Underneath Your Clothes is My Territory

chapter 8

Dilly-dallying, Kyungsoo was lying on his bed reading some of his manga collections, which were spread around him messily in heaps. The boy was kind of like a little creature that was piling up his food for winter, lodging cozily and preparing to hibernate. Lying on his stomach, he enjoyed his peacefulness to the fullest. Once in a while he sipped the chocolate milkshake mom had prepared him through a straw. He didn't bother to lift it up from his bedside table. Kyungsoo, turning the pages lazily, fed himself with chocolate cookies, his eyes fixed on the pages as he giggled every now and then.

Mom interrupted his quality time moment, yelling from downstairs, "Honey, you got Lulu visiting!"

Kyungsoo froze, his face turned so pale as if he was just seeing a ghost. Chocolate crumbs fell from his mouth. At that moment, Kyungsoo almost wished he would be seeing a ghost instead of Luhan.

Not long after the announcement, Luhan booted open the door and bolted his way toward the terrified boy. Getting rid of all the comic books, he dove himself onto the bed.

"Soo! What the hell happened last night, tell me! Your mom didn't want to tell me where you were and you didn't bring your phone with you which by the way you should have and she told me that you were in a better place I got freaked out thinking that you are dead or something what the hell! I called your house thousands times until morning and you hadn't got home and now you got so much things to explain young man!" Luhan screamed hysterically. His boney fingers grasped the poor boy's shoulders, shaking them wildly. Kyungsoo swayed back and forth like a rag doll out of the force, he got dizzy after a while.

"L-lu... d-dizzy," Kyungsoo choked, his body rocked wildly.

Luhan cupped Kyungsoo's cheeks with his hands, firmly that Kyungsoo's lips puckered up like a fish. He narrowed his eyes, trying to spot anything suspicious. Luhan turned the boy's cheek left and right, inspecting every area down to his neck and arms, head over heels (Literally. Luhan flipped Kyungsoo over by his ankle to check on them as well.)

Satisfied enough after he didn't find any evidence of abuse or harassment, Luhan cooled down and took a deep breath. He loosened his grip at once, causing the poor boy release an 'uff' sound as he landed not-so-gracefully on his bed, sprawling tiredly.

"Now tell me, what had happened!" Luhan demanded.

Kyungsoo creased his eyebrows, thinking of what not to tell. He bit his upper lip and played with his fingers.

"Spill it, Soo," Luhan hissed.

Kyungsoo cleared his throat. "Mm.. Kai.."

"KAI?"

"Ah, no, I mean I was drowned..."

"DROWNED????"

"N-no Lu, I mean I was nearly drowned and I then passed out..."

"PASSED OUT!!!"

The more Kyungsoo tried to calm Luhan, the more furious he became. After a painfully long time, Luhan finally stopped yapping and let Kyungsoo finish his self-censored story. Luhan took a few deep breaths --very much like a woman in labor-- to calm himself down. He had a quite good grasp of what was happening, despite all the not-so-smoothly censored acts. He was so furious to think about his baby being in the same room with that filthy Kai. Luhan groaned. His precious baby!

"You're too vulnerable, baby Soo, practically everyone looks at you like you are their yummy dinner treat, start being tougher will you?!" Luhan scolded the boy.

"I'm not! You don't look manly yourself, Lu!" Kyungsoo retorted, offended by the statement.

"What do you mean I don't look manly, look at my biceps and my abs, here, touch them!"