☕ || eight.

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by 1yanan

by 1yanan

EDITED ;; 26 APR 2019

"jooheon," changkyun called from the bathroom with a shaky voice after a loud sound of shattering glass echoed through the quiet apartment.

"what?" jooheon put his phone down, hoping that he didn't have to get up from changkyun's warm bed but it seemed like that was exactly what he had to do. not that he wasn't concerned about changkyun of course.

"please, come here." the tremble in changkyun's voice got worse and it sounded like he was crying or at least really close to it.

jooheon quickly got up and went over to the bathroom, suddenly stopping at the entrance as he saw small pieces of broken glass everywhere. changkyun was in the middle of the bathroom, sitting on top of a ladder.

as jooheon saw the boy's bleeding hand, he didn't care about the glass on the ground. he stepped forward, stopping at the ladder. he placed his hands on changkyun's thighs and looked up at him, his eyebrows curled in worry. "come on, let's get you out of here," he said with a gentle voice.

"it hurts so much," changkyun cried, clenching his hand into a fist, accidentally causing it to bleed more

"i know. i will take care of it. just try to not clutch your hand like this, okay?" he made changkyun wrap his arms around his neck so he could lift him up and carry him to the bedroom, careful not to step into most of the glass.

he rushed to the kitchen to take a first aid kit and came back as soon as he made sure that he had everything that he needed. he kneeled between changkyun's legs, taking his bleeding hand.

"how did this happen?" jooheon asked as he started cleaning the wounds, most of which were deep and some even had pieces of glass in them.

"i tried changing the lightbulb but i think i was holding it too firmly and that's why it broke in my hand," changkyun sobbed, wincing at the pain.

when jooheon was done cleaning and bandaging the hand, he sat in bed, pulling changkyun into his embrace. "next time you're struggling with changing a lightbulb, just call me, okay?"

changkyun nodded with a sniffle. "this has never happened to me before, by the way! i don't want you to think that i can't change light bulbs," he let out a quiet chuckle, trying to cheer himself up and to assure jooheon that everything was going to be alright.

the other giggled, slowly combing changkyun's hair with his fingers. "i wouldn't even dare thinking that." he took changkyun's bandaged hand in his own, holding it carefully as he was examining in case he had missed a spot. "does it still hurt you?" changkyun nodded lightly as if it wasn't obvious that the pain wouldn't just go away in a blink. "don't worry. it's supposed to get better soon."

changkyun turned to him. "thank you, jooheon," he said with a small smile before resting his head against the older's shoulder, also looking down at his hand.

in response, jooheon giggled and wrapped his arms around the boy again.

"are you going to go change the lightbulb, though?" changkyun asked.

"are you going to help me clean up the mess you made?" jooheon raised an eyebrow.

"if you're going to put it that way, then no."

"in what way should i put it then?"

"in a way that i don't do any work, of course."

"unbelievable."