"Are you hurt?"
Yuri whimpered when he felt the senior tug his face from between his knees.
"Yuri, raise your head." The senior firmly demands.
This caught the attention of the other seniors who were present in the vehicle.
Yuri slowly lifted his head which earned a round of gasps from the other seniors.
"Get Chen Ling." A senior whispered to another to prevent triggering the little one unintentionally.
Yuri whimpered when he saw the looks on the seniors' faces.
"You got sunburned," Sam said in a tight voice from the driver's seat.
The expressions on the seniors' faces hardened when they heard Sam's words.
"Is that true, pumpkin?" The senior who had Yuri in his lap demanded.
"And you were trying to hide it from us." Another senior said in a dry, dark voice.
A little sob escaped Yuri's lips from the pain he felt and the disappointed looks on the faces he looked up to.
"I am sorry." Yuri apologized through tears.
The seniors' facial expressions softened a bit when they heard Yuri's apology. Just then, Chen Ling got to the car and was alarmed by the tense atmosphere in the car.
"What happened?" Chen Ling asked. Sam nodded his head, gesturing towards Yuri.
"Wha- why is he crying?" Chen Ling asked with tense shoulders.
"He got cooked by the sun on our watch," Sam answered in a bored tone, albeit his aura was the most tense one in the car.
"Yuri." Chen Ling sighed and shook his head in disapproval of Yuri's actions.
"We warned you to stay away from the sun seventeen times, but you claimed that we were being too clingy, who is the clingy one now?" Chen Ling snorted seeing how Yuri clinged onto the senior that carried him.
"Get towels, douse them in the ice we brought, and apply them on the affected areas". Chen Ling addressed the seniors and turned to look at Sam.
"Drive towards the dormitory, no stops whatever, and if he whines, let me know." Chen Ling said and gave Yuri a last look before he stormed off to Lin Feng's sports car.
"I am sorry," Yuri muttered once again with a sniffle and buried his face into the chest of the senior holding him.
"It's alright." He heard a senior mutter.
"It is not." He heard another mutter.
He sighed when he felt a cool cloth against his burning skin and slowly drifted to sleep.
He slept through the whole ride.
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"Be careful, do not add too much pressure." Yuri heard a voice whisper in his sleepy haze.
"I am not." Another voice whisper-yelled snappily.
"You two shut the fuck up." A rather disinterested voice said in a whisper.
"Whatever."
Yuri slowly opened his eyes and squinted at the bright light that invaded his sight.
"Hush, he is waking up."
"Are you okay?" Yuri heard a voice worriedly ask.
"I'm hungry." Yuri rasped out, ignoring the question.
"Alright, get yourself awake, we will be right back." A voice whom he was very familiar with said in haste.
"No, you wait, the others can leave." Yuri croaked out, pleadingly.
"That's fine."
He heard shuffling of feet and the creaking of the door hinges as it opened and closed. Feeling a dip into his bed, Yuri turned his head on the pillow to stare at the senior who made themself comfortable on his bed.
"Lin Feng Gege." Yuri rasped out and felt a familiar burn at the back of his eyes, indicating that he was probably going to bawl.
"Come here." Lin Feng stated and moved closer to Yuri to wrap his arms around the latter, almost immediately, Yuri started sobbing, his face against Lin Feng's chest, drenching the latter's shirt with his tears.
"Hush, it is fine." Lin Feng glued himself to Yuri, coddling the latter in his arms.
"I made you guys worry," Yuri said in a whisper, guilt gnawing his guts.
"We are always worried about you." Lin Feng replied, placing a lingering kiss on top of Yuri's hair.
"Gege,"
"Hm?"
"Can I ask you a question?" Yuri apprehensively asked.
"Go ahead, pumpkin."
Yuri debated if he should ask the question that had always been bugging him as he nipped on his lip with his front teeth.
"Erm-"
"Go ahead, Yuri." Lin Feng encouraged, giving gentle pats to Yuri's head.
"Okay...."
"Why are you guys so overprotective of me when you have only known me for just a little bit over two months? not that I am complaining or anything." Yuri slowly delivered his words in order not to say anything that would make the senior think that their efforts in protecting him were unappreciated.
"Well-" Lin Feng was about to reply, but he was interrupted by Chen Ling who walked into the room with a tray of food and water in his hands.
"Yuri, I heard that you are hungry." Chen Ling said, looking between Lin Feng and Yuri. Just then Yuri's stomach rumbled in approval to Chen Ling's words.
"Yeah," Yuri muttered, but he made no move to get up, instead, he moved impossibly closer to Lin Feng.
"Yuri get up, and come meet me in my room." Chen Ling demanded, leaving no room for argument, and made his way out of the room, taking the tray of food along with him.
"Lin Feng," Yuri said in a slightly trembling voice, looking up at Lin Feng pleadingly with red teary eyes.
"Hush, pumpkin, he is not going to hurt you." Lin Feng assured.
"I know," Yuri replied with a sniffle as a new set of tears escaped his eyes.
Yuri reluctantly sat up and wiped his face with his bare arms as he was still in his beachwear.
"Go on." Lin Feng encouraged, nudging Yuri on his shoulder.
Yuri begrudgingly stood up and took hesitant steps to his door. He looked back at Lin Feng who was still laying on his bed, and the latter gave him a nod of encouragement.
Yuri dragged his feet from his room to the door of the room Chen Ling shared with Lin Feng, he raised his hand and hesitantly knocked on the door. Giving three weak knocks, Yuri turned the knob and dragged his feet into the room.
"Sit."