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Chapter 36 - CHAPTER 34: NEW GIRL

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"Luhan, can you do me a favor?" Sehun asked quietly when he finished chewing his food. Luhan's worried eyes glinted as he leaned closer to Sehun.

"W-what is it, Sehun?" Luhan's voice was uncertain. The atmosphere also didn't help because of the silence.

Sehun stared for a minute as he was gathering his words. Once he was ready, he held Luhan's shoulders and looked at him in the eyes.

Luhan gulped as his cheeks began heating up.

"Baekhyun is your friend, right?" Luhan blinked thrice as he analyze what did Sehun asked him.

Right. He wanted Baekhyun...

He doesn't know what to react yet he surely knows that his chest got heavy.

"Yeah, do you like him?" It's a bit blunt and, weirdly, Luhan didn't stutter as he let out those words that his lips had cast.

"Can you help me get close to him? Can you do that for me?" Luhan can't do anything other than breathe out as he prevented his heart from crumbling down.

Of course, his heart was thumping fast because of the close proximity but he can't deny that it was already getting broken. Being shattered.

"You already know that Chanyeol likes Baekhyun, why are you still into him?" I'm the one who's here. Luhan felt pain but he couldn't stop his mouth.

"You may not understand it, Luhan. You'll do everything to have the person you like. And I'm sure that one day you'll understand when you start falling for someone too." Sehun spoke, diverting his eyes outside the window.

Luhan tried to blink fast to blink back the welcoming tears as he had been doing it for a long time, —for Sehun.

"Yeah, of course, I can do it. For you." Luhan gripped himself together as he don't want to feel ridiculous and stupid right now.

Because how are you supposed to react when you're facing the person you love, saying that he loves someone else? And with the fact that he's seeking help to get to that person with your cooperation?

"Sehun, I'm going now. Bye." He said, brushing the arms that rested on his shoulders. And leaving the suffocating room for once.

Once he got out of the room, he felt how hopeless and stupid he was. He wiped down his tears and strolled down the halls.

That's when Baekhyun saw him.

"Lu, are you crying?" Baekhyun asked. I thought he agreed on assisting Sehun. Baekhyun whispered to himself.

"No, I'm not, Baek." Luhan lied with a curt smile.

"Are you really okay?" Baekhyun asked once again.

"Yes," Luhan tried another fake smile.

"Was Sehun okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, he said he'll be out this afternoon now. He said he needs to go home today something about someone coming home." Luhan informed. He skipped the parts where it makes his heart shatter.

"Anyway, I thought you'd be staying longer with Chanyeol. How about him? I heard he had done something stupid again." Luhan tried lifting the mood.

Baekhyun made a face, "Yeah, that stupid giant drank a lot of bad stuff until his liver couldn't take it all up and hurt himself." Baekhyun spoke bitterly like a petulant child.

"He'll be fine. Don't worry, that guy is tough." Luhan smiled.

Baekhyun sighed begrudgingly, "He better be." He commented.

"Right, if you'll excuse me, I'll be going first now. Take care okay?" Luhan patted Baekhyun on the shoulder before hailing a taxi on the road.

Baekhyun bid goodbye too while waving his hand. When he was about to turn his back, the taxi's passenger window slid open, revealing Luhan.

"Baek, you're so lucky. You deserve so much love." Luhan said before the vehicle drove away, leaving Baekhyun confused.

You have no idea how broken my heart right now,  Baekhyun was about to reply yet he decided not to.

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The rumor has its unexpected turn of surprise when it is something about Baekhyun being gay and chasing over two guys named Chanyeol and Sehun. This rumor made Baekhyun feel so bad and just want to transfer school. But the rumor is just one part of the story, the other is the bullying part.

As expected, things went frenzy right after. Rumors spread like wildfire indeed, yet it was a shushed one like ghosts as they knew better than to provoke Chanyeol and his circle of friends. However, days passed, and then bullying came.

And sometimes, people just don't learn.

