CHAPTER 11: Sleeping together because boss Hoang had a nightmare

The bedroom was cozy, the sound of rain and thunder was blocked out by the thick walls.

Under the yellow night light, Hoang Minh Quan's eyebrows were tightly knitted, his eyes clenched. Cold sweat soaked his forehead. His hands were trembling, tightly gripping the blanket, as if he was dreaming of something terrible.

In the nightmare, bright red blood was flowing from the overturned and smashed car, spreading into a puddle. Flowing down to the tips of his bare feet.

Minh Quan was trembling, unable to form words, staggering over and screaming.

"Mom! Mom!".

The woman inside the shattered glass, blood stained half of her face, her hair disheveled. She moved her lips that were stained with blood. The words she said naturally turned into muffled sounds when they reached his ears.

Like a broken radio, buzzing.

Then she smiled, closing her eyes. Suddenly, an invisible force pulled him back. The car suddenly exploded, high flames blazed into his terrified and sorrowful face.

"No... No... Mom!".

The fire went out, the scene gradually disappeared after being covered by an endless black space. He quickly wiped away his tears. He raised his head to look up, in front of him appeared a thirteen-year-old Minh Quan.

When he blinked and opened his eyes, he saw that he was that thirteen-year-old boy.

Looking down at the ground, he saw his feet chained, the rusty chains were covered in dirty blood. His hands were handcuffed. Looking around, he saw that he was locked in a warehouse.

Beside him were the corpses of slaughtered animals. Chickens had their necks cut off, cows had their bellies cut open, buffaloes had half their bodies severed. Internal organs spilled out, blood flowed black, flies and maggots swarmed, and bugs squirmed.

Nausea came rushing in, horror took over. He immediately vomited on the spot, straining his neck to scream for help. Struggling to escape the chains that bound his legs.

"Let me go! Let me go!".

Suddenly, a large man appeared in front of him, his face seemed to be covered by a layer of black smoke, his appearance was not clearly visible. But the evil and perverted smile was still very clear.

He caressed the smooth white face in front of him, unable to help but lick his lips. A scene of groping all over the young man's body.

Minh Quan fearfully retreated, until his back touched the wooden pillar, he realized that there was no way back.

"Hehe, baby, so beautiful. It would be a pity to sell it...".

The man walked over, his hand unbuckling his belt. The pants slid down to his thighs, and he immediately pressed his head against it.

Minh Quan's face darkened, his eyes widened. His throat was pierced, suffocation came. Tears and snot rolled down, his face turned purple.

Satisfied, he pulled out, the corner of his lips were torn...

Ugh! Everything red and white mixed in his mouth flowed out, vomiting. He didn't have the strength to even cry for help. He was so scared that his body went limp.

He roughly flipped him over and pressed him down on the ground, his dirty hands were about to do something naughty when he suddenly stopped. The sound of something falling hard to the ground.

Minh Quan trembled as he turned his head and saw a chubby boy about six or seven years old who had just stabbed the human trafficker in the back with a knife.

No matter how brave he was, he was still just a child, the panic still lingered in his innocent eyes. He glared angrily and grabbed him.

He looked around in panic and saw a pair of iron-rimmed pliers. He picked it up and immediately chopped it into the man's head to rescue the child.

Red blood splattered.

He screamed in pain and collapsed to the ground. Hoang Minh Quan looked at his blood-stained hands in horror, this was the first time he had harmed a living thing that bled.

The smart and agile boy took the opportunity to pick up the small pair of pliers beside him: "Hey! Quickly use the big pair of pliers in your hand to cut the chain!".

Then he used all his strength as a strong, chubby boy to cut the chains on his ankles. He was flustered and cut the handcuffs on his hands. Then he tried to cut the chains on his feet for him.

The boy grabbed his hand and led him to run outside. Behind him, he heard several loud footsteps chasing after him, along with the angry shouts of the human traffickers.

His heart pounded in fear, he completely put his trust in a boy who was smaller than him.

He ran to the port, there was no way to run. The human traffickers also chased him, they were angry but also happy because they had another prey. The money in their pockets was about to be a bit too much.

The will to survive in Hoang Minh Quan, who was scared, suddenly rose up, he picked up a rock bigger than his palm and threw it straight at the leading man holding a knife.

