I’m thinking of what it’s like being unable to cross a distance no matter how much you rack your brain. (tn: referring to what Reece said last chapter)
“You don’t seem very happy.” Reece’s hand left Nie Chuan’s calf and retracted from under the blanket.
Nie Chuan thought he was going to get up and continue doing his math problems. Unexpectedly, he switched to propping his arms on both sides of Nie Chuan’s pillow, his entire body pressing down over him.
The space between his arms was very narrow and full of his scent.
“What’s the matter with you?” Reece moved closer.
Nie Chuan pulled the blanket up and covered his face. “I get sleepy when I’m full, I’m gonna take a nap.”
Reece reached out and pulled Nie Chuan’s blanket down from his nose.
“Don’t sleep with your face covered. A lack of oxygen to your brain can turn you stupid.”
“I know.”
I’m already stupid and can’t get any dumber.
Nie Chuan regretted not recording all those times Zhou Bin comforted him when he was heartbroken before he moved out. Right now, he just wants to listen to them over and over again.
He felt that the person Reece spoke about was like a thorn. It was as if all the attention that he had received from Reece till now would burst the moment that person appeared, until there was nothing left.
He really wanted to tell Zhou Bin all this, but Reece wasn’t like any of the girls that he liked before. He was his roommate, his teammate, and a member of the same sex.
In the next few weeks, Coach Gordon arranged several practice matches and deliberately separated Nie Chuan and Reece, letting Reece go in the first half and Nie Chuan in the second.
Nie Chuan’s outstanding performance had also made him quite famous in the area, making him the focus of attention for the teams from other schools.
While Nie Chuan was running on the court, succeeded with assists time and time again, Carlo, who was currently benched, tilted his head and said to Reece who was sitting beside him, “Hey, do you think Allen has been eating a lot of chocolate lately?”
“Really?” Reece didn’t have any expression, he just crossed his arms as his eyes always followed Nie Chuan’s figure.
“That’s it? When you were on just now, he was sitting here eating chocolate!” Carlo opened Nie Chuan’s bag, inside was a crumpled piece of tin foil.
He spread the tin foil out and brought it in front of Reece. “Do you see this? This big of a piece! He ate it all! You tell me whether he’ll get fat or not!”
“It’s impossible for him to get fat with his exercise routine,” Reece replied.
“Alright fine…… but, have you noticed, Allen seems to keep licking his teeth? Did chocolate get stuck there?”
At this time, Nie Chuan had just passed the ball to Ewing who proceeded to score. Nie Chuan’s right cheek bulged a little from his tongue licking there.
“Reece, Allen really does seem a bit distracted,” Coach Gordon also spoke up.
“I know, I’ll ask him what’s going on when we go back.”
At the end of the practice match, Nie Chuan was radiantly chatting with Lily on the sidelines. Just a few words from Lily made Nie Chuan smile happily.
Carlo stroked his chin. “Alas, the beautiful Lily was originally my goal but since Allen likes her, I can only resign myself to parting with my love!”
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It’s just that he didn’t know when Reece came up behind Nie Chuan and hooked his back collar, “You can’t go.”
When Nie Chuan heard Reece’s voice, it was as if his heart was squeezed.
“Huh, why can’t I go? Is there more training?” Nie Chuan’s face wrinkled.
“Open your mouth.” Reece’s expression was a bit cold.
At this time, Nie Chuan suddenly realized that Reece would always appear whenever he and Lily were chatting merrily. And his face was always not too good-looking.
It was almost as if he was jealous of him being with Lily.
But Nie Chuan knew very well…… that this was impossible.
“Jealousy” was an emotion that didn’t suit Reece at all.
Nie Chuan found that he couldn’t keep up with Reece’s mind again.
Reece reached his hand out directly, pinched Nie Chuan’s cheek, forcing him to open his mouth.
