For the first two or three days after Yifan's departure, Yixing kept forgetting that the guy had left. Every morning he would wake up and expect Yifan to be up already, doing something active such as making breakfast or getting ready to have a shower. When Yixing couldn't find him doing neither, he always ended up going to the spare bedroom Yifan had spent his time resting in. He was always disappointed to find the room empty, he was quickly reminded that Yifan was no longer around. 

"Why so down Xing?" Luhan asked at work, the two of them being spared a few minutes of peace at work to sit around and chat 
"In the beginning, all I wanted was for him to get out and leave as quick as he possibly could" Yixing began, pausing before letting out a sigh. 

"Now that he's gone... I don't know... am I missing him? Is that what I'm feeling?" 
"Wait, Yifan left? When did he leave?" Luhan asked 
"He left about three days ago... can we just get back to the original point please" Yixing replied, watching as Luhan smiled and shook his head. 

"Do you miss him?" he asked 
"I don't know what I'm feeling! I-it's like when I wake up in the morning I expect him to be there like he had been previously... now that he's not here and he's actually gone... I don't know what I'm feeling. It's sort of like a mix of disappointment and sadness" 

Luhan had a pretty good idea of what was going on with Yixing. He just couldn't believe that his friend was so clueless and oblivious to his own feelings. Surely his friend was not that stupid! 

"Oh Yixing... are you really this clueless?" he asked, watching the guy frown and shake his head 
"What are you talking about?" he replied as Luhan laughed and shook his head. 

"Isn't it obvious? Why you're feeling this way, why you miss Yifan... come on, surely you're not that oblivious to what your body is trying to tell you" leaving Yixing there to figure out for himself what he meant. 

What did Luhan mean? God, Yixing wished that he just spoke to him simply rather than cryptically. 

Yixing wasn't oblivious to his body... or his feelings for that matter... he knew when he was sad, angry, happy and all the other possible emotions a human could experience throughout their lifetime. 

What connection was Luhan trying to make with Yixing, his emotions and Yifan? 

"You think I like him?" Yixing blurted out, his thoughts only being confirmed when Luhan began laughing 
"Finally he realises" he shouted out loud to no one in particular, Yixing rushing forward towards him. 

"I-I don't like Yifan! I never have liked him!" he exclaimed, trying to stop Luhan from continuously laughing at his current crisis 
"Oh Yixing please! Even though you've only just discovered for yourself, the feelings must have been here for quite a while. Slowly building up, staying away at your frustrations over how much of a he could be sometimes... how about listening to your heart instead of your brain" Luhan replied before he began laughing again. 

"Yixing's got a crush" he began singing, skipping around the bakery 
"Luhan quit it he's not even around anymore!" Yixing shouted, chasing after him. 

"So you're not denying it then!" Luhan commented before he resumed his singing and continued skipping around, Yixing continuing on his chase. Oh he was going to enjoy ripping Yixing for this in the next coming weeks. 

~

By the time Yixing got back to his place that evening, he was still riled up over the chat he had with Luhan earlier. He just couldn't get over the reality that was facing him... he just couldn't like Yifan! He didn't like Yifan! He was sure of it! 

"Stupid Luhan" Yixing muttered, walking out of the elevator and making his way down towards his place 
"Stupid Yifan, stupid heart.... stupid ever-" 

Yixing's cursing came to an abrupt stop, himself coming to a sudden stop when he arrived at his place and found the door on its hinges. Instincts told him to turn around and run... after all he would be crazy to just stand there if he was in immediate danger. Ignoring instincts, Yixing ventured into his apartment. All around him, everything was ruined; furniture torn up, pictures thrown to the floor, cutlery from the kitchen smashed into pieces on the floor... it looked like something out of a battle scene!

"Oh, if Yifan had left sooner" came a voice, making Yixing turn around as Guo Ling strode into the living room 
"I really didn't want to have to do this Yixing... but you see, you were hiding Yifan and me thinking that he was still here... I just had to come and get him" he explained, indicating to the mess around him. 

"H-he's not here now... you missed him by a few days actually" Yixing replied stating the obvious, but hoped that it would be enough to get Guo Ling as far away from him as possible. 

"I can tell... but you see, I'm not going to get him, he can come to me" Guo Ling stated 
"W-why do you want him so badly? Isn't it bad enough that you framed him for a murder he didn't commit?" Yixing asked, stepping back whenever Guo Ling took a step forward. 

"Oh so he told you the truth then? You see Yixing, I had everything planned out even before he was in the picture. He just happened to be there at the wrong time and well... he just unfortunately became the scapegoat of all this" 

"Why?"
"Why did I use him?"
"No why did you kill those two people in the first place?" as a bitter smile graced Guo Ling's face. 

"She was suppose to be mine. From the beginning she was always mine... but no, my precious cousin had to worm his way in and claim her instead... I couldn't bare to see the two of them living so happily whilst I suffered, he took her away from me! One day though, I came to the conclusion that if I couldn't have her then nobody could. Pay a few people to delete some CCTV footage, threaten a few witnesses and get a poor seventeen year old boy in the mix, it makes a perfect crime" he explained, laughing at the memory. 

"Oh you should have seen Yifan's face when I went to visit him in his first week of jail... if it wasn't for the guards in the room with us, then I'm pretty sure he would have killed me" 

"You're ing nuts! You got so jealous of two people that you killed them and framed someone else so you could live on easily? What kind of human being are you?" Yixing shouted back 
"A powerful and terrifying kind" Guo Ling replied, voice lowering and gaze darkening as two more people stepped into the place. Two people Yixing could recognise instantly. 

"Like I said Yixing, I need Yifan to come back to me in order to keep this secret etween us what it always had been. You've been a great help in bringing me as close as I could to get to him... but now I'm going to need you in order to bring me just that little bit closer"...

Dun, dun, dunnnnn 

I'm just gonna leave the author note like this.... 

Unil the next chapter!