Hugging the Future (SAMYU AU FF)

Fairy

"I'm Chris, Chris Wu."

Yu accepted the handshake, his brow raised. "Can I help you? I don't work here. Well," he scratched his nape as he did a bit of thinking. "I work here but not here, here. I would get the manager for you but I don't know where he's at."

"Oh," the man let out a small laugh while putting his left hand in his pants pocket.

Yu's lips contorted into somewhat a smile. This man, all his action was too macho, too calculated. He is stunningly scary. Yu bet the man steals peoples' hearts for a living, like literally.

"Don't worry about it," the man continued. "I'm looking for you, Mr. Yang Yu Teng. Do you know who I am?"

The man constantly smile, a smile that sends eerie feelings and that made Yu uncomfortable.

Yu shifted on his legs, imagining a scene in which he is held captive and his heart is about to be taken out. "N..No?"

"I'm Chris Wu," the man introduced himself again.

Yu nodded and awkwardly smiled as he took a step backward. "I don't really have a good heart. You see, your honk just now is making it run." Yu nodded to himself, trying to convince the 'gang leader', while not-so-subtlely looked around in case he need to shout for help.

But Chris was not looking impressed. He thought of all the famous quotes from his top movies but no, he couldn't remember any that involves a literal weak heart.

He folded his hand into an awkward grip. "I'm Chris." He took off his sunglasses and continued, "Chris Wu."

Was that the third time?

"Hahahah," Yu brokenly laughed, not knowing why. Is he supposed to know a Chris Wu? Has he offended the gang leader by not knowing him? Does he has to convince the man that he does not have any working organs that can proof profitable? So many thoughts came running through his brain.

"Ah yes, Mr. Chris.." he looked straight at the gleaming eyes. "How... can I help you?"

Chris coughed, his head downturned. "Seriously?" The confidence he had since his birth came crumbling down. This man really doesn't know me.

Yu kept his silence. The gang leader seemed to be madder by the second. The arrogant smirk had turned into an annoyed one.

Yu read Chris right. Chris was indeed annoyed. He put both his hands inside his pockets and turned around to look at the man inside his car. "But you know Sam?" He rolled his eyes at the dumbfounded man.

Yu glanced at the car, only seeing reflection. "Sam? I don't know any Sam."

Chris sighed. His grand entrance was blighted and the man in front of him seems to be a dense one. "Not Sam Lin?"

"Oh," it clicked in Yu's mind. He knew one Sam but he wasn't sure if it counts as 'knowing'. They're not acquaintance for sure. "That's different. He's popular.. Was.." Yu felt sad saying that but soon realized how the conversation was taking an odd path. He widened his eyes and walked hurriedly towards the man.

"Wait, what is it about Sam? Why are you here? Are you his lawyer? Are you suing me? I haven't done anything!"

"Woa," Chris held his palm up. "That's not.."

Truthfully, Chris intended to be nice. He was nice and he was known to be nice, especially to attractive-looking ladies and men. But this man, attractive or not, didn't even know him.

He should be humbled by this. Humble — an adjective often associated with his best friend who happened to be sitting in his car. The two of them were always compared and likened yet they had quite peaceful fandoms. Some people even shipped them together.

Being down to earth was Sam's forte and he didn't intend on snatching the title.

All in all, Chris was just simply and superbly irritated. Hence, he chose to be his actor self.

"Well yes, I'm his lawyer. I heard that you hurt his hand." The worried face on Yu helped brought back the smirk from before.

"....No I didn't! He fell on his own!"

"Didn't you pull him and made him fall?"

"I...He.." Yu remembered the monk telling him that anger doesn't solve anything. That, in fact, was the only thing he could remember from his $30 online talk.

"Didn't you?" Chris acted like he was losing patience. He had always loved acting and this, whatever he was doing with Yu, could actually be fun.

"I was trying to—"

"Anyhow," Chris folded his arms, his sunglasses dangling from his long finger as he looked to his side, looking all solemn and legal. "Sam is not able to work due to his injury so we're asking for remuneration."

Yu gaped. "Compensation, you mean." Yu's lips curled. He couldn't get mad. Or else his $30 would be going down the drain. "Work? What kind of work he's doing?" Yu scoffed inwardly. "Is he a piano player, a factory worker? A professional jerker? I'll do it for him but I won't pay him one cent!"

Chris snapped his finger, his lips smiled at the case won. "Ah, deal."

Yu blinked and gulped. He expected more comebacks only to face a contented smile of an opponent. "Huh?"

Chris took out a business card from his suits pocket, dusted the card off and jotted down something on it.

Yu watched intently as he was handed the card. The card had a brownish stain on it with a faint folded line in the middle and on it, printed a familiar name— the young man he called boss. This was the card he had in his sweater, the sweatert he offered Sam yesterday, the sweater that never return.

"Be there on time. Have a good day."

He again looked at the card and saw a place and a time on the back.

"Wait, today!?" Yu wasn't given time to ask further as lawyer Chris swiftly got into his car and drove away.

And that's how Yu worked himself out that day. He was already late waiting for the manager and settling the shipment issues and so he ran around trying to finish everything on time. He even missed his alone time with his nougat. Hence why when the person Sam waited for ran late, he decided to go shop for some.

Running back from the store with new sweets in a plastic bag, he promptly opened the driver's seat only to see Sam there looking all serious like he always does. The man haven't been talking much since they met that afternoon and Yu, feeling rather tricked into compensating the broken wrist, keep silence too.

"I thought you can't drive. You shouldn't drive."

Sam turned, looking at the man he thought had left. His lids quivered before he looked down on his phone that he had been gripping to call the taxi. He could easily drive but with the kid on the backseat, he couldn't take the risk.

Yu found the man's expression weird, but ignored it. He walked around the car, opened the door to the backseat and offered the girl his biggest smile. With a high pitched voice he said hi and pulled out a lollipop the size of the girl's face.

"Hello there~ I'm Yu and this is for you."

It wasn't known to Yu nor to the girl herself but under the darkening sky and the street lamp that had just came on, Yu's smile was dazzling and his eyes were twinkling.

The girl took the lollipop and with her breathy giggles, she whispered to herself, "Fairy..."