8084
Title: 8084
Pairing: Chanyeol/Baekhyun
Rating: G
Summary: When Baekhyun knocks at the wrong door and when Chanyeol smiles at a stranger, something has to happen.
8084
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took the wrong choice? Like, when you’re supposed to go left, you choose to go right. What if the people you are friends now isn’t the right people? What if the person you’re in a relationship now is not the right one? What if the course you’re taking in college right now isn’t what it was supposed to be? We will never know what our wrong choices are. Chanyeol might have experienced the same.
While preparing his dinner, an unexpected knock came from the living room and he opens the door immediately. He sighs as it was the same guy that came knocking to him three weeks ago. “You again?” He asks, obviously least delighted.
The guy was his age, he knew from the second week, and is also shorter than him. “Are you sure this is your unit? No one lived here before? Like an old woman?”
Chanyeol rolled his eyes. “You’ve been asking that for almost a month,”
“Really, really, really sure?” The guy repeated, enunciating the italics.
“Yes, I’m sure. Now, get lost.” Chanyeol said as he closes the door.
“I’m pretty sure it was unit 8084…” He hears the guy whisper before he locked the door.
The next week, the guy never came back again. Chanyeol thought he finally gave up or got tired. Well, that’s what he wants anyway. He can now live in peace without worrying about a random stranger knocking on his apartment door looking for an old woman. The last time he checked, he’s a guy who is 185 cm tall and not an old woman. People these days are such idiots.
He has to admit the guy has a cute face though.
It was the start of summer when he decided to go for a jog early in the morning. He locked the door after checking the lights. When he was about to go down the stairs, he had an unexpected encounter as he saw the guy who kept knocking on his door going up. “You?!” Chanyeol exclaimed, thinking that he must be going to his unit again.
“Oh, I wasn’t going to your unit! I swear!”
“Huh?”
“I finally found what unit I was looking for. I remembered it wrong. I thought it was 8084 when it was actually 8804. I’m sorry for bothering you!” The guy apologized and bowed a hundred times.
Chanyeol chuckled. “It’s okay. You must be such an idiot.”
“Hey!” The guy exclaimed as he slaps Chanyeol’s arm softly.
“I was joking!”
“Are you going somewhere?” The guy randomly asked.
“Jogging. You?”
“I’m going to my grandmother’s place.” The guy replied with a smile.
“Okay, see you later…I guess?” Chanyeol said awkwardly.
The guy smiled at him. “Take care!”
They both went their own ways but Chanyeol suddenly remembered something so he went a few steps back. “Hey! Um…”
The guy turned around in surprise. “Yeah?”
“What’s your name?”
“Ah! Right. My name is Baekhyun! You?”
Chanyeol smiled at him while registering the name Baekhyun in his mind. “Chanyeol.”
“See you later Chanyeol!”
See you later. Maybe if Chanyeol chose to ignore that phrase, he wouldn’t know that Baekhyun actually goes to the same university as him, is taking the same course as him and is living in the same apartment as him. They wouldn’t have talked about useless things, about daily crisis, about cats being so homeless and about everything under the sun. Maybe if Chanyeol chose to believe that Baekhyun is weird or a total stranger, he wouldn’t know that Baekhyun can actually cook really well and that he loves to sing.
Maybe if he chose to avoid Baekhyun after that last encounter, Baekhyun wouldn’t have someone to comfort him after his grandmother died of an incurable disease. Baekhyun would be crying alone in an empty apartment, no one to lean on. With that, Chanyeol was thankful that he smiled at Baekhyun after meeting him again later that day. He found himself a very precious friend and he’s sure Baekhyun was lucky to have him too.
“You really like him that much?” Baekhyun asks Chanyeol one day after knowing that his friend, Chanyeol, has an itsy bitsy teenie weenie crush on a junior from the same course. Let’s just call him “Kyungsoo”.
“He’s really cute, you know,” Chanyeol replied. “And smart.”
Baekhyun grinned, a sign that he was about to do something Chanyeol would regret having him as a friend, in which he really did do something that would make Chanyeol regret every single day he spent with him. “KYUNGSOO-AH!” He yells and Chanyeol was caught off guard.
Kyungsoo who was passing by immediately turned after hearing his name being called. Finding out it was Baekhyun who he was kinda close with, he approached him and a rather stoned giant sitting beside him. “Ah, Baekhyun hyung,”
“I remembered I have something to give you,” Baekhyun said but Chanyeol knows there wasn’t anything at all. “But I forgot it in my locker. Can you wait here for a bit?”
“Sure hyung,”
Baekhyun grinned at Chanyeol before running away, leaving the two of them alone. Chanyeol made a mental note to turn the air condition in his unit really high when they go home later so Baekhyun can freeze to death.
“Um, hi,” Kyungsoo greets Chanyeol awkwardly. “You are…Baekhyun hyung’s friend?”
“Y-yeah…I’m his…bestfriend,”
“Ah! I’m right. You’re that friend he’s always talking about. I didn’t know your voice can be that low, what a surprise,”
“Yeah…I get that a lot,”
“It doesn’t really match your face,” Kyungsoo added.
“Your voice is really low! It’s so cool! I wish I had a voice that low,” He suddenly remembered Baekhyun’s first comment about his voice, which is rather positive than what he expected.
“That wouldn’t match your face, you idiot,”
He smiled after remembering those times. “Yeah, it doesn’t.”
What if Chanyeol decided not to tell Baekhyun about his crush? Baekhyun wouldn’t be teasing him with that and he wouldn’t be calling Kyungsoo randomly when Chanyeol is not ready. Chanyeol wouldn’t be close to Kyungsoo after that. Chanyeol and Kyungsoo wouldn’t have casual dates and Baekhyun wouldn’t have to go home by himself.
Or, Chanyeol wouldn’t be heartbroken after knowing Kyungsoo liked somebody else.
“Jongin, huh.” Baekhyun said after Chanyeol told him that Kyungsoo’s crush is named Kim Jongin. “He’s really popular, how can you not know him?”
“Maybe because the only people I know in school are Byun Baekhyun and Do Kyungsoo?”
“Ah, Yeol, you’re so silly,” Baekhyun replied while chuckling at his friend’s idiocy. “Anyway, I hear he’s interested in somebody else. Don’t worry. I don’t think he’ll have an interest in Kyungsoo. You can still win him,”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m 100% sure!” Baekhyun chimed with a smile. Chanyeol would be lying if he said Baekhyun’s smile isn’t contagious because he’s smiling like an idiot right now.
