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4 hours of sleep and Chanyeol was already up. The meeting was starting in less than 2 hours but there was a long way to get there with a car. It was 7 in the morning so he guessed that Baekhyun was sleeping soundly.

 

The first he did was packing his things, change clothes and skip breakfast since he had no time to eat anything. Beside, he did’t want to make noises so that the other would wake up.

 

But before leaving the house he decided to write a short note just to let Baekhyun know he left and a thank you for letting him stay here.

 

With one last glance at the sleeping boy he walked out from the house and drove away.

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

Baekhyun groans as he slowly open his eyes. The sunlight was the cause for waking him up so early, he regret that he didn’t sleep in his parents room instead on the sofa. He quickly sat up and looked around. Everything looked so untouched.

 

He almost jumped out of his skin when a piece of paper fell down from his head or whatever it was on. He furrowed his brows and looked at it.

 

Morning!

Sorry for just leaving without saying a proper goodbye.

However, I am pretty late to my meeting therefore I decided to write this short note for you. I just wanted to say thank you for letting me stay here, I’m very thankful for that.

Hope to see you soon!

 

-Chanyeol.

 

Baekhyun sighed as he kept on reading the note over and over again. He had kind of hoped Chanyeol was still there, lying on his bed with his gorgeous morning hair.

 

It was then that he had noticed how lonely he felt. He never realized how lively it felt when the other was here, even though they didn’t do anything special.

 

Baekhyun got up and began walking up to his room, just to actually see with his own eyes that Chanyeol was indeed gone.

 

The lump he had in his throat got bigger when he opened his room, finding his bed empty but neatly made up. He kind of felt like an idiot for feeling so miserable that Chanyeol have left him. But knowing that the superstar has a schedule that can change any second, how can his hope stay high that they will meet each other again? Chanyeol would probably not want to hang with a desperate fanboy! No, a popular artist wants to hang out with cool people, those with with money and are also well-known. Baekhyun is only a security guard which he knows won’t last any longer for he hasn’t even been working for a long time.

 

His stomach turned and twisted as he laid on his bed and inhaled the scent he fell even more in love with. He couldn’t help it, but he was so in love with Chanyeol that the tears that wanted to escape finally fell. He had never experienced this kind of feeling before, the feeling of loving someone being so strong that even if you aren’t together you still get hurt. He guess that’s why they call it one-side love.

 

With snot on the pillow drained with his tears he grabbed his phone and dialed Luhan’s number. He had to talk to someone.

 

As soon as Luhan answered Baekhyun screamed.

 

”Luhan!!” He whined.

 

”What?” 

 

”I’m heartbroken!” He cried out.

 

Luhan groaned. Here we go again. ”Why?”

 

”CHANYEOL LEFT ME!” Baekhyun sobbed. ”He’s never gonna see me again!”

 

”Stop screaming at me you desperate bra—” Before Luhan could throw an insult at Baekhyun he remembered what Kyungsoo did to him.

 

”Sorry, what did you say?”

 

”Luhan~I miss Chanyeol so much…”

 

”Did he leave you today?”

 

”Yes…It’s only been few hours but I can’t help but miss him..it hurts.”

 

”What do you want me to do?”

 

”I don’t know, I can’t live like this…the only thoughts I have now is that me and Chanyeol are never going to see each other.” Baekhyun wiped the fresh tears.

 

Luhan was quiet for awhile. ”I have an idea.”

 

”You have?”

 

”I do. Run away from home.”

 

Baekhyun’s eyes widen. ”I can’t do that!”

 

”Of course you can’t, but you will anyway. I’m actually moving to Korea since that’s where Sehun is the most. Kyungsoo too. But you will be living with me for awhile, you hear me?”

 

”But..what about my parents?”

 

”That’s up to you. Just know that you can do whatever you want with your life Baekhyun. Stop letting your parents decide what you should do.”

 

”Yeah you’re right! I will for once leave this house and live my dreams!”