"Apologize!" Chanyeol's dark aura spread around like a bad omen as he held a guy under him with his fist grasped unto the poor guy's collar.

"I'm sorry!" The man cried and coughed blood. His face was sweaty with a mixture of blood that came from his broken nose. Two of his fingers are broken and his cheeks swollen from the beating.

Chanyeol growled. Not convinced. He threw the man on the wall causing a loud thud. Students scattered as they winced upon hearing the noise the man gave out.

No one dared to help him. No one dared to interfere with Park Chanyeol. He is the definition of danger.

'What did he do this time? ' One of the students asked.

'The ones in his class said that the guy scattered used condoms on Byun Baekhyun's table and wrote the word 'bend for me, fag.' on his table using a spray paint.'

'That's horrible. Isn't he aware that Chanyeol is overprotective with that kid? Is he suicidal?  Look, you think he'll live?' The student winced when he heard the guy gurgling in his own saliva and blood when a punch landed on his gut.

Finally, when the guy can no longer stand up as he broke into tears, Chanyeol decided to wipe his knuckles and tidy his uniform, which was stained by blood already.

The people around calmed down and Kai finally let go of Baekhyun who wasn't sorry at all when the smaller glared at him.

"Hey, c'mon, I agree, that prune needs a good beating! I could have broken his leg if I'm not just holding you back." Kai shrugged as he raised his hands defensively.

He knew that Baekhyun would interfere with the beating so he made sure he wouldn't go near the commotion before it is finished.

"Are you okay?!" Baekhyun asked the man on the ground worriedly.

"Please I'm sorry! I wouldn't do it again! Baekhyun please help me." The man begged as he crippled away from Chanyeol.

Baekhyun felt bad, he knew that what the guy did was bad though he believe that he doesn't need violence to learn his lessons.

"Back away, Chanyeol. You're going too far! You'll kill him!" Baekhyun glared.

Chanyeol stayed silent like a lion circling his prey, nevertheless, he stepped back, avoiding Baekhyun's eye contact. He's still wasn't calmed.

"Let this be a lesson to anyone." He spoke before grabbing his bag on the ground.

"Somebody, call an ambulance." He said casually before leaving the vicinity.

Ever since that day, Chanyeol never saw Baekhyun like the old ways anymore. He was sure by now that he want Baekhyun, and he never let the man go out of his sight.

Chanyeol was like a beast that Baekhyun had tamed. A fluff ball around Baekhyun yet a death invitation to anyone who dares to hurt him.

His interest also changed as his likings turned even more specific at times to the point where he unconsciously was staring at Baekhyun as he realized how milky and fair does the smaller's complexion had. How beautiful his eyes and the lashes that bat in every time he blinks. That plump lips that he never noticed before, he realized that it was pink and kissable, his thighs—

Chanyeol was ruined. Whipped to be exact.

He never saw it coming that Baekhyun's smiles alone could color up his day. And Chanyeol surely does not expect that he would fall in love deeper day by day than he ever imagined.

Well, including a kind of conversation like,

"Chanyeol, you can't just eliminate a member out of the group!" Baekhyun scowled as he faced Chanyeol but the taller doesn't seem to really listen to the smaller's words.

"Listen to me, Chanyeol," Baekhyun said in a stern voice while he glared at Chanyeol's side. Chanyeol flicked his tongue, clenching his hands in the steering wheel.

"I don't like the way he looks at you. I can't promise that he's safe around my perimeters.  Besides, I can't forget that he took advantage of you in public. I might kill him for that."

So what do you call a person who stole a kiss, not to mention the first kiss while the latter was sleeping, huh, Chanyeol?

Baekhyun's face turned red. His face was heating up with the latter's words. He doesn't know where to focus when there's too much possessiveness, love, and threat on the latter's voice.

"But—but," Baekhyun couldn't form a single sentence.

