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Chanyeol hissed silently for the umpteenth time as he secretly glanced at Baekhyun who is quietly seated at the back of the car using the mirror of the car.
The midget has been utterly silent all along, busying himself from the views behind the glass window.
The tall male had been cursing in his mind a few strings of bad words thinking about how stupid he was to take his cute midget later than he was supposed to do. And here beside him—the girl who wants his father to marry him, the reason why he was late to take Baekhyun to school— sitting on the spot where Baekhyun was supposed to sit.
Chanyeol was feeling unsettled, his stomach was turning that's making him feel wrong and frustrated.
He loves Baekhyun very much that he doesn't want the smaller to feel uncomfortable just because of Dara.
Dara saw how Chanyeol look a little bit paler than usual as he sighed multiple times now, tilting her head to meet the latter's problematic one, she flicked her fingers in front of the giant's face.
"Uhh... Chanyeol? Are you feeling fine? You're so quiet. Is there something wrong?" Dara asked bringing the back of her dainty hand on the forehead of the tall handsome male beside her.
Before he knew it, Baekhyun was now looking at Chanyeol in the eyes, expressionless. Their gaze clashed together for the first time on the car ride.
"I— I'm fine. Thanks." Chanyeol scoffed, stumbling on his words as he turned his head purposely to brush Dara's touch.
This is going to be hard as hell, he sighed as he endured the pain of being silently treated by Baekhyun.
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With his usual baggy pants, oversized sweaters, and huge round ancient glasses hanging just above the bridge of his nose, Baekhyun felt ashamed by how he set his pace up with Chanyeol and Dara.
His fashion is a major contrast from what the two wore today— or every day.
He wasn't even sure if it's called fashion.
For the nth time, he thinks that he was out of the picture again. He never cared about how he wears clothes before, but now, he had to think twice about that next time he walks out of their house.
He walked slower in an attempt to separate his body from the two but Chanyeol quickly noticed it. Because Chanyeol's secret glances never left him at all.
Chanyeol narrowed his eyes a second before landing a gentle look at the midget who was embracing thick books between his arms, Chanyeol suddenly felt jealous from the books though.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Chanyeol neared Baekhyun, swinging his long arms around the smaller. Dara just watched as he worries about Baekhyun being not okay.
"Are you okay, Baek? You don't look good." Chanyeol asked in a concerted manner, feeling the smaller's neck and forehead. He couldn't take away his eyes on Baekhyun especially when the latter knew that he's not feeling well.
"I'm okay. I guess I'll just need a bottle of water to drink, yeah, that's what I need. I'll just leave you guys here, I'll just grab bottled water in the cafeteria." Baekhyun smiled convincingly, finally finding an excuse to separate himself from the two.
Unfortunately...
"You're not going anyway. Let me do that for you. Just go in the classroom with Dara and wait for me there." Chanyeol exclaimed as he jogged on the hall to get what Baekhyun wanted. He felt relieved that finally, he made Baekhyun a favor just to talk please him.
Little did he know that he just set Baekhyun more uncomfortable with Dara as he jogged away, turning to the left hallway towards the cafeteria just to get a bottle of water.
Dara smiled as she caught Baekhyun taking a glimpse on her side. Well, Dara was impressed at how the best friends grew so close together and she felt happy that Chanyeol found someone whom he could trust. Dara knows that the taller don't easily trust people, even in their childhood days and that was right, even after all this time. Chanyeol only trusts Baekhyun with his life.
"Are you feeling okay, Baekhyun? If you want, I could walk alone if you're not comfortable with me, you know. You could just give me the direction." Dara tugged her lips a small smile, concerned expression showed on her face.
Baekhyun's droopy eyes widen with the reality that he's really making it awkward with the two of them.
"No! I'm sorry, uhh... I just, you know, I feel shy because we just met a second time today and I don't know if you wanted me to stick around you. I mean, what would be a pretty girl like you, walking next with a nerd, poor and unfashionable like me... I mean..uhh, if you don't get what I mean. Just look at me." Baekhyun apologized, clutching his books tighter as he was nervous that he might be right, that Dara don't want to stick with him.
"Pffft..haha, you're joking, right? Who wouldn't stick with a cute boy, who's a good chef with a good angelic voice and a golden heart like you, Baekhyun? I mean come on, I should be the one thinking about that, not you. It's my pleasure to have you here beside me." Dara laughed enthusiastically, amused that made her eyes crinkle a bit and showing his pearly teeth. Baekhyun felt his small heart flutter because of the compliment.
But, wait...what?
"Uhh, how did you know that I can sing?" Baekhyun asked, he didn't remember telling her that he love singing.
"Duh, Chanyeol talks a lot about you, silly." Dara hooked her arms in between Baekhyun's arms. The latter was taken aback by what Dara just said.
'C-Chanyeol talks about me to Dara?' He thought as he felt heat crept into his mochi cheeks.
