Fated Encounter (BJYX Fanfic) - Completed

2: Ice Cream

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Sheen of sweat rolled down the fair skins, marking its trail from subtle foreheads to the contoured muscles of two young adults basking under the early morning sun.

It started as a one-on-one friendly match, dribbling, blocking and shooting on the opponent's basket, but as they exhaust themselves from a fair share of physical and mental competitiveness, their smiling faces faded, replaced by hawk-eyed seriousness.

Zhan's lip formed a confident lopsided smirk hinting Haikuan of his determination to make a basket and end their rallying tied-up score.

Focusing on his defense, Haikuan reacted the instance Zhan advanced his right foot for an attempt for an offensive pull-out jumper shot. Only to be dismayed as his opponent had only faked his movement, stepping backwards immediately and then shooting up from that spot in a perfect fade-away shot.

"Yes!" Zhan threw his fisted hand in the air as he celebrated his win.

"Perfect shot." Haikuan slightly shook his head, admiting defeat.

"Did you see that Bo-di?!" Zhan waved at their silent watcher on the bleacher munching the yet another basket full of baked goodies from Zhan's lovely Nanny.

It has been months since their first meeting, but although Zhan's existence became a normal thing in the Wang brothers' daily lives, Yibo only felt like he is a third-party between his brother and his Zhan-ge's close association.

He unexplainably feel both comfort and awkwardness as the three of them spends time together like this. But what baffles Yibo the most is the certain block in the pipes of his chest which feels tight every now and then whenever he inadvertently see and know that the two are spending time together without him.

Questions such as, 'What are they talking about? What are they doing right now? Where are they?' Makes him anxious while these complex thoughts also threatens the quality of bond they currently have.

'Is he gonna take my brother away from me?' The thought scares Yibo, yet he couldn't ask his brother to cut ties with the other.

Just the thought of Zhan walking away completely from his life, makes Yibo scared and lonely beyond reason. In fact, just seeing him bid goodbye at the end of the day makes him utterly broken until the next day comes and he meets Zhan again. He is already too attached to the man in a point of no return. Zhan was like his own sun, everything in him revolves around his Zhan-ge.

In his eyes, he only sees Zhan, yet his gut tells him Zhan only looks at the older Wang, Haikuan. It might just be a platonic love of friendship, nevertheless, their closeness is undeniably great and Yibo thinks his own presence is just merely an accessory--an unwanted third party.

Still, losing either of them isn't what he would ever beg for, so he'll just suffer in silence of the growing jealousy in his heart as he watches them both and stay by their side while he tries to put words in the growing emotions in his chest.

"Did you see that? Did you see that?" Zhan parroted yanking Yibo away from his deep unwanted thoughts. "I've won again, Bo-di!" Zhan further said running to Yibo's side, proud of his victory.

Sweat trickled down Zhan's pretty face down to his chin, falling freely, wetting Yibo's arm with tear like maps. The stench of his stale sweat with mix of his usual wild roses fragrance walked in with him and filled Yibo's nostrils making Yibo's breath caught and his pupils dilate.