Blood gushed out, the man was furious: "Ah! Damn it!".

The man immediately rushed forward and swung the knife to slash him.

Hoang Minh Quan closed his eyes and waited for death, but immediately after that he did not feel the pain. The smell of blood rushed straight into his nose, a soft groan of pain rang out.

He opened his eyes in horror and held the boy in his arms. He had just used his back to block the deadly knife blow for him.

"Sob..." His trembling hands hugged him tightly.

Opening his eyes, his breathing was chaotic after the terrifying dream. After regaining his steady breathing, Minh Quan pulled the blanket over his head and trembled.

The nightmare that haunted him as a child, which had been buried for so long, suddenly reappeared. All his senses and emotions seemed to be pulled back and pressed heavily on the current him.

The clock was almost 1 am, Hoang Minh Quan did not dare to sleep again. He was afraid that the nightmare he had just had would come back to torment him.

His hands and feet were cold. He curled up, the cold made him shiver continuously. It felt like countless invisible eyes were focused on him throughout the room, staring at him.

As if they were watching over the pathetic freak in the iron cage swallowed by the darkness.

He reached out from under the blanket to fumble for the phone on the nightstand. The blue light from the phone hit his pale face. There were countless names saved in his contacts, but most of them were just business partners.

The person he contacted the most and was on the first row was Trinh Anh Tu. Every day before going home, he texted him, and if he needed anything, he just called him.

He pursed his lips and immediately dialed him.

Anh Tu was in his private room, sleeping happily in the air conditioner, lying with his legs spread out, sleeping with his mouth wide open, immersed in a pink spring dream, when the phone suddenly rang, startling him awake.

Rubbing his eyes, he reached for the phone to see which crazy person was calling to interrupt him in the middle of the night: "What the hell..?".

He clenched his stomach and was about to scold the person who dared to disturb his good sleep, when he sobered up and saw that the caller was Boss Hoang. He immediately turned pale and threw away the words in his heart.

He immediately stood up and ran to his room, forgetting to put on proper clothes. He opened the door and barged in: "Do you need anything? Are you hungry?".

Minh Quan sat up and turned off the phone, his face was red under the light of the night lamp. Trinh Anh Tu was actually not wearing any clothes, only his underwear barely covering the giant elephant between his legs.

He was so embarrassed that he became angry: "What the hell did you just do that you ran to my room naked?!".

He paused and looked down at his body, immediately covering himself like a shy girl: "Ah, me, me! Let me go get dressed!".

"Wait a minute". He looked away, we were all men, there was nothing to be shy about.

"What?".

Minh Quan: "Come here".

Anh Tu approached tentatively, standing to the side, not daring to stand in front of him. Hoang Minh Quan clicked his tongue and told him to go to bed.

He carefully sat on the bed and asked, "What do you need me to do, boss?".

He lay down: "Put me to sleep."

Trinh Anh Tu blinked his eyes in a daze. In the middle of the night, the boss suddenly called the room, thinking it was something urgent, but who would have thought he wanted to put me to sleep.

Baby? Baby to be the boss?

"I... I don't know how to put you to sleep anymore..?".

He turned his back to him, not even looking at him, and said, "Just lie down."

Obediently, he lay down next to him. He asked again, "Can't sleep? Are you hungry?".

"No."

He guessed, "So... You had a nightmare, right?".

Just a random guess, if this cold and heartless guy is afraid of ghosts, then it's not him anymore. There are ghosts that are afraid of him.

Minh Quan said softly: "Yes".

Anh Tu was surprised by his own judgment, and said: "Then do you want to drink warm milk to help you fall asleep? I see that you haven't had dinner since this afternoon, maybe you went to bed hungry and had a nightmare".

The nagging in his ear hurt his head, he turned his face and glared at him: "Shut up! Keep talking!".

The close distance, the intersection was a little vague, making their lips almost touch. Four eyes looked at each other, time seemed to stop at this moment.

The yellow light from the night light reflected on Trinh Anh Tu's eyes, carrying the innocent purity of a country boy, bright as the stars in the sky.

