His hands are trembling, heart beating too fast, and his breathing erratic. It's dizzying. He could barely type a word properly.

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Chanypl

[ Received: 1:26 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Chanyeol!

[ Received: 1:26:06 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

PARK CHANYOEL

[ Received: 1:26:09 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

PARK CHANYEOL HEYYYY!!!!!!!

[ Received: 1:26:13 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

PARK CHANYEOL WHY ARE YOU NOT REPLYING

[ Received: 1:26:16 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

CHANYEOL I KNOW U R AWAKE!WHY ARE YOU AVOIDING MY TEXTS!!!! I SWEAR TO GOD IF I SEE U AGAIN

[ Received: 1:26: 20 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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1 missed call

Caller ID: Baekhyunnie<3

[ 1:26:30 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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6 missed calls

Caller ID: Baekhyunnie<3

[ 1:27:00AM . Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

WHY R U NT ANWRNG MY CALLS! WAKE UP U STUPIDDD

[ Received: 1:27:03 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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16 missed calls

Caller ID: Baekhyunnie<3

[ 1:29:13 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Pls just answrteh phone

[ Received: 1:29:15 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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17 missed calls

Caller ID: Baekhyunnie<3

[ 1:30:01 AM. Jan. 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Plschanyeol.

Pls just answer the phone

[ Received: 1:30:12 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

chanyeolim scared

people are telling me weird things

[ Received: 1:30:46 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Ur just sleeping ryt?

[ Received: 1:31:02 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

chanyeol I’m scared.

People are texting me scary things

but it’s not true right?

Zitao is just being stupid right?

[ Received: 1:31:47 AM. Jan 29,2014]

*

There’s still no reply. His grasps his cellphone tight in his trembling hands as he prays for it to blink or vibrate even just once.

Maybe Chanyeol is just ignoring him?

Maybe he made Chanyeol upset?

Maybe Chanyeol just wants him to act sweet on him again?

He grits his teeth as he tries to stop the sob that is threatening to come out. He refuses to believe the messages he received from his classmates. No. It’s not true. They’re all just pranking. All of them. And Chanyeol is the mastermind of this prank.

He just needs to hear his voice.

Anything from Chanyeol..

Anything..
 

He hastily wipes away the tears spilling from his eyes because he shouldn’t be crying. Nothing’s wrong. Chanyeol is just playing a prank on him and if he believes the annoying giant’s prank, he loses.

It’s all just one sick joke from Park Chanyeol.

He lets out a shaky breath as he tries to type down a message properly.

**

To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

chanyeol wake up now.

I wanna talk to u (-:

[ Received: 1:33:00 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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23 missed calls

Caller ID: Baekhyunnie<3

[ 1:40:38 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Plschanyeol.

[ Received: 1:49:26 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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24 missed calls

Caller ID: Baekhyunnie<3

[ 1:50:16 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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And he is beginning to feel sick, and the bursting pain in his chest doesn’t stop even with his heart pounding hard against his chest.

Baekhyun is scared.

He is scared because he is starting to believe but he shouldn’t believe this stupid prank.

He doesn’t want to believe that Chanyeol really….

**

To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

I just want to hear your voice

pls answer the phone

[ Received: 1:50:39 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Where r u now?

I’ll go see you instead

[ Received: 1:50:40 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

chanyeolpls

I just need to see you

[ Received: 1:50:55 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

Plschanyeol

[ Received: 1:51:41 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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26 missed calls

Caller ID: Baekhyunnie<3

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

pls wake up. I need you.

[ Received: 1:59:55 AM. Jan 29,2014]

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To: Chanyeol

From: Baekhyunnie<3

chanyeol

[ Received: 2:00:00 AM. Jan 29,2014]

Baekhyun is alone in his apartment. The room is silent, save for the sound of Baekhyun breathing hard, the rising of his chest becoming fast as he continues to stare at his phone even when his vision becomes completely clouded by his own tears.

He wanted to scream, to sob, but he couldn’t find his voice.

Time continued to tick but it felt as if his world stopped.

But time continues to leave him..

tick..

tock..

tick..

tock..

Time left him.

His trembling hands continue to grip his phone tightly, the tears already dropping onto his phone.

Please stop..

This could just be a bad dream. A bad, bad dream..

Please turn back..

Please..

Another minute passed.

No..

No..

Please, no…

He could feel his heart being clenched to burst in his own chest and he realizes that this isn’t just a bad dream.Time never holds back, time wouldn’t wait for someone who wasted what time he had left with someone special to him, time couldn’t turn back for him.

He hears his voice for the first time again.

But it wasn’t a sob that came out.

It was the name of that person that comes out in a trembling voice.

“Chanyeol…”

And perhaps the last time he would hear himself say that name.

He feels the life being out of his body just as he feels his world crumbling down.

The meaning in his life has left him.

That person left him before he could do something to treasure the time they have.

And maybe that’s what hurts him most.

He let Chanyeol slip away without him knowing.

..without him caring.

###

Baekhyun finally wakes up from his deep slumber. The slumber he has taken comfort of in his entire life. A slumber where everything he loves and wants gets ignored just for someone else’s wants.

But this time around, there’s no giant around to nag him and tilt his world out of its axis. Because that person is the same person who woke him up but decided to stay in that slumber, like a dream.

And Baekhyun wants to go to sleep again.

Because maybe...

Just maybe…

He might fall into the same dream.

And might meet that person again...

The man who woke him up from his deep sleep, only to get stuck in the same dream forever.

Park Chanyeol.

But he knows it's already too late for that.

And there’s no turning back the time.

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To: My One and Only Park Chanyeol ❤

From: Baekhyun

Um. Hi.

I don’t know what to say first.. haha.

Umm.. Happy Birthday?

Yeah. Happy, happy birthday, Park Chanyeol.

It’s pretty ironic how this time around, I’m the one waiting for a reply that I know will never come. I shouldn’t have done all that, right? I shouldn’t have pushed you away all those times… I made you suffer on your own. I wish I can turn back time… just to see you again, just to hold you again… just so that I can tell you all these words I kept to myself because I was afraid of my own feelings for you, of how strong it is and how much it felt like I couldn’t control it once I let those words slip out of my mouth.

I love you too, Chanyeol…

I wish I could say those words back to you.

p.s I finally changed your contact name on my phone, you better be thankful.

The message is too long, but you won't complain anyway, right? 

I don't mind if you will complain this time around... 

:'>

[ sent: april 16, 2014]

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To: My One and Only Park Chanyeol ❤

From: Baekhyun

I love you so, so much.

I'm sorry I couldn’t tell you.

I miss you so much.

 I'm sorry.

[ sent: april 16, 2014]