They'd walked home together the previous day. Talking about anything and everything.Jaesung was the most enthusiastic one, asking Yihai everything about his life in China. How his school was? Okay. Did he have a lot of friends? Only one. A girlfriend? A few but the one before he came to South Korea was the longest.Yihai also did find out that the other was a little bit older than him, with months. He had a part time job somewhere that closes late at night, tho he didn't specify. And he had a girlfriend at school.That last piece of information had Yihai feeling something he couldn't understand. It was like his heart dropped from the highest building in the world and fell onto the cold hard floor in a sad lump.Like earlier said, he didn't understand why he felt like that. But he did not like it.It didn't help that Jaesung promised to introduce him to her tomorrow at school.Yihai had shrugged in response.When they'd

Yihai had texted Chaffeur Moon that he would be out with Jaesung so he shouldn't bother waiting.On the way, Jaesung was unusually quiet and looking nervous, not chattering off Yihai's ears like he usually did. Yihai gave up on the sixth attempt to make him try to say more than two words.Their bus ride was silent, as they stood because it was full and Jaesung avoided his eyes, entertaining himself with ad boards they passed by."Is it something illegal?"Jaesung blinked and looked at Yihai before looking away and cracking a smile. "What do you mean?""Your part time job?"Jaesung chuckled nervously. "It might be in some people's terms... but it shouldn't be."Yihai narrowed his eyes at him.Suddenly the bus jerked as it drove over a bump and Jaesung lost balance and fell forward, holding Yihai's shoulders to balance himself, their faces inches away. Surprisingly, this didn't bother Yihai as much as Ren's did.

The next day, Yihai was holed up in his room, under a thick blanket as he stared blankly at the lights he dimmed to the lowest.The atmosphere was depressing. His curtains were drawn shut, enveloping the room in darkness if not for the dim lights. His aircon was practically at the lowest and the silence was deafening.Yihai blinked tiredly then sneezed. He must have slept twice in the span of three hours this morning. It was about afternoon now, he guessed since he was too lazy to reach out for his phone and check and it was too dark to see the clock.Yihai was almost sure he heard a cricket when a knock sounded on the door."I'm not hungry, go away!" He said as loudly as he could despite his headache. "And I took my drugs in the morning, don't bother me.""Ah...okay." Jaesung said on the other side of the door and Yihai, despite feeling like his head was about to tear apart, shot up straight."Jaesung! It's okay, you can come in

"Yihai, your phone is perfectly fine." Jaesung observed, staring at Yihai playing Shadow Fight2 on his phone. The latter blushed, caught in his own lie."Wow, that's surprising..." He trailed off stupidly while Jaesung smiled. "Okay, you caught me... I lied.""Why?" Jaesung asked, tilting his head a bit as the bus halted at a stop. Yihai had insisted they go on public transport instead of Chauffeur Moon taking them."I wanted to spend time with my friend, anything wrong with that?" Yihai asked and not waiting for an answer, he stood and started heading towards the door. Jaesung stayed for a second before following suit, speaking quietly to himself."No, there's nothing wrong with wanting to hang out with a friend." Jaesung smiled, a mix of sadness and happiness. "Get yourself together, Kim Jaesung."The duo trekked the short distance to the mall, in search of tissue papers. Jaesung filled in Yihai on his new plans for the squirrel hideout

There was an open field just a little distance away from Ren's house and only a few drunk kids were spotted before finally they all went away. Jaesung led Yihai down into the field while chattering to him about random things. Yihai listened."This place is somewhere Ren's uncle built with me, Ren, Jay and Yejun a few years back." Jaesung explained as trees started appearing and then eventually getting thicker. He whipped out his phone and out on the torchlight. Everywhere was eerily quiet with the low sound of music from Ren's house floating around.Soon they got to a tiny clearing and mounted on a huge tree was a huge, sturdy looking treehouse. Yihai gaped at it because he'd never seen a tree house before talk more of being in it."It's majestic, right?" Jaesung beamed with pride as he looked at Yihai then back at the treehouse. "Maybe this is what gave me the idea that I could build when actually, Ren's uncle had a big hand in it, we were just 14 year old helpers."Jaesung's laugh di