Hating the Moon

chapter-15: Euphoria

Four years ago

'' Zhan..please'' ''no.. no'' ''don't'' ''please wake up...'' ''open your eyes..'' ''please.. please..Zhan''

''Zhan'' Yibo got up gasping panting hard. He was experiencing the horrible nightmare happened in the evening. It felt like real.

''just a dream just a dream'' he mumbled repeatedly clutching his chest.

He grabbed a glass of water from bedside table and gulped down in one go. He got up and walked into the washroom and splash water in his face to chase away the bitterness of the nightmare.

''Why I'm feeling terrible?''. ''it's just a dream..he is safe. He was sleeping peacefully when I saw him.'' He was trying to comfort himself.

He walk slowly towards the couch in his bedroom and dropped his exhausted body closing his eyes. The event of
previous evening playing like a movie in his head.

When Zhan pushed him inside the diving track he was a bit surprised first but he composed himself almost immediately and planned to play with him a little. He acted as if he was drowning. Even the boys played along with him as they know Yibo is just tricking zhan because it's impossible the champion would drown simply like that.

Zhan's action after that caught him by surprise. Still.. he acted like a pro, smirking inside. Zhan tried to come towards him and Yibo was fully prepared to feign unconscious but when he didn't reach him Yibo looked towards him to figure out the cause. At that moment he felt like his heart sank into the pit of a trench. Zhan was drowning, struggling to come to him. And his pace slowed down to the point of being still.. later, as his hands fell down slowly on both his side. Yibo swimmed towards him, regressions finding place in his heart. He pulled Zhan grabbing his waist. After giving zhan artificial breath & all the while pleading desperately to wake up, Yibo carried him to the uni clinic immediately. All the way to the clinic he was pleading to the heaven for his safety. He doesn't know why but the thought of Zhan's possible death caused his heart suffer an unknown pain.

When the doctor said that his condition is stable he heaved a sigh of relief. He could not describe the happiness he felt that time. He sat on the sit beside the unconscious Zhan, holding his hand. Yubin, Xuan & Jiyang came running inside after getting the information maybe from the group of boys.

''zhan..'' Jiyang hurried to him and his cheeks were flooded with hot tears.

Yibo felt an undeniable urge to cry at that point. But don't know why he should cry? for whom?

The doctor ordered them to go outside and Yibo unwillingly left from there as only one person was allowed to stay beside him. He was waiting outside in despire with his friends.

When he heard zhan calling him he ran towards him completely forgetting his surrounding. He grabbed his hand and asked softly but he froze the moment zhan touch his cheek, directly looking into his eyes.

The euphoria of their first..yes.. their first kiss, the way he was looking evoked something vulnerable inside Yibo. It's the first time he is feeling something which is maybe.. like.. pleasure or pain?!. His heart was pounding hard witnessing the emotions in Zhan's eye and that was for him!! Just for him. He wants zhan to look at him like this forever..only him..no one but him. He wanted to hide zhan from everyone, from the rest of the world, from any pain and suffering.

But his heart broke into million pieces the moment Zhan broke into sobs. He felt an unmistakable yearning to pull him closer to him & he did that.. although he himself is surprised by the fact that this is the first person who made him this weak just in few moments.