Eyeliner is now online.
Eyeliner: Hello boys.
TheBigTroll: YOU!
Baozi: Hello Eyeliner. Nice to finally meet you.
TheBigTroll: WHO. ARE. YOU?!
Leader: Hi. I guess you know us well enough and we should cut the introduction.
Eyeliner: Chips is not online?
Baozi: Chips is now TheUnicorn.
Eyeliner: How fancy.
TheBigTroll: Are you with us or against us?
Eyeliner: Calm down. I came in peace.
Eyeliner: I have always wanted to say that.
Eyeliner: I know who you are in real life and what is your objective. We also share the same goal.
Leader: Does that mean you will work with us.
Eyeliner: You could say that, yes. Moreover, I have information that you don’t have.
TheBigTroll: Oh yeah? What don’t we have that you have???
Baozi: Calm down @TheBigTroll
Eyeliner: It has something to do with MISC.
Eyeliner: No need to get angry.
Eyeliner: Chen.
TheBigTroll: HOW?!
Eyeliner: You were talking to yourself last time.
Leader: ??? “last time”?
TheBigTroll: ……
Leader: @Baozi You knew?!
Baozi: Sorry @Leader…
TheUnicorn: @TheBigTroll sneaked in?
TheUnicorn: Hello @Eyeliner!
Eyeliner: Hi! ^^
Leader: I thought you promised to not to do anything without my permission.
Eyeliner: I hope you got good stuff.
TheBigTroll: I had to act quickly though! I managed to get some data from the project Clone World.
Baozi: Clone World? Is that how this video game is called?
TheBigTroll: More like a spy world. Like its name says, it is the exact same world like ours but moreover, it will clone the real people. It is as if we could mimic our own lives there.
Eyeliner: That could prevent crime in a way.
Leader: It has good aspects.
TheBigTroll: Don’t you understand?! Our lives can be ruled with this! It will simulate a person’s behaviour and this can be manipulated in real life!!
Eyeliner: That means we are all in danger.
Leader: Your point was made. But how are we going to stop this?
Eyeliner: There’s a way that this can be brought in our favour.
TheBigTroll: You don’t want to stop it?
Eyeliner: It would be a big failure if we even tried to stop it. We are going against a big video game corporation which makes incredible video game franchises. If we were to stop it, won’t we be bad guys at the end?
Leader: I am with Eyeliner on this.
Leader: Eyeliner, is it possible to meet you?
Eyeliner: When the time to reveal myself will come, we will meet. It is not necessary to see my face at the moment.
TheBigTroll: You’re too ugly?
Eyeliner: Puh-lease. Don’t insult me.
Baozi: Then what are you going to do?
Eyeliner: I will start to secretly modify the codes and add some stuff to the video game.
Eyeliner: You can help me if you want @TheBigTroll
TheBigTroll: Can’t you ask politely?
Eyeliner: No.
Baozi: This is the start of a beautiful friendship.
TheUnicorn: lol

**********

Luhan worked hard to be friends with Oh Sehun. He noticed that Sehun would have breakfast at the same time each day. He would sit in front of the boy and talk to him. Baekhyun would join a few minutes later. He decided to help Luhan a bit but Sehun was a piece of work. Jongin eventually came and they had a nice breakfast. Except Oh Sehun who only wanted some alone time in peace.

After a few days without any progress at all, Luhan was getting desperate. How could he be close to Minseok if he couldn’t even befriend Sehun. That morning, Luhan was pouty and mainly watched Sehun eat.

“What?” Sehun looked back at Luhan. “Staring is rude.”

“Don’t you have any friends?”

“I do.”

“I don’t believe you.”

“You don’t have to.”

What a pain to talk to him. It seemed that Luhan’s efforts weren’t paying off at all.

Luhan let out a deep sigh. Baekhyun had his tray of food with him and sat next to Luhan.

“Aren’t you eating, Lu?” Baekhyun picked his toast and spread the raspberry jam on it.

“Not that hungry.”

“You will end up munching your nails by ten. Go grab something.”

