You Won’t Understand Me - Chapter 112

“You are kidding.” There was no way that was true.

“I am not. I won’t lie to you and you know that,” Yul said, firm on his beliefs. “You don’t believe me?”

Zeng shrugged, “Well what can I say? Stars are just humongous balls of gases and come into existence spontaneously.” It was his way of saying that no, he did not believe in Yul’s theory.

Yul shook his head as he looked up at the starry sky. “I knew it, you won’t believe me. But I believe it… I will become a star too someday; a shiny, bright one.”

Zeng hurriedly covered his boyfriend’s mouth with his palm. “Shh. Don’t say stuff like that!” He had an anxious look on his face.

Yul took that soft palm down to speak, “Didn’t you say you don’t believe in it?”

“But still,” Zeng insisted, “Don’t say things like that. I don’t like it.” He was sulking. That had really upseted him.

“Okay,” the officer said, pressing Zeng’s hand to his lips.

“It’s surprising though.” He added.

“What?” Zeng tilted his head.

“You are a complex person, Zeng ge,” Yul explained, “You have answers for everything. There are many things you don’t know about but you still keep searching for the answers. You think like a science maniac, almost like a robot but you care deeply about others, even more than me. You are sensitive when it comes to others.”

Zeng knitted his eyebrows, “Are you praising me or dissing me? I can’t tell.”

Yul laughed and kissed him on the cheek, “I am just saying, okay!” He huddled together with his boyfriend. “Tell me, Zeng ge. What do you think when you see the stars?”

“I still think the same as always,” Zeng sighed, then smiled looking at Yul, “But throughout the years, a few things have added to it.”

“Like?”

“Like…” Zeng began.

“The universe is so vast. There may be multiple universes that we don’t even know of. In this universe, we have billions of galaxies. All the galaxies have billions of planets and stars. Among these planets, we have our earth. There are billions of people on this earth. Out of all these billions of people… I met you.”

He looked into Yul’s eyes, ‘And I fell in love with you.”

His heart raced with his own words. He was sure Yul was no different by the way Yul was looking at him.

“How and why it happened, I don’t have an answer for this. Maybe I never will… and I think I will be fine without the answer. As long as you are here with me, I am fine, Yul. I don’t need anything else.”

Yul looked at the stars reflected in Zeng’s eyes. It was the luck of the universe that they came to know each other, met each other and fell in with each other. He always knew from the moment his eyes fell on Zeng that he wanted to spend his entire life with this person. It had hit him like a bulldozer that this was the moment and he would be damned if he didn’t say it now.

His heart carried the weight of the question and the beats hastened.

“Zeng ge.”

He said softly.

“Will you-”

He wanted to scream in distress as a ringtone hummed and Yul almost swore under his breath. Mobile phones were such cruel devices.

He was going to ask the most important question of his life when it had to be interrupted by a phone call. It was Zeng’s.

Yul wanted to get up this instant, grab the said phone, run to the edge of the terrace and flung it away with all his might so that the damned device would reach another planet and never interrupt him ever again.

And oh, look who it was.

“It’s Yuan!” Zeng chirped.

Yul would have addressed him as brother-in-law if he had got to propose to Zeng and marry him, which wouldn’t be possible since that guy was cockblocking Yul from hundreds of kilometres away.

Just like the loving brother Zeng was, he immediately got on the phone and was engrossed in a conversation.

Yul cried on the inside as he looked up at the sky. A perfect opportunity got wasted.

Proposing under a sky full of stars would have been such a romantic thing to do. He would have proudly told their children, if they had any in the future, that he had proposed to their father for marriage under the stars.

All that had been destroyed because of Zeng’s brother. He was even suspicious if it was on purpose because to keep it simple, Yul and Yuan were not the greatest of friends.

“You are coming next week? Oh, that’s great!” Zeng was super happy.

Not great actually.

It was not like Yuan was a bad person. He was Zeng’s brother, there was no way he could be bad but he was particularly evil when it came to Yul.

“I have your room prepared. Come soon.” The call ended and Zeng kept smiling at the phone.

“I am so happy, Yul. We are meeting after such a long time.”

“Hmm,” Yul could only hum. It was not like he had any brothers or sisters whom he could miss for not seeing for so long. The closest thing to a brother he had was Subin, a super annoying, super irritating older brother, who behaved even more immaturely than him most of the time. Even that didn’t make him miss Subin because he would often video call him and blast him with surprise visits.

“Yuan is coming, isn’t that great?” Zeng asked brightly. Yul gave a thin-lipped smile. “Yup, that’s great.”

“And what were you saying?” Zeng asked, keeping the phone away.

“What?”

“Before the phone call interrupted us, you were saying something.”

“Oh,” It was not like Yul could pop up the question now that the mood was ruined, “It’s nothing.”

Zeng was not fully convinced. “Sure?”

“Yeah. I was just going to tell you about the stars.” Yul managed to divert his boyfriend’s attention. “I found a new constellation.”

“Really? Where?” Zeng looked up and he resumed his place with Yul as the body pillow.

They spent the rest of the night watching stars and goofing around with stories and random things.

When they finally fell asleep bundled in the sheets in each other’s embrace, two stars appeared on the right of Leo.