Little Baekhyun was just sitting alone on the swing at the corner of the playground. His honey-brown eyes taking a glimpse a couple of times now, on the kids who are having fun playing.
He was just a kid, around nine years old and his expression is quite easy to read. His lips were thinned in a humble smile yet his eyes were glassy and sad. These days were the times Chanyeol was still eating his lunch in restaurants at times that leads the latter to be alone.
Baekhyun was lonely. That was given. Showing how his shoulders droop down with that pitiful eyes that no one could see. For a child's feelings that are subtle like a dry leaf.
He wanted to play too. This thought swam in his innocent mind. That sounds good, sounds fun.
And then afterward he felt bad.
They don't want to play with him.
Why?
Because he was not that fast to run? Not quick to react? Does not know how the game works? Does look so fragile and a loser?
For the others, Yes...
"Hey, Baek!" There goes the taller's voice.
Baekhyun's ears as if almost twitched by the sound of the approaching boy. His mind jolted happiness in his eyes and his heart.
"Chanyeol!" He ran up to Chanyeol once he saw the latter.
"Done eating?" He asked as he rested his small palms on the taller's chest.
"Yup. The food was good!" The taller spoke enthusiastically. Baekhyun smiled at the latter's response.
"You can leave now." Chanyeol orders his guard-slash-babysitter.
"You? Have you already eaten your lunch?" Chanyeol asked.
"Yes." Baekhyun was fast to answer.
"Really?" Chanyeol asked again.
"Y-Yess.." Baekhyun answered again, smiling a toothy one.
"Yah, Baekhyun??" Chanyeol sternly spoke. The smaller's smile falters for a moment before curling his toes.
"Chanyeol... I didn't have lunch today... I forgot to bring my lunchbox." Baekhyun trailed off, feeling ashamed. The reality was he doesn't have anything for lunch today.
Chanyeol raised his brow examining Baekhyun. And after a while, he sighed.
"Good." He smiled. This brought confusion to the younger's face.
"I brought you some from that restaurant." He announced. Fishing a red lunch box from his bag and handed it to Baekhyun.
"This is for you. Now eat. I don't want you starving." He spoke again as if he's in authority.
"This is for me?" Baekhyun asked, his stomach grumbling in hunger.
"Yup. Now eat." Chanyeol reassures.
Baekhyun hesitated for a while yet he reached the box and held it on his chest.
"Thanks, Yeol... I mean... really.." his eyes began to wet with tears but he kept it.
"Nah. It's nothing. And also do not bring lunch from now on. As long as I'm here, I'll be bringing lunch for both of us." He smiled genuinely.
"Chanyeol.." Baekhyun has the urge to hug the taller.
"Thanks." He mumbled. He doesn't want to cry from the swell he was feeling on his heart so he hid his emotions as best as he can.
"Anything for you my little best bud." Chanyeol chuckled as he stroked the latter's soft brownish hair that he found so soft that he couldn't stop for a while.
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The crowd is absolutely taken aback and it seemed like the silver lights and the smokey ground was the only thing that kept moving by the time they saw how a tall male kissed the autumn red-haired boy in front of them all.
The stage was zoomed with heavy silence and the gasped are nearly dying out from their mouths.
The young male manages to look in front of him while his knees became jelly from the sudden realization that hit him.
"W-Why did y-you do that..." Baekhyun stammered with shocked eyes, as he touched his lips with his fingers. Mixed emotion flooded him. He can still feel the warmth of the lips lingering on his own.
"Because I think I already fell in love with you." The said man uttered. Looking deeply into Baekhyun's deep ocean orbs like it was his world, his everything.
But there's that certain fear from the latter's eyes that could be doubtful. The background music died down but the tension just got higher.
The drummer and the guitarist that happened to be Kyungsoo and Luhan couldn't stand a chance to utter a word nor move in the ground.
"But... Sehun..."
"I- I don't know what to say- I just... don't know." Baekhyun stumbled in his own words, fiddling his hands unconsciously. He was out of words as if his mind blocked all the things he was trying to pronounce.
"You don't need to say anything. I mean, at least not now, Baekhyun. Please give me a chance to love you. I will earn and prove to you that I really love you." Sehun said with his pleading tone, almost begging.
