My New Neighbour

Chapter 11

Tee smiles at Tae and ruffles his hair. 

"Okay, okay, I will help you any way I can. But I want great performance from you, got it?"

Tae looks at Tee seductively and replies, "I will always give great performance, don't worry."

Tee gets Tae's suggestive wordplay and he shakes his head and says, "Always only one thing in your mind, huh? I meant great performance in your exams."

Tae deliberately plays innocent, "Of course, I also meant the exams.. what did you think?"

Tee flicks Tae's forehead and says, "This is not the time to play around, finish your studies first and we can talk later."

Tee starts to move away but Tae holds him back and says, "Sleep over tonight.. No playing around, I just want you to be here while I study, okay?"

Tee nods and gives Tae a reassuring kiss. Tae inhales sharply as he is surprised by Tee's sudden kiss. Tae feels aroused even with Tee's mere presence so when Tee kisses him, Tae wants to do so much more than just a kiss. 

Tae kisses Tee back and wants to deepen the kiss but Tee shakes his head and directs him to study.

Tae sulks and says, "And here I had made up my mind to study and not fool around.. why did you have to kiss me then?"

Tee scolds, "Now you will complain even when I kiss you?"

Tae says, "I am not complaining, rather I am happy that you kissed me.... but you pushed me away when I kissed you!"

Tee chuckles and says, "You are incorrigible! I'm staying over and not going anywhere so when you finish with your studies timely then you can do whatever you want.. okay?"

Tae instantly brightens up and nods, "See, I told you. You are my motivation, after all!"

Tee mumbles, "This is all the motivation you want from me, huh?"

Tae hears Tee's mumbling and says, "You are so much more to me, what do you know?"

Tee says, "Okay, okay, now no more talking.. go study."

Tae takes one final look at Tee before he starts poring over his books for the upcoming exams.

At early morning, Tae comes to the bed where Tee is already deep in sleep. In just over an hour, Tee wakes up and gets ready to leave for the hospital. Tae stays sleeping and hugging a pillow dreaming it to be Tee.

Several days pass by like this as Tae studies hard. Tee goes to his job and comes back to spend the night at Tae's. Tae just studies while Tee stays over and sleeps there. 

Sometimes, Tee makes coffee for Tae so he can stay awake for longer. Sometimes, Tee just brings Tae's favourite snacks to munch over while studying all night.

*

Today, it's the start of Tae's exams. Tee kisses Tae before leaving from Tae's house and wishes him good luck. 

Tee comes to drop Tae at his exam center. Tae is super confident about the exams but he shows Tee like he needs extra incentive to get amazing grades.

Before getting off the car, Tae asks, "You know what I want when I get good grades, right?" 

Tee shakes his head and asks, "Is that the only reason you studied so hard for your exams?"

Tae grins and says, "Of course!"

Tee shoves him out his car and says, "Only if you are among the top rankers."

Tae sulks, "You are stingy, you know that?"

Tee sticks his tongue out and waves him bye.

Tae smiles and starts walking towards the exam center.

*

More than a week goes by..

Tae has finally finished all his exams today. Many of his friends come up to him outside the exam center and ask him to go together to celebrate the end of such grueling exam schedule.

Tae says no to everyone as he has some other plans. A lot of girls get disappointed who wanted to see Tae as he had not been available for a long time now.

Tae just smiles at everyone and starts walking towards the main gate of the exam center. As soon as he takes out his phone to call up Tee to inform about the end of his exams, he sees a spanking new car stop in front of him!

As he stands admiring the beautiful car, the car door in front of him opens and he hears a familiar voice calling him to sit inside.

"P'! I didn't expect you to come here? How did you know where I was?" Tae asks his older brother, Niran.

Niran smiles looking at his younger brother and says, "How can I not know when my little brother's exams are getting over? Are you not happy that I came to pick you up?"

Tae looks at Niran sheepishly and says, "Nothing like that P', I am happy that you came. But aren't you busy? You should have just called me, you didn't have to come all the way here."

Niran says, "I wanted to meet you. It has been a long time since we met. I have cleared my busy schedule for my little brother and want to celebrate the end of your exams. Also, isn't it nice that Kim invited me to his pub for some party today... oh yeah, he said it's Valentine's party but it's okay, we can go for the singles party later..."

All this while, Tae was getting impatient to talk to Tee to inform him about the end of his exams and ask him when he can come pick him up and when they can go to the party, so he starts looking at his phone unconsciously.

Niran looks at Tae and finds that Tae is not at all paying attention to what he just said!

Niran wants to scold him for ignoring him even though they were meeting after for such a long time. Suddenly it dawns on him!

Niran stares at Tae disbelievingly and says, "Ohhhh... I didn't realise that you have a girlfriend now! Are you waiting to talk to her? Is that why you have been fiddling with your phone?"

Tae smiles embarrassingly and says, "Not really a girlfriend..."

Niran looks even more surprised, "Are you getting shy talking about your girlfriend?"

Tae wants to refute about having a girlfriend, as he has a boyfriend now. Just then, Tae's phone starts ringing.