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💕C H A N Y E O L ' S P O V💕
"Yeol dear, did something happen at school?" I looked up from my cereal, which I was pondering rather than eating. I slowly glanced at my mom.
"Maybe I can send Mrs.Lee to ask your teacher if you have problems in school." She stated while seeping from her tea. She watched concerned as I slowly grasped what she was talking about.
"It's not about school," I sighed, cold feeling surging from my chest, "It's Baekhyun." There it is.
"What's the problem with the two of you, love?" It nearly sounds foreign to me that my mom was asking me these kinds of questions from her long time business trip in Japan that took her nearly two months to leave the country and she just arrived home two days ago. Great. I just realized how lonely I am.
"We're not on good terms. And it's my fault. I'm being unreasonable and selfish to him. I don't even drive him home anymore because he's not texting me or even calling me when he heads home with his new friends. We don't even talk much like we used to. He's literally ignoring me. It's been three weeks and it frustrates me." The voice unconsciously slipped from my own mouth, as if the volume has been turned louder as I ran my hand in my messy hair in frustration.
She narrowed her eyes, "Did you already apologize to him?"
"On the phone, yes, and he forgave me, but I know it's not enough. I tried to apologize in person but I can't stand the guilt in my stomach. I don't know what to do." My palms found their way in my already crumpled face.
Instead of hearing some advice, I got nothing but a soft chuckle.
"This is the first time I've seen you this frustrated. And I realized that this was the longest talk you've ever made conversation with me." She chuckled once again and I felt my face heat up from embarrassment. Of course, it is, because Baekhyun is the one who always hears me out whenever I had problems.
"It's okay, I'm sure you two can fix this." She patted my shoulder, "Get dressed, it's getting late." She spoke, taking a glance at her watch.
"I'm not going to school today." I almost forgot the fact that I got injured from yesterday's practice. My knee has been scraped and my left arm had bruises too—from playing basketball. Now I remember why I asked Mrs.Lee earlier for some first aid kit.
"Oh, then I will go now love, I'm heading at the company. You know, your dad would be disappointed if I can't maneuver it perfectly. For your future." Yeah, dad and his plans for my life.
Let me clear out that she's basically heading to Bucheon, and it is a long trip from Seoul. That means I'm alone again. That allows me to drink few alcoholic bottles again.
With a nod, she was gone and I was left alone in our house with my cold coffee and untouched cereal.
I walked towards my room and closed the blinds of my windows. I hugged the pillow beside me and felt my tears flow one by one again. The pain from the fact that he had new best friends hurt me. I'm disappointed in myself because I thought that I will his best friend forever. I can't deny that my heart was broken by that reality. And that I had been officially replaced, though I'm lucky it's not Sehun, or else Baekhyun would be taken from me entirely.
My phone beeped and saw a text from Jieun telling me that she's going to a club and asking me if I wanna join but I rejected her offer. I always tell her that I don't want her from going into clubs but she does not listen. She said that she'll be all fine because he has his friends. I just lay there, staring into space and doing nothing at all.
I don't know why am I being this uncool right now but it hurts and I can't get over it. I'm freaking frustrated right now.
I just want Baekhyun.
I want Baekhyun.
I want Baek.
Just... what the fuck is this feeling? Why is it so painful? It's so frustrating! Why am I even feeling jealous, especially at that jerk named Sehun? Arghh! I want to punch his face.
It may be selfish but I just want Baekhyun all to myself.
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💕T H I R D P E R S O N 'S P O V💕
"Chanyeol is absent and you don't even know?" There's something in Suho's voice— disbelief. As he was talking to Baekhyun.
Baekhyun from the other side felt guilty all of the sudden. He held his head low as he felt as if he was the most careless person ever.
Kris and the rest of Chanyeol's team decided to talk to Baekhyun about the taller.
"I—He didn't tell me. He's not texted or called me for the past two weeks so I decided to leave my phone at home and gave him space. He's ignoring me, though it hurts, I tried to accept his decision. He even stopped driving me home and the most painful part is that he can't even spare a look at me even though we're at the same class." Baekhyun's voice was broken. Though he prevents the tears from flowing, his shoulders are visibly drooped down.
"He has been injured," Lay stated with his deep voice and intimidating aura.
"I'm so sorry." That's all Baekhyun could muster out before he quickly wiped the tears from his eyes.
"Baekhyun, I'm sorry too if we're confronting you about this because Chanyeol hadn't been himself since you got distant with each other and we don't even know why. And you know how Chanyeol deals with these kinds of situations right?" Suho has spoken with a bit of sadness in his voice. Baekhyun wanted to say that he was distancing himself from Chanyeol because of what Jieun told him before but he does not want to make a fight.
"I asked him every time but he keeps shutting me down, we tried everything just to help him to be himself but we can't do anything. First, we thought it's a misunderstanding with Jieun but then Sehun told us that you were not okay too so we concluded that you two have been in a quarrel." Kris said, sighing and rubbing his temple in a problematic way. Baekhyun suddenly felt responsible for what had happened to the taller.
