Title: The Double Edged Sword, of Friendship According to Tao
Author: Yours Truly, Instant-Café
Length: 1310 words
Raiting: PG13, I believe being as there is swearing and such.
Disclaimer: I still do not own SME or anyone for that matter. Also, the idea came from @Danigeo71727 with my words as a buffer to the magnificent idea which created, well, this! Thank you, love. My first request. *beams*
Prompt: Pairing: ChanTao // Genre: Angst, Romance, Fluff // Story Line: Tao is in love with Chanyeol (they've been friends for a long time) but he is convinced Chanyeol is 100% straight. His friends keep pestering him to confess so he does it eventually. He finds out that Chanyeol actually likes him too. They live happily ever after (wink)
Warnings: No Beta apart from me, me, moi. Nothing else to warn about. Enjoy! C:

The Double Edged Sword, or Friendship According to Tao

Friendship, Zi Tao started to ponder, was also a two edged sword. After all, like in any relationship, wasn't there one who always felt more in the end? More love, more hate, more indifference, more anything. It was always like that, at least in Zi Tao's opinion. He only had to look at his family and his own past relationships to see that it was the way the world went. Smiling bitterly at the prospect of yet another heartbreak, Tao got up from his bed and started to get ready for the once-a-week lunch they all had together. All twelve of them which is admittedly a grand number would reunite for a lovely lunch where each of them brought girlfriends and boyfriends and whatever-friends and Zi Tao would again look longingly at the guy he fell in love with a while ago. A guy who would never fell the same way because as much as some people talked about being person-ual, Zi Tao did not believe in such. One could be many things but not just interested in one person despite their gender.

 

Ah, gender, what an issue. At the end of the day, Tao almost wished he was a woman just so he could attract the one person he has been in love with so completely that he was almost losing himself in the love. How could he let love dictate his thoughts, his contentedness at being male… just for one guy!

 

In the end, Tao always felt bad when having those thoughts. After all, it was a real issue, some people weren't in the right body and he had fleeting thoughts about changing gender because of a guy who may not even like him if he was a girl, in the end. He couldn't help but sigh. He was getting pathetic, he was slowly turning into a whiny baby and it was frustrating. Why couldn't he forget his stupid best-ing-friend!

 

Grabbing his phone as it vibrated with a text, he left his house without bothering to look at it. He was late already and he was pretty sure he knew who the text was from and what it was about. It was not because he had a third eye or something like that. He was pretty ordinary on the sixth feeling thing, but the text he is sure he received always came before the meetup with the gang, from FanFan, telling him to just tell the dude already. Which of course he always ignored and went on with his life, with the meeting.

 

Only, this time things would change, because as much as Chan Yeol did bring people with him at times, introducing them as new people he met or even new people in town, he had never brought a woman who stuck to him like gum to long beautiful hair (which Zi Tao would gladly cut out, snip snip!) while shyly laughing behind a delicate and very womanly hand at everything he said. That girl sure was lucky to have his love.

 

Staring into space, he never noticed the person that sat beside him until he was shaken out of his reveries. Looking up at the other, he smiled bitterly at Kris who patted his head softly and repeated the same thing he did every meeting. "Tell him, you !"

 

"I can't. He is happy, isn't he? He is happy with her, right? In the end, that is all that matters, right?"

 

Kris was about to snap at him when Lay came to the rescue, sensing the tension building from across the room. Pulling Kris away, Lay gave meaningful eyes to Tao who just rolled his eyes as they found themselves focusing on the man he loved too much to  just be able to consider him a friend.

 

"Damn it," he mumbled quietly as he saw them lean in for a kiss. Closing his eyes, he stared into space when he felt his phone vibrate and without looking, he knew who it was. FanFan sure was annoying. As he was replying with quick fingers and pressed sent, he looked at Chan Yeol who was leaning over his phone with wide eyes, his eyes darting across the room in quick succession.

 

Tao received a quick text that spelled out, "Who is he?" which made him frown. Shouldn't Kris know who made his heart beat in a very hard core EDM song and who also made him so unhappy? While looking into space he noticed something very strange. Chan Yeol's face was where Kris' should have been, in the little box beside the last text and then realization hit him like a ton of bricks.

 

" me to the moon. You idiot," he started to mumble to himself as panic was gaining over every other feeling. When a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder, he squeaked loudly, making everyone turn around towards the two best friends who were looking at each other with wide eyes.

 

"Chan Yeol?"

 

"Tao, who is he that makes you so unhappy? I can always beat him up for-… Okay, don't glare. I know you can give that guy a good kicking, but you feel for the douche and I have no problem setting him straight. Tell me the name of the guy. Tell me. Tao-"

 

"Shut up! Chan Yeol, stop it! You are not helping you big goof! It's nobo-" His phone vibrated in his hand, he growled when he saw the text brightly lit up his screen. Okay, it was now or never, girl or no girl. It was time to come clean. "It's you, you dolt! You are making me unhappy! I hate you, I hate you so much because--"

 

"What? Tao, come on, don't cut there. Finish that sentence right now, you idiot. You are making me worry!"

 

"Stop calling me idiot, you are the idiot. You are so ing blind to anything around you and you praise yourself to being a smart guy who can notice when someone is in love with anyone. Well, tell me, genius, why can't you see I've been in love with you since our second year of high school, uh?"

 

"What…?" said the distinctive deep voice Chan Yeol has had since years ago. "You… like me?" At the question, Zi Tao, not even bothered by the group staring at them in awe, stood up screaming a big no.

 

"I do not like you, I am in love with you, you er!" And as he crossed the room with his quickest walk, to not say run, he bumped shoulders with Kris while murmuring "thanks for nothing".

 

The group, having been shaken to the core, followed with their gaze one of the youngest before all of them darted towards the goofy smile that Chan Yeol had on his lips.

 

"He loves me?"

 

"Yea, he does. Now, go reassure my cousin or I'll chop you to pieces, stupid."

 

And just like that, Chan Yeol could be seen leaving the lady he had brought behind and heading to the balcony where he just knew Tao was at. He could hear small sniffles the closer he came to the spot and when he saw the striking eyes with tear tracks covering the plush cheeks, he couldn't help but smile softly and bring his arms around the slender waist.

 

"I love you too, you dolt," rumbled Chan Yeol's chest as Zi Tao's head laid there until the words came into his mind. Wait, what? Zi Tao, while cursing the stupidity which is Chan Yeol's head, started punching him lightly at the ribs until, he was quieted down with a kiss rounded on his lips. The kiss followed by many, many more had been especially sweet and while it all seemed too good to be true he knew one thing, Chan Yeol had never played games, so he wouldn't start now, right?