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"Chanyeol! Look! Look!! That looks like an elephant!" Baekhyun excitedly pointed his index finger at a particular cloud in the blue sky. He had been a giggly fuzzy kid since a couple of hours ago when Chanyeol had him walking in a grassy meadow that he found.
"Huh? It doesn't look like one. It looks like an airplane." Chanyeol teased, as he smirked while looking at the cloud that Baekhyun's slender finger pointed at. Well, of course, it looked like an elephant.
"Yah! You always contradict the things that I say!" Baekhyun retorted but then he smiled when he spotted another cloud that looked like a bunny.
"Oh! oh! There's a bunny right over there!" Baekhyun pointed at the sky once again, giggling and kicking his feet freely upon the air.
"Chicken." Chanyeol scoffed. Chuckling a little and earning a not-so-scary glare from Baekhyun.
They were just lying there in the grass field, under the kiss of the sun, and only the two of them versus the whole world. Baekhyun would nudge Chanyeol's side whenever the latter don't listen to his blabbers about the cloud shapes and all.
"Mm! I'm going to eat that fluffy cotton candy! Yum! Yum! Ngerb! Ngerb!" Baekhyun put his tiny hands in the air trying to reach the clouds and acted as if he was eating it with matching chewing sounds and gulping while clenching and unclenching his palms.
Chanyeol looked at Baekhyun in amusement, "Are you full? You're just talking about them earlier and now you're eating them. You're being a cute monster now are we?" Chanyeol ruffled the latter's head.
The sun suddenly popped out from behind the clouds, blinding the two young boys. Baekhyun immediately rolled over to Chanyeol and hid his face over the top of the latter's chest.
"Gosh, the sun was so mean today." Baekhyun muffle. Chanyeol just wrapped his left arm on the smaller's head while covering his own eyes with his right arm.
"He just wants to see you badly," Chanyeol commented while closing his eyes too, to avoid the blinding rays coming from the bright sun. A genuine smile was placed on his lips.
"Says the one who pulled me in a forest! I should be cleaning our house right now if weren't because of you. I just hope no bear here or vulture will eat me! I will offer you to them though, kekeke. I'll convince them that you're tastier even though I know that I'm more delicious." Baekhyun laughed smugly and hugged the taller tighter. The giant just rolled his eyes.
"You can't blame me. I've missed you. It's always been boring and silent at our house without you, my parents are always busy and they don't give attention to me. All I want is someone who could give me attention..." Chanyeol admitted in a low voice, he really meant it. A kid with busy parents mostly gets these kinds of feelings.
"Aish, we just met at school yesterday! Hmm, my mom is always busy too, she does laundry in the neighbors, in other houses, and more. My mom is the best, she also keeps people's houses clean!" Baekhyun spoke proudly in between Chanyeol's arms.
"I don't even know what was my parents' job. They just leave me with a couple of bodyguards and flee." The taller kid bitterly stated.
"You always escape away from them though. Now I think they are still looking for you this hour." The smaller giggled as he bit his lips thinking how lonely it must have been to be in a huge house without anyone to play with.
"I love you though," Chanyeol stated while smiling. The latter looked up at him with a cute disgusted look.
"Eww! I would never fall in love with a giant." Baekhyun laughed when the latter pouted.
"Yah! You told me that you love me!" Chanyeol whined.
"Hmm...no! Who told you that?!" Baekhyun teased grimacing at the process and puffing some giggles.
"Fine! Hmft. Why are you so mean huh? Don't you know you're hurting my feelings?" Chanyeol huffed folding his arms and looking away. He thinks that he doesn't deserve that kind of treatment.
"Aish, Baekhyunnie is just joking! Baekhyunnie loves Chanyeollie so much!" Baekhyun giggled and kissed the latter's cheeks right and left.
"There, there. Is it that hard to be honest?" Chanyeol grinned hugging the small frame of Baekhyun tighter as if it was a pillow.
"Yah, my tummy might be soft but I'm not a pillow," Baekhyun mumbled jabbing the latter's stomach lightly.
Baekhyun suddenly remembered something and so he quickly shifted his body, lifting his head to look over at Chanyeol.
"Chanyeollie? My mom taught me a song yesterday. Do you want me to sing it for you?" Baekhyun asked. Excited to sing the song.
"Mm. Hit it." Chanyeol smiled and closed his eyes to relax.
Baekhyun started singing. Pouring his passion out from the song and attracting birds and butterflies and bees in the place. The sun shone brighter, the sky glistened prettier and the sweet calming wind aids the surroundings much better.
Chanyeol just sighed and nodded with the angelic voice he was hearing until sleep knocked him. When Baekhyun heard Chanyeol's snores, he also decided to sleep, nuzzling to his best friend closer and smiling sheepishly in content when he found the perfect spot to sleep comfortably.
