everything about you
title: everything about you
word count: 6885 words
rating: pg13
summary: One thing to describe Yifan and Baekhyun; fools in love!
author's note: from krisbaek fic exchange J
Yifan stomped his feet as he walked about two metres away from his house’s front door, towards his neighbour’s house. In much irritation and anger, he knocked the door roughly and screamed.
“BYUN BAEKHYUN!SHUT THE FUCK UP!!” Yifan cursed, hands still religiously banged the door. After a good one minute, Baekhyun answered the door with irritation and annoyance written all over his face literally.
“I ALREADY FUCKING TOLD YOU TO FUCKING BUY EARPLUGS, YOU FUCKING MORON!” Baekhyun shouted back and crossed his arms to his chest.
He just didn’t get it.
He was told that Yifan was already notified that he would be loud as fuck at night for his practice. He specifically asked for an isolated apartment unit, so that he wouldn’t be much bother to other tenants.
Getting the farthest apartment unit was lonely and tiring, but he had no choice. He was a good boy for being very considerate towards his ‘not-so’ neighbours. Moreover, he couldn’t afford other places since he’s just a mere student who rely on his parents’ pocket money every month.
It was fine during the first three months, since he had no neighbour. Then, Yifan came along. He did say that he’s fine with the noises, saying that he’s already ‘used’ to it. And now he’s complaining?
Like really .. WHAT THE FUCK?!
He glared at Yifan, who was glaring back at him. If eyes could kill, then it would already be a bloodbath happening in front of their apartment units. They stayed firm like that for a few moments, until Yifan gave up as he turned away and let out an exasperated sigh.
“Can you like .. stop playing at a such ungodly hour??It’s 3 am already .. Don’t you have class to go in the morning?” Yifan said softly this time, decided that it wasn’t a wise move to pick a fight with a kid at 3 in the morning. He needed more energy since it’s Saturday and his coffee shop would be flooded with people all day long.
“WELL I’M SORRY THAT I HAVE TO PLAY AT UNGODLY HOUR UNTIL I DIE NOW GO TO HELL, PRICK!” Baekhyun shouted and slammed his door close, right in front of Yifan’s face. Thank goodness he wasn’t too close to the door, or his beautiful nose would be broken by that time.
Ughhh!This brat!
It’s not the first time they’d fought over the same thing. Their first fight started on the very first night Yifan moved in and it became a constant variable in their lives for the next three months. When Yifan was first notified about his neighbour’s loudness at night, he said was okay with it.
Who would actually think that Baekhyun’s loudness was beyond expectation? Even the noises Sehun and Luhan made during their lovemaking session weren’t severe like this.
Yifan was told that Beakhyun was a brass player, which Yifan had no idea of its definition. When he first heard Baekhyun, he thought that he’s playing for an orchestra or something. It was Junmyeon who told him about it.
“He’s not an orchestra player .. He said it’s boring ..” Junmyeon said it to him. Yifan was about to have a mental breakdown as he thought, how could brass band be fun?
In general, how music was fun in the first place? It was loud and annoying. Whoever said that music help in finding peace and crap should be shot down with a shotgun because it wasn’t the same case to Yifan.
He’s lacking of sleep for the past three months because of it and probably would lose more in the upcoming days.
He actually thought of moving to another place, but Junmyeon was the landlord and actually a dear friend of his. Junmyeon gave him quite a good rental fee, as he said “For our friendship’s sake ..” but Yifan knew better that he actually wanted Yixing’s number. He said he feel for Yixing, Yifan’s barista and younger brother, when he cutely mistaken his name as ‘Ramyeon’, which was absolute ridiculous to Yifan.
After all, the apartment building was extremely near to his coffee shop, which only 5 minutes away by walking.
Thus, he decided that he had nothing to lose .. except his beauty sleep.
*
“Maaaan~I’m broke as fuck!” Baekhyun said as he took a seat in front of Kyungsoo. He looked at his bestfriend, who was enjoying his chicken chop with mushroom sauce for lunch. He gulped down his saliva, feeling hungry all of the sudden. He wanted to eat, but it’s impossible with his leftover money.
“I thought your parents already give you some by now??” Kyungsoo asked back, mouth still munching on his food. Realizing that Baekhyun wasn’t answering, he looked up front and found Baekhyun was ogling on his food like a pitiful little puppy. Sighing, Kyungsoo fed him a piece of meat and French fries.
“Thank you!!” Baekhyun said and smiling happily. Kyungsoo smiled back, feeling content seeing his bestfriend happy.
Baekhyun was a very sweet and innocent boy. He always had this puppy look where he could even make the strongest man on earth crumble to his feet within seconds.
Okay, that was a hyperbolic statement.
There’s some people who wouldn’t fall for his pitiful look after all.
1) His parents.
2) Yifan
“My parents decided that I’m a big boy and I can find a way to feed myself here .. Simply, they’re not giving me pocket money anymore!” Baekhyun cried in agony.
He was told about this matter a few days ago via a phone call that he rarely made ever since he moved in Seoul. He was having a bad day that time, when his brass band practice went wrong and very imperfect to his ears. And Yifan just had to be a motherfucker by coming to his house and yelled at him, which just made things worse.
More than that, his parents should’ve notify him a month prior, at least. How the hell he’s supposed to get money to pay for the rent, bills and every shit that needed money in such a short notice? He’s not working anywhere and the money from the last month was already spent. He only had 50,000 won left to survive.
“The rent and bills are due next week but I don’t even have money to eat! Help me, Kyungsoo!!” Baekhyun pleaded. As much as he hated his neighbour, he really didn’t want to get kicked out of the apartment. Even Junmyeon was a nice and angelic landlord, he’s really strict when it came to pay day and money.
What a cheapstake!
“Okay .. Pay me back slowly after you get your wage ..” Kyungsoo cooly replied. Then, he asked for Baekhyun’s account number to transfer the money. Baekhyun happily gave it and not forgot to give a thank you kiss on the cheek to Kyungsoo.
“Thanks, honey .. You’re my sunshine that shines my way during the darkest moment .. My love for you is like pee .. I just can’t hold it in!” he said before gave another peck to Kyungsoo’s already abused cheek.
Kyungsoo looked at him in disgust as he wiped the excess drools that smelled like mushroom sauce on his cheek. Baekhyun was being all happy until another thought bugged him. His smile turned ito a frown
“How can I get wage? I don’t work, remember?” Baekhyun asked dumbly, which made Kyungsoo looked at him judgingly.
“Look for one, idiot!” Kyungsoo was about to whack Baekhyun’s head with his textbook, but Baekhyun was a second faster by running away to his vocal class.
“THANKS BABY BOO BYEEE!!” he shouted merrily before disappeared into the crowds, leaving Kyungsoo to face the public humiliation all alone by himself.
*
After class, Baekhyun had been looking around for a part-time job. But his effort was going nowhere. It’s either they needed full-time worker, women, worker who can work at night or worker with good physique, which none of them screamed ‘Byun Baekhyun’.
He took out his phone to call Kyungsoo and had another bawling session with him, but the universe must be pitying him so much and decided to show him a paved, beautiful path to a coffee shop near his apartment building.
‘Part-time worker in need! Come in for a walk-in interview’
Wasting no time, Baekhyun checked his appearance by the glass window and put on his best smile before walking in confidently. The shop wasn’t busy much, since it wasn’t peak hours yet. He walked to the cashier and greeted the cashier named ‘Chanyeol’, as he read the golden nametag on his chest.
“Good evening, sir .. Welcome to Honey Café, where everything is sweet like honey .. May I take your order?” the cashier said without shame, perhaps already used to the very cheesy punchline. Baekhyun ignored his distaste over the punchline and ordered a cup of caramel macchiato.
Then, cue the golden question!
“I read at the front door that you need a part-time worker?” he said his rhetorical question. It was obvious that the shop desperate for a worker, at least. As Baekhyun could see, there were only three people working at the café serving about 15 to 20 customers at one time.
“Yes!!You want to go for an interview?” the cashier screamed a little too loud, which earned him the attention of every single living souls in the shop. He quickly apologized and grinned in embarrassment before giving his attention back to Baekhyun.
“Sorry about that .. You can ask the assistant manager when you’re getting your drink at the next counter ..” Chanyeol said with a smile carved on his face. Baekhyun thanked him before proceeding to the next counter.
“Hi, manager-nim .. I want to sit for an interview for a part-time job ..” he asked the person who was just done making his caramel macchiato. He took a peak at his golden nametag and found the word ‘Yixing’ carved on it. Baekhyun’s face went pale.
Oh, shit .. he’s not Korean .. I can’t speak English and I fucked up my Mandarin class!!
However, his panic mode didn’t last long as the manager replied him in fully fluent Korean, with some essence of Chinese of course.
“Yes! Please have a seat there .. I’ll be there in a bit ..” he said and smiled, showing off his deep pair of dimples decorating his full cheeks. Baekhyun bowed politely and took a seat at the place he was shown. Soon, Yixing arrived along with a file and his caramel macchiato.
