It's almost evening and the birthday party can start. We have prepared everything in the last few hours. Decorated the house a little and prepared various snacks. Outside it was raining all the time. Dark clouds that brought rain, storm and even thunderstorm passed over us again and again.

And somehow, well, I felt like this weather. Tired and unstable. The same question kept running through my mind when I thought about Zhan and me. And what's next?

Suri, who can also sense when I am thoughtful, took me to her room and asked me, "What's wrong with you, Yibo? You should be so happy right now. Why do you look like you feel like crying?"

"I don't know. Somehow I'm exhausted. I don't know. You know? All these years, all we've ever thought about is how to make Zhan fall in love with me. We've thought of so many ways, made plans. Especially about this week now. Oh God how much we talked about it and how much we searched for plans. And then everything came completely different. From now on, boom, just like that. Zhan had long been in love with me and everything we thought about and thought up was pointless. And all of a sudden I ask myself all the time, and now? What is coming now? We have only ever talked about how I can make him fall in love with me. And now that he is, and it's not my doing, how is it going to go on?"

"Oh God Yibo. Even though it wasn't you personally who made him fall in love with you, he is in love with you. He saw YOU and fell in love with you. And what comes next? Now you can finally do what you've always dreamed of. Be with him! Now you can be happy. You can love your dream man and be loved by him. That was your goal after all. Now you can finally do everything you've always dreamed of."

However, when the tears started to come, I realized one thing. I was completely overwhelmed by my own feelings. All this time, I kept telling myself to keep my hopes low, not to get too attached to the fact that it would really work out and Zhan would fall in love with me. And then it happened the way I always wanted it to. And my own feelings, completely threw me off track.

All the tension escaped from my body. All the fear that it wouldn't work out was gone, leaving me with a feeling that was absolutely overwhelming.

The tears dried, Suri and I hugged each other and then called my parents. My mom answered the phone and I was like, "Mom, guess who hasn't been single since last night?"

My mom responded, "No, right? Really? You two are really a couple? Oh my God, Yibo, I'm so happy for you." I heard her sobbing sound and she was really happy for me.

My dad picked up the phone and asked, "What took you so long? With a young man as handsome as you, he should have been around your neck that same night." We both laughed.

I told them how the evening was and what Zhan told me and my parents were totally touched. Especially because Zhan was already in love with me and had to keep it to himself because he wanted to go back to Beijing first so he and I could be together.

"I knew all along that my son had found the person meant for him and that's why he wasn't capable of falling in love with anyone else. Well done boy." Said my father proudly.

My father always proudly tells that at that time he saw my mother, immediately fell in love with her and knew that she was the one, the only one for him. He also never loved any other woman than my mother. And still today they are in love with each other. And I hope the same for Zhan and me. That many years from now, we too will be able to say that we are in love with each other.

After our phone call with my mother, Suri and I went back to the other two. Emma was standing outside talking on the phone and Zhan said, "I just called my parents and told them about us, I hope it's ok with you."

I laughed and said, "Mhm, sure, I just told my parents about us too."

And before we could say anything else, Emma came back in and said, "Well, guys, I just made a phone call and I'm telling you that I'm going to be picked up here tomorrow at noon. I will be returning home. That means the person will pick me up and take me to the nearest airport. I'm going back to the States for now. I think it's better that way because I don't want to spoil the rest of your vacation. Because I know, even though I know now that my best friend has fallen in love with his sister's best friend, I would still try to win Zhan over. Even if I know it's pointless."

None of us really knew what to say, so we just nodded and kept silent. I had thought that I should cheer loudly right away. But I actually felt sorry for her. She fell in love with Zhan and hoped for no idea how long that he would fall in love with her too. And then she has to watch him and I get together.

However, not wanting to let these gloomy thoughts spoil our evening, we started our party. We celebrated Suri's birthday to the fullest. Until Suri suddenly shouted out loud, "I have something to confess!"

Zhan turned off the music and we all stared at Suri. She laughed and then said, "I want to congratulate my best friend and big brother to their relationship. It took you guys long enough to finally become a couple. And I am so happy to see you here together, happy and in love. And I have a confession to make. I have met someone! His name is Lee, he and I have been a couple for two months now."