Facing the handsome face, Hoang Minh Quan blushed unconsciously. His heart skipped a beat deeply and then suddenly surged fiercely. Immediately after that, he felt a huge amount of shame and angrily pushed him away: "What are you doing, getting so close?! Move over there and see!".

Unexpectedly, the force of his push was strong, Anh Tu groaned in pain. He curled his lips and cursed inwardly. He said: "Look, my place is only a tiny space, and you've already taken up more than half of the bed, so where can I lie?".

Realizing that he was right, Minh Quan remained silent and awkwardly moved to the side. He increased the distance between them. He turned his face away, closing his eyes in silence.

Anh Tu: "...".

He lay still, the room was cold enough to make him shiver, he didn't dare pull the blanket over him.

He was really in a hurry just now, he knew that this room was as cold as a haunted house, so he would have dressed properly. He didn't know if it was people or frozen meat or fish, but he turned on the air conditioner to freeze people.

Unable to bear it, he spoke in a low voice: "Boss".

"What?".

"I'm so cold, can I use the blanket?".

"whatever".

Does that mean permission? Anh Tu was about to freeze, he quickly pulled the blanket up to his neck: "Ah, it's so warm. If only I had a lover to hug, it would be perfect."

It was just his unconscious words, but the meaning made him unable to help but want to do something to him right now. But the improper thoughts were immediately withdrawn.

It was really too obvious.

Half an hour passed, the person who needed to be coaxed to sleep couldn't sleep. As for the nanny, she had already fallen asleep.

The snoring sound of the person next to him was so loud, like a trumpet, that Hoang Minh Quan was annoyed. He turned around and shook him, "Keep your voice down."

He was sleeping soundly, and he didn't move no matter how much he shook or called him.

He didn't know if it was a chicken or a human!

Hoang Minh Quan's face darkened, and he immediately pulled the pillow behind his head out and pressed it on his face to block out the snoring. When the sound became quiet, he lay down.

He had only been quiet for less than a minute when suddenly an arm wrapped around his waist. He jumped in surprise, and before he could think, he was hugged into his arms.

"?!". Minh Quan was silent, not resisting. Lying still, he let him hug him like a pillow: "...".

Suddenly, he felt something soft and hard, probably a hard slime, rubbing against his lower body. His originally cold face suddenly smoked, red like a piece of coal in a furnace.

What was that..?

The current posture was very similar to a couple hugging each other to sleep, nothing strange at all.

But in reality, he was the master and he was the worker!

Feeling a bit sensitive, he moved away slightly to avoid being touched randomly from behind. It felt like his heart was about to fall out.

"An... It's so cold, let me hug you...". The masculine breath blew lightly beside his ear, both itchy and ticklish. Trinh Anh Tu hugged him even tighter.

Hearing him softly calling Tran Hoai An's name, Minh Quan gritted his teeth and pushed him away and sat up. Anh Tu just slept, not knowing what was going on, even if the world turned, he wouldn't know.

He frowned at his innocent face, his soulless eyes became even more profound. He felt that he was really stupid, always doing things that made others misunderstand.

Just now, if he hadn't unconsciously called Hoai An's name, he might have really wanted to have feelings for him.

He smiled faintly, there was no such thing as a strange, eccentric person like him. To like a guy of the same sex...

Anh Tu was a normal person, a healthy guy who liked women. Unlike him who had a different tendency.

Just now, he accidentally got jealous of his best friend, he knew that between them, they were just soulmates who had been together since childhood to adulthood. There was nothing special except that Tran Hoai An was cheated on by his girlfriend for money and love.

That's why he said he was a crazy person who liked to speculate wildly.

He lowered his eyes, sighed, and lay down. If he let him know that he had a sexual tendency to like men, he might be disgusted and distance himself.

He didn't want his dark world, which had just seen a little light, to be cruelly extinguished.

Maybe he should bury it deep down and cover it with ice.

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[Short play]

Hoang Minh Quan: "I liked you at first sight".

Trinh Anh Tu woke up in horror from the "nightmare" called the confession of boss Hoang: "Phew, scared! It turned out to be just a dream".,

Inside Hoang Minh Quan was sad: It's true, last night when you were drunk I said that.

On the outside, he was cold as ice: "Falling asleep while working, deduct money!".

Trinh Anh Tu: "Sob! Don't, boss!".