While you were sleeping[boyxboy]✔️ - 12 Happy New Year! / part 02

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“I’m tired and my muscles feel sore. I also feel drunk already and I’m hungry. And I’m all sweaty.”, Yibo said, wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his palm.
“Should we take a shower before or after eating, hic? Sorry!”, he cutely apologized for hiccuping.

“He, he, you cutie pie!”, Xiao Zhan pinched Yibo’s cheek.
“I think I’m drunk, too. And hungry, as well. Hungry for you, he, he…sorry, it was a stupid joke. I told you that I’m drunk, yeah, I’m definitely drunk! Maybe eating will do good to me!
I’d say to eat a frugal snack at least, before showering.”

“Ahem, ahem!”, Yibo cleared his throat and stood up hastily.
“I changed my mind. Food can wait, I feel like I urgently need a shower.”

“Okay, go ahead. I will look for some towels, there must be some in the locker room over there.”, Xiao Zhan stood up as well and walked towards the said direction. 

~Xiao Zhan’s POV~

What now?
What should I say, how should I act , what if he is naked?
Of course that he is naked, after all he is taking a shower! Oh my goodness!

I stayed for a good, long minute, listening to the shower running sound, before finally deciding to open the door and walk inside. 

There were two showers, like they were prepared especially for us.

“He is still wearing the top tank and the shorts, he is not naked! Thank god!”, I said in my mind, while adjusting the temperature of the shower water.

Perrito didn’t say anything, but just measured me from head to toe shortly, uttered a small grunting noise and turned his back at me.

“Great that we have hot water, I was worried that they could have shut off the water heater.”, I said, peeking in his direction.

“Oh my god, why are you shivering like that? Are you feeling sick? We shouldn’t have mixed all those different types of alcohol, damn! “, I worried about his trembling form.
He was bracing himself, his skin was goosebumps and  purple.

“What the hell Perrito! The water is ice cold! If this shower is broken, why didn’t you walk to the other one? And you are still standing here, oh my god!”, I shouted, pulling him out from under the cold water running and turning off the tap.

I hastily dragged him to the other shower and coiled myself around him like a koala, under the hot water, trying to warm him up.

“Why do you do such stupid things sometimes, Perrito? Do you want so badly to get sick again? Just look at you, your nose is red like Rudolph’s, your cheek is ice cold, and you start coughing as expected! Why the hell did you not shut off the tap, when you saw that it’s broken?”, I asked him like I was scolding A-Yuan, while gluing our cheeks together and rubbing his arms.

I sat down on the tiled floor, that was warm, pulling him down in my lap, with his back flushed against my front and apologized for yelling at him:
“I am sorry, I just don’t want you to get sick.
But this hot water will do good to you, you’ll see.”

“Don’t get mad at me, Zhan Ge, please! Actually, I really needed a cold shower! To clear up my mind!”, he whispered , pressing his palms over my hands resting on his stomach.

“Why? Because we got a bit tipsy? We shouldn’t feel so guilty for getting drunk once in a while.
I don’t know about you, but I am getting drunk pretty rarely. And when I do, I always forget everything the next day, ha, ha.
You’re no more cold.”, I said, checking out his cheek’s temperature…with my lips…just because… 

He turned around and kneeled between my parted thighs and murmured:
“Promise?”

“What?”, I asked, not understanding his question.
“Come here, sit in my lap, don’t ruin my whole work of warming you up by standing with your knees on the floor.”, I pulled him in my lap, trying my best to keep him at a safe distance, even though my hands were itching to plaster him flushed against my…hmm…myself.
Please, MeiMei, forgive me, you know that I love you and I would never hurt you in any way. But, understand that it’s hard! Extremely hard and painful!

“That you will forget everything the next day? You promise?”, he asked, startling the sh!t out of me when he cupped my face in his palms.
I could just silently nod when he looked at me with a dark and deep stare that burned my heart even if it was blurred by the curtain of steamy water.

Then he asked:
“We will both forget tomorrow, that’s why I will ask you to answer my question, today. Like right now.
My question would be ‘Could you give me a reason, any reason, a single reason, for me and your sister to not be together?”

I just didn’t know what to answer, but just mumbled:
“Is it only me or the water is getting colder? We stayed enough anyways, we could catch a cold.”

 He didn’t insist to ask again, but just stood up and shut off the tap, before looking at me with a stare that I couldn’t decipher if it was accusing, expectant, disappointed or how:
“Yeah, you’re right, we shouldn’t…”

“I found towels and even clean top tanks and shorts in a cabinet.
Here are two towels and two top tanks, and I brought our jeans that we could wear without shorts, ha, ha.
Please remove those soaked clothes and dry yourself quickly .”, I said, handing him a towel, then removing my own wet tank top.

“Okay, I leave and give you some privacy, my sweet shy Gouzaizai.”, I smiled at his scared deer eyes.
He turned his back at me and removed his tank top, too.
“I am sorry, Perrito. I am so sorry…for everything.”, I whispered in his hair.