“Ommo I forgot to pay! I’m sorry ..” Baekhyun said and hastily look for his wallet in his bag. Yixing just shook his head and said the drink was on the house. Baekhyun smiled and thanked him once again.
The interview session went well and much to Baekhyun’s joy, he’s hired!
*
At 4.45 pm, Baekhyun arrived at the coffeeshop. He was brought to the back of the shop, where only staff could access. He was given a simple tour around the shop after changing his clothes and trained to serve and use the cashier machine.
Yixing was contented that Baekhyun was really a fast-learner. In just a few hours, he was able to serve and use the cashier machine by himself. Moreover, he’s cheerful and adorable. They received many positive feedback from the customers. Yixing put on a fatherly smile as Baekhyun cheerfully brought a tray of espresso and cheesecake to a table with two female customers. He said something cutely, making the girls squealed in happiness.
“He’s cute!” Chanyeol said as he also looked at the same way Yixing was looking. Yixing showed his agreement with the statement by nodding his head. Chanyeol’s dreamy eyes still stuck on Baekhyun, lips was grinning from ear to ear.
“interested, huh?” Yixing said with a smirk as he nudged Chanyeol with his elbow.
“Who doesn’t?” Chanyeol replied cheekily before excusing himself to continue his work, so Yixing wouldn’t pry into the topic further.
On 10 pm, the coffeeshop finally closed, and Baekhyun couldn’t be happier. He was dead tired and wanted to go home so bad. But he had to stay to clean up and a simple welcoming party for him. Even his body screamed ‘Daddy, let’s go home!’, he couldn’t simply decline the party that’s specially planned for him. Yixing said the boss would attend the party as well, so he had to behave the best he could because the boss was grumpy as fuck, according to Yixing.
“The boss is my brother, actually .. But he’s the complete opposite of me .. That’s why I don’t live with him .. He’s too ‘robotic’ for a human like me ..” Yixing said with a tint of mischief in his voice.
“He has the looks .. But lacking the emotions .. So, no thanks! But no worries .. He’s not around much .. I think he knows that we don’t like him around ..” Yixing added to his words, making Baekhyun laughed thinking about this boss of his. He imagined his boss would look like an old man with an angry face all the time, just like Grumpy, one of the seven dwarfs in Snow White.
“Having a good time, brother??” a deep voice spoke, coming from the back of Yixing and Baekhyun. Fearlessly, Yixing turned around and gave a heart-dropping smile to his brother, knowing that he would fall for it all the time.
One thing about Yifan, he’s really ‘soft’ against cutesy and fluffy things.
Baekhyun, on the other hand, recognized the voice really well. And he knew that he’s in a fucking deep shit at that moment.
Please say that it’s not him!
“Baekhyun-ah .. this is Yifan, your boss ..” Yixing said. The words came out like a repetitive echo in Baekhyun’s head.
Shit
*
“Yah, kiddo .. What is this mess??”
“Yah, Byun Baekhyun .. This table is not cleaned!”
“Yah, brat .. Go clean the toilet!”
“Yah, stupid .. You pressed the wrong menu!”
So, Baekhyun’s slavery life began.
As much as he wanted to protest and argue about his human rights, he knew that he would lose. He’s just a part-time employee and Yifan was the boss. If he got on Yifan’s bad side, then he might as well as say goodbye to this job. He really didn’t want to lose it because it was fun and it would save Baekhyun’s sorry ass until graduation.
Thus, he really had no choice but to bear with Yifan, the Dragon. (It’s a nickname for Yifan that Baekhyun created because he’s grumpy and angry all the time .. Almost the same as the Viking village leader, but Yifan was worse but much more handsome.)
Their war over a good night sleep was still an ongoing constant in their daily lives. Whenever Yifan threw a very good blackmailing item he could use against Baekhyun, which was “I’m your boss .. So obey me, peasant!”, but Baekhyun would spat back with a “Don’t be a baby! Grow up, grumpy old man!”, which was very impactful and deep. Yifan always lost the argument, like all the time.
A friendly reminder, he’s ‘soft’ against cute things. (But his brain always rejected the idea of Baekhyun being ‘cute’, but he’s close enough.)
A month had passed and finally, it was pay day! Baekhyun was smiling the whole day, thinking that his hard work throughout a painstaking one month being the slave of Yifan, the Dragon had finally paid off. He already planned about what he would do with the money. He’s going to fill his house with boxes of kimchi ramyeon, buy the t-shirt he’d been eyeing for the past one month, pay off a quarter of his debt to Kyungsoo and save the rest of it in case of emergency.
“Here’s your wage ..” Yixing gave him a thick, brown envelope and Baekhyun excitedly took it. He thanked Yixing cheerfully, not caring of Yifan who was giving him dirty look and perhaps having thoughts like ‘Ughh .. What a peasant’ or ‘I feed your sorry ass so worship me, bitch!’.
But ain’t nobody got time for that!
Baekhyun opened the envelope in a drop of a hat and counted it. However, it lacked 10,000 won no matter how many times he counted it.
“Yixing hyung .. It lacks 10,000 won ..” he said and put on his pitiful puppy looks. Yixing turned to Yifan, waiting for an explanation from the big boss himself.
“I need to buy earplugs .. Of course it’ll come out of your paycheck, sleep ruiner ..” he said leisurely with no sense of guilty at all.
Yixing just shook his head, staring at his unbelievably childish brother. It was quite shocking though, since he had been a serious and stoic person all his life. Ever since Baekhyun was employed, he spent more time at the shop than watching over their rivalry coffee shops. Yixing earned a good one hour of complaining and screaming of ‘You terrible person who lies!’ because of his brother had been sticking around the shop and abuse his authority power as he please.
Even though he knew that Yifan was just there to torment Baekhyun, as he was informed that Baekhyun was a slick, annoying brat who couldn’t keep it low at night. He even screamed “Look at my beautiful face!I have dark circles around my eyes because of him!” dramatically while pointing at his ‘obviously-hyperbole’ dark circles that were barely visible around his eyes.
Anyhow, it was good though. Yixing believed that the time for Yifan to change had come.
“Why should I buy it for you? You’re 822872372274827 times richer than me! Don’t you feel ashamed to ravish a poor, college’s student money that comes out of his blood, tears and sweat?!” Baekhyun fought back. Yifan tried to not be amazed of Baekhyun’s ability to spit out random numbers so fast like a rap. He glared at the boy back and smirked.
“Not my fucking problem, kid ..” he cooly said and left with a cool hand gesture and “adios” to the staff room.
Baekhyun stomped his feet in anger as now he was short of 10,000 won for his survival until next payroll.
“I guess the t-shirt needs to wait ..” he sighed before putting his wage at the back of his pocket. Chanyeol realized Baekhyun’s sudden gloom. He slowly approached the boy.
“What’s wrong?” he asked softly, eyes still staring at the boy.
“I have this t-shirt I’m dying to buy .. Now that old man has cut down my pay, I can’t buy that t-shirt ..” Baekhyun said sadly.
“How much do you need?” Chanyeol asked, thinking that it’s time to be a gentleman and save the demoiselle in distress. He even ignored the fact that demoiselle is actually referring to a young woman.
“10,000 won” Baekhyun replied, and Chanyeol’s mind went blank. He was only short of 2,000 won, but his sadness was as if his dog died or his mother just told him that he was adopted. Again, ignoring the fact that Baekhyun could be very ridiculous at times, he lent some of his money to the boy. Baekhyun smiled and thanked him with full cheerfulness.
And there’s the Byun Baekhyun that made his heart palpitated abnormally these days.
“You shouldn’t pamper him like that, Chanyeol-ah ..” Yifan said, annoyed at Baekhyun’s overjoyed mood. He just hated the fact that Baekhyun was a happy boy again.
He’s supposed to be moody and sad!
*
Baekhyun had been lacking of time to practice for his saxophone these days since he started working. Kyungsoo was worried. Baekhyun made quite a number of mistakes during their brass band practice last few days, causing him to be scolded by their trainer.
Baekhyun honestly told him that he wasn’t able to practice much due to work.
“Why don’t you practice at work instead? You said that they don’t turn on music at the coffee shop, right? Maybe you can offer to perform for free?” Kyungsoo suggested.
Baekhyun thought of the coffeeshop. There’s an empty space that Yixing had no idea what to do with it and really, Yifan refused to turn on any kind of music since it’s loud, distracting and annoying according to him.
“But the boss hates music .. How can I ask to perform there??” Baekhyun asked back.
“You have Yixing, right? Just ask him .. You can ask to perform for a day or two per week .. Maybe I can come over too to perform .. For free, of course .. I’ll protect you from the dragon’s wrath!” Kyungsoo said and it cheered the boy up.
Indeed, Kyungsoo was the best bestfriend he’d ever have in his life.
