhan pulled his hand out of the blanket and grabbed Yixing’s hand to play with his fingers, “So you did angry at me.” He looked down to their hands.

“And…. According to you, why was I angry?” Yixing asked again, half teasing, but Luhan missed that.

“Be… because… I’ve been neglecting you… and not spending time with you…” Luhan was on the verge of crying again, he felt terribly guilty. “I’m sorry.” He said at last, eyes still focusing on his tangled fingers with Yixing’s.

Yixing suddenly pulled one of his hand and use it to flick on Luhan’s forehead as hard as he could, making his pretty boyfriend startled and winced in pain. “AWWH..!!” Luhan whined as he rubs his red forehead.

“Serve you about right.” Yixing said.

“Awhhh…” Luhan still whining cutely, whatever happened to his manly image he said he had.

“You have to understand Lu…” Yixing continued as he rub Luhan’s red forehead, “I’m not a toy you can just pick up when you wanted to play with and throw away when you’re bored. I can get hurt too.” He said patiently.

“I never think that way about you,” Luhan said, holding Yixing’s hand tighter than before. “I was… I was just too conceited. I thought you would never left me or angry at me no matter what I do.” He let out a single tear from the corner of his doe eye, a mix of all guilty feeling and also relieved. “I always thought that there always be tomorrow with you, and took your presence for granted. I was dumb and ungrateful. I’m sorry…” He finally shifted his gaze from their hands to look at Yixing’s eyes.

Yixing sighed again. How could he be angry at Luhan right then? When Luhan looked so fragile, weak and small. Luhan, made his mistake, but when he held on to Yixing’s hands like it was a life support, apologizing, and crying from guilt, Yixing knows, that the older male loves him just as much as he did.

Yixing reached his hand to cup Luhan’s cheek and brushing his finger on Luhan’s pale skin, “It’s alright..” He smiled a genuine smile. “Really. But just… Don’t. Do. That. Again!” He poked Luhan’s cheek at every word, making Luhan smiled and nodded his head.

“Now… I’ll make you something to eat. Just stay here, I’ll be back!” Yixing said, about to get up from the bed, but Luhan pulled his hand back down.

“Hey, this is hurt.” Luhan whined, pointing at his forehead.

Yixing chuckled. Yeah, Luhan really loves him, “Alright… Alright…” Yixing bend down to kiss Luhan’s forehead. But when he pulled back, Luhan tilted his chin, asking for a lip lock. Yixing smiled at the gesture and granted it, pressing his lips on to Luhan’s, giving him a sweet and comforting kiss. He grazed his teeth along Luhan’s bottom lip before it between his lip while Luhan resting his hand on his collarbone, lightly dug into the his skin.

The kiss lasted for a moment before they heard an “OH!” from their bedroom’s door, where Jongdae poked his head, making them breaking the kiss, and Yixing buried his face in Luhan’s neck while Luhan giggled shyly. “Please carry on!” Jongdae said. “I’ll camp out on Junmyeon hyung’s floor for the night. It’s alright!” He added before closing the door again.

Yixing lifted his head from the comfort of Luhan’s neck, “He’s sick!” He screamed loud enough so Jongdae could hear it from outside the door. “The hell do you think we’re going to do?”

Jongdae poked his head on the door again, “You know what? I’m still going to camp out on Junmyeon hyung’s floor.” Luhan laughed, while Yixing just shook his head in disbelief.

epilogue

“How’s everything?” Kris asked Yixing later that night, when the two of them enjoying the milk tea Yixing made. The other members were all in their room ready to sleep. Luhan already fell asleep in Yixing’s bed when Yixing slipped out with much difficulty trying to not wake him up, because he needed to brush his teeth when he found Kris watching TV alone in the living room.

“Good.” Yixing answered. “Everything is good.”

“That’s great.”

They continued enjoying their drink in silence, in a dark living room, watching muted TV, before Kris got up from the couch. “I’ll go to bed, you too go to bed soon before Luhan realize that you’re gone.” Kris said and walked to his room.

“Kris!” Yixing called, and Kris halted his step. “Thanks!”

“What for?” Kris asked.

“Watching him out when I wasn’t here.”

“Nevermind! Just don’t do that again, that boy was so hopeless without you.” Kris walked towards his room again.

“Thanks! Duizhang..”

Yixing missed the smile on Kris’ face.

a/n: So, this is the last chapter..... How was it? .____. It doesn't turned out like what I imagined ;~; but this is the best I can do.. It's not that bad right? I like the epilogue..

I want to thank all of you who read this until this far, and sorry if it's not like what you expected, but HEY! at least they get bact together! :D

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