Yo babes! A long chapter. Hope that's okay with you. Things needed to be sped up, hence, you'll find a tiny time jump. If it's confusing, just ask.

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"The walls begin to tumble down
And I can't even see the ground

I'm falling into you
This dream could come true
And it feels so good falling into you

Falling like a leaf, falling like a star
Finding a belief, falling where you are

Catch me, don't let me drop!
Love me, don't ever stop!"

-'Falling Into You' by Celine Dion

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Chapter-7

“Are you disappointed in me….Nana?”

“Disappointed? Whatever for, sweetheart?”

“That I’m in love…with a…that..”

“That you are in love with a wonderful person that cares for you, makes you happy? Is that not what I pray for every night? This is my dream come true, ZhouZhou. The only thing I want for you is your happiness and he is doing a fine job in keeping this kitten of mine happy.”

“Nana…… You’re the best. But…what about Mum and Dad? Will they be so accepting once they know I’m in love with a man?”

“And why not? Have they told you anything that suggested otherwise?”

“No, I haven’t told them. They don’t know yet.”

“Then why are you doubting them beforehand?”

“It’s… Nana, I’m their only son and they surely expect me to carry forward the family name…I mean, isn’t that a son’s primary duty? Isn’t that why they brought me into this world?”

“Oh, ZhouZhou… No, sweetheart, that is not the reason why you are here! Listen to me, you came to this world for love. You are the embodiment of your parents’ love and care. It is unfortunate that not every child can claim to be so and that is exactly why you should not have doubts or confusion about it. Yes, there is a possibility that your parents may not understand this at first, but you have to be patient with them. You have to show them that this is what makes you happy, makes you prosper. That it is good for you. Because it is all your mum and dad wishes for you to have, my sweet boy. But before all that, you have to be sure for yourself. So, ZhouZhou, are you sure that he is good for you?”

“…………….I don’t know, Nana. I don’t know if he is good for me or he is the one for me. But…but when I look at him, I want to be better. I want to be someone who deserves him, someone he’d desire. I want him to be proud of me, Nana. I want to be someone that would help him to achieve his dreams. I love him so much, Nana…..”

“Oh…….Follow your heart, little Zhou. Follow the love that uplifts your soul. I think JingYu is indeed very good for you.”

“I want to be good for him too.”

“You will, someday, you definitely will. Have patience. Love that endures is the strongest of all.”

“Thank you, Nana.”

“You are always welcome, my dear. Now tell me what were you saying about a gift? Is it for JingYu?”

“Oh, yeah, I completely forgot. I was meaning to gift him something.  What do you think I should give him?”

“Something that will be meaningful and useful as well, don’t you think?"

“Yeah……but…what?”

“That I don’t know. You young people have so many options these days; I am sure you will think of something.”

“But I can’t! I mean, I know him better than before but don’t know enough to guess his needs…. Hey, Nana, what would you have chosen if you had to give him something?”

“Me? Why, I’d knit him a jumper or…. ZhouZhou, why don’t you knit him something?!”

“Kn-knitting?! Nana, I don’t even know how to hold the needles!”

“Oh, hush. You will learn.”

“But-“

“Give him a rubber duck, then.”

“Nanaaa!”

XOXOXOX

Pip was prancing like a monkey on sugar high.

“No dude, no, absolutely not.”

“But Pip, it’s my only chance!”

“Only? Only chance? You guys are fucking besties already!”

“Oh please, stop being so dramatic. Sharing a walk back home thrice a week doesn’t give me any chance. I need to do something!!! Or my love story will be stuck between the pub and the subway forever. Help me, dude!”

“I don’t see how beating me to a pulp will help you with your sodding love life! It’s more than a month you guys are slobbering over each other! You’re practically living on the streets, stalking him night and day! If it hasn’t moved to the next level yet, it never will. You want progress? Next time see him, grab him, tear his clothes off and fuck his brain out. …..Or is that other way around? Ew!” He gave a shudder and continued, “ Whatever. I guess that’d be enough to clear your intention to him.”

A throw pillow hit him square on the face which flew back to where it came from hitting Timmy back.

“I don’t want to hear anything. You have to do it. You owe me!” With a sense of finality Timmy plopped down on the couch.

