Half Of You

14. Bubbles

So in thinking of opening a one shot collection for readers soon.. Whatcha think ey? Comment and let me know ^_^

Anyway, please enjoy this crappy update

14.

Luhan and Xia-Mei ate in comfortable silence, each slurping their soup and finishing quickly.

Xia-Mei mentally thanked Luhan a million times in her mind as the warm feeling of the soup entering her body calmed her. She almost sighed in bliss.

Luhan took her bowl from her and when she insisted he didn't, he only argued further with her

"It's okay, I can do it." She held the bowl tightly, refusing to let him slide it out of her hands.

"Just rest up, darl'" He argued, putting on his shriek of a voice again. She almost laughed in his face.

"It's okay. I've got it." She stood up fully now and noticed his grip had faltered a little so she yanked the bowl from his hands.

Brushing past him, she walked to the sink.

"At least let me help!" He shouted after her and bounded across the room. With her back to him, Xia-Mei smiled privately to herself.

He was hopeless.

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Despite Xia-Mei saying she didn't need help, Luhan found himself busy helping her by the sink as they scrubbed the used pots and plates.

Luhan couldn't help.. but help. He loathed the idea of her scrubbing at dirty pots on her birthday. It just wasn't right. The day of her birth should be celebrated, it shouldn't be a normal day. It should be a day filled with laughter.

While being mindful of this, Luhan decided to fun things up a smidge.

Taking a blob of the foamy bubbles produced by the washing up liquid in his hand, Luhan was sneaky as he placed the blob on Xia-Mei's head and sculpted it to form the shape of a gnomes pointy hat. While shaking with laughter, Luhan was both quick and sneaky as he cunningly whipped out his phone to snap a picture before she could turn around.

Xia-Mei's reaction was priceless. It took her a few seconds to register what Luhan had just done. He watched, shaking with silent laughter as she touched the top of her head, brought the bubbles in her hand down to look at her fingers then repeated the process again. Clearly, she was in disbelief. And Luhan couldn't have been more humoured by her reaction.

His eyes were shut as he laughed out loud now, pointing at her and laughing even more.

"You- you-" he choked out between breaths of laughter.

Then, something wet and cold slapped him across the face.

He opened his eyes to come face to hair with the Xia-Mei whom from what he could see through a gap in her hair, was smiling mischievously.

Luhan looked at her. Like really looked at her.

Her smile stuck out to him, he found himself staring into the small parting in her hair.

He stared and stared and stared. She was smiling. He had made her smile.

He realised only almost too late that he hasn't reacted to her slapping washing up bubbles across his face so he reacted in a similar way to her.

He dapped the bubbles on his face in disbelief, half acting, half genuinely stuck in disbelief.

She was retaliating. And Luhan had to get her back.