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Winter is a magical time for Yoongi, he can do his favorite activities, like lay down on his soft bed, covered by multi-colored fluffy blankets, drink coffee ten times more with the excuse that it warms him up on a cold night, stay inside and avoid human interaction as much as possible. He could do all of those things in peace, but when Hoseok decided enough was enough, he dragged Yoongi anywhere to get some fresh air and to make him stop looking like he’s about to faint – ‘That’s just my winter look, Hobi.’ ‘Hyung, looking dead isn’t exactly a look , you know that, right?’.
Maybe it was a christmas miracle, but Yoongi woke up before noon while he was in his winter break. It’s a shocking fact, but it’s even more shocking that Hoseok’s under his purple whale blanket, still as a rock.
Normally, at 7:14AM – Yoongi chokes on his own spit looking at the clock, checking to see if the battery wasn’t busted ‘Was I abducted by some alien and changed bodies with a morning person?’ –, Hoseok was always out and about, taking extra classes that were completely unnecessary, but he liked the experience of it.
Like last winter, when he went to a cooking class with Seokjin and almost burned one of his eyebrows off while trying to turn the oven on. And last spring, when he went to a poetry class with Namjoon to see if he could incorporate some literature into his own works – ‘But you’re studying marine biology… How could you incorporate poetry into that?’ ‘You have little faith in me, don’t you, Namjoon?’ – and accidently made the teacher fall in love with his positive outlook on life in a class filled with sad students. And last fall where Jungkook convinced him to participate on one of his yoga classes that he taught to get some extra cash – they all know he only accepted it because he wanted to buy more games on Steam – and Hoseok almost broke a bone while trying to do some complicated stance, something to do with flamingos and fire, probably.
To simplify it, Hoseok is always doing something, so when Yoongi snaps out of his daze, staring at the sleeping boy's chest slowly rising, up and down, up and down, he gets up to take a shower and prepare breakfast, he might as well take advantage of the only day he ever woke up early on his whole college life, right?
Getting out of the shower, he decides to give his lungs a break and not use his binder today. He puts his new sweatpants, old boots, striped scarf and Widowmaker hoodie on – courtesy of the one and only Jungkook – and looks out of the window. Their room is not as big as they would like, but it’s enough for the two, the first thing you see when you open the door is the window – that is slightly cracked at the bottom right corner, thanks to Taehyung and his sleepwalking tendencies – which shows a bit of the garden the dorm has on its front, the main road and some apartment complexes. Hoseok’s bed is placed at one corner of the room, near the window, Yoongi’s bed can be found on the same location on the other side of the room, their shared closet is on the right side of the door, on the left there’s a writing desk – mostly used by Hoseok as Yoongi prefers to use the library or the arts room –, they also have bedside tables where they don’t keep many things, only a lamp – and a small narwhal figurine on Hoseok’s.
Both tried to make it as cozy and welcoming as possible, Hoseok did so by bringing his favorite whale blanket and some snow globes he bought from a trip to New York city, Yoongi kept a small frame which held a picture of him, many years younger, holding a tiny dog and brought posters from some of his favorite bands and artists. More days passed and more things came to find place in their shelves and walls. They were happy.
The first thing Yoongi sees looking out of the window is white, everything is white, for a moment he’s afraid that he walked in some alternative universe that only happened at early morning hours, but then he remembers, it’s just winter.
He doesn’t know where it comes from, maybe it really is a christmas miracle, but he wants to go out there, throw himself into the snow, be swallowed by it, forget he has a million things to do for a few minutes, then come back inside, remember all the things he has to do, procrastinate, get them done, wait until the winter ends and keep going with his life.
He really wants to go out there, right now .
It’s now 7:23AM, and Hoseok can be found under his purple whale blanket, with a very happy looking Yoongi shaking his shoulders.
‘Hobi, there’s snow outside, it snowed so much!’ – the sleeping boy grunts – ‘Come on, i don’t wanna go alone’ Yoongi whines.
