sick.『 yuwin 』

IV.

that night, the rest of the members arrive at the apartment exhausted, mumbling a good night before walking, most of them, to their own rooms: taeyong, ten and johnny in one of them; doyoung and jaehyun in another one; and mark and haechan, the youngest boys, in a third room.

johnny and taeil are in the kitchen chit-chatting about trivial stuff, while taeyong approaches sicheng and takes a seat in the sofa, next to him, as the rest go to their rooms upstairs.

"how did it go for you with yuta?", the leader asks, curiously, and sicheng gives him a small smile.

"err... fine, i-i guess. he's better now, even though i screwed everything up. he doesn't feel like throwing up anymore, so i think he'll continue with his regular schedule tomorrow", the boy giggles and taeyong sighs.

"both of you are really naive, when will you stop doubting and make the first step?". he smiles as he shakes his head, and puts a hand on the other boy's shoulder as a comfort sign before getting up to go to his room.

maybe taeyong was right.

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when the clock marks midnight, everyone is already deeply sleeping in their corresponding rooms.

everyone excluding sicheng.

he's having an internal battle with himself that isn't letting him sleep, and the fact that taeil decided to sleep with doyoung and jaehyun didn't help at all.

he couldn't stop mentally repeating the japanese boy's words. did he really like him? or was he just playing with him? how will things be after what happened?

the chinese boy tenses when he hears the bed next to him creak and realizes that the main character of his thoughts is awake, but he doesn't want to see him, not in this moment.

"sicheng, i know that you're awake", he whispers, and the other boy curses over his bad luck.

"a-ah... i'm sorry, hyung, i can't sleep", it's the only thing that he can come up with.

"you can come here, if you want", sicheng nods even if in the dark december night the other boy can't see him, and he gets up to go to the other bed.

yuta is sitting on his bed, and sicheng sits on the space in front of him, seeing how the moon lights up the other boy.

"let's play truth or dare", yuta proposes, and sicheng nods. "then; you start".

"truth", he answers.

"hm... did you eat ten's brownie?"

"m-maybe, but that was a long time ago, hyung", he protests, and yuta laughs.

"my turn, i choose dare".

"i dare you to put your water bag under taeil's pillow", they both laugh and yuta does what he was dared to do before returning to where he originally was sitting.

"if taeil comes back early and scolds me when he feels the cold liquid in his head, you're dead, dong sicheng", yuta warns, and they laugh again.

a few seconds later, the mood changes to a completely serious one.

"d-dare", says sicheng, finally.

"i dare you to kiss me".

sicheng is afraid that yuta can hear his heartbeat even from where he is sitting.

during a moment, he wants to think that he is not being serious. he's waiting for yuta to start laughing and tell him that he's only joking.

but he doesn't do that.

sicheng feels his lower lip trembling as he gets slowly closer to yuta, and he convinces himself that that's because the temperature has been decreasing lately.

during a moment, he loses himself in the japanese boy's dark eyes, he notices the way he looks back at him, expectant, his eyes shining like stars.

and then, he brakes the distance between them.

in the moment in which their lips touch, he feels like he's about to fall, and immediately seeks for support in yuta's shoulders, which makes the older boy smile.

a few seconds later, sicheng separates from the other boy, and he can feel his cheeks burn more than they never did before.

even though it only was an insignificant short touch of their lips, it always was going to be more than that for him.