He looked captivating, Baekhyun thought. Standing under the shade of the old oak tree, with some rays of sunlight peeking through the shades; showering bits of his hair and face, his curly jet black hair looked soft and his handsome face shines even more, his ears looked adorable as usual and his eyes reminded Baekhyun of a giant puppy. The raven-haired was tall like a giant – unlike Baekhyun who’s petite and pretty unhappy with his lack of growth in height. He knew him. Of course, he knew him. The raven-haired is Park Chanyeol, a good student, teacher’s pet, a bit introvert yet handsome school prefect. Baekhyun doubted if all of his schoolmates knew Park Chanyeol, but honestly, Baekhyun liked it that way because he didn’t really like sharing anyway.

He didn’t really stalk Park Chanyeol. No, no, Baekhyun wouldn’t admit that. It just that, the Park guy had caught his eyes for the past two or maybe three years. Baekhyun would confidently say that he got a crush on Park Chanyeol. Unlike Chanyeol, Baekhyun was loud and seriously having a dramatic sea of emotions in a total of 5 minutes; his friend said that it was PMS but he’s a guy so he blamed it on ‘teenagers’ hormone’ – if that even existed. Despite their clashing personalities, they were close. In fact, too close for god’s sake. Some people even shipped both of them. Baekhyun always tried to give hints to Chanyeol by saying that he’s going to marry Chanyeol when they finished high school and how expressing his jealousy and get mad at Chanyeol for cheating on him and proclaiming Chanyeol as his. He didn’t know if Chanyeol was really oblivious with his actions but seeing the latter blushed – his ears turned red – Baekhyun’s heart melted.

2013

Baekhyun was rushing off to find Kim Jongdae, he got seriously important stuff to tell this best friend of his; cursing under his breath of not being in the same class as Jongdae – yet he’s happy to be in the first class, full with bunch of good grades kids. His classmates were mostly spending their time with studying, doing homework or talking about some American series that Baekhyun didn’t bother to watch. He would rather go to Jongdae’s class and spent the whole one hour of preparation class by gossiping with him. He would always sit on Jongdae’s deskmate chair, sometimes wondering where the hell Jongdae’s deskmate was. It was too weird to be coincidental sometimes.

“God, Jongdae! I got something important to tell you!” His saccharine voice boomed into the classroom, earning a few dirty looks from Jongdae’s classmates for being so loud.

And Baekhyun saw him; Jongdae’s deskmate who suddenly rose up from his seat and went out to God knows where. He didn’t really know Jongdae’s deskmate but Jongdae said that he was pretty nice. He was pulled back into the reality, away from his thoughts when Jongdae groaned, jutting his lips at the direction where a pile of homework was located. But of course, Jongdae being Jongdae, would always ditch his homework for some hot gossips.

“Kim Jonghyun said that I’m cute!”  Baekhyun clasped his hands together.

  Honestly, he’s not really having a crush on Kim Jonghyun but the guy was hot and he got the style – absolutely Baekhyun’s taste. So, why not? After all, most of his friends were having crush on someone. The honey brown hair male grunted when his best friend rolled his eyes and started giving a lecture of how Kim Jonghyun was actually a player and he needed to stop crushing on him.

“Where’s your deskmate anyway?” Baekhyun asked, trying to change the topic.

“I don’t know. Chanyeol was here… just now.” Jongdae said nonchalantly. He wasn’t really happy that Baekhyun trying to change the topic.

 “So your deskmate’s name is Chanyeol?” Baekhyun asked, his eyes are twinkling with curiosity.

 Yeah, Chanyeol, Park Chanyeol.” Jongdae nodded, not knowing why they were talking about Park Chanyeol all of the sudden.

“Park Chanyeol.” Baekhyun mumbled. He liked the name already. Baekhyun giggled at the doodles on Chanyeol’s desk and not to mention Chanyeol’s journal; filled with his reviews on anime that he watched. This guy got nice handwriting. Baekhyun smiled.

When Baekhyun was 14, he realized that Jongdae’s deskmate, Chanyeol loved to doodle on his desk – he has good drawing skills. He also realized that Park Chanyeol loved to watch anime and was a die-hard fan of One Piece.

2014

“You survived again, Byun Baekhyun.” 15-years-old Baekhyun muttered to himself.

He felt relief. His mother would kill him if he didn’t make it into the top class. He had to put some efforts to get into the top 20. Some of his classmates last year didn’t make it and truth to be told, he was having a mixed feeling. He saw some new faces too – surprisingly, Jongdae made it this time. Ouh, Jongdae’s deskmate is here too. Baekhyun thought, quite surprised. The lanky looked quite awkward as usual; his right hand was petting his left arms as if to comfort himself with the new classmates. Baekhyun thought that his eyes were lying to him or was Park Chanyeol really stealing glances at him?

He sighed. It’s going to be awkward to talk to some kids. Fortunately, he got his best friend, Do Kyungsoo as his desk mate again – they had been desk mates for the past two years. Kyungsoo had placed first in the rank again. His mother had been blabbering on how he should start studying like Kyungsoo every time he went home. In a nutshell, he was happy with his classmates this year. He got half of his cliques in the same class. Luhan had started cracking up jokes and Baekhyun couldn’t help but to laugh.

30 minutes later, everyone was settling down with their seat except for Park Chanyeol. The giant was still wondering where to sit; looking like a lost giant puppy as usual. Baekhyun let out a sigh again, pondering why Chanyeol was so hopeless. Well, better try to befriend this guy. Baekhyun thought, making his way to Park Chanyeol. After all, they’re going to be classmates for the whole year, there’s no harm in being friends, right?

“So, you’re Park Chanyeol.” Baekhyun said, amused with shocked face of Chanyeol. Cute.

“U-umm, y-yeah, I’m Park C-Chanyeol.” Chanyeol replied, fidgeting with his fingers and not making eye contact with the brunet.

Aww, even his stuttering is cute. Baekhyun was getting soft, he’s always soft towards cute things, cute stuffs, cute boys, oops. “Hi, I’m Baekhyun!” He said cheerfully, offering a handshake.

Chanyeol hesitantly took the handshake. Baekhyun realised that Chanyeol had such a big hand; even bigger than his brother’s.

Luhan was cracking a joke again and his whole cliques were laughing including himself. Baekhyun’s gaze then met with Chanyeol’s. Both quickly tore their gazes away. Chanyeol was shaking his head and Baekhyun found himself smiling a little. To be honest, having a friend like Park Chanyeol felt like breathing a new air for Baekhyun. Baekhyun liked it that