Baekhyun could act like a mother when Luhan was being too much of a child. Luhan got up and got himself some bacon and eggs like always. When he went back to Baekhyun and Sehun, he poked the food, barely putting any in his mouth.

Chanyeol wasn’t used to wake up this early. He barely slept last night because of homework and he had to get up early to start taking pictures of Hongdae with Kyungsoo. Kyungsoo already ate and was washing up. He scratched his messy bed as he went to the breakfast/diner room. He sleepily took a bowl of ramyeon and some pancakes with two fruits. He saw briefly Sehun sitting silently but that was the only thing in his sleepy vision. He sat next to Sehun with the surprised faces of Baekhyun and Luhan who weren’t expecting a giant casually sitting at their table.

“Sehunnie, how do you wake up this early…?” Chanyeol rubbed his eyes then only looked at his plate of pancakes as he cut a piece and put it in his mouth.

“Because sleep is not my highest priority unlike you.” Sehun replied without a hint of annoyance to which Luhan could only watch with huge eyes.

Chanyeol whined and finally noticed some trays in front of his and Sehun’s. He blinked and looked with half lidded eyes the two people in front.

“Oh, hi.” Chanyeol smiled genuinely at Luhan and Baekhyun. “New faces. Well done, Sehun.”

“Don’t say that. They are just sitting with me because I have no choice and it would be a pain to change places.”

Chanyeol frowned at his best friend. “You are really an unsociable bastard.”

“And you are uglier when you are half asleep.” Sehun smirked as he ruffled Chanyeol’s hair.

Luhan couldn’t believe his eyes. Sehun was willingly doing skinship with someone. He looked at Baekhyun to share his bewilderment but the brunette had his mouth slightly open as he was gawking on the new face in front of him. Luhan closed his best friend’s mouth. Baekhyun snapped out of his trance and his eyes darted elsewhere. Was it what Luhan thought?

“I am sorry. I am Park Chanyeol by the way. First year in the Video Games Department and best friend of Sehun.” Chanyeol was more awake. The people in front of him looked pretty nice. He wanted Sehun to become friends with them and not enemies.

Luhan introduced himself joyfully but Baekhyun stuttered a lot which was unusual of Byun Baekhyun.

“Cute.” Chanyeol said with a wink wanting Baekhyun to feel more at ease but it had the opposite effect.

Baekhyun’s face turned red tomato immediately watching blankly Chanyeol slurp his noodles. Luhan could barely hold in his laugh.

Sehun couldn’t help but also look at Baekhyun’s reaction. He didn’t have a good feeling about it. He didn’t know why though.

Chanyeol asked about Baekhyun and Luhan. Luhan asked how Chanyeol was best friends with Sehun to which he answered a mere “I don’t know myself. We happened to fight with our fists and then the next day, like men in action movies do, we became the bestest friends.”

Sehun laughed at how Chanyeol depicted their meeting. Luhan found a Sehun laughing much more pleasant than that horrible pokerface.

Chanyeol kept telling his story with all seriousness. “That day, Sehun actually came to me and said that I was worth of his respect, that I was a real man.”

Sehun rolled his eyes amusingly. “Aren’t you just idealising the moment?”

“It DID happen this way!”

“Oh come on, Yeol. I beated you up more than you did to me and I felt a bit guilty.”

“That means you cared about me.” Chanyeol poked Sehun’s arm repeatedly with his goofy smile.

“No.”

Chanyeol scoffed and shook his fork in disdain. “You head.”

“Don’t you have something with Kyungsoo to do?”

“Oh! Yeah! Thanks for reminding me.” Chanyeol gobbled up his last pieces of pancakes and drank the whole soup of his ramyeon dish. He cleared up and waved at everyone. “See you guys!”

Sehun waved back and finished his juice. He left the two other men reflect on their new encounter.

“He was nice.” Baekhyun said after a moment of silent, his eyes sparkling a bit.

“Nice???” Luhan smacked Baekhyun’s back. “Come on, Baek! You were practically drooling!”

Baekhyun blushed crimson red and shook his head. “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

“Sure.” Luhan stared at his friend knowingly.

Baekhyun ate the rest of his breakfast in silence while Luhan got his appetite back.