*
Surprisingly, Yixing was okay with the idea and said that he’ll deal with ‘The Dragon’ himself. Baekhyun clapped his hands in excitement and quickly asked Chanyeol and Jongin, the new part-timer, to help him setting up the stage at the empty corner.
“What you’ll be performing, hyung?” Jongin asked as he set up the speakers and mics.
“I’ll be playing saxophone and my friend will be singing .. We’re both majoring in vocals ..” Baekhyun said as he set up the PA system.
“Really? Then why don’t you sing too?” Chanyeol asked, interested in the two boys’ conversation.
“Then who’ll be playing the music? I need to practice though .. A regional brassband competition is coming soon and I need to practice as much as I can ..” Baekhyun said with a sigh. He’s dying to sing on stage with Kyungsoo, but he knew that it’s not possible. Unless there’s anyone who’s willing to play for them.
“I can play guitar for you, Baekhyun-ah ..” Chanyeol offered. Baekhyun’s eyes lightened up as his heard Chanyeol. Unable to hold the overwhelming feeling in his chest, he hugged Chanyeol tightly.
“Thank you, Chanyeol-ah ..” he said and hugged him even tighter. Chanyeol was flustered and hoped that Baekhyun wouldn’t notice his uneven breathing and shaky voice.
“Just do it right, brat ..” A deep voice echoed, forcing Baekhyun to break the hug and looked at the voice’s owner. He guessed that Yixing already talked to him about it and it definitely didn’t go well until he was finally given up.
But Baekhyun was too happy to be angry at the moment. He’s thankful to the boss to though for giving him permission to perform despite of his hatred to music. He smiled to Yifan and for the first time, he and Yifan were not fighting and throwing harsh words and shits.
“Thank you, boss! I’ll do my best!” he cheerfully said and bowed, eyes still earnestly forming two curves of beautiful eye smiles. Yifan quickly excused himself to his office, feeling flustered all of the sudden.
He touched his chest and found it was beating faster than usual.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
*
Chanyeol put on a notice, saying that there’ll be a performance held at 7 pm until closing. Unexpectedly, many people came to watch Baekhyun and his friend perform.
“You called all your friends or what?” Yixing asked as he looked at the fully taken seats near to the stage. They decided to take the orders early, even though Baekhyun wasn’t prepared yet to perform. He was waiting for Kyungsoo to arrive.
“I barely have friends .. I don’t know why people find me ‘difficult’ to be friends with .. That’s why I only have Kyungsoo as my friend ..” Baekhyun replied leisurely as he cleaned up his flute. Yixing went silent, feeling guilty for asking the question.
Baekhyun chuckled as he detected Yixing’s sudden silence, saying that it was fine and there’s no need to worry about it.
As promised, Kyungsoo came along with a keyboard which he proclaimed as ‘a junk’ since he hadn’t used it much and decided that it’ll be more useful to the shop instead of collecting dust in his room. Chanyeol helped assembling the keyboard while Baekhyun and Kyungsoo went out for a quick practice.
“Where’s that brat?” Yifan asked as his eyes wandering around looking for the short, annoying boy. Yixing replied by pointing the front door with a frown on his face, which meant ‘he’s anywhere but here, dumbass!’.
Yifan said nothing else and went to an empty seat he’d purposely reserved for himself. The seat was right in front of the stage, which gave him the best view to watch the performance. He wanted to distract Baekhyun so he would ruin his show and embarrass himself to hell hole.
In fifteen minutes, Baekhyun and Kyungsoo went up stage. Kyungsoo went straight to the mic stand while Baekhyun went to the back with a gold coloured saxophone that’s about half of his height in his hands. Kyungsoo introduced him and Baekhyun.
Yifan looked at them while letting out a scoff, thinking that it would be a boring and lame performance. He took out his phone, pretending to be indifferent about the performance. He was completely taken aback when Kyungsoo introduced the song to be performed that night.
“When I Was Your Man, originally by Bruno Mars ..” Kyungsoo said. The music started with the melodious sound of the saxophone. Baekhyun’s fingers danced on the body, pressing on the precise keys while blowing the head to produce the sound. His eyes focused on the music sheets placed in front of him, as a guide so he wouldn’t be too fast for Kyungsoo’s soulful singing.
Yifan was stunned. Stunned wasn’t even the best word to describe his feeling at the moment, as his eyes still on the duo performing on stage. It was supposed to be Kyungsoo being on the spotlight, but his eyes caught on the one who producing the beautiful wordless sound instead.
His mind was continuously sending him warnings, but his heart decided that maybe he didn’t hate Baekhyun that much and should focus on the performance instead.
Soon, Kyungsoo and Baekhyun finished their performance and Yifan was awoke from his daydreaming by the sound of applause given by the audience. Then, the duo switched places. Kyungsoo grabbed his guitar and Baekhyun took a seat in front of the mic.
“Kiss Goodbye, originally by Wang LeeHom ..” Baekhyun said and started singing.
Once again, Yifan fell into the world of amazement.
*
Day by day, Yifan’s coffee shop was getting more popular. More people came during weekend, even willing to reserve the seats for a higher price, just to see the duo performing on stage. There are girls and some guys came during daily basis, hoping to see Baekhyun and took a picture with him.
But that was normal.
These days, Yifan was the one with unusual anomalies.
The employees were so used to Yifan’s dictator commands to Baekhyun, ordering him going here and there and yelled at him, even when he wasn’t at fault. Suddenly, he turned quiet and always avoided Baekhyun. When it’s time for Baekhyun’s shift, Yifan would either buried himself into the papers in the office or quickly left for ‘other obligations’.
At first, Baekhyun didn’t find it weird. Instead, he was beyond happy that no more ‘Dragon’s Wrath’ to burn him up during working hours. Then, Yifan was being distant at home as well.
Which was weird and creepy as fuck.
“What’s up with your brother?” Baekhyun asked one day to Yixing. All he got was a shrug from Yixing.
He sighed as he looked at the empty office of the boss.
*
It’s been a month already since Baekhyun worked, and he decided that he’s qualified enough to try making coffee using the coffee machine.
“Be careful!It’s hot!” Yixing said as he taught Baekhyun how to make his favourite caramel macchiato. Baekhyun pompously said in confidence that he’s doing fine and there’s no need to baby him like his mother would do.
“Ohh! Teach me how to make café latte too!” Baekhyun said excitedly as his hands busy making hot milk for the coffee.
“Why do you want to learn that? You said you don’t like it ..” Yixing asked, which received no reply from the boy. His mind was fully focused on making the coffee.
Chanyeol saw Baekhyun as he entered the barista section to start his duty. Feeling cheeky and naughty, he slightly pushed Baekhyun to surprise him.
“OUCHH!!” Baekhyun’s scream echoed inside the shop, the sound of silver tools that he used fell to the wooden floor could be heard loudly inside the room, but unable to surpass Baekhyun’s high-pitched scream in pain.
Baekhyun grabbed his scalded hand’s wrist, as if the pain would go away if he did that. Chanyeol was spitting apologies in panic as he swiftly took Baekhyun to the sink and ran the tap water slowly on his hand.
“What happened??” A voice in full anxious asked. Chanyeol and Baekhyun’s eyes fell on the voice’s owner, and found Yifan who was breathing heavily at the door. Yifan looked at them and found Baekhyun’s hands in Chanyeol.
Which just snapped him all of the sudden.
“What are you doing?” Yifan asked coldly, eyes still on the hands.
“I accidentally burnt his hand .. I’m really sorry, Baekhyun .. I did-“
“YOU WHAT??!” Yifan shouted and quickly paced his way to the sink and took a look at the injured hand.
“Let’s go to the hospital .. NOW!” he said sternly, pulling Baekhyun’s uninjured hand to follow him outside.
“No .. It’s okay .. I-“
“No, Byun Baekhyun!” Yifan cut his words short, which made Baekhyun fell into a blank state.
“Just shut up and follow me, Byun Baekhyun!” Yifan said and like being hypnotized, Baekhyun tailed him from behind and did whatever he was told to do.
His mind was not on his hand that was screaming in pain at the moment.
He kept thinking that it was the first time ever that Yifan called him by his name.
*
Baekhyun was prohibited from going to the barista section. Instead, he just did the minor jobs such as sweeping, moping and cleaning the tables. But not before he put on a pair of pink gloves that people always see in a typical, Korean drama.
Kyungsoo agreed to fill Baekhyun’s job in the mean time until his hand was completely healed. Kyungsoo said that he was bored sitting at home after all, but Baekhyun knew that he only wanted to get into Jongin’s pants.
He already warned Kyungsoo to not have sex anywhere around the coffee shop.
Yifan seemed like even more caring that he used to. Every morning, a cup of caramel macchiato would be placed on the counter, along with a new roll of bandage and ointment for his hand. The attempt to camouflage his identity was a failure, as Baekhyun always replied him with a cup of café latte with a thank you note stuck on it.