Maybe if he didn’t care about who the fuck Kim Jongin was, he wouldn’t know that the “somebody else” he was “interested in” was actually Byun Baekhyun. Chanyeol didn’t really think that a day will come that someone would be interested with his best friend so he wasn’t prepared for it and he doesn’t know how to react. Although, he can feel a tiny bit of jealousy when he hears people saying Jongin and Baekhyun look good together.
“Baek,”
“Hm?”
“About that Jongin,”
Baekhyun sighed and dropped his pen, finally deciding to take a break from studying. “It’s nothing, Yeol,”
“Are you sure? You’re not interested in him too?”
“I’m not, okay? Why are you thinking about that when our exams are coming up? You have to study hard or Kyungsoo wouldn’t be amazed by you.” Baekhyun said, sticking his tongue out. “If I get a higher grade than you, maybe he’ll be interested with me too,”
“Tch. As if.” Chanyeol replied while laughing. Baekhyun grinned then started laughing as well. Afterwards, they decided to go back to studying.
“You should just live with me you know,”
“What are you talking about?”
“I mean, you practically live here already. You eat breakfast, lunch and dinner here. You even sleep here in some nights and you wake me up every day,”
“I can’t, okay? What if Kyungsoo decides to come by?”
“But he knows you’re my best friend,”
“Yeol, I’m the best friend who is the crush of Kyungsoo’s crush,”
Chanyeol was silent for a moment when he realized that Baekhyun did have a point. He sighed heavily and looked a bit sad. “Come on, Yeol, you don’t have to be so sad,” Despite the efforts, Baekhyun still couldn’t get a word out from Chanyeol. So, being the mischievous friend he was, he leaned in closer to Chanyeol and kissed his cheek, startling Chanyeol.
“Now you smile!” Baekhyun yelled as he forces to form a smile on Chanyeol’s face.
Chanyeol then decided to take his revenge and started tickling Baekhyun. “HAHAHA YEOL! YEOL STOP! HAHAHAHA!”
If they can stay like this forever, Chanyeol wouldn’t mind a million heartbreaks.
Well, maybe if Baekhyun wasn’t such a good friend and a martyr at that, he won’t be accepting Jongin’s endless invitations for a date. He was though, such a good friend, so he took this step so Kyungsoo would give up on his one sided crush for Jongin and start noticing Chanyeol.
“You said you weren’t interested in him…” Chanyeol said, obviously disappointed that his best friend somewhat lied to him.
“I’m not,”
“Then why are you dating him?”
“I did it for you, Yeol. Kyungsoo would start noticing you then, don’t you think?”
Chanyeol sighed as he was more confused than ever. “Idiot. You’re such an idiot,”
“But you love this idiot right?” Baekhyun asks while chuckling.
Maybe if he told Baekhyun that he didn’t need to do all of that, there wouldn’t be endless questions in his mind right now. He won’t be bothered by anything at all. But he didn’t and he doesn’t even know why. That or he was just really confused up until now.
“They look good right?” Kyungsoo said in one of their casual walks in the street from Chanyeol’s apartment. “Baekhyun and Jongin, I mean. They really seem to complement each other, don’t you think so?”
Chanyeol doesn’t really get how Jongin can be a good match for Baekhyun. When they say opposites attract, he’s sure it’s a lie. “Maybe,”
Kyungsoo smiled as he tiptoed and suddenly kissed Chanyeol on the lips. “Thank you for being always here with me,” He said with yet another beautiful smile. Kyungsoo looked so innocent, that’s why Chanyeol was attracted to him. He just likes people that give off an innocent charm. He remembered how Baekhyun looked so innocent the first time he met him and he smiles again.
Kyungsoo and Chanyeol turned in unison when they noticed a person standing not far from them. Chanyeol saw it was Baekhyun, wearing his usual coat since it was winter. “Oh, sorry. Don’t mind me. I’ll be going first,” Baekhyun said with a smile and started walking to the apartment.
Chanyeol doesn’t say anything instead he just watches Baekhyun walking away. What was he supposed to say anyway?
“Chanyeol?” Kyungsoo called to catch his attention.
“Ah, Kyungsoo, isn’t it getting late? I think you should go home,” Chanyeol said with a smile. “It would be difficult to find a bus if you stay any longer, especially with the weather,”
“Oh, right. I’ll get going then,”
Obviously, you do not smile after seeing your best friend kiss someone else. Well, maybe you do, but Baekhyun doesn’t. Even though he did smile, it wouldn’t last that long. So he ran to his apartment where Chanyeol couldn’t see and locked himself inside his unit. Hurt, he realizes the feeling. He was hurt for no reason at all. He was just hurt.
“Baek?” He hears Chanyeol from outside calling him while knocking several times. “Are you there?”
“I’m here Chanyeol,” Baekhyun replied after taking a long breath. “I think I just caught a cold. I can’t come to your unit tonight, sorry. I wouldn’t want you to catch my cold.”
“What? It’s alright. I can take care of you,”
“Yeol, just…I’m not really in the mood right now. My head is aching. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Are you sure you’re alright?”
“Yes, Yeol, I’ll be fine.”
“Okay then…if you need any help just knock, okay?”
Baekhyun doesn’t reply and waited for Chanyeol to leave. He hated the feeling. He hated how he’s in such mess right now. He threw himself into a lion’s pit when he decided to support Chanyeol with his infatuation with a friend named Kyungsoo. He deserves just right. As long as Chanyeol is happy then he’s fine. That’s how it was supposed to be, right? That’s what a best friend should do right?
Maybe if Baekhyun didn’t show much weakness in front of Jongin, Jongin wouldn’t figure anything out. He forgot for a moment that Jongin is actually as smart as him despite his records in the school’s prefect and his not-so-neat image. “How can you be so insensitive and slap me in the face with your undying love for your best friend?” Jongin asks. Wait, more like complained.
“I’m sorry Jongin. I shouldn’t have done this.”
Jongin sighed. “Is it weird that I’m not mad at you? Maybe this is what they meant about not falling in love with someone innocent…and dense,”
“Again, sorry,”
“You’re really an idiot.”
“Sorry,”
“Such an idiot,”
“Sorry,”
“My God,” Jongin said as he groans at their useless and pointless conversation.
Fortunately, Baekhyun’s phone rang, filling in the awkward silence between them. “Hello? Mom?”
Jongin knew that everything’s going to get even uglier after Baekhyun’s phone conversation with his mother who was living abroad, in a place called Canada. He can’t believe he’ll be a witness to such tragic and dramatic love story that will take place later in the future. Oh, he knows, he knows a lot of things.
