As Zhan lay in his bed staring at ceiling he couldn't help but think about Yibo and had the urge to talk to him, besides his room was almost empty and he felt really cold while lying on the bed in his nearly empty room.

So he picked his phone and at first he was about to call Yibo but he decided against it, instead he messaged and to his surprise the reply came back soon, he smiled as he started to chat with Yibo.

"Hey"

"Hey"

"Why are you awake."

"I can ask the same question."

"I have insomnia."

"I have migraine."

"Is it bad?" Zhan asked as he became rather concerned.

"Nah, I am fine, it will pass, what do you want?"

"I wanted to talk to you."

"Okay then talk."

Zhan thought about something for a while before he asked, "why are you not close with your parents?"

"They don't like me, I don't like them."

"Why?"

"That's a secret."

"Tell me have we met before?"

Yibo stared at the message for a while before he smiled, "who knows, why do you feel like we have met before?"

"You do feel familiar. And why are you so nice to me?"

"Because I am your guardian angel."

Zhan laughed on the other side when he read that.

Meanwhile Yibo was not in a very good condition, his head felt like it was going to explode it felt like someone was hammering his head and he can't sleep despite taking the medicine there was no relief.

He really shouldn't use his phone but once he saw a message from Zhan, he couldn't help it, he and Zhan chatted about random topics for a while, before his door suddenly opened and his aunt barged in, he quickly kept the phone away and pretended to be asleep.

But his aunt caught him, "Why are you not sleeping and why are you using your phone?"

Yibo felt guilty as he said, "sorry, aunt I was not able to sleep, because of the pain."

His aunt sighed as she sat beside him on the bed and looked after him, Yibo spoke, "I am going to be fine aunt."

"I know, but let me check up on you."

Yibo said nothing and let his aunt what she wanted, as they sat in silence his aunt said suddenly, "Yibo, there are few months left for your last year at college to be over, what do you plan to do after that?"

"Job?"

"Yes, you should and with Job I want you to do masters as well."

Yibo looked at her and said, "masters?"

"Yes."

"But..."

"Don't worry about the money, you have saved up plenty."

Yibo was confused as he said, "I don't what you are saying, I have nothing saved up."

"All the money that you have been giving me as rent and other things for the past three years, I have deposited them in a savings account under your name, once you complete your bachelor's go for master."

Yibo felt overwhelmed as he said,"but aunt that money was for you..."

"No, I don't want your money and you are too young to give me house expenses just do as I am saying! Use that money to get your masters and work hard become successful. That's the only way you can impress me, or else I am going to throw you out of the house."

Yibo giggled he knew that his aunt would never do that, but his eyes got filled with tears and as he tried to blink them away they fell from his eyes, his aunt smiled and said, "What are you ? a kid? why are you crying like that?"

"I love you aunt... if it wasn't for you, then god knows where I would be today."

His aunt smiled at him and gently patted his head as she held his hand stayed beside him because she knew that Yibo was in pain and so she wanted to stay by his side and support him.

She had never said him 'I love you' but her actions spoke louder than words.

Meanwhile Zhan pouted when he didn't get any reply from Yibo, so he closed the messaging app and started to do some research on migraine to pass time and he found a lot of things, about this disorder.

The next day when Zhan came to the college and entered the class he saw Yibo there, early as usual, but this time he was standing near the window and was staring outside and for some reason Zhan just stood there and kept on watching him because Zhan just couldn't take his eyes off of Yibo.

He looked like a piece of art.

Zhan smiled before he took out his phone and silently took a photo of him, before he silently went inside and stood beside Yibo and whsipered in his ear, "good morning."

Yibo flinched and jumped back, but when he saw Zhan he suddenly smiled and for some reason Zhan felt that time slowed down when he saw that pure innocent smile, so beautiful that it was truly angelic.

Yibo snapped his finger before Zhan and said, "What are you thinking about?"

Zhan blinked and looked away unwillingly, "nothing, let's go have a seat."

"Sure."

