You Won’t Understand Me - Chapter 101

He returned the gift to the receiver.

“Just open it without uttering one more word,” he warned and Yul obliged. He did not try guessing any further and unwrapped the covering. A velvet-covered box was inside. Yul opened it slowly.

It was a lion head necklace.

The silver centre head sporting a face of the beast had a mane around it. A small hook at the top had a chain pulled through it.

Zeng had taken an hour to choose it from the extensive varieties of jewellery in the shop because gifting zodiac sign animal heads was a thing these days.

Yul didn’t blink as he looked at the locket, his eyes practically sparkling as the silver reflected in them. He picked up the pendant and graced his thumb over it.

“I was thinking of choosing a puppy or piggy because it resembled you more,” Zeng teased, coming closer to take another look at it and poked Yul’s cheek.

“Then why choose lion?” Yul asked at a loss of words.

“Because you are a Leo.”

“But you don’t believe in zodiacs.”

“But you do,” the doctor said and took it from his boyfriend’s hand. “You are the lion. This chain is me.” He helped him wear it and latched the lock at the back.

“Sorry, it’s not a couple necklace. Because the metal really irritates my skin and I get rashes, you know how it is,” he tacked on, “But think of it as a two in one couple necklace. As has both of us in it and so I want you to wear it for both of us. Okay?”

“Of course,” Yul nodded, “Fuck, of course, I will.”

He hugged Zeng tightly and Zeng let him get away with the curse word, partly because couldn’t breathe but he smiled anyway.

“Oh my god. Thank you, Zeng ge.” He said after letting go and admiring the new piece of jewellery on his neck. He liked it, it felt powerful. Then he remembered something.

“Wait, was this why you said my neck would look nice with something on it?” He asked, remembering the strange words he was told a few days ago.

“Yes!” Zeng exclaimed, rolling his eyes, “But your perverted mind thought it was something else.”

“The offer still stands though,” Yul said, smugly and even winked to add effect, “I like you being kinky.”

“Pervert!” Zeng jabbed an elbow in his ribs and pushed him away to hide his face that had flushed till his ears.

Yul followed him to the room, face full of mischievous smiles.

“Aww, come on. You know you like it too.” Yul teased from behind.

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With the new gift in check, Yul showed off his locket every chance we got.

While brushing his teeth, he would smile like a fool playing with his pendant.

During getting ready for work, he would stare at himself in the mirror, adding more to his narcissism.

During breakfast, his one hand would always be threading on the chain.

During cuddling, walking, talking, posting pictures on social media and everything else, the man made sure that the locket was visible loud and clear as a statement.

Zeng would give him a fed-up look. It was not even diamond or platinum to show off. Plain simple silver. He had even said it to the grinning fool but to no avail, Yul loved the necklace and he wanted the world to know about it.

Even now as they were watching a movie at home on their weekend movie night.

Zeng rolled his eyes whenever the show off began like now when Yul had purposefully kept the necklace over his shirt and twirled it whenever his other hand felt empty since one was wrapped around Zeng.

Though he feigned irritation but Zeng would have to admit that it looked hot whenever Yul came out of the shower with nothing on except the necklace or when he was on top of him in a domineering way during sex, the necklace would dangle from his neck and move along with every thrust he made.

What was he thinking! Zeng shook his head. Such inappropriate thoughts right when Yul was sitting right beside him! He had been calling Yul a pervert but who was the pervert now?

“What happened, Zeng ge?” Yul asked, worried. “Your face is red.”

“Huh?” Zeng touched his face and sure enough, his cheeks felt hot under his fingers. Yul’s worried expression morphed into a mischievous smirk when his eyes travelled down.

“And your pants are tight.”

“What?” Zeng looked down and sure enough, he was sporting a boner in the middle of nowhere.

Oh hell no! This was not happening!

He had to think of something. A grown man sporting a boner in the middle of a rom-com movie which had absolutely nil hot scenes but instead, he had a hot boyfriend sitting beside him, what excuses could come up given the situation?

None.

His mind had short-circuited.

“I need to pee,” Zeng got up abruptly and had plans to go to the washroom, break its window, run away to the airport and fly off to another country so that he didn’t have to face Yul after the embarrassing situation.

But before he could even take a step, Yul had caught him by the waist and slammed him on the couch. A gasp didn’t even leave Zeng’s mouth when Yul hovered on top of him, the pendant hanging from his neck. Zeng looked at the piece of jewellery and then at him, who was staring at him with a hungry gaze.

“What were you thinking about, Zeng ge? What made you hard?”

“I- …” Zeng choked on his breath. He did not trust his mouth to give a coherent speech or he would end up saying something that would make him want to die in embarrassment. So he just shut his mouth and turned his head away to look at something else, anything that was not all hot and bothered and hovering out of him.

Yul held his jaw and turned it so that Zeng was now looking at him and only him.. “Where are you thinking about me?” He asked in a deep baritone voice that sent shivers down Zeng’s spine and at this point, Zeng knew there was no way out for him.