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"Lan Zhan, is this your first time?" Wei Wuxian asked as he faced his soon to-be-lover. Both were underneath the covers of a large bed, and both of them were naked. Lan Zhan, the bastard, was hiding his broad chest with the blanket, while Wei Wuxian proudly showed off his.
Lan Zhan looked away, a sweet blush on his cheeks, before he nodded. Wei Wuxian grinned and scooted closer. "It's mine, too! We'll lose our virginities together," he said eagerly.
"Wei Ying, I'm nervous," Lan Zhan whispered, still blushing. "What if my uncle finds out?"
"Don't worry. It's just a little fun between friends," Wei Wuxian smiled again and stretched back onto the bed. "Now, kiss me, Lan Zhan. You better make it good for all those times you got me into trouble."
Lan Zhan smiled softly, so sweetly at him, that Wei Wuxian's heart pounded loudly. His face got closer and closer as he leaned in to kiss Wei Wuxian for the first time. Fuck, he'd waited so long for this-
BEEP! BEEP!
After shutting off his alarm, Wei Wuxian flung his phone into a random clothing pile in his dorm room. Rubbing his eyes, he looked around blearily, hoping and dreading to see a half naked Lan Zhan hiding somewhere. His head fell back against the pillow. A dream. He dreamed of almost having sex with the untouchable, perfect Lan Wangji.
He lifted his covers and glared at the erection tenting in his shorts. "Behave and choose someone else. Anyone else I can have a chance with." He sighed when his erection refused to listen.
Groaning, he headed to the showers where some cold water did the job of calming his lust and ran out the door with a granola bar in hand. Ten minutes late to class, Wei Wuxian ignored his glaring professor, who had already handed out and explained the first assignment, and took his usual seat next to Lan Wangji.
"You missed a pop quiz," he said without greeting as he typed something into his laptop.
"Already? Glad I missed that. I didn't even know we had a quiz," Wei Wuxian grinned and flipped his hair. What kind of people did Lan Zhan like? After all the years he'd known him, he didn't even know if he liked men or women.
"I saved you the code," Lan Zhan slammed the small paper in front of him without adverting his gaze from the screen. "Good luck."
"Thanks, Lan Zhan," Wei Wuxian gave him a fake smile as he took out his computer.
"An A," Lan Zhan remarked matter of factly, after he glanced at the results on Wei Wuxian's screen. "You must have studied."
"Nothing else to do since no one, except you and the Shens, talk to me," Wei Wuxian sighed and tapped his fingers on the desk. "I can't even remember the last party I've been to."
"Would you like to go? To a party?" Lan Zhan didn't look at Wei Wuxian, but stopped typing.
"Yeah, it would be fun," Wei Wuxian sighed and leaned his head against his closed fist. "But I don't get invites anymore."
Lan Zhan pushed his chair back and turned around to speak with another junior in glasses behind them. "I changed my mind, I'm going to your party and will bring someone with me." With a nod, he fixed his chair again, finally those cold light brown eyes looked at Wei Wuxian. "You're going to a party. Tonight." He went back to his work, and Wei Wuxian couldn't respond because the professor started his lecture.
"Shens, you gotta come with me!" Wei Wuxian finished retelling what had happened, minus his hot dream, to his only friends, Shen Qiao and Shen Yuan as they ate lunch at the university cafe.
"But Lan Wangji invited you. Just go with him," Shen Qiao shrugged, taking another bite of his salmon.
"I can't go with him. People will think we're dating. It'll hurt his reputation," Wei Wuxian explained with a pout.
"What about our reputations if we go?" Shen Yuan complained as he sipped his smoothie and ate his dumplings.
"What reputations? As a slacker and a goody two-shoes," he mocked his friends with a friendly smile, not meaning any harm. They remained unfazed.
"Let's go." In shock, Shen Yuan and Wei Wuxian stared at Shen Qiao, the guy who made it home early to water his plants and do chores.
