The Light His Action, and the Dark

The Leisure of His Will—

In Him Existence serve or set

A Force illegible

--Emily Dickinson

                Lu Han comes home dejected. He doesn’t have the energy to do anything else (regardless if he has tons of projects due next week). He feels like his life force has been drained from his body. It’s all that Yue Lao Wannabe’s fault. He shouldn’t trust anyone from the internet especially if it involves his (now almost non-existent) lovelife.

                To release some of his building tension, he decided to make one of their sofa cushions a punching bag.  “Stupid cupid impostor and his crazy ideas…” he mumbles while punching the cushion with gusto. “Stupid tall admirers who won’t stay away from my precious baozi…”.  This time he punches the cushion hard enough to have a few of it’s stuffing come out of the seams. Satisfied with his handy work, he aims one last punch at the innocent square pillow. “Take that! I’m a manly man!” He does a happy dance of victory.

                “I don’t think punching pillows constitutes to being manly, hyeong…” Kyung Soo comes out of his room smoothing his shirt and trying to tidy his hair.

                “Kyung Soo-ah… I thought you were out…” Lu Han discretely hides the severed pillow he was punching earlier but to no avail.

                “I’m going out later, just waiting for someone… Stop harassing my pillows, they’re expensive.” Kyung Soo snatches the pillow away from Lu Han and sighs exaggeratedly at another loss.

                “You can just ask your benefactor to buy you a new set… He buys you anything if you lament about it loud enough…”

                “For the nth time, I don’t have a benefactor. Joon Myeon-ssi is anything but an idiot…”

                “A rich idiot who fawns over you… You’re like a modern day Judy Abbott with your own Daddy Long Legs…” Lu Han thinks sugar daddy is more appropriate since Kim Joon Myeon is quite short and long legs doesn’t apply. He doesn’t say it out loud though.

                “Judy Abbott is an orphan, hyeong…”

                “Same difference… Would you rather have me call him as your benefactor coz I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s aiming for…”

                “If you don’t stop saying that hyeong, I won’t help you with our barista…”

                Lu Han immediately perks up at the mention of barista. Finally, he has an ally he can punch in real life if he ever gets bad advice. “You’d help me?”

                “Depends if you stop being creepy…”

                The older makes a face. He’s not creepy. If anything, he thinks he’s absolutely romantic. “I don’t do creepy… I’m too handsome and manly to be creepy. Do you really want to help?”

                “Sure… One question though. Why Min Seok-hyeong? I’m aware that he’s good looking and nice and dilligent and pretty much an okay person but you’ve known him for less than two weeks. And you’ve never even talked to him.” Lu Han’s about to protest when Kyung Soo added, “Telling him your order is not considered talking, that’s not a valid conversation…”

                “He’s just… I feel like I’ve known him from before. It’s more than a sense of déjà vu. It’s like you’ve lived several lifetimes with this person…”

                “That’s going into weird territory. You’re giving me goosebumps…”

                “I know it seems odd to be feeling this way… but that’s just how I feel when I first saw baozi…”

                “Well, I can’t help you with the lifetime thing. But I promise to give a good word or two about you to Min Seok-hyeong…”

                “And say bad things about Chan Yeol while you’re at it…”

                Kyung soo makes a face at the elder. “I don’t need to, hyeong. He can do that by himself.”

                Lu Han shrugs, he needs to have that Chan Yeol guy on Min Seok’s bad guy list. Too bad the tall barista is nice when he’s not interrupting potential romantic scenes with his baozi. He remembers something all of a sudden, a name he heard from his eavesdropping. “Who’s Kai?”

                Kyung Soo stops fuzzing about his hair and looks wide eyed at Lu Han.

                “I just heard Chan Yeol mention him earlier. My baozi doesn’t look too happy hearing the name come up in the conversation…”

                “Kai is bad news… He’s an .” The younger spits out with disdain. How much of an is this Kai fellow that everyone who hears his name instantly turns into spit fire.

                Lu Han can’t imagine anyone  playing with Kim Min Seok. Why would you when you have perfection? If he ever sees that Kai person, he’d make sure the guy won’t be able to show his face anywhere ever again.

                “Hey, no plotting on murdering cheating exes. Don’t try to deny it, hyeong… It’s written all over your face.”

                The doorbell rings before he can even retaliate. Giving Kyung Soo a winning smile, he shouts “Kyung Soo-ya, enjoy your date! And I’m really sorry for ruining your favourite sofa cushion. I’ll try my best to replace it, even if I know it’s very, very expensive…”

                Kyung Soo gives him one last death glare before making his way to the front door.

                Alone, Lu Han ponders a way to be able yo get close to his baozi without scaring him. If his baozi came from a bad relationship then his current plan won’t work. It’s just that Lu Han doesn’t want to make this as if he’s trying to be friends with the other then have a different intention altogether. That’s just an underhanded thing to do. He needs careful planning if he wants this to last in this lifetime.

                It’s weird that he feels like it’s a futile attempt. Something in the back of his mind is nagging him that it’s not going to happen this time too. But he’s determined to go against fate. He already had an almost in what he believes was a previous life. He will have his happy ending this lifetime and the following lifetimes to come. He punches another sofa cushion to solidify that oath.

~o~

                Chen and Tao sits by the window at their usual café trying to figure out a way to expidite the order of the tablets their client has supposedly broken. Expidited tablets usual arrives three or four years later. They don’t have that luxury. He looks at the Time descendant on his left. He’s busy looking over new reports about one of their subjects. They don’t have much about him, but it’s enough to be able to plot another chance meeting between the two ill-fated lovers. He cringes at the title. Tao really needs to stop being sappy.

                It would be easier to go through with their plans if their boss is not determined to be mopey until he gets his tablets. And if their only client decided to log back in to the site and ask for assistance. Both, he believes, is not going to happen anytime soon.

                “Chen… Baozi-ssi’s been in a traumatic relationship?” Tao looks at Chen with what he thinks are tears in his eyes. He needs to get out of this drama.

                “He has trust issues… You would if you’re ex is a playboy who sleeps with everything that moves.” Said barista is currently on an off day right now so the only one manning the counter is someone who looks like a puppy, Chen have seen several times and the tall guy who he thinks is interested in their subject.

                “Oh, that . I hope Handsome Manly China Man treats him well…” Tao drinks his 3^rd serving of bubble tea. The other has been addicted to said drink eversince the tall lanky guy with the weird part introduced it to him.

                Chen hopes their boss gets out of his slump and they’d be able to get in touch with Yi Fan since the other also decided to disappear during a critical time. He also hopes Fate is not plotting anything overly tragic, coz let’s face it, no one likes cliché love stories anymore.

a/n: it’s been a while~ I’ve been gone for a few weeks, well because real life and a few other priorities. So yeah here it is an update

the next update may take a while, thank you all for your patience ^^v

oh and you guys can message me or talk to me, I don’t bite. Unless it’s necessary. XD