My Dearest Author [ZhanYi FanFiction]✔️

Chapter 10. A long month...

Chapter 10. A long month...

After Zhan noticed how badly Yibo was doing, he promised to spend the coming weekend only with him. At the moment he is just too busy to keep the deadline for his new book. But for Yibo he would take time for the whole weekend.

Yibo was very happy about this and also when Zhan asked him to stay over at his place. It was Wednesday and Zhan had interrupted his work late in the evening to spend the night with Yibo.

And it felt really good for Yibo to finally fall asleep in the arms of his boyfriend again. To feel his closeness and warmth and to hear that Zhan loves him before he fell asleep.

"Please don't worry about us, even if I don't have time once because I have to write, it doesn't mean that you are less important to me or that I forget about you. I care about you a lot and I love you. So do not be sad if I bury myself in my work for a few days. I won't forget you." Zhan had told him.

"I'm just scared that my friendship with Seungyoun will come between us. That it could cause problems for our relationship. I don't want to lose you or my best friend." Explained Yibo to him.

"If you want to spend time with your friend, that's totally fine. I will not come between you. Especially not because I know he doesn't like me very much. And so that you don't have a fight just because of me, I'll stay away from him. But that shouldn't stop you from having fun with your friend." Zhan replied.

"But I want the two most important people in my life to get along, for me. I don't want to have to choose between you two." Said Yibo.

"I understand that too. But right now it's not possible. Seungyoun still needs time to accept me as your boyfriend by your side. And I don't expect you to choose him or me. Spend as much time with him as you want. I'll be here waiting for you." Explained Zhan.

Yibo was tired and also frustrated and would have liked to tell him that this is exactly what he is suffering because Zhan is withdrawing and is not at his side. But he said nothing, because at the same time he just wanted to enjoy the time with Zhan. Lying in his arms and falling asleep.

But already the next morning the joy of Yibo was gone. For no sooner had he spent a leisurely breakfast in bed with Zhan, when Seungyoun showed up with a bag. He explained to Yibo that there was a burst pipe in his apartment and now he didn't know where else to go.

So Yibo reluctantly agreed that he could stay at his place until the damage was repaired.

In the beginning, Yibo thought it would take a few days. But in the end, days turned into four whole weeks in which Seungyoun lived with him in his apartment. And if his best friend hadn't helped him so often himself, he wouldn't have let him stay longer than three or four days.

But Seungyoun stayed like that for a month. A long month in which he had hardly seen Zhan at all. Although he is Zhan's personal assistant, Zhan gave him hardly anything to do during that whole month. "So you can spend more time with your best friend." Had he explained Yibo. But Yibo just made that explanation angry.

More and more this situation drove a real wedge between Zhan and Yibo. Because of Seungyoun, Yibo had stayed in his apartment, he in his bed and Seungyoun on the sofa. Because of Seungyoun, Zhan had not spent the weekend with him as he had promised, but had thrown himself into his work and retreated completely.

A week passed when Yibo hardly saw his boyfriend. The second week passed and Yibo saw Zhan not more than three times and only briefly. And by the third week, he had not seen Zhan at all.

If Zhan had any assignment for Yibo, he would tell him through Louis or write a memo to Yibo. But they never saw or even talked to each other.

At the beginning of the fourth week, Yibo desperately knocked on the door of Zhan's workroom. Only to find that Zhan had finished his book and was at the publisher's office.

Yibo made it sad because Zhan had let him proofread since he had started the new book. Not that it was necessary, but it was Zhan's way of showing him how important Yibo is to him. That he let Yibo read first what he wrote, made Yibo proud and meant a lot to him.

But now the book was finished and Yibo had not proofread for weeks. Did it mean that Zhan might be about to lose his feelings for Yibo? Was Yibo about to lose Zhan?

When Zhan came home late that night, he was drunk. The publisher had invited him out for dinner and drinks to celebrate the completion of the new book.

"Yibo honey, don't be mad OK? Let's talk tomorrow when I'm sober. I need to talk to you about something anyway. Because I'd like to go on a trip with you, just you and me. But that's what I want to talk to you about tomorrow. You know I love you, so don't worry." Said Zhan to him.

But Yibo could feel that Zhan was hiding something, that Zhan was not well. But before he could say anything to Zhan, Seungyoun came out of the apartment because he wanted to see where Yibo was staying.

"Why did you come out? I was just about to talk to ZhanZhan. Because I don't think he's okay. Why couldn't you just wait until I got back?" Yibo wanted to know about his best friend.

"I didn't know you spoke to your employer. I'm sorry." Seungyoun replied and went into the living room where he angrily started to pack his bag.

"What are you doing now? Where are you going now?" Yibo asked confused.

Seungyoun told him he would stay in a hotel and not bother Yibo any more. But Yibo would not let his best friend go. He wanted to be there for him, just like Seungyoun has always been there for him.

Seungyoun had also taken Yibo in for a while when Yibo had no home and no money. And out of gratitude, he now wanted to help Seungyoun. So he held him back and told him to stay.

The next day Yibo wanted to talk to Zhan and explain everything to him, but Louis told him that Zhan had gone away for a few days to his mother.

"If I can give you some advice. Get rid of your best friend. He's been living here for a month and the young master would never say anything, but it really bothers him. Because you're always with your best friend and when you're not, you talk about him all the time. I think it hurts the young master a lot." Said Louis, finally opening Yibo's eyes.