Alone, Chanyeol lies on the living room sofa with his old guitar on top of his stomach.  He rubs his thumbs along the smooth, wooden surface of the guitar, deciding whether he should start playing or not. He hadn’t played in a while since the accident in California. Chanyeol was nervous, he was afraid if he started strumming the guitar, he lost all his skills. With that in mind, he starts feeling the guitar strings using the tip of his fingers.

The giant took a deep breath and places his fingers on the frets. He feels the metal lines along the narrow wood and put his fingers in an order of a chord. He strummed the strings gently.

Success, he played a C chord.

He continued to play more chords, and then play some old songs he had learned before.

Chanyeol himself thinks he lost many things after being blind; not being able to learn in a normal class like other students and playing music often. People didn’t treat him normally either; they’d talk in polite manner, and be unusually nice so they won’t discourage him. He’s thankful for that, but he just wants people to treat him like they use to before. He just wants his life back.

After a few strums and a mind full of thoughts and wonders, Chanyeol felt the need to use the bathroom. He was about to call Baekhyun for assistant, but he remembered Baekhyun being bothered of guiding him around. Though he didn’t know where anything was, he stood up and walked with wobbly legs.  Suddenly, Chanyeol tripped onto a pair of shoes.

“Don’t you think he copied my style?” Baekhyun chatted with Jongin through the phone, even though Jongin seemed to care less of what Baekhyun was babbling about.

Baekhyun gasped slightly as he heard a scream coming from downstairs. He wanted to check, but he was already lying in a comfortable position- he didn’t want to move.

He still was curious about the scream, a part of him worried but the other part of him couldn’t care less. Baekhyun just shrugged it off and continued his phone call with Jongin.

“Byun Baekhyun!” He heard his mom call him from downstairs.

Baekhyun rolled his eyes, “What!” He shouted in annoyance.

“Get down here, now!”

“Ugh! Do I freaking have to? Fine! “ Baekhyun exclaimed, kicking his legs onto the mattress. He stood up lazily, cursing to himself.

Baekhyun walked downstairs to see his mom arms crossed and a Chanyeol who had his belly on the floor.

“Baekhyun, why didn’t you help your brother?” His mom asked.

“B-but, he didn’t ask!”  Baekhyun debated.

“Well you should’ve checked on him.”

“Mom, it’s okay, it’s not his fault.” Baekhyun heard Chanyeol say.

Mrs Park sighed, “Go assist your brother to the bathroom.” She said as she walked back to the kitchen.

Baekhyun shoots Chanyeol a deathly glare; he was truly annoyed by the giant. He walked up towards Chanyeol and harshly pulled him up by the wrist, making Chanyeol wheep.

“Let’s go.” He said as he pulled Chanyeol towards the bathroom.

Baekhyun waited outside the bathroom door, it only took a while till he heard a flush and the squeaking of the doorknob.

Chanyeol walked outside and he was suddenly pushed against the wall. “Why didn’t you ask for my help?” he heard Baekhyun say in a threatening tone.

“b-but last time you said I should put more effort in helping myself?” Chanyeol said a bit confused.

Baekhyun sighed angry, “When the heck did you get the idea to walk around the house blindly?”

Chanyeol was bowled over; he really didn’t know what to reply. First Baekhyun told him not to call him for his assistant, now he’s saying something else.

Baekhyun sensed that Chanyeol was speechless. He gave out another sigh, “Whatever. Don’t do this again, okay?”

Chanyeol nodded and whispered an okay. But seconds later he heard footsteps, Baekhyun was making his way upstairs.

“Umm, Baek?” Chanyeol called out.

“What?”

“I need to go to the living room.” He said as he rubbed his nape.

However, he heard no reply; only footsteps walking back up the stairs. Assuming that Baekhyun has left, Chanyeol just started to walk. He memorized the way to the living room while walking to the bathroom with Baekhyun earlier. Chanyeol slowly went onto his knees and crawled his way, afraid he’d fall or bump onto an object.  A mischievous grin crawled onto his face at his own smartness; continuing his crawl, he felt a pair of house slippers in front of him.

“Umm, Chanyeol? What are you doing honey?” He heard his mom ask.

“Going to the living room-“ Chanyeol said looking up with a panicky smile.

“BAEKHYUN!”

Sehun was on his date with his creepy stalker girl, Kim. He didn’t even bother trying to look good for the date, like he would in other dates. He didn’t have slight interest in her. In all honesty, he kind of thought she was a bit geeky. It’s been fifteen minutes since their date, and so far it’s been nothing but awkward; at least for Sehun.

Everything Sehun said, Kim would just giggle.

“how’s school?”

