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"But how come yours is bigger than mine?!" Baekhyun stomped, folding his arms like a petulant kid, looking down and feeling obnoxious.
"Because yours is different. Don't be sad, yours will grow bigger soon." Chanyeol patted the chubby smurf's hair while chuckling at his silly behavior.
Instead of calming down, Baekhyun whined in the verge of crying while looking at the young giant in front of him in disbelief.
"How come that it's different huh?! Yah! Chanyeol-ah, the seeds are packed in the same freaking sachet altogether!" Baekhyun retorted puffing some breathes and unconsciously forming his tiny palms into balls.
"Oh...Right." Chanyeol mumbles realizing that Baekhyun has a point.
"I cannot believe this! I wasted my one week allowance for school only to buy expensive sunflower seeds and I gave you half of it so that we can compete on each other whether whose sunflower is healthier and MINE IS FALLING BEHIND?! WHY ARE THEY SO SHORT AND YOURS ARE SO TALL ALREADY?!!" Baekhyun yelled, his chest heaving and his face turning red. He want answers. You can say that the cost of that seeds are just a coin away for most of the other kids but for Baekhyun's situation it was expensive. They're not rich after all, what to expect? Every penny counts.
Tears begun to form in his eyes as he remembered the days that he skipped snacks only to save money for him to buy the seeds downtown. Not to mention that he kept this thing from Chanyeol so that it'll turn up into a surprise challenge. He even trade his "empty good as new notebook" for a few coins just to buy it. - And now he was so annoyed and sad that Chanyeol's sunflower is blooming but his was still far from that.
"Shh...Aish you're so cute! Don't feel bad, maybe you don't water them regularly." Chanyeol started thinking a few things on why does his childhood best friend's sunflowers is so slow on growing. His own sunflower was taken care of from their gardener though so he has nothing to worry about it.
"No way! I water it every day! I also water it at night before I sleep!" Baekhyun wiped his tears on the corner of his eyes with the back of his small hands. He really does water his plant sometimes at night when he's brave enough to sneak outside while his mom and his Lil brother were doing laundry. He holds a flashlight in his right and drag a pail of water from his left arm only to quench the plant and then rushes inside quick as possible when he feels the creeps.
Oh boy, you just basically drowned the plant. Pft.., Chanyeol chuckled inwardly.
He was just 7 years old back then but look at how caring and cute he is.
"Maybe you're not using fertilizers?" Chanyeol has softly spoken while wiping the tears on the sides of Baekhyun. He knows that his best friend was sensitive and emotional and so he wouldn't dare to tease him once more.
"W-What is a fertilizer?" Baekhyun sniffled sitting on the ground and pouting while hopelessly looking at the bunch of sunflowers. It just hurts him that he thought that his was healthier than Chanyeol not before witnessing how his sunflowers grow that much and BOOM-he saw the tall and proudly standing sunflowers planted on their garden that would put his own sunflowers to shame.
"The thing our gardener spray unto the sunflowers twice a week." Chanyeol recited. His mom told him about it once when they were buying flowers in a flower shop.
"It'll make my sunflower grow fast too?" Baekhyun hopped to stand and flashed his almond-shaped eyes at Chanyeol.
"Mm-Nope." Chanyeol couldn't stop teasing his friend-but he knew that he couldn't let the teasing last long.
Baekhyun immediately looked down, all sad and crestfallen. When he saw Baekhyun's priceless face, he felt instantly guilty.
"Yah! Of course, it can! Do you want some?" Chanyeol offered lifting Baekhyun's face gently. The smurf's face lit up, full of hope.
"Yes! Yes! I mean yes pleaseee, Chanyeollie." Baekhyun whined begging to Chanyeol dramatically.
"I don't like to share though. You know, I don't want to share things that's mine." Tch, really baaaad. Chanyeol grinned and so he earned a punch at his stomach-at least that's where Baekhyun could reach. The smurf started turning his back at Chanyeol and planning on leaving the garden when the taller grabbed him by both of his shoulders and back hugged the smaller.
