"has anyone ever told you how pretty you were?" renjun blushed furiously. "stop saying things like that, you've been doing it all day," he punched his shoulder lightly. "i'm only telling the truth," jaemin smiled cheekily. 

   renjun chose to ignore him and continued making a flower crown with white lilies and yellow daisies. a short gasp escaped his lips when jaemin pulled him down by the elbow and he landed on his back. luckily, jaemin was there to cushion his fall as he fell on the ravenette's chest.

   "what are you doing?" renjun was relieved that jaemin couldn't see how red his face was. "look," the younger pointed up at the sky. "what?" renjun asked, not understanding what he was meant to see.

   it was nothing but a blue sky with white clouds decorating it. "have you never been cloud gazing?" jaemin asked. "n-no, i haven't," renjun began to feel self concious as he wasn't sure if it was what most people did and he was just the odd one out. jaemin chuckled as he felt the older tense on top of him. "it's nothing to be embarassed of, it's fine, really," jaemin reassured him.

   "can you teach me?" renjun asked timidly. he wasn't sure what cloud gazing was aside from the fact that he was supposed to look at the clouds, but surely, there was more to it.

   "there isn't much to teach, but i will," jaemin agreed. he pointed his finger at a cloud hovering above them. "what do you see?" he asked. renjun thought about it for a moment before realizing that it was probably better off to do it naturally. "a tree," he stated.

   jaemin hummed, "not a bad start." usuing his finger, he outlined different shapes in the clouds. "can you see an alpaca?" renjun squinted his eyes and searched hard, but couldn't see anything. "nope," he sighed. "forget it, this is stupid," he grew aggravated that he couldn't see what he guessed most others could. 

   "hey, hey, wait a minute. even if you might give up on yourself, i'm not giving up on you yet. you asked me to be your teacher, remember?" jaemin reminded him. "wrong, i asked you to teach me," renjun corrected him.

   jaemin laughed at renjun's stubborness. he carefully took hold of renjun hand and lifted it to sky just as he had with his own earlier. he took renjun's pointer finger and traced the shape in the sky. 

   "do you see it now?" he brushed his lips against renjun's ear. the chinese gulped at the contact, figuring that jaemin had done it on accident. "i do," he responded.

   "see, isn't it simple? all you have to do is open your eyes," jaemin spoke in a soft voice. renjun nodded his head against jaemin's chest. "you did so well," the younger praised. he wrapped his arms around renjun body, hugging him tight as they basked in the sunlight, under the clouds.

   renjun spoke up,  momentarily breaking the peaceful silence, "let's do another one." jaemin chuckled, "what do you see there?"

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   renjun woke up again. he couldn't tell what time it was and he couldn't open his eyes. although his senses were weak, a familiar voice was very audible.

   "i just want to talk to renjun," he managed to make out from the voice above him. i'm right here, talk to me, he wanted to scream, but no sound came out. the voice became muffled as it seemed to move away. renjun was frustrated.

   it was the fifth time that he could remember waking up and hearing or seeing things. as hard as he treid to move or speak, it never worked. it was torture. he didn't know where he was, who he was with, or how his friends and family were. it worried him to death and there was simply nothing he could do about it. 

   instead of being depressed over it, he savored the moments when he was awake or the times when any of his senses were working. he focused and listened well, trying to use anything he could to figure out anything about his surroundings. 

   no! no! he felt helpless as sleep, his biggest enemy, took over again. everytime he woke up, sleep would eventually come after him. he struggled to stay awake and finally, he gave up.

once again, everything went black.

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it's a lot of fun to ignore ur comments about what's happening

just read to find out. all time will eventually tell

✎ ---- dreaminghyuck⤾