AWAKENED HEART (The first heartbeat)

CHAPTER 48

first thing he did was to fill a bath with warm water and poured the oil inside before going to wake Zhan up.  Zhan felt a bit tired and stored in his sleep when Yibo scooped him up and went to out him inside the bath. After carefully placing Zhan inside,  he went ahead and took a shower. Zhan was a wake by that time he felt relaxed in the bath and with his aching body feeling relaxed.

An hour later they were done and already on their way to the kitchen to have breakfast before Yibo went to work. After their everyday family breakfast, Barry and Yibo left, leaving Larry, Baba mad Zhan alone to do their own work. Larry was finishing up emailing and faxing papers which Yibo had worked on the day before. There was still a lot of work to do but gat was on Yibo's part sice he was the big boss which no one knew and only assumed Larry to be the boss of the skate shop and other small businesses while Barry was the founder and non governmental sponsored boss who does everything for the kids.

Truthfully, that's how Yibo preferred things to be and his men knew it. The land which Barry was working on  buying from the old man was already being developed and the construction was going on smoothly. The building was to be built was halfway done, while the ceiling, paint and tiles were waiting to be confirmed first before being delivered.

The building was consisted of roughly twenty three rooms and it was not built to not have stairs. It was the bungalow style building and was made for easier access for everyone to go around without he use of stairs or elevator. The furniture was long ordered and ready waiting for a call to be delivered after the building was done. That morning, Yibo felt a little more tired than usual, he just thought that he must have overworked himself last night while doing their everyday bedroom stuff.

When Larry went to their house and started working while Baba sat down with Zhan in the garden sipping on herbal tea. Zhan had a request and he didn't know how to ask Baba, but he knew he had to cause there was no way of doing it without him. He looked at his phone and he knew there was no way around it. The time was nine AM and time was running out when he decided to ask Baba.

"Ba gē, there's somewhere I need to be at ten cause I have an appointment. I was thinking of leaving right now since I have to stop by somewhere before heading to my appointment. So...I was asking if you could please take me there.? I don't want to drive myself because Yibo will get too worried and too mad at me  if he finds out about it. I totally understand if you're busy, I can drive myself and get back before Yibo comes home."

"Wait...you mean Yibo doesn't know about this outing you're about to do..?"

"No, I just saw the message a few minutes ago, I need to meet with my friend somewhere and even if Yibo was home, I would still not tell him where I'm going."

"Why..?"

"You will find out soon, so...can we leave now..?"

"Sure, let's go."

They bithe stood up and Zhan went to get ready while Baba did the same and drove the car out of the garage. Zhan was pretty much nervous for his appointment since he wasn't sure what to expect. He was hiding this from Yibo and he claimed he had his reasons which only he knew about, at least that's what he thought. A few minutes later Zhan came out with his backpack and they drive out if the mansion without Baba telling Larry where they were going. He knew the car was tracked but Larry would trace it if he suspected something was wrong. So they were safe, in a way.

Twenty minutes later the reached the first destination and Zhan got out while Baba stayed behind in the car. He wanted to give Zhan his privacy and even though he has a hunt if why they were there, he didn't want to think much of it. Later on Zhan came out and Baba drive of. He kept glancing at Zhan from the rear view mirror and he just saw that he had a neutral expression and it made it harder for Baba to actually make sense of what was going on.