give me straight man

It was six o'clock in the afternoon, just after get off work, and there were quite a lot of people in the coffee shop.

Meng Ran held a cup of coffee and sat by the floor-to-ceiling windows, turned his head, and saw a tall building towering into the sky next to the street.

He was waiting for Tao Yiwen, and the two made an appointment to have a meal nearby.

The appointed time was [-]:[-], and Meng Ran came early.

After arriving, he received a message from Tao Yiwen, saying that the department had an impromptu meeting and it would be about 20 minutes late.

Tao Yiwen: "Sorry, you have to wait for me for a while."

Meng Ranren was already sitting in the coffee shop: "It's okay, I just happen to be late."

At a quarter past six, Meng Ran was waiting for nothing, when the door of the coffee shop was pushed open, and a figure walked towards him quickly.

Meng Ran saw the figure through the mirror-like floor-to-ceiling windows beside him, and turned his head quickly.

Tao Yiwen walked in a hurry, panting slightly, "I'm sorry."

Meng Ran got up and said with a smile, "I just arrived too."

Tao Yiwen didn't sit down, but raised his hand to check the time: "Let's go, let's go eat."

Meng Ran was taken by Tao Yiwen to a high-end Chinese restaurant in a nearby business building.

Sitting by the window, you can overlook the city night scene and neon lights under the sky.

Meng Ran came here for the first time, and after sitting down, he looked out of the window curiously.

The waiter came over and handed the menu to Tao Yiwen. Tao Yiwen opened the menu, looked at it quietly, raised his eyes by chance, and looked across the table——

Meng Ran is wearing a light green thin vest sweater today, with delicate eyebrows and eyes, and fair complexion. Under the atmospheric lighting of the restaurant, he looks extraordinarily handsome and beautiful.

"what do you like eating?"

Tao Yiwen handed over the menu.

Meng Ran turned around and took the menu, "I can do it all."

A pair of eyes are like lake water, extraordinarily clear.

Tao Yiwen looked at Meng Ran with a smile in his eyes: "Then order casually."

Meng Ran nodded and looked down at the menu.

The waiter brought lemonade at this time, Tao Yiwen didn't ask the waiter to pour water, took the kettle by himself, filled the cup for Meng Ran, and handed the cup to Meng Ran, very considerate.

Meng Ran just noticed this detail, looked at the cup, then subconsciously raised his eyes to Tao Yiwen, smiled silently, and Tao Yiwen smiled back.

During the meal, the two chatted casually.

Meng Ran was worried that Tao Yiwen would say as little as he did on WeChat, but later he realized that he was worrying too much.

Face to face, Tao Yiwen still had something to chat with him, and he didn't always make him rack his brains to find topics.

Later, it was natural to talk about graduating from senior year. Tao Yiwen: "What are your plans? Are you going to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"

Meng Ran said while eating: "My grades are not bad. If I want to go to graduate school, I can guarantee it directly."

Tao Yiwen: "Are you ready?"

Meng Ran: "I'm still thinking about it."

He said again: "I have been working part-time in the cleaning bar in the back street of the school before, and I have saved some money in the past two years."

"I want to open a store by myself. It just so happens that the boss also wants to open another one. We may partner up by then."

Meng Ran: "If it's like now, I can take care of both my studies and the bar. If the bar is very busy, I'm afraid I won't be able to attend to my studies when I go to graduate school."

Tao Yiwen gave himself some advice: "If you don't particularly want to stay in school, are not interested in Nanfeng's academics, or don't want to get a diploma that much, it doesn't matter if you don't graduate."

Meng Ran suddenly thought of Tuotuo and they said that Tao Yiwen's company was difficult to enter.

Meng Ran asked curiously: "I heard that your company is difficult to enter, is it true?"

Tao Yiwen: "In the past two years, there have been fewer school recruits, and more social recruits and internal referrals."

Meng Ran nodded.

Tao Yiwen smiled: "Why, do you want to join our company?"

He said directly, "I can give you an internal referral."

Meng Ran shook his head: "My goal is not to go to work."

Tao Yiwen lowered his eyes to pick up the vegetables, then looked up again, and said, "With my income, it's no problem to support two people."

Meng Ran was taken aback, choked, and quickly waved his hands: "No, I didn't mean that."

Tao Yiwen laughed: "I didn't say anything, it seems to scare you."

Meng Ran didn't know whether he was choking or because of Tao Yiwen's words, his ears were red.

When he returned to the dormitory that night, Meng Ran felt a little overjoyed: Tao Yiwen's feeling and impression were too good.

Is it the relationship between their personalities that match each other? It's just a meal, and there is a premonition that the two of them are having fun.

I haven't had such a good feeling with someone for a long time!

Meng Ran laughed just thinking about it.

Tuotuo played the game and asked, "It's past 12 o'clock, why hasn't Fei come back yet?"

Ton Ton: "You didn't check your phone, he said in the group that he won't come back at night."

Meng Ran came back to his senses: "Not coming back?"

Tuo Tuo: "Why doesn't he come back? Internet cafes offer nights to play games."

Ton Ton: "That's you! He's a handsome guy, so he's not happy to be dating a girl or staying overnight."

Meng Ran heard it, didn't think much, just said: "He is really not this kind of person."

Tuo Tuo Tong Ton: "Did you hear that? Did you hear that? I've already told you that, I'm not this kind of person."

So where is Lu Ouxun now?

At Chen Xun's rented house outside the school.

Lie on Chen Xun's bed, lying sideways, eyes closed, silent.

