Chanyeol and Baekhyun have been friends for years. They have spent almost all of their eighteen years together and they could be considered bestfriends. Or at least that's what Chanyeol had always thought. From when they were babies they had been forced to spend their time together. Their parents had been bestfriends before them and they had expected the same from their children. Everywhere Baekhyun went Chanyeol would naturally follow. It was the only thing he liked doing. He was like Baekhyun's faithful puppy.

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May 2010

Baekhyun was silently eating his lunch in the school's garden, sitting on a bench. He had been frequently changing his eating places. Trying his best to avoid Chanyeol, he ate in every single quiet corner of the school, but to no avail. Chanyeol would always find him. No matter how hard Baekhyun hid, Chanyeol was always there.

"Baekhyun! Finally, I found you. I've been looking all over for you. Why do you like to change our lunch eating spot so much, huh?" Chanyeol said with his usual creepy smile.

"I was trying to avoid you." Baekhyun said from under his breath as he sighed. Chanyeol started walking closer to him and sat right beside him, not even an inch away.

"What did you say? I couldn't hear you," Chanyeol said staring right at Baekhyun's face.

"Nothing. Just eat and go," replied Baekhyun with a sigh.

"Do you want to watch a movie tonight? My parents and I are coming over and they said that while they converse we could stay together."

"Whatever."

"Then I'll bring that new movie I bought. I have a feeling you'll like it," said Chanyeol with a subtle smile. Baekhyun continued eating, tuning out Chanyeol's irritating voice while he stared off into the distance at a bird.

"How are your piano lessons going?" Chanyeol asked as he hit Baekhyun with his elbow. 

"Yah! Be careful!", yelled Baekhyun.

"Oh I'm sorry I just don't have alot of space here," Chanyeol said as he tried to get something from his bag. "You know, long arms here." Chanyeol chuckled and flopped his arms around.

"Well maybe if you moved further away from me you would have space!" Baekhyun hissed at the now pouting boy.

"But... There's gum over there!" whined Chanyeol.

"Then sit on the ground or go somewhere else."

"Yah, yah yah," Chanyeol said as he continued hitting Baekhyun with his elbow.

"Will you stop that!" Baekhyun said, starting to get irritated.

"I'll stop if you'll tell me how you're doing in your piano lessons."

"I'm doing fine. Now stop hitting me. You're going to pierce my side with your bony elbows."

"Does that mean that Baekhyun-ah will play for me one day?"

"No way!" Baekhyun exclaimed, already getting used to the body resting against his own.

"Why not?" complained Chanyeol.

"You'll jinx me and I'll start playing badly from then on!"

Chanyeol's eyes suddenly started to water. He was on the brink of tears with a cute pout forming on his lips. Baekhyun couldnt help but stifle a laugh seeing Chanyeol like this, which didnt go unnoticed.

"A-am I really a jinx for Baekhyun-ah?" Chanyeol asked with puppy eyes. He had seen the latter "laugh" but he wasn't entirely sure if he was kidding or not.

"Well.. Maybe a little."

"Baekhyun-ah is meaaan."

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Baekhyun was sitting in his room on one of his bean bags, reading one of his manga's last pages. When he was done eating and reading he got up, stretched his stiff limbs, and then sat on his piano's seat. He started playing a simple melody that he had learned at his piano lessons when he sniggered. These few keys were super lame for his level. Thank god that the internet had been invented or he'd be stuck in the noob level that his teacher was at. He had been watching some tutorials from Youtube and they were doing miracles for him. He started playing a more difficult tune and was slowly sinking into it. Closing his eyes and feeling the music, he finished the song.

*Clap, Clap, Clap*

Baekhyun's eyes shot open when he realized what that sound was. 'Oh no. Oh god no!'

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"Baekhyun-ah. That was great!!" Chanyeol said as he unplastered himself from the door he'd been leaning against and walked towards Baekhyun with a cheerful smile 

'Of course it's you.' "Ugghh! What are you doing here?" Baekhyun groaned as he rolled his eyes and got off the piano seat.

"I came to see Baekhyun-ah of course. My parents are downstairs, and look. I have the DVD. They said I can sleep here tonight as well."

"But the futon you usually sleep on isn't here."

"Then where is it?"

"We took it to the cleaners."

"Oh no problem. We can sleep on the same bed. Just like old times."

"Naa-ah. No way. Not in a million years."

"Why not!"

"Personal space? Ever heard of that? Huh? I like to keep my space to my self."

Chanyeol automatically put on his pouting face and looked at the other with teary eyes.

"But we're friends, and friends share stuff," Chanyeol said again jumping on the latter's bed. He made himself comfortable after putting in the DVD and hugged a large banana pillow.

"Yah get out of my bed!" exclaimed Baekhyun.

"Look, look, look. The movie is starting." Chanyeol said as he pointed toward the television screen.

Baekhyun groaned and turned around to sit on the piano seat again. He was closing the keyboard cover to his piano when he heard the opening song. THE song he knew the best. The opening song for Despicable Me. He ran to his bed and jumped on top of it while he grabbed a pillow, hugged it to his chest, and stared at the screen with big eyes. At half the movie Chanyeol's parents came knocking on the door and when they entered, they saw that Chanyeol was already asleep on the bed hugging a huge banana. Baekhyun's parents slowly followed in and Baekhyun's father turned of Baekhyun's TV.

"You should be more like Chanyeol. Go to sleep already," Baekhyun's father commanded.

"But it's still ten," Baekhyun replied.

"Well if you slept more maybe you would ACTUALLY be good at things just like him."