"I'm just kidding! You can take more than half of it if you want." Chanyeol cooed chuckling, satisfied from the crestfallen look that the smaller boy was giving him.
"Aish, I'm still angry. Don't talk to me." Baekhyun huffed wiggling his way out of Chanyeol's arm that was wrapped around him.
"Really? But I'm your bestfrieeend." Chanyeol spoke tightening the hug more while smelling the bubblegum fragrant shampoo that Baekhyun was using.
"Unless you give me lots of the fertilizers." Baekhyun grinned but he made sure that Chanyeol wouldn't notice it and remained stiff as if he was still angry.
Being a good best friend Chanyeol at once, he gave up on picking at Baekhyun anytime soon. He was having fun though but he can't spoil himself all the time.
"Sure, anything for this little boy."
"Oh, Baek, I have an idea!"
"What's your idea?"
"You should drink fertilizer so you can grow tall too!"
"PARK CHANYEOL!!!"
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💕T A E H Y U N G 'S POV💕
"Wh-Sehun? W-What are you doing here?" My hyung asked clearly confused. This Sehun guy was in his black jeans and black long sleeves whilst holding a helmet. This is the first time that Hyung had a visitor, ever. It has been always Chanyeol.
"Are you feeling okay now, Baek?" He asked my hyung with certainly concerned expression.
"Uhm, Yeah, I guess. Anyway how did you found our house?-Oh wait, come in!" Baekhyun snapped and let Sehun enter their house. "Bear with our house, we're not that rich to own a big one." He apologized sheepishly. I just drink my coffee and noticed how Chanyeol-hyung rolled his eyes at Sehun and had his expression as if he was already pissed off.
"I have my ways." Sehun spoke as he looked around the simple living room. Not too fancy but it's lively.
"Hi, I'm Baekkie's mother. Nice to meet you young man! What's your name?" Mom asked as she welcomed Sehun with a bight smile.
"Oh Sehun, Ma'am." Sehun slightly nodded.
"What a fine young man! Please feel at home, Sehun..Oh and this is Chanyeol, Baekhyun's wholesome bestfriend!" Mom stated with a smile before putting down her hair comb and looking at her watch realizing that she's almost late. Mom is awkward sometimes. I swear.
"Oh dear, I'm going out for work now, take care of yourselves okay? Tae, wash the dishes after you're all done eating." I nodded and offered Sehun-hyung food but he said he already had one.
"I just came here to check if you're really okay." I heard Sehun-hyung spoke as I collected the plates and put it in the sink.
"As you see, he's okay now." I heard a grumpy voice and I'm sure it was Chanyeol-hyung.
"Oh! Are you busy?" Baekhyun-hyung suddenly asked.
"Hm, not at all, why?" Sehun asked, not even paying a glance at Chanyeol hyung, as he placed his helmet on the table.
"Can you stay over lunch? I mean lunch is just ordinary and not quite like the others- you can refuse if you don't want to." Me and Chanyeol-hyung suddenly felt invisible. I opened our mini refrigerator and pulled out a banana cake that my hyung bought and offered it to Chanyeol-hyung who was silent all along while examining how the two communicate.
"Relax, I can stay over okay?" Sehun-hyung chuckled before flashing a genuine smile. I can see how excited hyung was and he nearly jumped from his feet.
"Okay, I'm going out now. " Suddenly, Chanyeol-hyung stood up abruptly and started leaving. Is it just me or that Chanyeol hyung is getting annoyed with Sehun-hyung? I dunno, and uhh, I just feel something fishy.
"Yah! Why?!" My brother retorted holding both of Chanyeol-hyung's arms in place.
"I'm leaving, you have Sehun here right? You don't need me anyway, I wish you guys have fun." It sound like a grumble but there's a sound of hurt and jealousy laced in his voice. He started leaving again but Hyung stood in front of him, preventing him to walk any further.
"No! How am I supposed to have fun without you?! Oh, maybe you're busy right? Maybe you have something else to do so you're making excuses...M-Maybe you have a date or--" Hyung's sad and disappointed face was the thing I hated to see the most, I don't want seeing him all sad and down. I just kept silent as I began doing the dishes.
