More Than An Act

3.Just for tonight

Nunew POV

I think I've been cursed by someone because its weird having this much bad luck in a single day. Any other day and I would have been ecstatic but. .

WHY ARE WE SLEEPING ON THE SAME BED!!!!!

okay maybe I lied, perhaps I might be just, a little. . really very happy.

"Nong."

and. .  the devil

"Nong you're zoning out again."Zee waved his hand in front of me.

I snapped out of my thoughts,"Sorry Phi I'm just thinking about the things that need to get done." things such as how I was going to distance myself from him was at the top of my bucket list because I don't know how much longer before I fall into cardiac arrest.

He turned over on his side,"You've been working so hard, its time to shut this off."He touched my  forehead with his finger. Oh how I wished all I needed was a switch to turn off all my problems.

I turned to him so we were facing each other, this felt kind of domestic my internal fanboy was dying from how close we were to one another.

"What about you Hia? What do you think about?" I asked ignoring my increasing heartbeat

There was a small pause and a look of something I couldn't describe passed his eyes,"I think,"He began,"That you and Nat are really close."

I was stunned,"Well of course we're close why wouldn't we be?" It was weird that he was bringing this up. Everyone knew that Nat and I were close, had he just realized this?

He shook his head,"well it's a brief friendship."

Brief. . .? Finding a friend like Nat was rare and he's dead wrong if he believed I thought less of him. How could Zee think that way about someone he also got along with, it didn't make sense to me and for a split second I felt something rare happen, I felt the twinge of annoyance start towards Zee.

"Nat is not brief" I accentuated the last word,"he's someone that I would like to be around for a long time." I don't know how everything would have turned out if Nat was not in the picture, we had formed a close bond and he helped me a lot.

"A long time?" He repeated,"it sounds like you really like him."

I decided to confirm this,"Of course I do, he's my close friend ."

He grabbed my wrist with the same pressure as before,"then. .what am I to you? Hm?"

The dragons were back,"W..we..you.."I stammered. The question had caught me off guard. We were, friends right?  In an interview we were asked a similar question and he seemed to have remembered too because he said

"We're just phinong, nothing else no?"

This hurt me, it was true that we had a comfortable relationship where he guided me through the industry and took care of my questions but having it said so bluntly made it seem like it meant nothing.

"Hia. ." my voice wavered and I saw the instant regret in his face,"Is that what you really think?"

"New nono hey-" he reached out to me but I turned around so my back was facing him as I held a few of my tears in, I refused to cry this much on a single day.

I don't like the tone of voice he had used, it felt so numb and I hated it, it made me feel like this whole year was pointless because at the end of the day we were just going to end up strangers in the end.

Strangers.

isn't that what I wanted us to become once I realized how I truly felt for him? Perhaps it's for the best that we start growing apart now, if not now then whe-