Getting the DL on the LTE!
Crave that Sauce!
I had so much fun writing this!
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Sehun called Baekhyun's mom again because he wasn't answering calls or texts, and she came to check on him with concern cutting through her youthful face.
"Um... Sehun begged me to come check on you and make sure you hadn't 'Choked on the foul taste of your regurgitated emotional turmoil.'." His mom said.
Baekhyun was still sitting on the floor, heaving and coughing a little, when he told her that he'd just gotten a little nauseated. After he heard his mom go back downstairs he chugged some water from a glass already on his bedside table, then he called Sehun back.
"Oh thank God!" The other teen cried. "I was just about to steal my dad's car and come over there!"
Sehun didn't have his license yet.
"Hey, I'd be willing to do time for you, Baek. Ride or die bro. You're in this -tuation because of me anyway..." Sehun muttered a bit sadly.
Baekhyun half sighed and half laughed. He didn't have money to afford anyone's bail, so he told Sehun that pulling a move out of Grand Theft Auto was a really bad idea, then he spent the next five minutes trying to truly convince his friend that he was fine.
Because puking and sobbing seemed to be mutually exclusive for him now.
"God, I can't wait to get my hands on Park!" Sehun raged. "I can't believe he would do this to you. And then lie to me! I won't kill him, but I swear I'll make him wish he was dead!"
Baekhyun knew he wasn't going to be able to escape Sehun now that he was on one of his verbal rants. Thankfully he didn't have work or classes the next day so he could rest and allow himself to come to terms with how badly things had gone in his life in such a short amount of time.
His dad cheated on his mom, they were broke, and he was about to start his senior year of highschool only to find out that he was pregnant. Then he'd just discovered that the father of his child was a two-timing .
"So... you're really preggers...?" Sehun asked gingerly.
Oh and Sehun knew. Already. Just .
Baekhyun blew a breath through his bangs and dragged his free hand down his face. It was pointless to deny anything. Sehun could and would find out and then he'd never shut up about how Baekhyun had lied to him. He was already tired and upset about everything, and after puking up spicy sauce, Baekhyun's throat was hoarse. He felt like so he didn't hold back his displeasure at practically being trapped.
"Sehun, you know that I love you, but you talk too damn much. I don't know if I can really trust you with my personal business this time."
"Well damn..." Sehun replied meekly. "Hey, I didn't tell anyone about you dating Chanyeol or your dad cheating right?"
Baekhyun rolled his eyes and clenched his fist. "You didn't have to. My mom kicked him out in his underwear in front if the whole neighborhood."
Videos had been all over social media for days about it and everyone at school thought Baekhyun's mom was the baddest lady on the block for handling . He'd been embarrassed but oddly consoled by his classmates encouraging words that things would be okay.
None of them knew his dad had nearly left them broke and homeless though.
"Okay fine. Swear on your life not to tell anyone." Baekhyun demanded. "If you so much as squeak a peep of this, I'm serious as , we're done. I'll never talk to you again." He warned, tearing up a little bit. He'd never had to be so harsh with Sehun before.
Sehun gasped a little. "I swear! God, Baek you're kinda freaking me out..."
Sehun didn't know the definition of "freaking out". Baekhyun had had a nervous break down earlier at the hospital.
"Okay, yeah I'm--" Baekhyun stopped abruptly, frowned, then turned to look at his door. He heard Heechul's bedroom door open and close as the other man made his way down stairs.
His cousin was notorious for ear hustling. If he found out Baekhyun was pregnant, the teenager would have to move. When Baekhyun was sure the coast was clear he spoke in a low voice.
"--Yeah, I'm... pregnant... I just found out a few hours ago." He pressed his hand to his belly. It was becoming a habit fast. "My mom noticed I'd been kind of weird for the last few weeks and dragged me to the clinic. I honestly thought I was just stressed out because of the with my dad and school and stuff..." Baekhyun gave a sleepy little sigh. "And I ate cucumbers..."
"You ate cucumbers!?" Sehun squawked in shock.
"I know right? I guess... I should've realized something was up..."
