Kyungsoo woke up early in the morning to prepare for his morning classes. He looked at the clock as it read 7:30 am. He sighed as he looked at the mirror. Being a music major wasn’t all that easy. He loved singing and he enjoyed making music, but the classes he had to take were stressful most of the time. That’s one thing he hated about the music industry, even if he were to continue with his major, it didn’t guarantee that he would make it in the industry. He wondered how Chanyeol did it?

 

Kyungsoo shook his head as he brushed his teeth. He shouldn’t be thinking about Chanyeol when he had his studies to focus on. Kyungsoo quickly put on some clothes as he walked out of his apartment. He walked out of his complex as he was met with Baekhyun.

 

“Are they out there?” asked Kyungsoo nervously.

 

“No, you’re in luck. Which is too bad because I tried looking good for the cameras,” said Baekhyun as he pouted.

 

“Why?”

 

“Because dummy, what If Chen happens to see it and I look like an absolute wreck?! I can’t have that,” said Baekhyun seriously. Kyungsoo scoffed at that.

 

“You still look like a wreck though.”

 

“Hey! I spent an hour trying to get ready. You how much fancy clothes ?! They are the absolute worst, I’m so uncomfortable right now,” said Baekhyun as he flung his arms in the air.

 

“You have got to get over that obsession,” said Kyungsoo as they walked out of the complex and to the bus stop. Thankfully, no paparazzi were there to take pictures. Well, fortunately for Kyungsoo, Baekhyun on the other half, not so much.

 

“Did you ask him?” asked Baekhyun as he started at Kyungsoo hopefully, changing the topic.

 

“Did I ask who what?’

 

“Did you ask Chanyeol if he knew Chen? Duh” answered Baekhyun as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Kyungsoo stayed silent for a moment. Should he tell Baekhyun or should he keep it from him for now? After all, he didn’t want Baekhyun squealing in front of everyone at the bus stop.

 

“No, I didn’t.”

 

“Damn it,” said Baekhyun as he pouted.

 

“Baekhyun, I cannot stress to you how bad being obsessed is.”

 

“You know what Kyungsoo? It’s easy for you to say that. First of all, you’re obsessed over anyone and second of all you’re going out with a celebrity. One, who might I add, is pretty attractive, not as attractive as my Chen, Obvious-”

 

“I’m not dating him, Baek.”

 

“Alright, fake dating. Whatever you want to call it, but still dating. Anyway… I just want to meet Chen is all. At least just once. Obviously, if he wants a little more the-”
 

“Oh my god, shut up you ert,” said Kyungsoo as they boarded the bus. Kyungsoo couldn’t help but notice a few peering strangers as he boarded the bus.

 

“You know, there’s people staring,,” said Baekhyun as they took a seat and the bus began to move.

 

“Yeah, no , Sherlock,” said Kyungsoo as he tried not to pay attention to the staring strangers.

 

“Oh, someone’s rather grumpy today. More than usual actually, someone didn’t get any last night,” said Baekhyun as he knocked his shoulders into Kyungsoo’s. Kyungsoo internally sighed, he hoped Baekhyun didn’t wouldn’t bring up his first date with Chanyeol. His first fake date might he correct himself.

 

“No, and nor will I be getting any at all, not from him.” Baekhyun rolled his eyes as they got out the bus and headed to their university.

 

“Don’t be so grumpy though, people leech off of that, you know?” Kyungsoo nodded as they split up to go to their own classes. He was kind of glad he didn’t have Baekhyun in the mornings, he loved his friend, but he could go hours upon hours with pure talk, and today he wasn’t feeling all that up to small talk.

 

“You jerk!” Kyungsoo heard as he felt someone hit his shoulder. He turned around to see Kai looking at him with an accusing look.

 

“What did I do?” hissed Kyungsoo as he rubbed the spot where Kai had hit him.

 

“You’ve been going out with Chanyeol, everyone knows. I’m your friend and I didn’t know. And Chanyeol of all people!” Kai practically shouted. Great, now he had the attention of all of the people around them.

 

“Look Kai, I don’t want to talk about this, not now,” he said as he tried to move past all the people who were crowding around him. Boy did he really want to punch their peering faces.

 

Thankfully, Kai had dropped the subject and Kyungsoo was able to get to class time, but he was faced with quite a large amount of people looking at him. He hated it, he was starting to get pissed off. Kyungsoo never really liked having so much attention on him, and now that practically the whole school was looking at him, he couldn’t do anything to stop them. How unfortunate for him, but he tried to pull through. He had his last class of the day as he sat at the very back, trying to avoid any conflict. He thought he could get through this class without any incident, but boy was he wrong.

