| Fan Fiction |
by W99
“Hi Calvin! I was in the area---”
“---saw your favourite gum, so I thought to buy you a whole box just in case you’ve run out on them---”
“---I saw this wallet and I remembered you saying you needed a new one---”
“---and somehow, we bumped into each other---”
“---quite a coincidence really, and we thought oh gosh, two’s a company but three’s a crowd---”
“---and we love being in a crowd because we love you---”
“---decided to pop by for a visit---”
“---see how things are going on with you---”
“---been ages since we’ve really sat down to talk---”
“---but anyway, so here we are!”
Two expectant smiles beamed up at him.
Calvin blinked, a little confused at the barrage of sentences they had thrown at him. “Whoah, first things first, I thought I just saw the two of you this afternoon?”
“We missed you!” Arron promptly replied.
Calvin shot him a dry glance that told him he was not buying that at all. “And what’s with the big-ass box of gum?” he stared incredulously at the package Jiro was juggling with.
“You like this gum, don’t you? I was walking past when I saw some store selling these in bulk, so I decided to get a box for you,” Jiro replied, waving the parcel at Calvin like some sort of peace-offering.
“Ok guys, ‘fess up. Why are you two camping out at my front door, behaving so oddly?” Calvin asked, looking pointedly at his watch. It read 10 pm, much too late for just a simple social visit. He lifted an eyebrow and waited for their answer, though he had a pretty good idea just what had prompted their strange behaviour.
Arron sighed. “All right, we felt guilty because Chun walked out on you just now.”
“And we’ve never seen you so mad before, so we figured you were really upset about the whole thing.”
Arron nodded, pulling on a mock expression of hurt indignation. “Don’t you ever ever do that to me ever again, Calvin Chen! You scared me, and hurt my tender feelings!”
“Eww, that sounded so gay.”
“Oh shut up. I don’t see you trying to make amends to Cal.”
“As if that stupid, effeminate act you pulled just now was called ‘making amends’! You weren’t trying to apologize, you’re just trying to make him feel guilty!”
“Once Cal forgives me, I’d get him to lock you out of his life! Then you’d be sorry you took that tone with me!”
Arron and Jiro began squabbling like little ladies. Calvin sighed, rolled his eyes than proceeded to slam the door in their faces.
There was a howl of outrage from Arron. “Calvin! Why did you do that?”
“I’m not opening the door until the both of you can learn to behave in a mature, sophisticated way,” Calvin warned them through the slab of heavy, thick oak separating them.
Jiro started pounding on the door, while Arron joined in with wails of “Ok ok, we’ll behave! Open the door! It’s freezing outside!”
Calvin sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose in an effort to keep at bay the headache that was threatening to overwhelm him. He was worn out and weary, and he really wasn’t looking forward to expending more energy to keep high-strung Arron and easily-provoked Jiro safely away from each other.
Reluctantly, he pulled the door back open. “I’m telling you, if I hear so much as a squeak from the both of you, I’m throwing you out. I’m dead beat and I don’t need any more excitement today,” he said threateningly.
Arron looked up at Calvin with wide, mournful eyes. He was a superbly good actor and he loved trying out his acting skills on his band members.
“Stuff it Lun, it’s not going to work on me,” Calvin made to close the door again.
“Alright alright! I’ll be good, I promise!” Arron looked disgruntled that Calvin wasn’t letting him have his way. He made his clicking noise before making a beeline for the TV set.
Jiro followed behind at a slightly more sedate pace, shooting Calvin a cautious look to see if the taller guy would start telling him off.
“You’d better have something good to cough up for disturbing me at this hour. I need my sleep.”
Jiro shoved the box of gum into Calvin’s hands. “Present, for you!”
Calvin looked irritated. “And pray tell me, how on earth am I supposed to finish this whole box by myself?”
Jiro beamed, “You can share them with me.”
Calvin growled and pinched his nose again. It was going to be a long night.
“Awww come on Cal, don’t look like that. We’re really sorry,” Jiro turned serious. “Really we are. We knew Chun would get jealous, but I guess we didn’t expect him to really walk out on you.”
Calvin shook his head. “Nah, we’re good. I rung him up and he admitted it wasn’t a pleasant thing to stomach, but he wasn’t mad or anything.”
Guilt was written all over Jiro’s face. “Still…”
Calvin brushed Jiro’s protest off with a small shake of his head. “I guess I have to apologize as well, you know, for snapping at all of you. I was really tired, that’s all. It didn’t mean anything.”
“Selina was really worried!” Arron called from the couch. “She wanted to go after you to make sure you were alright but we told her to let you calm down by yourself.”
“Oh,” Calvin didn’t know what to make of that. “That was nice of her.”
Arron nodded, momentarily distracted by District 9’s commercial which was showing on TV just then. “Hey I want to watch this!”
“But anyhow, you did a really good job today,” Jiro said, sounding impressed. “If we didn’t already know that you and Ella share a purely platonic relationship, we would have been fooled into thinking you two have a thing going on!”
“Yep! The scene was sizzling hot!” Arron snuck in his own opinion, still busily glued to Calvin’s television set.
“You think? I really don’t know if I should feel happy or not that everything ran so smoothly,” Calvin frowned a little.
“Be proud of your accomplishment,” Jiro advised him. “Stop worrying about Chun. He’s professional enough to respect your need to complete your job.”
“So how does it feel like?” Arron turned just then, a sly grin creeping slowly across his face.
“What do you mean?”
“Oh, you know, feeling Ella up?” he burst out into cheeky laughter as Calvin growled at him.
“Arron Yan I swear you’re the sickest individual alive!”
“What?” Arron pulled a face meant to irk the tall guy further. “It’s a strictly, neutrally, seriously-no-other-meaning-to-it-other than-abstract-curiosity kind of question!”
“What do you think she felt like?” Calvin looked supremely irritated. “She felt female, of course!”
Arron snorted. “So did you manage to touch anywhere interesting?”
A second later, a shoe went hurling towards Arron and hit him dead centre on the head with a loud thunk.
“Owh!” Arron howled while Jiro gasped in startled laughter.
“Any more perverted questions like these from you and I’m throwing you out from my window!” Calvin snapped, waving the other shoe threateningly at him.
“Cut him some slack. He’s still a baby. Unstable hormones and all,” Jiro said with a smirk.
Arron scowled, not sure if he should feel glad that Jiro was defending him, or take offense at the fact that he had been called “a baby”. He snuck a stealthy glance at Calvin’s annoyed expression and promptly decided that he would be glad of Jiro’s help this time around.
“Yeah, blame it on my hormones!” he supplied with a mock-apologetic look.
Calvin pinched his nose for the third time in that hour. “I swear, I must have done something really wrong in my past life to be getting all these now,” he muttered under his breath.
“Oh come on Cal, we’re not all that bad!” Arron aimed a sickly, sugary sweet smile at Calvin.
The guy in question heaved a heavily heartfelt sigh. “You two are seriously fast-diminishing what little sanity I have left.”
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Just a really short, light-hearted chapter.
I'm sorry if this update was a little slow to come. I just had a not-so-good week.
Suffice to say, I had a really bad scare when I was doing my medical report so I wasn't in much of a mood to continue writing. But no worries everybody, it was a false alarm! And I'm still fit as a fiddle and feeling extremely relieved about the whole thing. =D
So yep, my apologies if any of you found this update lacking. I couldn't churn up anything really good after all the drama. But not to worry, I'm working diligently on the next chapter already, and there's definitely going to be loads of RuXuan interactions. =p
Thanks for all the comments people! Much love.
-W99