Confined spaces (1/1)

“The movie was really awesome. The action scenes, the comedy, everything was bang on. Don’t you agree?” an excited kyuhyun questioned siwon. However siwon did share neither the excitement nor the enthusiasm to watch the flick. The movie ‘Sherlock Holmes- A game of shadows’ was kyuhyun’s choice. Siwon was a die hard Arthur Conan Doyle fan and had read everything that was written by him. So, it was obvious that he was less that pleased with the creative liberties the director had taken while portraying the famous sleuth. Since kyu had more than normal appetite for investigative and suspense movies, he could understand why he wanted to watch the movie; even though he himself found it to be disagreeable. Siwon could vaguely remember kyu’s desire to see the movie when it had released. Since the movie was not yet out on DVD and yet to premiere on television, it was up to siwon to use his ‘C.E.O’ links to get a print played in the theatre for him. This meek acceptance of kyu demands was in no way projection of siwon’s generous nature, it was rather a repayment of a favour he owed kyu. Super Junior’s resident diva, Kim Heechul had bought a new and expensive dress shirt that he was dying to try out. And as luck would have it, siwon had mistaken the said brand new white shirt as a towel, and used it to wipe his sweat, post workout. Needless to say siwon had sweated buckets thinking of the repercussions of his actions. While he was fervently praying to god for a safe passage into afterlife, kyu had come to his rescue. While formulating a plan to get siwon off the hook from the Cinderella’s wrath, he was momentarily distracted by Heebum who was walking daintily along the window sill. That was when an idea hit him.  He placed the half cup of coffee, which Heechul had left behind at his bedside table, near heebum in such a way that the cat knocked down the cup spilling the coffee on the ground and itself in the process. Then the cat was enticed to walk over heechul’s shirt that was placed between the cat and a kitty treat holding kyu. This accomplished the plan of making heebum walk with coffee stained paws on the shirt and effectively erasing any evidence of siwon’s misdemeanour. Since kyu had saved him from imminent death, siwon had agreed to pull some strings and have the movie played in a theatre owned by his friend. Siwon was a man of his words, and if that meant that he had to sit in the cinema hall with kyu and watch the atrocity play on the screen, then so be it. And if this repaid the favour he owed kyu, then everything can be taken in its right sprit. Moreover, siwon had always wanted to watch a movie with kyu, but had never mustered enough courage to actually ask him out. They had been to the movies numerous times, but someone or the other always accompanied them. They had never seen a movie alone. This felt like a date, had kyu not forced his hand by reminding the favour he owed. “The movie was ok. Not that great. I can’t understand the buzz surrounding it.” Siwon said dampening kyu’s mood. “Hyung why do you have to be like this? Can’t you for once strip down this rigid exterior and enjoy a movie for what it is, rather than analysing it to bits” Kyu said while they were walking towards their dorm. “The problem with you is that you over think things” walking into the lift kyu murmured “if only you were smart enough to look closely to the things going around you, I wouldn’t have to face such troubles.” “What did you say? I over think things, if I did then...”siwon was cut off when their elevator came to an abrupt halt with a screeching sound. It jolted both of them from their places. Siwon quickly pulled kyu in a hug in a bid to protect him from any harm. After the lift had come to stop, kyu grabbed the few precious moments and revelled in siwon’s hug and even dared to inhale siwon’s musky scent. Kyu was in bliss. This hug was different from the ones he usually got; they were mostly for fan service and it did not hold any meaning to him. Though siwon had acted to protect kyu, this hug from him meant that siwon placed his wellbeing more than his own. If that was not love, then kyu didn’t know what it was anyway. After everything returned to as normal as it could, siwon quickly removed his hands from kyu and suddenly found the light placed on the ceiling very interesting and kept on pointedly staring at it. When he finally overcame his awkwardness, he saw kyu had returned to his previous position near the buttons and was grazing his fingers over the same. Siwon mind went into overdrive seeing kyu with the lift buttons. He slowly walked towards him and pulled him to the back of the lift. Placing his hands on either side of kyu’s head, mimicking the stance kyu had held him in at the sauna; siwon looked at the bewildered kyu, “Kyuhyun, could you be so kind as to explain it to me, why the lift came to an abrupt stop?”  “How am I supposed to know, maybe it broke down or something” kyu said clearly uncomfortable in such a position under the questioning eyes of siwon. Questioning eyes??? Wait. “You don’t think that I am responsible for this do you?” he aired his thoughts and when he saw siwon shifting his eyes he knew he was bang on. He swatted away siwon’s hands in anger “You seriously thought that I made the lift come to stop. And why in the world would I do that? Please answer me?” kyu looked in the eyes of siwon showing his displeasure with the baseless accusation. Pulling the maknae towards him, siwon held the boy close to his body, with one hand on the small of his back and the other on the back of his head, reducing the distance between them. His lips were mere inches apart from kyu’s “how am I to believe in you, you little devil” siwon smirked “you have planned and executed elaborate ruses before, to get me to do your bidding. How am I now to know, this situation is not orchestrated by you?” siwon bought his face even close where kyu felt his hot breath