What's Left of Us? {Tyunning}

What's Left of Us

Hueningkai's eyes are drooping as he struggles to stay awake, the boy yawns with a hand going up to cover his mouth. 

The soft taps of droplets on the tent roof above said him becomes his only company, that and the soft breaths he can hear from the person deep away in slumber on his lap. 

Hueningkai has one hand in Taehyun's messy pink hair that he just recently dyed, the slightly elder boy's head on his lap.

He had just so happened to wake up a little earlier than usual, although still a bit drowsy with great temptation to just fall back into his sleep. Hueningkai rather savors this rare moment, this rare moment of just the two of them in their own world. 

He can freely run his fingers through the pink strands as he pleases with no worries and admire the breathtaking beauty he was damned for falling in love with, otherwise known as his best friend, Kang Taehyun.

It rained in the night; it had been really cold so when the raven-haired boy woke up with extra pairs of limbs entangled to him, he wasn't shocked in the slightest. 

Taehyun can be quite clingy but it's a side only his closest friends know of him, the soft affectionate sweetheart behind that intimidating prim and proper vice president of the student council persona he plays at school.

The same Taehyun who leads meetings with ease and sternness when filing for Soobin's absences is also the Taehyun who had cuddled up to him and had his arms around Kai unconsciously in his sleep. 

When Hueningkai had first woken up, he was immediately met with bright pink fluorescent to his face, he had chuckled with a blush and carefully peels the boy away from him so he could sit in their little tent.

But he really liked the view, the pretty features of his best friend while asleep is enough to take his breath away.

He moved them so Taehyun would be using his lap as a pillow instead, and he would miraculously be able to do it without waking the boy, even with what little space he has to work with since it's not that big of a tent and they're anything but small.

You could say it's a silly little tradition that they made when they were kids, every month they would camp together in one of their backyards in turns, the two boys would set everything up themselves and had only needed adult assistance on the first few times.

They'll set up the tent, make random crafts with sticks and vines and flower crowns with the flowers they find, eat packed food together and were allowed to make small bonfires for roasted marshmallows when they were a tad bit older, and would sleep in the tent while telling each other their thoughts or simply sharing stories of their lives so far.

Enter middle school and those monthly camping gigs turn into thrice a year, then come high school and Hueningkai finds himself missing those little camp outs they did where they just laugh and be kids playing with sticks and flowers and held as hands as they drift to sleep.

When it was time for high school, it's whenever they have time to spare for it, which sometimes is almost never.

But finals are over, their graduation is near, so when Taehyun walks up to him asking if he wants to camp out again, just once more before they part ways to their respective chosen universities.

 Who was Hueningkai to deny?

And like back in all those years, they pitched the same blue tent together, Taehyun is good at keeping things in good condition for a long time so they never had to replace it. 

When Taehyun's eyes crinkle whenever Kai screeches at a wrong move, the way he squeaks out tiny cute sounds when he pulls the wrong part or the way his face brightens up when they finally get the tent up, Hueningkai can feel his heart beating quicker.