 

“The next assignment is a rather important one. You are to create your own song, and I will grade it based on the melody and the lyrics. You are all music majors here and I expect the best.”

 

Kyungsoo was ready to bolt out of the classroom before the professor spoke once again.

 

“And it seems that we have a celebrity here.” Oh, no. Kyungsoo should have known this would happen. Maybe the professor wasn’t talking about him though? So Kyungsoo remained silent as all eyes moved to his direction.

 

After a few seconds of silence, he realized that unfortunately, the professor was talking to him. He sighed internally as he looked at the professor.

 

“I’m not a celebrity, sir.”

 

“Ah, but you’re dating one, no?” replied the professor as the whole class started snickering.

 

“Actually I’-” began Kyungsoo. He wanted to tell them that no, he wasn’t and that it was all fake, but he couldn’t. While he didn’t really like Chanyeol, and he didn’t like how he was being used, he felt that it was his fault because he had also brought this mess onto himself. So he didn’t deny the dating rumors.

 

“Yes, sir I am,” he replied.

 

“And a musician at that too. Well, since you’re probably going to get his help, I’ll make it harder for you. How about that?” said the professor as the class started to laugh. Kyungsoo took a deep breath as he tried not to back talk. He was Kyungsoo’s professor after all.

 

“Yes, sir,” he replied through gritted teeth as class was done for the day. Kyungsoo hurried out of the room and fast as he could, intent on trying to avoid anyone who wanted to speak to him about Chanyeol. He sped through the hall as he bumped into someone.

 

“Watch where you’re going!” he said as he looked up and was met with Baekhyun.

 

“Jesus, don’t bite me head of-” he stopped as he took a look at Kyungsoo.

 

“Hey, what’s wrong?” he asked with a concerned look.

 

“Nothing,” he said as he began to walk back to the bus station. Usually, Baekhyun knew when to shut up and let Kyungsoo have his moment of peace, and today was one of those day. The headed to the bus stop as quickly as they could and Kyungsoo focused on thinking about his assignment which helped him ignore the peering strangers.

 

After a while of convincing Baekhyun that he didn’t need any company at home today, Kyungsoo headed to his apartment fuming. Today was not a good day. Just because he was forced to go out with Chanyeol didn’t mean that he was going to take advantage of him with his studies. That was absurd!

 

Kyungsoo walked up the steps to his apartment as looked up and was met with the sight of Chanyeol leaning against his door. Great, the one person who ruined his day was right in front of him.

 

“Hey,” said Chanyeol cheerfully. Kyungsoo ignored him as he tried to unlock his door. Chanyeol frowned as he spoke up once again.

 

“Kyungsoo-yah” he said again as Kyungsoo quit trying to open his door and he spun on his heels to face Chanyeol.

“What the do you want?!” he asked. Chanyeol looked shocked for a moment before he spoke again.

 

“Um what’s wrong?” he asked. Kyungsoo once again tried to open his door as Chanyeol kept asking him questions.

 

“Kyunsoo I-”

 

“Can you shut up, please. Today was not a good day, OK. Leave me alone,” he said as he wondered how the hell Chanyeol had gotten into the apartment complex without being noticed. After a few minutes of struggling, he was finally able to unlock his door.

 

“Can I co-”

 

“No, you can’t,” said Kyungsoo plainly as he shut the door in front of Chanyeol’s face. Sure, he felt guilty but he was just so mad right now. He was just ridiculed in front of classmates for gods sake! Kyungsoo huffed as he walked over to the couch and heaved a sigh. How could he show his face at school after what had happened today? The professor we being completely unfair to him. Kyungsoo shut his eyes for a few minutes as he tried to calm himself down. After about ten minutes, he felt his phone vibrate.

 

Can you open the door now, please?

 

Kyungsoo looked at the number for a few seconds. He stood up and walked to the door before he looked through the peep hole to find Chanyeol standing by the door awkwardly. After ten minutes of being locked out, Chanyeol was still waiting for him outside. Kyungsoo heaved a sigh as he opened the door.

 

“Kyungsoo!” said Chanyeol as he flung his arms around Kyungsoo. Kyungsoo stood still for a second before he detached himself from Chanyeol.