 

”I will talk to Kyungsoo about this. I’ll call you later.”

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

The feeling of running away from your own home is weird. He can’t believe he will finally reach for his dreams and that nothing can stop him. Not having his parents nagging about him finding a good job or his mother calling him to get back.

 

Baekhyun for the first time today smiled at the evil thought. But before he will pack his things there is one person he has to see.

 

”Oooh my precious little boy!~” Mrs.Kim opened her arms inviting Baekhyun in her embrace. He wrapped his arms around her tightly.

 

”Good day Mrs.Kim. How was your morning?” He quickly shrugged off the word ’little’ as he didn’t want a small thing to irritate him today. Beside he will miss this old lady.

 

”Good! Very good. Want to come inside?” Baekhyun nodded and they both walked inside.

 

It’s actually been awhile since he last been here. It wasn’t until her husband had died from a heart attack that Baekhyun had stopped visit. He had formed such a special bond with Mr.Kim so the news really hit him deeply in his heart.

 

”Want something to eat?” She asked when Baekhyun made himself comfortable on the tiny couch.

 

”Yes please!” He said rather loudly.

 

Mrs.Kim smiled fondly at the boy and walked inside the kitchen.

 

Baekhyun looked around the living room, it was still the same, all of the pictures was there. But something caught his eyes as he looked at a slightly opened box. He got up and decided to take a look.

”What the hell.” He said almost inaudible to himself. He could not believe he had made this in 2013. It looked like a kid had drawn this! 

 

 

”Aww, I remember that one! You used to come here to draw you and Chanyeol all the time. I have a lot to show you!” Mrs.Kim joyful clapped her hands as she grabbed the box. Baekhyun felt embarrassed that she even kept them safely. Was he really that bad at drawing? Let’s not forget the way he writes, that’s a big failure.

 

”Look at this one, this is by far my favorite in this collection.” 

 

 

”Oh my god no! Take that away from me!” Baekhyun exclaimed out of embarrassment. Now that was an even more uglier drawing. It only made it worse that it stood 2014! Even the other drawing was better..

 

”How can you say that about your own art of work. This is beautiful! I can’t wait when Chanyeol comes here one day so I can show him all of your cute drawings.” Mrs.Kim beamed as she adjusted her glasses. ”Now let’s eat.”

 

Thank you…

 

Baekhyun and Mrs.Kim was now chewing on their cookies, the room was quiet and Baekhyun took the chance to finally speak up about the situation he is in now.

 

”Um..Mrs.Kim.” He slowly started. The old lady looked up at him from the magazine she was reading.

”Yes?”

 

Baekhyun fiddled with his fingers in a nervous way. He tried to look at something else than the old lady. ”I’m running away..from home.”

 

The room went quiet again and Baekhyun wondered if she was angry at him for being so dumb to run away.

 

”Finally.” Mrs.Kim sighed in relief. ”I have always wished for you to get away from that house. That way you can do whatever you want.” She smiled sweetly as she adjusted her glasses.

 

Baekhyun stared at her in disbelief he couldn’t believe his ears.

 

”What? Don’t you think your parents are being a bit too nagging? Move out, start a new life and make a move on Chanyeol.” She said.

 

Baekhyun’s face flushed as soon as he heard ’make a move on Chanyeol’ if only she knew…

 

”Yeah..I know..I’m just a bit scared.”

 

”Of course you are~It will be a new chapter for you. Just take care of yourself and if you ever need money call me.”

 

Baekhyun nodded eagerly with a big smile. ”Thank you!”

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

Chanyeol could finally breath out when he exit the room he had been in for so many hours with no pause. He had been discussing with s, the CEO, his manager and other people he don’t know about the upcoming album. It’s been so tiring hearing the same thing over and over again - when to appear on different variety shows and commercial films.

 

To tell the truth, he has been thinking of Baekhyun ever since he left the house. It was not like him to just befriend someone so easily or even trying to be close to one of his fans. Would any artist even do that?

