“Doesn’t this take you back?”

The voice came from my right. I turned to look at him finally catching up and running in line with me instead of having my as his running view. He waited for my response, turning back to the front with his usual smile, showing his top row of teeth and just a small line of pink above it, his gums. The smile triggered a chuckle from me, spreading warmth inside my body as I did so.

It was usually the earlier part of the evenings when we used to meet each other at the small hill near the bungalows behind our neighbourhood. It was a few minutes walking distance and we would reach there with a pool of sweat on our backs but the intention was worth it. Piling our weekly income of the week, we would lay out the number of firecrackers we bought with our spare pocket money. He had his source and I had mine but one thing was the same; the amount of money we used. He had eaten food with the same values during school hours and saved the rest for our Friday night excitements. Lighting them up in one go and running our little legs off to watch in a safe distant never failed to bring us laughter. The run towards the nearest telephone booth was anticipation in the making, boosting it up until we finally reached it and watch the firecrackers wake up the dogs nearby. The scolds we had gotten were messed up by the eighth time we did it, but we didn’t have any regrets. We were seven after all.

|| reviewed by Mrs Reen
|| story by crufjeff written in November 2011 // [ unedited since ]
--the end of the hyped fanfic era.

"Cruising along this story, you shall experience the love I have for the ChangKyu/KyuMin pairing that is Cho Kyuhyun and Shim Changmin.
It's a tad bit heavier than how I usually write but eh meh, it was fun. Do enjoy!"