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hide and seek - ricky

thank you for the request bbrightwwinnie

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Ricky-centric, hurt/comfort, claustrophobia

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Ricky is claustrophobic, and somehow ends up in a closet while they're filming for a variety show.

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Ricky watched as Hanbin was talking to the camera about what they we're doing next. He understood most of what the leader was saying, but some words he had no idea about. It's been a couple of weeks since their debut album was released and naturally, Ricky's Korean was getting better day by day, but there were still lots of words, especially when recording, that he hadn't really heard before. From the unanimous ohh's that followed, Ricky assumed that Hanbin had revealed their next activity.

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Ricky was not exactly sure about what the leader had said, but he could see Gyuvin smirking from where he was standing next to Jiwoong, so he supposed it was something fun.

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Well, fun is different for everyone.

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Soon Ricky had figured out that they were going to be playing hide and seek to decide some groups for the next missions. While Ricky didn't actually have anything against the game itself, many times when he was younger he had played it with his friends and they had hid in closets, or some other narrow places.

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Ricky was not quite fond of closed spaces like that. When he was younger, precisely about 14, he had figured out that he had something called claustrophobia, a fear of closed spaces. Whenever he played hide and seek as a kid, he would feel this anxiety when hiding in closed places. But the way he figured it out, was when he had accidentally got locked inside his schools janitors closet. He had managed to get out by knocking on the door loud enough for someone walking past to notice. When he got home that day, he searched the internet for what was wrong with him and found out about the phobia.

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But now, 4 years later, here he was about to play hide and seek with a bunch of other big kids.

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They had decided, that to make the game seem more enjoyable for viewers, they would be hiding in pairs. Ricky had ended up with Matthew, which he didn't really mind, as they had grown closer because of their ability to communicate in English.

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Gunwook had been chosen as the seeker, and soon he could be heard starting to count until 90 with his body facing the wall. He had one of those cute sleeping masks with a cat pattern in front of his eyes to make sure he couldn't see.

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Ricky felt Matthew pull the sleeve of his shirt to get him moving. Ricky followed an excited looking Matthew to the hallways of the building, with a camera on his right hand and the left one scrunched to a fist. He secretly hoped, that Matthew would choose anything but a small intact space for them to hide in.

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Anything but a closed space. Anything but a closet, he repeated in his head. But his prayers seemed to fall on deaf ears as Matthew dragged him in front of an extremely uncomfortable looking wood colored closet, way too small for even one grown man to fit in. Ricky was about to open his mouth in protest to not hide in the closet, but Matthew already had one foot in the dark, agonizing space inside the furniture.

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Ricky turned the camera to Matthew and took a deep breath while closing his eyes for a couple of seconds. Once he opened them again, Matthew was already fully inside the closet, looking at him with a questioning look. Ricky was good at masking his emotions, so Matthew couldn't really sense the discomfort the younger was feeling.