"Don't you know that he called me last two days ago, at night, he was all drunk and he confessed how he's hurting and how he's longing with your presence? He called your name over and over again while crying, he talked and talked and I just listened. He talked until he slept, but you know what, he was calling me by your name, Baekhyun. I don't know what to say so I just listened. It's the first time I encountered Chanyeol being so soft and defenseless and it hurts us. It hurts us because we are his best friends too and yet we cannot do anything about it." Suho revealed and the others nodded melancholically. Baekhyun on the other side was breaking, he don't even know what to do.
"The guy was whipped, don't know if it's a good or bad thing," Kai commented not amused by the idea.
Sehun just stood beside them, not uttering a single word.
"We need the active and happy Chanyeol back, Baekhyun, before the big game in two weeks will be held. Please," Chen pleaded.
"I can see it in his eyes that he was hurting," Chen spoke.
"He needs you, Baekhyun," Tao mumbled.
"Even Jieun could not do anything," Xiumin sighed frustratedly.
"No one but you," Lay added silently as it made him feel curious about what's going on with them really.
"And we're probably winning if he gets back to himself. We need him to win because without him, we're nothing." Without him, I'm nothing too, Baekhyun thought.
"Why do I look like I'm at fault here?" Baekhyun stated Obnoxiously. His heart clenched with the fact that no one ever considered his feelings even from the start.
This time, the others were surprised by the words. They immediately felt guilty and realized that they'd been insensitive and selfish enough to not consider Baekhyun's feelings. They've been too insensitive.
"That's not what we meant Baekhyun, oh god, we're so sorry. Don't think that way, please. You're truly the only one who Chanyeol could trust and I'm sure you can help him." Suho apologized as he held both Baekhyun's arms.
"I—I promise. I will take care of him." Baekhyun has spoken with his eyes looking down the floor as he gave in a sigh.
When it seemed that the conversation is going to end, a familiar car suddenly park at the parking lot. They just looked at it as they knew that it was Chanyeol's car.
After a while, a tall figure came out. Kai almost forgot that he secretly texted Chanyeol earlier that they have something to talk about but then he was late because they already finished talking with Baekhyun.
Baekhyun ran towards the parking lot while the others just strode.
When Chanyeol began closing the car's door, he didn't expect two slender arms came snaking on his waist. He got surprised but then he felt that the arms are too familiar to his body to just pull away and so he just stood there, longing from the arms that hugged him thousand times before.
Baekhyun looked up at Chanyeol but the latter's eyes had been shut close since he felt those arms he was craving for.
The smaller got shocked when he saw how a single tear flowed from the taller handsome face down to his prominent jawline and dropped into the floor.
Baekhyun felt the wave of pain in his chest but his mind suddenly snapped at the idea that his friends who are just a distance away from them might see him crying and he doesn't want them to see how vulnerable Chanyeol is. And so, without hesitations, he opened the car's driver's seat and practically dragged Chanyeol and pushed him inside and closed it before they could see a glimpse of his wet face.
"Don't worry anymore." Baekhyun smiled thinly as he entered the passenger's seat before the boys from the outside could even muster a word.
"Drive," Baekhyun spoke gently. Chanyeol just looked at Baekhyun but then snapped out from his trance when the smaller's thumb brushed from his face to wipe the remaining tears.
"Drive home now, Yeol." Baekhyun bit his lip to prevent crying at how Chanyeol treated himself carelessly while looking at those puffy reddened eyes and eye bags lying just under it. And those chapped lips the used to be pink were now dull from the dryness from the taller's sleepless and continuous crying.
Meanwhile,
"I wish I also have a Baekhyun." Kai sighed as he stalked the car that drove away from them.
The rest just looked at him weirdly. Kai snapped out from his emotional state and looked back defensively.
"WHAT?" Kai blurted out looking casually from the judging eyes.
"What your face." Kyungsoo rolled his eyes.
Well, they wanted a 'Baekhyun' too, who would also care for them like that. And they envy Chanyeol for having him.
"Did anyone saw Sehun?" Chen suddenly asked, craning his neck around the area.
"A few minutes ago, yes," Tao mumbled searching the tall male too but there was no shadow of him because from the second that Baekhyun ran towards Chanyeol and wrapped his arms around him, he already left the place to prevent the crashing of burning feeling in his chest caused by pain.
"Sometimes I wonder what's between the two, that makes them inseparable. Sure they call each other friends, but does being 'only friends' does really look like that?" Kai mumbled more to himself.
This time, no one replied. As they kept their mind speaking instead of their mouths. Because as far as much as they want to deny it, Kai was right.
There's a limit to just being friends.
And Chanyeol and Baekhyun seemed like they are exceeding that invisible limitation line without them being aware.
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