Love You 59 Seconds

Chapter 40

Proofreader: Jesse

In the beginning he was nervous to death riding in the same car as the professor, since they had only said one or two short sentences here and there. Wu Han Ying did not know how or if they could have a good chat, but as he spent more time with Xia Chen that nervous to death feeling soon disappeared. He just felt that Professor Xia doesn't always have that cold long face on, when the other man smiled he noticed the man had blossom bud shaped eyes that had a very nice curvy arc.

Xiao Shang at first chatted cheerily with them, but after a while he laid down to sleep like a little kitten nestled next to him. Wu Han Ying felt quite nostalgic as he looked at Xiao Shang, he was reminded of the time that he also used to like to sleep in the car when he was younger. Whenever his parents took him to play in the suburbs he would always get in the car and sleep.

Wu Han Ying had been to the zoo several times before, but then again he was still very young so he had no recollection of it. The only impression he had was the lion, tiger and monkey areas were all very smelly =口=

Actually it was not too far away and even though driving was faster, they could not avoid the mid-morning traffic jam. Xia Chen wasn't in a hurry, so when they arrived at the zoo it was already 11 o'clock.

Xiao Shang was still lying on the back seat fast asleep and it was obvious to anyone who looked that he did not want to wake up yet. Xia Chen parked the car and took his coat from the passenger seat; he conveniently placed the coat in Wu Han Ying's arms and then went over to the backseat to carry Xiao Shang.

"Take the coat with you, you wear too little." Xia Chen said as he pinched Xiao Shang's cheek, "Wake up little brat; who stayed up all night to cause trouble saying he must go to the zoo today and now you want to sleep when we're here."

"Thank you, Professor Xia."

Wu Han Ying was shocked for a moment as he held onto the long black coat. He remembered when Xia Chen wore it, it looked very fitting, but he was shorter than the other man by half a head...sure enough, he felt very delighted to be able to put it on. Wu Han Ying was a lot warmer with it on. Earlier when he left his house, he didn't take a jacket with him because it was very warm inside, so he only put on some light long sleeved clothes; he didn't even think to put on a sweater.

"The top button is unbuttoned." Xia Chen said while frowning, he handed the half-awake Xiao Shang to him, "I'll go buy the tickets. You take him to the entrance and wait for me there."

Wu Han Ying quickly agreed, taking hold of Xiao Shang he headed to the entrance to wait. From where he was standing he could see the purchase line for the tickets was quite long, there were so many people. Among those people he saw someone that has a similar profile as Xia Chen, but since he was so far away he could not see clearly.

When they entered the zoo Wu Han Ying could only describe the scene before him as seeing a sea of people. It didn't look like they were going to be able to see the animals; it was more accurate to say that they are going to see people instead. While he was squeezing through a horde of people he started thinking back to when he was younger and remembered that there were a lot of people who went to the zoo then as well. Since they were still enjoying the winter season, quite a few of the animals were hibernating so there wasn't much to see; however, the children didn't think so.

Xiao Shang was quite fortunate compared to them and even though Xia Chen pinched his face many times, the child did not wake up. He only made a "um hm" sound twice, rubbed his face and then went back to sleep. One time he did frown and raise his hand up to swing twice as if shooing away some insects... but in the end he stayed asleep for quite a while.