Dai & Mao

The Announcement (Part 2)

Mao felt his heavy eyelids were both really hard to open and felt as if a few grains of sand invading his eyes and slightly burning. His eyes became watery. Furthermore, his head seemed painfully throbbing earnestly. Unconsciously, he brought his left hand to massage his temple and a hoarse moan escaped from his prickly dried throat. His movement had awoken his lover from his deep slumber. Completely aware that he had made Daichan awaken, Mao apologised instantly, "I'm sorry love... I wake you up." Trying his best to look calm behind his sweet smile but Mao was still unable to hide the pain from his beloved eagle eyes even barely awake. Daichan was eyeing his love one with worried eyes and concern was written all over his face and slowly caressing Mao's face. "How are you baby?" he inquired lovingly noticed his beloved forehead creased from the pain.

Mao did not answer but his hand was busy kneading his temple and clenched his teeth to stifle a groan of pain. Daichan gradually woke up and got hold of a throw pillow on the sofa and put it under Mao's head. He was kneeling on the carpeted floor while anxiously examining his beloved condition. Mao was lying his body to the right facing Daichan with his right hand under the pillow supporting his throbbing head while the other trying to rub his head but Daichan was faster to gently kneading Mao's temple and trying to soothe his beloved with his words. A while later Daichan kissed Mao on his forehead softly and murmured, "Baby dear... I'm going to dash to the kitchen and grab paracetamol to ease your pain a bit okay... I won't be long..." Mao only nodded once and grimaced in pain clutching his head with both hand curving his body into foetal position.

Daichan promptly rushed to the kitchen, took a jug of water, a glass and a strip of paracetamol in the first aid kit. In a blink of an eye, he returned to his beloved observing the foetal position. "Oh God...Please take away all his pain..." Daichan pleaded earnestly. He hurriedly helping his beloved to a sitting position and gave him a glass of water to ease his dried throat. After drinking the whole glass with much difficulty, Daichan gave the medicine to Mao and he gulped it down his throat with another glass of water. Daichan now realised that Mao's body temperature was slightly higher. He put his hand on Mao's forehead and noticed that his love one was burning and his face was starting to turn red.

"Lie down baby... try to close your eyes and try to sleep. I'll brew something for you to eat," Daichan softly muttered to his beloved while slowly brushed away strands of hair which covering Mao's face. Daichan was troubled by Mao's condition right now and deep inside his soul was bleeding. He inched closer and planted a soft kiss on Mao's warm lips and whispered in his left ear almost pleading, "I love you baby...get well soon...please..." Mao was too weak to respond and his heavy lidded eyes securely shut. Daichan was reluctant to leave his beloved alone and hold Mao's left hand dearly and put it close to his heart as if trying to absorb the ache.

He knew exactly the reason of this unfortunate outbreak. Last night, his beloved came in the most unspeakable condition, haggard and deeply depressed. It really took a long time to console him let alone to let him drift into peaceful sleep. Silently he scrutinised every inch of his beloved figure. His beloved hand felt limped in his hold and his breath was smooth and even. Then, Daichan leisurely kissed at the back of Mao's hand before putting down his beloved hand and pecked Mao's lips tenderly. A part of him unwilling to be parted with his beloved but another half was ready to move heaven and earth just to bring his lover back to normal. He started to wonder if normal will be in their vocabulary of life onward. How he wished badly he could turn back time.

However, he still dragged his feet upstairs to his bathroom and took a quick shower to freshen up his body. After he had put on a grey shirt and a pair of baggy khakis he hastened to the kitchen. In the kitchen, he put on the black apron hanging on the hook and opened the medium size refrigerator and rummage around for something decent to cook for a hearty meal for his beloved. Luckily, all the basic ingredients for making vegetable soup were available. He remembered her sister once had nursed him back to health when he was caught by fever. He wanted to cook rice porridge and ginger combined with vegetable soup to treat his beloved fever. This is because it is easy for the body to digest this food. In addition, ginger has powerful anti-inflammatory properties, which help in eliminating the fever at the initial stage.