When Yifan first got his café latte, he was mad as he thought Baekhyun used the machine without his permission and made the latte. Yixing was the hero of the day when he stated that Chanyeol made it upon Baekhyun’s request, only the note was purely by Baekhyun.
Since then, he didn’t make a fuss about it. Sometimes, he would call Baekhyun to his office and tend his wound.
“It’s okay .. Chanyeol can help me ..” Baekhyun’s reply to politely refuse Yifan’s help every time Yifan offered to tend his wound.
And Yifan’s answer was the same all the time.
His face would change from emotionless to cold and just tend Baekhyun’s wound without a word. He also ignored Baekhyun’s continuous whining and nagging and Chanyeol-mentioning.
Yixing said that he was just being a baby, irritated over things he’s not supposed to.
And Baekhyun wondered why.
*
It's 6th of November that day. For the first time, he was thrilled about the special day. He didn't know why he was anticipating a mere birthday wish, at least, from a certain boy who dyed his hair to pink recently because he just felt like it.
He imagined the stage would be decorated with a string of alphabets spelling 'Happy Birthday' with colorful ballons and a cake was placed on a small table. Everyone would be wearing the cone-shaped birthday hat that looked like a bottle of glitters purposedly spilled on it, as if it would look better when in fact, it looked ugly as fuck. But it's okay, since it's a happy day to be celebrated.
An empty and Baekhyun-free coffee shop was not expected by him. Heck, everyone seemed like they didn't know it was his birthday.Yifan decided that well, fuck everyone in the shop and he would cut their salary for the month.
"Where's Baekhyun?" he asked his brother as soon as he saw him passing by to put on the 'OPEN' sign in front of the glass door.
"He applied for a break due to his final examination. He'll still work on weekends though .." Yixing explained. He left soon, as he saw Yifan's frown turned into a very novel expression, which he concluded as frustration mixed wih anger.
Yifan huffed in annoyance as he saw Yixing was no longer in front of him.
Even that motherfucker forgot his one and only brother's birthday!
*
He was expecting the sound of the fucking silver thing with holes on it to blast off and interrupted his sleep, but no.
The night was still and peaceful, and it's annoying as hell.
Yifan had been accustomed to the noise made by Baekhyun to be his lullaby every night. Now that it's no longer echoing, the night felt different and foreign.
And Yifan hated it more that he thought he would.
Because the noise was beautiful after hearing it many times.
Because the person who made the noise was beautiful himself.
Okay, the last words didn't come out right.
*
A month had passed, and no one could be happier than Baekhyun that the dreadful final examination had come to the end.
Well, close enough.
Yifan was almost as happy as Baekhyun, because he could finally see the petite brunette with his newly dyed light brown hair as Yifan said he looked like a girl with pink hair and it annoyed Baekhyun to the pits of hell.
Yixing had been telling him that he’s attracted to Baekhyun but no. His ego and slightly older self didn’t accept the fact Yixing spitted to him. Even if he did attracted to Baekhyun, there’s no way they’ll be together.
He’s too young and there’s no way Yifan would allow him to be in a relationship with a kid.
“You’ll never know if you never try, ‘bro’.” Yixing said, emphasizing on the last word sarcastically before he turned away to tend the cashier machine.
Yifan huffed and walked away to his office with a frown.
I am not attracted to that kid!
*
For the past weeks, Baekhyun had been going out a lot. Yifan noticed it as he always came back home late and he rarely practiced his saxophone. Yifan wanted to ask so badly, but he knew he’s no one to Baekhyun and Baekhyun didn’t mean anything to him.
They’re just neighbours with a boss-employee relationship going in between them.
One day, he went out to take a breather around the park near the apartment building. Chanyeol was outside, waiting in front of Baekhyun’s apartment unit. Yifan eyed him from head to toe and realized that he was dressed up and looked really good with his over-sized red t-shirt with the word ’Supreme’ printed in white, worn-out skinny jeans and a black snapback covering the top of his head.
“Going somewhere?” Yifan asked, just to be polite. Hopefully Chanyeol was dumb enough to not notice the burning heart of his.
“We’re going out for a movie and some shopping ..” Chanyeol replied and flashed out a charming smile.
Yifan just nodded his head before leaving.
He hoped that Baekhyun would look terrible for the hang out and Chanyeol decided that Baekhyun’s too ugly to be walking around with him in future.
Well, the hope backfired.
Baekhyun and Chanyeol hung out even more often after that. Sometimes, Chanyeol would sleepover at Baekhyun’s apartment and do whatever they’re doing during their sleepovers.
Instead of the sound of the noisy saxophone, Yifan was now feasted with the sound of laughters and screams of joy from the two boys.
And it was even more annoying than the saxophone.
*
Weeks later, he was told that Chanyeol was about to make a huge move.
“Things will change after this .. Omg, I’m excited!” Yixing said, wearing an unexplainable smile that looked a bit devilish and sly.
Yifan wondered what was the ‘move’ Chanyeol was about to make.
Curiosity killed the cat.
His eyes fell on Chanyeol, who was staring at Baekhyun dreamily. Baekhyun was doing his usual job, serving the customers while spreading his happy virus to everyone.
Suddenly, Yifan’s heart beat faster in anxiety.
He really hoped that it wasn’t what he thought it was.
*
Chanyeol went out with Baekhyun that night, again.
From what he heard, they both decided to just take a walk around the park and eat some ice cream while they’re at it. (Yifan ‘accidentally’ heard them. He didn’t eavesdrop, according to him.)
From: Yixing
Chanyeol’s confessing to Baekhyun today. Are you sure you’ll be okay with it?
From: Yixing
Don’t regret it, bro!
As much he wanted to ignore Yixing’s messages, he knew he couldn’t.
He cared about Byun Baekhyun more than he should. He hated it when others were looking at him. He loved his voice and the way his fingers danced when he played the saxophone. He loved the way his eyes twinkled in happiness, even over small things.
He loved every little things about him.
He loved the beautiful Byun Baekhyun.
*
“Thanks for coming with me, Baekhyun .. Actually, I want to tell you something ..” Chanyeol said as they took a seat at an empty bench in front of the human-made lake. Their hands were occupied with chocolate and strawberry flavoured ice cream.
Baekhyun looked at him while licking his ice cream, waiting for Chanyeol to continue with his words. Somehow, he knew what Chanyeol wanted to say. He could tell from the way his eyes twitched and his voice was shaking.
He’s waiting for Chanyeol to drop the bomb.
“I like you ..”
BOOM!
Baekhyun’s heart fell to the pit of his stomach. The ice cream was left untouched, slowly flowing over his hand as it melted due to the sun.
“It’s okay if you don’t feel the same. I just want to tell you what I feel ..” Chanyeol replied in disappointment. He knew that Baekhyun didn’t feel the same. Baekhyun already fell for someone, and he knew that someone well.
Too well.
“Chanyeol-ah .. You’re a nice guy .. But I’m sorry ..” Baekhyun replied softly, feeling apologetic for rejecting such a nice guy.
Chanyeol was sweet and nice and totally a boyfriend material. But he couldn’t force his heart to like someone that he had no feelings to.
The atmosphere fell into silence, both had no words nor guts to utter a word.
All of the sudden, Chanyeol stood up. He said he was leaving earlier as he had some things to do. Baekhyun felt even more guilty.
Maybe I should accept his confession.
He got up and about to reach out to Chanyeol, who’s about 3 metres away from him, when he was tugged hard to the opposite direction. His face buried into the person’s chest. His smell was very familiar. Baekhyun had no need to recognize who was half-hugging him.
“What are you doing, Yifan? Baekhyun asked. Yifan still made no effort to let him go. After a while, he let go and faced the shorter boy.
“Did Chanyeol confess to you?”
“What did you reply him?”
“You didn’t say yes, right?”
“Please tell me you didn’t!”
“I like you a lot, Baekhyun.”
“Stay with me or I’ll fi-“
Yifan’s random tantrums were sealed with a pair of small lips on his.
“You talked too much ..” Baekhyun said against Yifan’s lips and smiled. His arms were circling the taller’s neck, eyes were looking directly into Yifan’s.
“I’ve been waiting for you to come to me, idiot!” Baekhyun spoke and let out a chuckle. Yifan was dumbfounded, still unable to process the event happened a moment ago.
Baekhyun kissed me?
He likes me too?
“I like you, Byun Baekhyun .. A lot, lot more than I expected ..” Yifan said as his arms slowly circling Baekhyun’s slim waist, pulling him closer.
“I like you too .. A lot, lot more than I expected ..” Baekhyun replied before tiptoed his feet and planted a chaste kiss on Yifan’s lips.
“So .. be mine?” Yifan asked, eyes were sparkling with happiness and love. Baekhyun smiled and nodded his head.
Yifan needed not more answers.
Baekhyun was like an open book, and Yifan was the only one who could read everything inside it.
From the way he pulled Yifan closer, the way he smiled shyly and the way his cheeks blushed, he knew the answer already.