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Baekhyun was patiently waiting on the huge basketball court of their school, just sitting there and watching how the pro players would play seriously and professionally. He would watch with amazing eyes how Chanyeol protect the tiny orange ball in his arms from other opponents possessively that would soon shoot over the metal ring.
Baekhyun would unconsciously smile and feel proud at his giant best friend, there, flawlessly shooting and guarding the ball- only if he was the ball... Wait for what?
PRRRRT!
The loud sound indicated that the practice hours have already come to an end. The players tiredly slumped their bodies in the front sets of bleachers, hearing the boys chuckle and tease each other's from their performance in the court, and that was now the signal that Baekhyun could help Chanyeol fix his things or massage his shoulders like the usual caring best friend he is.
The smurf walked shyly towards the bunch of sweat-soaked, panting boys whilst holding a fluffy towel from his hands. As Baekhyun was walking, slightly stumbling himself from the mean stairs creating a noise when he's descending to the base of the court, the basketball players noticed his small frame with his pink-tinted cheeks due to the embarrassment. Baekhyun and his clumsiness.
They waved at him and he also waved back with cheeks pink. He looked at Chanyeol and so he smiled and had a cheerful thumbs-up, Chanyeol did the same also but with a raised eyebrow looking at the heated cheeks the smaller does have.
The taller had never been so awkward to his smallest best friend but something is bothering him from the inside these past weeks and he felt uncomfortable with that. Chanyeol knows that Baekhyun was there to help and support him with his things and so he started untying his shoes, though feeling relieved. He can't believe that he missed his best friend that much today and he realized that it hasn't been one day without seeing him.
Baekhyun almost tripped himself on the stairs as a fast reflex, Chanyeol immediately acted fast and held Baekhyun to prevent him from falling down.
"Yeollie!" Jieun piped getting closer to Chanyeol but before that, she turned and faced the slightly stunned Baekhyun. She was still in her cheering outfit with that tight tube and short skirts because they practiced today too for the upcoming athlete event.
Chanyeol looked up with his girlfriend being so clingy to him. And then he averted his eyes to Baekhyun who has now pulled away and moved a couple of feet away from them.
"Baekhyun? Can I borrow that towel of yours? I'll just wipe my boyfriend's face." Jieun's fake innocent smile flashed and emphasized the word, boyfriend. Baekhyun blinked twice, the thought registering on his mind but he just handed the towel to Jieun without saying anything.
She grabbed the towel immediately-rather harsh and started wiping the beads of sweat in the taller's nape and forehead. Chanyeol was caught off guard with that because he expected that it was Baekhyun who'll do it for him like always. Then a pair of lips touched his searing ones that made his spacing mind wind up.
"Thanks," Chanyeol has spoken but he never left his eyes from Baekhyun who was there standing still with his own feet and just looked lost. Baekhyun's heart suddenly constricted as he saw Chanyeol with Jieun care for him, and so negative thoughts started eating him up again.
Maybe he doesn't really need me anymore. Baekhyun thought and pain surged from his chest stinging his small fragile heart. Baekhyun can be innocent, clumsy, and all but he was good to cover up in times of concealing his sad emotions more than Chanyeol, he was a stubborn kid after all.
Chanyeol's mouth opened but opt to close it again because he didn't know what to say, In the first place he don't even know why he's frustrated and angry suddenly that Sehun is looking at Baekhyun the way he's looking at him. And that pissed him off.
"Hey, Baekhyun." Sehun snapped Baekhyun from his trance. The midget looked at Sehun a minute and then he smiled thinly.
"Uhh.. hi Sehun.." He squeaked.
It's okay, Baekhyun. It's alright. It's normal. It was supposed to be Jieun's responsibility anyway, not yours. He convinced himself.
"C'mere," Sehun ordered as he waved his wet towel in the air.
He didn't utter a word as he turned his back from the couples and decided to sit beside Sehun.
Trying to be the cheery person he usually is,
"Oh, uhh, Sehun..." Baekhyun tried to stay positive, which he tried his best to maintain. He slowly trudged beside Sehun and just sat there for a moment, clutching his backpack in his chest.
Chanyeol frowned a bit because his best friend just turned his back away from him. And Baekhyun honestly forgot to greet him verbally.
Maybe he was really really tired of me...
"Yah, I've missed you a lot." Sehun scooted closer to Baekhyun who was in deep thoughts.
"Are you alright?" Sehun's voice become gentler flinging his left sweat-soaked arm on the smaller's shoulder.
Baekhyun snapped out on the train of thoughts and looked at Sehun.
"Mm. Yes of course." Baekhyun mumbled shifting his eyes at the shiny wooden floor of the court, blinking back the sorrow that he was feeling.
"Maybe I could drive you home? I mean, if you'd like?" Sehun offered to look down at Baekhyun who's sitting next to him.
"Don't bother, Sehun. I know you're tired, and besides Chanyeol will drive me home, our house was on the same route with his after all." Baekhyun tilted and smiled at Sehun who was slightly blushing.