"Who are you? Where's Qiao?" Wei Wuxian wondered, taking another bite of his fries.
"Yu Ai goes to these parties all the time. I want to see what the big fuss is," Shen Qiao explained in his straight forward, honest way.
Shen Yuan and Wei Wuxian groaned at the mention of Shen Qiao's high school friend. "Qiao, get yourself another friend. He's just a frat boy with an enormous ego," Wei Wuxian shook his head.
"I heard he tried out for the soccer team," Shen Yuan added with a grin. "And they laughed him off of the field."
"Yu Ai is my friend from high school," Shen Qiao gave them a warning glare.
"A friend who keeps disappearing," Wei Wuxian muttered but raised his hands in surrender when Shen Qiao deepened his glare. Yu Ai was his friend and as much as he worried, he couldn't dictate Shen Qiao's choices. "So, Qiao is going. Yuan, you in?"
"I can't leave Shen Qiao alone in some party," Shen Yuan said with shudder. "He might get roofied while helping someone with alcohol poisoning."
"It's the leading cause of death in college parties," Shen Qiao informed them.
"Good to know. We'll go together, then! Now, I have to go to work," Wei Wuxian picked up his bag. He worked part-time at a library to earn extra money. If someone had told him just a year ago that he would be working there, he would have laughed them away.
"How come you have a job when your family, the Jiangs, are rich?" Shen Yuan slurped his smoothie loudly as he finished.
Wei Wuxian waved off the question as he stood up. "It's complicated. See you tonight!"
At the party, the three juniors ended up sitting on a worn, lumpy couch. They watched the people around them drink, mingle, and grind.
"Why can't we be like them?" Wei Wuxian sighed as he chugged his drink. "This beer sucks," he muttered in between swallows.
"Because we have standards and principals," Shen Qiao responded, taking a sip of his water.
"Because we don't want to?" Shen Yuan shrugged. "I'm more comfortable watching Netflixs than doing this."
"What happened to Lan Wangji? I can't imagine that our class President for three years straight enjoys this?" Shen Qiao frowned when Wei Wuxian scowled.
"That... bastard invited me here and talks to someone else," Wei Wuxian crossed his arms tightly and glowered, remembering the scene he walked in on. Lan Zhan had decided to wear something casual, casual for him, and he had a soft looking sweater that made Wei Wuxian want to cuddle his wide chest. After leaving the Shens on the couch, he'd gone looking for Lan Zhan, hoping that he could take the first step to making his hot, wet dream a reality. He rounded a corner to see Lan Zhan actually looking and not frowning at a cute, bubbly looking freshman. Someone who probably didn't have so much baggage and people turning away from him on a daily basis. Someone he could proudly have on his arm. "I'm going to show him."
"Show him what?" Shen Qiao cupped his ear and titled his head closer. "It's kinda hard to hear."
"I'm going to make myself sexy and desirable! I just have to figure out how," Wei Wuxian chugged the rest of his beer and slid onto his feet. "Let's go."
"Thank God," Shen Yuan also rose from the couch.
"You drank a lot of beer just now. Want me to sleepover in case you get sick?" Only Shen Qiao's wide, honest gaze stopped Wei Wuxian from rolling his eyes.
"Um, no. I'll be fine." They left. Wei Wuxian decided not to look for Lan Zhan. It was better this way.
In his dorm room, Wei Wuxian laid wide awake in his small bed. He knew he had a small, tiny, barely visible crush on Lan Wangji - the guy who came from a respectable family and got As all the damn time. The one guy who never looked at him with pity or scorn.
But he wanted Lan Zhan to look at him differently. To feel the heat Wei Wuxian felt whenever he looked at him. To desire him.
"Fuck, if I wasn't a virgin, I would know how to seduce him," he muttered to himself, turning over.
Then, he shot up. "That's it!" A devilish grin crossed his features.
