Mr. Popular Guy [WANGXIAN]

CHAPTER 1: MY BIGGEST SECRET

LAN ZHAN'S POV

The alarm clock starts to sound at five in the morning, like every day since I can remember, I stretch a little bit and I can hear how my bones make a little crack. I go to the bathroom, everything is perfectly white and clean, each thing in its respective place, you could say I am a really organized person, order makes me feel more comfortable with my environment. I look up at the mirror my gold eyes showing little emotion, it's incredible that today finally is my last first day at the jungle also known as high school, I start to wonder how will it be if my brother was here.

My brother is the only person that can read my mind, I still find it amazing how he can read my face, I mean my face is really steady never gesturing. Still he manages to see the truths and secrets that are permanently in my mind, even he my biggest secret, the secret that only me and my brother know. My brother went to the USA four years ago, when I was starting my high school, he was always a friendly person and he dreamed of studying abroad, so when he got the opportunity my uncle told him to take it. Since then he only comes one month at the end of the year to celebrate Christmas and New Year.

Actually, I'm opposite to my brother, he is friendly and I'm not, he's warm and I'm really cold, he likes to be outside and I love to be inside. Even if we are really different, we have a perfect relationship, he cares about me and I know he loves me a lot. After all we only have each other and our uncle, that is more like our second father, he's a serious almost grumpy 50 year old man. He has taught us to follow the rules and to keep in a good path, to leave emotions and keep a clear mind, even if he's strict he's a good man.

With this line of thought I'm done getting ready for school, I take my breakfast which is a plain bitter soup, rice and tea, I put my headphones on and start to walk. Even if it takes longer going to school walking, I prefer it a thousand times over going by bus, buses are always full of dirty and loud teenagers that make me sick, walking on the other hand is really peaceful. While I'm walking, I hear a guy shouting "please, stop the bus", it seems like someone woke up late. I turn to see who it is, and my heart skips a beat, it's him.

WEI YING'S POV

I start to hear an annoying *beep* as I open my eyes, I just want to go back to sleep when I turn to see it's already eight in the morning! I can only think shit I'm doomed, I quickly take some clothes and go inside the bathroom, maybe if I dress and brush my teeth at the same time I'll be ready faster... Bad idea, stupid actually, I end up tripping with my shoes and messing up my outfit, come on it's my first day of school, can it be worst?

Shouldn't have asked, of course everything can always get worse, I hear my mom yelling at me, the bus can't wait for me longer. My sister and brother are already on it, I start running down stairs not caring about how disastrous I left my room. I continue running faster, if that's possible, when I see the bus starting to move, I take a large breath and yell "please, stop the bus". For my good luck the driver stops the bus thank God as I get on everyone looks at me and starts laughing while saying "Classic Wei Wuxian, always coming late". I start laughing too, they're right I wake up late almost every morning since I can remember. My siblings A-Cheng and A-Li are already waiting for me in the last row of the bus.

Then the bus starts moving again, I'm walking to my seat when my gray eyes collide with a cold yellow stare through the window. He looks surprised when we make eye contact, but immediately his eyes return to their expressionless natural look, isn't that the famous Lan Wangji? I've heard a lot of him, a smart, handsome guy who doesn't like company. I have a friend who used to like him, but when she gave him a chocolate box and confessed her love, he gave her a glacial and annoyed look, which made her shiver, made a little bow and turned around, leaving her confused with the chocolate box. When she finally realized what had happened, she burst out in tears, she could only remember that fierce stare that warned her to stay away from him. Since then no one else dared to get even close to him, fearing his rejection, anyway I can tell why he has a lot of admirers he is indeed really handsome, and he seems like an interesting person, maybe I'll try to talk to him this year.

-Wei Ying... Wei Ying... WEI WUXIAN!- I turn to look just as A-Cheng gives me a *sap* in the head

-Ouch... What do you want? – Okay maybe I zoned out for a little bit of time and didn't hear a single thing about what they were talking about.

-A-jie is asking you if you brought your lunch- oh not again, of course I didn't bring my lunch, I woke up like five minutes before the bus passes.

-My Xianxian- she says with a quiet laugh- don't worry, I knew you would forget it- she hands me a kraft bag, which I assume has my lunch, my sister is an angel with a smile and a voice that could end up a war

-Thanks shijie, what would I do with out you- I smile at her

-Maybe die...- I laugh at Jiang Cheng's bad morning humor, well it's like whole day bad humor, his personality is really... special. At the beginning you might think he hates you, but it's just difficult for him to express himself, in the end he is a kind-hearted person.

We keep talking until we get to school like every morning since I came to this almost perfect family.

LAN ZHAN'S POV

I finally got to school after a 20-minute walk, I can't stop thinking about that, so you remember the biggest secret that I mentioned earlier, the one that only my brother knows? Well that secret has name, a one that makes me feel butterflies all around my body. It all started four years ago, in my first day of high school, my brother had just left to the USA and I was alone with a lot of new people.

I've never been a really social person, I like to keep alone most part of the time, so when the director asked the whole school to gather in the gym I was really annoyed. These are the times when I want to break some rules and escape from those reunions but there I was seating in the farthest and hidden corner. The reunion was starting when a student rushed inside the gym, everyone turned to look at him and he gave a shy smile. When I saw that smile I swear my whole body tensed and my heart stopped for a second before starting to beat like crazy, I had never seen such a beautiful and warm smile.

He hurriedly went to sit with a girl and a boy, I kept trying to pay attention to the talk but my eyes couldn't help to glance at him. He wasn't paying attention either, he was talking to the boy and laughing at his annoyed reaction when he teased him. I was hypnotized by that smile and how his eyes became smaller every time he laughed. And that was how my first crush developed, I really tried to get over it but I couldn't help to feel in the clouds each time I saw him. One day my brother found out, he told me that if I kept rejecting my feelings they would only grow stronger, so I learned to accept them and to admire Wei Ying from a far and safe distance. He quickly became the most popular guy with a lot of admirers many girls and boys confessed to him, which in some part gave me peace, I mean with a lot of people surrounding him, he would never look at me. I could keep just liking him without risking myself, after all I think love is just made to hurt people so it's better to keep away from it.

Even if I think like that, my heart couldn't help but flutter when he looked at me today, I was so surprised I had never made eye contact with him. His eyes are so beautiful just like every part of him, like those beautiful lips that are always curved in a tempting smile. A smile that I dreamed to kiss thousands of times, come on Lan Zhan day dreaming about of him again... I sigh trying to take that thought away. I enter to my first class, advanced science, and take a seat, the door opens and oh no this can't be happening. I can't believe it, after all these years we end up in the same classroom, this has to be a bad joke from the universe.