TURBULENT / XIAOVEN

twenty seven

authors notes: happy birthday chongyun... my scrungly.. ALSO it's so hot in texas oh my Gawd.
also pov: youre me rereading my whole fic just so everything lines up...

also i forgot about xinyan until like the last paragraph so ignore the fact that i practically forgot about her this whole chappie. sowwy

don't have much updates except i started watching shameless and i like it :D i like ian a lot !! also no lily qotd... bc she didn't beta read this HAHAHA IM PUBLISHING THIS WHILE SHE'S SLEEPING!!!! no lily to tell me not to be evil >:3 enjoy

cws — mentions of sex, violence, murder & past misgendering & deadnaming. lmk if i missed anything!
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chongyun hates car rides. it's not as if he's scared of them like venti is, he just hates how long and boring they are, and also the fact that xingqiu covers his eyes while zhongli drives which he's not sure what for. xingqiu says it's because it's so bright it could hurt his eyes or something like that but the sun doesn't usually shine so bright when it's winter, like it is now. 

chongyun can hear venti's breath hitch as they run over another road bump and he can hear xiao whispering sympathetic words to him. the road is bumpy and it never seems to have any sort of smoothness to it which makes chongyun question why nobody bothered to fix the road ever. 

it had been an hour since they had started driving to xiao's house and he was already bored. i mean, there wasn't much to entertain chongyun, his eyesight had been taken from xingqiu and the only thing he could hear was the static from the radio and all that was doing was making him annoyed. nobody was even talking besides xiao and venti but chongyun couldn't even hear them so yeah, he was quite bored.

venti stares at chongyuns sleeping face– his head was thrown back against the headrest, soft snores coming from the young boy. venti isn't quite sure how he can sleep in a situation like this but judging from xingqiu and even xiao, they were exhausted. xingqiu had already fallen asleep, his head resting on chongyuns shoulder and xiao? xiao seemed to be fighting sleep by how every few seconds he jolted but xiao would fall asleep any second now by how his eyes were half lidded. 

venti sighs as he snuggles closer to xiao, thinking about falling asleep when a voice speaks to him. 
"hey, you." 

venti groans internally as xiao's sister speaks to him. it's not like he hates her, he really doesn't. he gets the whole fucked up family thing, really, he genuinely does. but something about her seems worse than just the family being fucked up. 

venti looks to her as a cue for her to continue on with whatever she was going to say. 

"so, when did you two exactly get married? 'cause i didn't exactly get an invitation or anything which is quite rude considering i'm like, practically xiao's twin." 
venti frowns at the last few words because now that he thought about it, the two did have similar features. they both had high cheekbones and slim faces but with some baby fat still. oh my god, venti thinks, are they fucking twins? 

"hey," hu tao snaps her fingers in front of venti's face, "whatever you're thinking– no. stop it." 

"are you two twins?" venti immediately asks and a moment of silence passes before hu tao begins laughing hysterically as if she'd never heard a funnier joke in her life.