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“Kyuhyun, you are so picky,” Hyukjae complained as he scratched the names off his list. “They were all nice choices.”

Kyuhyun laughed softly and shook his head. “Most of them were boring and the others were annoying,” he excused himself. “Oh, but wait,” he grinned as he looked through his cell phone. “One of them gave me this picture of you,” he grinned widely, showing the phone to Hyukjae.

The smaller man opened his eyes widely and cleared his throat. “Why do you have it as your background picture?” he asked, blushing slightly.

“Because you’re cute, obviously,” Kyuhyun said with a childish grin that only made Hyukjae roll his eyes.

“Shut up and eat, slave,” Hyukjae said, shoving a slice of pizza into Kyuhyun’s mouth, grinning widely when Kyuhyun simply hummed and ate, resting against the couch and fixing his cell phone on the bed side table.

They stayed the entire afternoon in Kyuhyun’s apartment, watching variety shows and eating pizza, just as Hyukjae wanted.

“Hyukjae, what happened to you?” Kyuhyun asked, panicking as he saw big bruises on the inner side of Hyukjae’s elbows.

Hyukjae looked at his arms and laughed softly. “I went to donate blood,” he said. “But the nurse was new so he couldn’t find my veins and they had to pinch me like three times.”

Kyuhyun frowned, looking up at Hyukjae. “They look really bad, Hyukjae. This usually doesn’t happen with needles.”

“That’s because nurses usually don’t go through your veins,” Hyukjae chuckled. “The nurse kind of broke it so there was a mini bruise there but well, you know,” he shrugged and reached his hand up to ruffle Kyuhyun’s hair. “Don’t stress yourself, I just gave a little blood for someone who needs it and I don’t mind the bruises, really.”

Kyuhyun sighed deeply and hummed. “Alright, I’ll believe you,” he said, still glancing down at Hyukjae’s arms.

“Do you have plans for tomorrow, Kyu?” Hyukjae asked, watching the TV absent minded, eating the second slice of pizza slowly. “Just to know if I should wake up early or now.”

Kyuhyun chuckled and hummed. “I always have plans,” he said. “And I’ll wake you up, so don’t worry.”

Hyukjae smiled and nodded, turning towards Kyuhyun. “Will I get tired?” he asked.

Kyuhyun chuckled. “Maybe.”

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“K-Kyuhyun,” Hyukjae called, his eyes wide open as he saw what Kyuhyun pretended for them to do. “You know I get dizzy with heights, right?” He asked, slowly reaching his hand to grip on Kyuhyun’s shirt tightly. “It literally, takes my breath away…”

Kyuhyun smiled and held Hyukjae’s hand firmly instead. “I know,” he said. “But don’t worry, I arranged everything for you.”

Hyukjae turned to look at Kyuhyun scared.

Hyukjae wasn’t nervous of going up on a small plane. Not at all. He saw the oxygen tanks waiting for him and he felt a little relieved.

The thing was, that he was a little scared of throwing himself to the ground from miles away from it. “Seriously Kyuhyun, I think you’ll kill me some day…”

Kyuhyun chuckled and held Hyukjae by the waist until they were in the plane already, sitting down with the man that would take them. “Calm down, I think you’ll actually enjoy it.”

Hyukjae glared at Kyuhyun weakly, his hand reaching for Kyuhyun’s free hand to hold it tightly. “I won’t let you go. If I die, you die with me.”

Kyuhyun laughed softly and nodded, holding Hyukjae’s waist and Hyukjae’s hand. “I wasn’t going to let go of you, anyway.”

They sat down and the man explained to them what they should do. He also told them he would be the one taking them pictures so they could enjoy the experience without worrying. “You can take hands so you land at the same time, of course, that’s only a suggestion,” the man said and Hyukjae quickly squeezed Kyuhyun’s hand. There was no way he would let go of it.

They dressed up and arranged everything before getting too high. Hyukjae had to use the oxygen mask until they opened the door and he started to panic, watching nothing but clouds down there.

“Calm down,” Kyuhyun cooed, hugging him gently. “Don’t you feel your heartbeat?” He asked, looking at how Hyukjae was breathing deeply with the mask. “That’s adrenalin, you’ll feel great, I promise you.”

Truth was, that Hyukjae was enjoying already.

The smaller man smiled and nodded at Kyuhyun’s words, looking at the guide when he told them to get ready because they were reaching the ideal height.

Their clothes and equipment were checked not once, but about three times to make sure there would be nothing wrong and that gave Hyukjae some kind of relief. He kept breathing through the mask, looking at how Kyuhyun looked down and grinned widely, sitting by his side.

“Are you ready?!” the guide asked them, screaming because there was no other way they would listen.

Kyuhyun turned towards Hyukjae and smiled softly. “Ready?” he said, though Hyukjae didn’t hear him, he just read what his lips said.

Hyukjae smiled softly and nodded, breathing in deeply from the mask before taking it away, giving Kyuhyun thumbs up.

Kyuhyun smiled, and it was so gentle, that for a moment, Hyukjae swore he could melt. The taller offered his hand and Hyukjae didn’t doubt a second before taking it.

Kyuhyun interlaced their fingers and pulled Hyukjae firmly to the edge of the door.

The man took a picture of the two of them, looking at each other with a smile on their faces before explaining, with signs, that he would jump first and then they should jump, just seconds after him.

