9 Chapter 9- Drinking for Inspiration (1/2)

Related to Episode 17 of Love O2O

A/N: The dialogue in this chapter comes from the series... the internal monologue of our protagonist is all me.

It was late by the time Hao Mei made it to the restaurant; the dinner rush was over and all that was left were the few stragglers, like himself, coming in for a meal after work. Rather than trying to decide what he wanted to eat, Mei ordered everything that took his fancy. He could always take the rest home if he couldn't finish it. Which, now that he thought about it, wasn't too shabby an idea. Left overs would be a more nutritious breakfast than his current diet of coffee and... well, coffee. He looked up as KO put the last plate on his table and all his previous thoughts of taking food home, disappeared. Why save it when he could share it?

”Hey, there's so much food. Eat with me!”

KO paused, flicked his eyes around the empty tables, then sat. Hao Mei gave him an unopened bottle of Rio.

”Drink too.”

The pair clinked their bottles together before a long swig. Hao Mei shivered as the sweet cold slide down his throat; he wasn't a huge fan of the sweet drink but it was cheap, which made it the drink of choice for broke students; and now he was stuck with a habit he couldn't be bothered to break.

”By the way, thank you.”

”For what?”

”I used to come to this place pretty often. I'm guessing you weren't working here at that time. Take this meat dish for example...” Hao Mei gestured to the plate with his chopsticks. ”You gave me at least three times as much as what I would have gotten before.”

”You're too skinny.”

Ai! This man! Hao Mei felt his cheeks heat; how could he say something like that to a man? And keep a straight face?

”I'm skinny from working too much.”