55 Zhulong

"So what's going to be here?" Chao walked around the open two-storey space, looking up. Yitian's mouth just fell open.

"Have you ever seen the plans I made?" Yitian asked. He started their house project right after graduation, so it would be finished right before Christmas. So, pretty soon.

Chao was watching the delivery of something enormous together with a crane. But the thing was wrapped in white fabric, so he had no idea what it was.

"This is?" he asked Yitian, who looked at him with a gaping mouth.

"You didn't see anything, right? Did at least Lei see it?" Yitian asked back, stunned at the obvious ignorance. How could they say yes to something they didn't see? What was wrong with those brothers?

"I think he said to do whatever. He saw the budget and was pleasantly surprised so he didn't care anymore..." Yitian sighed.

'Impossible, they were both impossible. So they practically dumped the whole project at me and didn't care about anything afterward?' Yitian shook his head after his inner monologue.

Yitian went to the biggest surprise he had for everyone and peeked in. It looked awesome. Just exactly as he designed. Yitian smirked and whooshed away Chao, who was trying to peek in too.

"Hey! I want to see it too!" he exclaimed and Yitian chuckled.

"You should have seen the plans then. Your fault for not looking at what I show you," said Yitian and walked a bit away from the sign.

They watched the workers put it up on prepared holders on the house. They knew they had to leave the fabric on, so when the crane lowered them, after they finished, Chao was pretty disappointed.

"That's not fair. I always tell you everything the minute I do it!" Chao pouted like a little child. Yitian laughed.

'So true. Even this house…' Yitian remembered that day so vividly.

***

"I have it! I have it!" Chao ran into the house with the loud sound of the door closing. Yitian and Huobai both turned to him, stunned. He was like a little typhoon storming in.

"What do you have?" Yitian was the first one to wake up and ask. He put down his earphone and typed to the other members to wait. Huobai sent AFK too, and they came up to Chao, who stopped before the whiteboard. They had up for strategies and everything.

"This!" He slammed paper on the board and used one of the magnets to pin it there. Yitian came closer to read what it said.

"A house deed?" Yitian squeaked. Huobai hurried closer too. They both looked at Chao, confused. But he was floating up in the sky with a proud face.

"Yup! Our house. It will be our headquarters!" Chao's enthusiasm was not met with the response Chao anticipated, because both Huobai and Yitian were just looking at him lifelessly.

"C'mon! Celebrate!" Chao said, lifted up Yitian's hand and high-fived himself. Yitian closed his eyes, counting to ten. He looked over the specification of the house.

"Five rooms plus a guest house? How many members you need in your team. At least ten right… Now tell me, where will the rest five sleep?" Yitian asked calmly. Chao made an impulsive decision. Again.

"Umm…" Chao was speechless. He was looking at the house deed, he totally forgot about that, because he found the first big house for not astronomic money, so he bought it immediately.

"I know!" he yelled so loud that Huobai jerked, "they will be in pairs in one room. They will get closer to each other, like we did." He smiled at Yitian, who had enough willpower not to flush at his images flashing in his mind. But he doubted this was the kind of closer that Chao meant.

He rubbed his eye and looked at the clock. It was already late, but not late enough to go to sleep. Chao noticed his movements and came closer.

"Let me. Do you have something stuck in there?" He gently touched his head and looked into his eyes. Yitian was looking all over Chao's face, distracting himself from that beautiful pair of eyes that kept sucking him in.

Huobai saw them in their own world again and rolled his eyes. He had no idea. How could Chao be so stupid and blind, or blissfully ignorant, that he didn't see they were ready to get room? They were touching all the time, sometimes becoming pretty annoying.

"Get yourself a room," he said and pushed Yitian to Chao. None of them expected that, so Yitian ended up in Chao's hug with his mouth touching Chao's chin.

'What a pity he is not a tiny bit taller.' Huobai laughed to himself and sat back to his chair. He looked at those two awkwardly stepping back and saying sorry, and shook his head. Dumbasses. Then he remembered something. He checked the screen. Nothing wrong there.

"So, well… What is supposed to be this team's name?" He asked and looked at them again. He was met with stunned faces.

"Don't tell me you don't have a name yet." No response. Huobai face palmed himself. Were they into each other so much that they forgot all those needed information?

"Did you register the team?" he asked one more question. No response again. They just turned around to face the white board.

They were frantically scribbling something there when they turned around to face Huobai again. Chao was stunned by how he could forget such a thing, and Yitian was embarrassed. From the accidental kiss, his mind was foggy and he couldn't even remember his own name, not saying something about some game.

"Zhulong…" they said at the same time, and Huobai's brow raised.

"Torch dragon?" he asked sceptically. It wasn't such a new idea, it was a pretty unoriginal name.

"Yes and no at the same time. We will use zhulong, long as a dragon, but zhu, as vermillion, will be from zhuque. So, The Vermillion Dragon in English." Yitian explained, and Huobai whistled at the idea of combining those things together. Huobai had nothing against it. He just nodded.

"I have a name for our team!" Yixing came in yelling the same way as Chao did before. They all looked at him, waiting.

"We will be Unmoving mountains!" he exclaimed, and they looked at him speechless. Being this in animation, three dots would appear above their heads and crow would fly above.

"I think The Vermillion Dragon… Yes… A lot better," Huobai said and put his headphones on.

"Nooooo! Another dragon?!" Yixing yelled, and Chao and Yitian laughed.

***

Yitian chuckled at the memory. The name they thought up at that moment was awesome to work with. He had endless possibilities for how to design it. He was going through the main house, when a speck of dust got into his eye. Yitian squinted and stopped his steps.

"You have something in your eye again? You have to be careful. You now live in a place where your eyes and fingers mean your world," Chao made such an unfunny remark, that Yitian chuckled. They made a step back in the narrow hall, so they wouldn't be in the way of the workers, and Yitian ended up back at the wall.

Chao took his head into his hand and positioned it so he would see better. He started to blow in his eye, but it wasn't helping.

"Can you tiptoe for a bit, I need to see better." Yitian stood on the tip of his toes, now being almost the same height as Yitian.

The worker who walked passed them was carrying a big bag of something. He didn't see them and he bumped into these two.

Chao lips touched Yitian's, and the time stopped for these two.