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Experiment 00“Have you seen the outside?” Yixing asked softly, rolling onto his side, finding Yifan’s striking profile right in his sight. The other man glanced over, and just shook his head. Humming softly, Yixing lowered his gaze and began to draw patterns in the white sheets below them. “Have you seen the sky?”
“Yes. I haven’t always been stuck down here,” Yifan admitted.
“You haven’t?”
“I was the first one they made,” he whispered, his large hand finding Yixing’s in the blankets. He didn’t speak again until Yixing hummed to prompt him. “They pampered me, because of that. I felt… human. Even though I didn’t know what that felt like.”
“You are human, Yifan,” Yixing said, in the same hushed tone. He pushed himself up to rest on his elbow, his face hovering so close above Yifan’s. “You’re just different from most humans. We both are.”
Yifan just stared at him. His deep brown eyes spoke so many words, more than any book Yixing had read. They weren’t readable, it was like the words in his irises needed to be sung. Yixing thought you could only hear music, but at this moment, he knew that thought was very wrong.
“I think,” Yifan whispered, so quietly, Yixing almost missed it, “I think I’m different in more than just my abilities.”
“Why do you say that?”
“In the books I’ve read and the shows I’ve seen, and overhearing the doctors and nurses speak. Men always love a woman, and women always love a man. I am a man, but I think I love another man.”
Immediately, Yixing’s breath stuck in his throat, and he feared his blood was truly boiling with the way his body heat up so suddenly. “Who is this man?”
“Who do you think it is, Yixing? I’ve hurt myself twice now just to see you here.”
Yixing had no words, but it wasn’t like any words could form when his mind was doing laps and his heart was attacking his ribs with the amount of beats it was experiencing.
Yifan had sat up as well, and from the look on his face, he was longing for Yixing to reply. “It’s okay if you don’t love me, Yixing,” he said softly.
“Yifan,” Yixing finally breathed out, his hands immediately raising to Yifan’s cheeks, where his thumbs rubbed against the tan skin, “I love you too. And I think love, no matter who it is between, is completely normal.”
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