Lay, My One and Only

Chapter 22: Bubble Tea

Both Tao and I fell asleep the same way. We didn't use the pillow. We just slept on our left arm which was curved over our head. We both also didn't have the blanket up and we fell asleep in the fetal position and snored. Tao was a HEAVY snorer....I was just lightly snoring.

Yixing came in to check on us. He saw that we slept like this and he laughed.

" They're too alike," he said to himself. He went and covered both of us with our blankets and he kissed me on my forehead. I was slightly woken up when he came into the room...but I pretended to be sleeping. After the kiss on my forehead, though, I just fell right back to sleep.

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I woke up at 5:30 in the morning. This was a new thing. I silently crept out of the room and into the living room to get water. I didn't think that Tao woke up...but he did and as soon as I poured the water he snuck up on me.

" Hey Karrera..." he said while barely walking step by step. His eyes weren't even open yet. He was slouched, too. That startled me. " How'd you sleep?"

" Fine. You?" I asked. He nodded.

" Why are you up so early?" he asked. He opened one eye and sat at the bar stool. I finished my water.

" I don't know...anxiety?" I said. He nodded. He opened his other eye and focused on me.

" I wonder if Kris is back..." he said. We both looked at each other with that evil smile and I walked up next to him. We started to creep across the hallway and we reached Kris' room. We BARELY opened the door...and Kris was in there. Tao rubbed his hands together. He was getting ready to go into Kris's room but I stopped him.

" Tao! Xiumin!" I whispered.

" Oh. Sorry. I guess it can wait..." he said as we closed the door. I was still wearing my pajamas from last night but Tao went to change. He came out of his room dressed up and he threw me a few clothes.

" Here. Wear these..." he said. Luckily...I caught them all. There was even a pair of his shoes. " Go change."

I went into his room and changed into the clothes. They surprisingly kind-of fit me. I walked out and Tao laughed.

" What? These are YOUR clothes?" I said. He hugged my head.

" No. You've just grown so much!" I laughed.

" Tao! I've been this height ever since I was like 16! I haven't grown!"

" Oh yes you have!" I just went with it. We went and sat at the bar because Chen was sleeping on the couch. Poor guy. I felt so bad. We both sat down.

" OK so give me a ranking of your favorite EXO-M members to your least," he said. That was random.

" Why?"

" Just...please..."

" OK. For EXO-M...wait...should I start from my least favorites to favorites?"

Tao nodded.

" OK. EXO-M. Of course Kris is at the bottom. Psh. Loser. Then...well...I don't know. They're all so nice to me..."

" But you have to pick," he inturrupted.

" OK. Kris. Then I guess...I don't know...I like all of the rest of you guys...so it'll come down to who I know the least...which I guess would be Xiumin. But I like Xiumin a lot...he's really nice...so it's not like I don't like him. Then...I guess Luhan. Because Luhan IS really nice. But Chen would beat him, because he's helped me BOTH times with my Kris issues. Then...it's Yixing...because he's also been there both times with my Kris issues AND he helped me with my Chanyeol issue back at K's dorm. He's also really nice and sweet...and of course you're my favorite...because you're obviously my brother..." I said. I never really took the time to rank them.