 

He is obviously aware of Baekhyun’s love to him and it seems that it isn’t the love between a fan and an artist, but real love. He doesn’t plan to love Baekhyun just because he likes him, but Chanyeol will try to get to know him more since he does seem to be a very nice guy. He promised himself that whatever happens, happens.

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

Baekhyun walked back to his house after been spending hours over at Mrs.Kim’s place. He is full and the old woman kept on feeding him with sweets. By this time his parents must be home and it’s now he has taken the decision to tell them what’s on his mind.

 

”Hello?” Mr.Byun called out from the kitchen. Baekhyun had just opened the door with a weird feeling in his stomach.

 

”It’s me, Baekhyun.”

 

Mrs.Byun walked out as he wiped his hands with a towel. ”Hey, where have you been?” 

 

”Over at Mrs.Kim. I’m not eating anything since I already ate there.”

 

”What’s wrong? Why do you look so nervous?”

 

Baekhyun averted his eyes to different directions. His body was trembling a bit from having his father’s eyes on him.

 

”Did that guy hurt you?”

 

Baekhyun looked up with wide eyes. ”No! Absolutely not.” He mumbled the last words. ”Is mom home?”

 

”Yeah. Do you want to talk to us both?” Baekhyun nodded and they both walked to the living room where his mother already was, she knitted something by the fireplace.

 

”Mom.” As soon as the mother heard her son’s voice she turned her head towards him.

 

”Hi. How was it?” She asked with a soft voice.

 

Baekhyun sat down by himself and exhaled heavily. ”It was better than what I expected.” He managed to smile. ”But I want to talk about something else, something very important.” He kept on looking back and forth at his parents.

 

”What’s wrong?” They asked concerned. They have never seen their son looking so nervous and scared, it made them get horrible thoughts that something bad happened to him.

 

”Mom. Dad. I want to move out.” He quickly looked down as soon as he saw the shocked expressions.

 

”What?” His mother asked. Did she hear it right? Her son wanted to move out?

 

”I want to move out and live by my own.” Baekhyun explained. This time he had more courage to look at his both parents. He had noticed that his dad looked way more calmer than his mother.

 

She mockingly laughed. ”Honey you don’t even have a job.”

 

”I do.”

 

”Excuse me? Since when? Why haven’t you told us anything?”

 

Baekhyun sighed, he knew this would turn out this way. Of course his mother would ask a lot of questions.

 

”I didn’t tell you at first because if I did, you wouldn't let me go.”

 

”I feel so betrayed. Do you see us as bad parents?” Mrs.Byun looked rather hurt but Baekhyun knew she was just overreacting.

 

”Mom! Of course not. It’s just…I want to live by my own and start a new chapter. I can’t live here forever, beside, I have a dream already that I had for years. Just please let me go for once. It’s not like I’m leaving you. Just the house.” Baekhyun explained with a pleading look.

 

Mrs.Byun looked down trying to process everything her son just said. She was very offended and shocked. She shook her head as she stood up. ”I can’t do this anymore, I have to take a nap. Do whatever you want but I don’t want to talk about this.” She quickly walked with furiously steps towards her bedroom.

 

”She’s just worried.” His dad stated.

 

”I know. That’s what parents should feel. Just to let you know, I will live with my friends.”

 

Mr.Byun smiled and ruffled his son’s hair. ”That sounds good.”

 

”Wait..does this mean I can go?” Baekhyun questioned.

 

”Of course. I will let you go wherever you want as long as you never forget where you came from and who your parents are.”

 

Baekhyun beamed and jumped up from his seat. He threw himself over his dad to give him a big hug. ”Thanks dad!”

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

It was around 5 in the morning when Baekhyun was woken up by his ringtone. He rubbed his eyes to see who was calling.

 

’LUHAN’

 

He groaned and answered it immediately.

 

”Hello?”

 

”It’s me~” He sang.

 

”Stop Luhan, it’s not funny at this time.” Baekhyun whined.