Pip threw himself where Timmy’s legs were resting, extracting an “Owwww” from his friend.

“Owe you? For what exactly? Saving your sorry arse every time you run into a ditch?! Fuck off.”

“Nana’s pickles. You owe me for it.” A kick was aimed at Pip’s thigh which missed its target and went wide.

Pip kicked back hitting bulls eye, “Oh, yeah? Next you wanna collect debt for the lunch you shared with me on our 2nd standard? You wanker! Can’t you find another guy who’s easy to catch? Someone from our circle? What about that dude in Art major that always wears plaids? Saw him eyeing you the other day. Pretty good looking too. Can’t you ask him out and just be done with this constant horniness?” He leaned his head backwards, looking at the ceiling.

“Buzz off, will you?” Timmy threw his friend a look as if he was a particularly smelly piece of garbage, then closing his eyes continued, “No one else will do. Only JingYu. He’s the one for me. I won’t settle down for anything else just because he is hard to have.”

Pip’s head lifted up and he stared at Timmy. This was the first time he saw his friend this obsessed about something that did not involve music. He wouldn’t admit it even if his life depended on it but he cared for Timmy deeply. It would hurt him beyond words if his best friend got his heart broken.

“Is he even gay?”

Timmy swallowed but kept his eyes shut, “I don’t know.”

“Dude!”

“I don’t care, Pip!” The voiced was laced with frustrated anger, “I don’t fucking care if he’s straight or gay or bi or a fucking unicorn! All I know that I love him and I will not back down without trying.” He sat up straight, “He may not ever like me back but I know he feels something for me. Something that isn’t bro like. I can’t explain it with words but I can feel it. And I need to know what it is.”

It was like seeing a different Timmy altogether; an older, mature one. The desperation was not child like, the frustration had a grown up feel about it. The sadness seemed aged. Pip rubbed his eyes, reasoning his sappy heart not to give in.

“What if the only thing you get out of it is heartbreak?” He tried one last time.

Instead of getting upset, Timmy’s whole demeanor perked up, “Love that endures is the strongest!”

“Just die already.”

Another throw pillow flew back and forth.

XOXOXOX

JingYu immediately choked, spilling water everywhere; it came down his nose also.

He had just finished teaching a batch of students. Now was the slot for newly joined. He and another guy from his level were assigned to groom this batch and he was discussing the methods they should take while coming into the practice room and sipping from a water bottle.

But the sight in front made him forget which pipe the water should go down.

Timmy was standing in the front row in full Jiu Jitsu garb, beaming like a child who was told that the Christmas came early.

What the actual fuck?!

Their acquaintance had gotten stronger in the last month, bordering on friendship. This was friendship or possibly more if JingYu was to be honest with himself, but he did not want to be honest and tread on that path of thought. However, the times he had spent with Timmy, the times when they took the same way home, or when Timmy popped up at the store more than he had any reason to be, or he caught him following him to this Dojo, taught JingYu one thing: this boy was prone to do absurd things. And absurd meant bringing JingYu hot chocolates four days in a weak for three weeks straight absurd.
But this? This was beyond absurd. This was insane.

“What are you doing here?” He meant it to be a bark but his still stunned self failed to bring out the force and his voice sounded baffled instead.

The stupid fool gave him one of those stupid, adorable smiles of his that sometimes made JingYu’s heart beat faster.

“We wanted to learn Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and this is the best in entire Beijing. So, ta da! Heh.”

It sounded like he was here to learn making fluffy cupcakes, not self defense, the way this boy was smiling. Wait, did he say…

“We?”

“Oh, here.” A skinny equally young looking, bedraggled boy was being dragged from behind Timmy. “This is Pip, my friend. It was his idea, actually. You see, he often gets bullied and wanted to learn that will make him defend himself if the situation calls for it. He is really interested in learning it.”

Looking at the extremely sulky expression on Pip JingYu had no doubt exactly whose sunny idea it was.

He nodded and said, “Clearly.”

Well, in that case I’ll just need to make sure you do not go on pulling crazy stunts like this anymore. JingYu’s mind gritted out and he jumped into action.

