In It To Win(win) It

3. Useless

"Si Cheng, let's say you have a boyfriend," started Ten, ignoring his friend's choking sounds. "What would you wear on a date?"

Si Cheng tried to swallow what was left of his water before answering, trying to not think about the pain now present in his throat. "Why would I have a boyfriend?"

"Don't dodge the question."

"Well, um," Si Cheng grabbed his pillow on his bed and pulled it to his chest, his now-forgotten water bottle in his lap. "It would depend on where the date is."

"What if you don't know?" Ten pulled his own blanket around his face, not breaking eye contact with SI Cheng. "What would you wear?"

"I'm really confused about what this has to do with blackbody radiation," Si Cheng replied.

"Si Cheng, this is serious! I need your help." Ten threw his blanket off his bed and threw himself backwards, making a loud thud sound when he landed on his back. He covered his face with his eyes. "Just tell me."

"I guess... some dark jeans and a sweater?" Si Cheng offered. "I don't know. Why do you ask?"

"Because Johnny didn't tell me where our date is this time and my outfit from amazon never arrived anyways! And now I have ten minutes to get ready and I'm still wearing sweatpants."

Si Cheng couldn't help but let out a small laugh. "Ten minutes."

"Haha, really funny, you're the one who refuses to call me by my real name."

"You don't call me Si Cheng, either."

Ten threw his hands up in the air. "I just called you that now!"

"Look, why don't you just change into some clothes and that's it? You're acting like this is your first date with him." Si Cheng laid his pillow across his lap and grabbed the quantum theory book he was reading earlier. "Plus you've done much worse with him. Now let me study for my astrophysics test."

"You don't need to study that, stupid. And what do you mean 'much worse with him'?" Ten made air quotations while saying that. "What type of thoughts are you having, Winwin?"

Si Cheng looked at him dead in the eye and said, "You dressed up in a nightgown and he took you to a five-star restaurant."

"Oh, I thought you were talking about sex." Ten got up from his bed and the wardrobe on his side of the room. "Yeah, that was pretty funny. Watch a college student in pajamas drink champagne surrounded by old rich people in a restaurant. Hey, now that I think about, Johnny didn't even question anything."

"He loves you for who you really are," Si Cheng confirmed. "And you're an idiot."

"I'm so flattered," Ten joked.

"If you go to restaurants in pajamas then I don't know why you're asking me what to wear if clearly he doesn't care." Si Cheng closed his book again and got up to walk to his study table. "And you now have five minutes."

"Shit, shit, shit, no, this can't be happening now!" Ten grabbed the first thing that he saw, which were light-wash jeans and a white button-up shirt. He then proceeded to change while chanting shit under his breath. "I hate changing under pressure!"

"I'm not the one who was wallowing for an hour before engaging into a science conversation with me for a whole another hour while not checking the time."

Ten was pulling his shirt over his head and was about to respond when they heard two knocks on the door followed by a hello. "SHIT!"

"Johnny, come on, he's almost done," Si Cheng shouted. "Door's unlocked."