(fanfic) APH- Lovely maid Yao- Chapter 16

Chapter 16

 

Yao first came to the kitchen with the thought of yelling at his co-worker for being so careless. After all, it was Mathias’ fault that Ivan had been burnt and hurt.

Plus, the Chinese absolutely wanted to talk to the Dane before he would spread rumours about the recent “awkward event” that might cause him more embarrassing turmoil. 

However, when the Asian arrived in the kitchen, Mathias was nowhere to be found. In addition, Yao also noticed that there were still shattered glasses on the floor along with spilled tea from the latest mess. So in the end, Mathias didn’t even bother to clean the mess that he caused… 

Frustrated by the lack of responsibilities of his co-worker, Yao took a broom and started to clean the small damage before someone else would get hurt. 

Why was he always the one who had to take care of troubles? 

At least, cleaning always helped him to calm down; which was a good thing since he could now focus on calming his mind before continuing with his day. Not too long ago, his face was only some inches away from Ivan’s …and all this while being in a rather suggestive position on the other’s lap…

Only remembering this moment made Yao’s face turn red rapidly again. He only wondered what he was thinking when he was doing this. He was only taking care of Ivan and, before he knew it, he unconsciously got closer to the other…and if Mathias wouldn’t have walked into the room they probably would have…

Yao quickly shocked his head. Thinking about this was definitely not helping calming his mind. What he needed to do at the moment was to find a way to talk to Ivan before the other would start to get some ideas. Though, the more he thought about it, the more he didn’t knew what to say or to explain to the Russian. No matter what, he had to admit he didn’t really say anything against the fact that they were being so close when the event happened… 

 Maybe he could pretend like nothing happened? But he knew that Ivan would not let this go easily.  Why things were always complicated when it concerned his stalker? All this was only making the Asian even more anxious! 

He took a huge breath in hope that it will help him relax a little. Yao would have to simply find a way to solve his problems eventually, but for now he should concentrate on his job, especially since he didn’t made any progress with cleaning.

Although, he was still anxious, he continued to clean the mess until he noticed a school bag that was near the counter where Ivan fell. After a few seconds, Yao shockingly came to the realisation that it was probably this bag that made the Russian fall…

 “Aiyaa! Stupid Mathias!”He complained to himself, recognizing the bag. It was unbelievable; his damn co-worker caused him so many troubles today!

“Kolkolkolkolkokol~ So this is what made me fall?”A cold familiar voice pointed out bitterly.

Yao turned around to surprisingly notice that Ivan was standing right next him. However, what shocked the waiter more was the fact that the Russian came here bare-chested, even if Yao clearly specified him to not leave the room like that.

“Aiyaa! What are you doing here aru?! I told you to stay in the employee lounge!”The Chinese rapidly replied slightly panicking.

“B-but, it’s cold there. I am not used to be without my scarf. So I feel a little weird.”The blond whined while shivering a little.

“…and you don’t feel weird when you’re not wearing your shirt?” Yao muttered quietly, not understanding how can the Russian feel strange about not wearing his scarf, but be completely fine walking bare-chested like this.

“What?” Ivan asked confused by what the Asian was muttering.

“I can’t let you be at my workplace half-naked!” Yao scolded the other while ignoring his small question. “You’ll cause me trouble aru! You have to go to the employee lounge and wait there.” The Chinese quickly pushed Ivan back into the employee’s room. Unfortunately, it was quite a difficult thing to do since the other resisted and didn’t want to move.

“But I don’t want to wait there!”Ivan whined childishly again.

“Didn’t you order a cake and coffee? I’ll give it to you in just a second. You can eat it while waiting for your clothes to be dry.”The waiter proposed, remembering that his client did order before the “accident” happened. He went to prepare the Russian’s order in hope that it will change his mind and convince him to stay there.

“But it’s not the same thing…”

“Why?!” Yao inquired, surprised and exasperated at the same time.

“I won’t be able to talk to you.”Ivan explained. In fact, he didn’t really care for his order, now, he only wanted Yao to come back so that they might continue what they were about to do.

“I’ll come to see you after I finish cleaning.”Yao sighed while giving the order. The Asian honestly thought that it was a very fair deal. After all, he was taking time off his work to take care of Ivan and make sure he was okay, only to make him happy.

“…”

Unfortunately, it seemed that Ivan didn’t share the same definition of “fair” as him.

“What? You are not happy with that?”The Chinese questioned, noticing the obvious unhappy expression of his customer.

“No. It will be better if you stay with me while I eat da?”The Russian suggested, hoping that it would convince his crush to stay with him longer. 

“Aiya!”

Sometimes Yao felt like speaking with Ivan was like speaking with a child.

“…And feed me while being on my lap, da?” Ivan added casually like if this was a plain normal thing to ask.