"That's just..." Sehun breathed softly, "So intense. You really didn't know?"
Baekhyun flailed and gave a shaky little cry. "No! That's why I'm so ed up. Sure I was eating more but I didn't have morning sickness or chest tenderness or anything..."
As Baekhyun thought about that he gently d his negative A-cup sized boy- and realized it was a bit rounder. Giving a tentative test squeeze made him to wince. He was definately sensitive to the touch. He wondered a bit anxiously how big his moobs would get. Especially since he'd have to take about 10 different horse-pill sized hormone supplements. He was supposed to develope milk and everything.
, he'd have to wear bras.
And it was probably his imagination but his belly looked rounder now. Almost as if he'd drank a gallon of water. It was as if now that he knew he was expecting, his body had stopped trying to hide that it was harboring life.
Sehun probably shrugged before he replied. "Dude, you've been getting rounder and you've been in maximum rage mode for weeks now. I figured something was up."
Baekhyun glared and glanced around quickly before his eyes landed on his window. "W-why didn't you say anything?"
Sehun laughed very sarcastically. "Shiiiiit. You weren't about to go off on me." He said. Then he got quiet for a few seconds. "Besides, didn't you realize you were "late"?
Baekhyun could just see his friend cocking his head to the right and narrowing his eyes when he asked the question. He scoffed in outrage.
The term late was something he'd only ever heard people with s use.
"With everything going on in my life, how the am I supposed to monitor a f-fertile cycle if I don't even... bleed or whatever?" Baekhyun snapped.
Part of him wanted to shy away from this entire conversation because it felt so taboo. He didn't know how people talked about this stuff without getting embarrassed.
Sehun didn't seem fazed by any of this.
"Oh come on. They taught us how to track mood swings and hormone fluctuations in 6th grade health class." He pointed out. "There's the slight cramping, insomnia, bloating, and sudden urge to eat everything. We still have it easier than people with s so we shouldn't really complain." He sighed.
"And I could totally tell when you were PFS-ing (pre-fertile syndrome-ing). You went into maximum brat mode. I used to get bad back aches and super bad cravings for salty . My mom got worried about my sodium intake and high libido so she put me on the patch."
Baekhyun spread out across his carpet floor on his back. Boy, did he wish to heaven his mom had put him on some kind of birth control. A full body cast version of it with an iron chastity belt or something. Then again, he'd kept it secret that he was having so she hadn't gotten to suggest anything and help him. .
Baekhyun wiggled on his floor thinking about all of his failures. Then he was suddenly suspicious.
"Hey, wait... Why are you on anything? Who's doing you?"
Sehun started laughing like a villain in a super old school anime. "I have no idea what you're asking me--Luhan--No one!" He blurted out. In Korean this time.
Baekhyun was too stunned to reply and Sehun didn't give him a chance.
"Dude! There's like, an itty-bitty-teeny person with either a or a growing inside of you. Do you realize that?" Sehun chirped. He sounded mesmerized.
Baekhyun couldn't help but squeak at the description. He hadn't actually thought about the of the baby yet and it was so strange to think about the developing parts.
"Your whole life is about to change. And you'll have to take it easy so you don't jostle the baby around." Sehun warned gently. "Will you have to give up cross-country?"
Baekhyun pouted and glanced over at his bookshelf at his many trophies. He loved running. It was his way to de-stress and simply focus on strengthing his body. He'd slacked off over summer because he had to work though. So much for Fall competitions.
"I'll probably have to give up serious training..." He sighed dejectedly. "I actually need to talk to my doctor about all of that..."
"You'll have to start eating better too." Sehun said sagely. Baekhyun could just see him nodding like the know it all he was. "Babies need a well balanced diet of every major food group so no more frozen pizza, easy-mac, and ramen smothered in sriracha sauce. Also, no more coffee or sugary energy drinks. That stuff can't be good for a growing fetus."
Baekhyun wanted to laugh at the irony of it all. His obsession with chili sauce had been what lead to this unexpected discovery.
