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Chapter 8 // The Mistake

Zitao's mouth stretched open in a long yawn. He rubbed his tired eyes as he walked out of Suho's apartment. He was surprised to see how dark it was outside. When he was talking to Suho about his problems it only seemed like a few minutes passed. Obviously, their conversation went on for several hours. It certainly explained why Suho fell asleep during his rant.

He felt bad for making his friend listen to him complain for so long and he would have to apologize to him later.

Kyungsoo's apartment was on the other side of the city and had it been earlier, Tao would have had no issues with walking home. However, the city wasn't very safe at night. He didn't bring enough money for a cab so he decided to take the subway instead.

He made his way to the underground station in no time, not noticing the people staring at him on his way there. When he got on the subway, he walked to the nearest seat and sat down. He didn't spare any of the riders a glance as he took out his phone to check the time.

It was already 10:00pm.

'Wow! I hope Kyungsoo doesn't mind me getting home so late. What if he's sleeping and I wake him up on accident!?' he thought, starting to panic a little.

"Holy shit!" the person next to him exclaimed in surprise.

Tao glanced at the person and had to do a double take. Sitting next to him was none other then Kris Wu. The older male was staring at him with wide eyes, his hands pressed to his heart as if he almost died.

Zitao instantly jumped to his feet to try to get away, but he ended up bumping into the people standing in the cramped space. They glared at him and in his fear he sat back down. He would rather deal with a mistake from his past than a bunch of pissed off strangers.

"You freaked me out! What are you doing here? Are you following me or something?" Kris asked, his heart still racing from being startled.

"Following you? Why would I follow you?" Tao asked, his fear immediately being replaced with annoyance.

"Did you stalk me here to confess your love for me?"

Tao's jaw dropped at the question. How clueless could this guy be? "Absolutely not!"

Kris finally seemed to settle down as he visibly relaxed in his seat. "Why are you here then?"

"I was with my friend and now I'm on my way home."

"I guess that makes sense. I'm going home too. Who's your friend? Did they go to school with us?"

'He's just full of questions tonight' Tao thought with a roll of his eyes.

"You probably don't remember him, but yeah he was in our class. His name is Suho."

"The class president!" Kris said in excitement.

Tao was impressed that he knew who Suho was. Tao and Suho weren't very close in high school since most people were intimidated by Zitao's fierce looking eyes and Suho was sort of a nerd. "Yeah. How did you know?"

Kris smiled smugly, "He cross dressed and did a dance for the talent show. I wouldn't forget that."

Zitao couldn't help but laugh at the words. He had almost forgotten about Suho's performance so many years ago. It was nice to recall the image of him dancing to Girl's Day "Something" with a few other guys in front of the whole school.

He stopped laughing when he noticed Kris staring at him with a dazed look. "What?"

The dirty blond gave his head a quick shake to refocus. "Did something happen to you? You look a little off" Kris commented as he gave Tao a once over.

Zitao tilted his head in confusion and looked at his reflection in the window. He gasped in disgust when he noticed his messy hair and puffy eyes. Apparently sobbing and rolling on the floor in hysteria didn't improve appearances.

"I'm fine" Tao lied, trying to fix his hair.

Kris gave him an unconvinced shrug, "Whatever. So since we're going to the same place, we might as well stick together."

Zitao inwardly groaned at the suggestion. He definitely didn't want to spend any more time with his neighbor. It was bad enough he had to live next to him already, so he didn't need any unnecessary encounters on the side. Still, Kris hadn't made any passes at him since his arrival. Maybe Zitao could finally relax a little around the older male.

"I guess."

Tao didn't need to look at Kris to know he was smiling. "Wow! Really!?"

"Why are you so surprised?"

"Well, ever since we met up in the club you've been really jumpy around me. One look at me and you run away as fast as you can" Kris admitted his thoughts to Zitao.

Tao looked away from Kris and down at the floor. Sure, he might be upset with Kris, but he never thought about how unfair his behavior was to the other. Kris had had no idea that Tao liked him in the past. He even thought that Tao already knew that they were only going to have a fling. It didn't seem right for Tao to hold a grudge against Kris for something that happened five years ago.

But then again, Kris was basically sexually harassing him in the grocery store the other day.

Tao sighed, "I'm sorry about that." Just once, Tao would give Kris a chance. If Kris could go the night without making any more sexual comments towards him, then maybe they could become friends in the future.

"You don't need to apologize to me."

Tao continued to stare at the ground, letting the words register in his mind. He covered his mouth to let out another yawn as he leaned back in his seat.

'Apologize? Did he apologize to me?' Tao thought, trying to remember what was happening.

"You know... There's something I wanted to talk to you about" Kris said in a serious tone of voice.

'Why's he so serious? Is this really Kris Wu?' Tao giggled to himself.

Kris didn't seem to care that Tao was giggling as he continued to talk. "A little while ago, I ran into your friend Baekhyun."

"Bacon" Tao mumbled with a lazy smile.

"Yeah, sure. Anyway, I asked him about you. I'm sorry I did that by the way. The thing is, he told me how you really feel about me" Kris started to explain nervously.

'How I really feel?'

Tao's lack of a response urged Kris to go on. "He told me that you never moved on from me. He said... He said that you still love me after all these years."

'I feel sleepy.'

Kris glanced at Tao, noticing his eyes were closed. 'He must be in deep thought. I hope he isn't mad at me or Baekhyun for this' Kris worried.

Kris swallowed as he turned away from the younger male and tried to force the words out of his mouth.

"You only want me if I love you too, right? The thing is... I don't really know what love is. Bu-" Kris's sentence got stuck in his throat when he suddenly felt a soft pressure against his shoulder.

He turned to see that Tao was resting his head on him. His eyes were still closed and his lips were slightly parted. He had fallen asleep.   

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Author Note:

I just love how Kris shows up everywhere. Seriously, this is the second time they accidentally ran into each other in the span of one day. XD

The next chapter is going to be long. I can feel it. Baekhyun and Tao's story will be continued in it.