Secret Love Nest

The Lists

I managed to surprise my lover last night.

Not that I am not good at surprising Qing but last night I truly shocked him. Not to mention caught him off guard.

Five days before Christmas, Qing came to me on the morning before he left for a meeting to say...

Qing: The year is coming to an end. I am thinking we should air it all out and try this thing they call communication.

Me: (surprised) Wow! That is deep. What do you mean?

Qing: Make a list of the things you want us to tackle or talk about. Everything. Anything. You know, things you keep inside you. Things we never take time to talk about in the past.

Me: (whistled) Wow, you have a lot of time tonight for you to suggest this. You know I would make this a long conversation. And when I say long, I mean looooooong...

Qing: Yeah I know. But I am willing to risk it. It's so we can close all the issues before we start the holiday and the new year with a clean slate. No worries, I have a free day tomorrow, so we can talk tonight until late hours.

Me: (shrugging) Okay, I will make a list.

Qing: (coming closer and kissing my lips) Good. I have to go. See you tonight.

He left me with a wink. I am confuse but if Qing wanted to talk to me about things we haven't talked about or tackled all year long, then so be it.

I love talking to my lover.

This will be fun.

That night, Qing came in a bit late but still in decent time that we can have dinner together. After I washed the dishes, I followed him to the bedroom. Qing secured our home early. He made sure the locks are on place and our personal fridge has water so we don't have to leave the room during the night. Unless we have to use the bathroom.

I found him readying the bed. On the side table, I saw a piece of folded paper. Qing really did made a list.

And so did I. It's in my shorts pocket and ready with things I want to talk about with my lover.

Qing and I slid under the cover and smile at each other.

Qing: Ready?

Me: (taking my list from my shorts' pocket and showing it to him) Ready!

Qing smiled again and took his list to exchange it to mine. We both unfolded the pieces of papers in our hands and read the list the other person wrote.

I frowned when I saw his list.

Qing gasped, choked and coughed when he read mine.

Qing: (utterly baffled) (waving my list) What is this?

Me: (looked at my lover) Things I want to talk about with you. Things we don't discuss much.

Qing: (still baffled) Dayu...I think these issues...is this a news channel year end report or something?

Or something.

Me: Why? (Peering at my list that is on his hand) Is there something wrong with my list?

Qing: (blanching a little) Well...nothing. But...compared to mine...

Me: (frowning as I look at Qing's list on my hand) Oh yeah...we have two dissimilar themes on our lists. Nothing much in common. (Face crumpling) You want to postpone our anniversary vacation next year?