Because Of Meeting You [WY]✓

「CHAPTER 8」

[The Beginning Of This Chapter Is A Whole Flashback, and a continuation to the ending part of chapter6.

"Janey, Isn't chapter 7 technically the continuation to chapter6?" Yes. That too, but chapter 7 timeline takes place in the future- that means, everything in this chapter has already happened before chapter7's timeline lol I know its kinda confusing, idk why I'm making things hard for myself and confusing for everyone lolol but if you don't understand, feel free to ask<3

Also I'm kinda trying a new layout. Full Italics Stands For Flashbacks, Bold Italics For ZiYu's Dialogues]

Yuan jerked from his sleep as he heard the faint notification from his phone, interrupting whatever that was happening in his dream. He could've swore he put it in mute before he went to bed yesterday. With sleepy arms and blurry sight he reached out to that potty gadget at the nightstand next to his bed

Carefully with sloth-like movements he unlocked his phone, ignoring the piling notification on his lockscreen and rolled his notification bar down, dismissing the poor calls of apps asking to be updated until a certain familiar name and picture from WeChat caught his full attention- waking him up almost immediately from his persuasive drowsiness

Hastily he clicked on it and rub his eyes and turned his light lamp on to get a better view of his flashy gadget

[10:53PM]

[📃🐟]
Hey Yuan. It's been a while. I know it's late but let me
just drop everything here, if you don't mind

[📃🐟]
I heard what happened to you and TianYing after that day. I'm sorry to hear that, and for not being there with you when you most needed someone by your side but I hope you're well. And don't worry too much about it, I can see that she really loves you so give it more time. I know I'm not in the place to say that as well, but in case you need a tiny specks of assurance, there you go

[📃🐟]
Let me be selfish for once. Honestly I've been wanting to approach you and just talk it all out, but I'm a coward and I know I wouldn't dare to face you after what happened, truth is, I still don't have the courage to but let me shoot my shot. I'm gonna say what's on my mind, and what I've been keeping to myself after all this time. Feel free to have your own opinion and I'm sorry in advance if what I'm gonna say upset or offend you in any way. Good news is you don't have to see me around after this, I'm leaving Beijing tonight and my flight is on 2AM so here goes nothing

[📃🐟]
It's true, I liked you. Maybe I still do, but I'd like to believe that I don't anymore because I know you don't see ourselves that way, and I don't want to be in pain for loving you anymore. I'm sorry for getting TianYing mad at you that day, I really mean it. You don't deserve what happened and I didn't mean explode in front of you like that. I guess everything was getting a little too much and I just did. Still I'm not saying that to justify my irresponsible action towards you under such terrible weather.

[📃🐟]
I'm sorry for not approaching you first despite being the one that dragged you into such an uncomfortable situation. But I know that I can't just get back to you and pretend like nothing happened either. I didn't decide on distancing myself away from you because of ego, or some immature grudge that I admit I do keep inside, and pretend like I don't love you especially when you already knew about it. You don't know how many times I wanted to pick my phone up and try to screw everything and call you up just to hear your voice once again, that stupidly annoying voice of yours