ghosting over his lips. “I have to admit, I have enjoyed you putting me in a spot. Your impish behaviour only makes me fall harder for you. What do you say??? Should I come out and say what you have been waiting to hear?” siwon sensed that kyu was only faintly hearing what he was saying, his eyes being glued to his lips. Testing his hypothesis, siwon slowly dragged his tongue over his lips, only to see kyu’s eyes following them. A sense of pride swelled in him. He knew the younger liked him, but to see that he had this kind of effect over him, surely gave him a boost. He too was not unaffected by the other’s charms. There were moments when all he wanted was to hold him and never let him go. So seeing all the futile attempts the maknae had undertaken in the past month, siwon decided that maybe it was finally time, time to say out loud, what he knew was in his heart. Looking deep in kyu’s caramel brown eyes, he mustered courage to come out and bare his feelings. It was time to either sink or swim. “There is something I have wanted to say for long. Since it will take a while for the maintenance crew to get here; this is as good time as any to say this.” Taking a deep breath and mentally preparing himself, “kyu, i….” suddenly he felt his throat contracting “what I was trying to say is that, I…I…love…I love….”   “Ummm…..what are you guys doing?” when siwon heard a voice that belonged to neither of the two occupants in the lift, he and kyu both yelled out of horror, and began searching for the source of the voice. Their search was bound to prove fruitful considering that the lift was not that big to being with and they were stuck with no one in or out. Their sight caught a sheepish looking yesung standing at the far end of the lift. Seeing his hyung there and the sudden interruption to his almost confession, made siwon disoriented for a moment. Kyu on the other hand was not only confused as to how his weird hyung managed to get into a locked lift without either of them noticing but also angry at the loss of siwon’s confession. “Hyung, what on earth are you doing here? How did you even manage to get in?” kyu barked at the tiny man, who was now alternately looking at siwon and kyu and determining the best course of action to take. Selecting to go with the truth, “actually I was trying out a new experiment – urban disguise” pointing at his clothes, that were made in such a way that it was almost indistinguishable from the background. “I wanted to see, if it was possible to hide in plain sight, and by the looks of it, I think this experiment was a success” he smiled brightly holding up a V sign that was immediately lowered due to the piercing stares he was receiving from kyuhyun. “And where on earth did you get this ridiculous idea from?” kyu started walking towards yesung in a threatening manner, “and why did you keep quite when we entered the lift?” Siwon held back the hostile kyu in a bid to protect yesung. “Well…I...I saw this movie where the protagonist indulged in some ‘urban disguise’, I though it would be fun to do the same so…” seeing yesung almost teary eyed, siwon felt a wave of sympathy washing over for the older man, he was about to walk over to him, when something clicked in his head. Urban Disguise. It felt awfully similar to something he had heard recently, but he was having trouble placing it. Suddenly like epiphany, siwon placed the phrase to the movie he was forced to watch. He knew that the older had not seen the movie yet, then how was he able to replicate a scene from the movie?  “Hyung, in which movie did you see about this…?” “Oh…that Sherlock Holms movie, part two” with more joy in his voice, seeing that some one was actually interested in his little experiment “ it premiered this evening. I though of inviting you to watch it with me, but kyuhyun said that you had prior engagements.” Siwon turned slowly to confront the maknae on the breach of trust and was about to jump him for fooling him once again. But at the exact moment, the lift jerked to a start and kyu rushed out laughing at the first opportunity he got. Siwon sighed and helped yesung stand, who had fallen when the lift started. Siwon knew he had to stop playing into the younger’s hands. He himself could not comprehend how he managed to fall in kyuhyun’s trick time and again. Recalling his actions with the maknae prior to yesung;s interruption, siwon was curious where his actions would have led to if he was not interrupted. He made a mental note to send some chocolates to the maintenance crew for not properly maintaining the lift. True, something more serious could have happened due to the faulty lift, but he had managed to steal some alone time with the maknae which did not have the other plotting his confinement. Smirking a little, he though maybe he should sweat kyuhyun a bit more. Successful or not, the elaborate plans the younger contrived certainly took effort and siwon could not help but feel wanted and loved. He just had to see how far he was willing to push, for he could not entangle himself in unbaked relations based on mere infatuations that come and go like summer breeze. If kyuhyun really loved him, he was willing to give him his heart and soul, but there was still time for that. Yesung thinking that siwon was still angry at kyu, hoped to defend him, “that kid is not that bad you know. He is actually very smart. Yesterday he showed me an app he created that could remote control lifts and other gadgets. Isn’t that amazing?” he turned back sensing that siwon was no longer walking with him. He saw siwon standing few steps behind him wearing an expression that felt as if he saw a five year kid beat his record in weight training. It was a mixture of surprise, wonderment and a hint of amusement??? Hey guys, i am sooooo very sorry for such a long wait. I had some things going on, “90 degree bow”. Really sorry guys. Hope you like this chapter. The next would probably be the last one. So enjoy.