sick.『 yuwin 』

III.

when yuta opens his eyes, he sees sicheng's forehead in front of him, who, perhaps, was watching him, and falls on his back, suprised, when he sees that the other one is awake.

"sicheng, what are you doing?", says yuta, and he sits down, ignoring the pain that his back was causing him. "are you okay?"

"that's what i should ask", protests the chinese boy, and he gets up from the floor, blushing "do you feel better, hyung?".

"my stomach still hurts, but it's easier to handle than before", yuta gets up completely from his bed and looks at sicheng for some seconds before smiling.

"jaehyun came while you were sleeping, he left the medicine on the kitchen's table", sicheng says, and shows him the blue medicine box.

"is that why you were watching me while i was sleeping?", sicheng's pale cheeks turn to a pink-ish color and yuta side-smiles.

"a-anyway, take the medicine quickly or it'll worsen", sicheng says again, avoiding the other boy's eyes, and he exits the room.

sicheng bits his lower lip in nervousness, as he walks towards the living room. he didn't expect yuta to notice that he was watching him.

he lets himself fall over the sofa as he remembers taeyong's words from yesterday.

"when are you going to tell him that you like him, sicheng? it's pretty obvious that yuta adores you, and you would be an adorable couple, don't you think so? "

sicheng shakes his head in a denying sign. he doesn't think that he'll someday have the guts to tell him.

almost as if he heard his thoughts, yuta goes down the stairs towards the living room, with the blue medicine box in his hands. now he is wearing blue, ripped jeans and a simple white shirt, he looks like he has never been sick.

"we should go for walk", he anounces, as he walks towards the closet.

"a-a walk? but, you should rest. if we go out, your sickness can worsen, and-".

"i'm fine, sicheng. stop worrying too much, okay?", sicheng sighs and nods, and yuta gives him a smile before looking inside the closet again.

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it's 8:30 and yuta and sicheng are walking in the park. the sun is barely visible at that hour and the sky starts darkening, so the streetlights start working.

they are walking between two rows of trees decorated with a lot of colored lights, meaning that christmas is coming soon.

sicheng feels a little tickle in his stomach, and blames the cold weather, instead of his fingers intertwined with yuta's, who perhaps, doesn't know the efect that he has on him.

yuta sighs and, because of the cold weather, the air exits his mouth as vapour.

"where are we going, hyung?", sicheng asks, again. he can't help it; he is terribly nervous.

"follow me", he says, and walks into some bushes, dragging the other boy behind him.

when they reach the other side, sicheng is able to see a small garden-like place, the trees here are also decorated with lights, and there are four benches instaled in all the sides of the small place.

"y-yuta, i...".

"do you like it?", asks yuta, as he turns to see him, and smiles. "when i first saw this place, i thought you'd like it, so... i wanted to bring you here. i know it looks too cheesy, but...".

"no! no, yuta, it's beautiful. i love it. for real", sicheng smiles back, and yuta swears that his smile is even more shiny than the lights around them.

then, he feels his heart beat faster.

yuta opens his mouth just to close it again, and sicheng frowns. he knows that yuta isn't the type to easily get nervous.

"sicheng, thank you for all what you did for me today. but i didn't bring you here for that reason. actually, i brought you here because i have something to tell you", yuta bits his lower lip in nervousness.

"i also want to tell you something", sicheng anounces, regretting it in the exact second in which the words leave his mouth.

"let's say it at the same time".

"okay", answers sicheng. "one, two, three".

"i like you, sicheng".

"i like you, yuta".

both sentences leave both mouths at the same time so quickly that they're barely understandable.

but their smiles show that both understand what the other wants to say.