Later that night, Baekhyun decided to consult Chanyeol about something. Chanyeol was his best friend after all and they did promise each other not to keep secrets, which was the reason why Chanyeol told him he had a crush on a junior and the rest is history.
“Baekhyunnie!” Chanyeol chimed after Baekhyun entered his unit.
“Why are you so overly happy when you see my face?”
“I’m always happy when I see Baek!” Chanyeol replied. “Oh by the way Baek, Kyungsoo is moving in here tomorrow.”
After hearing a rather sad news - well, sad for him - from Chanyeol, he decided to retreat his plan of consultation about some serious matter. “Really Yeol? That’s great!”
“But you can still come here,”
“Let’s see. I would want you to spend more time together. You practically already spend a lot of time with me,”
“Still, it would be more fun that way,” Chanyeol insists with a smile and Baekhyun only smiled back, unable to find any coherent words to say anymore.
A few days after that, Baekhyun rarely comes by and whenever he would, Kyungsoo would be the one greeting him and opening the door and not Chanyeol. He wasn’t used to anyone else opening the door but he had to get used to it if he’s gonna live every day of his life like this. A few more days after that, Chanyeol kept on visiting him every chance he gets.
“You’re here again?”
“I haven’t even taken five steps yet and you want me to leave already?”
Baekhyun chuckled. “Idiot, I’m just worried that Kyungsoo would come and look for you,”
“He’s cleaning anyway,” Chanyeol said as he jumps on Baekhyun’s bed, making himself comfortable, even hugging Baekhyun’s pillows. “He cleans like…every day and it’s getting irritating. I mean do you have to clean that much?”
“Bad Yeol,”
“Was it infatuation?”
“Yeol!”
“Okay, okay, sorry, but still,”
“Well, you can tell him,” Baekhyun said as he walks to his bed, finally deciding to stop studying to confront his best friend about some serious heart to heart matters. He flopped himself beside Chanyeol and lied down comfortably, like the old times.
Chanyeol turned his head and stared at Baekhyun’s beautiful face. “I miss you Baek,”
Baekhyun chuckled. “What? I’m always here, Yeol,”
“Can I sleep here?”
“Stupid, you can’t. Kyungsoo’s waiting for you,”
“Just for one night?”
Baekhyun turned his body to face Chanyeol, slightly sitting up and kissed Chanyeol’s forehead, then his cheek, then his other cheek, catching the giant off guard. “Now you smile!” Baekhyun yells as he pinches Chanyeol’s cheeks and giggling cutely.
“You sneaky kid!” Chanyeol rolled Baekhyun over and started tickling him.
“HAHAHAHA! YEOL! THAT’S UNFAIR! STOP! HAHAHA!”
No matter how much Chanyeol thinks about it, Baekhyun’s smile and laughter are the only things that can make him smile. It was and will always be.
That is why Baekhyun was the first person he wanted to see after his little fight with Kyungsoo. It turned out that Kyungsoo did come looking for him and he saw them getting intimate with each other, or so he says, because the kissing and the tickling part is normal to them, very normal, but Kyungsoo knew otherwise.
“What do you take me for?! You’re all the same!”
“At least let me explain! I’m trying to tell you for the past 30 minutes that there is nothing going on between us!”
“Screw you and your lies! You think I don’t see how you look at him?! You can tell me that I’m assuming things but have you ever thought that there are things you don’t realize yourself?! And that other people can see it? I can see it Chanyeol…how you look at him…you love him,”
“No-Kyungsoo, you’re not making any sense!”
“You just don’t realize it,”
Chanyeol opened his mouth to protest but what can he say? That Baekhyun is nothing? That he doesn’t love Baekhyun like that? He can’t make up lies involving Baekhyun, he just can’t. And so Kyungsoo left with the silence that screams he was right all along. That there are things Chanyeol doesn’t realize himself. He doesn’t even know what to feel anymore.
Baekhyun finally decided to consult Chanyeol about something that’s been bothering him for a while now. Well, he was supposed to until he met Kyungsoo who was crying by the entrance. After a little talk, he immediately rushed to Chanyeol’s unit.
“Yeol! Yeol are you there?!” Baekhyun yelled as he tried to open the door but it was locked.
“I’m here Baek,”
“Are you alright? Open the door Yeol!”
“I can’t,”
“What? Why?”
“I can’t see you right now,”
“Yeol!” Baekhyun yelled again, knocking several times before giving up when he felt his hands getting numb. He sighed and decided to sit down while leaning on the door. It looked like he wouldn’t get an answer from Chanyeol anyway so there wasn’t any point. It was cold but he doesn’t care. “It’s snowing, Yeol,” He said randomly but still, no reply.
Baekhyun sighed. If he wants to fill in the awkward silence between them, he has to at least think of something. “You’re my honey bunch, sugar plum, pumpy-umpy-unkin, you’re my sweetie pie,” Baekhyun started singing despite his hoarse voice due to the screaming he did. But Chanyeol always finds Baekhyun’s voice beautiful and soft even when he was stuck with a cold before. “You’re my cuppy cake, gum drop, snoogums boogums, you’re…the apple of my eye,”
He remembers singing the same song with Chanyeol in a school event before. The school event was a singing contest and they both decided to make a fool out of themselves by singing an awful childish song with no backtrack while wearing awful costumes with a large green leaf on top of their heads. They were idiots. That’s why.
“And I love you so…and I want you to know that I’ll always be right here…” Baekhyun continued as he clenches the passport in his hand. “And I love to sing…sweet songs to you because you-are-so-dear….” He crooned while smiling a bit. He leaves after wards so Chanyeol can have his time alone to think.
That was a rather good decision. Chanyeol kept on wondering since when did everything change so much? His unit used to be empty like this too but ever since Baekhyun came, he had lots of fun times then it went back to being empty again. His heart too, was empty before, but now there’s Baekhyun inside it. What was the reason for all of this? He doesn’t have the answer at all.
Or, it was right there but he was just too blind to see it. Baekhyun was…his everything. Baekhyun was always there with him, always making him laugh, always made his life so peaceful. Maybe if he realized it a little sooner, he didn’t have to look for someone else to take Baekhyun’s role. No matter how much he thinks about it, no one can take Baekhyun’s place. Ever.
He didn’t realize he fell asleep while thinking about such things but he knows when he wakes up, everything will be back to how it was before.
Baekhyun, on the other hand, called Jongin to ask some favor.
The next morning, Chanyeol woke up with grumpy eyes so he immediately washed his face, took a bath and groomed himself so he can look presentable to Baekhyun. He cooked his own food when he realized it’s already past 10 am and he hasn’t eaten yet.
