8. Finally to the beach

When I woke up this morning, I was immediately totally excited. And, I had a new message from Zhan. He wrote, "We're leaving this afternoon, and are you excited?" Of course, I immediately texted back that I couldn't wait.

I ran to the bathroom, showered, got dressed, ran downstairs and ate breakfast with my mom, and then dashed to the bus stop. I had massive amounts of time, but I just couldn't help but run. As if that could make the afternoon come faster.

Today, I wasn't even bothered by the overcrowded bus. Well, this time there were no passengers who smelled strange, scratched pimples or drooled all over my shirt. But next to me sat a teenager who was exchanging voice messages with his girlfriend. He didn't even mind that I could hear everything.

I was amazed at how far many at that age already are. He may have only been 15 or 16, but he was talking about things like getting condoms and the anti baby pill. When I look at myself, I'm 20 years old, I'm going to college and I haven't even had my first kiss yet, then, yeah, I feel a little weird.

But at the same time I think to myself, I'm saving all this for a special person. Someone I really love from the bottom of my heart and who I'm sure this is really serious. So for my Zhan.

After our visit to the cinema, I thought a lot about Zhan and me and it became much clearer to me how important this week is. I really have to try everything in my power. Whereas in the cinema I had the feeling that Zhan was coming towards me. When he put his hand under mine and then let me hold his hand and he even intertwined our fingers together, I felt that Zhan might like me in some way. At least, I hope I wasn't just imagining it.

Suri wrote me that she was excited about her interview for the internship, but even more excited about our vacation. And she wrote me that I better not act like a fanboy of Zhan this week, but like a serious interested young man with a goal in mind.

I admit, it is not easy for me not to behave like a fanboy, because I have no experience with all these things. Add to that my excitement and the fact that I just love Zhan so much that I'm afraid of saying or doing anything wrong and scaring him off.

Yes, I want to please Zhan, But I don't know what he likes yet. And because of my lack of experience, my nervousness and my feelings for him, I act like a fanboy who can finally meet his idol.

Everyone tells me to just be myself. But every time I look at Zhan, I seem to have forgotten what I'm actually to be like. I hope that will change in the coming days. I want him to meet the real Wang Yibo. The 20 year old man who can sing, dance and ride a motorcycle. I want him to meet the man, not the young guy.

In the university the time seemed to not want to pass. Our professor talked and talked and the clock suddenly seemed to run much slower. Sometimes I really wanted to shout to him to stop annoying us with his boring theory about old paintings and finally send us to summer break.

During the lunch break, I watched Seungyoun. He seems to have more than an interest in Wooseok. Today Youn had already bought him breakfast and during the lunch break the two of them sat together at a table and talked animatedly. Youn had deliberately touched him on the hand or arm several times. I could even see Wooseok blushing over and over again. They look cute together.

I would be happy if they become something. But for Suri it would be a pity. After all, she is madly in love with Youn. It will surely hit her hard if they really become a couple. But you can't do anything against feelings, she will have to accept that.

But maybe she'll get over it easier than I think. After all, she is the biggest BL fan I know and when she sees them together, her BL fan heart will probably beat much faster. Maybe she can write a BL story about the two of them.

I also had to think about the fan fiction about Zhan and me. Suri doesn't want us to delete it because so much work and time went into it. And I don't really want it either. But, I hope it won't come up again next week. Even though I'm proud of this fan fiction, but I just don't know how to explain to Zhan why we wrote it. And then the content, especially the one Suri wrote. Very slippery stuff that even makes me blush just thinking about it.

On the way home, I was lucky again on the bus. Not only did I find a seat again, but I even had peace and quiet. No teenagers were to be seen far and wide.

When I got home, I ran upstairs, took a shower, it's really incredibly hot these last few days, put on some fresh clothes, dragged my suitcase downstairs, which of course my mom checked again, and ate some cold soup with my mom while I waited for Zhan and the others.