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The next day, Wei Wuxian hurried towards his friends at their usual lunch spot. Shen Qiao was busy reading something on his laptop and taking notes in a notebook, while Shen Yuan was typing something. Wei Wuxian huffed. Shen Qiao was probably doing next month's homework, while Shen Yuan was playing a game. But what he had to tell them would change them all.
He slammed his heavy book bag on the table, almost spilling Shen Yuan's drink over his laptop.
"Wei Ying!" He steadied his plastic cup with a frustrated look.
"Sorry," he muttered before speaking loudly. "Gentlemen, I know what's wrong with us."
"Nothing's wrong with us, we're perfect the way we are," Shen Qiao smiled at his friends sincerely. Shen Yuan made a face before returning to his work. Wei Wuxian peaked, yeah, playing a typing game.
Undeterred, Wei Wuxian continued, "Our problem is... our sex lives."
"Shh!" Shen Yuan pulled Wei Wuxian onto an empty seat at their table, cheeks turning red when people turned to glance at them. "What the fuck, man!"
"Shens, Shens," Wei Wuxian closed their computers with a flick of his wrists, ignoring their protests.
"I have work to do!" Shen Qiao reached for his laptop.
Wei Wuxian kept his hand over it. "It's due next month."
Shen Qiao crossed his arms, "It's due in three weeks."
Wei Wuxian shook his head. His friends needed help, and he was the person to do it. "Shens, meet me in my dorm room in 10 minutes."
"We have class," Shen Yuan mimicked Shen Qiao's position.
"No, you don't." He tapped his temple, "I memorized your schedules. And to make sure you come-"
"Hey!"
"What is going on with you today?"
Wei Wuxian ignored their protests as he gathered up their laptops and his book bag and dashed out of the cafe.
In ten minutes, the Shens were in his dorm room, glaring at him, even mild-tempered Shen Qiao. Wei Wuxian pushed aside the books and clothes into one corner to make space for Shen Yuan on his bed and Shen Qiao sat on his computer chair. Wei Wuxian stood in front of his friends, staring at them solemnly.
"If I fail a class, Yifu will be... mad at me," Shen Qiao shuddered. "Wei Ying, give me back my laptop."
"Yeah, I have serious work to do on it," Shen Yuan crossed his legs. "It's hard maintaining my C+ average."
"Well, I have a D+, so I know," he winked at Shen Yuan. Both of them grinned at each other and slapped hands. The Shens were his friends because neither of them knew how to hold grudges.
"Maybe we should do a study session. Is that why you wanted us here, Wei Ying?" Shen Qiao asked with honest, sweet eyes. "We can go over The Ethics of Spiritual Physics, the class all of juniors have to take."
"Yeah, kinda hard to keep up with up my C+ there-"
"No, we're not working. We're talking about our virginities!" Wei Wuxian blushed when last word slipped out very loudly.
Shen Yuan immediately reddened. "What are you talking about? I'm not a virgin!"
"I am! And there's no shame in it," Shen Qiao told them in his wholesome way.
Wei Wuxian scoffed. "This is it, guys. What do we all have in common?" He looked down at the sitting Shens, trying to channel Lan Zhan's superiority and bitchiness with a raised eyebrow. The Shens looked unimpressed.
"We don't get invited to the hottest parties," he ticked off on his finger, "we don't have boyfriends or girlfriends, no one talks to us in class, we don't have sexy weekend plans."
"So, we're losers?" Shen Yuan offered tentatively. "I'm ok with that."
"That's not that point! This is our junior year of college, what's going to happen after this year?" Wei Wuxian placed his hands on his hips.
"Senior year," Shen Yuan shuddered.
"Exactly. We have to find jobs and become adults!"
"Yifu wants me to work with him at Xuandu Enterprises," Shen Qiao revealed.
"And that's going to be hard work, right? Long hours?" Wei Wuxian asked as Shen Qiao kept nodding grimly.
"I have to finish my teaching certification," Shen Yuan shrugged. "How hard can teaching middle school be?" He smiled weakly. His friends winced.
