Chapter Six

Like We Used To

Ever since Yifan got into Minseok's life again, the one who concerned a lot about it was none other but Chanyeol. Even Luhan was calmer than him, and he knew exactly how the thing went before. It was weird to think how a stranger concerned a lot about it. But of course Chanyeol didn't think it was weird. Minseok moved to the house next to him about one year ago, but he knew Minseok about 2 weeks after the break up. He knew him when he was still broken. He knew him when his soul was still lost somewhere.

And that was why when a tall man came to the cafe when it was closed and gripping Minseok's hand hard, he knew who that man was. He knew that Yifan 'came back' and his inner heart was actually battling. He was kinda happy, the man his favorite hyung loved the most came back, but he couldn't hide his anger as he remembered what that Yifan guy did to Minseok. And he didn't want Minseok went through that time again. He didn't want Minseok to cry all night and didn't eat anything, and even thought of suicidal. He was attached to his favorite hyung already and he didn't want anyone he knew to end up suicide. That was the last thing he wanted to see.

"Chanyeol," Baekhyun called him. The small guy put a plate of sandwiches in front of Chanyeol. "Eat, now," He said while sitting next to him. Chanyeol nodded and took a bit of one of the sandwiches. Baekhyun took a sandwich and bit it, chewing on the beef sandwich he just bought a few minutes ago.

Chanyeol told Baekhyun what had happened to Minseok - after he got the permission, of course - in detail. Baekhyun never thought that someone could ever hurt that small guy. Yes he knew he was small too, but Minseok looked more fragile, right? At least that was what he thought. And of course that made him had a bad first impression about Yifan. He meant, why hurt Minseok? That small guy didn't do anything. At least that was what he knew.

And to know that Chanyeol was attached to the small guy, he knew Chanyeol was worried as hell. He might want to keep Minseok far far away from Yifan. Chanyeol might even want to tail that small guy 24/7 and might think that that wasn't enough. And to see how pissed Chanyeol that night, his feeling was mixed. One side, he was happy to see another side of Chanyeol he never showed him all that time - he thought Chanyeol was that stupid funny goofy lovely guy who might love him. But in another side, he was jealous. He was jealous to Minseok because that small guy was protected a lot by Chanyeol.

He liked Chanyeol. He might love Chanyeol. He, a few times, even thought of having that tall lanky guy as his life-time partner. But to see Chanyeol protected Minseok a lot, he couldn't help but feel jealous.

"Baekkie!" Chanyeol shierked why pinching the cheek of Baekhyun, making the small guy yelled. Chanyeol stopped pinching him and he turned around. He wanted to be mad but he just couldn't. "I've been calling your name a few times but you didn't answer me," Chanyeol said while pouting. Suddenly his eyes were widened. "Oh my God! I ate your favorite sandwich and you had to take another one that turned out to be your least favorite and now you're mad at me, right?!" Chanyeol said while panicking. "Oh my God, I'm sorry Baekkie~! I- I- I'll buy you another! Or two! Or do you want more?" Chanyeol asked while searching his wallet inside his bad.

Baekhyun need a few seconds to realize what happened and he laughed. Chanyeol turned around at him and looked at him, feeling confused. "You didn't do that, Chanyeol~ Oh my, how did you think that?" Baekhyun asked while laughing. "I was just thinking about something, so I didn't respond you, I'm sorry Chanyeol," Baekhyun said, wiping his eyes because he laughed too much.

"I'm relieved," Chanyeol said. "Because I can't have you mad at me."

*---*

After that night in the condo, Yifan never came to Minseok's sight anymore. He only left some letters in front of the cafe every morning, talking about memories. He sometimes wanted to say to Yifan that he didn't need to be reminded as he always remembered them. They were craved in his mind and on his heart. And to be reminded by Yifan made him feel so sad. The way Yifan poured the detail made his heart break once again.

He sighed and folded the letter, putting it inside his pocket. It hadn't been the lunch time so it hadn't been so crowded. He could still rest for a bit. Suddenly a white mug with a snowflake-drawing from foam on top of it was held in front of him. He looked up to see Luhan was smiling at him. He took the mug and whispered a soft thank you to his cousin. Luhan smiled and took some coffee seeds and put them into the roaster machine. Minseok took a sip of his beverage. Cappuccino.

"Don't think too much, Minseok ah," Luhan said without looking at his cousin. "I know it's so sudden and I know how you feel," He continued while pressing some buttons on the machine. "But don't stress yourself," Luhan said, finally looking at him.

"But... I don't know, Luhan," Minseok said softly, almost like whispering. "I was shocked, surprised, happy, sad, excited to finally see him. You know how much I miss him," He continued. "But after that night, after I went to the condo-"

"You- what?!"

Silence. Luhan was shocked to hear that Minseok went to the condo. It had been one year and 7 months since he was there. And it was really surprising that Minseok finally stepped on that place again. And he hid the fact well because Luhan didn't even notice that. Maybe Minseok's mom knew it and didn't tell Luhan because it was the choice of her son. She might think that if Luhan knew, he wouldn't let Minseok go since Yifan might hurt him again.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's just that I think I need to fix this all by myself," Minseok said, staring at his mug. "I don't want to bother anyone. It's Yifan's and my problem."

Luhan sighed. "Okay. So, what did you do there?" Luhan asked.

