Yuri carefully carried him out of the small staff room. The whole pub was filled to the brim with wiggling bodies. He could make out Yuna in the corner, but he did not bother calling out to her. It was because of her irresponsibility that Eric almost got kidnapped. He was safer with him.
He simply carried him to his car and placed him in the passenger seat.
Eric opened his swollen eyes, sniffing loudly. "Aaron, why did you do it?"
"Hmm?" Yuri gazed into his saddened eyes. ’What did he do to you?" his heart was aching so badly. this Aaron guy actually made Eric cry so badly like his.
Eric slammed his small fist on his chest, silently sobbing, " Why did you kill yourself...." He leaned forward, burying his head in his chest. "Why? You could have waited. I would have come back to you. Why didn’t you wait? Why... I love you so much... I love you..."
Yuri’s grip on his shoulders tightened. ’Eric actually wanted to die with this guy. Fuck! Fucking hell. No way in hell... I have to act fast. Make him fall in love with me so that he would be willing to live for me.’ He carefully held Eric in a couched position until the young man went limp.
He then carefully adjusted the seat belt over his body and jumped onto the driver’s seat.
His apprehensive eyes fell on him again. He reached over and gently adjusted the hair on his face. His delicate forehead was slightly pink. "Eric... I won’t let you die. No... never."
Yuri did not wait here any second longer., he drove to his private home which was close to his office. Because he headed home right now his parents would have so many questions for him.
All through the drive his head was filled with a single name. Aaron. It felt bitter and every time Eric uttered that name his heart would clench. ’That means I have feeling for him, right?’ he looked at Eric who was slightly snorting in his sleep.
In his twenty-five years of life, he had never fallen in love with anyone. This was such a surprise that he fell so hard for a person he had only met a few days ago.
’Its.... It’s like we are fated to be."
Yuri chuckled at that thought.
It sounded so silly coming out loud. But he just felt that way. The feeling he had for Eric felt so surreal. It was crushing and everlasting in his heart. When he met him in Denmark he was absolutely floored and when he met him again in the café he was once again felt his heart go out to him. That was how strong his feelings were.
And Yuri felt familiar with that feeling.
’Have I met Eric before this....’
This was just speculation on his part but he had a vague suspicion that he might have forgotten some parts of his life. Eric always gave him that look that said that he knew him. But he had never met Eric before that Denmark incident.
This made his speculation even more true.
’I need to know.... Shall I ask him,’
He stopped the car in a corner and gently shook Eric.
Eric tried his hardest to open his eyes. His heavy eyelids were dropping down so hard that only the whites of his eyes were visible.
"Aaron..." he mumbled, reaching out to him.
"Hmm, Eric can you tell me something?"
"Hmm anything," Eric leaned against his shoulders.
"How do you know Yuri?"
As soon as he said this, Eric scoffed. "Yuri, that bastard. Ahh, I feel so angry with him. He is supposed to be you. But he is such an idiot that he cheated on me."
Yuri stiffened. "How did he cheat on you?"
"He said we will forever be together and left me and married a woman." Eric started to sniffle again. "Who does that... ahhh I even got a heart attack because of him. That fucker." Eric massaged his heart.
Yuri froze. "You what? Shit... wait I’ll take you to the hospital,"
If it was any normal person who was drugged sleeping it off will solve it, but Eric... Eric seems to be a heart patient. He hurriedly drove the car to the hospital, pulled him into his arms and ran into the er.
Eric was admitted into the ward instantly and his blood was checked for drugs. When it came out possible for date rape drug, they started to treat him instantly.
Yuri clutched his hand tightly through all this.
Eric would wake up occasionally and panicky Search for him. Only after seeing his face would, he would calm down. "Aaron.... Don’t go." He mumbled in a weak tone.
"I won’t..." Yuri whispered, gritting his teeth.
It was heart breaking.
"Eric,"
"hmmm..." the young man opened his eyes dazedly.
"How did you meet Yuri?"
Eric chuckled softly. "We met in a dream... a very long dream,"
Yuri silently watched the man doze off to a sleep-like state. He was completely disturbed by what Eric just revealed today.
First of all, Eric had met him before. That too in a dream and promised to be with him forever and cheated him.
Secondly, that act of cheating made him feel so bad that he even had a heart attack.
He hurriedly called a nearby nurse. "can you get me his full health report?"
"we will receive it in a while sir. Does the patient have any medical condition?"
"he... he just said he had a heart attack. I’m not sure if it is a literal or figurative sentence." Yuri massaged his aching head. his eyes were tearing up. He hurriedly wiped them away. "c-can you check his heart for me?"
The nurse gave him a look and went to get the ECG kit.
She did a quick check on him.
All the while Yuri was watching anxiously.
Looking at the report the nurse sighed. "he does have a heart condition. He must have had an Angio a few years back, the heart is still recovering."
Yuri felt defeated. ’Eric... he is like that because of me.... I did this to him...’