Chanyeol just secretly looked at their backs a couple of meters away and there's something in him that made him feel a little off. Pissed off. It irked him about how Baekhyun could talk to Sehun gently like he does to him. And it makes his gut turn because he doesn't have any idea what the two are talking about. The idea of Sehun inviting Baekhyun on a date or something made him really angry as this flooded his mind.
"Hey, Channie can you drive me home?" Jieun asked in her giggly voice and positive aura.
"Where's your car?" He asked grumbly. It made Jieun a little bit annoyed as she stood up.
"Yah. Don't you want to drive me home?" Jieun tried to insist. Chanyeol snapped out of his negative mind and looked at Jieun, although he's still upset for no reason.
"No. I'll drive you home," Chanyeol responded almost like a floating statement, uncertain and bland. When in the first place, he should be driving Baekhyun home.
The dumb derp's jealousy clouded his mind while seeing Baek and Sehun sitting side by side together and forgetting the fact that he should be driving Baekhyun home too because the smaller don't have someone to drive him in their house. Unless he wanted the boy to walk half an hour just to get home.
Not only the two best friends can feel the tense atmosphere but also the others too. They chose to stay quiet because they were so weirded out by the sudden change of approach of the two-Approach? Ugh, they didn't even talk. They just simply looked at each other like there's nothing wrong, supposedly, Baekhyun would be laughing now and helping Chanyeol with his things or just wiping the latter's sweat. While Chanyeol would be teasing the puppy or interrogating him if anyone bullied him today so he can smack the ones who have the guts to clash with him.
Maybe he doesn't want me as a friend anymore...Baekhyun felt like crying when Chanyeol was ignoring him. But he can't do anything but stare in nothingness and feel the cold atmosphere.
Who am I to have his attention? Baekhyun gulped and remained silent. He just feels empty. The churn in his stomach keep turning, he just clutched harder unto his bag to ease it.
"What the fuck just happened?" Jongin mumbled at the others. Enough to just hear it with themselves.
"This is new. Phew...awkward." Kris commented while shaking his head.
"What happened to them?" Lay furrowed by the sudden chill of the two.
Chanyeol just took a glimpse at the drooping back of his best friend. Baekhyun faced the opposite of Chanyeol because he can't stand seeing the two couples and also he don't want to feel the awkwardness in him that was growing.
The taller really wanted to approach Baekhyun but something is keeping him shut his mouth up. He just wanted to hug the smaller so bad to ease the pain and uncertainty buried in his chest but he can't. He wanted to feel the haven he was longing for but something is blocking him. He wanted to ask Baekhyun about what's wrong but he clearly knows that he is the one who chose to build a barrier between them in the first place. And he just wanted to break that barrier right now though he didn't know-how. Even though he won't know what had gotten to him lately, he felt bad. And still upset because Baekhyun didn't approach him. And this made him even frustrated because he should be giving attention to his girlfriend instead of sulking and thinking bad thoughts, but the problem is that he just couldn't.
Chanyeol was like this. Since birth,
He can't handle things much-which he
admired at Baekhyun. Well, even though Baekhyun is small and looks fragile, he can handle things more than Chanyeol, it's just that he was just so caught up with the situation right now.
"Let's go?" Jieun asked, standing up with his cheerleader costume ready to go.
He felt heavy but empty yet his mouth said the ending words of the day that would make a big change of tomorrow. He ended the chapter with insensitive and selfish words as he grabbed his duffel bag and his towel. Well, not all first times are great things, sometimes it makes us shatter into pieces too.
"Let's go." It was supposedly okay with Baekhyun, it's just that he just hoped too much, even the smallest chance that his ONLY best friend in the world would ask if he was alright, but it never came. Or that his ONLY best friend would approach him that time, that moment, and comfort him like he does every time the taller would be hurt or down. But the sad part is that he just walked away and brushed past him.
Baekhyun just lifted his head to look at the two people walking away. His heart broke with the fact that his best friend had forgotten him completely. Not even offering a glance or anything. He just looked at Chanyeol's expressionless face as they distanced themselves from the team.
Exiting the place as if he didn't leave something that was important to him. That he was okay to carry on with only the ones he brought. He felt like thunders had hit him right into the most fragile organ he had in his body, he felt like his heart was roasted by the simple scenario that had to happen that afternoon.
"Baek, it seemed that Chanyeol forgot to drive you home today. Please let me do the honor." Sehun thinned his lips as he felt Baekhyun's disappointment in him and offered his hand towards the latter.
"Well, I have no choice now... Is it really okay? I don't want to burden anyone else anymore." he smiled convincingly even though his heart is bleeding.
Baekhyun can't do anything but smile a little and accept the calloused hand offered in front of him, leaving the realization in him that Chanyeol could forget him just like that.
And that's when he realized that his feelings for Chanyeol are not only as a best friend now.
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