“Nothing to feel sorry about! We will forget everything anyways, starting with tomorrow. The winter holidays will be over starting tomorrow. It will be another year completely different from this one, you might even hate me the next year.”, he murmured with so much hurt in his voice that my heart got even more broken than it already was.

“What stupid things are you saying there, Perrito?
I could never hate you, not next year, not next decade, not even next life.
It’s just that… if only we should have met sooner, before…”, I mumbled in a strangled voice and grabbed my clothes.
I exited the room after whispering one last “I’m sorry.”

Before shutting the door I heard him weekly saying “I’m sorry, too, Zhan Ge.”

“I wish for both of you to live a happy life together, I really do, you both deserve that!
I love you MeiMei…
I love you Wang Yibo…
And I’m sorry…”, I whispered to the void, with tears running down my cheeks.

While getting dressed, I could hear him sobbing, or maybe it was just an illusion.
Could it be, because…? Nah! Wang Yibo is in a love relationship with a woman! A woman that is my sister, on top of that!
Stop this madness, Xiao Fu*king Zhan, and pull yourself together for heaven’s sake!

~End of Xiao Zhan’s POV~

“Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo with Xiao MianMian, one bathroom door parting two tormented souls, one hopeless love making two men cry, everything is like some kind of an evilish triangle.”, Xiao Zhan talked to himself while dragging a thick mattress and Cheng Xiao’s box near the radiator.

“I need some more alcohol!”, Yibo got him startled with his warrior shout when bolting out from the bathroom.

“Okay, but we should eat first, then let’s get drunk as a skunk!
Come sit, and let’s dig in !”, Xiao Zhan shouted, too, dropping his butt on the mattress and starting to rummage through the content of the box.

“Oh, look there are two glasses, too. Open that big bottle of whisky and leave the champagne for midnight.
This sandwich is not even as bad as I would have expected.”, Yibo spoke with mouth full.

~Two hours later~

“I was nepher so drunk in my whole li..hic…fe.”, Xiao Zhan tried to speak as coherently as he could, while dropping the back of his head onto the wall behind. 

“Me, te, hic.”, Yibo replied, not managing to sit straight, but falling onto Xiao Zhan’s chest.

“Whaa? I duno understan.”, Xiao Zhan raised his head and pulled the other man closer, to hear him better.

“I said me, too. I am drunk as fu*k, ha, ha, and I have never cursed so much, he, he!
Oh me god, it’s midnight!
Happy New Year!
Hurry and open the jampagne!”, Yibo shouted, waking up the other man who seemed like he dozed off for a moment. 

“Shhh, you’re too loud! You give me a headache!
How do you know that it’s midnight?
Damn, why is my wrist watch steamed? Are we still in the shower? Shut off the tap, we will catch a cold! I can’t see what hour it is!”, Xiao Zhan started to get agitated.

Yibo, who was drunk, too, but not as drunk as his GeGe, tried to calm him down:
“No, we are no more in the shower. I know that it’s midnight, boom, boom, just listen to the fireworks!”

“I want to watch the fireworks!”, Xiao Zhan shouted, but he couldn’t get up, no matter how much he tried.

Yibo stood up, wobbling a bit, but at least he managed to stay onto his feet, and grabbed Xiao Zhan’s hand:
“Alright. Let me help you. That window must be blocked for sure, but we could watch the fireworks through it.
Come, Zhan Ge!”

“Oh, my goood!
Your haaand!”, Xiao Zhan screamed,  freaking the hell out of Yibo.

“What, what?
What’s wrong with my hand?”, Yibo quickly dropped Xiao Zhan’s hand and checked out his own hand in confusion.

“It gives me a b0ner! What the hell, Junior, you’re embarrassing me, go back home!
Just look at it, Perrito! Do you see it? It’s huge, and it hurts, ha ha, ha!
I have never had a drunk b0ner , ha, ha, ha!”, the inebriated man laughed hysterically until he couldn’t breathe normally and started coughing.

“We should skip the fireworks! The champagne, too.
We are too drunk, let’s get a short nap, instead.”, Yibo  groaned, while walking away.

“Hey, where are you going? Do you plan to watch the fireworks alone, without my b0ner?”, Xiao Zhan threw himself ahead to grab Yibo’s leg.

“Oh, shut up, Zhan Ge, you are too drunk, oh, my holy!
Drink this bottle of water.
Wait here and behave until I will be back!
I am just bringing the sweaters to use as pillows and the winter jackets to cover ourselves.”

When Yibo was back, Xiao Zhan was deeply asleep.

“How can you be so beautiful, even in this shitty drunkard state?
Even your snoring sounds like the cutest music…Wang Yibo! Go to sleep, you’re dead drunk!”, Yibo yelled at himself after laying down his GeGe with the sweater under his head.
He lied next to him and pulled the jackets over their bodies.

“Sleep well and have a happy new year Zhan Ge!
The winter holidays are over, I fulfilled my promise to Guang Yao, and now it’s time to finally tell the truth.
I love you, Zhan Ge. I hope you and your lovely family will not hate me too much.
And I wish you to have a very happy life ahead. Goodbye, my love, you were the most beautiful dream…”, Yibo whispered, planting a soft kiss onto the asleep man’s cheek.

