7 Chapter 7: I’m gonna Call You Tonight

"Hurry! Call Huo Qu!" Mrs. Huo was so anxious that she even called her little son's full name, with her face looking all pale.

No one was on Huo Qu's side, what if something bad happened to him…

The more she thought about it, the more worried she became. So she urged Huo Rong, "Did you call him? How is he? Where is Huo Qu now?"

"Ma, no one picked it up." Huo Rong could only hand over the phone to her and let her hear the busy tone, "I guess he didn't bring his phone today."

"I'm so mad at him!" Mrs. Huo gasped, putting her hands against her chest, with tears in her eyes.

"Ma, don't you worry." Huo Zheng squatted down and tried to comfort her, "He is an adult. He can take care of himself. It's all right." In case she disapproved, he added, "How about this? I'm gonna bring the bodyguards to look for him in the mall, while you and Rong go to the reception and ask them to broadcast it."

"OK, OK, OK." Mrs. Huo was already out of her mind, but could only grab his eldest son's hand and nodded.

Having no idea that his family were all anxiously looking for him, now Huo Qu was standing before the tall and round ornamental in the middle of the mall, with all confusion written on his face.

He was sure that he saw Qinghuan, but why was he gone in an eyewink?

Touching the number plate in his pocket subconsciously, he looked a little anxious.

His second brother said this was for audition. He had no what idea what it meant, but maybe it was quite important for Qinghuan. So he wanted to give it back.

On thinking of that, Huo Qu paced up and kept looking. He had no idea why he had been spinning in the same place.

Huo Qu, "?"

He had been in this place for the twelfth time already. So strange!

"Mom, why is he going in circles there?" A little girl wearing a pink sweater asked her mom while pointing at Huo Qu.

The young mommy was a little surprised on hearing her daughter. And she happened to see that Huo Qu was starting the next round.

"He…he is playing games, I guess." The little girl's mom racked her brains and finally came up with a reason.

The little girl's eyes immediately shone! She shook off her mom's hand, and stumbled all the way to Huo Qu, "Hello? What game are you playing? I wanna join you."

Huo Qu lowered his head and said to her with a serious tone, "I'm not playing games."

The little girl immediately got her eyes filled with tears. She said, "You are lying. You are playing games!"

Huo Qu said with a stressing tone, "I ain't lying! I said I ain't playing games!"

Right after he finished his words, the little girl burst out crying, "You…you're a bad guy! You are a bad guy!"

Huo Qu stepped back, panicked, watching the little girl's mom running towards him. He opened his mouth a few times and finally squeezed a few words, "She…she is crying…"

The little girl's mom forced a smile as a response and immediately lowered her head to coax her daughter.

The little girl couldn't stop crying.

Being stared by that pair of big and watery eyes, Huo Qu swallowed some savila out of nervousness. He held the ornament next to him and tried to sneak away, but accidentally stepped on the foot of someone behind him.

"Ah! I'm sorry." He apologized. And when he turned around and laid his eyes on the person from behind, he got a little surprised, "Qinghuan!"

"Huo Qu?" Yu Qinghuan still remembered him, after all his clean-cut face was really hard to

"This is for you!" Huo Qu didn't answer him, but fumbled in his pocket and handed something to Yu Qinghuan, like he was trying to claim some credit. He looked at him with his eyes shining, "I…I picked it up."

Yu Qinghuan had been curious how he knew his name. But when he looked at the number plate he immediately understood, "Yeah, it's mine. Thank you. But it's of no use now. Just throw it. You don't have to give it back actually."

"Oh…I see." Huo Qu slowly lowered his hand, looking much glumly.

Like a pupil who had finished his homework and waited for his parents' praise got a wet blanket thrown on him on the contrary.

His disappointing expression triggered Yu Qinghuan's curiosity, "So what are you doing here? Buying clothes?"

"Hm." Huo Qu nodded his head hard. He got distracted by Yu Qinghuan immediately.

Yu Qinghuan knitted his brows, "You are alone?"

His family was really careless to let such a mama's boy run about alone.

"No!" As for Yu Qinghuan, Huo Wu would love to answer any of his question, "I came with my mom and my two brothers."

Yu Qinghuan heaved a sigh, "Wow, you got a big family."

When Huo Wu was about to tell him none of them was biological, Yu Qinghuan lowered his head and looked at his watch, saying, "It's late. I've got some plan tonight. I gotta go. You stay with your family."

"He is leaving!"

Huo Qu felt quite disappointed on hearing that, and squeezed two words, "All right."

Yu Qinghuan smiled at him and then walked away.

He only took a few steps, and Huo Qu caught him up like a wind.

Yu Qinghuan asked, "Anything else?"

"Here!" With his ears covered by his hair blushed a bit, Huo Qu passed on a white name card to Yu Qinghuan, and said while using sign language, "It…my name card."