Giggle. “It was um,” giggle, “good.” Giggle.

“What would you like to eat?”

Giggle, “I don’t know,” another giggle, “It’s- I’m so shy.” Giggle again.

Sehun just laid back and sighed. He then took another sip of his bubble tea.

“Umm, Sehun?”  Kim called.

“Yes?”

“Like, it’s been exactly fifteen minutes, don’t you think it’s time?”

Sehun tilted his head in confusion, “Excuse me?

“In every movie, after fifteen minutes of the date, couples would usually have kissed.” Kim said implying like movies were reality.

Sehun looked at her for a moment. ‘She’s okay, it wouldn’t be that bad right?’ he asked himself.

He gave a gracious smile, maybe he should give her a chance, he thought. Kim smiled back, her smile was wide, and it was wide enough to see some chicken stuck on her braces; when Sehun sees that, his smile turns into a revolted frown.

With repulsed expression, Sehun replied, “Not really, because we don’t like each other.”

Kim ignored what Sehun has implied and sat next to Sehun. She scooted closer to him, leaving no space between them.

“Uh what’re you doing?” Sehun asked.

“Trying to kiss you.”

“No! No! Noooo!” Sehun screamed giving all attention to him. He quickly took out his phone and dialed 911, “Help me!”

Some people have wondered how Chanyeol went to school. None of his classmates have seen him in class, but they’ve seen him in the morning. Chanyeol has private classes at school; whenever the teacher speaks, he would record what he learn in class. Sometimes at night he’d replay the recordings so he’ll be able to memorize it. It was hard at first but it gradually became a habit. Even though he’s blind he can still go on. Baekhyun didn’t know any of this either, he was too scornful to listen to the giant sometimes.

It was eleven at night, and Chanyeol was tired from listening to his recordings. He pressed the button beside his bed, and waited till his mom came in.

“Yes Chanyeol dear?” He heard his mom’s voice.

“Mom, is Baekhyun asleep?”

“Yes, do you need to go to his room?”

“Yes..”

Again, that night Chanyeol laid his head onto Baekhyuns chest. “Baekhyun,” He whispered, “I know you’re somewhere.”

At seven pm, Sehun went on his date with Luhan to the park. Sehun rolled the mat onto the grass, and later Luhan took out the food from the picnic basket he prepared.

As Luhan took out the food, Sehun named them in his head.

‘Bread, bread, bread,chicken, kimbab, bread, noodles, bread again, beef, water, apple juice, orange juice… wait, where’s the-‘

“Bubble tea-“ Sehun blurted.

“Hm?” Luhan looked at Sehun.

“Oh, I just like bubble tea haha.” Sehun smiled.

“They sell some across the street, I’ll go buy some.” Luhan smiled in return.

“No, it’s alright. I’ll get it.”

Sehun ran to the small shop across the street. He observed the drinks on the menu and spotted some bubble tea. While he waited for his order, he saw a girls figure next to him observing the menu as well.

Sehun continued waiting for his order.

“On a date?” he heard the girl voiced.

“Yep.” Sehun said without looking at the girl.

“Are you cheating on me?”

“Wait what- ?” Muddled, he looked at the girl.

Kim.

“Oh my god. Seriously.” Sehun quickly grabbed his bubble tea and payed, he ran away as fast as he could.

After two minutes running around the streets, it struck to him that no one was chasing him. He decided to head back to the park where there was a waiting deer.

“Sorry I took so long, I have a stalker.” Sehun said as he sat down giving Luhan one bubble tea.

“It’s okay, you didn’t take long.” Luhan, “Oh, by the way, that Kim girl came by and told me you guys were dating.” He giggles.

“Nooo! She just liked me for years! See we went on a date because-“ Sehun debates in his head if he should tell Luhan or not. He can’t just say he thought Luhan was a girl.

“Because?”

“I wanted to ask you out, but then I found out you’re a different gen..” he says shyly.

“Aww, that’s okay.” Luhan chuckles, in which Sehun smiles.

They both ate enjoyably until they were full. They literally finished every food that was in the basket. They both decided to lay down, rest their stomachs and gaze at the stars.

“Luhan..”

“Hm?”

Sehun was really wondering, and he didn’t want to ask straight away either, “Are you.. wait nevermind.”

Luhan chuckles, “haha, hm not really, but I’m not sure yet. People change yeah?”

“Hm, Yeah.” Sehun replies. They both continued gazing at the twinkling stars, wondering what other things they could do next.

Authors Note :

Well it’s February the 7^th, I can’t believe I’m re-writing this! I can’t wait to see you guys again. After reading Hi I’m Baekhyun again, I realized how y a writer I was. I hope this edit is better!