 

“Just what do you think you’re doing?” said Kyungsoo still angry.

 

“Hugging you,” replied Chanyeol in the most obvious manner.

 

“Why?!”

 

“Well, hugs always make people feel better.” Kyungsoo rolled his eyes as he closed the door behind them and sat on the couch again. He closed his eyes for a second before he opened them to reveal an awkward Chanyeol standing near him.

 

“You can sit,” he said as Chanyeol took a seat next to him.

 

“So… uh do you still want to hang out today?” said Chanyeol hopefully. Kyungsoo took a few seconds to think it over. It wasn’t really Chanyeol’s fault that he was ridiculed in class and he did slam the door in his face.

 

“And what exactly do you think we’re doing now?” he said as Chanyeol smiled at him.

 

“We’re hanging out!” he said as Kyungsoo almost smiled at his childish antics. Almost.

 

“Does your body guard know you’re here?” asked Kyungsoo as Chanyeol avoided the question.

 

“Uh, let’s watch a movie,” said Chanyeol.

 

“Chanyeol?”

 

“I like action movies let’s watch an action movie.”

 

“Chanyeol?”

 

“But of course this is your place, so it’s up to you so-”

 

“CHANYEOL!” yelled Kyungsoo, instantly gaining Chanyeol’s attention.

 

“Does he?”

 

Chanyeol sighed. “No, I can’t really go out without him, but I just really wanted to hang out today and-”

 

“Ok ok stop talking,” said Kyungsoo as he held his hand up.

 

He stood up from the couch as he randomly inserted a marvel movie and sat back down. He focused on the screen, but he couldn’t help but notice that Chanyeol was staring at him.

 

“What?” he said as he faced Chanyeol.

 

“You look grumpier than usual”

 

“You barley even know me.”

 

“I know but it just feels like there’s something bothering you,” asked Chanyeol as the movie remained forgotten. You’re my problem Kyungsoo wanted to say, but he just shrugged it off.

 

“Oh come on. As your fake boyfriend, I demand to know.”

 

Kyungsoo rolled his eyes. “If you don’t stop talking I’ll kick you out of this apartment.” They both knew he wouldn’t even be able to man handle Chanyeol out of the couch, but Chanyeol stayed silent none the less. Well, he didn’t question his mood further, but he rambled about plenty of other things.

 

It turns out Chanyeol was an avid comic book fan and every other minute he would always point out the inconsistencies of the film they were watching. He also shared his embarrassing stores of when he was a child and how he used to pretend to be a super hero. Kyungsoo was silent at first, intent on ignoring the taller male but he soon found himself laughing to some of Chanyeol’s silly stories.

 

After the movie had finished, Kyungsoo realized it was pretty dark outside. Chanyeol stood up as he stretched.

 

“I liked this,” Chanyeol said with a smile.

 

“How could you like a move you criticized ever other minute?”

 

“No, not the movie. I mean, I did like it but I meant that I liked hanging out together.”

 

“We didn’t do much and we hung out yesterday,” he said as Chanyeol gave him a sheepish smile.

 

“I know, but yesterday was different. And you looked really sad when you came home today and now you’re not that sad, so that mean I must have cheered you up right?” said Chanyeol as he smiled at Kyungsoo.

 

“You’re so full of yourself,” he said as he hid his smile and turned off the television.

 

“I still think you are warming up to me though,” he said as Kyungsoo rolled his eyes.

 

Chanyeol checked his watch before he spoke. “Oh man, I lost track of time, I have to go before it gets even darner outside,” he said as he frowned.

 

“You can stay the night,” Kyungsoo said before he could stop himself.

 

“Really?” said Chanyeol hopefully.

 

Well, there was no going back now. “Yeah, you can sleep on the couch,” said Kyungsoo as Chanyeol whined.

 

“But-”

 

“No buts, take it or leave it,” he said as he opened the door to show how serious he was. Of course, he wasn’t going to let Chanyeol leave at such a late hour, but Chanyeol didn’t know that.

 

“Ok, fine, but I can’t believe you treat your fake boyfriends like this,” joked Chanyeol as Kyungsoo went into his room to grab spare blankets.

 

“Well, I treat my partners with respect but we are not going out. This is all for show.”

 

“We’ll have to change that then,” replies Chanyeol as Kyungsoo rolled his eyes. He bid Chanyeol goodnight as he headed to his room. He hoped Chanyeol’s security guard wouldn’t yell at him for letting Chanyeol stay the night.