“Baekhyun.” He whispers. All he can think of was Baekhyun and his feelings. He can kill himself now for being so stupid. Everything finally made sense. He didn’t like Kyungsoo after all. It was Baekhyun, from the beginning until the end. He thought he can make another Baekhyun out of Kyungsoo but it doesn’t work like that. No one can ever be like Baekhyun because Baekhyun is unique and different from all of them. What the hell is with all the nonsense in his mind?
He realized he was scared. He was scared of falling in love with his own best friend so he tried to find someone else than can detach him from his best friend. Insert Kyungsoo here. But at the end of the day, he will still be looking for Byun Baekhyun. That was his wrong choice. He didn’t trust himself enough and decided to run away from something that obviously had already caught up with him no matter how fast he ran.
He immediately went to Baekhyun’s unit after finishing his food. He took a deep breath when he was finally in front of Baekhyun’s door.
“Baek?” He called while knocking. The door opened and he smiled but immediately faded away when he saw Jongin holding a large box. “Jongin?!”
“Oh, you,” Jongin replied after recognizing the giant in front of him, obviously not amused.
“What are you doing here?”
“Uh…cleaning?”
“What the hell? Where’s Baekhyun? I need to talk to him,”
“Oh my God. He didn’t tell you, did he?” Jongin said as he drops the box beside the door.
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
Jongin stared at him and took a deep breath as if he was giving him a sign that he needs to listen carefully because he’s going to tell him something that has something to do with the destruction of the earth. Or Chanyeol’s heart.
Maybe if he realized it a little sooner he wouldn’t be regretting so much. Baekhyun would still be beside him, or better, inside his unit, blabbing about useless things then later they would be watching some drama series they already know about and they play until late night and never get bored of each other no matter how repetitive their routine was. They would never get bored with each other because they make each other happy. But Chanyeol was just so stupid to fail to realize everything.
“He’s leaving for Canada today and asked me to clean his unit for him, dumbass. Wow you two are stupid. I think his flight is at 11,”
He remembers what Jongin said and immediately rushed to the airport. When he got there, he doesn’t know a thing or two about which way to go but one thing’s for sure, he has to let Baekhyun know about his feelings before he’s too late. There isn’t much time before Baekhyun’s flight and he can’t waste his time searching for him so he took a rather different route of decision.
Baekhyun, on the other hand, has slightly prepared himself for the biggest mistake he’ll make in his 22 years of existence. “Passengers bound for Canada, there will be slight delay for the flight, I repeat passengers bound for Canada, there will be a slight-hey!”
Baekhyun, as well as the other passengers, stopped when the announcer was suddenly interrupted. “What the hell are you doing?!” The announcer yelled from the speakers and Baekhyun’s eyebrows met in confusion.
“Hello? Hello mic test. Mic test.” Baekhyun looked around to find where it was coming from- which was obviously from the speakers- as he found the voice very familiar. “Hey-ah….so I’m going to sing a song for someone who is in this airport right now,” The person said as he cleared his throat.
“You’re my honey bunch…sugar plum…pumpy-umpy-ukin, you’re my sweetie pie,”
Baekhyun dropped his luggage as he hears a familiar song being sung by a familiar voice, a voice that belongs to none other than Park Chanyeol. “You’re my cuppy cake, gum drop, snoogums boogums you’re…the apple of my eye…”
Baekhyun bit his lip as the song continued. “And I love you so…and I want you to know…that I’ll always be right here. And I love to sing…sweet songs to you because…you are so dear…”
It felt as if everything stopped and they were the only people in the world even though they don’t even see each other. “Ya-Byun Baekhyun-“
“That’s him guards!”
“SHIT!” Chanyeol yells then started running outside with the guards closely following behind him. Fortunately, his legs are long enough for his convenience. He ran down as fast as he can despite hitting several people on the way. When he was on the last stairs, he saw Baekhyun standing in the middle of the lobby, looking at him as he runs.
“Baekhyun!”
He finally arrived at the lobby and was this close to Baekhyun when unfortunately he was taken down by a few guards. “We got him! We got the trouble maker!”
“Ya! Ya you let me go!” Chanyeol yells while struggling really hard. He looks at Baekhyun who was standing at a near distance in front of him and was only staring at him in shock. “Hey Baek! You can’t go alright?! Who told you to go?! I’m telling you you’re gonna stay here with me! You hear me?!”
“What the hell is he talking about?” One of the securities questioned.
“Why do you even want to know?!” Chanyeol yelled back in exasperation. “This is between me and the love of my life, you hear?!”
The securities looked at Baekhyun who now has his hands covering his face in embarrassment.
“The love of your life?” They questioned again.
“Yeah! I was such a fucking idiot, you know that? I didn’t realize it until now. I didn’t realize how much I love him. That’s why I quickly rushed to this airport to stop him from leaving so why do you have your hands on me?! Don’t you have any sympathy?! ”
Startled, the securities immediately let go of Chanyeol. Chanyeol stood up and approached Baekhyun who was still in shock.
“Baekhyun! You’re not going right? You’re not going to leave me right?” Chanyeol asks, his hands trembling as well as his voice.
Baekhyun smiled at him. “What the hell…how can I leave you after all the mess you made?” True, how much more embarrassing can a giant get after singing an awful childish song in an airport where everybody can hear? But, he is Chanyeol after all.
Chanyeol sighed in relief and he quickly embraced Baekhyun into a warm hug. The bystanders and witnesses, especially the guards, all rejoiced and clapped their hands for them. “You’re such an idiot, Yeol,” Baekhyun whispered, bowing his head to hide his tears.
Chanyeol cupped Baekhyun’s head and lift it so he can look at him straight in the eyes then wiped his tears with his thumb. He slowly leans in to kiss Baekhyun on the lips, a gesture that shows how much realizations he had, how much his heart is happy right now and how much his life has been completed by that one person that was once a stranger to him.
“I love you, Baek,”
“I love you too, idiot,”
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took the wrong choice? We all make wrong choices but these choices can lead us to a better path. When Baekhyun first appeared in front of Chanyeol’s unit, Chanyeol never knew that the stranger will be the one who will complete him. What would happen if Chanyeol didn’t trust Baekhyun enough despite the innocent face and called the police? It would’ve been the end of both of them.
And Chanyeol is thankful enough that Baekhyun remembered the unit number wrong. Mistakes can also lead you to success, don’t you think? And wrong choices let you find another path, it may be harder, but in the end you will still reach the top.