As the days passed, Zhan and his family had moved to the new house and Zhan had asked Yibo's help to arrange his room.

"Is this you?"Yibo asked as he looked at the album with the photos of Zhan.

Zhan smiled and wanted to take it away becuase he had many embarassing photos in there but Yibo refused to give it back, instead he was enjoying seeing the photos with great interest and when Zhan saw how happy he looked while looking at his photos he let him see them, even the most embarassing. And while Yibo was staring at his photos Zhan secretly photo of his.

This was some new habit that he had developed recently.

" I want to see yours too." Zhan said, "childhood photos."

Yibo looked at him and said, "I don't have any."

Zhan smiled and said. "it's okay."

 Zhan's performance improved, he performed very well in the debate competition and even won it and then he was perfect in badminton too and as he had said he had outshined Liam and drove him to the corner.

Whereas in Football, his main rival was Simon and not Grady. Zhan didn't even bother to look at Grady as he was nowhere near him and Simon.

His mother's came by soon and to celebrate he went out with with brother and mother for dinner, just a casual family outing.

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"If you are free today, then why don't you come to me practice today?" Zhan asked.

Yibo smiled and nodded, "Sure why not."

"I'll show you how much of a pro I am in playing, and you should also come to the match that will be held after the finals."

Yibo just have him a smile, he wanted to say to Zhan that the latter didn't have to ask him to come, he was going to be present there anyways.

So after the classes were over, Zhan and Yibo made their way to the ground, where Zhan joined the others and Yibo stood to the side.

Soon the players started to play and Yibo observed, after sometime when the first session was  nearly over, and Yibo saw Grady trying to knock out Zhan so many times which earned him a lot of scolding from the coach and that made Yibo happy.

As the team took a break, Zhan was surrounded by his team mates and Yibo smiled as he was happy that Zhan was once again surrounded by so many people and he was being the ball of sunshine that he always was.

"I didn't expect to see you here." Yibo turned to the side and saw Liam over there, he was looking at him with a smile, but Yibo didn't bother to give him a smile, he just ignored.

"There is no need to ignore me, I mean no harm and I have never done anything bad to you, we have never even interacted, why do you seem to hate me so much."

Yibo rolled his eyes and didn't reply he thought that Liam would give up, but instead Liam continued, "I see that you are Zhan's new bestie, but someone like you won't be able to keep up with him, the moment he gets his shine back he is going to ignore your existence. You are so mediocore, your family is also middle class I guess, someone like you can't be friends with him for long.

He is really self-centered you know, and also do you know about his father? he was an abuser who loved to beat his wife and kids, did all kinds of alcohols and drugs and you know why he was arrested because he sexually assaulted a minor, he has a lot of other charges as well, like fraud, embezzlement, what if he is like that too you know...one day he might snap and..."

"I don't care." Yibo said with a straight face as he looked Liam dead in the eye.

"What?" Liam spoke. 

Yibo turned to him and said, "I don't fucking care, what his father has done, who his father was, all I care is about him. I want him to be well, I want him to rise and shine, I want him to be sucessful."

Liam laughed and said, "seriously.... I told you that he will..."

"It's fine, I didn't intend to be his friend anyways, I didn't intend to be anything to him, I am just his well-wisher who wants the best for him that's all. I don't want anything from him except his well-being." Yibo said clearly, being able to talk to Zhan and grow to close was already more than enough.

In the begining he had just thought that he would just be a normal classmate and observe Zhan from the sidelines and never meddle with him, because he himself knew someone like Zhan was out of his reach and he didn't deserve him. 

Liam wanted to say something but they heard another voice that said, "is there a problem here?"

Liam and Yibo looked at Zhan who glared at Liam .

Liam went away and Zhan stood beside Yibo before he asked, "So what do you intend to be?"

Yibo looked at him, "what?"

"You said that you didn't intend to be anything to me, how is that possible, there has to be something."

Yibo gave him a smile and said, "Well, I am your well-wisher and your guardian angel."

Zhan smiled as he heard that.

Author's note: Yibo's aunt his Yanli.