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Aoi was rather distracted on the way home, his own thoughts feeling a bit complicated as he and Wang slowly made their way back to the apartment complex. Wang had made sure to keep his silence until enough time had passed, letting the younger male have enough time to process the matter at hand. "I'm happy it all worked out for you, at least you'll be able to start working on the actual project soon." Bai stated, wanting to see what Aoi was thinking.

Aoi, who had been out of it blinked a few times before glancing at Bai and straightening this thoughts. "Mn...but you can't help anymore." he stated feeling a bit depressed. Sure it would be better to have actually delegated personnel to deal with the things he had no talent in. But with Bai no longer on the project, how was he going to spend time with him?

His statement caused Bai to laugh as he reached over to ruffle the youth hair as he kept his gaze on the road. They would be arriving to the apartment soon, and he didn't want to miss the turn. "You, just because I can't be on the project doesn't mean that we wont be seeing each other any more. It just means that we'll have proper working times and proper times to hang out." he stated as if lightly teasing. Who knew that Aoi would of become so cute as they got closer? He would often complain when Bai was to busy to come over, now he wasn't happy because Bai wouldn't be working on the game with him anymore?

Aoi flushed with embarrassment as he turned to look out the window, not wanting to be teased anymore. It was a simple thing to be upset at okay? He really enjoyed spending time with Bai. The older male helped him relax and made it so that his panic attacks didn't happen. Plus when he went to bed at night, his mind was so focused on his time spent with Bai, that he no longer had any nightmares. Sure he still had to take medication, but it wasn't as many pills prescribed to him at the start.

When the two got home, they waited in the elevator until it was time to head to their own respective apartments. Aoi giving Wang a reluctant goodbye while heading to his own room. Bai found it rather adorable as Aoi headed off, like a depressed puppy that had been sent off to play by itself. However, he knew that giving in each time Aoi was depressed at his departure, wouldn't help but do more harm. Thus he had to stick to a proper time table of when they could hang out and when it was time for Aoi to spend some time away.

Though this wasn't normal for friendships, for Aoi, this was brought up do to this new psychiatrist. Apparently Aoi had grown so dependent on Bai's time with him, that he'd started doing nothing but rambling on about the older male. Instead of being weirded out or upset about this, Bai hadn't minded this. Actually he was rather pleased to think about it. However this wasn't a healthy obsession, thus Aoi needed a set time table on when he could hang out with Bai and when they needed some time to do their own things.

Though Bai was rather relaxed on it, often hanging out slightly longer than he should. But never to the point that Aoi would suffer because of his own actions. This would only need to go, until Aoi had less of an obsession with spending his whole time with Bai. Even if Bai was rather regretful on that part.

The next few days passed with Aoi having to head off to the Shing Corp. with Bai dropping him off along the way to his own job. Aoi had been given his little office area where they would be working on the coding, and also helping the artists and backdrop designers get the right feelings for the characters and scenes in the game. He also had to help some of the coders who worked with him on the actual coding of the game to understand his own designs.

Apparently at some point Aoi's coding skills had surpassed the normal office code workers skills, and they were a bit lost at the many different symbols and 101001s. The time passed and it seemed that the game would only need about a years of time to finally be completed and ready to launch. Aoi's own thoughts were a bit glad at his idea's becoming something. Whenever he was allowed to spend a few hours with Bai, he'd often talk about the gaming and would explain what he was doing that day.

Bai would listen while nodding, ignoring the few times Aoi would use his lap as a pillow to talk to him, showing him different papers with coding and other things listed. Aoi never seemed to understand that the more he hung out with Bai, the closer he'd get to the older male, often snuggling or resting up against him without warning. Maybe he didn't realize this because Bai never spoke of it, allowing it to happen without any complaints.

It was in this pleasant mood that time slowly went on, Aoi gladly working on his project, while spending his free time talking and enjoying Bai's company. To the point where the majority of his time was spent with Bai, should he not be working. The only time Aoi was left to his own devices, was when Bai had to work late at the hospital.

Mean while, while the two happily spent their time, one unaware of his own actions, the other unwilling to say anything in case said actions stopped. A set of pictures rested on a desk, a sigh passing from the elders lips as his gaze landed on the many different photos of Aoi and Bai together. He wasn't really sure what the reason was. However after he'd sent the hair to be tested, Mr Shing had requested someone to check up on the youth.

He had finally gotten the report, and his heart was rather frustrated. It seemed that his thoughts were right, and the youth was truly the child he had lost. However, after looking into it. It seemed that after Aoi had been taken, the ones who had stolen him had done horrid things. It ended with Aoi being raised by that persons relatives after that person failed their ending goal with the child.

He wanted to do nothing more than to hurry and gather his once lost child back home! But, he also had reports of Aoi's frail state of mind due to seeing the doctors, as well as other issues. What if Aoi didn't want to go with him? It was clear Aoi relied on Bai more than anything else, he couldn't bare to take the boy away...but, what to do?

Thus Shing was left unable to find a proper action to take. He could only secretly keep an eye on his little one, hoping at some point he'd have a chance at entering his life.