They shared another sweet-filling kiss, telling the world that they’re in love.
word count: 6885 words
rating: pg13
summary: One thing to describe Yifan and Baekhyun; fools in love!
author's note: from krisbaek fic exchange J
Yifan stomped his feet as he walked about two metres away from his house’s front door, towards his neighbour’s house. In much irritation and anger, he knocked the door roughly and screamed.
“BYUN BAEKHYUN!SHUT THE FUCK UP!!” Yifan cursed, hands still religiously banged the door. After a good one minute, Baekhyun answered the door with irritation and annoyance written all over his face literally.
“I ALREADY FUCKING TOLD YOU TO FUCKING BUY EARPLUGS, YOU FUCKING MORON!” Baekhyun shouted back and crossed his arms to his chest.
He just didn’t get it.
He was told that Yifan was already notified that he would be loud as fuck at night for his practice. He specifically asked for an isolated apartment unit, so that he wouldn’t be much bother to other tenants.
Getting the farthest apartment unit was lonely and tiring, but he had no choice. He was a good boy for being very considerate towards his ‘not-so’ neighbours. Moreover, he couldn’t afford other places since he’s just a mere student who rely on his parents’ pocket money every month.
It was fine during the first three months, since he had no neighbour. Then, Yifan came along. He did say that he’s fine with the noises, saying that he’s already ‘used’ to it. And now he’s complaining?
Like really .. WHAT THE FUCK?!
He glared at Yifan, who was glaring back at him. If eyes could kill, then it would already be a bloodbath happening in front of their apartment units. They stayed firm like that for a few moments, until Yifan gave up as he turned away and let out an exasperated sigh.
“Can you like .. stop playing at a such ungodly hour??It’s 3 am already .. Don’t you have class to go in the morning?” Yifan said softly this time, decided that it wasn’t a wise move to pick a fight with a kid at 3 in the morning. He needed more energy since it’s Saturday and his coffee shop would be flooded with people all day long.
“WELL I’M SORRY THAT I HAVE TO PLAY AT UNGODLY HOUR UNTIL I DIE NOW GO TO HELL, PRICK!” Baekhyun shouted and slammed his door close, right in front of Yifan’s face. Thank goodness he wasn’t too close to the door, or his beautiful nose would be broken by that time.
Ughhh!This brat!
It’s not the first time they’d fought over the same thing. Their first fight started on the very first night Yifan moved in and it became a constant variable in their lives for the next three months. When Yifan was first notified about his neighbour’s loudness at night, he said was okay with it.
Who would actually think that Baekhyun’s loudness was beyond expectation? Even the noises Sehun and Luhan made during their lovemaking session weren’t severe like this.
Yifan was told that Beakhyun was a brass player, which Yifan had no idea of its definition. When he first heard Baekhyun, he thought that he’s playing for an orchestra or something. It was Junmyeon who told him about it.
“He’s not an orchestra player .. He said it’s boring ..” Junmyeon said it to him. Yifan was about to have a mental breakdown as he thought, how could brass band be fun?
In general, how music was fun in the first place? It was loud and annoying. Whoever said that music help in finding peace and crap should be shot down with a shotgun because it wasn’t the same case to Yifan.
He’s lacking of sleep for the past three months because of it and probably would lose more in the upcoming days.
He actually thought of moving to another place, but Junmyeon was the landlord and actually a dear friend of his. Junmyeon gave him quite a good rental fee, as he said “For our friendship’s sake ..” but Yifan knew better that he actually wanted Yixing’s number. He said he feel for Yixing, Yifan’s barista and younger brother, when he cutely mistaken his name as ‘Ramyeon’, which was absolute ridiculous to Yifan.
After all, the apartment building was extremely near to his coffee shop, which only 5 minutes away by walking.
Thus, he decided that he had nothing to lose .. except his beauty sleep.
*
“Maaaan~I’m broke as fuck!” Baekhyun said as he took a seat in front of Kyungsoo. He looked at his bestfriend, who was enjoying his chicken chop with mushroom sauce for lunch. He gulped down his saliva, feeling hungry all of the sudden. He wanted to eat, but it’s impossible with his leftover money.
“I thought your parents already give you some by now??” Kyungsoo asked back, mouth still munching on his food. Realizing that Baekhyun wasn’t answering, he looked up front and found Baekhyun was ogling on his food like a pitiful little puppy. Sighing, Kyungsoo fed him a piece of meat and French fries.
“Thank you!!” Baekhyun said and smiling happily. Kyungsoo smiled back, feeling content seeing his bestfriend happy.
Baekhyun was a very sweet and innocent boy. He always had this puppy look where he could even make the strongest man on earth crumble to his feet within seconds.
Okay, that was a hyperbolic statement.
There’s some people who wouldn’t fall for his pitiful look after all.
1) His parents.
2) Yifan
“My parents decided that I’m a big boy and I can find a way to feed myself here .. Simply, they’re not giving me pocket money anymore!” Baekhyun cried in agony.
He was told about this matter a few days ago via a phone call that he rarely made ever since he moved in Seoul. He was having a bad day that time, when his brass band practice went wrong and very imperfect to his ears. And Yifan just had to be a motherfucker by coming to his house and yelled at him, which just made things worse.
More than that, his parents should’ve notify him a month prior, at least. How the hell he’s supposed to get money to pay for the rent, bills and every shit that needed money in such a short notice? He’s not working anywhere and the money from the last month was already spent. He only had 50,000 won left to survive.
“The rent and bills are due next week but I don’t even have money to eat! Help me, Kyungsoo!!” Baekhyun pleaded. As much as he hated his neighbour, he really didn’t want to get kicked out of the apartment. Even Junmyeon was a nice and angelic landlord, he’s really strict when it came to pay day and money.
What a cheapstake!
“Okay .. Pay me back slowly after you get your wage ..” Kyungsoo cooly replied. Then, he asked for Baekhyun’s account number to transfer the money. Baekhyun happily gave it and not forgot to give a thank you kiss on the cheek to Kyungsoo.
“Thanks, honey .. You’re my sunshine that shines my way during the darkest moment .. My love for you is like pee .. I just can’t hold it in!” he said before gave another peck to Kyungsoo’s already abused cheek.
Kyungsoo looked at him in disgust as he wiped the excess drools that smelled like mushroom sauce on his cheek. Baekhyun was being all happy until another thought bugged him. His smile turned ito a frown
“How can I get wage? I don’t work, remember?” Baekhyun asked dumbly, which made Kyungsoo looked at him judgingly.
“Look for one, idiot!” Kyungsoo was about to whack Baekhyun’s head with his textbook, but Baekhyun was a second faster by running away to his vocal class.
“THANKS BABY BOO BYEEE!!” he shouted merrily before disappeared into the crowds, leaving Kyungsoo to face the public humiliation all alone by himself.
*
After class, Baekhyun had been looking around for a part-time job. But his effort was going nowhere. It’s either they needed full-time worker, women, worker who can work at night or worker with good physique, which none of them screamed ‘Byun Baekhyun’.
He took out his phone to call Kyungsoo and had another bawling session with him, but the universe must be pitying him so much and decided to show him a paved, beautiful path to a coffee shop near his apartment building.
‘Part-time worker in need! Come in for a walk-in interview’
Wasting no time, Baekhyun checked his appearance by the glass window and put on his best smile before walking in confidently. The shop wasn’t busy much, since it wasn’t peak hours yet. He walked to the cashier and greeted the cashier named ‘Chanyeol’, as he read the golden nametag on his chest.
“Good evening, sir .. Welcome to Honey Café, where everything is sweet like honey .. May I take your order?” the cashier said without shame, perhaps already used to the very cheesy punchline. Baekhyun ignored his distaste over the punchline and ordered a cup of caramel macchiato.
Then, cue the golden question!
“I read at the front door that you need a part-time worker?” he said his rhetorical question. It was obvious that the shop desperate for a worker, at least. As Baekhyun could see, there were only three people working at the café serving about 15 to 20 customers at one time.
“Yes!!You want to go for an interview?” the cashier screamed a little too loud, which earned him the attention of every single living souls in the shop. He quickly apologized and grinned in embarrassment before giving his attention back to Baekhyun.
“Sorry about that .. You can ask the assistant manager when you’re getting your drink at the next counter ..” Chanyeol said with a smile carved on his face. Baekhyun thanked him before proceeding to the next counter.
“Hi, manager-nim .. I want to sit for an interview for a part-time job ..” he asked the person who was just done making his caramel macchiato. He took a peak at his golden nametag and found the word ‘Yixing’ carved on it. Baekhyun’s face went pale.
Oh, shit .. he’s not Korean .. I can’t speak English and I fucked up my Mandarin class!!
However, his panic mode didn’t last long as the manager replied him in fully fluent Korean, with some essence of Chinese of course.
“Yes! Please have a seat there .. I’ll be there in a bit ..” he said and smiled, showing off his deep pair of dimples decorating his full cheeks. Baekhyun bowed politely and took a seat at the place he was shown. Soon, Yixing arrived along with a file and his caramel macchiato.
