Ch. [07]

After A Minute

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“Oh! Come on!” Kyuhyun groaned annoyed. “Kyuhyun! Cho Kyuhyun!” he almost screamed.

 

The man looked down to his list, nodding for himself. “Mr. Lee is waiting for you,” he said. “10th floor, apartment 2.”

 

Kyuhyun sighed deeply. “Seriously,” he glared at the man. “I’ll be coming here every day for like months, you should know me already.”

 

“10th floor, apartment 2,” the other repeated firmly.

 

Kyuhyun rolled his eyes and hummed, walking to the elevator. “Why are people being so mean to such a young, handsome male?” he asked and laughed at himself as the doors of the elevator closed and opened again.

 

His feet took him to the familiar door and he didn’t even bother himself in knocking, he just pressed the digits and came into the apartment, looking around to see if he could find Hyukjae somewhere. “Is it too early?” he asked himself and looked at his watch, raising an eyebrow because it was indeed too early. “Wow, six thirty,” he gasped and sighed. “Time for me to sleep,” he said as he walked towards Hyukjae’s room, opening the door and chuckling as he saw Hyukjae sleeping peacefully in his bed.

 

He took his coat and jacket off, kicking away his shoes as he crawled up the bed, sighing softly to snuggle against the sheets. It wasn’t really his intention to sleep, but he couldn’t help but smile as he felt his consciousness run away from him.

 

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Kyuhyun opened his eyes slowly, yawning slightly as he blinked to get used to the light. He looked up and found Hyukjae’s eyes looking straight at him with a bored expression. “Ah, you’re awake?” he asked, sitting up and stretching his body on the bed.

 

Hyukjae rolled his eyes and looked at Kyuhyun’s back. “What time did you arrive?” he asked.

 

“Six thirty,” Kyuhyun answered. “My bad, I guess I was too early.”

 

Hyukjae chuckled and sat up, stretching his arms and back. “Where are you taking me today?” he asked turning towards Kyuhyun, grinning widely.

 

Kyuhyun laughed softly and ruffled Hyukjae’s hair. “We’re going to the zoo.”

 

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“OH MY GOD KYUHYUN! TAKE IT AWAY! TAKE IT AWAY!” Hyukjae screamed, panicking because the boa was slowly surrounding his waist. “Oh god, it’s going to kill me!”

 

Kyuhyun laughed at Hyukjae and gently slid the snake around the other’s arms, his own was around his waist, laying there peacefully. “You’ll scare it, calm down,” he said and Hyukjae couldn’t help but stay there, freezing in his spot.

 

“T-This is not what I had in mind when you said we would be coming to the zoo,” Hyukjae said, his face losing color when the boa’s head was in front of his. “It’s gonna eat me-”

 

Kyuhyun chuckled and reached for Hyukjae’s hand, pulling him around. “You said you wanted to go through a lot of things as of vacation, so I thought it would be nice if you did things you would normally not do,” he said grinning widely. “The idea of this place is that you can interact with the animals.”

 

Hyukjae could barely walk around the place. There were so many snakes in there that he was terrified. Amused, and filled with adrenaline, but terrified, at the end. He let Kyuhyun guide him as he looked around, always glancing at the boa that now seemed like not moving around his body.

 

Of course the idea was to have fun and do everything he would never do, but Hyukjae was slightly regretting the idea of ever hiring Kyuhyun for that.

 

“Oh wait,” Kyuhyun stopped and grabbed the camera hanging from his neck, grinning widely. “I decided I should take pictures of everything we do,” he said and fixed himself by Hyukjae’s side. “It’s been a week already and this is so far the most exciting thing we’ve done.”

 

Hyukjae stayed there, still, not moving, just looking at the camera as Kyuhyun posed and took a picture of them. “I hope is the most exciting we’ll ever do,” he mumbled terrified, feeling the snake slowly slide under his shirt. “OH MY GOD KYUHYUN!”

 

The camera took the picture, showing Hyukjae looking down, screaming and terrified, pale even at the snake. And there was Kyuhyun, holding the camera with one hand as he was looking at Hyukjae, laughing at him.

 

When Kyuhyun checked the picture, he thought it was the best picture ever and he laughed for half an hour while Hyukjae pouted and hit his shoulder saying it wasn’t nice at all.

 

The snakes were finally taken away from their bodies and Hyukjae sighed deeply, throwing himself to the bench exhausted. “Finally…,” he mumbled, closing his eyes to relax himself.

 

Kyuhyun chuckled and took a picture of Hyukjae, humming softly as he sat by his side. “Are you alright?” he asked.

 

Hyukjae opened his eyes and glared at Kyuhyun. “Did I look alright for you?” He asked and Kyuhyun grinned, nodding his head. “You idiot-”

 

“Since you’re fine already, let’s go, there are a lot of things we can do in this place,” Kyuhyun said and stood up, nodding towards the path were there were some people walking.