Like a cat, Baekhyun felt warmer around Dara now that they engaged in conversations. But a single—not so big deal, the question made Baekhyun break in sweats.
"I'm not being rude, but you are gay, right? I would be happy if you were gay, I wanna have a gay best friend." Dara blurted like it was one of the most usual things you ask from a total stranger.
Baekhyun was dumbfounded by that freaking question but before he could try answering the question honestly, a flying raw egg hit him in the chest.
"Oh! I'm so sorry, it was an accident! I thought it was a trashcan." A familiar high pitched, annoying voice echoed on Baekhyun's ears.
Jieun and her gang faced Baekhyun and Dara with their fake apologies.
"It's okay." Baekhyun sighed, he don't feel like having another fuss with the bitchy Jieun right now, today or ever. Dara just looked confused and she examined what was happening, and she feels like something is wrong.
When they tried to walk past the bitchy cheerleader, Jieun throw another egg on Baekhyun's shoes.
"Oops! My bad, the egg slipped in my hands, again, my apologies." She did apologize but his freaking face doesn't show sincerity at all. The students around just laughed as Jieun embarrassed Baekhyun in the middle of the busy hallway.
"It's fine," Baekhyun mumbled. He was on the verge of walking away sighing, he's used to this kind of bullying anyway.
Dara felt bad though, now that she knew what the girls are trying to do with Baekhyun.
"You're lucky, my friend tolerates bird-minded dumb stray female dogs who are wandering around this hallway. Are you that dumb that you can't differentiate a trashcan from a person? Get your eyes out from your ass, bitch head." She smiled sweetly with a sarcastic glint in her eyes. The students around —including Baekhyun, gasped by the sudden shot back from the angelic-faced girl.
"E-Excuse me!? How dare you talk like that to me? Oh, you're a transferee here right? Now you're friend with this ugly, flirty nerd right here. Well, let me show you some introduction." Jieun smirked but an obvious embarrassment plastered on her face. Irene handed her another egg, she threw it at Dara and when there's no doubt that Dara would be hit with the egg in the face, she was pulled harshly to dodge the egg.
Yeah, she was saved by her near embarrassment, by hitting egg right in the face. Chanyeol pulled her fast due to reflex, resulting in Dara getting slammed from his broad chest. She unconsciously flung her arms around the taller's waist, and just by looking at it, it coincidentally portrays a romantic scene from a romantic movie.
Not until everyone starts laughing and loud.
Why are they laughing?
Chanyeol's system malfunctioned as he realized what was the others are laughing at.
And there was Baekhyun, being hit by the egg square in the face. The egg broke and the yolks and egg white spread around his face, lucky that he wore eyeglasses. It also splashed in his sweater and pants, making him a total package of mess.
He just closed his eyes, feeling the tingling and uncomfortable sensation of the gooey and slimy thing. Tears welled in his eyes.
How the fuck could he maintain his temper?!
He dropped his books on the ground with an unheard thud due to the noisy laugh that overpowered the atmosphere as he wiped his face with the hem of his sweater.
That's when Luhan and Kyungsoo saw the remaining incident and grabbed Baekhyun away from the crowd.
"Die, bitch." Luhan shot back before turning his back at Jieun.
"My middle finger salutes you, whore." Kyungsoo raised his middle finger in front of Jieun before turning his back away.
Chanyeol's mind couldn't register what just happened as he felt a huge lump that blocked his throat. He can't even gulp normally as he felt his blood boil in anger and frustration.
I was just gone for a fucking two minutes, and this already happened, Chanyeol cursed. He felt nervous that Baekhyun might think that he saved Dara while he didn't even care about Baekhyun.
A pulsing ache attacked his head and a throbbing pain shoots his chest as he saw Baekhyun's drooped back view and the judgmental glare that Kyungsoo and Luhan gave to him.
WHAT THE FUCK. He cursed when he realized why do Luhan and kyungsoo are glaring at him. A girl protectively placed in between his thick arms. And he didn't even save Baekhyun.
Dara untangled her arms around Chanyeol quickly when the students started cheering from the hug. Though she's blushing, well, uhh... she can't deny that she felt flushed with the fact that Chanyeol saved him from the near embarrassment on the first day of school, but more of it was because she was fuming angry with the person who just made her friend get embarrassed in front of many people.
Dara grabbed an egg from Irene's plastic container and she slapped it on Jieun's forehead. The eggshells broke and the fluid ran down freely on Jieun's face.
"We're not finished," Dara warned, her cold sharp eyes flickered on the whining bitch before running away to catch up on Baekhyun with Luhan and Kyungsoo, leaving Jieun shrieking, cursing at her.
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Luhan and Kyungsoo just sat in one of the fixed chairs along the sides of the music club while waiting for Baekhyun who's taking a shower from the restroom inside.