After taking a shower, Chen Xun was shirtless, with a towel on his shoulders, and came to the bed with his flip flops. He pulled out the towel and threw it on Lu Ouxun, wondering: "What are you doing? What kind of corpse?"

Lu Ouxun ignored Chen Xun and whipped him with a towel, continued to lie down, continued to close his eyes, his tone was flat, with a bit of imperceptible seriousness in the flatness: "Think about things, you leave me alone."

Chen Xun: "Miss a girl?"

Lu Ouxun: "Get lost."

Chen Xun went outside to continue playing games, leaving Lu Ouxun in the bedroom.

Not long after, Lu Ouxun came out of the bedroom, came to Chen Xun's computer, dragged a chair, sat down beside Chen Xun, put his hand on the armrest of the chair under Chen Xun's buttocks, and with one force, pulled Chen Xun turned to himself: "Ask you something."

Chen Xun was impatient at first, his butt twisted and landed on Lu Ouxun, his face was still facing the computer screen: "Let's talk later, wait until I finish this game."

Lu Ouxun pressed one finger directly on the power button of the computer, and the computer screen went black.

Chen Xun: "..."

Chen Xun took off the headset, "What are you doing?"

Only then did I realize that Lu Ouxun was as serious as if he only passed the duck egg in the college entrance examination.

Lu Ouxun leaned forward, put his elbows on his thighs, remained silent for a while with a serious expression, and then said, "Suppose I have a friend..."

Chen Xun thought it was awesome, when people talked about their own affairs, they always said "I have a friend", but Lu Ouxun didn't pretend to be, and came up with "assuming I have a friend".

Still "assuming"?

Why don't you just say that this friend is yourself?

Chen Xun responded: "Ah, you have a friend, what happened to your friend?"

Lu Ouxun: "He has a friend, a boy."

Chen Xun: "Ah."

Lu Ouxun: "It's gay."

Chen Xun rationalized: Lu Ouxun has a friend who is gay.

Chen Xun: "And then."

Lu Ouxun: "As a gay friend, he always wants to get out of the singles, so he will meet other boys, chat with other boys on WeChat, meet, and date."

Lu Ouxun: "At first my friend thought it was normal for him as a gay friend."

Chen Xun thought for a while, then nodded: "Yes, it's quite normal." Are you gay, what else can you do?

Lu Ouxun: "But now my friend doesn't want him, a gay friend, to chat on WeChat or meet other boys."

Lu Ouxun spoke calmly, but with some difficulty: "He...he will be unhappy, very unhappy."

Chen Xun was taken aback.

Lu Ouxun: "And now his mind is full of his friends."

Chen Xun: "Wait a minute, you mean, this friend of yours is full of his gay friends?"

Lu Ouxun: "Yes."

Chen Xun's heart was screwed, and he blurted out: "Lu Ouxun, you are straight!"

Lu Ouxun and Chen Xun looked at each other silently.

One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds.

Lu Ouxun lowered his head, took a deep breath, raised it again, his tone was difficult, but his eyes were firm: "I seem to like him."

Chen Xun stared and said loudly, "Who?! That gay friend of yours?"

"Which friend? Which friend of yours?"

"Why didn't I know you had gay friends around you?"

Lu Ouxun: "I made the child."

"Uh..." A delicate and heroic face appeared in his mind, and Chen Xun gasped silently.

"Lu Ouxun, are you crazy?"

Lu Ouxun closed his eyes.

Think, he thinks again.

Could it be that he was wrong?

Chen Xun whispered in his ear: "The reason why you have never had a girlfriend is because you are a closet?"

Lu Ouxun opened his eyes and looked at Chen Xun speechlessly.

Being stared at, Chen Xun shrank back silently, raised his hand while shrinking, hugged his arms in front of his chest, with a "don't you" expression on his face.

"Uh..." Lu Ouxun was speechless: "I'm not a pervert, I like you?"

Chen Xun: "What if."

As he said that, he put down his hands, even covering his crotch.

Lu Ouxun: "..."

Lu Ouxun lay back in the bedroom, staring at the ceiling without focus. After a while, he raised his phone, his mind was in a mess:

Meng Ran is working part-time tonight?

Have you gone back to the dormitory?

he has slept?

Still chatting with Tao Yiwen?

Where are they?

So he likes Meng Ran?

Really like it?

But he is straight, he is not gay.

How could he have more friendship with Meng Ran than a friend?

So he likes to cuddle Meng Ran, cuddle, hug waist and sit on legs, all because he likes Meng Ran?

Lu Ouxun's mind was in a mess.

He's not sure, not 100% sure yet.

He thought he couldn't think anymore, it was useless to think.

He had to see Meng Ran, and only when he saw Meng Ran could he be sure.

So the next morning, Lu Ouxun went back to the dormitory.

Pushing open the door, the bedroom was quiet, the curtains were drawn, and it was dark.

Lu Ouxun thought that everyone was still awake, so he moved lightly.

After closing the bedroom door and turning around, I realized that the bathroom door was closed, and there was a faint sound of water coming from inside.

Lu Ouxun raised his hand, knocked lightly on the door, pushed the door in, and met Meng Ran who was standing in front of the sink brushing his teeth.

Meng Ran didn't expect Lu Ouxun to come back early in the morning, spit out the toothpaste froth in his mouth, turned his head in surprise, and asked, "Where did you go last night?"

Lu Ouxun only felt a "Boom" in his mind.

Facing Meng Ran directly, looking at Meng Ran's face, in an instant, his heart became clear——

like.

He really, really likes Meng Ran.

Not the friend-to-friend kind of liking.

It is far beyond friendship.

It's love.