“WHAT?! Forget about it!”The Chinese rapidly replied.

“But Yao-Yao, I am injured.”

“You might be burnt, but not to the point of not being able to eat by yourself!”Yao remarked, quite shocked to hear Ivan asking for such things. Although, he had to admit that he should have been used to Ivan’s weird antics by now. Nonetheless, this Russian came up with such ideas that he never knew how to react properly. Ivan was definitely one of a kind.

“Okay…”The blond said with a small pout; however this wasn’t what would make him give up yet. “So can I have a kiss instead?”He asked more cheerfully.

“Aiya! You are asking way too much!!”The Chinese yelled, his cheeks being completely red. This only made him remember what was about to happen a few minutes ago. Yao didn’t have the time to think about it clearly, though it was obvious that his stalker wasn’t about to forget it soon.

“But I am injured and it hurts!”

“A kiss will not solve anything!”

“Well if we don’t try, we will never know if it works or not.”

“I-I’m not going to kiss you!”Yao concluded, hoping his answer was definitely clear.

On the other hand, this completely crushed Ivan’s hopes. Why was Yao against something that he was encouraging only some minutes ago? He could understand that it might be a typical behaviour coming from shy Yao, but the Russian was so eager to be intimate with him that he couldn’t see what there was to be embarrassed about. 

“But Yao-Yao, why can’t you stay with me? It’s not like you have other clients to take care of.”The Russian asked, deciding to not give up. Since Yao seemed pretty resistant on staying here, he thought that he should start by convincing the other to stay longer. And considering the fact that they were still alone, he couldn’t stop thinking that he might have another opportunity of being intimate again. 

“What are you talking about?! I spent all this time with you instead of taking care of my other clients! Why are you still unhappy?!”The waiter snapped, slightly frustrated. “I still haven’t given Francis his bill and—”

At the exact instant, Yao completely stopped speaking when he realised what he just said. He was too preoccupied with taking care of Ivan that he completely forgot about Francis and his other clients!

In deep shock over this realisation, he unconsciously dropped the broom and glanced at the clock. It has been thirty minutes!! Thirty minutes that he didn’t see his customers…If it carries on like this, he will definitely lose his job… 

 “ Aiyaa! I have to go!”The Chinese exclaimed rushing toward the door and hoping that no one will complain about his absence.

However, as soon as he wanted to get out of here, Ivan held him, preventing the waiter to escape.

“NO YAO! Don’t go! Don’t dump me for Francis! Kolkolkolkolkol~” The Russian shouted, angered with this horrible thought.  

“What are you talking about again? I have to do my job! Let me go!”Yao ordered.

“Kolkolkolkol~ Yao you can’t leave me. I just got burnt by boiling water. Now I can’t stay in the same room as boiling stuff; it’s going to be awkward.”

The waiter looked at the other in disbelieve because of this overly strange excuse, however after a while he realised that Ivan was seriously using this as a real reason.

“What kind of excuse is that aru?!”The Chinese inquired, astonished to hear that Ivan seemed pretty serious with using his lame justification. After some attempts to escape the Russian’s grip, Yao had finally got the chance to get out of it and be free. Unfortunately for him, at the last second, Ivan pulled the apron of Yao’s dress.

In frustration, the waiter rapidly gave the blond a glare that obviously demanded the apron back, but regardless of that, the Russian still kept it. 

 “IVAN, GIVE ME THAT!”Yao screamed, he thought that the glare he gave was obvious, alas the blond still didn’t seem to want to return the apron. 

“Only if Yao-Yao agrees to stay with me!”

“You know I need this to work. Ivan, you have to give my apron aru! It’s part of my uniform! If I don’t have it, I might be in trouble.”Yao explained, trying to sound as calm as possible. Things were truly not going well right now, if Yao would lose his job because of Ivan, he will never talk to him again! Though, even if he complained, he had some part of him that was sure that Ivan could somehow understand his situation. In the few days he came here, Ivan proved to him that he was capable to be really understandable sometimes.

And thankfully for Yao, this was one of the times that Ivan understood. The Russian let a small discouraged sigh and gave him the apron with a saddened expression.

“Thank you.”The Chinese simply replied, he took his apron as fast as he could, fearing that the other would decide to suddenly change his mind.

“Yao, do you promise to come back to your master soon da?”The blond finally said, now having a light-hearted expression.

“I’ll…hurry up…” The Asian answered slowly. Despite the cold glare Yao gave for the words he used, Ivan responded to this with a big smile.

“But you have to go to the employee lounge while I’m gone.”He added, pointing the particular room.

“Okay...”The client agreed, with an unpleasing expression.

“And whatever you do don’t get out of here without your shirt aru!”

*** 

When Yao hastily came back, he was thankful to see that Francis was still there. 