They were just eyeing Dara from head to toe suspiciously. It's the first time they saw the girl, and that first time is that she was wrapped on Chanyeol's biceps. They're just curious about the mystery of why is she clung to Chanyeol earlier. Or why did freaking Chanyeol save the lucky girl instead of Baekhyun?
Though they all feel bad about what just happened, not to mention that they're hearing sniffles coming from the bathroom, it just made it more difficult for them.
Baekhyun felt frustrated. With all the emotions driving him unfocused and drained in energy, he couldn't think clearly.
But what is clear with the midget was that he's jealous as hell, and he felt unsettled with that.
It's the first time that Chanyeol saved someone instead of him. And it's only the first day.
When the bathroom knob clicked open, signaling that someone exited, their head snaps towards it. They saw Baekhyun who had this puffy eyes, reddish nose, flushed lips stepped outside.
Baekhyun doesn't have the sense to complain about the tight jeans that the deer-faced male offered him to wear anymore. And he felt more relaxed by the large oversized sweater that Kyungsoo gave to him.
"I'm sorry, Baek. I should be the one who got hit by the egg. I'm so sorry. Are you okay?" Dara felt really bad and the guilt is eating her.
"It's okay, it's not your fault," Baekhyun mumbled with a thin smile as he wiped his hair with a dry towel.
The entrance door flung open, showing a furious, deeply concerned, and worried tall male who was in his jerseys, having large strides towards Baekhyun.
Without him sparing another blink before Baekhyun realizes it, he got wrapped around thick warm arms. He was being hugged tightly by the taller as he felt warmer than earlier.
His nose met the musky, wooden, and minty scent of Chanyeol as he was forced to bury his head on the toned clothed chest of his friend.
"Why am I so useless, Baekhyun," Chanyeol whispered on the latter's ears. Enough to just let them all hear it.
Dara, Luhan, and Kyungsoo just watched as Chanyeol comforted Baekhyun with such ease, gentleness, and all the murmurs of sweet things.
"I'm so sorry. I'm really sorry. I'll make sure it'll never happen again." Chanyeol cooed, sniffing the foreign minty shampoo that Baekhyun used. Chanyeol just wants to devour Baekhyun's lips just now but he knew that there are eyes locked on them.
He doesn't want to reveal what they have with Dara though. This is not the right time. So he scoffed and pulled away from the tight hug, realizing that he should minimize his physical attachment to Baekhyun.
Soon, the other basketball players came to check what happened to their favorite midget.
"Why are you here?" Kyungsoo asked a bit harshly, at the group in general —or just Jongin with whom he shot his glare.
"We heard that Baekhyun got into a fight. And now, Jieun was in the Dean's office for go¹od. Thanks to that new chick who reported it-" Kai was taken aback when he saw the girl he was referring with in the room with them right now.
"You okay?" Sehun asked, while examining Baekhyun who was standing a meter away from Baekhyun.
Baekhyun nodded shyly as he doesn't want the attention right now.
Dara was the one who reported Jieun. Not everybody gets fully paid attention though, but of course, Dara had connections.
Even though Baekhyun was that of a loser from the other students out there, some feels different so they took a video of it and reported it to the dean's office making the case stronger.
They realized that there's a new face in the music club. The short girl with a pretty face, long hair with curly tips on the end, brown eyes that can be compared with Baekhyun, with that concerned face just the same as with the others.
"And who might you be?" Kris asked. All eyes landed in her direction except Chanyeol who was too indulged on Baekhyun.
"Uhh, I'm Sandara. I'm a new student here. Yeol's dad and my dad are business partners. I uhh sort of...—" Dara felt nervous, she doesn't know what to say. She doesn't even know if telling them that he was Chanyeol's fiance would be a necessary thing.
Sehun looked at her with that usual face as if examining the latter's behavior. Dara looked at Sehun and their eyes met for the first time of the day, but Sehun looked away from that instant.
"She was Chanyeol's fiance, and she's my new friend. Please be nice to her." Baekhyun spilled out, stepping away further from the taller as he avoided his shocked gaze.
All of them opened their mouths but decided not to speak— except Sehun of course because he already knew about it.
And it unexpectedly came from Baekhyun. The small boy just smiled bitterly sweet as he breathed a nice cold breath and made sure to not flinch by how much Chanyeol was now gazing at him.
With the fact that Chanyeol got rooted in his own feet, all tensed up, unable to move and unable to breathe as he felt numb for a second. He never expected that those words would come out from Baekhyun's mouth.
Chanyeol suddenly felt as if Baekhyun was selling him out to Sandara. And he's annoyed with that. And the taller's heart reacted with painful thugs.
What are you trying to do, Baekhyun? Why are you doing this to me? this was the only question that replays on the taller's frustrated mind, his lips weren't able to speak it out anyway, because he was frozen in his place. And he's too caught up with the feeling of his heart cracking.
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