“Ommo I forgot to pay! I’m sorry ..” Baekhyun said and hastily look for his wallet in his bag. Yixing just shook his head and said the drink was on the house. Baekhyun smiled and thanked him once again.
The interview session went well and much to Baekhyun’s joy, he’s hired!
*
At 4.45 pm, Baekhyun arrived at the coffeeshop. He was brought to the back of the shop, where only staff could access. He was given a simple tour around the shop after changing his clothes and trained to serve and use the cashier machine.
Yixing was contented that Baekhyun was really a fast-learner. In just a few hours, he was able to serve and use the cashier machine by himself. Moreover, he’s cheerful and adorable. They received many positive feedback from the customers. Yixing put on a fatherly smile as Baekhyun cheerfully brought a tray of espresso and cheesecake to a table with two female customers. He said something cutely, making the girls squealed in happiness.
“He’s cute!” Chanyeol said as he also looked at the same way Yixing was looking. Yixing showed his agreement with the statement by nodding his head. Chanyeol’s dreamy eyes still stuck on Baekhyun, lips was grinning from ear to ear.
“interested, huh?” Yixing said with a smirk as he nudged Chanyeol with his elbow.
“Who doesn’t?” Chanyeol replied cheekily before excusing himself to continue his work, so Yixing wouldn’t pry into the topic further.
On 10 pm, the coffeeshop finally closed, and Baekhyun couldn’t be happier. He was dead tired and wanted to go home so bad. But he had to stay to clean up and a simple welcoming party for him. Even his body screamed ‘Daddy, let’s go home!’, he couldn’t simply decline the party that’s specially planned for him. Yixing said the boss would attend the party as well, so he had to behave the best he could because the boss was grumpy as fuck, according to Yixing.
“The boss is my brother, actually .. But he’s the complete opposite of me .. That’s why I don’t live with him .. He’s too ‘robotic’ for a human like me ..” Yixing said with a tint of mischief in his voice.
“He has the looks .. But lacking the emotions .. So, no thanks! But no worries .. He’s not around much .. I think he knows that we don’t like him around ..” Yixing added to his words, making Baekhyun laughed thinking about this boss of his. He imagined his boss would look like an old man with an angry face all the time, just like Grumpy, one of the seven dwarfs in Snow White.
“Having a good time, brother??” a deep voice spoke, coming from the back of Yixing and Baekhyun. Fearlessly, Yixing turned around and gave a heart-dropping smile to his brother, knowing that he would fall for it all the time.
One thing about Yifan, he’s really ‘soft’ against cutesy and fluffy things.
Baekhyun, on the other hand, recognized the voice really well. And he knew that he’s in a fucking deep shit at that moment.
Please say that it’s not him!
“Baekhyun-ah .. this is Yifan, your boss ..” Yixing said. The words came out like a repetitive echo in Baekhyun’s head.
Shit
*
“Yah, kiddo .. What is this mess??”
“Yah, Byun Baekhyun .. This table is not cleaned!”
“Yah, brat .. Go clean the toilet!”
“Yah, stupid .. You pressed the wrong menu!”
So, Baekhyun’s slavery life began.
As much as he wanted to protest and argue about his human rights, he knew that he would lose. He’s just a part-time employee and Yifan was the boss. If he got on Yifan’s bad side, then he might as well as say goodbye to this job. He really didn’t want to lose it because it was fun and it would save Baekhyun’s sorry ass until graduation.
Thus, he really had no choice but to bear with Yifan, the Dragon. (It’s a nickname for Yifan that Baekhyun created because he’s grumpy and angry all the time .. Almost the same as the Viking village leader, but Yifan was worse but much more handsome.)
Their war over a good night sleep was still an ongoing constant in their daily lives. Whenever Yifan threw a very good blackmailing item he could use against Baekhyun, which was “I’m your boss .. So obey me, peasant!”, but Baekhyun would spat back with a “Don’t be a baby! Grow up, grumpy old man!”, which was very impactful and deep. Yifan always lost the argument, like all the time.
A friendly reminder, he’s ‘soft’ against cute things. (But his brain always rejected the idea of Baekhyun being ‘cute’, but he’s close enough.)
A month had passed and finally, it was pay day! Baekhyun was smiling the whole day, thinking that his hard work throughout a painstaking one month being the slave of Yifan, the Dragon had finally paid off. He already planned about what he would do with the money. He’s going to fill his house with boxes of kimchi ramyeon, buy the t-shirt he’d been eyeing for the past one month, pay off a quarter of his debt to Kyungsoo and save the rest of it in case of emergency.
“Here’s your wage ..” Yixing gave him a thick, brown envelope and Baekhyun excitedly took it. He thanked Yixing cheerfully, not caring of Yifan who was giving him dirty look and perhaps having thoughts like ‘Ughh .. What a peasant’ or ‘I feed your sorry ass so worship me, bitch!’.
But ain’t nobody got time for that!
Baekhyun opened the envelope in a drop of a hat and counted it. However, it lacked 10,000 won no matter how many times he counted it.
“Yixing hyung .. It lacks 10,000 won ..” he said and put on his pitiful puppy looks. Yixing turned to Yifan, waiting for an explanation from the big boss himself.
“I need to buy earplugs .. Of course it’ll come out of your paycheck, sleep ruiner ..” he said leisurely with no sense of guilty at all.
Yixing just shook his head, staring at his unbelievably childish brother. It was quite shocking though, since he had been a serious and stoic person all his life. Ever since Baekhyun was employed, he spent more time at the shop than watching over their rivalry coffee shops. Yixing earned a good one hour of complaining and screaming of ‘You terrible person who lies!’ because of his brother had been sticking around the shop and abuse his authority power as he please.
Even though he knew that Yifan was just there to torment Baekhyun, as he was informed that Baekhyun was a slick, annoying brat who couldn’t keep it low at night. He even screamed “Look at my beautiful face!I have dark circles around my eyes because of him!” dramatically while pointing at his ‘obviously-hyperbole’ dark circles that were barely visible around his eyes.
Anyhow, it was good though. Yixing believed that the time for Yifan to change had come.
“Why should I buy it for you? You’re 822872372274827 times richer than me! Don’t you feel ashamed to ravish a poor, college’s student money that comes out of his blood, tears and sweat?!” Baekhyun fought back. Yifan tried to not be amazed of Baekhyun’s ability to spit out random numbers so fast like a rap. He glared at the boy back and smirked.
“Not my fucking problem, kid ..” he cooly said and left with a cool hand gesture and “adios” to the staff room.
Baekhyun stomped his feet in anger as now he was short of 10,000 won for his survival until next payroll.
“I guess the t-shirt needs to wait ..” he sighed before putting his wage at the back of his pocket. Chanyeol realized Baekhyun’s sudden gloom. He slowly approached the boy.
“What’s wrong?” he asked softly, eyes still staring at the boy.
“I have this t-shirt I’m dying to buy .. Now that old man has cut down my pay, I can’t buy that t-shirt ..” Baekhyun said sadly.
“How much do you need?” Chanyeol asked, thinking that it’s time to be a gentleman and save the demoiselle in distress. He even ignored the fact that demoiselle is actually referring to a young woman.
“10,000 won” Baekhyun replied, and Chanyeol’s mind went blank. He was only short of 2,000 won, but his sadness was as if his dog died or his mother just told him that he was adopted. Again, ignoring the fact that Baekhyun could be very ridiculous at times, he lent some of his money to the boy. Baekhyun smiled and thanked him with full cheerfulness.
And there’s the Byun Baekhyun that made his heart palpitated abnormally these days.
“You shouldn’t pamper him like that, Chanyeol-ah ..” Yifan said, annoyed at Baekhyun’s overjoyed mood. He just hated the fact that Baekhyun was a happy boy again.
He’s supposed to be moody and sad!
*
Baekhyun had been lacking of time to practice for his saxophone these days since he started working. Kyungsoo was worried. Baekhyun made quite a number of mistakes during their brass band practice last few days, causing him to be scolded by their trainer.
Baekhyun honestly told him that he wasn’t able to practice much due to work.
“Why don’t you practice at work instead? You said that they don’t turn on music at the coffee shop, right? Maybe you can offer to perform for free?” Kyungsoo suggested.
Baekhyun thought of the coffeeshop. There’s an empty space that Yixing had no idea what to do with it and really, Yifan refused to turn on any kind of music since it’s loud, distracting and annoying according to him.
“But the boss hates music .. How can I ask to perform there??” Baekhyun asked back.
“You have Yixing, right? Just ask him .. You can ask to perform for a day or two per week .. Maybe I can come over too to perform .. For free, of course .. I’ll protect you from the dragon’s wrath!” Kyungsoo said and it cheered the boy up.
Indeed, Kyungsoo was the best bestfriend he’d ever have in his life.
