From the Beginning

Try it again and I might put you in bed with me. Bailey exhaled a shaky breath.

"What do you want to do with me in bed?" Yulian queried.

"Trust me. You don't want to know." Bailey threw him a sleazy smirk.

"I do want to know. That's why I'm asking."

"Don't ask."

"Why?"

"Don't ask why either."

"Okay." Yulian hesitantly obliged.

Gosh. Now, all I could think about is having him in my bed. Bailey spooned some soup into his mouth to calm down.

"Perhaps we should finish eating before sleeping together," Yulian suggested.

The soup went down the wrong pipe because of his attempt to explain. Bailey ended up choking and went into a coughing fit.

Yulian gasped and went to stroke his back when he remembered something. "I saw this on television. It should help." Grabbing an empty sauce dish, he placed it on top of Bailey's head and used the tips of his chopsticks to strike the middle repeatedly. "Let whatever is stuck in your throat go down," he chanted. "Let it go down. Go down..." Realizing that Bailey was still coughing, he frowned. "Why isn't it working?"

"W-Water..." Bailey struggled to say.

"Oh, I see." Yulian put everything down and hurriedly went to pour him a glass of water. "Here." He handed it to Bailey.

Nodding in gratitude, Bailey chugged down half of the liquid and took in a deep breath. "Thank you," he managed to say after a couple more coughs.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes," Bailey reassured. "Maybe you're watching too much television."

"There are lots of things to learn from watching television."

"Exactly. That's why you should limit yourself."

"I don't understand," Yulian stated honestly.

"Let's finish eating in silence. It's safer for me, if you stop talking."

"Okay, let's finish eating so that we could sleep together."

"Um..." Bailey nibbled on his bottom lip. He has the innocence of a child. I feel like a pedophile wanting to bed him so badly. I'm a sick man.

"Why does putting me in bed with you make you sick? Should I take you to the hospital for a checkup?"

"No more talking."

"But you haven't answered me." Yulian blinked.

"Why are you so persistent?"

"Persistence is the key to achieve what one wants."

"Oh?" Bailey threw him a questioning look. "What do you want to achieve?"

"It's what you want that's important," Yulian said. "What do you want?"

Don't think it. Don't... Bailey told himself in his thoughts. I want you. Damn it! Why did I have to think it? Did he hear me? He noticed Yulian smiling brightly at him. Who am I kidding? Of course, he heard me.