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Kring kring

Zhan heard his alarm clock turn off and he slowly opened his eyes. When he opened his eyes, only then did he realized that there was something around his waist. When he looked down, he saw that it was a hand, Yibo's hand.

Zhan was stunned that he couldn't move. why is Yibo in my bed? didn't I provided him a bed last night? why is he here? Zhan thought to himself.

Like a flash of light hit him, he remembered that Yibo would often sleep walk Did he sleep walked here last night?

Zhan snapped out of his thoughts when he felt Yibo's face got closer to his neck, close enough for that he  could hear his breath. Zhan's face turned red by Yibo's action and he tried to remove Yibo's hand from his waist. To Zhan's misfortune, when he tried to break free from Yibo, Yibo's grip on his waist only tightened.

Zhan didn't know what to do. Truth be told, five years ago, he would always wake up in this state, Yibo's arms around his waist. He had gotten pretty used to it before, but that was before. Right now, Zhan's panicking, he could only lay still so Yibo won't accidentally wake up and discover that he's in Zhan's room. If Yibo wakes up, it would be so awkward for Zhan.

After a few minutes, Yibo's hold loosened and Zhan gently removed it from his waist.

Zhan stood up and ran outside his room with his face red.

From the living room, Zhan heard the movements made by Yibo, Zhan speculated that he woke up.

Zhan stared at the door on his room and sure enough, Yibo woke up. God, he's still as beautiful as before Zhan unconsciously thought and he slapped his face for thinking such things.

"What are you doing? why did you slapped your face?" asked Yibo as he rubbed his sleepy eyes.

"uh- it's nothing." Zhan turned around to try to hide his red face from Yibo.

"Sir, aren't you going home yet?"asked Zhan. Yibo sat on the couch as if he's on his own house "Are you telling me to leave now? I just woke up and haven't eaten breakfast yet. and you're already asking me to leave? I'm offended."

"I didn't consider that. I'm sorry, sir"Zhan turned to face Yibo now that his face is no longer red.

"I'll only accept your apology if you cook me egg fried rice." said Yibo as he smiled at Zhan.

Zhan sighed and was about to start cooking when he felt someone clung to his leg.

When Zhan looked down, he saw Yuan lovingly clinging to his leg.

"What is it, Yuan?" asked Zhan.

"Dad, pick me up." said Yuan as he rubbed his sleepy eyes.

"I have to cook breakfast first, maybe later."said Zhan

Yibo stood up and walked to them "I'll carry him, and you cook breakfast." he then looked at Yuan and crouched "Yuan, right? why don't you let me carry you instead?"

Yuan stared at Yibo for a moment before clinging to Yibo's neck "carry me." Yibo smiled and carried Yuan.

"Zhan, your kid feel a little light. Are you feeding him well?" asked Yibo and Zhan glared at him. "Of course I fed my Yuan well." said Zhan.

Zhan served the egg fried rice "Breakfast is ready."

They ate their breakfast and took a shower.

After that, they exited Zhan's house.

Zhan finally found a babysitter for Yuan so he can finally go to his work without bringing Yuan with him.

"Get in." Said Yibo as he waits for Zhan to enter his car. Zhan was a little reluctant to get in but he still got inside the car. Zhan sat on the backseat.

"What are you doing there in the backseat? come sit next to me." said Yibo and Zhan changed his seat to next to Yibo.

Twenty minutes later and they arrived at the studio. Zhan and Yibo alighted and went to their work station.

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"Xiao Zhan." Ji li, Zhan's co worker, snapped his fingers infront Zhan, hoping to pull out Zhan from his thoughts.

Ji li snapped his fingers again and this time, Zhan noticed this.

"What?"asked Zhan.

"You've been zoning out for an hour, you're also smiling like crazy. You have to finish animating that scene today." Ji li said.

"Yeah, I'll finish this today." said Zhan but he still ended up thinking of how Yibo looked so breathtakingly ethereal earlier when he woke up and rubbed his sleepy eyes and the way he yawns. Zhan just couldn't get him out of his mind.

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-10 pm-

Zhan looked at his watch and when he saw the time, he panicked and started working. He had been thinking of Yibo the whole day that he ended up with no work finished, now that he only has 2 hours left to submit his work, he panicked and started working.

"Ji li said that you've been day dreaming the whole day and didn't work. I now see that it was true." said Yibo as he entered Zhan's working place and sat next to Zhan.

"Sir, can you please not distract me? I have to pass this in two hours." said Zhan totally focused on drawing.

"Alright, I won't disturb you anymore. Just one more thing."
yibo clasped his hand and looked at Zhan. "Will you please let me stay at your house for the meantime?"

"Didn't you have your own house?" asked Zhan not even bothering to look at Yibo.

"Well, my door knob broke. It's not safe for me to stay in my house for the time being."said Yibo.

"Why don't you fix it then?"asked Zhan.

"I don't know how." answered Yibo.

"Ask someone to fix it." said Zhan.

"There's no one to ask." replied Yibo.

At this point, Zhn already knew that Yibo just want to stay in his house so he lied about the door knob. Zhan knew that Yibo's door knob can easily be fixed.

Yibo is a very stubborn person and he kept pestering Zhan while he work. Zhan had no choice but to say yes because if he doesn't, Yibo will keep on bothering him.

"Alright. How many days?"asked Zhan.

Yibo's face lightened when he heard Zhan's permission. "2 months."

"What kind of door knob takes 2 months to fix?!" asked Zhan.

"My door knob."said Yibo. Zhan sighed and continued drawing.

-11:50 pm-

"Finally, I'm done." said Zhan as he stretched.

Yibo was already asleep so Zhan had to shake him just so he'd wake up.

"Yibo, wake up. Let's go now." said Zhan as he shake Yibo.

Yibo slowly opened his eyes and looked at Zhan with crescent eyes. "Did you just finally called me by name just now?" he asked.

"Yeah? so what if I called you by your name?"

"Well, this is the first time in five years I heard you call me by my first name." said Yibo.

Zhan ignored him and said"Let's go. I wanna sleep so bad." said Zhan.

Yibo followed Zhan and they went to Zhan's house.

When they arrived at Zhan's house, they didn't eat dinner and directly went to their bed in separate rooms.

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