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His mom warned him this was a very bad idea. But he was a big boy and he wasn’t afraid…
Well…
He wasn’t that afraid
But Kyunnie should never know that
However, he probably wouldn’t notice. Little Kyuhyun was practically glued to his hyung, hugged to a cushion and shielding himself with his legs, barely leaving his eyes free to keep on watching ‘It’ (because of course he was also a big boy and if he said he could watch the movie, he wasn’t going to back off now). The boy was way to focused on not showing his own terror to realize Jongwoon was just like him.
So, at the end it was a challenge for both of them: with themselves, with each other and with Jongwoon’s mom, who had explicitly forbidden them to watch horror movies when the little neighbor was staying over (‘He is 7, Jongwoon, you must be a responsible hyung’)
Because they couldn’t scream, only uncountable little jumps and ever increasingly stronger squeezes to their joint hands showed the fear they did not had. That was pretty much all they did for the longest time, even when the movie finished, way too paralyzed with terror to try and move.
They stayed there glued to the screen watching the credits with the abominable background music, until the blue screen of the VHS stopping was the only thing illuminating them.
“Did you like it?” asked Kyuhyun barely above a whisper, still not lowering his legs to protect himself from the movie’s clown.
“uhm” nodded Jongwoon, only then remembering he was a big boy who needed to act like one. He tried to stand up to turn off the video but the younger had his hand almost strangled. He turned to watch it.
“Can we… sleep together?” Jongwoon was supposed to give up his bed, sleeping in the floor beside it… but right now sleeping beside that void under the bed wasn’t precisely comfortable.
The older smiled, nodding once again before resuming his task.
He still was very terrified, but finally he realized watching horror movies with Kyuhyun was one of the best ideas he had ever had.