“What are you doing…… that hurts……”
Reece turned his face and looked at Nie Chuan’s right molar, then said to Lily, “He has a cavity and can’t eat desserts. I’ll be taking him to the dentist this afternoon.”
“Oh…… so it’s like this……” Lily didn’t know what to say for a moment.
“I don’t have cavities! My gums are just a bit swollen!”
Nie Chuan was going crazy, how could Reece say that in front of Lily! It’s such a shameful matter ah!
“Your gums are swollen because the nerves in the tooth are also damaged. If you’re not going to pull it then are you going to keep cultivating bacteria?”
Reece raised an eyebrow, and Nie Chuan was immediately wilted.
“Did you secretly go to bed with chocolate in your mouth?” Reece asked again.
Nie Chuan took a step back and hinted at Reece with his eyes to not continue discussing the topic of cavities in front of Lily.
“Haha……how could that be……”
The fact was that he hid the chocolate in the pillowcase. With chocolate in his mouth, he wouldn’t keep thinking about Reece who was sleeping on the bed next to him.
Otherwise, listening to Reece’s breathing, he wouldn’t be able to sleep at all. The taste of chocolate distracted him.
“Then how can your teeth rot?” Reece continued to crack down on Nie Chuan.
“I’ll go see the dentist later.” Nie Chuan’s face wrinkled.
Dentists are expensive……
Reece turned to Lily, nodded to her and said, “I’m really sorry, but the coach also noticed that he couldn’t concentrate during the game. Training for the league tournament begins next week, so his cavity should get fixed as soon as possible.”
“Oh, I understand! Allen, you should go to the doctor as soon as possible! If your cavity isn’t treated, you’ll be hurting so much that you won’t be able to sleep tonight. We won’t be going to the dessert shop today, let’s make plans for next time then.”
“Alright, I’m so sorry!” Nie Chuan clasped his hands together, feeling extremely apologetic to Lily.
“No worries, we have time.”
Watching Lily’s back, Nie Chuan made a disappointed expression. Before they even make plans for lunch next time, he would’ve already fed his money to the dentist ba……
As soon as Nie Chuan turned around, he saw Reece staring at him with his arms crossed.
Under the pressure of Reece’s gaze, Nie Chuan lowered his head.
Reece would watch Nie Chuan brush his teeth from beginning to end, yet he still fell short of success.
After the training, Reece drove Nie Chuan to the nearest dentist’s office.
Along the way, Nie Chuan was very nervous. He still remembered the experience of getting his tooth pulled when he was a little. It had been so painful that he couldn’t even eat braised pork for a few days. Even his white rabbit candy was given to the neighbor’s kids by his mom.
“Maybe I just got burned when I was eating that barbecue, that’s why my gums got swollen……” Nie Chuan comforted himself so.
Reece paid no heed, his face still cold. Reece was angry, and Nie Chuan could see it. There’s nothing to be done ah, as someone who watches to make sure he brushes his teeth both morning and night yet couldn’t withstand the chocolate hidden in the pillowcase, it’d be strange if he wasn’t angry……
When they stopped at a dentist’s office, Reece took Nie Chuan in to register. Only when he walked into the waiting room did Nie Chuan realize that it was practically all mothers with their kids.
The youngest one was only three or four years old and was being held in his mother’s arms, crying while getting coaxed. The older ones were only around ten.
When Nie Chuan and Reece sat down, they immediately attracted everyone’s attention.
One child put his arms around his mother’s neck and looked curiously at Nie Chuan. “Mom, does he have cavities too?”
His mother smiled and didn’t answer him, only hugging the child back.
“Children aren’t the only ones who can get cavities.”
Nie Chuan lowered his head and felt that he really lost face.
Meanwhile, Reece still didn’t speak.
After waiting another hour, it was finally Nie Chuan’s turn.
The dentist was a middle-aged man in his forties who smiled amiably when he saw Nie Chuan. He asked Nie Chuan to sit in a chair and open his mouth for examination.
