Chapter Six – Never Letting You Go
Bai Luoyin had taken some of the rice porridge his father had made him home in a Styrofoam plate and kept it in the refrigerator with the hope of eating it later.
Exhausted, he dragged himself to his room, took a bath, took a nap and worked on his assignments.
By the time it was a little past 9 pm, he had started to feel hungry.
Dragging his body out of bed, he walked into the sitting room, his mind set on his father's rice porridge waiting in the refrigerator.
The food would taste horrible, that was a given. But the nostalgia made him a little bit ecstatic.
In the sitting room, Gu Hai sat with his backside pressed on a couch while he concentrated on playing a rather violent video game.
Like she was giving him space, Jiang Yuan was perched on a dining chair in the dining area, knitting something that was either a scarf or a sweater.
As soon as she spotted him walking past, she called out to him, "Luoyin."
He stopped in his tracks and stared at her.
"You didn't come out for dinner."
Inadvertently synonymous to the harmony of choir boys in a choir concert, Gu Hai and Bai Luoyin sighed then said, "So annoying."
Both of them referring to the woman who wouldn't let up on doting on her son.
For a split second, both boys stared at each other.
Without the knowledge of how to react in an awkward moment where a stranger you dislike thinks the same thing as you, Bai Luoyin quickly searched for an excuse in his head to exit the sitting room.
Recalling his original mission, he turned away and went into the kitchen.
Gu Hai's gaze lingered a little longer causing his avatar to suffer a headshot resulting in a gruesome scene of his brain splashing on the inside of the TV screen.
Gu Hai cursed before restarting the game.
In the kitchen, Bai Luoyin walked to the refrigerator and opened it to take out his dinner.
To his surprise, it was missing.
Bai Luoyin rummaged the fridge, but the blue Styrofoam plate was nowhere to be found.
Maybe I left it in my room, he thought with a muddled mind.
As he was about to leave the kitchen, he saw what was unmistakably his blue Styrofoam plate in the trash can. Empty.
His breath got caught in his throat at the sight of it.
Did Jiang Yuan throw out his food?
He picked up the empty box and walked into the sitting room, fuming with anger.
"Why did you throw out my food?" he asked Jiang Yuan once he got to the dining area, his tone laced with accusation.
"What food?" Jiang Yuan's eyes widened in astonishment.
In the past thirty hours that he had stayed there, she had not seen him eat a thing. If he came home with something to eat, why would she throw it out?
Just how terrible of a person do you think of me, Luoyin? Her eyes had started to water.
Although Bai Luoyin managed to maintain a calm demeanor, he couldn't hide his irritation, "Will you stop with the acting? It's pissing me off."
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White Lines, Black Lines - 白线条，黑边(An Are You Addicted? Fanfic)
FanfictionA Fan-fiction of Chai Ji Dan's "Are You Addicted?" This is a reimagining of how the relationship between Gu Hai and Bai Luo Yin would have played out had they known they were stepbrothers from day one.