~After  four more hours~

“What? Where are you going?”, Yibo’s sleepy voice reached to Xiao Zhan’s ear, when he squirmed in the arms embracing him.

“Umm, I badly need to pee, but I have no idea where the bathroom is. Actually I have no idea where I am, and why are you in my bed? Not as I have something against, just that…I don’t remember anything.”, Xiao Zhan smiled, looking and sounding much more sober than expected, after only  four hours of sleep.

“I know, you told me that you will forget everything. We got locked in this gym by mistake and we got drunk! Terribly drunk!
And…”, Yibo started to explain.

“Oh, yeah, I remember somehow.
Okay, I urgently need to pee, he, he.”, Xiao Zhan stood up and wobbled in a hurry towards the direction indicated by Yibo.

After coming back, Xiao Zhan didn’t lie back next to Yibo, but sat at the edge of the mattress.

“What are you doing?”, Yibo asked in surprise when Xiao Zhan pulled his head in his lap.

He could feel Xiao Zhan’s breathe ghosting his forehead when GeGe leaned only a few inches away from his face and  spoke softly:
“While washing my face I had a sudden revelation.
It’s the first time in my life that I missed the midnight between the old and the new year. It never happened, not even when I was a little boy. And also, it was the first time in my life to not receive or wish a happy new year greeting at midnight.
I remember that I told YaoYao to tell the family to not bother calling us, because our phone batteries might be dead.
Anyways, I want to recover my missed midnight moment, or else the whole year will be as unfulfilled as its unfulfilled start. We will skip the champagne, if you don’t mind.
I wish you a Happy New Year, Wang Yibo! And may all your wishes come true, be happy forever! Happy New Year Gouzaizai!”

“Actually I wished you a happy new year at midnight, while you were asleep.
But I don’t mind doing it again!
I wish you a very Happy New Year, Xiao Zhan GeGe! And I wish you lots of happiness not only this year, but for your whole life! Happy New Zhan Ge!”

“I think that you were right saying that we should skip the champagne. We will have an ugly hangover  for longer than one day for sure, we don’t have to make it even worse just for the sake of tradition. You don’t want a headache just for a glass of champagne,  doesn’t worth it!”, Yibo smiled, reaching out a hand to plaster it onto Xiao Zhan’s forehead to make his point.

“Agree with you. But I was thinking about something else when talking about tradition, not about champagne.
When people are wishing each other a happy new year, they usually kiss each other, didn’t you know?”

“Oh.”, it was all that Yibo could utter, while Xiao Zhan’s face was coming closer and closer to his.

“But…but…Isn’t this like we would be cheating on MianMian?”, Yibo tried to escape.

“No, kissing at the new year midnight it’s not cheating. Everyone is kissing at that moment. I always kiss people I care about, I kiss MianMian, or Guang Yao, or NaiNai, or even my working colleagues when wishing them a happy new year.
Besides, we are still drunk and we will forget everything by tomorrow, even that we kissed.
On top of that it will be an upside down kiss that shouldn’t count as a real kiss.
Now, be silent and let me kiss you. Happy New Year Perrito! “, Xiao Zhan closed his argument like a skillful advocate.

Yibo read on Xiao Zhan’s lips’ slight motion a “Forgive me, MeiMei.”, before his eyes fluttered closed.

Xiao Zhan bent more and brushed lightly his lips against Yibo’s cheek, sending shivers through his whole being even though it was just a light touch.
“If you want me to stop, tell me now.”, he whispered. 

When Yibo said nothing, he traced the line of his cheekbone.
“Or now.” He brushed his mouth along his jawline.
“Or now.” His lips were pressed against Yibo’s.
“Or…”

But Xiao Zhan couldn’t finish the sentence, as Yibo had reached up and pushed his nape down to him, and the rest of his words were lost against his mouth. 

He was kissed gently, carefully, but it wasn’t gentleness Yibo wanted.
Yibo’s fingers gripped Xiao Zhan’s hair and pulled  him down, so as their lips to get pressed harder against each other, murmuring in the kiss “I am sorry”.

Xiao Zhan groaned low in his throat, and slipped his tongue in Yibo’s sweet mouth, gently but demanding.

Yibo sucked it with ardor, pushing his own tongue against it like in a tongues wrestling match.
Slurping, sucking, licking, biting…Teeth were biting lips, tongues were coiling around each other,   saliva was smearing the corners of their mouths…
It was his first true making out in his life.
His veins were throbbing and his heart was close to exploding, he never experienced such intense sensations, not even close to these.

Neither of them was able to limit themselves to the planned simple happy new year greeting kiss.
They didn’t care about anything at those moments, it was like they were living in an alternative dimension where only the two of them  existed.

“Hello? Where are you guys?”, an unreal voice pulled them down in the real dimension of their real life.