“I would suggest we pull this tooth out. You should pay more attention to oral hygiene, don’t go straight to bed after eating something sweet.”
Nie Chuan was about to cry, was it really going to be pulled?
That tooth accompanied him for more than a decade, was he really about to lose it?
“He didn’t just go directly to sleep after eating sweets, he kept chocolate in his mouth when he went to bed.” Reece responded to the dentist coolly.
“Huh? Why would you want to go to sleep with chocolate in your mouth? Are you feeling a lot of stress or is there something that’s making you unhappy? I heard that sweets can make people feel better and relieve stress. Is it because of this?” The dentist said half-jokingly.
Nie Chuan was stunned. In the end, is he a dentist or a psychologist?
He really has been under a lot of pressure recently!
Because ever since he heard Reece describe his first kiss, he always couldn’t help imagining Reece meeting that person again some day and then moving out like Zhou Bin did!
Even if this kind of thinking was silly, Nie Chuan knew in his heart that even if that person didn’t appear, there would inevitably be a day when they parted ways.
Once their college life was over, they’ll probably go their separate ways, right?
Nie Chuan agreed to the extraction. The anesthetic injection dulled the pain while the decayed tooth was pulled and then thrown on the tray.
Nie Chuan sat up and looked at that tooth, it really had decayed……
After finally leaving the dentist’s office, half of Nie Chuan’s face was slightly swollen.
When they got back in the car and Reece started the engine, he pressed his hands on the steering wheel and suddenly said, “You sleeping with chocolate in your mouth, is it really because of stress?”
Nie Chuan was stunned again. He didn’t expect Reece to actually take what the dentist had said casually to heart.
Seeing that Nie Chuan didn’t answer, Reece asked again, “You feeling under pressure, is it because of me?”
Nie Chuan trembled slightly, could it be that Reece discovered something?
“Is it because I usually treat you too harshly, or are you in fact unwilling to live with me?”
Reece’s question pierced Nie Chuan’s heart like a needle. Without thinking, he spoke, “It’s because I’m afraid of us parting ways that I’m feeling stressed!”
After speaking, Nie Chuan regretted to the point of wanting to bite off his own tongue!
What nonsense is he saying! If Reece asked him why he would think of something like this, how would he answer? They’re only roommates and teammates, it would be a matter of time before that eventually happened.
“Why do you think we’ll part ways?” Reece turned and frowned slightly.
“Because…… because we’ll be graduating sooner or later. If I’m lucky, I’ll be working in a telecommunications engineering or related company, and you…… will either go to the NBA or stay in school to continue your studies……” Nie Chuan lowered his head.
Fortunately, what Reece asked was “Why do you think we’ll go separate ways” instead of “Why are you thinking about this.”
Drea: Chocolate doesn’t solve all problems NC
MadMadamMims: I hope NC gets a clue soon or he’ll lose all his teeth! 😱
Ohhh, surprised he didn’t get a root canal! That is super fun, lol. Also…these two…sigh.
The ad I got on this page was dental related 😆
Thanks for the chapter!!!
that’s okay Nie Chuan. I’m over twenty and can’t go to dentist without my mom ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ I have only one experience go to dentist without my mom, it was for an operation, and it was hella terrifying for me QAQ
Thanks for the chapter ❤❤
Pulling out a tooth! In college! I hope Nie Chuan is just a late bloomer and that was one of his baby teeth. Otherwise, he’ll have a hole in his mouth that won’t grow back, and he’ll be even more embarassed the next time Reece tries to steal a kiss. I agree with Mims. He should address his Reece/chocolate problem soon, or he’ll have no teeth left! Thanks for the update.
S…s-sleeping… with chocolate…in your mouth?! Gross!! Nie Chuan your morning breathe must be rancid, how could you do something like this!! Dental hygiene is important!! Brush your teeth properly!! (╬ಠ益ಠ) thank you for the chapter!
….what a method to destress ^^;
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Reece you’re guilty for that lost tooth! Why did you tease him so much ah