Bottle

It felt like the world was falling apart. The trio went to the track and field, and the Zheyan who didn't manage to escape looked like a withered plant. 

It was announced that they would run some laps around the track.

"I'll be sitting on the bleachers, goodluck guys."

"This is betrayal!"

Zheyan withered away as he walked to the starting point. Fen Yichen was left by Zheyan's side deep in thought. 

"Hurry along, if you don't go to the starting point the laps you need to run would increase."

"I still need to know whose abs you are going to talk about with Zheyan."

So he still didn't forget about that? Mingze thought that he managed to distract him and Yichen forgot about the topic, turns out he still plans to ask him. 

The coach blew his whistle once again. The whistle meant it was about time to start, and they should assemble at the starting field. Since he was already aware of Xie Mingze's situation, he just glanced at him casually checking his attendance and it went back to the people on the starting point.

Since the whistle blew, Fen Yichen got no choice but to stop the topic for the second time before he jog back to the starting point. The running track was 400 meters long, then they have to run ten laps around the oval. Once they are finished they could rest and do whatever they want. 

"What that's too much!"

Hearing that they need to run ten laps, the students couldn't help but complain. Thinking this could help them pressure the coach to reduce the laps.

"I hear some complaining? Do 15 laps then."

Realizing that complaining would just add the laps, the students shut their mouths complaining inside their head. They started running as soon as the signal was given. Sitting under the hot sun without an umbrella, it was obvious Mingze would sweat so much. 

He regret staying here, he should've stayed inside. Somewhere with airconditioning would be better. It's not like he could walk inside, so he patiently waited for either Zheyan or Yichen to finish their 15 laps. 

The girls was tasked to do only 3-5 laps depending on their capacity. Now, some of them are lined up on the corner with cold water bottles in their hands. It was obvious they plan to give it to some of the boys running through the oval. 

"Classmate could I share an umbrella with you, it is a bit hot and I can't move."

The girls was nice and shared it with him. They knew he was one of the school grass so they didn't hesitate to share the umbrella.

"Are you waiting for someone?"

"Those are my classmates, I'm just waiting here for my friends so we could all go to the next class together."

"It was a shame you got injured on your way to celebrate after the theatre play."

That was the lie they spread. Since, there was no evidence of anyone tampering with the props, for the sake of the theatre's reputation they buried the incident. Xie Mingze agreed to it, because he can't vent his anger on innocent people. Still, he was on the look out if someone wanted to harm him.

If they asked him if he have enemies, then the answer would be alot. He is not the friendly type of sort, he have a bad temper, plus he is really a bit bossy. Although that was according to Hai Zheyan. 

"Yichen, you must've been thirsty. Here take this water."

…

Turns out all this time they had been waiting for Fen Yichen to finish running. A girl forcefully put it in his arms and run off to who knows where. 

He twisted the cap easily and approached Mingze sitting on the corner, crowded by girls holding umbrellas.

"Ming drink this, you must've been thirsty." He handed the bottle he just received to Mingze. It was a bit awkward to receive something given to Yichen.

"That's given to you, you should drink it."

"Then I'll buy you another drink if you want."

That's not the point. Fen Yichen passed the opened bottle of water to someone else and made a bee line to the nearest vending machine to give to him. He can't pinpoint if he is just pretending to be dumb, or just doesn't care about the girl's intention. 

"Now, it's new. Drink this, to rehydrate yourself. You've been sitting under the sun for too long."

Mingze received the bottle and drank half of it. He didn't realize he was that thirsty. Hai Zheyan arrived, seeing Yichen holding a half full water bottle he approached him. He was honestly dying from the heat.

"Please give me that bottle, I need a chug."

Fen Yichen only glanced at him before drinking the water on his hands. He drank from the same bottle he drinked from. Isn't that an indirect kiss?! Maybe, he is thinking too much. They are already in college. Stuff like indirect kiss would be for teenagers to be flustered about. 

"Tell me more about what you and Zheyan are talking about."

If Xie Mingze could confess, he is a facecon. He is weak to people with good looking face. They could easily trick and kidnap him. For that reason, he likes to follow idols and actors, but mostly idols. That is one of the reason why he became a hard core pop fan. He stan a lot of idols, be it girl group or boy group. And thus his dream to be a producer was born. 

"We are talking about you! Your fit body, your muscles. Secretly, Zheyan and me wants to know about your exercise routine." 

"Ming, you should've told me. I can let you touch it too if you want."

Their talk is a bit scandalous for the girls holding the umbrella, some of them are rotten fangirls. Later in the forum a 20k word work would be made for the two of them. But that is a story for another time.