“Hello students, we welcome you into the programme and ask you to be interactive with your instructors about the lessons you will receive. You will be divided into batches after the first week and for the time being, I, Mr. Huang and Mr. Gong here will be your instructor. Now, as for today, we will begin our first lesson by demonstrating you a mock fight. Usually, we pair two instructors as the opponents, but today we have decided to take some liberty and choose one of you to be the opponent of the first fight. That being said, I call Pip to come to the centre; the rest of you, please sit forming a wide square. Thank you.”

Pip stood there like a deer caught in the  headlights. Timmy looked off putting. JingYu chuckled.

XOXOXOX

“This is a side control technique which you will be needing throughout your training routines and beyond. Observe and learn,” saying this JingYu lied down and gestured for the pitiful looking boy to come over.

Pip didn’t move.

“Please come here and lie on me. You have to chokehold my neck, all right?”

“Li-lie on you?!” With eyes like two tennis balls, Pip gawked at him and then looked over where Timmy was seated. “Dude?”

Twisting his head just in time JingYu saw how Timmy’s lips pullef down but they lifted up into a toothy smile immediately when they caught each other’s eyes.

“Go on, you’ll do great!” A thumbs up sign was thrown at his friend.

The demo began.

“Look closely how I am rounding my left arm to his neck for leverage while blocking his shoulder with my right one. In that way you will get the chance for bridging.”

JingYu wasn’t sure if Pip was choking him or holding him like a life line. The boy was shaking for fuck’s sake!

“Now I’m going to slide my right arm free and hold his shoulder from outside, like this. All right, now, I’m going to roll to get the upper hand. You can roll either way.” JingYu rolled both ways to show. “Now you have to push your hips up to bridge in order to disbalance the opponent; at the same time move your left arm and bring it in front of their chin. Then try to push their heads backwards and try to create space in between your bodies. You have to keep rolling all along. Now, once you have enough space, push your dominant foot on the opponent’s lower torso and wrap your other leg around their waist, like this. Aaaand, flip them over.” JingYu flipped the still clinging boy so that he was sitting on top now, “Like this.”

“TIMMYYYYYYYYY!”

A cry like a slaughtered pig wrenched out from a terribly white looking Pip who was still underneath JingYu with a scrunched up face.

Momentarily taken aback, JingYu quickly got up and patted the boy’s chest, “Hey, you okay?”

“I didn’t sign up for this, honest!” Pip said half sobbing.

JingYu smirked and said, "But you did, remember?" Then, sweeping his eyes over a sullen Timmy he faced the class.

“The next move is called ‘Bridge and Roll escape’.

“Wait-“

Not so surprisingly it was Timmy that cut in.

Not in the mood of tolerating Timmy’s any more childish stunts, he snapped at him, “Do not talk during the class. You are not allowed to interrupt a fight.”

“Erm…” Timmy sucked his lower lip into his mouth. He was nervous, JingYu knew instantly. The fact that he could read Timmy so easily didn't even seem odd to him.

“If you have anything to ask or say during a fight, raise your hand and wait to get noticed.”

A hand went up in the air slowly.

God, this boy….he’ll be the death of me, I swear…. JingYu groaned internally, suddenly finding it hard to stay angry with this idiot. “Ask.”

“Umm…don’t I-, I mean others get to volunteer too?”

Both eyebrows went up. “You want to?” Asked JingYu incredulously. He thought he would be able to scared Timmy off by flipping and pushing his friend; BJJ was not a child’s play, after all…but apparently, he assumed wrong.

With Timmy’s consensual nod, JingYu asked Pip to go and gestured Timmy in. After positioning himself under Timmy, out of others’ earshot, he hissed out, “What the hell are you doing here exactly?”

Hovering over JingYu, he replied, “I thought you’d be…happy-“

“Happy? This is not a joke, Timmy!”

Fully expecting a cheeky reply, the mumbled ‘sorry’ threw him off kilter.
The demo began once again.

“Straddle me.”

“Wha- oh.” Timmy mounted over him.

“Now, look closely,” he addressed the class, “The opponent’s hands needed to be on the ground on each side of my head for me to bridge.” He grabbed and put Timmy’s hands on the mentioned place then asked him to withdraw again. “To get him into my favourable position, I will push my hips up like this.” Jingyu arched his pelvic region directly upon which Timmy was sitting and the move shoved the boy forward. Timmy fell face down, hitting JingYu’s shoulder.

“Ooowww!”