 

”Okay okay, geez. How’s my blooming princess today? Did you have permission to leave that basement?”

 

”You’re such a meanie!” Baekhyun half screamed. ”I got a permission from my dad.”

 

”Ahh, I see. Well Kyungsoo are coming over alone since Jongin is busy obviously.”

 

”About Kyungsoo..does he always follow him everywhere?”

”Yeah,well not this time but almost. Why?”

 

”I just…I think that’s amazing.” Baekhyun mumbled into his pillow. He had imagine how he and Chanyeol would look like if they ever got together.

 

”I know right. Wish I had a relationship like that.”

 

”You could have.”

 

Luhan tsked. ”Sehun is still a kid in his head so no thank you.”

 

”Isn’t that great? To have someone childish with you?”

 

”Are you insulting me?”

 

”I don’t know. Am I?” Baekhyun grinned even though he was tired.

 

”Whatever. Me and Sehun are not having something called relationship. Doesn’t work like that for us.”

 

”So just hi, kiss and bye?”

 

”Exactly.”

 

”You’re weird.”

 

”I’m not.”

 

”Alright..you aren’t.” Lies.

 

”So I have already called someone to pick you up. Even though you wouldn’t have a permission to leave, I wouldn’t care.”

 

”Aha, so when’s the time?”

 

”Maybe about an hour—”

 

”AN HOUR?!” Baekhyun exclaimed as he quickly sat up in a sitting position. ”Are you out of your mind? I haven’t even properly said goodbye, haven’t even eaten any breakfast , haven’t even packed my things..” Baekhyun rambled all the stuff while Luhan only rolled his eyes.

 

”Relax dude. Eat your breakfast, take a shower and pack your things. I have already sent someone to pick you up.”

 

”Who? I want to know.”

 

”It’s someone~” Luhan sing-sang.

 

”Fine…well, bye then. See ya.”

 

”Yup, good luck coming here.”

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

”Chanyeol you have been unfocused all the time, what’s wrong buddy?” Jongin patted on his friend’s back. Through the entire day, Chanyeol has been doing a lot more mistakes than ever, he has forgotten his lyrics and even spacing out.

 

”Nothing..just very tired.” Chanyeol smiled weakly and sat down with his sticky body.

 

Jongin joined him and watched the others practice for their upcoming album.

 

”What caused you to be this tired?”

 

Chanyeol exhaled loudly and closed his eyes.

 

”Remember that guy Baekhyun?”

 

Jongin squinted his eyes. He had heard that name before..

 

”Oh yeah! Kyungsoo has talked about him.”

 

”Kyungsoo knows Baekhyun?”

 

Jongin sighed at his friend’s obliviousness. ”Damn Chanyeol, both Kyungsoo and Luhan are always together with him yet you haven’t noticed them!”

 

”What..?” Chanyeol scratched his head. ”Wow.”

 

”Yeah, wow. But to answer your question, yes he knows Baekhyun.”

 

”So. What does he say about him?”

 

Jongin muffled his laugh but stopped immediately when he saw his friend looking serious at him.

 

”Um, that he sometimes call Kyungsoo while crying.”

 

”Crying?”

 

”Yeah, he keeps on telling both Kyungsoo and Luhan how much he loves you. There was this time when I stayed over at Kyung’s house and suddenly he had the speaker on, I could hear everything and I swear man, I almost lost my ears!” Jongin laughed to himself but Chanyeol only remained silent.

 

”Does he always cry?” His question was mostly directed to himself but somehow Jongin had kind of heard it.

 

”What?”

 

Chanyeol smiled as he shook his head. ”Nothing. Let’s practice some more, I feel better now.”

 

Jongin stared at his friend for some seconds before a smile crossed his face.

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

Baekhyun had packed all of his most needed things rather fast. It was still a lot of time left before he takes his leave.

 

It was just one thing he will miss a lot.

 

His room.