"Well I'm not him!" shouted Baekhyun, his voice starting to break.

"I wish you were. Good at school, good at playing the violin, has friends. What about you? You don't have anything." Baekhyun's father spit the venom-filled words right into his son's wounds.

"Honey! That's enough now!" Baekhyun's mother said as she shot a glare towards the father to keep him quiet. Chanyeol couldn't help but wake up at all the noise and he just looked at his broken hearted friend who was lying next to him looking downwards.

"Chanyeol, I think it would be better if you came home with us for today," his mother said with a warm smile on her face.

"Oh no, no. It's okay," said Baekhyun's mother, "he can stay here with us. Me and my husband were just going to bed as well. I'm sure they will have fun here. Right Baekhyun?" Baekhyun didn't answer, but continued to look down, his hands turning into fists and jaw clenching tight.

"Mom, can I stay here with Baekhyun? He said he's going to help me with my homework before the movie. I insisted that we watch it first, but then I accidentally fell asleep." Baekhyun's father turned red in anger and rushed out the door. The others followed after wishing the two teens a good night.

"Why did you lie for me?" asked Baekhyun.

"Your father is too strict on you. And besides you are way better at playing the piano the I am at playing the violin. I don't have any other friends except for you either. I like Baekhyun, he's the best at everything," said Chanyeol.

After a few moments of silence Baekhyun lay down on the bed and with a sigh, he said, "I'm going to sleep."

"But what about the movie?" asked Chanyeol.

"Watch it alone..."

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It was early in the morning when Chanyeol woke up. He covered his face as the sun shone in his eye and realized that Baekhyun wasn't by his side. Chanyeol looked over where the boys' bags and uniforms were set. Baekhyun's book bag and uniform were gone. "Did he leave without me?" Chanyeol asked himself as he stumbled out of bed and put on his uniform hastily as he rushed out the door. When he arrived at school he looked in all the different places that Baekhyun usually hides from him in, (yes, he knows that Baekhyun tries to hide from him) but he couldn't find Baekhyun. He searched every classroom, every toilet cubicle, and any other place in school but he couldn't find Baekhyun. There was only one place left for Chanyeol to look in and that was the janitor's closet . He walked with long strides and his usual derpy smile on his face towards the closet and when he was about to turn the doorknob, he heard a sound coming from inside.

"AH AH AH!" 

Chanyeol's eyes grew wider and his smile disappeared as his hand stayed fixed on the knob. He slowly started turning it. The moans grew louder and louder until the door was wide open. He got the biggest shock of his life. Chanyeol saw a girl sitting on one of the shelves with her legs wide open, Baekhyun in between them, making out with her and kissing down her neck. Her school shirt was half open with her underwear showing. Her long neck was marked with Baekhyun's lips. Chanyeol's eyes couldn't help but water with his mouth shot open. He felt something happen inside of him. He felt angry and embarrassed and couldn't help but grab Baekhyun by the collar of his shirt, roughly peeling him off the girl and dragging him to a remote place.

"WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?" yelled Chanyeol.

"WHAT'S IT TO YOU? IS THIS ANY OF YOUR BUSSINESS?" retorted Baekhyun.

"OF COURSE IT IS. I-I...How could you do that?" said Chanyeol as he looked at his feet.

"Why can't I do that? What, are you better in this than me as well?!?" Baekhyun asked sarcastically.

"Baekhyun-ah! You were about to do that. In school!"

"I know! This isn't any of your business!"

"But you're my bestfriend. I like you." Chanyeol said as a tear rolled down his cheek.

Baekhyun finally exploded. "Well I don't like you! I'm sick and tired of being compared to you in everything. I'M SICK OF IT! Chanyeol this. Chanyeol that. That's all I ever hear at home. How the hell am I going to break free from you? Everywhere I go. No matter how hard I try to avoid you. I change places every day just so I wouldnt be able to see you but you'll always be there. One ing step behind me and following me around. I HATE YOU!" Baekhyun was red, with his fist clenched tight. 

Chanyeol had a look of disbelief on his face. "I-I didnt know you thought so horribly of me. I knew you hated me but... Not this much." He stopped for a few seconds while trying to regain his senses and hold back the tears that were threatening to spill from his eyes. "Sorry for bothering you all these years. I guess this is goodbye then." Chanyeol looked down at his shoes, then scurried off. This is what Baekhyun wanted and this is exactly what he gave him. Chanyeol wanted him to be happy, even if it meant that he'd have to be out of his beloved Baekhyun's life for it to happen.

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Chanyeol was standing in the cramped line in the canteen. He usually bought his food from here and bought something tasty for him and Baekhyun to share after their lunch. As it was his turn to order his lunch from the lunch lady, Baekhyun appeared before him and Chanyeol was automatically going to call out to Baekhyun and wave. He stopped mid-air when he realized that Baekhyun was walking with that girl he had been with earlier, arm wrapped around her shoulder and hickeys showing on his neck.

'Maybe they continued.' Chanyeol asked as he stared at them with a sad look on his face.

"Student. Student!" the lunch lady called out.

"Oh! I-I'm sorry.Can I have that please?" He smiled at her as he pointed to the packed lunch.

"Sure dear." She smiled back.

Chanyeol ended up like this. Not being recognised and not recognising. Slowly fading away from each other's memories with the other students until they didn't even notice or recognise each other when they walk by anymore. Chanyeol would continue talking with his new friends now until he didn't run after Baekhyun anymore and Baekhyun would hang out with that girl and her group of friends.