After sometime, Zhou Kai took the initiative to again close the distance between them handing out his card for his beloved.
Xie Yang looked at the card and then at the determined expression on his husband's face, clearly showing his resolve of not budging until Xie Yang took the card, sighed and accepted it.
"Consider this a loan, I will make sure to return this with interest." Xie Yang stated, upon seeing Kai about to retort him, he hurriedly added, "Otherwise I won't accept it. You can have it back." while extending the card towards him.
"Alright, you win Pres. Keep the card and don't try to save the money. Use it when you need." Zhou Kai said in a defeated tone, raising both his hands in a surrendering gesture with a helpless expression his face.
"Mhm." Xie Yang replied while looking at the card in his hands. He tightened the grip on the card before putting it away neatly in his wallet.
"Let's Go?" Xie Yang asked with a smile on his face.
"Mhm. Let's Go." Replied Zhou Kai returning the smile.
Both of them finally got a move on to get out of the alleyway when they heard the warning bell signalling the end of the lunch.
They both froze for a sec before looking at each other and then as if reading each other's minds, they both broke into a sprint back to their classroom.
Back inside the classroom, both Xie Yang's fan club members and Zhou Kai's minions were anxiously looking at the door for the sign of their idol/leader.
Just when there was only a few minutes left until the final bell, did the both of them return, hand in hand.
Xie Yang felt like his lungs were burning as he gasped for air while barely being able to stand with his legs feeling like jello. His body at this time wasn't used to such intense activities leaving him breathless like a fish out of water.
Kai had to hold his hand and pull him forward halfway through otherwise, he might not have even made it.
Zhou Kai on the other hand, exercised regularly and as he often got into fights, had to train his stamina. He was in excellent condition, just taking heavy breaths while standing straight even after running back while pulling on Xie Yang to make sure he caught up.
Seeing his sweetheart almost keel over trying to breath, Zhou Kai pulled on his hands and dragged him over to his seat while getting his water bottle and opening it for him to drink.
Xie Yang accepted the water bottle and drank it from mouth to spout without any apprehensions which caused Zhou Kai's ears to turn red as he cleared his throat clearly trying to get rid of the embarrassment.
Unfortunately for him, this gesture was interpreted by others as a sign of rushing Pres to finish drinking the water as he too wanted to drink.
Xie Yang took a few big gulps of water before finally feeling alive and handing the water bottle back to his husband.
Zhou Kai hesitated about it for a second before drinking the water the same his beloved had.
The others in the classroom were surprised at the fact that Zhou Kai would drink something that had been tainted by someone else especially someone like Xie Yang though they chalked it up to him not putting Xie Yang in his eyes.
Soon after, the final bell signalling the end of lunch rang out.
Zhou Kai was looking at his sweetheart, only after making sure that he was okay did he go back to his seat in the back row.
'Let's see, I should prepare something to eat, an ointment for relieving muscle pain and…..' Zhou Kai was mentally going over the things he should get for his beloved in the next free period.
The teacher for the next period, which happened to be science and was taught by Mrs. Sheng, had arrived. The students instantly turned their attention to her and got up to greet her.
She came in with a frown on her face clearly displeased, carrying the course books for their class along with some competitive exams prep books. She barely acknowledged their greeting with a huff and slammed the books on her desk.
She went straight towards the blackboard and picked up a chalk started writing a question it.
The students showed no surprise about her behaviour alluding to the fact this was her usual behaviour. She would always come into their class with a sour face and halfheartedly teach them the subject while snarkily answering any questions asked by the students.
She was infamously nicknamed "Disguised Witch" by them as she acted this way only towards their class.
The students correctly guessed the reason for her bad attitude being that her class students would always come second in their whole grade while Pres and Zhou Kai came first.
Before their arrival, it was always her class which produced the top ranker in their grade.
Mrs. Sheng could understand Zhou Kai coming first whether the result was genuine or not as he had the resources for it but what she refused to believe was that Xie Yang, a poor student who could only attend their school because of a scholarship could actually get first place.
Since the very first exam of their grade, she has kept a close eye on him in hopes of catching foul play at hand.
Unfortunately for her, Xie Yang's grades were the only genuine thing about him. He legitimately enjoyed studying as that was the only time where he didn't have to act and did it whenever acting got too tiring which was quite often.
It was also the only time people left him alone which was just the added cherry on top for him as he hated socializing but had to do it keep up his persona.
Mrs. Sheng has since took it upon herself to try and catch him fail. She would search through various prep books for hard and tricky questions with lengthy solutions using formulas and rules which aren't part of their curriculum.
Thankfully, Xie Yang usually knew how to solve it but on the occasional times he got it wrong, he could go once more and get the correct answer.
This time was the same routine. Once again, she wrote a lengthy and tricky question on the board before calling on Xie Yang to solve it.
But this time there was a twist that no one expected.