That was new even to me. "And what about Seungyoun?" I asked her confused.

"Oh please come on. Everyone can see that he's totally in love with Wooseok. Besides, he asked me for tips on how to approach him. Oh, and I got the internship. And, I will be going to New Zealand with Lee as part of my internship, for a whole 6 months."

I know this was Suri's dream, and even though I will miss her terribly, I am very happy for her. I hugged her and congratulated her. Until Zhan pulled me to him and said, "You're my boyfriend now, I don't like it when you hug others for so long, even if it's your best friend."

"Oho, not even 24 hours together and he's already possessive." Suri exclaimed laughing.

I wrapped Zhan in my arms, gave him a kiss, which Suri cheered, and told him he has no reason to be jealous, and Zhan grabbed my cheeks with both hands, gave me several little kisses, and said, "I know. And I'm very happy about it."

The party went on, it was neither particularly exciting nor boring. Emma retired around 11 pm and Suri disappeared just an hour later, because she was totally drunk. Zhan and I then cleaned up a bit and went upstairs to our room as well. We were anything but sober as well.

I decided to sleep without a sleepwear top. Because even though it was raining, storming and even thundering all day, the heat under the roof in our room was almost unbearable. Zhan also put on only a pair of shorts to sleep.

We lay next to each other in bed and talked about the events of today, where Zhan confessed to me to be relieved that Emma will leave and I agreed with him, because even if I felt kind of sorry for her, I was glad that she was leaving. We both couldn't believe that Suri had a boyfriend for two months already, I wonder how she could hide that. After all, she and I were together almost every day.

And then Zhan turned to me and grinned as he put his hand on my abs. "You like that huh?" I asked him as I saw the glance on his face.

"Mmm, I'm blown away by my handsome boyfriend and his body."

"That sounds very naughty."

"Really? That's your fault, Yibo. Because you're lying here half-naked next to me, so I can't think about anything else."

"Yeah, you better forget about that. I promised my parents we'd take it slow."

"Why?"

"Well, because it's better."

"Yeah, but why? Don't you think we've waited long enough?"

"Listen Zhan, if it were up to me, I would want to pounce on you right now and make love to you all night. Oh god yes, I really want to. But we both drank quite a lot and I don't want us to regret it later."

"I've had less to drink than you think. Besides, why would we regret that? Are you scared, maybe?"

"Sure I'm scared too. It's the first time for both of us, so our experiences are nonexistent. So sure, I'm afraid that I might hurt you."

"I'm not afraid Yibo. Because, even if we've only been together for a day, I trust you."

"Well, even if we wanted to, we don't even have anything here. Condoms for example."

"Mhhh, that's probably true. Maybe we should buy some later?"

"Are you in that much of a hurry Zhan?"

"You know Yibo, unlike you, I only waited a year. But in that one year, of course I've had my fantasies. And since we've been here, since I've been able to be close to you, I can't think of anything but us making love. Maybe it's because I'm six years older than you. But that's the way it is. Yes maybe it is, because of our relationship that has only existed for one day, too soon. But I've loved you for more than a day and wish we could do it."

"And you are really sure Zhan?"

"Yes, absolutely sure Yibo."

"Then we should go to a pharmacy later and get everything we need. And then if we still want to make love, nothing can stop us."

"All right. But I'm telling you right now, my mind isn't going to change."

I didn't really know what to say. To be honest, I have condoms here. But I don't think we should do it when we've had alcohol. We should be at it sober to really enjoy it properly. But it's also very hard for me right now not to just jump on him. Because it's not just me who' s half naked in bed!

And Zhan made it damn hard for me that night. We kissed each other, touched each other, and he even laid on top of me. He sat on top of me, took my hands and put them on his butt. I sat up, we kissed each other again, and every move Zhan made on my lap almost felt like we were already doing it. Our moans matched it pretty damn well.

He was moving up and down on me, circling his hips, and I'd be lying if I said we both weren't fucking aroused. I held onto his ass with both hands, pressing him against me while Zhan circled on top of me and finally, somehow, we managed to cum that way. Zhan and I fell back on the bed exhausted, he lay on top of me and fell asleep almost immediately while I thought, oh god another night like this without doing it properly, I can't take it. And then fell asleep as well.