“Let's see what you can do then.”
Later after their third match, Yuan just walked out and went to the locker area.
He forgot to check the temperature and he lost some body heat. Damn that Riel, he has lots of stamina. I have a stronger body resistance of course but in this kind of cold temperature, it makes me sick. I am feeling cold, that my eyes get dry and I lost my balance and felt my body drop on the cold tiled floor.
“Master Yuan! Hey –no, wake up! Wake up, Yuan don’t scare me!” He lost some body heat, I need to do something.
“This makes you feel better, just don’t punch me when you wake up.” Riel held Yuan’s body and let him sit and rest his back on Riel’s bare chest and hug him from the back. He brushed the towel on Yuan’s hair and cupped his head to see if the temperature’s back to normal. After almost an hour he felt Yuan slowly rest his back and head on his and their eyes met and slowly felt Yuan’s breath on his face.
It’s just an inch and they going to kiss each other’s lips.
Riel’s got his life back to reality when someone saw them in the locker area.
“I’m going to bring him home. Thank you for taking care of Young Master. Master Riel.” Riel looked down and nodded his head.
“Do you want me to help you?”
“No, I’ll take care of everything from here.” Art covered Yuan with a large towel and carried him like a sack of rice on his shoulder.
Riel knows what to do is to keep his image low and stay away from the clan of Kagashi but he just can’t.
He needs to decide whether to stay or to leave Yuan alone.
*
At the Kagashi mansion, Art laid his Master on his bed. Yuan is unconscious, Art opens the heater and leaves.
The next day, Art prepared the meal for his Young master, after what happened yesterday at the pool locker Yuan didn’t wake up until now. With messy hair, he sat down on the chair, looked at the food in front of him and drank the whole soup, then placed the bowl with a loud thud.
“What? What are you looking at?”
“Ahm, you know that soup is for me, it has ginger on it.”
“Yeah… so?” Art's face palmed. He is still unconscious I guess because if not Master will never sip even a bit just the smell of the ginger makes him dizzy.
“Never mind. Do you mind hurrying up? You have to attend the swimming competition later.”
“Right.”
“And yeah… Riel the new member of your team got you this.”
“Riel who? What is this a Siopao?” (It’s a white bun with meat filling.)
“Yeah. Just eat it and leave.”
“So rude for a butler huh?”
“I just want to be a responsible Butler. Anyways how are you feeling?” Art is just checking if he has any recollection of yesterday’s thing.
“Hmm, I feel good and recharged, why asking? Is there anything I need to know?” he looked at him clueless again.
“Nuh, I’m just checking if you do not feel good because today, you need to be ready and slay them to get the trophy, again.” He just needs to breathe normally because this white snake of his Master can feel the uneasiness of its prey.
“You too be ready to arrange the after party, I need that!”
“You just need those bodies, not the actual party itself.”
“You know me too well.”
“Ah Shut it and just go!”
“Alright. Bye, butler!”
*
As expected, he won the 2020 Swimming Competition. So, Art is obligated to host an after-party and invite all the swimming team members even the newcomer, Riel.
Everyone was having a good time but not Riel who was just sitting beside the lampshade of the rented restaurant. He is preoccupied with what he is thinking right now.
“Hi! Your Riel is the newcomer to the swimming team, right? I am Stell the right hand of Captain Yuan. You seem alone here can I join you?” Riel was about to say Yes but his heart clenched tighter and the ring on his left index finger reacted like it was melting the skin with burning iron.
“Ah…” He looks like he can’t breathe. “Hey Riel are you okay?” Stell tries to hold his hand but as it is near his skin the burning feeling makes him suffocate. That is why he pushed the guy away and made Stell fall on the table causing a loud crash of bottles of beer.
Riel wants to say sorry but he is not sorry at all as the feeling goes strong and it leaves him to decide to run away.
Yuan on the other hand was sitting around with the hot girls, after competing he lost some of his body heat and again he needed other body heat just to save his life. The girl where lingering and kissing his neck. He was about to kiss the girl next to him when he heard Stell’s voice.
“Hey!”
“What’s happening, Stell? You okay?” Yuan curiously asked
“Ugh! Damn that new boy he pushed me as if he was disgusted.”
“Why would he do that? Did you do something to him?” Art asked.
“No, I am just asking if I could join him, I just saw him sitting alone there and when he is acting weird I just got worried so I tried to ask him but then he pushed me and ran away.”
Yuan laughed “You scared the boy, man.”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
“Let’s go back, night will just get started.”
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