nepenthe | yuwin

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rain.
[rān]
noun

moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.

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it was another day, as sicheng walked slowly inside the school premises, beads of sweat forming in his forehead.

no one can really blame sicheng, no one can really blame him from walking out of the scene yesterday.

he was confused, shocked and flustered. he never thought of anything but him and yuta reconciling.

he didn't know how to face the japanese now. he didn't know what to do mostly because he ran away yesterday after hugging yuta.

he continued to walk, expecting different kinds of scenarios in his head.

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yuta sighed for the nth time, looking at the window. it was early in the morning and their classroom was empty.

"did i do something wrong?" he mumbled to himself, reminiscing what he said yesterday and how sicheng hugged him for a minute and after that ran away…

the sound of the door creaking made yuta look up, the newly arrived person making him flustered.

yuta sat down silently and played with his fingers.

sicheng gulped and sat in his seat.

"sorry" he mumbled softly.

yuta looked at him with a softened expression.

"did you eat breakfast?" yuta asked. he didn't want to put pressure and awkwardness between them.

"yeah, i did. what about you?" sicheng replied and yuta could only nod.

after those were silence, they didn't know what to do so they just leaned in their desk silently, with their heads lying on their arms.

yuta held sicheng's free hand, making the latter look at him.

sicheng didn't budge as yuta brushed the back of his palms with his thumbs.

sicheng smiled making yuta's heart flutter as he also returned a genuine smile.

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sicheng stood up as their class was dismissed.

he carried his bag and put its sling on his shoulders, walking outside their classroom.

"wait for me!" yuta said, quickly standing up as he gathered his things and ran towards sicheng.

sicheng could only look at yuta as he  approached and gave a smile.

yuta showed his left palm and smiled brightly, "let's go!"

sicheng could only return the smile as he held yuta's hand, "let's go" he softly mumbled.

-

"should we go to a café? since tomorrow is saturday" yuta asked as they were walking out the school.

sicheng looked at him with a blank expression, "the weather is bad"

"alright, alright i'll just walk you home" yuta smiled and continued to walk.

"why don't we play as we walk?" yuta recommended, making winwin nod.

"let's stop walking here and since we're near home let's play rock paper scissors until we have our winner. the one who wins in the rock paper scissors per round has the chance to walk one step forward to the building, the first one to arrive the doorstep of the building is the winner" yuta explained the game, and sicheng was interested as it processed in his mind.

"rock! paper! scissors!" the two said as they showed their hands. sicheng showing rock and yuta showing scissors.

"yes!" sicheng celebrated as he took one big step forward.

"hey that's cheating!" yuta protested but only got sicheng to stick his tongue out, "you never said anything about the distance per step!"

"rock! paper! scissors!" sicheng won with his scissors.

he took a step forward and smiled as he turned to yuta, the distance between them growing.

"rock! paper! scissors!" yuta won with his rock and so he smiled and hopped forward almost reaching sicheng's spot.

"that's unfair!" sicheng said as he saw how the distance suddenly decreased in only one swift move.

yuta stuck his tongue out, "talk about unfair!"

sicheng could only sigh and roll his eyes.

"rock! paper! scissors!" both of them shouted but then also stopped as rain came pouring down.

sicheng stared at the sky until he were pulled by yuta inside the building.

"aigoo, you'll be sick" yuta said as he wiped the raindrops in sicheng's face.

they entered sicheng's room and the younger hurried in his room.

"take this, i'll wash up a bit so pick out any clothes you're comfortable with and take a bath after me" sicheng gave yuta a towel and quickly got inside the bathroom.

yuta dried himself up and looked at sicheng's room, smiling as he opened the door.

he slowly walked inside the room, opening his closet.

he smiled and walked out of the room, with sicheng's white long sleeves and khaki shorts his hands.

"oh? i'm done taking a bath, hyung. go wash up now you'll be sick" sicheng said and went inside his room.

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"do you have any umbrella?" yuta said as he carried his bag, walking inside sicheng's room after taking a bath.

sicheng was sitting in his study table as he eyed him and smiled as he saw his clothes worn by yuta.

"why don't you just stay by the night?" sicheng casually said flicking pages of his reviewer.

"its dangerous outside too" sicheng added.

yuta dropped his bag and sat on the floor.

"i won't  bother you right?" he asked sicheng.

the younger looked at him and just smiled as he shook his head, "you won't bother me, hyung"

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a/n
I'm neomu sorry, this was supposed to be published at yuta's birthday but I was busy ;-; and I interchange tousle and tussle bcs me dumb dumb (to be edited) n e way NCT 2019 OT21 Y'ALL HEAR ME???

AND HELLO STREAM MOONWALK

to be continued...