Well Happy Birthday to me it's cold and snowing so that's a pain in the arse, anyway I hope you enjoy the latest chapter :D

The next morning when Phichit wakes he feels much better. His headache is gone, so is the dizziness and he doesn't feel sick when he moves anymore. Moving still isn't a very attractive prospect as his bed is warm and, the more he thinks about it the more he notices the arm draped over his hips. Without waking the person behind him Phichit slowly turns and finds himself face to face with a sleeping Chris and the memories from last night come flooding back.

He accidentally sent a text to Chris asking him to come over and look after him and to top that off he had asked Chris to stay the night. He wants to shove his face into the pillow beneath him and scream but that will definitely wake Chris up and then Phichit will have to explain himself. It already takes every ounce of his self control not to gently poke Chris' cheek to make sure that he is actually there and Phichit isn't still having a fever dream.

In the end he decides to act as if this is completely normal and, when Chris finally wakes up the two of them lie there and chat for a good half an hour before Chris makes breakfast while Phichit has a shower. It's such a strange morning but a good strange. Phichit enjoys being with Chris and talking as if they met under different circumstances is surprisingly easy. It's still there in the back of Phichit's mind, that he shouldn't get too attached to Chris because he's not supposed to be looking to date Chris, but he still can't help but smile all the way up until he leaves around mid morning.

Almost as soon as his front door is closed questions flood into Phichit's mind like a swarm. There are so many his brain literally can't contain or process any of them. All he seems to be able to do is stand in the hallway and stare at the wall. That is until a knock at the door brings him back to himself with a start. His heart leaps and he half hopes that it's going to be Chris on the other side but when he opens it it's Yuuri and he's both relieved and disappointed in equal measure.

"Oh..."

"Expecting someone else," Yuuri laughs.

"Um... no," Phichit says, shaking his head.

"You sure?"

Phichit just stares at him for a moment before giving himself a mental slap around the face and coming back to himself properly. "Sorry, come in, I thought there might be a chance that you were Chris."

"Oh well if you're expecting him I can always come back after work tonight," Yuuri says as he enters.

"It's less that I'm expecting him and more that he just left," Phichit admits. Yuuri's going to find out either way, be it asking the right questions or Phichit just cracking and blurting it out so he can ask for advise, so he might as well just get it over with and tell him.

"Oh really?" Yuuri asks, a knowing smile spreading across his lips. "And what, pray tell, happened last night. I thought you said that you couldn't hang out because you were sick and didn't want me to catch anything."

"I was," Phichit says. "Can we talk about this over coffee?"

"Sure."

Phichit wanders, half dream like, into the kitchen and begins to fill the kettle. He's not concentrating enough on what he's doing and ends up over-filling it before finally setting it to boil. He can't seem to focus his mind on anything that isn't Chris and what happened last night. It's ridiculous and he knows it – he wasn't even like this after the two of them had sex for crying out loud!

"So..." Yuuri presses when it is clear that Phichit isn't going to start the conversation, "wanna tell me what happened last night?"

"Right... sure," Phichit says, still half dazed.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Yuuri asks, genuinely concerned.

Phichit groans. "I have no idea! I thought I was but now I'm all confused."

"Are you falling for him?" Yuuri asks. Direct and to the point.

"I don't know," Phichit admits. "Maybe."

"And that's a problem?"

"It is since he doesn't date clients."

"Sensible."

"I know and here I am going crazy!" Phichit groans again, placing his face in his hands and resting his elbows on top of the counter.

"Okay so what has actually happened between you two?" Yuuri asks. "The last thing you told me was that he saying the two of you should have sex for reasons that I cannot fathom other than he wanted an excuse to sleep with you."

"Maybe he did, I don't know," Phichit says.

"So what happened?"

"Okay so literally just after I got off the phone with you last week he came over and we did actually end up having sex," Phichit begins.

"And you're only just telling me this now?" Yuuri asks incredulously.

"I know, I'm sorry, I'm useless," Phichit groans. "I just didn't know how to bring it up considering that you'd just told me that you'd split up with Jerry."

"Okay I'll give you that," Yuuri says. "So you had sex with him, then what?"

"Well we just carried on as normal for the past week but when I was ill yesterday I accidentally sent a text meant for you to him," Phichit replies.

"You what?"

"I know, I am an idiot of the highest order."

"So what did it say?" Yuuri asks.

Phichit pulls out his phone, gets up the text and shows it to Yuuri. "And he just came over, like that."

"And he looked after you last night?"

"Yeah, he made me soup and bought a couple of films over then helped me into bed when it became apparent that I was just falling asleep on the sofa."

"And?"

"And nothing," Phichit shrugs. "I woke up this morning and he was still there but we just sort of acted like it was normal. He made me breakfast and then left."

"Just like that? No trying to sleep with you again?" Yuuri asks still a little incredulously.