"We'll see... Healthy food is expensive..." Baekhyun was thankful for once that he worked at a grocery store. He'd at least get a discount. He wasn't sure about giving up his coffee though.
"So... how far along are you anyway?" Sehun wondered hesitantly, yet he sounded genuinely curious.
Baekhyun swallowed hard, shuddering as a wave of shame spread through his body. He had a feeling this question was coming. Sehun knew he and Chanyeol had gone their separate ways at the start of summer break. That was a little over a month ago. He was also pretty positive of the one time he let Chanyeol finish inside of him (when they had at work) so he truly was 11 or 12 weeks along. He couldn't think of any other instance he'd been so brain dead and careless.
"Three months..." Baekhyun said. "But I have to schedule an ultrasound next week to find out for sure." His voice shook at the end.
Sehun must have dropped his phone because there was a thunk and Baekhyun heard him choking. When the other teen got back on the line he sounded amazed.
"Holy ! I-I thought you were gonna say a week or two but you're almost in the second trimester!" Sehun gushed, sounding way too excited. "Jesus. There's an actual baby inside of you!"
Baekhyun closed his eyes and tried not to shudder in a weird combination of fear and anticipation. It would weird him out for a while knowing he was playing host to a new human.
"Hey, can I come with you to your appointment? I wanna see my first niece or nephew!" Sehun asked merrily.
Baekhyun couldn't help but giggle and breathe a hard sigh of relief. This conversation had gone the total opposite of what he'd been dreading. He was so glad Sehun wasn't freaking out about this in a bad way. He really needed his friend on his side right now.
"Um, I guess you could if you really want to... I'll let mom know to come pick you up."
Sehun made a sound of acknowledgement and then there was a momentary pause. Baekhyun chewed his bottom lip and fiddled with a chunk of his black hair before he spoke again.
"So... aren't you going to ask me?"
Sehun seemed surprised. "Uh, ask you what?"
Baekhyun his lips. "If Ch-Chanyeol's the father?"
Sehun moved around a bit because Baekhyun heard the springs in his bed creak. "I know he is. He was your first and I know he's the only guy you've ever been with."
Baekhyun didn't have anything to say to that so he just sighed heavily. He had a feeling he'd be sighing a lot going forward.
"God, I'm so ing mad at him!" Sehun suddenly yelled. "Three months? This means he knocked you up in what--April?" He made a funny sound and then he got really quiet. Baekhyun could just hear the other teen's mind racing a mile a second. He closed his eyes and waited for the accusations he knew were coming.
"Wait--April? That's barely a month after you guys started dating!"
Baekhyun rubbed the back of his neck and shifted on the floor. If he could have opened a portal to another world and jumped through it he would have.
"It's a month and two weeks or so after we started dating actually." He confirmed blankly. Mostly to himself. But just admitting to that made him feel like an idiot.
"I didn't realize you and Park moved so... um, fast..." Sehun sounded like he was trying hard to keep any judgement out of his voice. "N-not that I'm judging you or anything..."
Baekhyun rolled over onto his stomach and finally stood up and walked over to his bed. He debated sitting down but he was too anxious so he paced instead. He'd just showered but he felt so dirty and ashamed.
"But you should be judging me. Hell, I'm judging me! I liked Chanyeol a lot, but I can't believe how stupid I was..." His already somber mood dropped to the deepest pits of Hades in an instant and another sharp prickle of tears stabbed him in the eyeballs.
"There was nothing stopping me from insisting we use protection. Jesus, I'm such ing dumb !"
"Hey now, easy on the shaming. People make mistakes so don't be so hard on yourself. Besides you were inexperienced!" Sehun argued. "Park knew how this would go. He pulled that disarming grin to get got you all hot and heavy, then he put a freaking baby in you and fled the country like a damn fugitive!"
Baekhyun actually nodded in agreement. He did feel used and abandoned. Especially now that he knew Chanyeol had been in a long term relationship with Kyungsoo when they'd gotten together. He coughed to clear his throat, willing his tears to stop forming. A few escaped and slid down his cheeks. Dr. Matthews had told him this would happen throughout his pregnancy.