"When our junior year is over, we're practically adults! Our lives will be over. All we'll have time for is work, work, work, until we have to get married. Now, we're 20, and we're virgins! I say, let's have fun! Let's make this junior year memorable!" Wei Wuxian tried to keep his spirits up when his friends looked at him doubtfully.
He turned to one of them to make his point, "Yuan, why are you still a virgin?"
Shen Yuan coughed and crossed and recrossed his legs. "Assuming that I've never had sex before, if that were true, maybe it's because I'm kind of shy and awkward."
"I think you're great, Yuan." Shen Qiao smiled tenderly at his friend.
Wei Wuxian didn't looked satisfied. "You're awkward, sure, but you're also really cute." He ignored his blushing friend. "Isn't it because of the huge crush you have on a certain star soccer player?"
Shen Yuan slammed both his feet on the floor and gapped at his friend. "I don't have a crush on Luo Binghe!"
"I didn't say Luo Binghe," Wei Wuxian smirked in satisfaction and held up two fingers. "There are two, competing star soccer players."
"You and Luo Binghe would make an adorable couple," Shen Qiao smiled dreamily. "Did you tell him how you feel?"
Shen Yuan ran a hand through his short hair. "Even if, through some wild fantasy, I did have a crush on Luo Binghe, it would never happen. He's not even gay! He has a different girl on his arm everyday. He's so shameless! Who would want to be with him seriously?" Shen Yuan pouted and leaned back in his chair.
"He's so motivated and focused, you're laidback and carefree. You two could work. Maybe he could get you to take your studies more seriously," Shen Qiao looked ready to get his friend married in the next few weeks. Shen Yuan looked at him in alarm. Wei Wuxian knew that he needed to intervene. "Have you-"
"What about you, Shen Qiao? Why are you still a virgin?" Shen Yuan let out a breath of relief at Wei Wuxian's well-timed question.
"Me? Yifu said to wait until marriage," Shen Qiao said like the goody-two-shoes he was.
"Do you always do what your Yifu says?" Shen Yuan grouched.
"Of course! He adopted me when I was small, wants me to take over his business. I owe everything to him," Shen Qiao smiled sincerely. "I'm in no rush for sex, girlfriends, or whatever. I have too much to do."
"You're so pretty, Qiao. Maybe the prettiest guy in our year," Wei Wuxian said thoughtfully as he examined his friend.
"Don't you mean handsome, Wei Ying? Guys are handsome," Shen Yuan interjected.
"But you're too perfect. Perfect and untouchable. Perfect looks, perfect grades, perfect Dad," Wei Wuxian leaned closer to his still friend. "Have you ever done something bad?"
Uncomfortable, Shen Yuan laughed. "Kind of awkward conversation."
"If you must know," Shen Qiao revealed seriously. "I've never felt sexual desire for someone. And the idea of losing my virginity to have 'fun' disgust me."
"Then, you're an Ace," Wei Wuxian declared with remorseful look and stepped back. "Sorry."
"I don't like labels," Shen Qiao stood up and gathered his things. "I'm me, and that's all anyone has to know. See you around."
"See, you made him mad," Shen Yuan groaned when the door clicked shut very politely behind him.
"I didn't mean to," Wei Wuxian pouted. Shen Qiao didn't hold grudges, but it didn't mean that Wei Wuxian didn't feel bad.
"Wei Ying, what about you? Why are you still a virgin?"
Wei Wuxian dropped himself onto the chair Shen Qiao had been using. "Too many reasons. After my sister got sick and I was sent to the hospital, people haven't been the same around me, even my family. I just wanted to be like everyone else. Feel normal." He became friends with the Shens after he got out, but his previous friends all treated him differently. It felt awkward for him to hang around them. Only one person treated him with the same cold, superior attitude, Lan Zhan.
Shen Yuan winced. "Sucks. But I don't think losing our v-cards is the answer."
Wei Wuxian sighed. "Maybe you're right."