"I love you. And from now on, you must get used to it. I don't want threats lingering around you. You are mine." Chanyeol said with a serious expression. His eyes are still focused on the road.

Chanyeol regained his pride and he want to stay that way.

"I—I just don't want that you and Sehun will be enemies after this. I don't want that I'm the reason that your friendship will break apart. I—"

"I also don't want people who try to touch the things that are mine, Baek. I don't consider people as friends who betray me." Chanyeol said thoughtfully, eyes a lil bit furrowed in the road now.

"Baekhyun, you're mine only. And it will stay that way unless you tell me to stop and go away." Chanyeol said though his voice has this tone of sadness that dug down in the smallest veins in his heart.

"I saw how Jieun kissed you that day in the hospital," Baekhyun mumbled, turning away to look at the side and biting his tongue as he regretted pronouncing those words.

Chanyeol pauses for a minute.

"I didn't kiss her so you can stop pouting. I have no feelings for her anymore because all this time I realized you're the one for me." Chanyeol confessed, trying to ease the latter's dejected aura.

"I saw you talking to her yesterday at the parking lot when you are waiting for my class to end." The smaller argued, now feeling sour even more.

"We already broke up so save your pouty lips or else I'm gonna kiss you. Here. Right now." Chanyeol threatened.

Baekhyun stopped pouting and hid his face by looking in the opposite direction from where Chanyeol was.

"Are you perhaps jealous?" Chanyeol asked with an amused voice.

Baekhyun got silent and a small pout formed his lips once again, his heart began beating faster than normal.

"I-If you don't get Sehun back in the group... Don't get fired up if I do something you won't like." Baekhyun threatened, changing the topic. Turning his head from the road like a bratty kid as he glared at Chanyeol.

"Like what?" Chanyeol said smirked.

It's about four in the afternoon that day when Chanyeol was feeling mad at a certain smurf who really stuck his choice to ignore him.

He regretted threatening Baekhyun to torture him with his infamous silent treatment. And he felt frustrated by himself.

Chanyeol just folded his arms as he looked at Baekhyun in the Cafeteria with Luhan and Kyungsoo while there he was, sulking while his teammates, —including Sehun, made some conversations.

"Guys, I need to clear out something," Chanyeol said in the blue with his usual serious and cold tone while gazing at his best friend who was unknowledgeable that he was being stalked by a certain giant.

"What's that?" Suho asked as the others paid attention, setting his phone on the table.

"I just want you to know that Baekhyun is mine. And if you try anything stupid to get Baekhyun away from me, then you must prepare yourself. This is a warning. Especially you, Sehun I got my eyes on you, so you better watch out." He looked at Sehun who was also looking at him in the eye.

"You must go through me first before you lay your damn fingers around Baekhyun. Any more mistakes and I swear I'll send you to hell." His voice suddenly got deeper and dangerous. He remembered the scene how he kissed Baekhyun publicly as if announcing that they were something. If only wasn't because for Baekhyun, he wouldn't try his best to control his temper. He might accidentally strangle the man right then and there.

"I'll do my best, bro." Sehun shot back before grabbing his bag and leaving the noisy and crowded cafeteria, leaving the others dumbfounded while Chanyeol was just sitting there. He wasn't taken aback by that statement because he was now more determined to win Baekhyun's heart.

"Love is weird." Kai sighed while chewing on his food.

"Told yah, their relationship is weird. Now they're couples." Kai commented.

"Then what about you and Kyungsoo?" Tao teased before running behind Kris to take cover from Kai who was madly blushing while holding a plate who was determined to beat Tao.

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Later that day, Baekhyun turned down the act-slash-torture for ignoring Chanyeol.

The giant was more than relieved as he was hugged by the smaller tightly and wrestled him like a human teddy bear.

"I want a kiss, Baekhyun," Chanyeol whined while he was driving. Baekhyun blushes at Chanyeol's unexpected words.

"What's with the sudden?" Baekhyun diverted his look at his hands.

