“Hey, watch your step.”

Sehun exclaimed while gripping tight Luhan’s elbow, prevented the older from a slip on the snow. The Chinese boy giggled, scooted over to his boyfriend’s side and linked their arms together. They were walking back to the hotel after a wonderful dinner at a small restaurant (which was highly recommended by Xing Xing), a long walk around the downtown area (which Luhan insisted with aegyo because…well, simply he wanted to try romantic scene like other couples in movie used to do). They passed the center mall a few minutes ago and Sehun had to say that was the strangest moment so far since Luhan didn’t stopped by to take a look in some shops near the entrance.

“Tonight I want to pay my full attention on you.” the older reasoned when Sehun gave him an unbelievable kind of look.

Although his legs were exhausted from a day standing and wandering around museums, Sehun couldn’t say no to any of Luhan’s request. His MT trip was successfully ended and they were invited to a party tonight before heading back Korea the first thing in the morning. He had excused himself to spend more time with his baby deer and after considering his proposal, the head of delegation had approved his absence. But he still had to be present before midnight at his room and be ready for the checking out the next morning.

On the other hand, Luhan spent the last day in Bloomington on meeting Xing Xing at lunch and shopping souvenirs for his friends the whole afternoon afterward. It gave him a slight headache since he had to buy both his and Sehun’s gifts, different items for each boy at home. He knew if he let the younger do this, he definitely bought the same thing for everyone and that obviously would ruin the meaning of souvenir. Besides the pleasure of looking through all the stuffs had been bought was out of words and Luhan could also take mental pictures of how happy the boys were when they got these.

Sehun back hugged him right when the door was kicked close, rubbing his nose against the smooth skin of Luhan’s neck. They stood like this for a minute before the smaller one spoke up with his loving voice.

“What is it Sehun ah?”

The other tightened his wrapping, slightly shook his head while placing his chin on Luhan’s shoulder, mumbling

“Nothing. I just…., you know, love this feeling. Really, sometimes I think I don’t understand myself any more. You make every day of my life into an adventure. And I….I just can’t stop.”

Luhan was frozen in his position. The sudden confession made his heart beat so fast that he thought it’s going to explode. Sehun was not a type of expressing his emotion either facially or verbally, which meant what coming next probably was something serious.

 He let the younger spin him around to face each other and fluttered his eyes close when Sehun bent down to kiss him.

The kiss was short but it was sweet enough to send him above nine clouds. He frowned a little bit as the latter pulled away and also broke the closeness between them. But then he saw Sehun fished out from the pocket of his coat a small blue box with a gentle smile on his face, he couldn’t help but taking one step back.

What is that?

Is it a ring?

Is he going to get down on his knees?

Oh my Gawd, what am I gonna say?

Breathe, Luhan…. breathe…

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“You’re thinking too much baby.”

The chuckle from Sehun brought him back to the room. He didn’t realize that he had been holding both hands up against his chest (and also his breath), looking dazed for the whole time. Tilting his head, Luhan asked in confusion.

“Did I just say something out loud?”

“No” the younger pinched his cheek playfully “It’s written all over your face though.”

Luhan flashed his embarrassing smile, metally scolded himself for losing control too easily. He silently blamed Yixing for always asking him to watch dramas with him at late night whenever the younger didn’t have class in the morning and Luhan simply just had three classes this semester.

Sehun averted his eyes to the box in his hand for a second then back to Luhan, smacked his tongue, pretending to be disappointed.

“But it’s good to know the answer if I’m really going to propose.”

“No, no it’s not like that.” the Chinese male jumped out of his skin, waved his hands vigorously “It was all sudden and I was surprised and….”

His voice was trailed off because frankly he didn’t know what to explain more. Sehun moved closer to him, lifted his chin up to see the blushes on his cheeks.

“So you mean if I ask you to marry me, you will say yes?”

Luhan turned into a stony statue again with mouth partly opened, doe-like eyes blinked. He tried to gather himself together, looking around the room and started flapping hand in front of his face while blabbering nonstop.

“Why it is so hot in here? Do you feel hot Sehunnie? Something is wrong with the heater. We should inform the hotel manager. We shou…phmmmm…”

The rest of that sentence became a mess of incoherent words as Sehun locked his pink lips with his own, on his lower lip slightly. Luhan totally lost his mind, he parted his mouth waiting for a hot tongue darted into his cavern but got none. The younger one again swung his mood with a sharp pulling off, making him stiff and… a little of missing.

“Look how forward you are.”

 Sehun chuckled while pinched his nose teasingly. But before he could whine like a baby who being yanked away his lollipop, the latter handed him the blue box with a wink.

“Here. Open it.”

Hesitating for a second, he received the box and untied the ribbon, looking up to his boyfriend before removed the cover. There placed a plain ring made of white gold, outstanding on the black cloth. He took it out, shifted his eyes to Sehun again questioningly.