“Yao Yao! Is it you?!
We are here in the owner’s office!”, Xiao Zhan was the first to come into his senses.
He quickly wiped his lips and Yibo’s lips with the back of his palm like  wiping some kind of an engraved  obvious evidence of what they did.

“Hi, guys, happy new year! Did I wake you up, what were you doing?”, Guang Yao greeted them cheerfully.

“We were sleeping, of course, what could have been doing in the middle of the night?
I thought you were coming in the morning. Why did you ruin your new year party to come get us?”, Xiao Zhan asked, struggling to hide his annoyance, while Yibo was getting dressed in silence.

“Hurry up, ZhanZhan, get dressed, you, too!
First of all, it’s not the middle of the night, it’s past five in the morning.
And secondly, you’re not gonna believe what news I bring to you!
ZhanZhan and BoBo, listen to this!
MianMian woke up!”, Guang Yao shouted.

“What?”, both Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo shouted at the same time.

“Yes, yes, Mama got a call from the hospital, around 4 AM, that she is conscious.
The others are already there, even though they told us to come only after 7 AM.
I had to  bring my girlfriend at her home  first, then I quickly came here to get you, too.”, Guang Yao excitedly explained.
“And before you’d ask me, yes, Cheng Xiao accepted to date me.”

At the time GuangYao, Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo had finally arrived at the hospital, the whole family was already gathered in MianMian’s ward, waiting for her to wake up, as she fell asleep after getting the medication.

The doctor asked them to stand a few steps away from the patient’s bed, so as to not distress her.
He told them that the patient got conscious early in the morning, she was able to eat something by herself, and drink water from a glass without any help.
“But, at the same time, it’s not yet clear if there would be side effects at least  for a while, like for example some intense headaches or even a temporary memory loss,  called a temporary amnesia.
Thus, please don’t get upset if she might not recognize you”, the doctor explained.

They all waited in silence, until MianMian started to show signs that she was waking up, refraining themselves from any reaction at all, when she finally opened her eyes and looked directly at them.

“Oh, hello! I missed you! I love you, all!”, she spoke in a hoarse voice, but pretty clear considering that she didn’t use her voice for such a long time.

As soon as they got the doctor’s silent approval, they greeted her back , all at the same time, with an enthusiastic “Hello, we missed you, too. We love you, too, very much!”

After the nurse raised the upper half of the bed for the patient to sit like in an armchair, MianMian started to greet each family member at a time, giving a big satisfaction, not only to her beloved ones, but to the doctor, as well, with each member she was recognizing.

“Hello Mama,

Hi Baba,

Love you NaiNai, how are you feeling today?

Hi YaoYao Ge,

Oh, when did you come from Spain?

Welcome Ba and Ma!

And look at those two cute little dolls, hello babies Lulu and Ah-Yuan!

Oh, I missed you so much, my beloved ZhanZhan GeGe, I’m sorry for giving you hard times with the accident and all…

Hello…hmm? Who are you?

Oh, you’re here, too, LingLing? Hello, sweetheart…Did you bring a friend with you?”

The family reacted by crying out “Temporary Amnesia!”.
Except three people from the room.
One was Wang Yibo, of course, who didn’t know how to react but to just smile like an idiot while trying to hide behind Zhan Ge, even though it was too late for that.
The second one was LingLing who added MianMian’s strange question to the string of suspicions and questions without answers he had before.
And the last one was Xiao Zhan, who asked the doctor: “Is it possible for a patient with a temporary amnesia to forget only about one person?”

“Yes, it’s possible. It’s a selective memory. But she will recover slowly, nothing to worry about. It’s great, almost a miracle that she remembers the rest of you, all!”, the doctor explained, then he pulled Yibo out of the group and dragged him to the patient’s bed.

“Hello, dear, welcome back!
Let me introduce myself, I am Chao Da-Fu, the doctor who took care of you from the beginning.
I was informed that a psychiatrist explained to you how you got in this state, I will not repeat what he explained to you.
Anyways, no need to get scared or worried if you don’t remember some things or even some people. Everything will slowly come back to you.
Now, tell me please, do you not remember this person at all? Maybe his name or… “, the doctor asked MianMian, propping his hands on Yibo’s shoulders.

Yibo raised a hand and murmured a weak “Hi”, while keeping smiling with that idiotic smile from before.

“I’m sorry, I have no idea who he is…but looking better, he looks slightly familiar…I am sorry, doctor, I’m sorry, mister, whomever you are.”, MianMian sighed with guilt written all over her face.

“You don’t understand! I must tell you, all, that…, but I’m not sure if it would be the right decision! Not right now, in this situation!”, Yibo said in a weak voice.

“YiBo, please don’t! Everything will get settled, but later, not now! Please!
He is just upset!”, GuangYao tried to explain, somehow, his friend’s strange words.

The doctor caressed MianMian’s hand connected to the perfusion and spoke in a comforting tone:
“Oh, no, no, dear! No need to apologize, you are not wrong with anything.
And you, mister Wang Yibo, no need to get upset, actually it’s a very optimistic signal that you look familiar to her!
She will remember you. Soon! I promise you!”

