Sick Sour Cute
Title: Sick Sour Cute
Pairing: Kris/Tao
Genre: Fluff
Rating: G
Summary: Tao has a cold and Kris comes to visit.
“Here.” Kris says as he hands two packets of tissue samples to Tao. He closes his bag and puts it down on the floor before leaning on the wall, his right arm resting on the back of his chair. “The medicine’s going to kick in soon. Don’t worry too much.”
“Medicine? I’ve been taking these for three days now and they’re not working!”
Tao opens up one of the packets and pulls out a piece of tissue paper. He faces to the wall on his side and covers his nose with his free hand before sneezing into the unscented square. He would have wanted to have Kris hang out with him back in the apartment, but the young boy ran out of tea bags in his efforts to get rid of his devil of a cold.
“I really just hate this feeling! Ugh!”
“Yeah. You look like shit!” Kris said with a bright, warm smile and he raises his eyebrows matter-of-factly, like it’s a good thing.
“Can we stop stating the obvious? I’m already wilting here!” The words came out deep and a bit unclear from a voice that was post-sneeze. If Tao wasn’t too weak (and if he didn’t get weaker seeing the other smile like that) he would have hit his senior on the back of his head like he did before when the older guy was making fun of his Karaoke singing. So instead, he pouted and narrowed his eyes at the other. The action merely made Kris chuckle.
“Okay, okay. You’ll get better soon. You’re such a sour cute teddy bear sometimes.”
“I’m not cute.” Tao says before sneezing once more on a new piece of tissue. He grew tired of being called cute. Cute is for kids. But Kris never seems to listen when he says so.
“Sour. That’s for gummy candy… sour, cute, gummy teddy bear.” Kris recites with the unusual air of insight.
“I’m not…” Tao couldn’t finish what he was about to say as he felt the need to pull out the third and final square from the first pack of free tissues. He sneezes hard, his nose red at the tip. He opens the second pack, annoyed that the samples were too thin to be used on a different side after folding. At least he knows what brand he’s not buying in the future.
“You know, if you weren’t sick, people would think we broke up and I made you cry.” Kris says before sipping a cup of tea. Then he added “I’d rather have you sick.”
A feeling of warmth suddenly rushed through Tao’s arms up to his head, and he feels the insides of his nose getting lighter. He wonders if it’s the medicine finally kicking in, or if it’s something else. Kris then looked him in the eye, as if reaching some kind of resolve.
“You're a sick, sour, cute, gummy teddy bear. I’m getting good at this!”
It’s definitely the medicine that’s working, Tao thinks. And he starts feeling like he’s got enough energy to hold the other guy by the back of the head, kiss him, and then smack him on the side.
Author's Note: My first EXO-M fic! Yay! Inspired by a sick afternoon at a coffee shop.