 

Hyukjae sighed and stood up. “Why do I even follow what you say?” He asked as he followed Kyuhyun as they walked around, grinning widely when he found ducks walking all over. “They’re so cute…,” he smiled widely.

 

“Wait till we get to the giraffe,” Kyuhyun said and took Hyukjae’s hand, dragging him towards the next destination.

 

The next picture Kyuhyun took, was of Hyukjae feeding the giraffe with a wide grin in his face. “See? Not bad,” Kyuhyun said. It was late already and they decided to eat something in the zoo’s restaurant. Kyuhyun would still let out soft laughs, remembering every time Hyukjae screamed when an animal got too close to him. “We just need to go see some others and done, I want to see tigers.”

 

Hyukjae sighed tiredly, munching his hamburger slowly. “I’ll fire you later,” he threatened and Kyuhyun grinned.

 

“You can’t~,” Kyuhyun chanted childishly. “The contract said at least four months!”

 

“Stupid contract,” Hyukjae cursed.

 

“Come on, it’s been fun,” Kyuhyun chuckled and sipped from his soda. “I’ll take you out tomorrow again, I think it’ll be fun.”

 

“Define ‘fun’,” Hyukjae said, though he was extremely excited by the idea of keeping doing things like those.

 

“You’ll laugh, maybe scream like a girl, and then laugh again,” Kyuhyun said.

 

“By me laughing, you mean, you laughing harder at me?” Hyukjae asked chuckling.

 

“More or less, yes,” Kyuhyun smiled, standing up. “Hurry up, we need to see those tigers.”

 

Hyukjae rolled his eyes and stood up, looking down at the table and grinning widely because he finished all his food; except, of course for the fries, since Kyuhyun was in charge of stealing them.

 

Hyukjae was pale, shaking his head as Kyuhyun pushed him forward. “This looks like a bad idea, Kyuhyun,” he said and tried to turn around to leave, his hands trembling. He heard Kyuhyun chuckled and push him gently.

 

“It’s a baby, Hyukjae,” Kyuhyun coaxed, finally holding his hand to go towards the baby tiger in the room, playing with different kind of toys.

 

“It’s just a baby? It looks giant,” Hyukjae mumbled scared, almost clinging on Kyuhyun as he saw the small tiger look at him. “Kyuhyun, you said we would only see…”

 

“And cuddle, I forgot that part,” Kyuhyun grinned innocently, pulling Hyukjae until they were in front of the small tiger, leaning down to pet his head.

 

Hyukjae gasped terrified. It’s going to eat Kyuhyun! “K-Kyuhyun…”

 

Kyuhyun looked up and smiled, holding Hyukjae’s wrist and pulling the other down to sit on the floor. “Come on Hyukjae, it’s cute,” he said as he played with the animal.

 

“It’s still a dangerous cub, Kyuhyun…,” Hyukjae said, gulping as he saw the cub looking at him.

 

An almost silent scream went out from Hyukjae’s lips as the cub threw itself towards him, rubbing his head against Hyukjae’s chest. The small cub was just like a huge cat and Kyuhyun chuckled when Hyukjae reached his trembling hand to pet his head gently.

 

It took only two minutes for Hyukjae to start laughing, playing with the cub with his hands and toys.

 

Kyuhyun lost no time and quickly took a picture. Hyukjae was laughing and the tiger cub was pawing at him playfully and almost gentle, as if it knew how fragile Hyukjae looked. The picture was perfect, Kyuhyun decided. He could use it for a contest or something and he would get one of the first prizes, he was sure.

 

After paying for extra time, begging to Hyukjae endlessly to stop playing and go to see the small zoo’s aquarium, and one and a half hour later, Kyuhyun could finally take Hyukjae out. “It needs to sleep, Hyukjae,” he insisted, and that was what made Hyukjae sigh, greet goodbye to the cub as if it was a baby and follow Kyuhyun out with a slight pout.

 

“I liked the tigers,” Hyukjae said as they made their way to the aquarium.

 

“I told you so,” Kyuhyun grinned, nodding for himself.

 

“Whatever,” Hyukjae retorted rolling his eyes, smiling widely for himself as he followed Kyuhyun diligently.

 

The last picture Kyuhyun took, was of Hyukjae pointing to a clown fish excitedly, just like a small child.

 

“I had never come to the zoo, it’s great!” Hyukjae grinned widely as he ate the ice cream Kyuhyun bought for him at the end of the day.

 

“You didn’t? Really?” Kyuhyun asked amused, looking how happily Hyukjae ate the ice cream.

 

Hyukjae shook his head. “Except for the near death experiences, everything was really fun, thank you!”

 

Kyuhyun laughed softly, opening the door for Hyukjae to jump into the car. “Just being with me is fun,” he said and didn’t give Hyukjae time to answer to that as he closed the door, walking to the driver’s seat and jumping in, chuckling as he saw Hyukjae glaring at the ice cream. “What is it?”

