CHAPTER 23

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After their reunion in the library, Saint had to go to the registration office to inform that he will be reporting for school. Zee was unexplainably quiet the whole time until he volunteered to go with Saint, which didn't received any protest. On the way, Saint noticed that Zee chose to walk behind him instead on his side, that he chose to stay quiet instead of talking to him. Saint went impatient and took a deep breath.

"P'Zee..", Saint suddenly stopped walking resulting for Zee to bump unto his back. "What are you thinking?"

"Huh?", Zee looked dumbly at Saint who only frowned at him.

"What are you thinking?",

"Huh? Nothing, why?", Zee replied.

"You look so lost, you won't talk to me, you won't walk side by side with me. What's the problem?", Saint looked straight to Zee's eyes.

"It's just that...", Saint even looked curious of what he's going to say. "...I don't know how to react around you." He nervously replied, and looked at the ground.

"Why?",

"I'm nervous..",

"Nervous?",

"And I'm trying to hold back..", Zee then bit his lips and looked at Saint who's face is painted with with crimpson pink. "...I want to hug you, and kiss you." Zee only smiled on what he said, but Saint's heart palpitated already like 100x in a second. Saint turned away, not knowing what he's gonna do next. "...Saint. Look at me, now you're the one looking away.", Saint took a step away until Zee grabbed him to look at him. In a flash, Saint grabbed Zee and and drag him to the corner where there's no single student may be sight. Soon as they stopped, Saint turned around and rested his head on Zee's shoulder. "Saint?",

"Let me, P'Zee..only for a bit. I feel like my chest is going to be explode soon", Saint murmured enough for Zee to hear. Zee smiled as he could feel Saint's heartbeat, he then rested his right arm on Saint's head, stroking it and his left arm on Saint's waist pulling him even closer to him.

"I miss you, Saint.", Zee murmured. He might be exaggerating, but he really did miss the man in his embrace. It may not be the longer time that they were separated, there's much worse when they were on their peak of their break-up time, Saint didn't showed up or gave Zee chance to see him nor talk to him, but he felt this time was different. His longing after things calmed down between them seemed to became even stronger. It's so different when they talk on phone, he felt like it's been so long since he had Saint once again on his hold.

"I miss you too, P'Zee", Saint replied. They stayed like that for at least 30 minutes or so, Saint broke the hug first as he felt he finally calmed down, and it would be bad on Zee's shoulder if he stayed longer.

"You calmed down?", Zee asked Saint who's cheeks are still in pink, he caressed it softly.
"Yeah, I've calmed down.", Saint smiled gaining a sweet smile from Zee.

"Good, shall we go? You need to get your on-leave withdrawn.", Zee told Saint.

"P'Zee...",

"Hm?", Zee smiled at Saint.

"Well..uhm," Saint would shift his gaze from Zee's eyes to his lips time to time.

"What Saint?",

"Well..canikissyou?", Saint mumbled with pausing but Zee definitely understood it. When Saint didn't heard any thing, he sighed.." ah, nevermind.", He was about to leave when Zee suddenly cupped his face and closed the lingering distance between them. He captured Saint's lips gently, no lust, just letting Saint felt how happy he is to obliged. Who am I to reject? He thought to himself. Saint closed his eyes and just let their lips touch each other. The kiss is gentle, and he could feel nothing but love. He smiled on the thought that he would never dare to exchange this man's kiss for anyone. Zee could let you feel so precious on his simple way. After some time, the two broke their kiss to catch air they didn't realized far gone for a long time.

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