The siren call of the braid in the middle row

Chapter 3

Wufei once again poked his sore forearm. The ugly cat's claws were not only scary looking, they were also sharp as hell. He poked his arm again.

One could not know for sure which one of them had been more startled when the alarm went off, Wufei or the ugly cat. But one could suspect that it was, in fact, the cat who took the incident the hardest. For not only did it wake up to the bawling tunes of the MacGyver intro, its world also tumbled over when its resting place decided to fall off the couch. What happened next was really not a surprise to anyone.

No, a ugly cat tangled up in a fluffy afghan and a human could only react in one way, which was to shred whatever was closest to pieces. Unfortunately for Wufei, the closest thing to the ugly cat's fury was his forearms.

Wufei poked his arm again and stated that, 'yes, it did still hurt like crap.'

“Chang, would you please stop poking that, it's giving me the creeps.”

“Sorry Ellen.” He muttered to the tall blond who was chopping up pork with a shiny butcher knife next to him. Why cat scratches would make a girl that was covered in blood most of the time uncomfortable was something that Wufei could not understand. But he really was not stupid enough to voice the thought.

Because, let me tell you this, Ellen is one a strange creature that, like the ugly cat, you did not in any way want to aggravate. The consequence could be devastating. This was something Wufei knew from experience. He had been working with her in the butcher shop for almost two years now and during that time she had locked him in the freeze room for forgetting to refill the coffee pot, put pig's blood in his coke for making her deal with a irritating customer (but on the other hand, the poor old lady who just wanted to make a nice dinner for her daughter probably suffered more at the hands of the pissed off shopkeeper than Ellen had by helping her) and smacked him in the face with sheep liver for eating the last chocolate covered donut. Other then that, she was a really nice girl.

Discretely giving his arm one last poke he then turned back to the meat-mincer in front of him and got to work. He let his thoughts get lost as his hands was occupied with the monotonous process of making ground meat.

After doing a mental scan of his schedule, Wufei realized that he had another economical history lecture the following day. This was a realization that broth him both joy and a tremendous amount of anxiety. The reason for joy was that he would get to see the beautiful Adonis again while the anxiety was based on the location of the lecture. The lecture was held in one of the newer lecture halls. And unlike the old ones, they did not have a ventilation unit that made sure that Wufei would be left alone. The trick was to arrive when most people had already sat down and find a place with as much empty seats around it as possible. Wufei played with the thought of -maybe- finding a seat a bit closer to Adonis this time. Not too close, but close enough to see better, maybe even tell what color his eyes were.

(This is the moment where our protagonist loses all contact with the world and instead visits this little place called la-la land.)

'But god he was beautiful. Like a angel fallen from the sky. Big eyes, nicely shaped cheekbones, skin that looked so, so smooth, not to mention those lips. To be able to kiss those lips. Place those cheeks in the palms of my hands and pull him close. To feel his breath against my face. Starting out with soft butterfly kisses, that would very soon heat up. Lips opening and hungry tongues twisting around each other as-'

“Earth to Wufei, come in Wufei.”

“Huh? What?” He said as he crashed back into the real world. He did a quick checked with the back of his hand to make sure that he hadn't been drooling.

“You've been staring at the meat grinder for god knows how long. What's on your mind? Grandmother giving you problems again?”

“No, she's fine. She and some friends went to this health spa a couple of days ago and I haven't heard from her since.” And wasn't Wufei grateful for that. Now, don't get the wrong impression. The man loved his grandmother and would do anything for her. But she nagged. By god how she nagged. He could understand that she was concerned for him since he was her only living relative. But he was twenty one years old and was fully capable of remembering to change his own underwear.

“So then whats wrong.” Ellen said as she carelessly cut the head of a dead chicken

“Nothings wrong.” He said as he refused to meet her eyes.

“Bull-freakin'-shit. Come on. Tell your aunty Ellen all about it.” She said with a predatory smile.

“Nothings wrong, really. It's just this guy...”

Ellen's smile grow wider. “Oh, it's one of those. So does this guy have a name?”

Wufei shrugged his shoulders. “Probably, I just don't know what it it.”

“Ok, now I'm curious. So who is this guy and where did you meet him?” She said and pushed the chickens bloody head of the board and into the trash can standing by her feet.

Wufei avoided the question for a few seconds by refilling the meat grinder. But since he really didn't want minced meat shoved down his shirt by a irritated blond, he decided to answer.“I think meet him is a bit strong. He's in my 'History of Economics' class. “

“Which class was that? Is that the one with the pointless law tests or the one with the worthless books?” With a flick of her wrist a new chicken landed with a wet thud on her chopping board.

“Nether. This course just started. I saw him for the first time yesterday. Gods, he has to be -the- most beautiful man I have ever seen.”

Ellens eyes lit up. “Prettier then Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise”

“Yes.”

“Justin Timberlake?”

Wufei snorted. “Hell yes”

“Better the your dream man Adam Savage.” She said in a teasing voice that told him that 'Yes, she know all about his Mythbuster obsession.'

“Yes.”

“Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean?”

“...Yes”

“Aha! I felt a slight hesitation there.” She said and pointed the blood splattered knife at him in victory.

He could feel a slight blush spreading. “I have a thing for the dreads, so sue me.”

“So, no dreads on the mystery guy.” Ellen said as she played with her butcher knife.

“No.” Wufei let a pleased smile spread across his lips. “But he has something better.”

Ellen raised an eyebrow in question.

“He has really, and I mean -really- long hair. It looks like it should be halfway down to his knees.”

“Really?”

“Yeah... well I can't know for sure since he was wearing it in a braid.”

“Wow, I think that beats the dreads.” Ellen said with a leer.

“Definitely.”Wufei said with a dreamy look in his eyes.

They worked in silence for a few minutes before Ellen turned to her coworker again.

“So are you going to talk to him?”

Wufei gave his friend a look of pure disbelief.

“Hello, my name is Wufei Chang. We must not have meet before since you obviously don't know that answer to that. Of course I'm not going to talk to him!”

Ellen sighed in disbelief over his melodramatic act. “Why not? What's the worst that could happen?” Wufei did not dignify that with an answer.

“So you're just going to sit in the back and watch him?”

“Yes.”

“You're pathetic. You know that right?”

Wufei sighed. “Yes, but I can live with that.”

Ellen just rolled her eyes and turned back to her knifes.

Yes, Wufei was fully aware that he was pathetic. And as he said, that was something that he could live with. It wasn't like he had a choice. It wasn't like you could buy yourself a new personality or social understanding in the supermarket. No, Wufei was and had always been a wallflower. It would be nice to be able to just walk over to the man of his dreams and be able to start talking to him. To maybe ask him on date. Hold his hand, kiss those lips and run his fingers through that beautiful hair. (...and we lost him again.) Touch that wonderful a creature that was just too sensual to be touched by mortal men. But how he longed to do so. He would place his hand softly on Adonis arm and smiled as the beautiful man turned toward him. His fingers would wrapped themselves around the man's wrist and tug the other body close to his. Adonis would come easy and willingly. His hair floating freely in the wind. The beautiful man would smile and lean in to capture his lip in a kiss so powerful he would feel his knees start to buckle. Adonis clothes would fall of his body like leaf in the fall as he-”

“Chang! Get your head straight. We got work to do, the delivery just came in. We got two dead cows to chop up.”

“Coming.” Wufei sighed and put on a new par of plastic gloves. This was going to be a long day.

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A/N And now, *gets down on knees* Please tell me what you thought about the chapter. *looks up at you with tear filed eyes*

Thanks to SakuyasLittleBird who beta read this story.