HIStory 3: Trapped Oneshots

Story 8 Part 2/3: Milky Way (TangFei CP)

Part 2: Wishing Upon Your Smiles

Zhao Zi had never seen Shao Fei cry. His bestfriend had always been courageous, cheerful, straightforward, kind, and strong. Although he is immature at times, this trait only makes him more charming. He is also impatient, candid, and honest. When Zhao Zi's mother and father died in a car accident when he was seven, Shao Fei had been there.

When Zhao Zi was eight, his grandmother followed and Shao Fei had still been there.

The older's parents then took Zhao Zi and since then, the two had been living together up until college. Zhao Zi was thankful to his family and especially grateful to Shao Fei.

He wiped Zhao Zi's tears, cheered him up by his presence and to Zhao Zi, Shao Fei's existence is god-given. The older man is his brother, his greatest ally, his confidant, and his bestfriend. He wouldn't forgive anyone who hurts him although he doubted that anyone would really hurt his bestfriend because Zhao Zi believed that Shao Fei is the strongest.

No one would dare to.

The first time he had seen him cry was when Tang Yi (who he does not know that time because he was still in middle school) got his first girlfriend in their first year of senior high school. He does not know what to feel or what to do when he came home to a Shao Fei who was talking to a person on the phone, sitting on the couch in the living room with an unexplainable aura. He was laughing, joking even but there were silent tears streaming down his flushed cheeks and he was holding back his sobs.

After he drops the call, he sees Zhao Zi looking at him in shock and that's when he let out a cry so painful that even made Zhao Zi cry in his spot. He talked rapidly between his sobs, about how hurt he is. About how it pains him to have an unrequited love. About Tang Yi. Everything.

The strongest person that Zhao Zi looked up to broke down in front of him, his cheerful mask crumbled and inside was an exhausted and broken Shao Fei. He hugged him with no words, palm circling the other's back before he whispers comforting words. While he does this, Zhao Zi's face was twisted in a mixture of fury and resentment.

Whoever this Tang Yi is, he has no right to make Shao Fei feel this way.

His immature, blunt, kind, and strong bestfriend; he's crying.

And that was enough for Zhao Zi to detest Tang Yi.

When Zhao Zi finally met Tang Yi, he made an unpleasant face. Shao Fei apologized when Zhao Zi ignored the hand offered by the tall man before him and he pulled Zhao Zi away to talk.

"What was that for?" Shao Fei hissed but not in anger, only in worry and anxiousness. Zhao Zi's face was blank, making it obvious that he was hostile to Tang Yi and he has no plan to 'play' friends with the latter.

Zhao Zi's facade broke and he pouted, fuming, "I hate him! I just can't...he makes you cry so I hate him."

Shao Fei blinked, and blinked, and blinked again.

Before he bursts into a bout of laughter, a hand ruffling Zhao Zi's hair, "Is that so? Zhao Zi is all grown up, huh? You want to protect me? Short one-"

Zhao Zi whines, stomping a foot on the ground, "I'M NOT THAT SHORT-!"

Shao Fei amusely smoothens the other's hair, "-yes you are. Anyway, don't worry about gēge! I'm fine now, see?" He grins brightly and yes, that's Zhao Zi's bestfriend, smiling. Yet something felt wrong with it. There is no twinkle in his eyes and that's exactly why he cannot get along well with Tang Yi. Not ever.