"Thanks." Yu Qinghuan took it, looking a little surprised, like he had never expected for Huo Qu's personality, he would do such a thing. He was lost in a trance for a few seconds before he opened his mouth, "Oh, sorry. I didn't bring mine."

Looking at that disappointing delicate face, his heart immediately softened, "Give me your phone. I'll save my number for you."

Huo Qu tried every pocket on him, and then raised his empty hands, "Oh no! Qinghuan, I…I didn't bring it with me." Tear sprang to his eyes.

Yu Qinghuan sighed in his heart. This was killing him! If it hadn't been because he was not his type, he would have already got him laid.

"It's OK. I have your name card. I'm gonna call you tonight. Then you will know my number."

"That's good." Huo Qu finally turned tears into smiles, with a shallow dimple on his left face, "Urgh…don't forget to call me."

Yu Qinghuan got a little embarrassed, "Sure."

He had a dinner party at night, so he couldn't stay long with Huo Qu. But since Huo Qu was so clingy to him, he couldn't bear to leave him like this. When he was about to ask him out for dinner next time, someone broadcasted, "

"Mr. Huo Qu. Come to the reception if you hear this. Your families are waiting for you."

It had been broadcasted five times, every time it got faster than last time.

Like someone was urging you…

Yu Qinghuan turned to Huo Qu and asked surprisingly, "So you lost contact with your family?"

Huo Qu, "?"

"Quit it." Looking at his ignorant face, Yu Qinghuan tried to change the topic, "Do you know where the reception is?"

Huo Qu shook his head.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked." Yu Qinghuan touched his forehead and looked around. Then she saw a shopping guide wearing a uniform special to the shopping mall and immediately held her, "Hey there, can you do me a favor to send him to the reception?"

Now was the maximum flow of the day. The shopping guide wished that she could have grown out eight legs. She raised her head, looking impatient, "The reception desk is over there. Can't you…"

The three words "send him yourself" got stuck in her throat when she saw Yu Qinghuan's face.

"Well…I can show you." She immediately changed her tone.

"Not me." Yu Qinghuan pushed Huo Qu before her, "It's him. Thank you."

The shopping guide's heart skipped another beat. Watching Huo Qu's delicate face, his brain was going on a strike, she then nodded subconsciously, "OK. Sure."

It was really her day today! She met two super cute guys at one blow! Let alone lead the way, she would even be very pleased to buy them anything!

On seeing this, Yu Qinghuan felt much relieved. He went out of the shopping mall after telling Huo Qu.

Huo Qu stood there, watching Yu Qinghuan fade away. And then he looked back and went to the reception desk with the shopping guide disappointedly.

"Silly boy, where have you been?" On seeing him, Mrs. Huo immediately trotted towards him and patted him lightly, mumbled, "You made me worried!"

Huo Qu looked at her, confused, "?"

"You don't know the way home and have no idea how to call a taxi. What if you get lost? Huh?"

"That won't be the case." Huo Qu said seriously.

"How dare you talk me back?" Mrs. Huo asked Huo Rong to give Huo Zheng a call to tell him they had found him, and then turned to Huo Qu and kept lecturing him, "Did you forget you have just got lost a few days ago? Huh? Why don't you listen to my words?"

While Mrs. Huo kept nagging beside, Huo Qu's thoughts had already flown away.

He wouldn't get lost. Qinghuan would take him home.

On thinking of Yu Qinghuan, Huo Qu felt like a bird was flying in his heart, happy and jaunty. He had no idea why he had that kind of feeling. Maybe out of gratitude. After all only Qinghuan saw through his embarrassment at that time.

"Mom!" Huo Qu interrupted his mother's nagging, "I wanna go home."

Both Mrs. Huo and his two brothers got stunned.

It was the very first time Huo Qu made a request from them for all these 27 years!

Before he was like an invisible person who never expressed his own thoughts or had any hobby. What was more, he'd take any food they gave him, and never talked with others, which was also one of the reasons why Mrs. Huo was worried about him.

But today he said he wanted to go home!

Mrs. Huo nearly cried with joy. She left all the lecturing words behind and asked the driver to get the car in the parking lot.

On the way home, she thought her little son would talk to her. But unexpectedly, Huo Qu stayed silent as the same as before, turning a deaf ear to them, only sitting there, well-behaved.

The only difference was, after they got home, he immediately started to look for his phone.

"It's here." Huo Rong could not bear to see him scour the house like a headless chicken, so he took the phone from under the cushion and threw it to him.

Huo Qu took the phone and went upstairs joyfully. Then he put it on the desk scrupulously and stared at the black screen, with only expectations written on his face.

Qinghuan said he would call him.

While all the others were left in the dining hall, looking at each other, with all question marks stuffed in their heads.

"What…is wrong with Huo Qu?"

The author's OS: Huo Qu: I will wait beside the phone, so I can pick it up right after Qinghuan calls…