“H-hey…” The Chinese started the conversation. He didn’t know what to say to show his sincere apology. He only hoped that he wouldn’t get too many complaints because of this.

“Ha, there you are Yao! I thought you got lost in the kitchen.”The French joked. 

“I-I’m very sorry aru. I-I got distracted with something.”The other admitted sheepishly. 

“It’s very fine. It was your break after all. The other waiter gave me the rest.”

Break? Did his recent absence counted as his break? That wouldn’t be fair since he was actually taking care of a customer that was injured instead of having a break.

Nonetheless, it seemed like Mathias was kind enough to take care of things while he wasn’t here. Well, at least he wouldn’t be in trouble for his absence; the Dane could be really useful when he wanted to.

 “So I will leave. Thanks for everything. See you tomorrow at school.”

Yao couldn’t believe his eyes, finally the last client was about to leave! That means he would definitely have a relaxing and tranquil evening. It was the best news he heard of all day! He couldn’t be any more grateful for that.

“Have a nice evening!” Yao replied, with a hint of optimism in his voice. He was only happy that everything could be quiet and calm now. Unfortunately, as soon as he thought that, a flash appeared which completely puzzled him once again.

“Hon hon~ The last one for the day!”The French blond laughed. 

“HAA! I told you to stop taking pictures aru!”The Chinese snapped, extremely annoyed by Francis’ habit. 

“Kolkolkolkolkol~”

 …And apparently, he wasn’t the only one being annoyed…

Afraid of knowing what in the world was going to happen; Yao slowly looked around to see that Ivan was next to him still half-naked and was glaring at the other blond.

 “Aiyaa!!! Ivan didn’t I told you to wait in the employee longue?! You can’t walk here like this!” Yao scolded him, trying to push the Russian back into the kitchen.  The only thing he was relieved for was the fact that there were no other clients in the café at this hour.

Completely ignoring Yao’s protestations, Ivan harshly took Francis’ cell phone out of his hands. There was no way he would let Francis return home while having on his position so many pictures of cute little Yao.

“I-Ivan, what are you doing?! Give him back his cell phone.”The waiter ordered, trying to not panic. He couldn’t understand what this Russian was doing; though, Yao was certain that if Ivan continued with this comportment bad things would happen.

Even if Ivan was bringing an eerie atmosphere to the room, Francis, on the other hand, didn’t seem to be affected by it. The French wasn’t saying or doing a thing, which greatly surprised Yao.

 In reality, the blue eyed blond was puzzled to see Ivan wearing not much on him. And now that he noticed it, Yao’s hair was in pretty bad shape too and his uniform did look like someone had played with it... In the end, all this seemed quite subjective…It didn’t take long for the blond to have a hypothesis of what Yao might have been distracted during his break…

“W-why are you looking at us like this?!” The Asian inquired, not understanding why the French was consecutively looking at Ivan and him instead of actually doing something. 

 “Haaa…” He expressed, sounding like someone who finally realised a very great discovery.

“What?”

“If I promise to not bother you two anymore, would you give me back my cell phone?” Francis simply asked kindly.

“Kolkolkolkolkol~ I won’t return your cell phone while you have pictures of Yao-Yao on it.”

Francis was expecting that reply, but not Yao, who seemed to be very surprised and embarrassed.

“Ivan what are you doing?!” The waiter demanded. To a certain point of view, Ivan’s action could be regarded as stealing. 

“I will return it, once I delete the pictures da?” The Russian clarified.

“So you will give it back?” 

“Of course.” Ivan confirmed with a big smile. 

The Chinese gave a big sigh; he was somehow relieved that Ivan’s common sense wasn’t that bad and that, at least, Francis didn’t take it badly and was only smiling. 

Both the French and the waiter looked at Ivan waiting for him to delete the pictures and give the cell phone back, however, after a little while nothing happened…Ivan only stayed there with his usual smile… it seemed that deleting the pictures wasn’t part of Ivan’s plan for the moment… 

 “So you can go away now, da? Bye-bye, have a nice evening!” The Russian quickly added, before the other blond could demand any more explanations. He hastily pushed the French out of the café and rudely closed the door on his face. 

Meanwhile, Yao stood there bewildered by what was going on. In less than five minutes, Ivan took Francis’s cell phone and just threw him out of the café with no protestations!

All this was surely unbelievable; however, what surprised Yao even more was the fact that no fight or argument happened.

 “See my Yao-Yao, you are all safe now da?” The Russian chimed, giving him a sweet smile once he was certain that the French wouldn’t come back.

Ivan completely ignored Yao’s shocked expression and gave him a big hug. In less than a second, Yao was enlaced by the Russian’s arms for the second time of the day and once again he didn’t know how to react to that.

“W-what?”

“Come on, you two, just get a room already!”Mathias, who was passing by, playfully suggested to them. 

“AIYAA!!!”

(TBC)