Unexpected Love [YiZhan FF] ✔️

-9- Friends

-9- Friends

A/N: I deleted the last chapter and wrote a new one. Hope you like it more than the last one.

It's been almost a week since Zhan and Yibo shake hands and reconnected, and more importantly, decided to become friends. A week in which Zhan enjoyed going to work again and every day he thought about asking Yibo if they wanted to do something together on Saturday to get to know each other better.

Only on Friday during the lunch break did Zhan have the courage to ask Yibo if he had plans for Saturday. "Not yet. Why do you ask?" Yibo replied.

"Well, I thought if we really wanted to become friends, maybe it wouldn't be so bad if we met outside of work."

"I like that idea, Zhan. Do you have any plans for us?"

"Well, something simple. Dinner at a snack bar, cinema, pub, something like that."

"Then why don't we do it in that order? I could pick you up tomorrow evening, we'll go to a diner for dinner, then to a cinema, and afterwards for a beer in a pub."

"OK, I think we can do that. You could pick me up around 7pm." Said Zhan and Yibo nodded.

In the past days Zhan had noticed something strange about himself. Whenever he was alone with Yibo, he became nervous and his heart beat faster. Besides, he had dreamed about him a few times. At first, Zhan thought it was because of the stress that they both had. But when he started dreaming about him, dreaming of them kissing, it was clear that it wasn't the stress.

Zhan himself didn't know if a friendship was a really good idea. Especially now that he was obviously developing feelings for his superior. At the same time, however, he wanted to get closer to Yibo, be close to him and get to know him better. He told himself that he just had to ignore his own feelings and as long as Yibo didn't do anything to strengthen his feelings, everything would work out fine.

On Saturday, Yibo picked up Zhan right on time. Zhan was not quite finished yet, so Yibo came up to him in the apartment. For Zhan it was absolutely fascinating to see Yibo in private clothes and not in working clothes. He really had to pull himself together not to stare at him sitting there on his sofa in his black tight jeans, white shirt and styled hair.

Whenever their eyes met, Zhan's heart beat faster and he prayed inwardly not to do anything that would reveal his feelings for his younger boss.

Since the plan was to drink alcohol later, Yibo came by a cab. Luckily for the two of them, there is a diner, as well as a cinema and a pub near Zhan's apartment. Which is why they could reach everything on foot.

At the diner they ordered a burger and fries and a Coca Cola. They watched the cinema program in the internet while eating and decided for an action movie. According to Yibo, it will be great. Zhan, on the other hand, was not so sure, fast cars and motorcycles don't really interest him. But since there seemed to be no other interesting movies either, he was satisfied with the selection.

Because both of them had just eaten, they refrained from buying popcorn or other snacks in the cinema. The cinema hall itself was only half full and the two were lucky to get good seats.

Throughout the whole movie Yibo was enthusiastic and his eyes got big every time when once again some people raced at high speed through some streets. Zhan found it more amusing to watch Yibo than to follow the film.

Because both seats had to share a armrest, it happened over and over again that the hands of the two touched when they wanted to put their arms on the armrest. Each time they pulled their hands back in surprise until Yibo simply put his hand on Zhan's, smiled and said, "That's the way it works." Zhan just nodded and was happy that it was too dark in the cinema hall to let Yibo see how red his cheeks were.