 

Looking around he can’t help but smile at how much of time he had spent of every little thing in this room. How he fought to buy the last album, or to win the signature posters. This was a journey he had been through and now he’s facing another one but a more realistic one. This journey is all about going forward to reach as close as possible to his dream.

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

”How did it go?” Kyungsoo asked on the other line.

 

”Fairly good actually. His father accepted it and by now he’s about to leave his house.”

 

”I can’t wait to meet him again. This time all of us three will stay together!” Kyungsoo beamed.

 

”I know right. I mean as much as I prefer to live in my home city, South Korea is not a bad idea either. This way, you and Baekhyun won’t have to struggle to save money for a trip all the way to China.”

 

”Money is not the problem for me but for Baekhyun, that’s a huge problem.”

 

”Luckily he doesn’t have to spend that much if you know what I mean.”

 

The other line went silent for awhile.

 

”AHA! Chanyeol! That giant is going to be so whipped.” Kyungsoo laughed.

 

”More like he’s already whipped.” Luhan tried holding his laugh back.

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

Baekhyun saw a car outside the house so he guessed it was the person who was picking him up. With one last look inside his parents room he closed it and walked out from the house into the still dark night sky.

 

”Hey.” The guy leaned against the car with black sunglasses on, well mostly everything was black except for his fair white skin and his bleached blonde hair. He somehow looked very familiar.

 

”Hi. Who are you if I may ask?” Baekhyun asked softly for it was still early.

 

The guy smiled and instead of answering he got inside the car. Baekhyun shrugged and followed suit.

 

It had passed a long minute before the guy finally spoke again, this time he removed his sunglasses and turned his head back when they had stopped in a red light.

 

Baekhyun couldn’t help but let out a loud gasp as he looked at the guy with big wide eyes.

 

”So we have met in person Byun Baekhyun.”

 

”What are you doing here Sehun?!” Baekhyun looked around the car and outside incase there was fans following them. He had heard that EXO had a lot of sasaeng fans.

 

”Picking you up, what does it look like?” Sehun returned to focus on the road, his sunglasses already on.

 

Baekhyun didn’t understand. Why was Sehun of all the people picking him up? So this means EXO is actually back in South Korea.

 

”May I ask you something?” Baekhyun leaned a bit closer to the front.

 

”Yeah, sure.”

 

”Why aren’t you with the rest of the members?”

 

”Some are right now practicing for our upcoming album and others are working on other things. As for me I am free and Luhan happened to ask me nicely if I could pick you up and here I am.” Baekhyun watch the way Sehun smiled from the little mirror by the drivers seat.

 

That’s when it hit him.

 

”You’re having a comeback?!” He exclaimed.

 

”We are.” Sehun chuckled.

 

”Oh my god!” Baekhyun began to fan himself. ”Is it a full album or a mini? When is the date, which month and what time will the first teaser be released?”

 

Sehun having tons of questions thrown at him, he couldn’t help but smile widely.

 

”You are aware that I can’t give you answers to any of your questions.”

 

”Come on! I swear I’m your biggest fan, I won’t tell anyone about this.” Baekhyun looked at Sehun through the mirror with puppy eyes.

 

The driver sighed. ”Alright. You seem to be a very trustable person so this will stay between us as a secret, okay?”

 

”Promise!”

 

”So, it will be a full length album, the correct date for the release would be 6th May and the teaser is yet not discussed.”

 

”MAY?! AS IN THE 6TH MAY?!” Baekhyun’s eyes was almost as big as Kyungsoo.

 

”Exactly.” Sehun turned back again to look at Baekhyun. ”Look, I understand you are a big fanboy or ’the biggest fan ever’ but why is 6th May so special? Kind of a dumb ques—”

 

”Dumb question?! That’s my birthday!” Baekhyun squealed into his palms to hide his flushed face. He felt so giddy and filled with happiness inside him.

 

”Oh, so that’s what it is.” Sehun nodded and returned to the road.

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

As Baekhyun was hugging Kyungsoo inside the apartment Luhan and Sehun stood alone in the hallway.