*
Surprisingly, Yixing was okay with the idea and said that he’ll deal with ‘The Dragon’ himself. Baekhyun clapped his hands in excitement and quickly asked Chanyeol and Jongin, the new part-timer, to help him setting up the stage at the empty corner.
“What you’ll be performing, hyung?” Jongin asked as he set up the speakers and mics.
“I’ll be playing saxophone and my friend will be singing .. We’re both majoring in vocals ..” Baekhyun said as he set up the PA system.
“Really? Then why don’t you sing too?” Chanyeol asked, interested in the two boys’ conversation.
“Then who’ll be playing the music? I need to practice though .. A regional brassband competition is coming soon and I need to practice as much as I can ..” Baekhyun said with a sigh. He’s dying to sing on stage with Kyungsoo, but he knew that it’s not possible. Unless there’s anyone who’s willing to play for them.
“I can play guitar for you, Baekhyun-ah ..” Chanyeol offered. Baekhyun’s eyes lightened up as his heard Chanyeol. Unable to hold the overwhelming feeling in his chest, he hugged Chanyeol tightly.
“Thank you, Chanyeol-ah ..” he said and hugged him even tighter. Chanyeol was flustered and hoped that Baekhyun wouldn’t notice his uneven breathing and shaky voice.
“Just do it right, brat ..” A deep voice echoed, forcing Baekhyun to break the hug and looked at the voice’s owner. He guessed that Yixing already talked to him about it and it definitely didn’t go well until he was finally given up.
But Baekhyun was too happy to be angry at the moment. He’s thankful to the boss to though for giving him permission to perform despite of his hatred to music. He smiled to Yifan and for the first time, he and Yifan were not fighting and throwing harsh words and shits.
“Thank you, boss! I’ll do my best!” he cheerfully said and bowed, eyes still earnestly forming two curves of beautiful eye smiles. Yifan quickly excused himself to his office, feeling flustered all of the sudden.
He touched his chest and found it was beating faster than usual.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
*
Chanyeol put on a notice, saying that there’ll be a performance held at 7 pm until closing. Unexpectedly, many people came to watch Baekhyun and his friend perform.
“You called all your friends or what?” Yixing asked as he looked at the fully taken seats near to the stage. They decided to take the orders early, even though Baekhyun wasn’t prepared yet to perform. He was waiting for Kyungsoo to arrive.
“I barely have friends .. I don’t know why people find me ‘difficult’ to be friends with .. That’s why I only have Kyungsoo as my friend ..” Baekhyun replied leisurely as he cleaned up his flute. Yixing went silent, feeling guilty for asking the question.
Baekhyun chuckled as he detected Yixing’s sudden silence, saying that it was fine and there’s no need to worry about it.
As promised, Kyungsoo came along with a keyboard which he proclaimed as ‘a junk’ since he hadn’t used it much and decided that it’ll be more useful to the shop instead of collecting dust in his room. Chanyeol helped assembling the keyboard while Baekhyun and Kyungsoo went out for a quick practice.
“Where’s that brat?” Yifan asked as his eyes wandering around looking for the short, annoying boy. Yixing replied by pointing the front door with a frown on his face, which meant ‘he’s anywhere but here, dumbass!’.
Yifan said nothing else and went to an empty seat he’d purposely reserved for himself. The seat was right in front of the stage, which gave him the best view to watch the performance. He wanted to distract Baekhyun so he would ruin his show and embarrass himself to hell hole.
In fifteen minutes, Baekhyun and Kyungsoo went up stage. Kyungsoo went straight to the mic stand while Baekhyun went to the back with a gold coloured saxophone that’s about half of his height in his hands. Kyungsoo introduced him and Baekhyun.
Yifan looked at them while letting out a scoff, thinking that it would be a boring and lame performance. He took out his phone, pretending to be indifferent about the performance. He was completely taken aback when Kyungsoo introduced the song to be performed that night.
“When I Was Your Man, originally by Bruno Mars ..” Kyungsoo said. The music started with the melodious sound of the saxophone. Baekhyun’s fingers danced on the body, pressing on the precise keys while blowing the head to produce the sound. His eyes focused on the music sheets placed in front of him, as a guide so he wouldn’t be too fast for Kyungsoo’s soulful singing.
Yifan was stunned. Stunned wasn’t even the best word to describe his feeling at the moment, as his eyes still on the duo performing on stage. It was supposed to be Kyungsoo being on the spotlight, but his eyes caught on the one who producing the beautiful wordless sound instead.
His mind was continuously sending him warnings, but his heart decided that maybe he didn’t hate Baekhyun that much and should focus on the performance instead.
Soon, Kyungsoo and Baekhyun finished their performance and Yifan was awoke from his daydreaming by the sound of applause given by the audience. Then, the duo switched places. Kyungsoo grabbed his guitar and Baekhyun took a seat in front of the mic.
“Kiss Goodbye, originally by Wang LeeHom ..” Baekhyun said and started singing.
Once again, Yifan fell into the world of amazement.
*
Day by day, Yifan’s coffee shop was getting more popular. More people came during weekend, even willing to reserve the seats for a higher price, just to see the duo performing on stage. There are girls and some guys came during daily basis, hoping to see Baekhyun and took a picture with him.
But that was normal.
These days, Yifan was the one with unusual anomalies.
The employees were so used to Yifan’s dictator commands to Baekhyun, ordering him going here and there and yelled at him, even when he wasn’t at fault. Suddenly, he turned quiet and always avoided Baekhyun. When it’s time for Baekhyun’s shift, Yifan would either buried himself into the papers in the office or quickly left for ‘other obligations’.
At first, Baekhyun didn’t find it weird. Instead, he was beyond happy that no more ‘Dragon’s Wrath’ to burn him up during working hours. Then, Yifan was being distant at home as well.
Which was weird and creepy as fuck.
“What’s up with your brother?” Baekhyun asked one day to Yixing. All he got was a shrug from Yixing.
He sighed as he looked at the empty office of the boss.
*
It’s been a month already since Baekhyun worked, and he decided that he’s qualified enough to try making coffee using the coffee machine.
“Be careful!It’s hot!” Yixing said as he taught Baekhyun how to make his favourite caramel macchiato. Baekhyun pompously said in confidence that he’s doing fine and there’s no need to baby him like his mother would do.
“Ohh! Teach me how to make café latte too!” Baekhyun said excitedly as his hands busy making hot milk for the coffee.
“Why do you want to learn that? You said you don’t like it ..” Yixing asked, which received no reply from the boy. His mind was fully focused on making the coffee.
Chanyeol saw Baekhyun as he entered the barista section to start his duty. Feeling cheeky and naughty, he slightly pushed Baekhyun to surprise him.
“OUCHH!!” Baekhyun’s scream echoed inside the shop, the sound of silver tools that he used fell to the wooden floor could be heard loudly inside the room, but unable to surpass Baekhyun’s high-pitched scream in pain.
Baekhyun grabbed his scalded hand’s wrist, as if the pain would go away if he did that. Chanyeol was spitting apologies in panic as he swiftly took Baekhyun to the sink and ran the tap water slowly on his hand.
“What happened??” A voice in full anxious asked. Chanyeol and Baekhyun’s eyes fell on the voice’s owner, and found Yifan who was breathing heavily at the door. Yifan looked at them and found Baekhyun’s hands in Chanyeol.
Which just snapped him all of the sudden.
“What are you doing?” Yifan asked coldly, eyes still on the hands.
“I accidentally burnt his hand .. I’m really sorry, Baekhyun .. I did-“
“YOU WHAT??!” Yifan shouted and quickly paced his way to the sink and took a look at the injured hand.
“Let’s go to the hospital .. NOW!” he said sternly, pulling Baekhyun’s uninjured hand to follow him outside.
“No .. It’s okay .. I-“
“No, Byun Baekhyun!” Yifan cut his words short, which made Baekhyun fell into a blank state.
“Just shut up and follow me, Byun Baekhyun!” Yifan said and like being hypnotized, Baekhyun tailed him from behind and did whatever he was told to do.
His mind was not on his hand that was screaming in pain at the moment.
He kept thinking that it was the first time ever that Yifan called him by his name.
*
Baekhyun was prohibited from going to the barista section. Instead, he just did the minor jobs such as sweeping, moping and cleaning the tables. But not before he put on a pair of pink gloves that people always see in a typical, Korean drama.
Kyungsoo agreed to fill Baekhyun’s job in the mean time until his hand was completely healed. Kyungsoo said that he was bored sitting at home after all, but Baekhyun knew that he only wanted to get into Jongin’s pants.
He already warned Kyungsoo to not have sex anywhere around the coffee shop.
Yifan seemed like even more caring that he used to. Every morning, a cup of caramel macchiato would be placed on the counter, along with a new roll of bandage and ointment for his hand. The attempt to camouflage his identity was a failure, as Baekhyun always replied him with a cup of café latte with a thank you note stuck on it.