A sudden crashing sound of an electric guitar came clashing through their ears. Before they could all turn back from that direction, Luhan already turned his back and clicked his boots away from the crowd. The evident wiping of the deer-faced male that seemed like tears was noticeable and then he was gone.
Kyungsoo chased his best friend as he knows why the latter walked out, brokenheartedly.
Mere silence. Only muffled gossips that were framing the whole scene are getting louder. Unexpected things happened and unexpected things will happen more.
Let's start with the heavy stomps coming from the isle of the audience's seats. Another tall male came up from the middle and before anyone could say words, two fists already landed from Sehun's nose and cheeks.
Chanyeol held Sehun in the collar and blew another punch for the third time that finally sent him colliding on the ground.
"Chanyeol stop! Chanyeol!" Baekhyun yelled but he can't seem to be heard.
Baekhyun tried to stop Chanyeol but he wouldn't listen. He tried pushing in between but he couldn't succeed because Kai was holding him in place while the rest are trying to stop Chanyeol from attacking Sehun.
The tall male was in a rage. Almost growling and his eyes are sharp like knives that if they could only kill, Sehun would already be cold dead by now. His breathing was also ragged and his face was tinted with betrayed and hurt emotion including the anger that wrapped his overall aura.
"HOW DARE YOU KISS HIM, HUH?! HE DOESN'T DESERVES SOMEONE LIKE YOU! I WILL KILL YOU, YOU F-" Not from the scared looks and yells of his teammates nor from the crowd that made the thrashing Chanyeol stop, but from the disbelief expression of a small boy that slapped his face into reality.
Right. Out of reflex, Baekhyun cut Chanyeol's words with a slap right in the cheek. The stinging pain in the latter's cheeks wasn't painful at all but the pain he felt from the inside could not compare to any pain he felt ever.
Jieun pushed Baekhyun sending him on the ground with a soft thud but before Chanyeol and the crowd could react, the smaller had already been back on his feet.
This was the first time that Baekhyun ever slapped Chanyeol right in the face.
"How dare you slap my boyfriend like that! Don't ever, ever put your hands on him ever again!" Her yell was pitched, bringing more attention to the shocked crowd.
"Don't tell me what to do! Tell him that he lost his best friend from now on!" Baekhyun shouted back. Anger was fully taking over his body. Unable to think rationally and distracted from the blood that gushed on Sehun's nose. This is the reason why Baekhyun hates blood. He can't control his emotions in check when seeing one.
Lay, Kai, and the rest were stunned from the sudden outburst as they saw the actual incident that's happening.
"What have you done?!" Baekhyun's deep gaze with his glassy eyes on Chanyeol's face was not a joke. It was unexplainably painful for him. It awakened Chanyeol and how he saw Baekhyun crouching to help Sehun while holding his back in place is a total vain for him.
It was a clear rejection. He felt like the whole weight of the earth came crashing above him. He couldn't even breathe properly and his heart crashes like glass.
"Are you okay, Sehun? Sehun.." Baekhyun panicked, as he saw the gushing blood pooling from Sehun's already bleeding nose, bruised face, and chapped lips.
"G-Guys help him!" He panicked. The smaller's eyes are terrified that his brain was short-circuiting from negative thoughts, thinking that something bad might happen to the male on the floor. Sehun just groaned in response. He felt dizzy and his vision is blurry. Not to mention that he only hears echoes from the loud yellings.
He wasn't new to these kinds of things but damn, Chanyeol is a strong one. He didn't expect that the taller's strong fist come rushing square towards his face plus he was indeed disoriented because of the chased and stolen kiss.
"I didn't. I didn't mean to. I- I'm sorry-" Chanyeol's ragged breathing made him unable to form words fluently. That feeling when the tears are dangerously falling but he kept blinking it back and he was just continuously taking in sharp breaths to prevent him from sobbing. He regrets what he just did and he was scared of what will be the outcome of his behavior.
He loves Baekhyun and God knows how much he means to him but he just couldn't accept the fact that he was put into a situation that he felt lost. He just can't see anyone taking Baekhyun away from him. And it turned things from what he didn't expect. Opposite to things he wanted to be.
"DON'T COME NEAR ME!" Baekhyun yelled on top of his lungs. The tears already falling from the shiny ground because of the mixed emotions he was already feeling. The kiss was long forgotten and the thing that was running on his mind was the blood. On Sehun and on his trembling hands.