Pairing: Chanyeol/Baekhyun
Rating: G
Summary: When Baekhyun knocks at the wrong door and when Chanyeol smiles at a stranger, something has to happen.
8084
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took the wrong choice? Like, when you’re supposed to go left, you choose to go right. What if the people you are friends now isn’t the right people? What if the person you’re in a relationship now is not the right one? What if the course you’re taking in college right now isn’t what it was supposed to be? We will never know what our wrong choices are. Chanyeol might have experienced the same.
While preparing his dinner, an unexpected knock came from the living room and he opens the door immediately. He sighs as it was the same guy that came knocking to him three weeks ago. “You again?” He asks, obviously least delighted.
The guy was his age, he knew from the second week, and is also shorter than him. “Are you sure this is your unit? No one lived here before? Like an old woman?”
Chanyeol rolled his eyes. “You’ve been asking that for almost a month,”
“Really, really, really sure?” The guy repeated, enunciating the italics.
“Yes, I’m sure. Now, get lost.” Chanyeol said as he closes the door.
“I’m pretty sure it was unit 8084…” He hears the guy whisper before he locked the door.
The next week, the guy never came back again. Chanyeol thought he finally gave up or got tired. Well, that’s what he wants anyway. He can now live in peace without worrying about a random stranger knocking on his apartment door looking for an old woman. The last time he checked, he’s a guy who is 185 cm tall and not an old woman. People these days are such idiots.
He has to admit the guy has a cute face though.
It was the start of summer when he decided to go for a jog early in the morning. He locked the door after checking the lights. When he was about to go down the stairs, he had an unexpected encounter as he saw the guy who kept knocking on his door going up. “You?!” Chanyeol exclaimed, thinking that he must be going to his unit again.
“Oh, I wasn’t going to your unit! I swear!”
“Huh?”
“I finally found what unit I was looking for. I remembered it wrong. I thought it was 8084 when it was actually 8804. I’m sorry for bothering you!” The guy apologized and bowed a hundred times.
Chanyeol chuckled. “It’s okay. You must be such an idiot.”
“Hey!” The guy exclaimed as he slaps Chanyeol’s arm softly.
“I was joking!”
“Are you going somewhere?” The guy randomly asked.
“Jogging. You?”
“I’m going to my grandmother’s place.” The guy replied with a smile.
“Okay, see you later…I guess?” Chanyeol said awkwardly.
The guy smiled at him. “Take care!”
They both went their own ways but Chanyeol suddenly remembered something so he went a few steps back. “Hey! Um…”
The guy turned around in surprise. “Yeah?”
“What’s your name?”
“Ah! Right. My name is Baekhyun! You?”
Chanyeol smiled at him while registering the name Baekhyun in his mind. “Chanyeol.”
“See you later Chanyeol!”
See you later. Maybe if Chanyeol chose to ignore that phrase, he wouldn’t know that Baekhyun actually goes to the same university as him, is taking the same course as him and is living in the same apartment as him. They wouldn’t have talked about useless things, about daily crisis, about cats being so homeless and about everything under the sun. Maybe if Chanyeol chose to believe that Baekhyun is weird or a total stranger, he wouldn’t know that Baekhyun can actually cook really well and that he loves to sing.
Maybe if he chose to avoid Baekhyun after that last encounter, Baekhyun wouldn’t have someone to comfort him after his grandmother died of an incurable disease. Baekhyun would be crying alone in an empty apartment, no one to lean on. With that, Chanyeol was thankful that he smiled at Baekhyun after meeting him again later that day. He found himself a very precious friend and he’s sure Baekhyun was lucky to have him too.
“You really like him that much?” Baekhyun asks Chanyeol one day after knowing that his friend, Chanyeol, has an itsy bitsy teenie weenie crush on a junior from the same course. Let’s just call him “Kyungsoo”.
“He’s really cute, you know,” Chanyeol replied. “And smart.”
Baekhyun grinned, a sign that he was about to do something Chanyeol would regret having him as a friend, in which he really did do something that would make Chanyeol regret every single day he spent with him. “KYUNGSOO-AH!” He yells and Chanyeol was caught off guard.
Kyungsoo who was passing by immediately turned after hearing his name being called. Finding out it was Baekhyun who he was kinda close with, he approached him and a rather stoned giant sitting beside him. “Ah, Baekhyun hyung,”
“I remembered I have something to give you,” Baekhyun said but Chanyeol knows there wasn’t anything at all. “But I forgot it in my locker. Can you wait here for a bit?”
“Sure hyung,”
Baekhyun grinned at Chanyeol before running away, leaving the two of them alone. Chanyeol made a mental note to turn the air condition in his unit really high when they go home later so Baekhyun can freeze to death.
“Um, hi,” Kyungsoo greets Chanyeol awkwardly. “You are…Baekhyun hyung’s friend?”
“Y-yeah…I’m his…bestfriend,”
“Ah! I’m right. You’re that friend he’s always talking about. I didn’t know your voice can be that low, what a surprise,”
“Yeah…I get that a lot,”
“It doesn’t really match your face,” Kyungsoo added.
“Your voice is really low! It’s so cool! I wish I had a voice that low,” He suddenly remembered Baekhyun’s first comment about his voice, which is rather positive than what he expected.
“That wouldn’t match your face, you idiot,”
He smiled after remembering those times. “Yeah, it doesn’t.”
What if Chanyeol decided not to tell Baekhyun about his crush? Baekhyun wouldn’t be teasing him with that and he wouldn’t be calling Kyungsoo randomly when Chanyeol is not ready. Chanyeol wouldn’t be close to Kyungsoo after that. Chanyeol and Kyungsoo wouldn’t have casual dates and Baekhyun wouldn’t have to go home by himself.
Or, Chanyeol wouldn’t be heartbroken after knowing Kyungsoo liked somebody else.
“Jongin, huh.” Baekhyun said after Chanyeol told him that Kyungsoo’s crush is named Kim Jongin. “He’s really popular, how can you not know him?”
“Maybe because the only people I know in school are Byun Baekhyun and Do Kyungsoo?”
“Ah, Yeol, you’re so silly,” Baekhyun replied while chuckling at his friend’s idiocy. “Anyway, I hear he’s interested in somebody else. Don’t worry. I don’t think he’ll have an interest in Kyungsoo. You can still win him,”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m 100% sure!” Baekhyun chimed with a smile. Chanyeol would be lying if he said Baekhyun’s smile isn’t contagious because he’s smiling like an idiot right now.
