One Month One World One Year Challenge 2022

January 24

Aaron cursed as his fingers failed to find a good hold on the rock wall and slipped slightly, though not enough so that he completely fell off the wall. He took a deep breath, steeled his resolve, and searched for another rock to grip. Maybe he needed to invest in some new climbing gear... He reached up, found another hold, and yelled as he tried to pull himself up but failed. He crashed to the ground, winded, and stared up at the bright blue sky for a moment, his ego bruised and his head cloudy. It was a pity Hunter wasn't there - his boyfriend would surely have had some words of encouragement or maybe something more for him. He grimaced as he stood, taking note of the fact that he had definitely injured himself. Aaron idly wondered if he could convince Hunter to give him a massage. He returned back home and fell into bed, exhausted and perhaps a little feverish.

He called in sick to school the next day, feeling nauseous and just plain awful, but still forced himself to get up and do some painting. Hunter arrived just as Aaron threw up while at his easel.
Aaron stared at the easel uncomprehendingly for a moment, frowning. Had he heard something other than the sound of his own retching? Then Hunter knocked again.
"Aaron?" Hunter entered the house. Aaron looked at him and rubbed his eyes. He realised he must have been even more pale than he usually was, because Hunter instantly told him to go back to bed. "Okay, I'm going to just say it: you look like crap, Aaron."
"Gee, thanks. Feel like it too," Aaron replied, rubbing his temples. "Sorry," Hunter whispered as he pulled Aaron into a hug, then pushed him over to the bed. "Sleep."
"I'm fine-"
"No, you're clearly not. And I'm going to stay here until you get some sleep." He caressed Aaron's cheek, then moved as if to scoop Aaron up in his arms and deposit him on the bed (ignoring of course that Aaron should have been much heavier than him with all that muscle, but vampiric strength, am I right?). Aaron was about to retort with "Shouldn't you be in school?" but the lure of going back to sleep won and he had no choice but to obey.

By that evening, he was feeling much better. He went back out to the wall that had defeated him the day before and climbed it with ease. "Take that, wall," he muttered. He returned home, made some fruit salad and studied from a book about rock climbing before crawling back into his nice new bed (yes, a house renovation had happened and it was awesome). It was comfortable, but it was also a Murphy bed. He remembered what Hunter had said about preferring to fight a Murphy bed over a vending machine and hoped he was right if the bed ever decided to crush him... But if he had survived being squished by vending machines twice before, surely he could survive a bed, right?

The next day was Love Day. Aaron spent the morning working on another painting, which turned out to be yet another masterpiece, his most valuable one yet. After lunch, he went out to see Hunter and invited him on a date to the park. It would have been perfect, if not for the fact that Hunter's uncle seemed to think Hunter needed a chaperone in every aspect of his life, ignoring that before Hunter had moved to Mt Komorebi, he had been doing just fine. After the date, they went back out to the gym in Yukimatsu, where Aaron continued working out on the climbing wall. His muscles may have been getting bigger, but he felt like he was getting nowhere closer to being able to take on the mountain. He bade Hunter goodnight and went back home to put his bed down and go to sleep.

And then the inevitable happened. "Oh, no..." he groaned when he realised that the bed was stuck. Maybe it had been a mistake to put it up... "Ah poop*, here we go again..." He gritted his teeth and made to pull it down, having horrid flashbacks to the vending machine as he did so.

:star: Pain:star: . That was it. The bed knocked him to the floor, hard. For the second time that week, he was injured and as he lay there not daring to move, he thought about what Hunter had said once, asking about what was going to try kill him next. Now he knew that answer to that one. A Murphy bed, apparently. He tried to compare the pain of being crushed by a vending machine and the pain of being crushed by a Murphy bed and concluded that they were both awful and he needed to not put his bed up ever again. He just counted himself lucky that he hadn't had to push the bed off himself with his legs...

*Something stronger than 'poop', obviously :joy:

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Still climbing, no surprises there...
https://i.imgur.com/CkpVQVU.png

And of course he did indeed fall and hurt himself again
https://i.imgur.com/YhrtsYT.png

Poor guy actually did get sick!
https://i.imgur.com/dGlPErD.png
https://i.imgur.com/zGewTIt.png

House reno :smiley: I later moved the bookshelf to be next to his desk and changed the colour so it matched the bed as in the daily pic :)
https://i.imgur.com/ODQzjHK.png

And here's his new bed, big enough for two ;)
https://i.imgur.com/GoMrPo1.png

So I knew he had a fever, but then this happened and I was like OH
https://i.imgur.com/WrVWW7n.png
https://i.imgur.com/2IKXQiW.png

Hunter arrived right at that exact second that I heard Aaron vomiting and I was like wow he's psychic :joy: I mean he should actually be at school but nahhhhhh lol
https://i.imgur.com/8DDXbNY.png
https://i.imgur.com/5sxAJNf.png
And now thinking about it I actually should have had Hunter give Aaron a massage but I only thought of it as I was writing it up, RIP :D

Date at the park, plus chaperone lol. Morgan just does not leave these two alone when they're in public!
https://i.imgur.com/QWoru2g.png
https://i.imgur.com/CQlTuH4.png
https://i.imgur.com/KpNBnUn.png

And I just had to do this :joy:
https://i.imgur.com/PMLg0Ho.png
https://i.imgur.com/gOlNPYK.png

Yes, more rock climbing pictures. Are you tired of these yet? :tongue:
https://i.imgur.com/K53vQHC.png
https://i.imgur.com/eqi5TGA.png

:neutral: Yep. I think I made a mistake giving him a Murphy bed... but I love the design and colours and everything else about it
Maybe it'll just have to never be in couch mode lol
https://i.imgur.com/rKMKwMB.png
https://i.imgur.com/sl6IfmW.png
https://i.imgur.com/K8XVh8e.png
https://i.imgur.com/0XakAfk.png
This poor guy has been crushed by things so many times :joy:


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