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“Hey, do you ever think that maybe someday we won’t get to see each other that much?” Xingqiu suddenly said, “We will be bound to our duties.”
It was afternoon and they were walking around the Liyue harbor.
“I don’t think so,” Chongyun simply replied “We’ve always found a way to spend some time.”
“I know, but,” His friend stresses “What if?”
“I don’t know,” He shrugs. “Why think about it when it will happen in a couple of years?”
Xingqiu sighs “Time flies pretty fast,”
“I suppose,” Chongyun stopped walking and sat on a bench. Xingqiu did the same thing “I’m bored.”
“You’re always bored,” His friend brought out a book “but lucky you as usual I bought a book and you’ll be reading it out for me.”
“But I already did the last time!” He exclaims “it’s your turn.”
Xingqiu just looked at him blankly like he was speaking an alien language.
“Didn’t you say we would be taking turns in reading out a book?” Chongyun raised the question, “We even did a handshake.”
“I don’t remember such a thing,” Xingqiu just shrugged “Anyways, go on read before the night approaches.”
-
“The end.” He announces “Now, I’m hungry.”
“Me too,” Xingqiu says “I’ll treat you to some food.”
“No spicy food,” He reminds Xingqiu “I don’t want to burn my mouth again.”
“I promise I won’t feed you some spicy stuff again,” Xingqiu grins “So, I recently learned that Xiangling whipped something new for this month. I think we should try it.”
“Anything without juyuen chili is good,” Chongyun mumbles.
“Shall we?” Xingqiu says “I wouldn’t want you to pass out in the middle of the harbor.”
He made a face “I am not that hungry,”
“Anything is possible with you,” His friend teased laughing softly then held his hand “come on.”
“You dare hold my hand,” Chongyun huffs “after teasing me.”
“Is it such a problem?” Xingqiu just grins “I could just-“
“Hm, no. Not at all.” He cuts him off
“If you say so,” He laughs again “you can be so silly sometimes.”
“I am not,”
“You are.”
“No, I am not.”
“No you are,” Xingqiu intertwined their fingers. “You being silly makes you cute.”
Chongyun felt his cheeks reddened at the comment. He cleared his throat but was dragged by Xingqui towards Wanmin Restaurant which was crowded.
“You made us late,” Xingqiu says “but it will be okay if you promise to go to Inazuma with me next week.”
“Inazuma?” He questions “Isn’t the Shogun quite scary there?”
“From what I’ve heard she’s intimidating but after the Sakoku decree she’s a little more laid back and friendly to her people,” Xingqiu hums, squeezing his hand “Besides, yun I’ve heard they have tons of ghosts there.”
His face lit up “Really?”
“Beidou told me about it,” Xingqiu said “But I’ve forgotten which island it was.”
“I’m going then,” Chongyun immediately says “I’ll inform my father about it.”
“Great,” He smiled and leaned in closer to his face.
Chongyun held his breath quite confused on what to do. “W- are you- do you- what are you doing?”
“Mhm,” Xingqiu just chuckles and looks away “I was just checking something.”
“From my face?” Chongyun coughs “Do I have dirt on it?”
“Nope,” He shakes his head, still not looking at him. “Oh look there’s Xiangling!”
-
“Sooo, what do you think about the new dish?” Xiangling asks them excitedly
“It’s perfectly balanced,” Chongyun says with a satisfied smile “better than the spicy slime stuff you gave us a month ago.”
“It was not even that spicy,” Xingqiu rolled his eyes which made Xiangling laugh at them.
“Alright, I’m taking some notes,” She says “So tell me what ingredients should I use for next month?”
“How about some Inazuman ingredients?” Xingqiu says “Since, yun-yun and I are going to Inazuma next week we can get you some ingredients.”
“Great idea!” Her eyes lighten up with excitement “Brilliant as always, I guess I have to research what ingredients I’ll ask of you to bring.”
“Yep,” His friends agreed. “Also, we will be heading out.”
“Yeah, It’s getting a little hot in here.” Chongyun comments
“Okay, bye bye,” Xiangling waves goodbye as they walk out from the restaurant.
“I wonder what unique ideas she will come up with,” He wonders “Also, it’s almost your curfew should I walk you home?”
“You walking me home?” Xingqiu laughs “I’m the one who should walk you home.”
“Well, you’ve been doing so for the past years,” He shrugs “I wanted to return the favor.”
Xingqiu sighs and mumbled something under his breath.
After a minute he said “Fine,”
So he walked him towards his house which was a ten minute walk. They were silent the whole time until Xingqiu started to hum some soft tunes while they were walking.
“I have an important question to ask you,” Chongyun cleared his throat and his friend stopped walking to face him.
“Yes?”
“Well, I was wondering-“ He says but was cut off by Xingqiu placing both of his hands on his shoulders.
“If I agree that I will go out with you?” Xingqiu excitedly said “because yes I will.”
“W-wait huh?” Chongyun blushes “wait you like me?”
“I thought it was obvious?” Xingqiu looked at him, confused. “But it's not important that now you’ve finally asked me.”
“Y-yes,” Chongyun chuckles, though that was certainly not his question.
Xingqiu just laughs “This is a brilliant plan, I never thought you’d think of this. Asking me out while walking under the beautiful liyuen skies.”
“I never thought so too,” Chongyun softly smiles “But I’m glad.. it happened.”
“I knew being a writer was a good idea,” Xingqiu says “I could predict some stuff for instance should this be the part where you’re going to kiss me?”
Chongyun felt his cheeks flushed for the nth time while Xingqiu just stood there perfectly content with a light blush on his cheeks and waiting for him.
“Let me walk you home first,” Chongyun breathes in, “I’ll give you a kiss, I promise.”
“You better hold onto that promise,”