Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"And here is the swimming pool." Yu Tian and Mei Qingyang had reached the end of their school tour. Yu Tian completely enjoyed her company as she would ask him various questions. She was a little curious creature and would get impressed by normal things so easily that it was really entertaining to him.

During their conversation, he had learnt from her today that she was homeschooled for most of her life. Since he had a similar experience, he understood her inquisitiveness about everything. Thus, he was especially cooperative in answering her questions patiently.

It was already 5 pm now and the sun had started to set. This was an indoor swimming pool and had the facility of heating in the winters so the climate wouldn't interrupt with the practice of future Olympian medalists. It was to be noted that there were four separate swimming pools for different ages separated by glass walls to give everyone equal access to the facility.

"Waah!! This is majestic!", Mei Qingyang cried out. The building had a very unique structure for this particular place. The school had used reflectors in the roof to use natural sunlight for lighting up the place during the day. At night, it used solar energy for electricity purposes. That would make the building environment friendly and no one would bat an eye on the amount of water they were wasting by changing it every other day in the swimming pool.

*Genius! The guys who planned and made this place were absolute geniuses!!*

Mei Qingyang couldn't help but admire the architects of the school in her mind. Aesthetically too, it was made such that the tall windows near the swimming pool were facing the west direction. Whenever the sun set, the golden rays would shimmer over the water in the swimming pool, making it really pleasing to the eye.

Right now, the reflectors were shut and the swimming pool was being illuminated just by the rays. Amazingly pretty girls and handsome boys were playing in the swimming pool with their thousands of dollars' worth bikinis and trunks on, showing off their perfect bodies. It was holiday time and everyone was enjoying the end of summers.

At one corner, they could hear peals of laughter, college students flirting and frol.i.c.k.i.n.g around, without any worries.

Yu Tian and Mei Qingyang were also standing near the windows. The shimmer highlighted Yu Tian's features more. His milky white skin now seemed almost transparent. His silhouette against the sunlight from the window looked as if carved out by Gods themselves. He looked like a celestial being, wrapped in loneliness and sadness in this world of mortals.

She still had no idea why he had such a gloomy aura all the time. He was a pretty popular guy from what she had gathered till now. With the slightly frisky atmosphere around and having these weird thoughts in her mind, a slight blush inadvertently appeared on Mei Qingyang's cheeks.

*What are you thinking Qingyang? Stop it! He might become the reason you don't get anything out of here!! You have to stop this madness!! You are not supposed to be interested in him! Come to senses!!*

Yu Tian took a peek at her as well. This girl was looking all over the building like an inquisitive child. Standing by the sunlight, there was this subtle freshness to her that he did not want to take his eyes off her. Like someone slowly dissipating dark clouds over his heart and letting sunshine come in. He could not help but chuckle to himself. He had never seen a girl like her. Either she was too brave to be walking casually with him like this or she had no idea about how things worked here.

Among the students, everyone respected him. He was home-schooled till junior high and then he went abroad. After a huge incident here four years ago, he had to come back to save the reputation of this school. It had been just four years here but he had earned massive trust from everyone. Some people feared him because of his connections and some genuinely liked him. But no one dared to really be friends with him.

He had only two real friends here and they both were elite kids. They were the only people who would always be honest with him regardless of his status. This girl, on the other hand, didn't fear him at all. She had come to know about his relationship with the owners of this school yesterday.

'Normal' people wouldn't even have turned up for the next meeting but here she was, asking him questions and always maintaining an eye contact with him.

"Strip, we said." Both Yu Tian and Mei Qingyang heard someone yelling at another corner of the pool building and it snapped them out of their thoughts. They looked towards the direction and saw some guys surrounding a girl. From the looks of it, the girl seemed to be a servant of someone.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know. I'll take my leave so please let me go!", the girl cried, her full body trembling.

"Shut up. Now that you're here, you gotta listen to us. Either strip right now or you gotta face the consequences which will be far worse." The guy was inching closer to the girl and speaking in very intimidating tone. The other people including girls were snickering in the back.

"I… I am sorry. My classmates told me to come here. Please leave me. I promise I won't ever step in here again." The girl was literally in tears now. She didn't look older than a middle schooler. To be caught by all these guys who seemed to be college going students, it was probably the worst. She even looked malnourished, which suggested that she was probably newly 'sold' to the school. One good thing about this school was that no one starved unless they were getting some punishment from their masters.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Qingyang shouted from far away.

Yu Tian facepalmed internally. *Why does this girl need to meddle in everything?*