Chapter 16

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STORMY DAY

Mew wake up without Gulf in the bed. He's somewhat nervous without knowing what the reason is. He looked outside and can clearly see it's raining heavily. 

He's looking outside when his phone rings

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He's looking outside when his phone rings. It's Run. 'yes, hello Run? what is it?' Mew asked. 'There's a strong typhoon today. The news announced to the public that there's no  work in every sectors today. So, don't go to the company now. I went to your house yesterday but you weren't there. Where were you?' Run answered. ' I was out with Gulf yesterday and I'm still here in his condo' Mew responded. 'what?' but before Run could respond Mew ended the call and go downstairs. When he couldn't see Gulf he's worried, he looked for Gulf anywhere in the condo but he couldn't see him. He's getting worried. He's about to call Run when the door open. It's Gulf with a raincoat and a plastic bag in his hand. 'God, where have you been? It's raining heavily outside' 'i know right? I just went to the nearby convenience and bought this. I'm running out food. I forgot to do the grocery shopping the other day.' Mew helped him and give him a towel. 'I'll take a shower first, I'll make breakfast later.' Gulf said while going to his room. 

As Gulf went inside his room, he's annoyed to see that the bed is messy. 'Shit, i need to teach that asshole how to make a bed' He just took a shower fast. 

When he went to the kitchen he saw Mew staring out of nowhere. 'Hey, what's wrong with you?' He asked. 'nothing, I'm just thinking how will I go home today!' Mew answered. 'You can stay here and wait for the end of the storm. By the way, since you're inside my condo, it'll be better if I teach you to do things. You don't even know how to make a bed' Gulf suggested. 'Oh, sorry for that' 'no need as long as you'll do as I say. No problem. Let's prepare breakfast first.' 

Mew do as what he Gulf says. They only prepared pancakes and hot milk for breakfast but it took them almost two hours just because of their dog-cat fight. While Mew is mixing all the ingredients for the pancakes he keeps touching his nose so his nose end up being filled with flour mixture. By that, Gulf can't stop laughing and because of his laugh Mew started laughing and wipe Gulf's face with flour in his hands. 'waahh, hahaha Mew stop that, you bastard.' Gulf saying that while laughing. 'wahaha, Gulf you look like a ghost. hahaha' they keep messing around at each other. Putting flour to each other's face. When they finally stopped teasing each other and mixed all the ingredients successfully, Gulf ordered Mew to cook the mixture in the frying pan but it's an epic fail. Gulf just said. Flip it when you think the other side is cooked but since Mew doesn't have any idea what it looks like it ends up all black, black as a charcoal. But instead of getting angry Gulf just finish doing it and let Mew prepare the milk. 

After the messy time making their breakfast. It's finally done. Then, Mew asked 'will we really eat like this?' referring to their messy faces. Gulf just nodded and started eating. They're eating happily. Then, they washed the dishes together still teasing each other by spreading bubbles to each other's faces.  After that they went upstairs and clean themselves. Then, Gulf teaches Mew how to make the bed and how to clean. While doing those things, dog-cat fight was there like throwing pillows to each other and more. When they finished the cleaning, they were both tired so they rest and lay down on the sofa. There's an awkward silence when Gulf talked 'thank you for doing all the things Gulf said' then Mew shook his head and respond 'no, thank you for letting me stay here and teaching those basic life skills' Gulf just nodded and smiles. They just sit and talk about random topics. It's almost lunch time when Gulf decided to cook and Mew asked. 'Can you teach me how to cook? please!' 'okay, but promise me that there's no more teasing, i'm a bit hungry now and we'll make a chicken soup' Gulf answered Mew nods and made a promise. 

