COLD HEARTS

CHAP 6

Zhao Yunlan and Wei crawled along in the traffic. Red light, green light, red light, green light, which seemed more like some damn kid's game.

It was a silent comfortable ride till they hit the highway and flew down it, half an hour passed now. Yunlan was driving like mad, he has this strong aura just like his strong car that seemed more like flying.

The night was soft and clam, the highway was Yunlan's best place to drive without limits. They drove too fast, never slowed for the rain or ice and jumped the lights.

Nothing was heard but the car's sound adding Shen Wei's deep worried sigh. He seemed scared now of the speed but couldn't complain when he was grateful enough for his boss to drive him home.

"Anything bothering you?" Yunlan asked when he felt the uneasiness in that silent sigh that Shen Wei wanted to hide but couldn't. Yunlan was smart enough to read under the lines of any situation.

"Nah" was the short prompt answer of the wise Shen Wei. Being with him gives one the sense of relief. Yunlan was just feeling that he had been injected with a dose of sedative morphine that made his heart feels an unreasonable joy.

"That's it?" Laughed Zhao Yunlan when he diverted his head to look at the bewildered expression on the angelic face, he looked so cute for a man, it was such a weird feeling to have thought that.

Before any of them added another word Yunlan's phone started ringing disturbing that quiet soothing instant. He quickly placed the Bluetooth headset then answered the call.

"You dare call now you traitor" Yunlan was joking with his best childhood friend. He kept talking but it seemed the headset was broken. Yunlan couldn't hear his friend clearly.

"Wait, I can hardly hear you. Let me put the speaker, I am driving" Zhao took off the headset from his ear and pressed the speaker mode on his phone then added.

"So! if I don't read the newspaper, I won't know about you, right?" He phrased with a mocking tone before his friend finally spoke and apologized politely for not being able to call him soon.

"Ah Lan! sorry, I was out of town and my father did everything without even informing me. By the way are you free so we can drink tomorrow night?" The manly voice came like a poisonous arrow into Shen Wei's heart.

Shen Wei's mind cycles through emotions faster than a roller coaster. He has just reached the highest level of concussion, fighting a mixture of competing emotions, some of them believes the voice was his ex-lover and some of them insist to deny.

Before the truth imposed it's dominance when Yunlan called Chu  by his name. Shen Wei's mind stretched ahead with various possibilities. This man on the phone is Chu, his ex-lover and Zhao Yunlan's friend.

"Impossible" Wei said inwardly, his expression suddenly changed. The possibility of coping with this was like a thin veil over his trauma and the  change his emotional landscape.

Shen Wei heard their conversation to it's end. He learnt that the man was getting married soon. That was enough to shake the piercing agonizing memories of his past when  Chu vowed to him, they would be together forever.

"That was my best childhood friend" Yunlan smiled after he hung up the phone and looked at the pale grey face of Wei who was close to vomit at any moment while covering his mouth.

"Shen Wei are you okay?" Yunlan panicked, he quickly pulled on the side of the road. He took off his seatbelt and grabbed Shen Wei by his shoulder but the other avoided him and turned the other side and tried to take off his seatbelt but couldn't.

His hands were shivering and he looked very sick when Yunlan helped him to take it off quickly before Shen Wei rushed outside the car and run to the tree and threw up on an empty stomach.