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“I’m tired and my muscles feel sore. I also feel drunk already and I’m hungry. And I’m all sweaty.”, Yibo said, wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his palm.
“Should we take a shower before or after eating, hic? Sorry!”, he cutely apologized for hiccuping.

“He, he, you cutie pie!”, Xiao Zhan pinched Yibo’s cheek.
“I think I’m drunk, too. And hungry, as well. Hungry for you, he, he…sorry, it was a stupid joke. I told you that I’m drunk, yeah, I’m definitely drunk! Maybe eating will do good to me!
I’d say to eat a frugal snack at least, before showering.”

“Ahem, ahem!”, Yibo cleared his throat and stood up hastily.
“I changed my mind. Food can wait, I feel like I urgently need a shower.”

“Okay, go ahead. I will look for some towels, there must be some in the locker room over there.”, Xiao Zhan stood up as well and walked towards the said direction.

~Xiao Zhan’s POV~

What now?
What should I say, how should I act , what if he is naked?
Of course that he is naked, after all he is taking a shower! Oh my goodness!

I stayed for a good, long minute, listening to the shower running sound, before finally deciding to open the door and walk inside.

There were two showers, like they were prepared especially for us.

“He is still wearing the top tank and the shorts, he is not naked! Thank god!”, I said in my mind, while adjusting the temperature of the shower water.

Perrito didn’t say anything, but just measured me from head to toe shortly, uttered a small grunting noise and turned his back at me.

“Great that we have hot water, I was worried that they could have shut off the water heater.”, I said, peeking in his direction.

“Oh my god, why are you shivering like that? Are you feeling sick? We shouldn’t have mixed all those different types of alcohol, damn! “, I worried about his trembling form.
He was bracing himself, his skin was goosebumps and purple.

“What the hell Perrito! The water is ice cold! If this shower is broken, why didn’t you walk to the other one? And you are still standing here, oh my god!”, I shouted, pulling him out from under the cold water running and turning off the tap.

I hastily dragged him to the other shower and coiled myself around him like a koala, under the hot water, trying to warm him up.

“Why do you do such stupid things sometimes, Perrito? Do you want so badly to get sick again? Just look at you, your nose is red like Rudolph’s, your cheek is ice cold, and you start coughing as expected! Why the hell did you not shut off the tap, when you saw that it’s broken?”, I asked him like I was scolding A-Yuan, while gluing our cheeks together and rubbing his arms.

I sat down on the tiled floor, that was warm, pulling him down in my lap, with his back flushed against my front and apologized for yelling at him:
“I am sorry, I just don’t want you to get sick.
But this hot water will do good to you, you’ll see.”

“Don’t get mad at me, Zhan Ge, please! Actually, I really needed a cold shower! To clear up my mind!”, he whispered , pressing his palms over my hands resting on his stomach.

“Why? Because we got a bit tipsy? We shouldn’t feel so guilty for getting drunk once in a while.
I don’t know about you, but I am getting drunk pretty rarely. And when I do, I always forget everything the next day, ha, ha.
You’re no more cold.”, I said, checking out his cheek’s temperature…with my lips…just because…

He turned around and kneeled between my parted thighs and murmured:
“Promise?”

“What?”, I asked, not understanding his question.
“Come here, sit in my lap, don’t ruin my whole work of warming you up by standing with your knees on the floor.”, I pulled him in my lap, trying my best to keep him at a safe distance, even though my hands were itching to plaster him flushed against my…hmm…myself.
Please, MeiMei, forgive me, you know that I love you and I would never hurt you in any way. But, understand that it’s hard! Extremely hard and painful!

“That you will forget everything the next day? You promise?”, he asked, startling the sh!t out of me when he cupped my face in his palms.
I could just silently nod when he looked at me with a dark and deep stare that burned my heart even if it was blurred by the curtain of steamy water.

Then he asked:
“We will both forget tomorrow, that’s why I will ask you to answer my question, today. Like right now.
My question would be ‘Could you give me a reason, any reason, a single reason, for me and your sister to not be together?”

I just didn’t know what to answer, but just mumbled:
“Is it only me or the water is getting colder? We stayed enough anyways, we could catch a cold.”

 He didn’t insist to ask again, but just stood up and shut off the tap, before looking at me with a stare that I couldn’t decipher if it was accusing, expectant, disappointed or how:
“Yeah, you’re right, we shouldn’t…”

“I found towels and even clean top tanks and shorts in a cabinet.
Here are two towels and two top tanks, and I brought our jeans that we could wear without shorts, ha, ha.
Please remove those soaked clothes and dry yourself quickly .”, I said, handing him a towel, then removing my own wet tank top.

“Okay, I leave and give you some privacy, my sweet shy Gouzaizai.”, I smiled at his scared deer eyes.
He turned his back at me and removed his tank top, too.
“I am sorry, Perrito. I am so sorry…for everything.”, I whispered in his hair.