"I need it right now, so kiss me now." Chanyeol sighed, he was looking at the road because if he looks at Baekhyun, he might end up being the one who's kissing the smaller.

"Yah! Just drive. I don't want to kiss you. Eww." Baekhyun said, silently chuckling when the taller's lips formed into a pout.

"Okay if that's what you want. Sorry for asking though." Chanyeol spoke as he pursed his lips which made a certain smurf feel guilty. But of course, it's just Chanyeol's good acting.

After a while of silence, Baekhyun sighed and kissed Chanyeol's cold cheeks. The taller's face suddenly lit up, yet he wanted more.

"I want more. You used to kiss me multiple times before! Why can't you do it now?" Chanyeol whined again.

Just ugh, stop whining, and you know why! You big Yoda dumbo! Baekhyun grumbled in his mind.

"You're getting annoying," Baekhyun huffed.

"Kissing me is annoying? Wow, Baekhyun." Chanyeol teased.

"No! I mean— Yes because... Tch just drives Chanyeol. And keep quiet instead. You're teasing me!" Baekhyun folded his arms, feeling the heat creeping into his mochi cheeks.

"Just admit that you don't want to kiss me." Chanyeol knows what he's doing, he's driving Baekhyun to feel guilty. What an evil giant.

"It's not what I mean!" Baekhyun puffed his cheeks as he frowned.

"Yes, it was! It's what you mean! You would have kissed me, minutes ago if you really want me—mph..." Chanyeol was taken by surprise as he didn't expect that Baekhyun would kiss him on the lips. Baekhyun purposely sucked Chanyeol's lower lip and bit it not too harshly.

"Contented?" Baekhyun muffled while covering his face with his bag and kicking the front board gently.

"Fuck yes." Chanyeol's cheeks are flushed red, his heart was thumping fast and his breathing was unstable.

"Language Chanyeol!" Baekhyun yelled back, still covering his tomato red face.

"I love it! But next time, don't surprise me like that. It's not good for the heart, Baekhyun. Aren't you scared that we might end up crashing on another's car here?" Chanyeol couldn't deny the huge smile on his face and the reddish blush on his cheeks and the tips of his ears.

"No! I trust you!"

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Chanyeol begged Baekhyun to have dinner at their mansion instead of sending him home. And the smaller ones have no choice but to agree. Of course, Chanyeol already had lists of dishes that Baekhyun must cook.

Opening the front door of the mansion, Chanyeol figured out that there's someone in the house as the lights are all switched on.

Chanyeol hesitantly entered the house first and he was shocked when he saw his dad, his mother, and a certain girl— that he seemed sure to be familiar with.

He knew immediately who it was because she was his childhood friend before he met Baekhyun. And was shocked because of how she turned into a beautiful lady that almost looked like, Baekhyun.

What is she doing here all of the sudden? Chanyeol thought.

Baekhyun, who has no idea that the Park's returned home, hugged Chanyeol's back playfully.

And then when he saw three pairs of eyes looking at him, he was shocked and abruptly untangled his small arms around the taller and coughed unconsciously.

"H-Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Park, it's nice to see you again." Baekhyun smiled sweetly as he fixed his composure and bowed down his head as a form of respect.

As if Chanyeol felt Baekhyun being uncomfortable, he flung his arms on the latter's shoulders to reduce the latter's nervousness.

"Sweet as always, Baekhyun." Chanyeol's mother said and his father also nodded and smiled. The girl also smiled yet his eyes are on Chanyeol's arm that was holding Baekhyun.

Baekhyun saw the young lady, indeed beautiful and she looks nice and perfect. Now he was curious.

She was short, but a bit taller than Baekhyun. She had this long brown hair, curled on the tips. Her complexion was fair. And her eyes were so beautiful. She was dressed in yellow dressed.

"What are you doing here?" Chanyeol asked confused as to why would his parents bring a girl into the house.

"Is that how you treat visitors, Chanyeol? Especially when it's your fiancé?"

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