LAST TIME I CHECKED I WAS STRAIGHT!!! Zhuling ff - Chapter 3: Chapter 3

"Wake up Jin ling" Sizhui said repeatedly as his voice sounded tiring by every second—he looked miserable because of the miserable night he had, no sleep whatsoever and all because of the person sleeping in his bed; getting kicked and being pushed off the bed many times wasn't his ideal sleeping plan but here he was.
He wasn't mad—well, he wasn't ever mad but just a little disappointed that he couldn't sleep throughout the whole night. Even his 'Lan internal clock' couldn't put him to sleep while on the other hand Jin ling looked like he slept peacefully.
The said person finally decided to wake up, "Jin ling! Wake up please!"
And off he went back to sleep.
"Jin ling!"
"Mm let me sleep some more go away"
"Class! In 30 minutes so wake up"
Jin ling tried opening both of his eyes but couldn't so he squinted open one, "oh please we still have so much time left" then after saying that he closed his eyes and turned his back to Sizhui—okay so calm down calm down—this is nothing, bear with it Sizhui.
"Jin ling. Get up" He didn't want to deal with this—too freaking tired and too early for the morning! "Please"
"Noooooo" Jin ling whined and then with that Sizhui gave up and let him sleep until he washed up. The water was cold—cold enough to wake him up and put some sense in his morning tired brain, his reflection screamed no sleep—he's pretty sure he had gotten eyebags in one night.
After washing up he finally decided to go wake Jin ling up.
"Jin ling now please get up, we only have 20 minutes left" He said as he walked in the room to see no one on the bed, he looked around his small room but no one was there, he wondered where Jin ling went to.
"Boo" Jin ling yelled, grinning as he saw Sizhui's eyes widen in pure shock before shouting.
His own yell shocked Sizhui causing him to fall back but then stopping as the other caught him by sliding an arm behind his waist and pulling him in.
"Are you ok?" Jin ling asked, being genuine, and also without noticing how he was holding Sizhui. "I'm sorry it was just a joke" he ended up saying as he saw the other's face getting redder—maybe Sizhui was really angry because of his stupid prank.
Sizhui's face was red—not because he was angry, he wasn't embarrassed at the fact that he shouted and broke a rule either— it wasn't....well it definitely was because of how Jin ling was holding him by the waist. "It's ok, I'm fine" he finally replied, thank god his voice came out stable.
Maybe Jin ling was going crazy already but was Sizhui blushing? No—was he blushing??
"You have a mole beside your eyebrow," Jin ling said, throwing both of them off guard. Did he just examine Sizhui's face?
"What..?"
Oh no, his heart was definitely beating like it wanted to burst out of his chest just like yesterday—shit shit shit, could Sizhui hear this?
Sizhui couldn't hear Jin ling's heart but he could hear his own damn heart starting to beat like crazy.
Silence fell upon them and both of them got lost in their thoughts—obviously still in the absurd but intimate position until someone finally decided to pull them out of lala-land by interrupting them.
"Lan Zhan, they look weirdly good together," Wei Wuxian said grinning.
Lan Wangji stared at their adopted son and Jin ling.
"Hey you two won't you guys be late to class" Wuxian reminded the kids as they pushed each other away, then they both greeted their seniors as their faces flushed a shade of red.
"Senior Wei, Han Guang-Jun, why are you guys here?" Sizhui asked, his voice and body still cooling down.
"Ah we were just here to check on you both but I guess you two are completely fine!"
"Wei ying" Lan Wangji signaled Wei Wuxian to say what he was actually here for.
"Ahh yes now I remember, hehe.. Ok so we are here to ask if you both and two other disciples might want to come with us for a mission"
"A mission? What kind of mission?" Jin ling asked curiously.
"We don't have much details on this mission but since other sects are busy we thought we might just help them out since we're free"
"I'm in" Jin ling said excitedly, even though it had only been 1 day since he arrived here, he had already gotten bored and really wanted to get out to go on night hunts.
"Can Jingyi and Zizhen come too?" Sizhui asked.
"Of course, well now that's set, we will leave tonight after class is done"
"Goodbye senior Wei and Han Guang-Jun" Sizhui and Jin ling bowed and turned to leave for class until they saw Wei Wuxian turn back and eye them both suspiciously, "I wonder why you both were blushing" he said then left, leaving both of them speechless and red.
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While speed walking to class Jin ling noticed how Sizhui didn't call his parents dad or father, he would die to have his parents in his life but life doesn't always go the way you plan it to be so fuck that.
"We're here" Sizhui said, luckily they weren't late or they would've had to copy rules while doing a handstand or something.
They both settled down but on the other hand the class was restless and very eager to see who the new kid was, Jin ling gave a big sigh and hoped that there won't be any stupid rumours about him going around because that is what always happens.
He wasn't really down for the rules and regulations of this place but he was happy that one of the Lan sect rules is to not talk about someone behind their back or there would be minor rule breaking consequences, he was happy at the fact that there weren't any rumours going around—well he couldn't guarantee for later but hey, at least it's a good start.
He sat beside Sizhui since there was an empty seat. How convenient Jin ling thought to himself to sit right beside his dear 'friend'.
"Jingyi sits there but I can ask him to move," Sizhui said with a warm smile that always got to Jin ling.
Jin ling just nodded in reply since he felt that he should've moved but he didn't want to so with his head down he nodded. After a few minutes Lan Qiren came in with his old grumpy expression, Sizhui wondered where Jingyi and Zizhen were, by now they would definitely get a full ass lecture from Lan Qiren.
