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Wen Chao pulled out his phone and started playing a game when he sat down, sometimes looking up at Huaisang. One of the times he looked up he caught Huaisang glancing at him, which made his face turn red.

After Huaisang was caught looking he quickly turned away and finished making the tea. He placed the biscuits on the table and a cup of tea in front of Wen Chao and himself.

Wen Chao looked at Huaisang and smiled at him then picked up the tea, blowing on it before taking a sip.

"How would you like to start?" Huaisang asked Wen Chao. 

He fiddled with the handle of his cup unsure of exactly how to start a conversation.

"Eh- I'm not exactly sure, to be honest," He let out an awkward chuckle and looked away.

Huaisang smiled at Wen Chao.

"It'll take time to get into the flow of things. How about we start by getting to know each other better?"

"Alright..sounds good to me," He smiled and paused for a few moments before speaking again.

 "So what do you like to do for fun?"

"Well my work is my passion so I really just finish any costumes or outfits that haven't been done or I go out with a few friends to a club or something," Huaisang answered. 

"What about you? What does mister bad boy do in his free time?" He gave a teasing smile in an attempt to fluster Wen Chao.

Wen Chao listened to Huaisang as he spoke, then suddenly let out a laugh when he was called 'mister bad boy'. He thought about it for a second before answering.

"Well, I can't say I get much free time but when I do, I normally just do some things around my house or I'll go out to drink but... I am trying to stop as you know,"

Huaisang blushed and shyly looked down when Wen Chao laughed, his plan to fluster the man backfired and ended up being the one who got flustered. 

"Yes yes, hmm...how would you describe yourself?" Huaisang asked in an attempt to calm himself down.

Wen Chao held back a chuckle when he noticed Huaisang's face turn red.

"I'd like to say I'm pretty laid back, there's nothing really much to me, I'm pretty boring in my opinion. What about you, how would you describe yourself?"

Huaisang could see the amusement in Wen Chao's eyes and attempted to look further as if to find some hidden truth. When Wen Chao turned the question back on Huaisang, he blanked and forgot everything he was going to say. 

"Um-uh-what..what were we talking about again?" Huaisang realised what he had said and covered his face in embarrassment and whined.

"I'm so sorry, I forgot what I was going to say," Huaisang's lips fixed into a pout.

"Pfft~ how would you describe yourself?" He tried not to laugh so Huaisang wouldn't get even more embarrassed.

"Uh-right..um, I think carefree and as da-ge likes to say 'in the clouds'. I guess I'm caring, oh and brother Wei likes to say I'm 'baby' whenever A-Cheng gets angry at me." Huaisang put his finger to his chin trying to put himself into words.

Wen Chao gulped slightly from the names Huaisang had mentioned.

"Oh- you're friends with Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng then?"

"Ah yeah, I went to school with them. They were always getting into trouble and causing a ruckus! hahaha." Huaisang was lost in the memories of his school days to register the way Wen Chao said their names.

Wen Chao couldn't help but smile when he saw the look on Huaisang's face as he spoke about the two.

"It's good that you have friends like that, that you're close to."

"Hmm? yeah, I guess, sometimes they can get on your nerves though," Huaisang grinned at Wen Chao. 

"how about you? any close friends?"

"I mean..they did egg my house a few weeks ago, so you could say that-" He cleared his throat before speaking again.

"Not really, I mean, I'm sort of close to Mingjue and I was close to this one girl before I broke off our engagement.." He said the last part a bit awkwardly.

Huaisang looked at Wen Chao with a glint in his eye.

"What did she do? cheat? steal?" Huaisang was so gossip-hungry he was leaning halfway across the table just to hear Wen Chao tell his tale. 

Totally forgetting the rest of what Wen Chao said as soon as he heard the words 'broke off engagement'.

He took a deep breath and hesitated slightly before answering.

"Nothing like that...I just realized that I don't have romantic feelings towards females..." Wen Chao felt extremely uncomfortable and anxious talking about it because he had only told Mingjue about it, as far as everyone else knew he was straight.

"Oh...oh, don't worry, seriously, I mean it's better realising that before marrying her and having her get her hopes up about everything." Inside Huaisang's head, he was celebrating. 

Finding other men that are interested in men near you is tough, even in today's day and age.

"Yeah...I'm glad I realized before that. Though I'm still questioning my sexuality. See..I've spent practically my whole life trying to tell myself that I'm straight. I've found men attractive before but I've never had feelings for one. I guess that's because I've never been close to many people before. I just know I don't like females so either I'm asexual or..gay," He struggled to say the last part and looked away uncomfortably.

Huaisang felt a slight pang in his chest, listening to Wen Chao struggle to say that he could possibly be gay. Huaisang never had trouble figuring out who he was and never stopped to think about how hard it might be for others, call him clueless. 

"Well...I'm here to talk and help you with anything you need, be from alcoholism too, well, sexualities. I'm here." Huaisang tried his best to put on his brightest smile for Wen Chao.

Wen Chao looked back at Huaisang and smiled slightly, he had never had anyone actually try to be there for him before so it felt good. 

"Thank you..and I'm sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable with any of this information, I don't really ever tell people about it.."

Huaisang's smile softened.

"Don't worry I understand more than others. Anyway, do you want to play Mario Kart?"

Looking at Huaisang's smile and hearing his words he could feel his heart beating faster and butterflies in his stomach..something which he had never felt before. He couldn't explain it but just being with Huaisang made him feel better about the whole thing. 

"Yeah sure, I suck though" Wen Chao laughed and Huaisang let out a laugh too. 

"Well, prepare to get your ass kicked!" Huaisang winked at Wen Chao and then darted for the back of the couch rolling over it into a seated position, turning on the TV.

Wen Chao blushed when Huaisang winked at him. 

"Maybe I'll get lucky and beat you!" He let out a light chuckle and sat down on the couch next to Huaisang.

"Maybe." Huaisang teasingly smiled and side nudged Wen Chao.

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