Beyond Us [Bangchan] [Finished]

Chapter 17

The next morning, I woke up a bit later than I usually did since I wasn't going to the gym. It was out off question leaving Chan sleeping alone at my apartment to go to the gym.

I got up, stretched a little bit and made breakfast.

Chan didn't seem to be waking up any time soon. Last time he stayed over was the same, I wondered if he had his nose problem solved. You could hear a low sizzle but maybe he was better than before.

Chan looked like a dead body, if it's not because his chest went up and down, I would have worried. He looked like drooling anytime, I swear.

I sat on the couch and quickly got to work. Replaying e-mails was the very first thing on my to-do list. I seriously started to consider marking Richard as spam. "When are you coming back?", "I'm bored", "I have to eat alone now", and "I miss you", were some of his only messages; like... a sentence per e-mail. That was spam, wasn't it? It seemed like he had more free time that it looked like.

I was already writing feedback on some works when I heard Chan moving between the sheets. It was almost midday.

"Hm", I heard him groan while stretching. He fixed himself on the bed again before raising his head looking for something.

"Hello there", I said calling his attention.

"Good morning", he said huskily.

"You barely made it to morning". He grabbed his phone from the floor.

"I slept like a log", he stretched again before sitting on the bed still a bit dazed. He looked quite cute, I had the impulse of grabbing his face between my hands and squeezing it but I didn't.

"Are you hungry? I'll be done here in half an hour or so, then I'll make lunch".

"I'll get up", he left the bed and went to the bathroom barely lifting his feet.

I muffed a smile while he moved around. Soon after he got in the bathroom, he opened the door again coming to the couch.

"Is my bag over there?", he asked. I looked around.

"Here". I handed it to him and he dragged himself back. "There are creams and stuff on the counter, use whatever you want", I said louder for him to hear.

He took his time in there, maybe because he was still sleepy. After a while, I heard the hairdryer. I tried to read and type faster, I has just two pages left to check, but Chan got out before I could have it done.

"I'm alive again". He said sitting next to me.

"I noticed", I smile at the image of him minutes ago.

"But really, I sleep so much here".

"Can't you sleep at the dorm?"

"Like that?" He said pointing at the bed. "Rarely. And I don't sleep that well either. Maybe it's the bed".

"Maybe I help you relieve stress". I said just pick on him. He chuckled nervously getting red.

"Ah!" He exclaimed covering his face. I laughed seeing him so worked up because of that.

"Are you hungry? I'm done with my morning schedule". I said closing my laptop.

"Are you sure you don't want to order something?" He said still covering his eyes with one hand, his ears were red for real.

"I was thinking on making gimbap, I have some things my grandma sent me the other day".

"Oh!" He looked at me kinda excited. "I'm down".