“Nothing to feel sorry about! We will forget everything anyways, starting with tomorrow. The winter holidays will be over starting tomorrow. It will be another year completely different from this one, you might even hate me the next year.”, he murmured with so much hurt in his voice that my heart got even more broken than it already was.

“What stupid things are you saying there, Perrito?
I could never hate you, not next year, not next decade, not even next life.
It’s just that… if only we should have met sooner, before…”, I mumbled in a strangled voice and grabbed my clothes.
I exited the room after whispering one last “I’m sorry.”

Before shutting the door I heard him weekly saying “I’m sorry, too, Zhan Ge.”

“I wish for both of you to live a happy life together, I really do, you both deserve that!
I love you MeiMei…
I love you Wang Yibo…
And I’m sorry…”, I whispered to the void, with tears running down my cheeks.

While getting dressed, I could hear him sobbing, or maybe it was just an illusion.
Could it be, because…? Nah! Wang Yibo is in a love relationship with a woman! A woman that is my sister, on top of that!
Stop this madness, Xiao Fu*king Zhan, and pull yourself together for heaven’s sake!

~End of Xiao Zhan’s POV~

“Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo with Xiao MianMian, one bathroom door parting two tormented souls, one hopeless love making two men cry, everything is like some kind of an evilish triangle.”, Xiao Zhan talked to himself while dragging a thick mattress and Cheng Xiao’s box near the radiator.

“I need some more alcohol!”, Yibo got him startled with his warrior shout when bolting out from the bathroom.

“Okay, but we should eat first, then let’s get drunk as a skunk!
Come sit, and let’s dig in !”, Xiao Zhan shouted, too, dropping his butt on the mattress and starting to rummage through the content of the box.

“Oh, look there are two glasses, too. Open that big bottle of whisky and leave the champagne for midnight.
This sandwich is not even as bad as I would have expected.”, Yibo spoke with mouth full.

~Two hours later~

“I was nepher so drunk in my whole li..hic…fe.”, Xiao Zhan tried to speak as coherently as he could, while dropping the back of his head onto the wall behind.

“Me, te, hic.”, Yibo replied, not managing to sit straight, but falling onto Xiao Zhan’s chest.

“Whaa? I duno understan.”, Xiao Zhan raised his head and pulled the other man closer, to hear him better.

“I said me, too. I am drunk as fu*k, ha, ha, and I have never cursed so much, he, he!
Oh me god, it’s midnight!
Happy New Year!
Hurry and open the jampagne!”, Yibo shouted, waking up the other man who seemed like he dozed off for a moment. 

“Shhh, you’re too loud! You give me a headache!
How do you know that it’s midnight?
Damn, why is my wrist watch steamed? Are we still in the shower? Shut off the tap, we will catch a cold! I can’t see what hour it is!”, Xiao Zhan started to get agitated.

Yibo, who was drunk, too, but not as drunk as his GeGe, tried to calm him down:
“No, we are no more in the shower. I know that it’s midnight, boom, boom, just listen to the fireworks!”

“I want to watch the fireworks!”, Xiao Zhan shouted, but he couldn’t get up, no matter how much he tried.

Yibo stood up, wobbling a bit, but at least he managed to stay onto his feet, and grabbed Xiao Zhan’s hand:
“Alright. Let me help you. That window must be blocked for sure, but we could watch the fireworks through it.
Come, Zhan Ge!”

“Oh, my goood!
Your haaand!”, Xiao Zhan screamed, freaking the hell out of Yibo.

“What, what?
What’s wrong with my hand?”, Yibo quickly dropped Xiao Zhan’s hand and checked out his own hand in confusion.

“It gives me a b0ner! What the hell, Junior, you’re embarrassing me, go back home!
Just look at it, Perrito! Do you see it? It’s huge, and it hurts, ha ha, ha!
I have never had a drunk b0ner , ha, ha, ha!”, the inebriated man laughed hysterically until he couldn’t breathe normally and started coughing.

“We should skip the fireworks! The champagne, too.
We are too drunk, let’s get a short nap, instead.”, Yibo groaned, while walking away.

“Hey, where are you going? Do you plan to watch the fireworks alone, without my b0ner?”, Xiao Zhan threw himself ahead to grab Yibo’s leg.

“Oh, shut up, Zhan Ge, you are too drunk, oh, my holy!
Drink this bottle of water.
Wait here and behave until I will be back!
I am just bringing the sweaters to use as pillows and the winter jackets to cover ourselves.”

When Yibo was back, Xiao Zhan was deeply asleep.

“How can you be so beautiful, even in this shitty drunkard state?
Even your snoring sounds like the cutest music…Wang Yibo! Go to sleep, you’re dead drunk!”, Yibo yelled at himself after laying down his GeGe with the sweater under his head.
He lied next to him and pulled the jackets over their bodies.

“Sleep well and have a happy new year Zhan Ge!
The winter holidays are over, I fulfilled my promise to Guang Yao, and now it’s time to finally tell the truth.
I love you, Zhan Ge. I hope you and your lovely family will not hate me too much.
And I wish you to have a very happy life ahead. Goodbye, my love, you were the most beautiful dream…”, Yibo whispered, planting a soft kiss onto the asleep man’s cheek.