Lan Qiren eyed Jin ling and signaled him to come up, "Boy introduce yourself to your classmates", Jin ling was about to introduce himself until the doors to the class sprang open and Jingyi and Zizhen entered running and stumbling. He didn't mean it but he showed the most disgusted expression ever and Sizhui noticed it before giving a small grin, damn.
"We are so so so sorry for being late Teacher Qiren", the students started laughing at their clownery and Sizhui started pitying those two because he knew they would definitely get in trouble.
"YOU- TWO GO OUTSIDE AND WAIT FOR ME". Lan Qiren yelled obviously not wanting to deal with this early morning.
What clowns Jin ling thought to himself and then carried on introducing himself with few words.
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The first class of the school year started and was already half way done but by the time Lan Qiren finished reminding the students of all the 4000 rules or something, the whole class fell asleep. Only some paid attention like Sizhui and some other students from prominent sects that did not want to give a bad impression of their Sect. Jin ling got bored listening to all the rules, god knows how many rules did this sect have and they don't stop at all; every year there's at least 20 rules added to the wall of rules, this place was really suffocating for Jin ling but remembering that there's someone he wants to be with gave him hope. Like they always say, having a crush always makes everything more exciting...which doesn't apply to him because he does not have a crush on his first sweet human friend.
During class he got bored to the point where he started looking around the plain classroom for something or someone, his eyes somehow always landed at Sizhui, he noticed how tired he looked and wondered why Sizhui was tired when Jin ling was not. They did sleep on the same bed but Jin ling had the best sleep of his life without any horrible nightmares, he thought maybe he did something weird to Sizhui while in his sleep. Oh my god, what if he did do something weird?? Wait, but Sizhui should've said something—but then again Sizhui's the kind of person that would avoid saying things that will embarrass the other person.
Jin ling definitely felt guilty—and despite all that he still couldn't take his eyes off Sizhui, ahhh was he a stalker now?
Sizhui felt someone staring at him but was too tired to check who it was, unknowingly he dozed off in middle of the class but went unnoticed by the teacher, Jin ling however obviously saw Sizhui dozing off because he's a stalker (yes he has come to terms with it)
Now he was definitely sure that he was turning into a stalker...he was finding Sizhui cute while sleeping...well he did look cute and harmless—no no snap out of it.
Don't think about him and his soft red lips.
Don't do it, no, don't—
—Jin ling ended up fantasizing about his 'unconscious' desires that fired up due to Sizhui's soft and plump lips.
Jin ling snapped back to reality real quick and got red just by realizing what he just had thought about; he wanted to have those soft red plum lips on his. "My first friend ever and I am having weird thoughts.....is this what a friend makes you feel" he whispered to himself like a dumbass—he's pretty sure someone heard him.
Friend, he reminded himself. Just a friend.
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Class ended and Lan Qiren with all the other kids excluding Jin ling and Sizhui exited the class, Lan Qiren went to check if Jingyi and Zizhen were carrying out their punishments properly. Since no one other than two people were present in the classroom, it was so quiet that only small breaths could be heard since Sizhui fell asleep, Jin ling decided to stay beside him and wait until he woke up since he had nothing to do anyway. In the meantime he wondered when they would have to leave for the mission tonight and just did some homework that Lan Qiren had assigned.
An hour passed with Sizhui still sleeping and Jin ling was still doing his homework, of course occasionally he threw some long glances at Sizhui's handsome face (yes a stalker he knows).
As it was getting dark Sizhui finally woke up and saw a sleeping Jin ling with his head down on the desk with papers and ink brushes surrounding him, a smile appeared on his face looking at Jin ling until he had realized that he fell asleep in middle of a lecture and felt embarrassed at himself for letting himself sleep. He decided to wake Jin ling up,
"Jin ling"
"Mm"
"Wake up please"
Jin ling somehow woke up and Sizhui thought that was really easy compared to this morning-
"Ohmygod" Sizhui gave out a small gasp.
"What?"
"There's ink on your face-"
"Huh?"
"I-n-k" Sizhui spelled.
Sizhui found a mirror in the classroom somehow and gave it to Jin ling,-
"MY FACE" Jin ling yelled with sass.
Sizhui was trying really not hard to laugh but couldn't hold it in-
"HEY STOP LAUGHING" Jin ling realized that he slept on his homework that had ink that hadn't dried, he couldn't help but laugh at himself also.
Sizhui stopped laughing since he felt bad for half of Jin ling's face. That ink won't easily go away.
"We should go back now, Senior Wei and Han Guang-Jun might be looking for us"
"Mm k, let me just clean this mess up first" Jin ling said pointing at his face, Sizhui was again going to laugh but he held it in.
After washing up they went to the gate of cloud recesses where they waited for everyone to meet up at.
"Aiyo you guys are early" Wei Wuxian said in a loud manner of course.
Both of the juniors greeted the two seniors, while they all were waiting for Jingyi and Zizhen, Wei Wuxian kept staring at Jin ling-
"Hey why do you keep looking at me!" Jin ling said in a irritated manner,
Wei Wuxian came closer to his face to look more closely-
"Do you have ink on your face?"
Sizhui chuckled.
"Hmm?" He chucked?
Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian were taken aback to see him chuckle, they both smiled as Sizhui tried covering up his small laugh—their son was the cutest person ever.