Damn sensitive hormones.
"J-just don't say anything to Chanyeol, okay?" Baekhyun begged in a tight voice. "P-please..." He knew all it'd take was for Sehun to send an email to Chanyeol for all hell to break loose. Chanyeol would be back in the States by the next morning.
"I don't know when I'll tell him but he has to hear it from me. I don't want to ruin his summer vacation--"
" that!" Sehun barked in outrage. Baekhyun snatched his phone from his ear and winced. "He didn't think twice about busting a nut in you and ruining your summer's like, ing forever--"
"--Sehun!" Baekhyun almost screamed in desperation. He clenched his fist in his shirt and bent at the waist. He was suddenly so terrified that he could barely think straight.
What if Chanyeol found out now and got mad? What if he came to Baekhyun's house kicking and screaming foul play, entrapment, or emotional manipulation, and demanded Baekhyun get an abortion?
"Please." Baekhyun practically pleaded.
"Okay. Fine." Sehun said seriously. His voice dropped a few octaves and everything. "I solemnly swear that I'm not going to tell Park Chanyeol he's irreperably ed up your life."
Baekhyun had never heard his friend's voice sound so stern, and he referenced Harry Potter, so he believed him.
"And for the record I wasn't going to say anything. I swore on my life. I may be a gossip junkie but I'd never spill your secret. I do have some morals." Sehun huffed. "Though... it's not like you can hide it indefinitely. Your belly is gonna pop out really, really soon..." He paused. "Unless you aren't keeping it--"
"I'm keeping my baby." Baekhyun stated firmly. "It won't be easy but... I have my mom. I'll figure it out."
And he actually felt like he had some control over his life by admitting that out loud.
"I'm relieved to hear that, Baek. And don't forget that you've got me too!" Sehun chirped. "Okay, now that that's settled, let me tell you more about Punk Park!"
Sehun must have been at his computer now because there was the sound of keys being clicked rapidly.
"This guy thinks he's soooo slick. He even had me fooled and you know that just doesn't happen."
Baekhyun nodded vigorously, glad as hell the focus wasn't on him anymore.
"Park left for Spain a month ago and a half ago with the Lacrosse team right." Sehun started. "I actually asked him where he got the money to pay his way because it was like, $1200 for this trip--"
Baekhyun gripped his little Nokia phone tight and pressed it harder to his ear while he listened intently. He'd actually wondered how Chanyeol had been able to afford the trip too, but he'd been too afraid to ask. He didn't want to insult Chanyeol about his families lack of money.
"--and he told me that he'd worked something out." Sehun went on. "Well, like the awesome investigative research specialist that I am, I checked into a few things only to discover Chan-Punk could only come up with half the cash. It was Kyungsoo's parents that paid the difference."
"O-okay...?" Baekhyun replied dumbly. Was it wrong that Chanyeol had gotten financial help from people who could afford it? It was probably a once in a lifetime opportunity for the guy to be able to spend half the summer in Spain.
"Don't feel sorry for Park, Byun," Sehun started mumbling, obviously reading his friend's mind as well as stuff online. "He's a playing-player. All visiting huge, expensive cities, eating authentic Spanish cuisine, and staying at some super upscale hotel. This trip was for the Lacrosse teams hard work all season and yet, the rest of the team came back last week. Luhan wouldn't shut up about how unfair it is that Park is still on vacation over there."
With Kyungsoo, Baekhyun thought and clenched his jaw. He was actually a little envious on both fronts. Authentic Spanish cuisine sounded amazing to his pregnant taste buds right now and Kyungsoo was getting to spend time with Chanyeol in such a romantic part of the world.
They were probably having mind blowing on expensive carpets or 7500 thread count silk sheets. The oil they were using to lube up was probably the most purest and rare in the world. Chanyeol had been a very attentive and skilled lover so Baekhyun didn't doubt he was doing Kyungsoo all over the place.
"Kyungsoo is like his freaking sugar daddy." Sehun muttered.
