TRSU
Red Twelve

I swung the door open of our house and pocketed the keys. I turned to the guy who was probably thinking why the hell I rescued him, he blinked his eyes and grinned. No, he surely did know why I rescued him. 

"Come on." I said to him and climbed the stairs to my room, he shadowed me. Really odd because never in my life I imagined this to happen, Wang Yibo who almost stole my virginity was in my place! I flipped on the light switch and gave him the space to enter my modest habitat. Perceptible that he was transfixed by his surrounding and also not knowing what to do. Hell, I don't know what to do either. Everything occurred in a speed of bullet from a shotgun. I can't think what to say, all the words jumbled in the walls of my thoughts.

"Uhm...I'll get you a drink. Tea, apple juice or water?" Thank you I didn't accidentally hurt my tongue or said something unwise that I'll regret later.

He helped himself on the swivel chair in front of my study table and shook his head, "No, I don't need it. Can you sit and listen to me?" He motioned to my bed.

I submitted to him as I placed both of my hands on my lap, I did what he told me. "Yibo, you don't have to tell me about your relationship with Seungyoun, I understand you like him, right? You guys were always together, it's impossible that you won't fall in love with him. I mean, he is handsome, cool in his own way, outgoing and most of all he is kind. You two are made for each other. Like Romeo and Juliet, Honey and bears, Pencil and paper..." Those weren't nice to say, I confessed it pained me for no reason. I am not certain about other things but I knew he was my crush at first sight, my top-secret crush since that first day he noticed me in the hallway with pop-up banners near my first period classroom. And yes, that crush thing developed to something more, like liking him.

God. I won't ever admit it. He'll reject me anyway.

"No, you got it wrong. Seungyoun and I were just best friends, like a brother. I don't like him as a lover."

"Then why did you do it? You even said it to all the people in school." I expressed my side like an accuser in a courtroom. Please don't misunderstand.

"To make someone jealous. To make the one person I like recognize what he feels for me..."

Oh, so that's why... "If not Seungyoun, who is it?"

"You know him."

I began to feel ever so slightly sorry for him, we're in the same situation liking someone from afar, we were only free to admire them from the window of our world because it's difficult to cross the ocean that differs us as humans, "Why are you telling me this?"

"Because you didn't go to school after that 'revelation' incident...I got worried."

The harshest boy in my institution was concerned to me. Is that an average reason you see every day? No. Why would he?! I am a nobody! My illusionistic core thought in contrary, soared its angel wings in gladsome. Gosh, don't be so excited.

My arms remained at my sides, trying to hide my flustered cheeks, "No, no, no, I...I am...uh..." I felt guilty as I provided him a crooked smile. Actually you can't call it smiling because I am really in the border of my stroppy high school life.

"Can I use your shower?" He casually asked and stood up. Arched an eyebrow when I didn't answer, he then stripped his shirt off melting my eyes. They blatantly fawned over the outline of his abs under the clear light and I somehow overdosed on my oxygen when I took a full sight-on to his tattoos. Three recently scribbled tattoos on his chest, a heart, an English inscription inside it - a name - MY NAME!!! XIAO ZHAN and a dot on its right side. Is he referring to the mole under my lips???

"Yibo...That is..." My shaken finger targeted to that view.

"I got it from the south side of the city. Last two weeks. Inerasable." He said patently and shrugged. He bought my name from some tattoo store and stuck it on his body? WHAAATTT?!

I'VE GONE BLANK, SOMEBODY SALVAGE ME. "I'll let you use my extra clothes. The bathroom is that way." I don't want to commit rape, okay? I am one centimeter away from raping him though...oh no, what's gotten into me?!  No. No. No. 

I led him to my bathroom and he thankfully accepted the towel I sneakily pulled from my wardrobe. "Happy showering!"

His mouth tugged in his mythological smirk, "I will." And he closed it, locking from his side.

Nothing happened after that bath, I mean after his bath in my house. I changed to my pjs while he was still not in sight, hanging my spare shirt and puma shorts on the chair for him to wear and crept to my bed, pretending to be asleep. I had been lying there motionless for quite a few minutes and when I felt his presence, I became a rock. Lifeless and unbendable. He scooted beside me and when his arm draped to my waist, sparks of delight flew through the passageways of my blood. "Hope you know now..."

Know what? I am the one that he likes? Wang Yibo likes me. Wang Yibo likes Xiao Zhan. Me. He likes me.

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