~After four more hours~

“What? Where are you going?”, Yibo’s sleepy voice reached to Xiao Zhan’s ear, when he squirmed in the arms embracing him.

“Umm, I badly need to pee, but I have no idea where the bathroom is. Actually I have no idea where I am, and why are you in my bed? Not as I have something against, just that…I don’t remember anything.”, Xiao Zhan smiled, looking and sounding much more sober than expected, after only four hours of sleep.

“I know, you told me that you will forget everything. We got locked in this gym by mistake and we got drunk! Terribly drunk!
And…”, Yibo started to explain.

“Oh, yeah, I remember somehow.
Okay, I urgently need to pee, he, he.”, Xiao Zhan stood up and wobbled in a hurry towards the direction indicated by Yibo.

After coming back, Xiao Zhan didn’t lie back next to Yibo, but sat at the edge of the mattress.

“What are you doing?”, Yibo asked in surprise when Xiao Zhan pulled his head in his lap.

He could feel Xiao Zhan’s breathe ghosting his forehead when GeGe leaned only a few inches away from his face and spoke softly:
“While washing my face I had a sudden revelation.
It’s the first time in my life that I missed the midnight between the old and the new year. It never happened, not even when I was a little boy. And also, it was the first time in my life to not receive or wish a happy new year greeting at midnight.
I remember that I told YaoYao to tell the family to not bother calling us, because our phone batteries might be dead.
Anyways, I want to recover my missed midnight moment, or else the whole year will be as unfulfilled as its unfulfilled start. We will skip the champagne, if you don’t mind.
I wish you a Happy New Year, Wang Yibo! And may all your wishes come true, be happy forever! Happy New Year Gouzaizai!”

“Actually I wished you a happy new year at midnight, while you were asleep.
But I don’t mind doing it again!
I wish you a very Happy New Year, Xiao Zhan GeGe! And I wish you lots of happiness not only this year, but for your whole life! Happy New Zhan Ge!”

“I think that you were right saying that we should skip the champagne. We will have an ugly hangover for longer than one day for sure, we don’t have to make it even worse just for the sake of tradition. You don’t want a headache just for a glass of champagne, doesn’t worth it!”, Yibo smiled, reaching out a hand to plaster it onto Xiao Zhan’s forehead to make his point.

“Agree with you. But I was thinking about something else when talking about tradition, not about champagne.
When people are wishing each other a happy new year, they usually kiss each other, didn’t you know?”

“Oh.”, it was all that Yibo could utter, while Xiao Zhan’s face was coming closer and closer to his.

“But…but…Isn’t this like we would be cheating on MianMian?”, Yibo tried to escape.

“No, kissing at the new year midnight it’s not cheating. Everyone is kissing at that moment. I always kiss people I care about, I kiss MianMian, or Guang Yao, or NaiNai, or even my working colleagues when wishing them a happy new year.
Besides, we are still drunk and we will forget everything by tomorrow, even that we kissed.
On top of that it will be an upside down kiss that shouldn’t count as a real kiss.
Now, be silent and let me kiss you. Happy New Year Perrito! “, Xiao Zhan closed his argument like a skillful advocate.

Yibo read on Xiao Zhan’s lips’ slight motion a “Forgive me, MeiMei.”, before his eyes fluttered closed.

Xiao Zhan bent more and brushed lightly his lips against Yibo’s cheek, sending shivers through his whole being even though it was just a light touch.
“If you want me to stop, tell me now.”, he whispered.

When Yibo said nothing, he traced the line of his cheekbone.
“Or now.” He brushed his mouth along his jawline.
“Or now.” His lips were pressed against Yibo’s.
“Or…”

But Xiao Zhan couldn’t finish the sentence, as Yibo had reached up and pushed his nape down to him, and the rest of his words were lost against his mouth.

He was kissed gently, carefully, but it wasn’t gentleness Yibo wanted.
Yibo’s fingers gripped Xiao Zhan’s hair and pulled him down, so as their lips to get pressed harder against each other, murmuring in the kiss “I am sorry”.

Xiao Zhan groaned low in his throat, and slipped his tongue in Yibo’s sweet mouth, gently but demanding.

Yibo sucked it with ardor, pushing his own tongue against it like in a tongues wrestling match.
Slurping, sucking, licking, biting…Teeth were biting lips, tongues were coiling around each other, saliva was smearing the corners of their mouths…
It was his first true making out in his life.
His veins were throbbing and his heart was close to exploding, he never experienced such intense sensations, not even close to these.

Neither of them was able to limit themselves to the planned simple happy new year greeting kiss.
They didn’t care about anything at those moments, it was like they were living in an alternative dimension where only the two of them existed.

“Hello? Where are you guys?”, an unreal voice pulled them down in the real dimension of their real life.

