The days leading up to Christmas are a bore. Baekhyun doesn’t have much to do because the school break starts a week before Christmas, so the only things he does are take Mongryong out, play games, and talk to his best friend, Jongdae, and Chanyeol. Then it dawns on him that he really is, for lack of a better word, lonely.

The company’s doing well so Chanyeol has the Christmas week off, but Baekhyun doesn’t know what Chanyeol has planned. He wants to meet the latter, but figures it’s too soon and that he’ll just have to wait till Christmas to finally be able to see Chanyeol.

Baekhyun isn’t very close to his family to begin with. So maybe he isn’t as broke as he claims to be, considering he’s a trust fund baby, but he’s cautious. He had a falling out with his family once when they found out he was dating a man, and that was when Baekhyun found out that he really could not live without his parents’ money.

Thankfully, his parents aren’t the brightest and believed him when he said and acted like he wasn’t a flaming homoual. That was almost a year ago—he just has to hold out a little longer since he’s graduating soon. Either don’t do anything or don’t get caught. He hasn’t been dating since, and he’s only had a couple of hook ups.

But with Chanyeol, Baekhyun doesn’t think he can find anyone like him again.

They’ve only know each other for what, 2 months? But Baekhyun feels like he’s known Chanyeol forever. It feels like they’re long-lost friends. And he knows this feeling—he knows he’s falling for Chanyeol.

A man he’s never met.

He thinks back to Chanyeol’s email. Technically, you really don’t know me at all. But Baekhyun thinks otherwise.

He knows Chanyeol still cries over his ex (this one hurts). He knows Chanyeol rewatches his favourite movies alone at home every Thanksgiving because he’s ‘thankful for their existence’. He knows Chanyeol is insecure about his height because everyone thinks he’s abnormally tall for some reason, he knows Chanyeol’s comfort food is his mom’s spaghetti and he knows when Chanyeol’s online laugh is fake.

Sure, Baekhyun hasn’t met him. But who’s to say that online friends cannot be as close as friends in real life? He knows so much about the man behind the screen but he’s never even met the man, and Baekhyun doesn’t want to imagine how much more he will notice about Chanyeol when he finally gets to meet him.

Baekhyun has a feeling he won’t get to meet Chanyeol on Christmas.

The man is unreachable and Baekhyun is quite frankly, worried. The last message he got from Chanyeol was him announcing that he was gonna take Toben to the park, and even though Baekhyun replied immediately, Chanyeol didn’t. He isn’t reading his messages or answering his calls, and there aren’t any social media updates from him either.

Baekhyun hates this.

He hates that he has no other way of checking up on Chanyeol bec