"Nope," Phichit shakes his head. "I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. He didn't ask for anything he didn't push for anything he just looked after me. I mean that has to mean something right?"

"I would say so," Yuuri says.

"I just don't know what I'm supposed to do," Phichit says again and puts his face in his hands.

"What do you want to do?" Yuuri asks.

Phichit shrugs. "I have no idea. I just... I don't know what it means. Does it mean that he's just a really nice guy or he's interested in me or what."

"I can understand why you'd be confused," Yuuri says. "It's not exactly what you'd consider normal, the circumstances you met under."

"I guess..."

"And he came and looked after you while you were sick and didn't expect anything in return, there aren't many guys that will do that," Yuuri states.

"I should probably talk to him about it," Phichit says. "I mean that's the only way that I'm going to really get answers."

"Exactly and it can't hurt to talk things through if it's confusing."

"And maybe then I can find out what's going on in his head as well," Phichit says. "I mean surely it's not normal what's happened between us right?"

"Well it would be if he wasn't trying to get you a boyfriend," Yuuri chuckles.

"I guess so."

"I'm guessing that's sort of been put on hold for a while?" Yuuri asks.

"I have no idea," Phichit sighs. He pushes himself off the counter and begins to makes two cups of coffee. "Anyway enough about my confusing morning how are you?"

"I'm doing pretty well," Yuuri replies. "Actually I've sort of met someone."

"Oh yeah?" Phichit asks, deciding to jump on that instead of thinking about Chris for a few minutes. "Where?"

"Weirdly enough at work." Yuuri tells him.

Phichit laughs. "So when you say you met someone how old is this someone?"

"Only a few years older than me I promise you," Yuuri laughs. "He came in for the first time a few weeks back and he's been coming back ever since."

"What's he like?" Phichit asks.

"He's nice," Yuuri replies. "The complete opposite of Jerry."

"Which can only be described as a good thing."

"Exactly. He's tall, has a smile to die for, is completely not condescending and is just really easy to talk to."

"He sounds nice," Phichit smiles.

"He really is," Yuuri says. "I'm actually seeing him tonight."

"Oh really?" Phichit asks, a smirk spreading over his lips. "You dirty stop out and here was me thinking that you had to work tonight."

"I do have to work tonight," Yuuri says firmly. "He told me that he was coming in tonight so I get to see him and I'm going to get paid for the privilege."

"Well that's alright then."

"Yeah, it's nice when he comes in, a lot of the time that he's there he just stares at me and smiles," Yuuri says.

"Cute."

"It sort of feels like it's too soon," Yuuri says. "I mean I only split up with Jerry about a week ago and now I'm thinking about someone else most of my time."

"I don't think there's anything wrong with that," Phichit tells him. "Jerry was kind of a shit lord and if this guy is nice then that's fine. It doesn't matter if it's only been a week."

"I suppose so."

"Besides if this guy makes you smile like that then it's stupid not to go for it," Phicht says. If he was in Yuuri's position he would most definitely be getting back on the horse considering the way Jerry was.

"Well he does make me smile," Yuuri says wistfully.

It's nice to see Yuuri smile like that. He's always had a warm smile but Phichit feels like it's been a long time since he's seen him smiling like that. The more he thinks about it the more he wants to smile like that when he thinks about someone. A small part of his brain pipes up that he smiles like that when he thinks about Chris but he knows that's ridiculous. Chris made it very clear from the beginning that he didn't date clients so he knows that he shouldn't be thinking about him like that. That's only going to lead to heartache...

"But enough about that," Yuuri says suddenly, breaking Phichit out of his thoughts, "what about you? What are you going to do about your boyfriend finder?"

"Um..." He doesn't have an answer for that. Mostly because he doesn't know what he should do about Chris. His best option at the moment is to ignore it and hope that it goes away but he's pretty sure that if he says that out loud then Yuuri will tell him off.

Thankfully his phone chiming with a text is enough to distract Yuuri for a second. He sees that the message is from Chris and he can't help the skipping of his heart. He tries not to let it show on his face as he opens it and it just makes the skipping worse.

[12:09pm] FROM CHRIS: Hope you're feeling better, let me know when you're back to full health and we can continue our lessons. Also if you need me to come round and look after you at any time just let me know x

He stares at the message for a good minute as it really starts to sink in. Chris is happy to come over again while he's sick... What the hell does this mean? It's so confusing and his lack of experience means that he has no idea how to even begin to make sense of it.

"Phichit?" Yuuri asks breaking him out of his thoughts.

"What?" he asks looking up from his phone.

"Who is that?" Yuuri asks with a small laugh. "You've been grinning at your phone ever since you opened the message."

Phichit shakes his head. "Nothing, sorry. Just a stupid gif Guan-Hong sent me." He feels guilty lying to Yuuri but he wants to get his head around it before he begins asking people for advise about it.