Crush

Chapter 7

-- Deliberately avoid, is the actual care.

Brett woke up in 4 am. The jet lag kept messing up with his mind.

It was dark in the room, but he could hear eddy's even breathing. Brett rolled over, In the night, through faint moonlight, eyes wide opened, staring at Eddy's vague outline on the other bed. You should feel lucky, Brett. He whispered to himself in his mind.

He couldn't fall back to sleep again, no matter how hard he tried. This was one of the moments that Brett hated his body. The only thing he could do was staring Eddy's back in the dark and let his own mind wonder by itself.

He started mind-practicing their piece since they would rehearse it with the uni orchestra the day after tomorrow. Then the image of Eddy playing the violin appeared.

In his mind, Eddy was playing the piece with him, from time to time, Eddy would look up and smiled at him with his loving eyes. With Bach's concerto in D for two violins playing in his head along with Eddy's smile, Brett's consciousness grew dim and he finally fell asleep.

...

"Brett, wake up, important day today." Brett did not want to open his eyes since he only got less than 5 hours of sleep. But he had no choice as Eddy placed his freezing cold hand on his warm neck. Brett was fully awake. As much as he just wanted to stay in his cozy comfy bed all day and had no intention to deal with the coldness outside, Brett had to get up. "Alright, alright, give me a sec." he managed to get out of his bed and get changed.

He had a sweet yet strange dream last night.

In his dream, he and Eddy was walking in the snow. The crystal snowflakes, like thousands of butterflies flying in the sky, naughtily landing on Brett's shoulder. Brett did not feel the cold at all, instead he felt so warm when Eddy turned around, gently brushed off some snow on his face. His hand slowly slides down to Brett's jaw. Eddy leaned close, so close that their lips almost touched each other. Then he whispered:
"Please don't leave me."

Brett didn't understand why he would dream of Eddy saying that. He looked out of the car's window while thinking. They were on the way to the world-class music university. He surely would not leave Eddy. He couldn't even imagine the life without Eddy.

But apart of this, Brett was more curious. How does it feel to kiss Eddy? He always thought about this in his daydream but certainly had no courage to try it in real life.
It must feel nice.

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The Dean of the string department greeted them with a heartily welcome. They had a meeting discussing all the details about their speech and the schedule of their rehearsals with the orchestra. They had a tour around the campus after the meeting. Brett really enjoyed the whole process, he felt like he was back in his uni life.

The boys met the members of the orchestra eventually. All of the students were so friendly and talented. Of course, they were students of the top music university in the world.
Not much surprise, Brett and Eddy found out that lots of them were actually fans of Twoset.

"Hey!!! OMG, so nice to meet you! I am the concert master. You can call me Tina." A lovely young girl with beautiful blonde hair came up to them. "I am a huge fan of you guys! I watched every video!" Tina winked her sparking blue eyes to them.

Brett didn't know if it was his delusion, but he saw that Tina's eyes lingered on Eddy for extra two seconds, even with a trace of flirt in her eyes.

"Can I get a hug?" Eddy nodded and Brett could see how hard the girl tried to hug Eddy and how her stares lingering on his best friend after she let go.

Brett suddenly felt uneasy on his chest. Angry? Jealous? Uncomfortable? Afraid? Or more specific, the feeling of someone was about to steal his own thing? Eddy is mine. The voice in his head said it out loud.

Eddy is mine.

He felt so guilty that he would think in this way. Eddy did not belong to anybody. Eddy was not an object. Eddy did not belong to him. He could flirt with whoever he wanted. He could do whatever he wanted. Brett knew these by heart, but he still couldn't control his stupid feeling.

He stepped forward, cut off the staring of the girl, tried his best to smile as politely as he could. "We appreciate all your love, looking forward to work with all of you." Don't overthink. It just a fan. He then quietly dragged more students into their conversation.

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Brett didn't expect to see Tina again just after their campus tour. He walked out of the campus café with two hot coffee on his hands and saw Tina, who was talking to Eddy with a bright smile on her face. Brett's heart twisted when he heard Eddy's laughing. He just stood there and waited until the girl was gone.

It's not a big deal, Brett, don't make yourself a thing. It's not your business.

Those beautiful snowflakes fell on his face and turned to water because of his body temperature. They slowly slide down his cheek, as if the snow was crying for him. Brett struggled to use his arm brushed off the water. Not now, stupid feelings.

Eddy greeted him with a big smile. Normally Brett would be fluttered by this smile, but this time he knew the cause of this smile, and he hated it. He avoided Eddy's stares and handed over the coffee to his friend without saying anything.

"Uwu, steamy hot coffee, my favorite. Thanks bro!" Eddy happily took over the cup and continued, "This Tina seems to be a nice person. Maybe she can show us around."

"Yeah yeah sure." Brett just didn't want to comment, he wished they can skip this topic.

Brett didn't know that Tina had already given her number to Eddy.