Maybe if he didn’t care about who the fuck Kim Jongin was, he wouldn’t know that the “somebody else” he was “interested in” was actually Byun Baekhyun. Chanyeol didn’t really think that a day will come that someone would be interested with his best friend so he wasn’t prepared for it and he doesn’t know how to react. Although, he can feel a tiny bit of jealousy when he hears people saying Jongin and Baekhyun look good together.
“Baek,”
“Hm?”
“About that Jongin,”
Baekhyun sighed and dropped his pen, finally deciding to take a break from studying. “It’s nothing, Yeol,”
“Are you sure? You’re not interested in him too?”
“I’m not, okay? Why are you thinking about that when our exams are coming up? You have to study hard or Kyungsoo wouldn’t be amazed by you.” Baekhyun said, sticking his tongue out. “If I get a higher grade than you, maybe he’ll be interested with me too,”
“Tch. As if.” Chanyeol replied while laughing. Baekhyun grinned then started laughing as well. Afterwards, they decided to go back to studying.
“You should just live with me you know,”
“What are you talking about?”
“I mean, you practically live here already. You eat breakfast, lunch and dinner here. You even sleep here in some nights and you wake me up every day,”
“I can’t, okay? What if Kyungsoo decides to come by?”
“But he knows you’re my best friend,”
“Yeol, I’m the best friend who is the crush of Kyungsoo’s crush,”
Chanyeol was silent for a moment when he realized that Baekhyun did have a point. He sighed heavily and looked a bit sad. “Come on, Yeol, you don’t have to be so sad,” Despite the efforts, Baekhyun still couldn’t get a word out from Chanyeol. So, being the mischievous friend he was, he leaned in closer to Chanyeol and kissed his cheek, startling Chanyeol.
“Now you smile!” Baekhyun yelled as he forces to form a smile on Chanyeol’s face.
Chanyeol then decided to take his revenge and started tickling Baekhyun. “HAHAHA YEOL! YEOL STOP! HAHAHAHA!”
If they can stay like this forever, Chanyeol wouldn’t mind a million heartbreaks.
Well, maybe if Baekhyun wasn’t such a good friend and a martyr at that, he won’t be accepting Jongin’s endless invitations for a date. He was though, such a good friend, so he took this step so Kyungsoo would give up on his one sided crush for Jongin and start noticing Chanyeol.
“You said you weren’t interested in him…” Chanyeol said, obviously disappointed that his best friend somewhat lied to him.
“I’m not,”
“Then why are you dating him?”
“I did it for you, Yeol. Kyungsoo would start noticing you then, don’t you think?”
Chanyeol sighed as he was more confused than ever. “Idiot. You’re such an idiot,”
“But you love this idiot right?” Baekhyun asks while chuckling.
Maybe if he told Baekhyun that he didn’t need to do all of that, there wouldn’t be endless questions in his mind right now. He won’t be bothered by anything at all. But he didn’t and he doesn’t even know why. That or he was just really confused up until now.
“They look good right?” Kyungsoo said in one of their casual walks in the street from Chanyeol’s apartment. “Baekhyun and Jongin, I mean. They really seem to complement each other, don’t you think so?”
Chanyeol doesn’t really get how Jongin can be a good match for Baekhyun. When they say opposites attract, he’s sure it’s a lie. “Maybe,”
Kyungsoo smiled as he tiptoed and suddenly kissed Chanyeol on the lips. “Thank you for being always here with me,” He said with yet another beautiful smile. Kyungsoo looked so innocent, that’s why Chanyeol was attracted to him. He just likes people that give off an innocent charm. He remembered how Baekhyun looked so innocent the first time he met him and he smiles again.
Kyungsoo and Chanyeol turned in unison when they noticed a person standing not far from them. Chanyeol saw it was Baekhyun, wearing his usual coat since it was winter. “Oh, sorry. Don’t mind me. I’ll be going first,” Baekhyun said with a smile and started walking to the apartment.
Chanyeol doesn’t say anything instead he just watches Baekhyun walking away. What was he supposed to say anyway?
“Chanyeol?” Kyungsoo called to catch his attention.
“Ah, Kyungsoo, isn’t it getting late? I think you should go home,” Chanyeol said with a smile. “It would be difficult to find a bus if you stay any longer, especially with the weather,”
“Oh, right. I’ll get going then,”
Obviously, you do not smile after seeing your best friend kiss someone else. Well, maybe you do, but Baekhyun doesn’t. Even though he did smile, it wouldn’t last that long. So he ran to his apartment where Chanyeol couldn’t see and locked himself inside his unit. Hurt, he realizes the feeling. He was hurt for no reason at all. He was just hurt.
“Baek?” He hears Chanyeol from outside calling him while knocking several times. “Are you there?”
“I’m here Chanyeol,” Baekhyun replied after taking a long breath. “I think I just caught a cold. I can’t come to your unit tonight, sorry. I wouldn’t want you to catch my cold.”
“What? It’s alright. I can take care of you,”
“Yeol, just…I’m not really in the mood right now. My head is aching. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Are you sure you’re alright?”
“Yes, Yeol, I’ll be fine.”
“Okay then…if you need any help just knock, okay?”
Baekhyun doesn’t reply and waited for Chanyeol to leave. He hated the feeling. He hated how he’s in such mess right now. He threw himself into a lion’s pit when he decided to support Chanyeol with his infatuation with a friend named Kyungsoo. He deserves just right. As long as Chanyeol is happy then he’s fine. That’s how it was supposed to be, right? That’s what a best friend should do right?
Maybe if Baekhyun didn’t show much weakness in front of Jongin, Jongin wouldn’t figure anything out. He forgot for a moment that Jongin is actually as smart as him despite his records in the school’s prefect and his not-so-neat image. “How can you be so insensitive and slap me in the face with your undying love for your best friend?” Jongin asks. Wait, more like complained.
“I’m sorry Jongin. I shouldn’t have done this.”
Jongin sighed. “Is it weird that I’m not mad at you? Maybe this is what they meant about not falling in love with someone innocent…and dense,”
“Again, sorry,”
“You’re really an idiot.”
“Sorry,”
“Such an idiot,”
“Sorry,”
“My God,” Jongin said as he groans at their useless and pointless conversation.
Fortunately, Baekhyun’s phone rang, filling in the awkward silence between them. “Hello? Mom?”
Jongin knew that everything’s going to get even uglier after Baekhyun’s phone conversation with his mother who was living abroad, in a place called Canada. He can’t believe he’ll be a witness to such tragic and dramatic love story that will take place later in the future. Oh, he knows, he knows a lot of things.