Kyuhyun nodded and smiled, looking at how Hyukjae was looking down, trying to calm himself.

Finally, the guide jumped down and Kyuhyun and Hyukjae felt their stomachs grumble. Kyuhyun gave Hyukjae a firm squeeze of his hand and smiled at him, motioning him down.

Hyukjae nodded slowly, holding onto Kyuhyun’s hand as if his life depended on it.

Kyuhyun looked down and nudged Hyukjae forward until they could feel the air hitting their faces and they jumped at the same time, holding their hands tightly.

Hyukjae didn’t close his eyes as they went through the clouds. He felt great. The air against their half covered faces, the way he floated on the air, the way he was held securely. He liked it all. There were so many things happening that he couldn’t help but smiled widely, letting his body fall along with Kyuhyun’s.

Kyuhyun looked at Hyukjae and smiled gently. The smaller seemed happy and he was glad, because last night, even when Hyukjae would laugh, he was sure there was something going on. He couldn’t help but realize that maybe, he just missed Hyukjae so much that he didn’t know what to do. He gave Hyukjae’s hand a light squeeze before looking down, already seeing the landscape open up for them.

Everything was so small that neither of them could actually recognize what was going on or where they would land exactly but they didn’t seem to care. Especially Hyukjae, that suddenly seemed to enjoy it even more.

They saw their guide under them, somehow to his back to face them and take pictures of them. Kyuhyun thought about how many times he had to practice to actually turn around. He couldn’t even more his legs without feeling the weight of the world on him.

Hyukjae smiled brightly for the camera, trying to wave at it but failing because the air didn’t allow him to.

They could see the landscape clearer and Hyukjae was in awe at how beautiful it was. He wanted to point things to Kyuhyun for him to see, but he couldn’t so he decided that he would just remember them to tell the other later.

Even if after a few seconds, Hyukjae thought he would actually die, seeing the landscape way too close to them already. They saw their guide pull out his parachute and they didn’t think twice before doing the same.

The impulse of the parachute going out took them up slightly and they laughed, finally letting go of each other’s hand to hold onto the strings of their own parachute.

The way down was slow and they had time to wave at each other in the air. Kyuhyun mouthed a ‘Did you like it?’ and Hyukjae smiled, nodding as he gave the other thumbs up.

The landing though, was a bad experience.

Kyuhyun was slightly heavier, so he was the one who landed first, almost breaking his face as he tried to run and failed miserably, tangling with the strings of the parachute but taking it away before seeing Hyukjae also about to land.

Hyukjae couldn’t be calmer when Kyuhyun went to help him land, holding onto him so the other wouldn’t hurt himself and at the end, they were hugging tightly, balancing their bodies.

They laughed loudly and Hyukjae held onto Kyuhyun’s body tightly before they both fell down, their legs too dumb as to respond to them, Hyukjae over Kyuhyun’s body.

Hyukjae rolled off Kyuhyun’s body and sat up, panting softly and looking down at Kyuhyun who also seemed tired. “It was great!” he almost screamed.

Kyuhyun laughed and nodded, sitting up, watching their guide walking to them already. “It was!” he yelled back before the guide took the earplugs out.

“No need to yell on the ground,” the man said and Kyuhyun and Hyukjae laughed loudly, not realizing that it was the moment of their next picture together.

The ride back was funnier than they’d expected. Mainly, because the guide was telling jokes and signing different things on the landscape senselessly. It didn’t have any relationship of what he was saying in a second and then the next second it was totally different, but they found it nice to hear anyway and they couldn’t stop laughing.

As soon as they stepped onto the ground again, Hyukjae felt dizzy and his legs still a little numb. He smiled widely as Kyuhyun walked to his side and held him firmly. “How come you’re not falling?” he asked the taller as the other guided them to dress back in casual clothes and give back the ones they were using.

“I have a great sense of equilibrium,” Kyuhyun grinned, nodding proudly as he held Hyukjae’s waist firmly, finally reaching the dressers. “Now change in here, I’ll be next to you, right there,” Kyuhyun said, pointing the small cubicles for them to change.

Hyukjae nodded and sighed deeply as soon as he closed the door, gently resting against the walls to regain his posture, grinning widely without an apparent reason and just deciding on changing his clothes quickly so they could go eat something later.

They stepped out of the dressers, the guide was waiting for them already to take the clothes and give them the printed pictures. “That was fast,” Kyuhyun said, chuckling as he saw the seven printed pictures in their hands. The man was definitely a good photographer.

“I like this one!” Hyukjae exclaimed as he saw one of the three pictures where they were in the air. Both of them were looking and laughing at each other and it made Hyukjae remember just how much fun he was having.

Kyuhyun chuckled and handed Hyukjae the pictures. “All yours,” he said. “now let’s go eat something so you can weight a little more.”

Hyukjae took the pictures and nodded happily, following Kyuhyun as he saw them once more by his own, smiling widely as they reached the canteen.

Eating hamburgers wasn’t exactly what Hyukjae liked to do the most, but in that moment, he swore that huge thing in front of him was the most delicious hamburger he has ever tasted and forced Kyuhyun to promise him to look for nice hamburgers later.

It was darkening already when they came back only to find Duck happily playing with the cat the lady owned.

Kyuhyun paid and thanked the woman for taking care of their dog and motioned it to jump up the car with Hyukjae.

Their clothes and shoes were tossed away as they reached the bed and as soon as the landed on it, they fell asleep.

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