He felt traumatized.
Chanyeol could only sound a whimper of pain and regret. His teammates pity Sehun from the beating but their focus is on Chanyeol more than what he was showing right now.
Weakness. A thing they never expected him to have.
They are shocked because you don't see the tough and invincible guy showing his vulnerability just like that. In front of many people.
The fresh warm tears that first cascaded from the giant's cheeks were unnoticeable but the second came and it was far more than that.
Kris immediately dragged the basketball player who was covering his face with his arm.
"Come on, man." Gladly, they were on time before Chanyeol breaks down in front of many people. They pulled him out off of there on time.
"Dude, it's okay. Everything will be fine." Kai sympathized in the empty hallway, Chanyeol tried stopping the tears but he ended up covering his face because the damn tears were unstoppable.
Chen, Tao, and Lay stayed to help Sehun along with Baekhyun while Kris, Suho, Xiumin, and Kai tried to drag and comfort Chanyeol away from the crow with Jieun tagging along.
When Kris and the rest had got out, the crowd slowly evaporated from the commanding voice of the judges when they were ordered to dissipate the stadium.
"Are you okay?" Baekhyun's worry was eating him. Sehun wasn't answering but he just nods. He felt dizzy from the force and impact. Chanyeol was just so strong. Adding the fact that he didn't expect that to come.
Chen and the judges called the medic. Lay helped Sehun up while Tao called Kris for any feedback.
Because of the strong punches that Chanyeol inflicted on Sehun, and with the impact when he fell from the ground. He couldn't take it all at once so in the next minutes, he fainted.
"Sehun! Answer me!" Baekhyun's caring instinct was indefinably strong. He couldn't keep himself out of the panic trance. His eyes became faucets of tears as he was nervous that his best friend could accidentally kill a person. And he doesn't want that to happen.
He knew that Chanyeol is better than that.
Soon, the medic came and rushed him to the nearest hospital. While leaving Baekhyun was so frustrated from what's happening, unable to realize what else was going to happen next. But the only thing that didn't leave his mind is that his outburst is nothing but just an outburst. He doesn't mean it. That's what he's worried about.
Then when he was about to look for Chanyeol around, the latter wasn't there anymore.
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Baekhyun's eyes were all red and puffy, they waited from the lobby of the hospital as the night got darker and colder.
Baekhyun texted Taehyung to tell their mom that he accompanied a friend to the hospital and he wouldn't get home tonight.
A few hours later, Baekhyun passed out from the lack of energy and the distress it caused him. His body is fragile and he couldn't deal with such things like these alone.
While waiting for Sehun to get aided, the doctor told them that Baekhyun fainted from the fatigue of trauma and from emotional distress he let out. And so, he was put on a hospital bed at the moment.
Baekhyun was surely frustrated by the things he had done. He couldn't believe his words. First, he slapped Chanyeol, and Second, he ended his friendship with him. The last thing he wanted to do.
And he regretted what he did. And he will make sure to fix it as soon as possible because he knew that Chanyeol didn't mean to hurt anyone.
"What did Xiumin tell you?" Lay asked Chen as he brought food for them. It was already midnight yet they were still at the hospital.
Tao was holding the trophy that the angels won. They were supposed to be partying right now but then things happened.
With worried eyes, Chen gulped and tapped his phone nervously. He's trying to construct his words as calm and as unnerving as possible.
"Chanyeol broke up with Jieun," he started. "And from the looks of it, Sehun is no longer welcome at our basketball team..." He breathed and his eyes couldn't keep still, mapping the bright tiled hall of the hospital.
"Anything else?" The Lay asked as he watched Suho acting weird.
"...Chanyeol was rushed in the hospital,"
"What the fuck man! Why?" They cursed in unison. There comes the big part.
"He got himself into alcohol poisoning from binge drinking." Chen gritted his teeth from the frustrations that were happening.
Lay and Tao couldn't believe what was happening, as they knew that their best friend-slash-team leader had just been rushed to the hospital unconscious.
"But guys, please don't let Baekhyun know about this yet, but later. I know that Chanyeol will be alright sooner but I don't know how would Baekhyun react to this." Chen hissed combing his hair with his fingers.
"Two things are for sure."
"Sehun confessed to Baekhyun. And Chanyeol seemed not okay with it."
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