Baekhyun felt like puking again. "W-why is Kyungsoo in Spain anyway? He isn't a Lacrosse player."
"Yeah, but his his families company sponsored the trip. Do Pharmaceuticals is all about rewarding hard work." Sehun explained.
Baekhyun nodded, knowing this was a true fact. He was able to afford two years of college thanks to the Do Pharmaceuticals honorary scholarship program. Said company would be cutting him a check in just a few months time.
"So they just... rekindled on this trip?" Baekhyun wondered softly. He wondered if maybe the international affair (literally) had been unintentional. Chanyeol probably went just to have fun with the team and got swept away in the moment.
It was harder to feel so betrayed and tricked if Baekhyun thought about it that way.
"Chanyeol told me he didn't expect me to wait for him. That if I wanted to date other people I could." Baekhyun admitted. Not that he'd needed permission or anything. Plus he'd been too devastated to tell Chanyeol he would never date anyone again.
Sehun huffed in irritation. "That's just a really passive aggressive way of saying, 'I want to break up'. And I know this on personal level because I've used that excuse. You tell the other person it's okay for them to move on and live life so that you can too. It's the new, 'It's not you, it's me.'" Sehun paused before adding. "It's also a classic player-manipulater move."
Baekhyun was kind of stunned. "B-but w-we wouldn't be able to stay in touch!" He insisted. "It wouldn't have even been a long distance relationship."
"Right. Nevermind email, Skype, and Twitter. Park knows you don't have net access right now and he was only supposed to be gone a month." Sehun sighed heavily. "Baek... They planned this."
Baekhyun could only wince. Damn Sehun and his deductive reasoning.
"Hmm... Chanyeol was really careful about not mentioning Kyungsoo in his previous tweets. Tch, clever ." Sehun tapped a few keys. "The fact that he's announcing that they're dating publically makes me think Kyungsoo gave him the go ahead... His folks must know now... Oh! He just made another post!"
Baekhyun gasped, suddenly feeling like he had to pee. He crossed his legs in anticipation. "Ohmygod, of what?"
Sehun didn't answer right away. "Food. They're at some restaurant eating really over priced entrées... Something called seafood paella...? Wow, it looks yummy..." Sehun got quiet again and typed something. "Hey, did you know the legal drinking age in Europe is 16? Park's over there sipping on $500 bottles of wine."
Baekhyun scratched his scalp in frustration. He wished he had the internet so that he could go and obsessively read all of Chanyeol's past Twitter posts and then be irrationally upset about them.
"God, I-I can't believe that--I can't believe that I didn't know about them dating!" Baekhyun wailed and pulled his phone away from ear to yell directly into the mouth piece. "Sehun! You had one job! Why didn't you tell me Chanyeol and Kyungsoo had been together?"
"Uh, because you didn't ask and it didn't matter anymore since Park said they'd broken up." Sehun said quickly in his own defense.
"You mean they went on a temporary cooling off period!?" Baekhyun screeched. "I know that I'm kind of an outcast but Kyungsoo and Chanyeol would practically be high school royalty. He's captain of the Lacrosse team and Kyungsoo is like, amazing. People talk and I can't lie, I do listen. How the did they keep this a secret at school?"
Baekhyun exhaled roughly and pressed his palm to his stomach. "Actually, hold that thought." He told Sehun and sat his phone down on his bed.
Baekhyun went to go to pee and then he ambled downstairs to get a snack. When he padded softly into the kitchen his mom was on the phone speaking in a hushed tone. She shot him a half smile and left abruptly. Baekhyun heard the click of her bedroom door closing upstairs a second later so he got his snack and went back to his room.
"Okay, I'm back." He told Sehun after he grabbing his phone. Then he hid under his covers with a bowl of fruit. The AC had been fixed so it was chilly in the house now. He took a bite of a slice of watermelon. It was the only thing he felt wouldn't make him ill right now. The baby must have liked the fruit too because there was even a pleasant little sensation of satisfaction each time he swallowed.
Baekhyun would never admit that he had to talk himself out of pouring sriracha sauce all over his watermelon. Despite his previous vow to never eat it again, the sauce still called to his senses.