When Yifan first got his café latte, he was mad as he thought Baekhyun used the machine without his permission and made the latte. Yixing was the hero of the day when he stated that Chanyeol made it upon Baekhyun’s request, only the note was purely by Baekhyun.
Since then, he didn’t make a fuss about it. Sometimes, he would call Baekhyun to his office and tend his wound.
“It’s okay .. Chanyeol can help me ..” Baekhyun’s reply to politely refuse Yifan’s help every time Yifan offered to tend his wound.
And Yifan’s answer was the same all the time.
His face would change from emotionless to cold and just tend Baekhyun’s wound without a word. He also ignored Baekhyun’s continuous whining and nagging and Chanyeol-mentioning.
Yixing said that he was just being a baby, irritated over things he’s not supposed to.
And Baekhyun wondered why.
*
It's 6th of November that day. For the first time, he was thrilled about the special day. He didn't know why he was anticipating a mere birthday wish, at least, from a certain boy who dyed his hair to pink recently because he just felt like it.
He imagined the stage would be decorated with a string of alphabets spelling 'Happy Birthday' with colorful ballons and a cake was placed on a small table. Everyone would be wearing the cone-shaped birthday hat that looked like a bottle of glitters purposedly spilled on it, as if it would look better when in fact, it looked ugly as fuck. But it's okay, since it's a happy day to be celebrated.
An empty and Baekhyun-free coffee shop was not expected by him. Heck, everyone seemed like they didn't know it was his birthday.Yifan decided that well, fuck everyone in the shop and he would cut their salary for the month.
"Where's Baekhyun?" he asked his brother as soon as he saw him passing by to put on the 'OPEN' sign in front of the glass door.
"He applied for a break due to his final examination. He'll still work on weekends though .." Yixing explained. He left soon, as he saw Yifan's frown turned into a very novel expression, which he concluded as frustration mixed wih anger.
Yifan huffed in annoyance as he saw Yixing was no longer in front of him.
Even that motherfucker forgot his one and only brother's birthday!
*
He was expecting the sound of the fucking silver thing with holes on it to blast off and interrupted his sleep, but no.
The night was still and peaceful, and it's annoying as hell.
Yifan had been accustomed to the noise made by Baekhyun to be his lullaby every night. Now that it's no longer echoing, the night felt different and foreign.
And Yifan hated it more that he thought he would.
Because the noise was beautiful after hearing it many times.
Because the person who made the noise was beautiful himself.
Okay, the last words didn't come out right.
*
A month had passed, and no one could be happier than Baekhyun that the dreadful final examination had come to the end.
Well, close enough.
Yifan was almost as happy as Baekhyun, because he could finally see the petite brunette with his newly dyed light brown hair as Yifan said he looked like a girl with pink hair and it annoyed Baekhyun to the pits of hell.
Yixing had been telling him that he’s attracted to Baekhyun but no. His ego and slightly older self didn’t accept the fact Yixing spitted to him. Even if he did attracted to Baekhyun, there’s no way they’ll be together.
He’s too young and there’s no way Yifan would allow him to be in a relationship with a kid.
“You’ll never know if you never try, ‘bro’.” Yixing said, emphasizing on the last word sarcastically before he turned away to tend the cashier machine.
Yifan huffed and walked away to his office with a frown.
I am not attracted to that kid!
*
For the past weeks, Baekhyun had been going out a lot. Yifan noticed it as he always came back home late and he rarely practiced his saxophone. Yifan wanted to ask so badly, but he knew he’s no one to Baekhyun and Baekhyun didn’t mean anything to him.
They’re just neighbours with a boss-employee relationship going in between them.
One day, he went out to take a breather around the park near the apartment building. Chanyeol was outside, waiting in front of Baekhyun’s apartment unit. Yifan eyed him from head to toe and realized that he was dressed up and looked really good with his over-sized red t-shirt with the word ’Supreme’ printed in white, worn-out skinny jeans and a black snapback covering the top of his head.
“Going somewhere?” Yifan asked, just to be polite. Hopefully Chanyeol was dumb enough to not notice the burning heart of his.
“We’re going out for a movie and some shopping ..” Chanyeol replied and flashed out a charming smile.
Yifan just nodded his head before leaving.
He hoped that Baekhyun would look terrible for the hang out and Chanyeol decided that Baekhyun’s too ugly to be walking around with him in future.
Well, the hope backfired.
Baekhyun and Chanyeol hung out even more often after that. Sometimes, Chanyeol would sleepover at Baekhyun’s apartment and do whatever they’re doing during their sleepovers.
Instead of the sound of the noisy saxophone, Yifan was now feasted with the sound of laughters and screams of joy from the two boys.
And it was even more annoying than the saxophone.
*
Weeks later, he was told that Chanyeol was about to make a huge move.
“Things will change after this .. Omg, I’m excited!” Yixing said, wearing an unexplainable smile that looked a bit devilish and sly.
Yifan wondered what was the ‘move’ Chanyeol was about to make.
Curiosity killed the cat.
His eyes fell on Chanyeol, who was staring at Baekhyun dreamily. Baekhyun was doing his usual job, serving the customers while spreading his happy virus to everyone.
Suddenly, Yifan’s heart beat faster in anxiety.
He really hoped that it wasn’t what he thought it was.
*
Chanyeol went out with Baekhyun that night, again.
From what he heard, they both decided to just take a walk around the park and eat some ice cream while they’re at it. (Yifan ‘accidentally’ heard them. He didn’t eavesdrop, according to him.)
From: Yixing
Chanyeol’s confessing to Baekhyun today. Are you sure you’ll be okay with it?
From: Yixing
Don’t regret it, bro!
As much he wanted to ignore Yixing’s messages, he knew he couldn’t.
He cared about Byun Baekhyun more than he should. He hated it when others were looking at him. He loved his voice and the way his fingers danced when he played the saxophone. He loved the way his eyes twinkled in happiness, even over small things.
He loved every little things about him.
He loved the beautiful Byun Baekhyun.
*
“Thanks for coming with me, Baekhyun .. Actually, I want to tell you something ..” Chanyeol said as they took a seat at an empty bench in front of the human-made lake. Their hands were occupied with chocolate and strawberry flavoured ice cream.
Baekhyun looked at him while licking his ice cream, waiting for Chanyeol to continue with his words. Somehow, he knew what Chanyeol wanted to say. He could tell from the way his eyes twitched and his voice was shaking.
He’s waiting for Chanyeol to drop the bomb.
“I like you ..”
BOOM!
Baekhyun’s heart fell to the pit of his stomach. The ice cream was left untouched, slowly flowing over his hand as it melted due to the sun.
“It’s okay if you don’t feel the same. I just want to tell you what I feel ..” Chanyeol replied in disappointment. He knew that Baekhyun didn’t feel the same. Baekhyun already fell for someone, and he knew that someone well.
Too well.
“Chanyeol-ah .. You’re a nice guy .. But I’m sorry ..” Baekhyun replied softly, feeling apologetic for rejecting such a nice guy.
Chanyeol was sweet and nice and totally a boyfriend material. But he couldn’t force his heart to like someone that he had no feelings to.
The atmosphere fell into silence, both had no words nor guts to utter a word.
All of the sudden, Chanyeol stood up. He said he was leaving earlier as he had some things to do. Baekhyun felt even more guilty.
Maybe I should accept his confession.
He got up and about to reach out to Chanyeol, who’s about 3 metres away from him, when he was tugged hard to the opposite direction. His face buried into the person’s chest. His smell was very familiar. Baekhyun had no need to recognize who was half-hugging him.
“What are you doing, Yifan? Baekhyun asked. Yifan still made no effort to let him go. After a while, he let go and faced the shorter boy.
“Did Chanyeol confess to you?”
“What did you reply him?”
“You didn’t say yes, right?”
“Please tell me you didn’t!”
“I like you a lot, Baekhyun.”
“Stay with me or I’ll fi-“
Yifan’s random tantrums were sealed with a pair of small lips on his.
“You talked too much ..” Baekhyun said against Yifan’s lips and smiled. His arms were circling the taller’s neck, eyes were looking directly into Yifan’s.
“I’ve been waiting for you to come to me, idiot!” Baekhyun spoke and let out a chuckle. Yifan was dumbfounded, still unable to process the event happened a moment ago.
Baekhyun kissed me?
He likes me too?
“I like you, Byun Baekhyun .. A lot, lot more than I expected ..” Yifan said as his arms slowly circling Baekhyun’s slim waist, pulling him closer.
“I like you too .. A lot, lot more than I expected ..” Baekhyun replied before tiptoed his feet and planted a chaste kiss on Yifan’s lips.
“So .. be mine?” Yifan asked, eyes were sparkling with happiness and love. Baekhyun smiled and nodded his head.
Yifan needed not more answers.
Baekhyun was like an open book, and Yifan was the only one who could read everything inside it.
From the way he pulled Yifan closer, the way he smiled shyly and the way his cheeks blushed, he knew the answer already.
They shared another sweet-filling kiss, telling the world that they’re in love.