Why Not Me?

Jealousy

It had been a while since Zhan had done any serious cooking at home.  He's been mostly surviving on instant food lately and so this dinner had  to be made perfect for Yibo. Zhan was  not bad at cooking but he wasn't  good either. So when Yibo arrived at his place, the kitchen was messy  and it smelled like something definitely was burnt more than necessary.  But Yibo was still happy with the effort Zhan put in and pitched in to  help him make the side dishes edible at least.

Tonight was another in a series of nights Zhan and Yibo spent  together. They would eat good food (may be not tonight), have few  drinks, talk about their work, play video games or catch a movie. They  have been doing this for a month now, meeting every 4-5 days whenever  and wherever they could.

"So do you have new project yet?" Yibo asked Zhan. Zhan was  almost done with Bo Lin's studio and ready to handover in the next 2-3  days.

"Not yet. But my last client has already done some PR for us  amongst his acquaintances. May be something will work out" Zhan said  smiling sarcastically.

"What about you, Yibo? What's next?

"hmm..I have this opening ceremony to be planned for a recording studio opening. It will be in the next 2 weeks or so."

"Recording studio? Which one?" Zhan was intrigued and just as he  expected it turned out to be Bo Lin's studio opening party that Yibo was  going to organize. What a coincidence? he thought. They both were  amused.

"Yibo...there's something I need to tell you" Zhan started with a slight hesitation in his voice.

"What is it?"

"hmm.. I.. you promise me first that you won't be mad"

"I won't ever be mad at you Zhan. Tell me now. What is it?"

"Promise me" Zhan insisted

"Ok fine, I promise. I won't be mad. Now tell me"

"So.. now you know Bo Lin and now you know that he has a recording studio. The one that we are redesigning."

"Ok. So what?"

"It just so happened, that one day, he heard me sing. No...not sing  actually. He heard me humming.. I was actually actually humming when I  was working on my mural. And then he heard me. I wasn't planning on it.  But it just happened. And I didn't know how to avoid him. I tried but I  couldn't. So I gave in. He's the one to blame, not me, ok. Be mad at  him"

"Zhan.. I have no idea what you are saying. I can hardly follow you. What exactly do you want to tell me"

"Bo Lin heard me humming and forced me into recording a song with  him and also insisted that it had to be an original song.. I... I did not  have any other original songs, so I sang one of yours without your  permission. But I made him promise not to promote me like he usually  does, and we decided to post it online on our social media accounts just  for our friends and family, so it's not really a big deal. So don't be  mad at me please." Zhan was almost breathless.

"Hmm.. so you are saying, that you recorded a song for Bo Lin.. and that is one of the songs that I wrote for you in the past?"

"Yes and I'm sorry and I will go do the dishes now" Zhan tried to escape.

"That is good. I wanted you to get back to singing, I'm happy  Zhan. I'm not mad at you. Don't run away from me." Yibo burst out  laughing.

"You are not mad? Sure?" Zhan still was unsure.

"I'm really not mad Zhan. Why would I be? I know how much you love singing. It's fine. Really."

"Oh thank god! I was worried for nothing" Zhan sighed and moved into the kitchen to take care of the dishes.