The Brightest Star in the Night Sky || 时代少年团

🖤CHAPTER 15💛

All the members watched with their mouths open. Not because Meiqi had fell but because when she fell, she couldn't stop herself and brushed Chengxin's cheeks with her lips. Chengxin, on the other hand, could not process what just happened; everything was a blur to him. Meiqi pushed herself up as fast as she could to get up but slipped because someone had left their clothes on the floor. She ended up falling again, this time Chengxin was aware of what happened. "I'm so sorry", she mumbled as she scrambled to get up. Chengxin sat up after Meiqi got up, a bit dazed at what had just happened. No one said anything, and every member was just looking at each other shocked as well. 

"I'm gonna go do the dishes", Meiqi mumbled as she quickly ran away.

Normally TNT members would have said something to teased Chengxin, but even they didn't know what to say at that moment.

"Sooooo you're not gonna go help her?", said Haoxiang.

"After that?", whispered Yaxuan.

"You dummy obviously Haoxiang is trying to set them up", commented Yaowen.

"Could you be any more obvious", Zhengyuan said rolling his eyes

"Yea, but clearly Yaxuan doesn't know".

Chengxin hasn't said anything yet. He didn't know if he should go help Meiqi or just avoid the awkwardness. "This is not like you Chengxin", said Junlin half-jokingly. "You always help girls out". Chengxin shook his head, not denying the fact that he was a gentleman but he was unsure of what to do. "You know what, let's just leave him alone he can decide whether he wants to help her or not", declared Jiaqi, saving Chengxin from the six other pairs of eyes staring at him.

"Lameeeee fine", said Yaowen.

"Go help our sister-in-law", Zhengyuan said playfully, kicking Chengxin.

Chengxin chucked a pillow at him while they left. Jiaqi gave him a look as they were leaving, indicating he should go help her. Chengxin replied with a nod, thankful that Jiaqi had saved him.

He left to go to the kitchen and realized how many dishes they had actually used. Practically their entire kitchen's bowls, plates, silverware, pots/pans were used. He sighed rather loudly, startling Meiqi. "What are you doing here?", she asked.

"There's way too many dishes. I'm not gonna let you clean it alone."

"It's fine I got it. You won anyways".

Meiqi had awkwardly reminded both of them of what had just happened. "Sorry about that again", she said quietly.

"No need to be sorry. It was an accident anyways". They had been washing the dishes in silence for a while, but this was the first time Chengxin had noticed how short Meiqi was. He was 6 feet, but she was barely reached 5'2". He decided to strike up a conversation to break the awkwardness.

"I never realized how short you were"

Meiqi was a little shocked, to say the least; although she was short, most people never commented on it because her dance always overpowered her height. "Yea I am... I don't get how so many of your members are this tall".

"Eat more rice," Chengxin commented.

Meiqi smirked. "Is that your guy's secret to growing taller?"

"Well no, I'm just handsome and tall to begin with, the others ehh tall but not as handsome as me", Chengxin said, striking a pose. Meiqi smiled amusedly, "Well, lucky you then. You try being my height. Life is not fun".

Chengxin squatted down to be at eye level with Meiqi. "It's a whole new world down here". Meiqi playfully hit Chengxin, "I'm sure it's a whole new world up there too". "Here, I'll let you experience what it's like up here", Chengxin said as he lifted Meiqi up. "Putting me downnn", Meiqi yelped as she was being lifted. Although they were having a lot of body contact now, it felt more natural and less awkward than before. As Chengxin put her down, Meiqi noticed a mark on Chengxin's cheek. She gasped a little, it from her lip balm. Though the color was faded, she could still tell.

"What? Why are you staring at me like that", Chengxin concerningly asked. "Actually, is it because I'm too handsome and you just realized, so now you're shocked".

Meiqi let out a loud laugh. "Your cheek", she said, pointing at it. "What about it?"

"Think some of my lip balm got it on" she said rather quietly now. She didn't know what had gotten into her, but her hand reached out to rub the lip balm off. Chengxin's cheeks were so soft; how can anyone's skin be this nice?

Just as Meiqi was rubbing off the lip balm, Yaxuan had walked into the kitchen to get water. He stared at them for a second, looking left and right, and then let out a yelp fleeing the scene. "BYE, I DON'T NEED WATER ANYMORE". He ran back into the room, looking terrified. The thought of PDA just did not sit well with him, especially when he had to witness it himself. "You'll never believe what I saw", he said, turning over to Yaowen.

"What, a ghost? Why is your face so pale?"

"No, even worse than that. I saw Meiqi rubbing Chengxin's cheek"

Yaowen rolled his eyes," This is what your concerned face is about?"

"Of course, you should have been there yourself. I didn't even get to drink water because I didn't want to see that".

"Looks like we'll actually have a sister in law".

Needless to say, Yaxuan delivered the rest of the story to all of the members of TNT. Some of them shocked, while others didn't seem too surprised.