"He finally told me the reason," Minseok said. His grip on the mug became tighter, so tight that made his knuckles turned white. "He said it was because he was feeling lonely that I couldn't be with him as the company got bigger. You remember the Junmyeon guy, right? Yes, he did it with that guy. That night when that all happened, he mentioned that to me but I didn't believe it. He was telling me the truth right from the start. It was just me who didn't want to believe it."

He sighed and closed his eyes, letting a tear fell down to his cheek. His grip on the mug loosened and...

PRANG!

He opened his eyes to see the white mug was shattered on the floor with the brown substance and white foam everywhere. He noticed some costumers' eyes were on him so he quickly squatted, hoping no one noticed that he cried. He quickly wiped the tear away and started picking up the shattered pieces of mug. His hands were shaking; making his fingers got some cuts here and there. Luhan ran to the janitor room to pick a small dustpan and mop to help Minseok. He put the mop in the corner and squatted next to Minseok, after saying that nothing happened there to the customers. He looked that Minseok's fingers were bleeding so he quickly yet carefully took the remaining pieces and put them on to the mini dustpan.

Minseok put the pieces he picked on to the mini dustpan and suddenly his heart twisted badly. He wanted to laugh because the mug reminded him to his heart.

The mug was beautiful. It was filled with great amount of cappuccino and was decorated with beautiful drawing by Luhan, the owner of the cafe. He tasted the cappuccino and he couldn't help but to love it. And he gripped on the mug so tightly, like he didn't want it to fall down and crash to the floor. But as he loosened the grip to the mug, it fell hard and became broken pieces of nothing, ready to be thrown away.

His heart was pure. It was beautiful. His heart was filled with great amount of love and was decorated with memories with Yifan, the owner of his love. He tasted the love from Yifan and he couldn't help but to love it. And he gripped on the love he had so tightly. He didn't want the relationship he had with Yifan ever stopped. He didn't want the love they both had to break and fall to the emptiness. He used to grip on Yifan's love tightly. But as he loosened the grip to Yifan's love, he lost it. His heart was broken. It became broken pieces of nothing, ready to be forgotten and thrown away.

But the saddest part of it, was that neither Minseok nor his heart was ready to be thrown away, especially by Yifan.

*---*

Hi guysss! ㅋㅋㅋ

I have a presentation to do on Tuesday so I'm sorry that I took a bit longer than the first chapters. But this condition might continue since the uni is started already. But I promise I'll never left this story! ><

And a bit baekyeol here, I hope you don't mind. It's the part of story since it will be connected to the story (I had the plot already) ㅋㅋㅋ

And I'm sorry glass Minseok's heart! I didn't mean to be like this but... NO seriously! No one wants to throw your beautiful heart, Minseokkie~~~! ㅠㅠ

And I'm sorry if you find this boring since I could only do this in the middle of presentation preparation ><

And (OMG too many 'and's ><) Do you want to talk to me as friends? ㅋㅋㅋ I have kakao and line but do you want me to have another, like maybe kik or something? tell me your IDs so I can add you ㅋㅋㅋ

Give me comments, critics, advices, or anything you're willing to give to me~! Love me juseyoooo~~! ♥

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FlowerBaozi
#1
Chapter 20: The angst!!! I feel like it’s my heart being broken. Oh poor Sehunnie! This story is just heartbreaking from the start to finish! How ironic that almost everything revolves around Cafe Time Machine yet none can go back in time to rewrite their stories and avoid heartaches. Gahd this is a masterpiece! My poor heart!
poepoeexol
#2
I really love it . Btw Hun is so poor baby.
baozi007 #3
Chapter 20: Omo I 'm crying. Poor sehun
lucky_s
#4
Beautiful story.
This is my first XiuRis story ,actually I am a hard core XIUHAN shipper But this story deserves a standing ovation!!! .The last chapter I had a feeling like some thing is coming but oh my sehun.. what shuld I say my heart was aching ,I was crying because of the last few paragraphs of the last chapter ...I can't ...just
Thanks authornim for this wonderful story .
luvnanda #5
Chapter 20: OMG...It's...Sehun sacrifice for love....Noble? Stupid? Idk anymore. Im crying mess because of you. But, it's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful story. Thank you.
Lovexiu16 #6
Chapter 20: A crying mess is what I am right after finishing this fic...thankstoyouauthor_nim
This was full of so emotions
That I had to log in and comment.
OMG...You are such a good wtiter......I think I cryed more than two litters
Thank You for this wonderfully writen story :)
Sherrie #7
Chapter 20: Oh gosh! I'm a crying mess. Why you do this to mee?? I can't even typing properly because my eyes is so full of tears and my sight really blurry right now. Goshhh I don't have a word. I'm glad that Minseok finally can have his happiness, but I did wish this fics not end like that. I already have bad feeling when Sehun not there while Kris have his surgery, this is the first time I hate being right.. ;__;

Well, beside my very puffy eyes, I will say this fics is really good. I'm glad I find this even tho it broken my heart a lil bit.. Time to looking for Xiuhun fluffy fics I guess.. :P
momiji2075 #8
Chapter 20: Waaaaaaaaaaaah! I cried! Good job authornim!
suga_baby #9
Chapter 20: oh my god.....the ending so sad T_T I cried a lot. now my eyes are all puffy now~~kekekke~~ sehun your love for minseok is so pure, I'm so emotional ......waaaaaa did story is so damn good and sad
suga_baby #10
Chapter 20: oh my god.....the ending so sad T_T I cried a lot. now my eyes are all puffy now~~kekekke~~ sehun your love for minseok is so pure, I'm so emotional ......waaaaaa did story is so damn good and sad