“Happy 100^th day anniversary!”

Luhan was completely dazed, blinked several times to push his brain working hard on turning back the time and counting.

He didn’t see that coming. He thought people would just celebrate on their anniversary each year so there was only a date circled in heart shape on his calendar so far.

As if being a mind reader, Sehun reached out to grasp his free hand, shaking it to snap him out of his thought.

“Hey, you’re supposed to be happy and give me a passionate kiss in response, not standing still like this.”

The twinkle in Sehun’s eyes made the confusion expression on his face melt into a big grin. He did what the other had been expecting, threw his hands around the Korean’s neck and closed the gap between them. He could feel the smile under their kiss and found himself also smile blissfully.

“Is it a ring couple?”

Luhan examined the beautiful thing carefully, asking even though he knew the answer from the beginning. He dropped his eyes on his boyfriend’s hand and a pout immediately formed at the corner of his lips.

 “Where’s yours?”

“Here.”

Sehun slowly pulled out the silver necklace he was wearing all the time, the one which was given to him on his eighteenth birthday, the one that he once said had his mothers’ spirit, protecting him from physical danger. Now it was added one little shinning thing.

“Look inside.” Sehun demanded, excitement was easily recognized in his voice.

“Hunhan = ∞?” Luhan read the inscribed word.

“It consists of our names.” the latter beamed brightly, explained as he saw the wrinkles formed on Luhan’s forehead.

Letting out a small ‘Oh’, the Chinese boy caressed the carved letter with a fond smile. He was pretty sure he looked like an idiot with this appearance right now but who cared, he had the best boyfriend ever who had just given him the most beautiful gift and no words could be used to express his feeling. So rather than saying anything trite and hollow, he chose to slip the ring through his middle finger, lifted it up and grinned proudly.

Sehun stretched his hand to match with Luhan’s then laced their fingers together, pulled the older closer.

“Do you like it?”

“Uhm. I love it.” Luhan’s voice suddenly became lower than usual “But I also felt bad for not getting you anything.”

Sehun chuckled, lifted his chin until they caught each other’s eyes.

“That makes us special, don’t you think?”

“Huh?”

“We don’t do things people usually do.” the Korean male shrugged

Luhan pursed his lips, took another look at the ring.

“But won’t it be better if I got you something too?”

“Nope.” Sehun replied without a second thought, his lips already curved into a playful smirk “This way is much better because now I could have an exceptional treatment from you tonight right?”

Knowing he was being trapped, Luhan spin around and ran to the other side of the bed, stuck out his tongue mischievously, giggling

“Who said that? I think I’m gonna sleep early tonight.” he pretended a yawn “I had a long day, you know.”

Sehun shook his head in disbelief, narrowed his eyes while stepping towards the latter

“You’re sooo gonna get some troubles baby.” he suddenly sped up “You wanna play? Let’s play!”

With that the younger one stretched his arm to grasp the other’s elbow, making Luhan startled and jumped on the bed. Unfortunately, Sehun was faster. He pulled the Chinese back before he could reach the edge of the bed and they both crashed on the mattress. Luhan tried to escape since the finger of the latter kept tickling him but no use. His boyfriend was so damn strong and because of the laughing, he couldn’t regain his strength.

He panted hard as Sehun finally stopped his torturing and gripped both Luhan’s hand over his head, weighed down on him. This position could lead to something really promising and he could feel him being so just looking into the lustful eyes of the latter.

“You’re so beautiful, you know that?”

Sehun whispered while caressing the soft skin of his baby deer’s face with his free hand, memorized every inch of it. There were so many times he wondered why he didn’t see Luhan in the first place and how stupid he was back then.

“Yeah, I know.” Luhan smiled shyly “You say that almost every day.”

“And yet it’s not enough.”

The younger boy bent down to plant a kiss on his lips. This time when Luhan parted his mouth, inviting him to come inside, he didn’t waste any second to dart his tongue in, deepened the kiss.

They stayed like that for a few minutes before Luhan couldn’t bear the tension from the lower part, sputtered as he tried to switch the position.

“Se…sehun ah. Let’s…me…”

His mouth was shut by a shushing and a finger against his lips.

“Didn’t I say I would make it up to you?”

Luhan’s brain started to remember what he had imagined last night of how much he would be made up for and none of those was the unexpected preparation that Sehun took really slow. He didn’t know if he loved it or hated it because it looked like the other was teasing him with his tenderness.

However, he didn’t have time to come to a conclusion as he felt something hot was on his sensitive spot.

Let’s just say that night Luhan saw little twinkle stars ….twice before he fell asleep in Sehun’s embrace and he was pretty sure the manager of the hotel would consider of implementing sound-proof wall sooner or later.

And although they were quite drunk from the party, both of his sunbaes were still able to make fun of his messy hair since Sehun had no time to fix it as he ran for his life to be back on time.

But again, if it’s for Luhan, nothing mattered.