“Yao Yao! Is it you?!
We are here in the owner’s office!”, Xiao Zhan was the first to come into his senses.
He quickly wiped his lips and Yibo’s lips with the back of his palm like wiping some kind of an engraved obvious evidence of what they did.

“Hi, guys, happy new year! Did I wake you up, what were you doing?”, Guang Yao greeted them cheerfully.

“We were sleeping, of course, what could have been doing in the middle of the night?
I thought you were coming in the morning. Why did you ruin your new year party to come get us?”, Xiao Zhan asked, struggling to hide his annoyance, while Yibo was getting dressed in silence.

“Hurry up, ZhanZhan, get dressed, you, too!
First of all, it’s not the middle of the night, it’s past five in the morning.
And secondly, you’re not gonna believe what news I bring to you!
ZhanZhan and BoBo, listen to this!
MianMian woke up!”, Guang Yao shouted.

“What?”, both Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo shouted at the same time.

“Yes, yes, Mama got a call from the hospital, around 4 AM, that she is conscious.
The others are already there, even though they told us to come only after 7 AM.
I had to bring my girlfriend at her home first, then I quickly came here to get you, too.”, Guang Yao excitedly explained.
“And before you’d ask me, yes, Cheng Xiao accepted to date me.”

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At the time GuangYao, Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo had finally arrived at the hospital, the whole family was already gathered in MianMian’s ward, waiting for her to wake up, as she fell asleep after getting the medication.

The doctor asked them to stand a few steps away from the patient’s bed, so as to not distress her.
He told them that the patient got conscious early in the morning, she was able to eat something by herself, and drink water from a glass without any help.
“But, at the same time, it’s not yet clear if there would be side effects at least for a while, like for example some intense headaches or even a temporary memory loss, called a temporary amnesia.
Thus, please don’t get upset if she might not recognize you”, the doctor explained.

They all waited in silence, until MianMian started to show signs that she was waking up, refraining themselves from any reaction at all, when she finally opened her eyes and looked directly at them.

“Oh, hello! I missed you! I love you, all!”, she spoke in a hoarse voice, but pretty clear considering that she didn’t use her voice for such a long time.

As soon as they got the doctor’s silent approval, they greeted her back , all at the same time, with an enthusiastic “Hello, we missed you, too. We love you, too, very much!”

After the nurse raised the upper half of the bed for the patient to sit like in an armchair, MianMian started to greet each family member at a time, giving a big satisfaction, not only to her beloved ones, but to the doctor, as well, with each member she was recognizing.

“Hello Mama,

Hi Baba,

Love you NaiNai, how are you feeling today?

Hi YaoYao Ge,

Oh, when did you come from Spain?

Welcome Ba and Ma!

And look at those two cute little dolls, hello babies Lulu and Ah-Yuan!

Oh, I missed you so much, my beloved ZhanZhan GeGe, I’m sorry for giving you hard times with the accident and all…

Hello…hmm? Who are you?

Oh, you’re here, too, LingLing? Hello, sweetheart…Did you bring a friend with you?”

The family reacted by crying out “Temporary Amnesia!”.
Except three people from the room.
One was Wang Yibo, of course, who didn’t know how to react but to just smile like an idiot while trying to hide behind Zhan Ge, even though it was too late for that.
The second one was LingLing who added MianMian’s strange question to the string of suspicions and questions without answers he had before.
And the last one was Xiao Zhan, who asked the doctor: “Is it possible for a patient with a temporary amnesia to forget only about one person?”

“Yes, it’s possible. It’s a selective memory. But she will recover slowly, nothing to worry about. It’s great, almost a miracle that she remembers the rest of you, all!”, the doctor explained, then he pulled Yibo out of the group and dragged him to the patient’s bed.

“Hello, dear, welcome back!
Let me introduce myself, I am Chao Da-Fu, the doctor who took care of you from the beginning.
I was informed that a psychiatrist explained to you how you got in this state, I will not repeat what he explained to you.
Anyways, no need to get scared or worried if you don’t remember some things or even some people. Everything will slowly come back to you.
Now, tell me please, do you not remember this person at all? Maybe his name or… “, the doctor asked MianMian, propping his hands on Yibo’s shoulders.

Yibo raised a hand and murmured a weak “Hi”, while keeping smiling with that idiotic smile from before.

“I’m sorry, I have no idea who he is…but looking better, he looks slightly familiar…I am sorry, doctor, I’m sorry, mister, whomever you are.”, MianMian sighed with guilt written all over her face.

“You don’t understand! I must tell you, all, that…, but I’m not sure if it would be the right decision! Not right now, in this situation!”, Yibo said in a weak voice.

“YiBo, please don’t! Everything will get settled, but later, not now! Please!
He is just upset!”, GuangYao tried to explain, somehow, his friend’s strange words.

The doctor caressed MianMian’s hand connected to the perfusion and spoke in a comforting tone:
“Oh, no, no, dear! No need to apologize, you are not wrong with anything.
And you, mister Wang Yibo, no need to get upset, actually it’s a very optimistic signal that you look familiar to her!
She will remember you. Soon! I promise you!”

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