And like my dad, she reminded me to be myself and not to force or rush. "Be yourself my handsome son, don't do anything you don't want to do and take it easy. If something bothers you, don't just withdraw wordlessly and talk to them. And watch out for that Emma, I think she is unethical."

I promised all this to my mother and wondered what made her think that this Emma could be unethical when she, had only seen her once. Well, I guess motherly instinct.

Punctually at the appointed time, the doorbell rang. My heart immediately jumped as soon as it rang. I ran to the door and a grinning Zhan greeted me with a hug. He greeted my mom, we said goodbye to her after she wished us a good time, and then we were finally ready to go.

Suri screamed as soon as I got in the car, "BoBo finally it's time, we're going to the beach." Emma covered her ears in annoyance. Zhan shook his head laughing.

The drive took almost five and a half hours, during which the two girls slept while Zhan and I talked. That means, rather he talked and told me about his studies and some trips he took because of his work and will always remember him because of various things. It was really very interesting to listen to him.

After we finally reached our destination, a log cabin from which you only need to go out the back door to get to the beach, we were first a bit confused, because the house looked a little different than we saw it on the Internet at the site where we booked it.

And within the first five minutes of entering the house, we noticed something else. The internet said there were 4 bedrooms. But, there are not 4 bedrooms, there are only 2. In each bedroom there are 2 beds that can either be separate or together.

Immediately, Emma said that she will share a room with Zhan. But he immediately said that this was out of the question. Whereupon, however, Suri then said, "I want to share a room with my BoBo." And again Zhan said that this is out of the question.

"A man and a woman sharing a room unmarried? No way!" He said.

Suri and I looked at each other and laughed. "I guess with the two of us, you don't have to worry bro." Replied Suri, giggling.

"It stays that way. I'm the oldest one here, I decide. You two girls share a room and I share a room with Yibo." And I stood there, grinning like a little idiot at the thought of sharing a room with Zhan.

We quickly unpacked our things, pushed the beds apart in all the rooms, and then went down to the beach. Again, what was on the internet was not quite true. The area that is supposed to be a private beach is not fenced off or at least signposted as a private area. Nothing. But, I didn't care. I couldn't think of anything else anyway, other than being able to spend the next 7 days with Zhan, around the clock. Besides, I was ravenously hungry.

Since it's our first night at the beach house and we can't go shopping at this time either, we ordered something to eat from the delivery service. So Zhan ordered and it was all healthy food. Mhhh, I really had to look for the pieces of meat between the salad. I felt like a rabbit.

I nibbled on a tiny piece of chicken, Zhan looked at me questioningly and I explained, "So listen Zhan, I understand your health aware eating. But I'm a lion, I need meat, not rabbit food."

When Zhan grinned in response and I saw his cute bunny teeth, I almost laughed out loud when I thought about lions eating bunnies too. I don't even know why I found that funny at that moment, maybe it was because my cute bunny just had his food and I was imagining eating my bunny.

Around 11 pm we were all tired. I wouldn't have thought that on my first day at the beach, and then also with Zhan, I would be tired so early. But behind me is also a long day and at least I sleep in the same room as my Zhan.

We wished the girls a good night, then Zhan and I went to our room. He was sitting on his bed looking at some pictures he took in the last few months. When I asked him if I could look at them too, he suggested that I move my bed close to his and look at them with him.

They were pictures of landscapes, clouds with different shapes, animals, and actually anything Zhan thought was beautiful or interesting enough to capture in a photo.

While we were talking about these pictures, I was sitting more on Zhan's bed than on mine, again and again our shoulders were touching when he wanted to show me something on a picture that is not visible at first sight and a few times our hands were touching when he gave me a picture. And with every single touch, I felt this tingling inside me. It was incredible.

By the time we had looked at all the pictures and he had explained and told me everything, it had been almost 1 am. I pushed my bed back again and we went to sleep. I kept my eyes on Zhan until my eyes closed and I fell asleep with my heart pounding.