Hoseok opens one of his eyes, locking his gaze at the alarm clock on his bedside table ‘Hyung, are you ok? Do you have a fever?’ – getting out of his fetal position and sitting on the bed, he presses a cold hand on Yoongi’s forehead – ‘Are you ok? Am I ok? Is this a weird dream? You’re awake this early?’
He slaps Hoseok’s hand off his forehead, crossing his arms ‘I’m alright! Don’t act like i can’t wake up early for once’ – he ignores Hoseok’s remarks of but hyung, you really can’t – ‘Come on, get up and look outside the window! It’s all covered in snow, let’s go outside right now!’
It’s no christmas miracle that he agreed, put on his best winter clothing, black sweatpants, combat boots and a Tracer hoodie – courtesy of the self-acclaimed greatest Overwatch player, Jungkook – paired with an old beanie, and let Yoongi guide him through corridors and staircases until both were found on the spot they saw by the window.
It’s almost 8AM, they immediately started a snowball war when they arrived, draining what little energy they had from not eating breakfast, both of them were crouched under a big oak tree, looking at the bits of snow falling from branches of other trees and listening to the early birds sing, it was peaceful.
‘Let’s build a snowman!’ Yoongi suggested.
The other boy immediately perked up at that ‘Hyung, do you wanna build a snow-’ – he couldn’t finish, Yoongi threw a snowball at his face.
‘I swear to God that if you start singing that i’ll shove snow down your pants’ He threatened, it was empty, Hoseok could tell by his smirk, but he played along and ran screaming no, hyung, have mercy on poor little me!
They finally settled down and started building a snowman, both giggly and panting from running after each other.
‘Hey hyung,’ – Hoseok says, rolling a big snowball to use as the bottom part of their snowman – ‘you know i like you a lot, right?’
Yoongi, who was looking for twigs to use as arms on their snowman, almost chokes on his spit, a normal occurrence when he’s near Hoseok ‘I like you too, Hobi, but why did you have to confess your undying love for me right now, huh? – he says with a smirk, trying to play it cool, like he didn’t almost died five seconds ago.
He shrugs, placing a medium sized snowball on top of the bottom one, their snowman is coming together ‘I don’t know, i just feel like you forget that i’m- that we are here for you.’ – he looks at Yoongi, who’s holding a few twigs – ‘ We as in your friends, you know? Seokjin, Namjoon, Taehyung, Jimin and Jungkook, the whole gang. They just want to see you happy, they love you a lot.’
Yoongi swallows ‘And you too?’
He finishes their creation with a smaller snowball, placing it on top. He smiles, slow and sweet like honey, and looks at Yoongi ‘Yeah, me too.’
Yoongi, whose cheeks are as red as the roses Hoseok gave him on his birthday, shoves two twigs on the middle of the snowman.
Hoseok places his beanie on the top, giving it a little pat and giggling.
Yoongi wraps his scarf around the middle and top of the snowman, covering where his mouth was supposed to be, they didn’t find enough rocks to decorate it with, only two for the eyes.
And last but not least, Hoseok places, where a carrot was supposed to be, a yellow flower he found around one of the oak trees.
They both stand back and admire their creation, it’s a bit messy, a bit out of the normal snowman standard, a bit weird, but it’s theirs and only theirs.
Hoseok wraps an arm around Yoongi’s shoulders and smiles, looking directly at him ‘Thanks for bringing me out here, hyung.’
Looking at the snowman to avoid staring at Hoseok, he blushed ‘No problem, that’s what i’m here for.’
Hoseok pulls him closer and rests his head on Yoongi’s ‘You know i meant that, right?’ – he mumbles – ‘I do care about you.’ I like you too much is what he really wanted to say.
Yoongi smiles ‘I know, Hobi.’ – he wraps an arm around Hoseok’s waist – ‘Let’s go back inside before we freeze, i’ll make noodles.’
‘What are we waiting for, then? I’m starving!’ Hoseok says, picking Yoongi up like he weighed nothing – damn those muscles – which was followed by chants of put me down right now Hobi! and i’ll make noodles and eat all of them, if you don’t let me go!
They were happy.