"-Where is this all coming from? Of course I'm always free. I would do anything for you! But the thing is you didn't even asked me if I'm free or something that you asked from Sehun. How am I supposed to react?" Chanyeol-hyung blurted and there's full of feelings in it. I just stood there, all ears, unable to move or speak.
"B-Because I know you're staying. That's what you always do! You love me right?" Hyung spoken lifting his face to look up at Chanyeol. Hmm?
Chanel hyung just looked at Baekhyun hyung a moment but then he slipped through his consciousness when Sehun hyung made a fake scoff.
"Aish, okay! Don't be so sad, you're making me guilty! What're we going to do, anyway?" Chanyeol-hyung asked.
"Gardening! I've been planning to do this all month!" Hyung's face lit up. Gosh, I sometimes think if he's really older than me or just so happens that our birth certificate has been swapped, or our brains, or our physical appearance... ugh it's confusing.
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💕T H I R D P E R S O N 'S POV💕
"Tae! Get the pots here!" Baekhyun happily shouted from outside. His hands are dirty and all. The two boys aren't really expecting something like this before agreeing at Baekhyun's so called -Recreational Activity.
Baekhyun had been patient enough to wait someone like Chanyeol and Sehun who would give him a hand to work with his mini garden in their backyard. Truth be told, he's really freaking joyous, eager and thankful that this day came.
Carrying the pots that Taehyung gave him, he set it down one by one and filled it with soil. The sky is somehow cloudy but the sun never misses to find it's way on the cracks of the clouds only to witness Baekhyun's smiles.
"Is this enough?" The two boys who are shoveling soil asked in unison and so they exchanged distaste looks to each other.
"Umm, yeah that's enough." Baekhyun nibbled in his mouth and smile crept in his face. The two boys who are a bit tired from making soil plots, making fences and posts who are now finished from shovelling soil for the pots- Yeah a lil bit tired can describe it.
Only the bright smile would aid their tiredness. Smile from the small creature who's now putting seeds on the pots.
Chanyeol as well as Sehun thought that they can sit for a while but they were wrong, "Sehun, could you carry the stones from the sacks there?" The bossy dwarf pointed out. Chanyeol chuckled by Sehun's grumpy expression but soon, his name was called.
"Chanyeol, please get the cart in here, it's infront of the house, thanks!"
And this system repeated on and on until lunch- oh, the time just got long forgotten because they just realized that it was now late afternoon as the sun was slowly setting down.
"This is tiring than I expected." Sehun whined yet a smile was plastered in his face. Suddenly, he took off his sweatshirt, leaving nothing on his top so basically, he's all jeans and muscles. He used the clothing to fan himself, flashing his toned chest and beads of sweat dripped from his temple down to his collar and abs until it reaches from the v line on his waist to his jean bands.
"Then you shouldn't have came here." Chanyeol shot back, the latter just rolled his eyes.
"Why did you take your clothes off?" Chanyeol retorted, irritated at Sehun who made a "So what" Expression in his face.
Without hesitation, Chanyeol did took off his top too and so, the abs competition begun.
The two boys don't mind their naked glory shining under the shining shards from the sun. Their skin glowing from the beads of sweat that was sitting above their skin.
Unaware from the soft paddling of a certain dwarf, and shocking the dwarf itself from the sudden scene.
"Hey, do you want a glass of lemona- Yah! Why are you guys naked?" Baekhyun gasped a blush crept to his cheeks. He was holding a jar of lemonade when he came from the kitchen and seeing the boys all sprawled in the balcony in opposite direction though with their sweaty leaned bodies. The two just silently looked at Baekhyun, they felt their cheeks heat up from the embarrassment. Aish, boys...
"I'm so tired." Sehun whined laying on the wooden floor to prove his statements. Chanyeol on the other hand didn't said anything. Sehun abruptly sat up when he smelled the delicious food that was lingering coming from the small kitchen.
"Is the food all cooked?" He asked excitedly, thinking that he'll taste the delicious food that Baekhyun are serving for the second time around. The first time is when they had a camping.