They started cooking. 'Okay find the ingredients in the fridge first. Chicken, carrots, celery and onion. You know how they looked right?' Gulf instructed but Mew shook his head. Gulf is trying his best not to laugh nor smile. 'how can someone don't know anything?' Gulf asked himself. 'okay, carrots is orange in color and it has green color at the top' Gulf instructed while preparing the pot they're going to use. 'this one?' Mew asked. Gulf just nodded. 'okay, get the chicken I'm sure you know how it looks like' Mew just nodded. 'Next, onion and celery. Onion is round white in color while celery is all green leaves' Mew followed the instructions and put  the ingredients on the table. 'okay, wash the carrots and celery, I'll clean and chop the chicken' They then chop the ingredients together. When it's time to cook, Gulf just instructed what to do. 'okay,put the chicken, carrots, celery and onion in a large soup pot and cover with cold water. Don't cover the pot. We have to wait until the chicken meat falls off of the bones.' While waiting Gulf is just sitting and humming while Mew kept looking at the pot. After almost an hour Mew talked 'okay it's done. What to do next?' Gulf check it and continue the process while giving instructions to Mew. Mew just listens attentively. Gulf then asked Mew to season the soup. 

After cooking, they just finish their lunch silently. Maybe because both of them are hungry. 

After lunch, they just do random things while waiting the storm to end. Mew fell asleep in the sofa, he then wake up because he heard a beautiful music from Gulf's room. He go upstairs and see Gulf playing the piano while humming with his eyes closed. He can't explain but somehow he thinks that there's loneliness in Gulf's facial expression. He's just looking and listening to Gulf silently. Gulf stops playing the piano and Mew clapped his hands like a child. 'what are you doing there?' 'i'm just being your audience. You can play piano very well!' Mew responded. Gulf just smiles and said 'oh really, i never played a piano for almost five years now. Thanks for the compliment.'

After a while, they both lied down on the bed and randomly asked questions to each other. Mew finds out a lot of interesting things and favorites of Gulf. Gulf's favorite color is black, food is chicken soup and his hobbies depends on his mood, he likes to write poems when he's tired. He's afraid of flying cockroach. Most importantly, Gulf attitude depends on who he is with. For example, he can show his fragile side when he's with Techno. Mew is actually jealous but he understands Gulf as he's also doing the same towards Run.

On the other hand, Gulf finds out that Mew is the exact opposite of Tharn. While part of Tharn's life is music and hates sports, Mew likes sports and doesn't really like music. While Tharn's nature is to take good care of other specially his loved ones, Mew is doing the opposite. He then noticed that he's comparing them 'ayshh, why am i comparing them? what the heck am i doing?' Mew noticed Gulf's mood and is about to ask him. When Gulf closed his eyes. He also did the same and they fell asleep together.

When Mew wakes up, it's already eight in the evening and it's not raining anymore. He then ordered food for their dinner and walked downstairs. After a while Gulf wakes up but just stayed in the bed for few more minutes 'maybe he already left' Gulf said at the back of his mind and decided to go downstairs and look for food. But to his surprise, Mew is in the kitchen, preparing food. 'ah, you're awake, I ordered food for dinner, come on let's eat!' Mew invited him. They just eat silently. When they're done eating and washing the dishes. Mew talked to Gulf. 'Gulf, thank you for letting me stay here. I had a wonderful time with you. I've learned a lot. Hope I didn't give you any headache while I'm here' Gulf smiles and said 'no, it's okay, i had a wonderful time too, thank you.Hmm, do you want to borrow my car?' 'no, Run is picking me up' Few minutes after they waved good bye to each other.

Gulf is just sitting in the sofa while thinking. 'storms supposed to be lonely for me, it's the first storm I enjoyed for the last six years, haysh.. should I be happy with this changes or be afraid of what's going to happen next.

Mew on the other hand just smiles endlessly no matter how Run tried to talk to him. 'you're the only person who's so happy despite the fact of being stranded to someone's house because of the storm.' Run commented and then Mew answered 'yeah, call me crazy but that was indeed a beautiful storm for me'

Mew never been happy like this even with his ex-girlfriends. He's happy, so happy but at the same time he's afraid. Afraid that one day, he has to wake up and realize that those are just beautiful memories inside his dreamland. 

P.S next chapter: thoughts and escape

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