 

Hyukjae shook his head and sighed as he turned around and saw Kyuhyun fixing his belongings on the back seat. He placed his ice cream in front of the other. “I’m full…,” he said and Kyuhyun rolled his eyes, taking the ice cream.

 

“Am I always going to eat the rests of your food?” Kyuhyun asked as he the ice cream and put on his seat belt.

 

Hyukjae also put on his seat belt, grinning widely and nodding. “Just when I don’t finish it,” he said and nodded, yawning tiredly. “Now drive, slave, I need a shower and my bed.”

 

Kyuhyun laughed softly and shook his head, starting the car and driving off with one hand, eating the rest of the ice cream with the other.

 

It was already dark when Kyuhyun parked the car in Hyukjae’s building; he realized the other was deeply asleep already. For someone who wasn’t really used to such activities, it probably was exhausting. He chuckled as he went down the car to open Hyukjae’s door, unbuckling his seat belt and carrying him up again as if he was a small child.

 

“Name,” Kyuhyun groaned.

 

“Are you serious?” Kyuhyun hissed, motioning at Hyukjae who was in his arms, sleeping peacefully.

 

“Name,” the man insisted and Kyuhyun sighed.

 

“Cho Kyuhyun,” Kyuhyun rolled his eyes.

 

“10th floor, apartment 2,” the man said and Kyuhyun sighed, humming lowly as he walked to the elevator, stepping in and going out as soon as he was in the right floor.

 

Pressing the digits proved him to be hard enough with a body in his arms so he hoped Hyukjae would never realized he used his tongue that one time.

 

As soon as he entered the apartment, he walked carefully towards Hyukjae’s room, gently letting his body down.

 

“Such a kid…,” Kyuhyun chuckled for himself, taking away Hyukjae’s jacket and shoes. He covering Hyukjae’s small body with the blanket and walked out of the apartment before making sure everything was arranged.

 

In his way home, Kyuhyun made sure to print the pictures he had taken for the day.

 

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HelenDamnation #1
Chapter 8: I really loved this story.
sekyuflwr #2
Chapter 43: you don’t know how much I just cried. thank you for this beautiful story.
yvette0912
#3
Chapter 43: Nearly half an year I was reading this masterpiece again. How I miss this gentle Kyu and soft Hyuk, no matter how many times I follow their trips by these words, I always feel so touched and feel like crying even it is a warm moment.
I have so much wanna say but nothing else can say, beautiful story, hope there're more people can come to read.
yvette0912
#4
Chapter 43: Oh my, this is the best Kyuhyuk fic I've ever read . I'm stunned.
This was so sweet and sour in the same time, I just loved how slow, smooth, sweet, beautiful they were. Hyuk was so lovable when he had so much suffer but try to keep smiling to the world, and Kyu was so amazing when he treated Hyuk so gently. Every moment they have just perfect. They're perfect.
I appreciate your sharing. That's really touching.
Kyured #5
Chapter 43: Thank you for making Hyukjae wait longer authornim, thank you for making Kyu catch him before my heart shattered ^^ beautiful story, thanKyu so much for sharing it!
Elizabeth19 #6
Chapter 43: XD!!! Me encanto la historia ya me encontraba llorando pensando que Kyuhyun había muerto después de todo lo que pasaron juntos. Le felicitó x su trabajo!!!!
Korarin #7
Chapter 43: I thought you were going to pull a Fault in Our Stars on me here. I was literally crying so much, I was actually watching my scroll bar too as I was reading and was like there's no way it's going to have a happy ending.

THERE'S NO WAY (since the scroll was so close to its end during kyuhyun's letter). NO FCUKING WAI AND I'LL HAVE TO BE DEPRESSED FOR A WHOLE MONTH. But praise jesus hallelujah there's Kyuhyun. ALIVE. And I cried even harder afterwards. IT WAS SO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN THAT I'M JUST DHAKAKKSKA.

I feel like for finding this wonderful story so late. But your story man. It was definately an adventure. I swear to god I thought Hyukjae was going to be one at the verge of dying, but Kyuhyun's illness really gave me a shock. LIKE WOAH THERE. HOW. WHAT. WHY. HELLO?? DID I MISS SOMETHING. /BREATHES HEAVILY/

I'm just so glad it ended how it is. ;A; (wonder what happen to the security guy LOL) I cannot thank you enough for this story! I enjoyed it! Now I'm probably going to binge on your other stories now lol.
JewelSapphire13 #8
Chapter 43: Thanks for the beautiful fic ♥
Wafflesareyummy88
#9
Chapter 43: Omggg! Omg omg he is alive! Thank god he's alive ! i nearly had a panic attack! I mean killing kyu! Oh god the relief !
btw Amazing story ...sweet funny sad ! A perfect combo of everything !
kyuwonfan #10
Chapter 43: u make me laugh at beginning and make me cry at the end....congrats bcoz make me cry in the office....anyway great story...maybe u can make extra shot regarding kyu during surgery and also one shot kyu n hyuk together...pleaseee