 

”So what do I get in return?” Sehun leaned against the doorframe.

 

”Whatever you want.” Luhan smiled.

 

”Give me a kiss then.”

 

”Sure.” Luhan leaned forward and placed a big kiss on the other’s lips.

 

”By the way you look pretty with black hair.” Sehun caressed Luhan’s cheek before walking away to the elevator.

 

Luhan stayed there for awhile with his hand on his cheek. It still felt so warm, like Sehun was still standing there.

 

”Has he left?” Baekhyun asked from behind.

”Y-yeah.” Luhan stuttered, he hoped Baekhyun wouldn’t suspect anything.

 

”Alright…” He squinted his eyes a bit, trying to get better access to Luhan’s face. ”Well me and Kyungsoo are going to watch some TV, you’re coming?”

 

The only thing he could do was nod and follow his friend.

 

”Hurry up and bring the popcorn here!” Kyungsoo shouted from the bed. It was planned that the three of them would lie on the big bed so they could watch TV straight across. There was also a movie that was about to start any second, which meant that they can’t pause or rewind.

 

”Catch!” Luhan threw the extremely hot bag of popcorn right onto Kyungsoo’s face.

 

”What the actually Luhan!” The poor boy ran his hand down his face. It hurt a lot.

 

”Sorry! Not my fault you can’t catch anything with your small hands.” Luhan grinned as he laid down beside Baekhyun.

 

”You’re lucky Baekhyun is lying in the middle or else I would have choked you.”

 

Baekhyun laid helpless between the bickering friends who continued to threaten each other.

 

”Can we just watch the movie, it has begun already.” He whined.

 

The two boys stopped and made themselves comfortable, snuggled closely to Baekhyun.

 

 

20 minutes had passed and there was already ads showing up. The three friends groaned as they realized the popcorn was already eaten up.

 

”Baekkie~Can you be nice and pop some more?” Luhan smiled sweetly at him.

 

”Sure.” As Baekhyun was struggling to get out from bed he finally managed to walk to the kitchen.

 

Just few steps away the news was .

 

”Park Chanyeol from the popular group EXO was spotted to have met someone during his free time here in South Korea. As we scan the other person’s face we can clearly see it is a boy who possibly might be a close person to the famous pop star…”

 

The trio’s eyes was wide enough for their eyeballs to pop out any second.

 

”WHAT THE HELL?!” Kyungsoo couldn’t contain to hold back his outburst.

 

”YOU’RE ON THE NEWS BAEKHYUN!” Luhan smiled.

 

”OH MY GOD!” Baekhyun on the other hand was fighting against his heartbeat.

 

”You’re lucky they blurred your address or else some of Chanyeol’s fans would have found it and burned it with no care!” Luhan laughed at the news that was still going on.

 

ㆍㅅㆍ

 

Some of the EXO members that had been training in the practice room was walking with tired steps into their shared house.

 

Jongin out of everyone walked directly to the shower.

Kris and Suho had just coming back from an interview.

Sehun walked to the playroom with Tao and Chen.

Xiumin and Lay was just chilling in front of the TV.

Chanyeol however was still in the hallway, trying to take his outwear off.

 

”Hey Chanyeol, wanna watch some TV with us?” Lay lazily asked from the sofa.

 

”Mmm.” The giant only hummed. He turned his snapback backwards and grabbed a glass of cold water before walking to the living room.

 

Just as he entered his footsteps halted as soon as his name was announced on the news. Apparently it was his sister again who was probably about to talk about him or EXO.

 

 

”Park Chanyeol from the popular group EXO was spotted to have met someone during his free time here in South Korea. As we scan the other person’s face we can clearly see it is a boy who possibly might be a close person to the famous pop star. From just this picture we are yet not sure how close they are or if it’s business…”

 

Both Lay and Xiumin turned around with a puzzled face.

 

”Care to explain?” The eldest asked.

 

Chanyeol sighed. He would have to talk to his sister.

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