Pull Me Closer | HEEHOON

Pull Me Closer

It was Sunoo's idea to play seven minutes in heaven, and Heeseung may not know how, but he's sure he also planned for this to happen.

Things seemed to be pretty innocent and fun when the game started. They were all laughing and feeling extremely awkward in the tiny closet. Heeseung honestly thought actually locking the door with the key was a bit much, but he wasn't about to ruin everyone's fun for such a tiny detail. He went into the closet with Jungwon once, twice with Jay and once with Sunoo. They just tried really hard not to laugh at how close they were forced to be in there. Especially because they were that close, they kept hitting each other by accident. They talked for a bit, he tickled Jungwon just to annoy him. It was fun, really. Not your traditional seven minutes in heaven, but that didn't matter.

And then he had to go in with Sunghoon.

He would have been lying if he said he wasn't nervous about being in such an enclosed space with Sunghoon, but he still pretended everything was fine. What else was he supposed to do? Freak out that he was getting into a closet with his crush? Well, he was, but just internally. He could not let Sunghoon know how he was feeling. With no idea of how he was going to manage that while inside the closet, he went in, Sunghoon following him.

It was fine, mostly the same it had been before with an added layer of nerves and a slightly tenser atmosphere. They talked, mostly because otherwise the seven minutes would never pass, bantered a little and laughed. Sunghoon fell against his chest a couple times while laughing and Heeseung had to will his heart to calm down each time. But it was just fine, Heeseung could endure, he was strong. At least strong enough to last seven minutes.

Once the seven minutes were up, and they could tell because they heard the alarm go off, it happened.

Or more like, nothing happened.

"Guys?" Heeseung called facing the door, Sunghoon looked confused too. Why weren't they opening the door?

"So..." he heard Jay on the other side, "apparently I had the key." And Heeseung noticed the use of past there, Jay had had the key.

"Okay?" He didn't want to lose all hope just yet.

"I... don't have the key" he admitted, Sunghoon stepped closer to Heeseung, probably trying to get closer to the door.

"Then who has the key?" Sunghoon asked almost into Heeseung's ear, and he had to remind himself that he was strong.

"We don't know... were the key is..." At least, Heeseung thought, Jay had the decency of sounding guilty. "But, don't worry, we are looking for it, we'll get you out of there, okay?" He reassured them.

Heeseung sighed, had it been with anyone else, he'd be laughing now. Was he strong enough to endure this proximity to Sunghoon for much longer? He doubted it. Yet, he couldn't say that out loud, he would sound like an asshole. Like he didn't want to be close to Sunghoon, when he was figuratively dying to be as close to him as physically possible. He couldn't, shouldn't, but he wanted it.

"Okay." he said instead, because that's how he had to respond, "just tell us when you find it? Or call someone to open the door." He couldn't see it, but he still imagined Jay nodding.

"Will do, just... stay there?" Sunghoon laughed at that falling over Heeseung's back and holding onto his shoulders.

He was so going to die in there. And he still didn't know how or why, but this was definitely Sunoo's doing.

The closet was small, probably a little less than a square meter and it had stuff in it. Thankfully they took out a bunch of it so they could fit inside without stepping and dropping everything. They could sit on the floor if they wanted, they would probably be touching someplace, but nothing too uncomfortable. They really had to choose the smallest place in the whole dorm with a lockable door to play this game, didn't they?