Later that night, Baekhyun decided to consult Chanyeol about something. Chanyeol was his best friend after all and they did promise each other not to keep secrets, which was the reason why Chanyeol told him he had a crush on a junior and the rest is history.
“Baekhyunnie!” Chanyeol chimed after Baekhyun entered his unit.
“Why are you so overly happy when you see my face?”
“I’m always happy when I see Baek!” Chanyeol replied. “Oh by the way Baek, Kyungsoo is moving in here tomorrow.”
After hearing a rather sad news - well, sad for him - from Chanyeol, he decided to retreat his plan of consultation about some serious matter. “Really Yeol? That’s great!”
“But you can still come here,”
“Let’s see. I would want you to spend more time together. You practically already spend a lot of time with me,”
“Still, it would be more fun that way,” Chanyeol insists with a smile and Baekhyun only smiled back, unable to find any coherent words to say anymore.
A few days after that, Baekhyun rarely comes by and whenever he would, Kyungsoo would be the one greeting him and opening the door and not Chanyeol. He wasn’t used to anyone else opening the door but he had to get used to it if he’s gonna live every day of his life like this. A few more days after that, Chanyeol kept on visiting him every chance he gets.
“You’re here again?”
“I haven’t even taken five steps yet and you want me to leave already?”
Baekhyun chuckled. “Idiot, I’m just worried that Kyungsoo would come and look for you,”
“He’s cleaning anyway,” Chanyeol said as he jumps on Baekhyun’s bed, making himself comfortable, even hugging Baekhyun’s pillows. “He cleans like…every day and it’s getting irritating. I mean do you have to clean that much?”
“Bad Yeol,”
“Was it infatuation?”
“Yeol!”
“Okay, okay, sorry, but still,”
“Well, you can tell him,” Baekhyun said as he walks to his bed, finally deciding to stop studying to confront his best friend about some serious heart to heart matters. He flopped himself beside Chanyeol and lied down comfortably, like the old times.
Chanyeol turned his head and stared at Baekhyun’s beautiful face. “I miss you Baek,”
Baekhyun chuckled. “What? I’m always here, Yeol,”
“Can I sleep here?”
“Stupid, you can’t. Kyungsoo’s waiting for you,”
“Just for one night?”
Baekhyun turned his body to face Chanyeol, slightly sitting up and kissed Chanyeol’s forehead, then his cheek, then his other cheek, catching the giant off guard. “Now you smile!” Baekhyun yells as he pinches Chanyeol’s cheeks and giggling cutely.
“You sneaky kid!” Chanyeol rolled Baekhyun over and started tickling him.
“HAHAHAHA! YEOL! THAT’S UNFAIR! STOP! HAHAHA!”
No matter how much Chanyeol thinks about it, Baekhyun’s smile and laughter are the only things that can make him smile. It was and will always be.
That is why Baekhyun was the first person he wanted to see after his little fight with Kyungsoo. It turned out that Kyungsoo did come looking for him and he saw them getting intimate with each other, or so he says, because the kissing and the tickling part is normal to them, very normal, but Kyungsoo knew otherwise.
“What do you take me for?! You’re all the same!”
“At least let me explain! I’m trying to tell you for the past 30 minutes that there is nothing going on between us!”
“Screw you and your lies! You think I don’t see how you look at him?! You can tell me that I’m assuming things but have you ever thought that there are things you don’t realize yourself?! And that other people can see it? I can see it Chanyeol…how you look at him…you love him,”
“No-Kyungsoo, you’re not making any sense!”
“You just don’t realize it,”
Chanyeol opened his mouth to protest but what can he say? That Baekhyun is nothing? That he doesn’t love Baekhyun like that? He can’t make up lies involving Baekhyun, he just can’t. And so Kyungsoo left with the silence that screams he was right all along. That there are things Chanyeol doesn’t realize himself. He doesn’t even know what to feel anymore.
Baekhyun finally decided to consult Chanyeol about something that’s been bothering him for a while now. Well, he was supposed to until he met Kyungsoo who was crying by the entrance. After a little talk, he immediately rushed to Chanyeol’s unit.
“Yeol! Yeol are you there?!” Baekhyun yelled as he tried to open the door but it was locked.
“I’m here Baek,”
“Are you alright? Open the door Yeol!”
“I can’t,”
“What? Why?”
“I can’t see you right now,”
“Yeol!” Baekhyun yelled again, knocking several times before giving up when he felt his hands getting numb. He sighed and decided to sit down while leaning on the door. It looked like he wouldn’t get an answer from Chanyeol anyway so there wasn’t any point. It was cold but he doesn’t care. “It’s snowing, Yeol,” He said randomly but still, no reply.
Baekhyun sighed. If he wants to fill in the awkward silence between them, he has to at least think of something. “You’re my honey bunch, sugar plum, pumpy-umpy-unkin, you’re my sweetie pie,” Baekhyun started singing despite his hoarse voice due to the screaming he did. But Chanyeol always finds Baekhyun’s voice beautiful and soft even when he was stuck with a cold before. “You’re my cuppy cake, gum drop, snoogums boogums, you’re…the apple of my eye,”
He remembers singing the same song with Chanyeol in a school event before. The school event was a singing contest and they both decided to make a fool out of themselves by singing an awful childish song with no backtrack while wearing awful costumes with a large green leaf on top of their heads. They were idiots. That’s why.
“And I love you so…and I want you to know that I’ll always be right here…” Baekhyun continued as he clenches the passport in his hand. “And I love to sing…sweet songs to you because you-are-so-dear….” He crooned while smiling a bit. He leaves after wards so Chanyeol can have his time alone to think.
That was a rather good decision. Chanyeol kept on wondering since when did everything change so much? His unit used to be empty like this too but ever since Baekhyun came, he had lots of fun times then it went back to being empty again. His heart too, was empty before, but now there’s Baekhyun inside it. What was the reason for all of this? He doesn’t have the answer at all.
Or, it was right there but he was just too blind to see it. Baekhyun was…his everything. Baekhyun was always there with him, always making him laugh, always made his life so peaceful. Maybe if he realized it a little sooner, he didn’t have to look for someone else to take Baekhyun’s role. No matter how much he thinks about it, no one can take Baekhyun’s place. Ever.
He didn’t realize he fell asleep while thinking about such things but he knows when he wakes up, everything will be back to how it was before.
Baekhyun, on the other hand, called Jongin to ask some favor.
The next morning, Chanyeol woke up with grumpy eyes so he immediately washed his face, took a bath and groomed himself so he can look presentable to Baekhyun. He cooked his own food when he realized it’s already past 10 am and he hasn’t eaten yet.