He lifted the boy up with lightening quickness.

“Why didn’t you balance yourself? You need to put your hands flat on the ground,” Voice tinged with anxiousness, Jing asked while examining Timmy’s cheek.

“I thought you wouldn’t let me fall.”

Thud.

His heart slammed hard inside him. The boundless trust in those few words pushing him into a loop. Why this much trust? What did he do to deserve it?

Someone cleared their throat and the reality of the surrounding hit him like a freight train. He collected himself quickly and resumed the demo, but not before whispering, “I won’t” to the boy above.

XOXOXOX

Timmy never regretted his actions this much before. When the idea first came up to him, it felt really the best one and yet, here he was, angering JingYu, making a mess of the entire thing and embarrassing both of them.

And on top of everything, he was getting hard. Fan-fucking-tastic.

JingYu’s hips nudged him, pushing him forward once again. This had been going on for a while now. Apparently every BJJ move was formulated with excessessive amount of hips pushing and nudging, thus making it a death trap for those sexually frustrated souls. Timmy, who was already a goner, was finding it hard to be able to take this much body contacts much longer from the object of his wet dreams.

Another push and Timmy screamed in his head, exactly how many times you have to nudge with your dick me before I start wanking right here, you big moron?! He was struggling to keep his lower half away from JingYu as much as possible; the way things were going, it was a wonder the big fool hadn’t noticed the very interested little guy yet.

He was flipped over yet again with JingYu on top.

A big warm hand was touching Timmy’s bared neck before vanishing just under the openings of his uniform and- oh fucking fuuuuuuck! JingYu’s finger grazed over one of his nipples and Timmy’s hips bucked up involuntarily. And made a contact with the backside of JingYu’s arse.
JingYu, who was doing something by holding his chin and blabbering some textual explanation, went still, eyes widening.

Fuck.

Maybe he was too shell shocked to fathom what was happening, maybe he was just taking the piss, Timmy didn’t know why exactly, but JingYu slightly pushed back after a moment, thus making Timmy’s cock rub more prominently.

Breathing faster, he bit his lips as he saw a crimson blush was rapidly covering JingYu’s exposed neck, going towards his ears and spreading all over his face.

Oh. Dear. God.

Timmy closed his eyes. JingYu sprang free from the locking position he was demonstrating.

So much for making progress.

XOXOXOX

JingYu stood there as he watched Timmy shoving his things into his backpack, quiet as death, movements jittery. He could relate; he acted much the same in the changing room. He still didn’t know what to make of everything that happened today. The moment Timmy appeared in his life, it had been an emotional roller coaster ride for him. His every perception, every belief, his self knowledge- everything went topsy turvy this last month. He could say that he thought the boy as the younger brother he never had, but he knew he would be lying. He never saw Timmy with such innocent eyes. While he didn’t have any ill intention towards him, he could not justify this weird attraction he had to someone this much younger than him. He felt immoral, like a pervert and this made him cringe away from his own reflection at times. Whenever he thought Timmy was giving out a sign of mutual attraction, he slapped himself hard for his degraded delusions. Though crazy and annoying beyond words, Timmy was innocent as a child, something to be protected, to be cherished, not to be lusted over. And above all, he himself was straight. He had always been. He had dates girls, slept with them a few times, masturbated thinking about them. Never once in his life a guy was able to extract any kind of sexual reaction from him. But….

But today, when he felt that hardness poking him on the arse, when he watched that flushed, sweaty face beneath him, something broke inside. The emotions he had been shoving into the darkest recess of his mind, the emotions he had felt for Timmy oozed out of every pore of his skin, making him blind to the reality. Making him hard.

JingYu closed his eyes and cursed, swallowing the storm of emotion that was raging on, ready to burst free.

“Timmy?”

The back that was facing him currently stiffened, telling JingYu that his call was heard. He walked and stood behind the boy.

“Could we talk for a moment?”

The nod was delayed, reluctant and tiny. JingYu walked past him and stepped outside the Dojo, giving Timmy time to talk with his friend and maybe compose himself.

He looked up in the sky, but instead of seeing his dreams he saw a delicate face, full of trust and hope saying him not to let him fall.

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A/N: my knowledge regarding BJJ is entirely google based. I apologise for any glaring oddities.