another habit that never changed was the constant teasing and joking. yifan seem to take a liking on his height very much, which somehow was stumped that the top of his head only reached the elderâs shoulder. a lot of people finds it cute to his chagrin. but in the end despite not making it to the sports team, he became the schoolâs drama king instead for his vocal and acting. or at least thatâs what he tells himself whenever yifan starts poking fun on it.
âshut up. iâm not short, youâre just overgrowned.â he huffs before bending his knee, eyes locked on the glass bottle. once the soles of his boots left the ground in a single hop he grabbed whatever he could from the shelves brashly. the movement itself caused the glass bottle to slip from his hand and landed on his nose with a âcrackâ instead. âmotherfucââ he yelps in pain, cursing all sort of swearwords in his dictionary at the sting upon the bridge of his nose while crouching down.Â
fortunately, the glass bottle seem to have withstand the impact of the fall from the makeshift cushion that is kyungsooâs nose, rolling towards a shelf and hitting it with a small clank. the boy continued to swear, warmth settling upon the sore spot along with a faint sting. god if he breaks his noseâŚ.
âletâs justâŚtake it and leave.â the wrath that laces each of his words obvious. it could fool anyone if it wasnât for the tears brimming upon his eyes. fuck, that really hurt. heâd kick the shelves around, but heâs not dumb enough to cause their untimely death. so he glares at yifan instead. âfind someplace to stay for the night. i think i saw a rooftop inside the woods earlier.â
"Are you okay?â Yifan hurriedly examines Kyungsooâs face to check any injury. The area around Kyungsooâs nose are quite red. Yifan tentatively places his fingers to feel the nasal bone, making sure if the bottle didnât break it. After making sure that nothing is wrong with the youngerâs face, Yifan helped the younger to stuff some medicine and the disinfectant into his backpack, along with some bottles of water and canned foods.
âI saw it too. It looks like a cottage so maybe if we want to stay there we either have to negotiate or kill someone.â He grimly muses out loud. Yifan looks back at Kyungsoo, noticing the latterâs expression and he slaps a smile on his face. âRelax, with you weâll probably be able to reach an agreement if the place is inhabited by someone.â He ruffles the youngerâs hair.
He knows heâll have to murder someone if something were to get ugly. The only thing that really matters is their safety, and no one can trust friends in this kind of world now, let alone strangers. Staying alive is necessary and the very first priority in his book, and that means securing Kyungsooâs safety.Â
They left the store, stepping carefully around the bodies that scatter around the entrance of the store. They remained immobile as the males trudge on their feet, the hope of a temporary shelter serves as a slight injection of motivation for them to keep going. They encountered no zombies on the way and when they finally arrived on the cottage they saw, the males examined the state of the place. It doesnât seem to be a place that recently been inhibited, Yifan can see it was a cozy little place before being left behind to rot. The structure is still sturdy enough for them to stay there for a while.
Yifan broke the window, purposefully doing so to draw attention of the walkers inside, if thereâs any. They doesnât hear any growling from inside and they entered the place through the window. It must have been abandoned for months. Whoever owns the place never bothered to nail some planks over the windows for safety measure, or they simply just donât care.Â
âItâs dusty here, but it will do. Get some rest, Iâll heat the canned food for us to eat. You must be hungry, right?â Yifan settled himself on the dusty floor, already setting the small makeshift stove from his bag and fishing one canned corn and cornet beef from the very same bag. He uses his zippo for the fire source and opening the cans with a swiss army knife he already possessed back in high school. He only has two belonging that comes with him from their old lives, the old zippo and the knife.Â
The older the two sweeps his gaze around the place, noting that its a very small cottage that only have two rooms, a bathroom and the room that serves as kitchen, bedroom and living room. The bed is covered in a layer of dust, they probably need to throw the sheets away so they wonât sneeze too much if they sleep there.Â
âDoes your nose still hurting?â Yifan asks, stirring the slowly heating food. His stomach growled and he laughs in a slight embarrassment. Yifan holds back a yawn, not wanting for Kyungsoo to nag at him to sleep for a while when he need to stay up and watch the place. âYou didnât break your nose, but if it still hurting tell me.â He knows plenty about physical injuries, granted that he received many in his younger days.