**********

Kyungsoo and Chanyeol took pictures of Hongdae although there was a big crowd. They were instructed to capture every little detail. They couldn’t do all of the area in one day for sure. They decided to take a lunch break at a small snack shop and ordered some food. Chanyeol took out his pad and a hologram version of Hongdae’s buildings appeared. Some were blank but a few were coloured like they were originally thanks to the pictures of Chanyeol’s camera. Kyungsoo manipulated the buildings and zoomed in one of the streets they visited.

“Wow, it’s like Google Street View in better.” Kyungsoo said in awe.

“I wonder why it has to be so precise since it’s for a video game.”

“To make it seem real and authentic, I guess.”

Chanyeol put the map as its original size. “Yeah, but we even have to go into main buildings and ask people if we can barge in their houses.”

“We aren’t doing anything wrong, right?” Kyungsoo seemed to ask.

Chanyeol turned his pad off. “I guess not.”

The food came and they enjoyed their meal but Kyungsoo didn’t really have his mind at peace.

“Is something wrong?”

The owl-eyed boy swallowed the food in his mouth. “I tried to talk to Jongin…” Chanyeol could see the sadness in his eyes. “But he won’t even try to listen to me. I asked what I did wrong and he just shot me this stare filled with hurt. Maybe I did something really awful to him…”

“Or Jongin is being childish.”

Kyungsoo smiled a bit and shook his head.

“How did you meet him?” Chanyeol inquired as he wanted to understand the situation.

“The first time I saw Kim Jongin was at a funeral when I was ten.” Kyungsoo started his own story. “When my mother was involved in an accident that made several deaths, Jongin’s parents were also part of the death toll. The funerals of the victims were done in common near the sea. Jongin was crying hard with his grandmother patting his back to comfort him. I didn’t cry that time. I went to him and hugged him tightly then I smiled at him. He calmed down so I went back to my father. My second meeting with Jongin was when we shared the same class. The Kim Jongin at that time was one of the popular kids. I was a kid who was easy to get bullied and it was often Jongin’s friends. Jongin was never part of the bullying and he would sometimes distract them so I wouldn’t get hurt too much. We went to a different school afterwards but we were in the same high school. The bullying was harsher and it was the same friends Jongin had. One day, I was almost beaten up but Jongin saved me. He punched his own friends to stop them. He didn’t talk to me afterwards. His friends stopped harassing me and I was thankful. I wanted to express my gratitude and he suddenly told me he hated me. Just like that.”

Chanyeol gave a tissue to the teary eyed boy. “I am sure he will open his heart one day. It is not your fault. Okay?”

Kyungsoo nodded as he dried his eyes and smiled with his heart shaped lips. “Thanks Chanyeol.”

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I have been thinking hard about it since the question of Love is very difficult for me nowadays as I even question it myself.
Events around me make me think. What is love? Can we really fall in love at first sight?
Of course, love like in the fairytales are not the most common type of love.
In my country, some dating websites are advertised often on TV. Even a website where you can "adopt" a guy.
Yeah. The concept is pretty weird as the logo is a woman with a shopping cart that has a guy in there.
What is society showing us nowadays?
That love or more like relationship (because obviously it's not really about feelings) is about looks, tastes and common interests. We "shop" for our "love" interest.
Common interests. Yes, it can be one of the factors. Pretty important actually. Because a relationship is based on communication. It would be bad to not communicate with the one you share your life with, right?
Pretty contradictory on what I described with Byun Baekhyun's love at first sight. Actually, it is not really about how Chanyeol looks but his attitude. Chanyeol is a peaceful person who doesn't worry about how others see him. He has y bed hair and is kind of an airhead which brings him the cuteness factor. Of course Baekhyun would fall in love with him but he doesn't want to admit it. Haha.
Readers, it is not about love really but how society pushes us to think about things differently and putting ideas in our heads.
Technology is a tool to put an ideology in our heads.
I am not saying that dating sites are a big NO NO.
Some people CAN find love that way. However, I don't think it should be considered as a common way.
I hope you will enjoy the following chapters with anticipation~
Feel free to comment, share your opinion about what I just rambled on, or critic.
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