"Almost. You guys get inside, let me soothe your back aches, I know you're tired." Baekhyun stated, concerned. Sehun rushed inside immediately while-
"Yeollie? Aren't you coming inside? Are you feeling okay?" Baekhyun mumbled cooing Chanyeol and flinging his hands on his back like back hugging him. The giant just kept his gaze on the setting sun, he didn't speak, not even a single word.
Because he felt replaced, and he felt bad about it.
Although the day was fine, they made a beautiful garden and an undone mini treehouse. He never expected that Baekhyun's serene smiles and addicting laughs would hurt him in a sort of way. Because here comes the idea that he wasn't the whole of why the smaller was happy throughout the day, because at some point the idea that Sehun was also the reason made him bothered without reasonable reasons at all. And here he is now, thinking things that makes him wither inside.
"Hey, channie, are you okay?" Baekhyun asked worriedly, running his hands on the taller's neck and forehead. The latter glanced at the smaller's worried expression.
"It's the first time we made a treehouse, also the first time we made something creative with another person." Chanyeol felt heavy.
"Yah, we could have built it years ago but I remember it's the time when you said no, cause you chose to hang out with some girl, remember the one with the glasses? You're change your girlfriend's too often like you change your clothes!" Baekhyun chuckled and reminisced that day he wanted to build a treehouse but failed to make one because Chanyeol isn't around that time.
Chanyeol just looked at Baekhyun in the eyes. The sunset added the effect of vintageness and emotion. Without breaking the eye contact,
"The things that I regret, I was a douche-"
"Yah, why are you taking so long?" Sehun popped his neck from the door frame. His steps creaking at the working planks floor of Baekhyun's house.
"Oh, wait, I'll just check the pot. I'll just tend to you guys later." Baekhyun immediately stood up not finishing Chanyeol's statements.
After Baekhyun walked inside leaving the both of them in the balcony, Sehun sat beside Chanyeol. He looked at the direction of Chanyeol's gaze that was on the orangey and pinkish clouds above and the old golden rust rays of the sunset. The wind got colder too and the leaves from the trees started to brush each other making whistles and rustlings.
"Chanyeol, I have something to ask you." Sehun snapped.
"Spill it." Chanyeol grumbled after a good two minutes.
"Do you like Baekhyun?" Sehun suddenly asked that made Chanyeol flip his head to look at him with a hint of annoyance. As if Sehun asked a one plus one mathematical question that easily.
"Ofcourse I do! Would I be with him for the longest if I were not? And he's my childhood bestfriend and you're asking if I don't love him?!" Chanyeol felt offended by the seeming obvious question.
"And you like that chick, Jieun?" Sehun blurted as if on cue, Chanyeol exposed a hard look at the latter.
"Yes. Ofcourse! Are you playing games on me huh? Are you dumb-"
"Then who do you love more? Your bestfriend or your girlfriend?" They were like playing chess, and Chanyeol has being cornered. Sehun is straightforward to his questions.
Chanyeol just looked at Sehun in disbelief, annoyed and angry. The question made him annoyed and Sehun made him angry.
"Who do you think I love more?" Chanyeol mocked trying to keep calm as he can before he could punch the face infront of him.
"Your girlfriend of course." Sehun answered and again, he diverted his look at the fried sky, the stars are appearing one by one.
"Then why're you still asking the stupid question then? Do you have a fucking problem? Are you looking for a fight?" Chanyeol hissed feeling his palms formed into balls. Thanks to the walls that separate the inside and outside of the house so that Baekhyun wouldn't hear any rumbling that was happening outside.
"I'm not looking for trouble. The fact is... it made me happy." Sehun smiled aimlessly at the bidding sun. Feeling the refreshing air and the food that was being cooked by Baekhyun inside.
"It made me happy that you love your girlfriend more than Baekhyun." Sehun sighed in relief and mere happiness.
That sounded wrong to Chanyeol. But his curiousity focused on Sehun.
"Why?" Chanyeol's voice deepened hissing the word more aggressively.
"Because I think I like Baekhyun. Like the way you're supposed to be liking Jieun."
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