“Baekhyun.” He whispers. All he can think of was Baekhyun and his feelings. He can kill himself now for being so stupid. Everything finally made sense. He didn’t like Kyungsoo after all. It was Baekhyun, from the beginning until the end. He thought he can make another Baekhyun out of Kyungsoo but it doesn’t work like that. No one can ever be like Baekhyun because Baekhyun is unique and different from all of them. What the hell is with all the nonsense in his mind?
He realized he was scared. He was scared of falling in love with his own best friend so he tried to find someone else than can detach him from his best friend. Insert Kyungsoo here. But at the end of the day, he will still be looking for Byun Baekhyun. That was his wrong choice. He didn’t trust himself enough and decided to run away from something that obviously had already caught up with him no matter how fast he ran.
He immediately went to Baekhyun’s unit after finishing his food. He took a deep breath when he was finally in front of Baekhyun’s door.
“Baek?” He called while knocking. The door opened and he smiled but immediately faded away when he saw Jongin holding a large box. “Jongin?!”
“Oh, you,” Jongin replied after recognizing the giant in front of him, obviously not amused.
“What are you doing here?”
“Uh…cleaning?”
“What the hell? Where’s Baekhyun? I need to talk to him,”
“Oh my God. He didn’t tell you, did he?” Jongin said as he drops the box beside the door.
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
Jongin stared at him and took a deep breath as if he was giving him a sign that he needs to listen carefully because he’s going to tell him something that has something to do with the destruction of the earth. Or Chanyeol’s heart.
Maybe if he realized it a little sooner he wouldn’t be regretting so much. Baekhyun would still be beside him, or better, inside his unit, blabbing about useless things then later they would be watching some drama series they already know about and they play until late night and never get bored of each other no matter how repetitive their routine was. They would never get bored with each other because they make each other happy. But Chanyeol was just so stupid to fail to realize everything.
“He’s leaving for Canada today and asked me to clean his unit for him, dumbass. Wow you two are stupid. I think his flight is at 11,”
He remembers what Jongin said and immediately rushed to the airport. When he got there, he doesn’t know a thing or two about which way to go but one thing’s for sure, he has to let Baekhyun know about his feelings before he’s too late. There isn’t much time before Baekhyun’s flight and he can’t waste his time searching for him so he took a rather different route of decision.
Baekhyun, on the other hand, has slightly prepared himself for the biggest mistake he’ll make in his 22 years of existence. “Passengers bound for Canada, there will be slight delay for the flight, I repeat passengers bound for Canada, there will be a slight-hey!”
Baekhyun, as well as the other passengers, stopped when the announcer was suddenly interrupted. “What the hell are you doing?!” The announcer yelled from the speakers and Baekhyun’s eyebrows met in confusion.
“Hello? Hello mic test. Mic test.” Baekhyun looked around to find where it was coming from- which was obviously from the speakers- as he found the voice very familiar. “Hey-ah….so I’m going to sing a song for someone who is in this airport right now,” The person said as he cleared his throat.
“You’re my honey bunch…sugar plum…pumpy-umpy-ukin, you’re my sweetie pie,”
Baekhyun dropped his luggage as he hears a familiar song being sung by a familiar voice, a voice that belongs to none other than Park Chanyeol. “You’re my cuppy cake, gum drop, snoogums boogums you’re…the apple of my eye…”
Baekhyun bit his lip as the song continued. “And I love you so…and I want you to know…that I’ll always be right here. And I love to sing…sweet songs to you because…you are so dear…”
It felt as if everything stopped and they were the only people in the world even though they don’t even see each other. “Ya-Byun Baekhyun-“
“That’s him guards!”
“SHIT!” Chanyeol yells then started running outside with the guards closely following behind him. Fortunately, his legs are long enough for his convenience. He ran down as fast as he can despite hitting several people on the way. When he was on the last stairs, he saw Baekhyun standing in the middle of the lobby, looking at him as he runs.
“Baekhyun!”
He finally arrived at the lobby and was this close to Baekhyun when unfortunately he was taken down by a few guards. “We got him! We got the trouble maker!”
“Ya! Ya you let me go!” Chanyeol yells while struggling really hard. He looks at Baekhyun who was standing at a near distance in front of him and was only staring at him in shock. “Hey Baek! You can’t go alright?! Who told you to go?! I’m telling you you’re gonna stay here with me! You hear me?!”
“What the hell is he talking about?” One of the securities questioned.
“Why do you even want to know?!” Chanyeol yelled back in exasperation. “This is between me and the love of my life, you hear?!”
The securities looked at Baekhyun who now has his hands covering his face in embarrassment.
“The love of your life?” They questioned again.
“Yeah! I was such a fucking idiot, you know that? I didn’t realize it until now. I didn’t realize how much I love him. That’s why I quickly rushed to this airport to stop him from leaving so why do you have your hands on me?! Don’t you have any sympathy?! ”
Startled, the securities immediately let go of Chanyeol. Chanyeol stood up and approached Baekhyun who was still in shock.
“Baekhyun! You’re not going right? You’re not going to leave me right?” Chanyeol asks, his hands trembling as well as his voice.
Baekhyun smiled at him. “What the hell…how can I leave you after all the mess you made?” True, how much more embarrassing can a giant get after singing an awful childish song in an airport where everybody can hear? But, he is Chanyeol after all.
Chanyeol sighed in relief and he quickly embraced Baekhyun into a warm hug. The bystanders and witnesses, especially the guards, all rejoiced and clapped their hands for them. “You’re such an idiot, Yeol,” Baekhyun whispered, bowing his head to hide his tears.
Chanyeol cupped Baekhyun’s head and lift it so he can look at him straight in the eyes then wiped his tears with his thumb. He slowly leans in to kiss Baekhyun on the lips, a gesture that shows how much realizations he had, how much his heart is happy right now and how much his life has been completed by that one person that was once a stranger to him.
“I love you, Baek,”
“I love you too, idiot,”
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took the wrong choice? We all make wrong choices but these choices can lead us to a better path. When Baekhyun first appeared in front of Chanyeol’s unit, Chanyeol never knew that the stranger will be the one who will complete him. What would happen if Chanyeol didn’t trust Baekhyun enough despite the innocent face and called the police? It would’ve been the end of both of them.
And Chanyeol is thankful enough that Baekhyun remembered the unit number wrong. Mistakes can also lead you to success, don’t you think? And wrong choices let you find another path, it may be harder, but in the end you will still reach the top.