"Okay, so they stayed on the down-low by being real subtle about hooking up." Sehun went on without missing a beat, his voice a hushed tone. Baekhyun frowned because he knew the other boy was sitting in his own bedroom. He had no idea why he was whispering.
"The Dark Lord didn't want people focusing on his relationship because it could have ruined his chances of becoming school president."
Baekhyun's eyebrows went up in confusion. "Huh? Why? Oh... 'Cause Chanyeol's family is poor? Kyungsoo never struck me as the classist stuck up type."
Sehun made a little growling sound. "Nah ah."
Baekhyun some watermelon juice off of his fingertips. "Okay...? Well, it can't be because of 'Yeolie's grades. He's like, 6th in our class. He's smart as hell for a jock. He speaks fluent Spanish and he volunteers for practically every school charity event--"
Baekhyun paused and clenched his eyes shut like he was in pain. He sat down his watermelon slice and tried not to tear up. It was really hard to talk badly about Chanyeol. The other teen hadn't ever actually done anything wrong to Baekhyun when they'd been together.
Sehun picked up on Baekhyun's emotional indecision and went on.
"If people knew their president was in a relationship in his first run, they'd think his focus wasn't totally on his responsibilities... At least, that's the bull political reason Park told me Kyungsoo gave him."
"Oh..." Baekhyun said glancing to the side. He was still kind of lost but he slightly understood.
"Plus Voldermort's parents wouldn't approve of their precious son dating when they were juniors so they saw each other on the down low. I've never even seen the two of them hold hands in public."
Baekhyun chuckled, not missing how Kyungsoo's nicknames kept changing, and ran his hand over his face. "So... why'd they "break up" then?" he wondered somewhat bitterly.
Sehun told him to hold on and Baekhyun could hear his friend moving around. The rustling of paper echoed through the phone before Sehun cleared his throat and spoke again. "--Had to get my notes," he explained. Baekhyun couldn't help but giggle.
"In order for this to make sense, we gotta go back to the beginning," Sehun said in a hushed tone. Then he made Baekhyun swear on his first born child (literally) to never to tell anyone what he was revealing before he gave him the 411 on everything he'd gleaned from his "contacts" about Chanyeol, subject "Yoda" and Kyungsoo, subject "Darth Vader" dating going all the way back to last year.
"Wait!" Baekhyun choked on a laugh and cut Sehun off. "Really, Star Wars? Why'd you pick such nerdy code names for them?"
"Excuse you? Star Wars is a damn greatest-classical-legend." Sehun sniffed in offense.
"No kidding," Baekhyun said with a dramatic eye roll. "We weren't even born yet when the first original movie came out." His eyes got wide then narrowed like he was sleepy. "Also, I-I--... I just... can't wrap my brain around Yoda and Darth Vader getting it on... Just ew? That is fanfiction level " no". Plus they were enemies--"
"--OKaaaaay--" Sehun sighed in frustration. "What about Severus Snape and Lord Voldemort? Wait, his given name was Tom Riddle... You know, when they were students at Hogwarts? They were cute." he insisted very seriously. "And Snape totally wanted to Tom Riddle's di--"
"OHMYGOD! NO, that is just creepy..." Baekhyun shrieked. He'd seen every Harry Potter movie. Chanyeol was way too handsome to be compared to Snape and Kyungsoo definitely didn't act like a prepubescent sociopathic-megalomaniac.
"Alright, how about teenage Tom-smoldering-eyes-Riddle-Mort and Lucious-y-silver-haired-Malfoy?"
Baekhyun cracked up. "No! Ohmygod, those are still old men!"
"But it fits! Think about it! Kyungsoo is totally going to Avada-Cadaver Chanyeol's after he finds out he has a baby on the way with you."
Baekhyun stopped laughing.
"Okay, fine! Harry and Draco," Sehun said in exasperation. "Chanyeol wears glasses and Kyungsoo talks to people like he can't believe he shares the same air with them."
Baekhyun couldn't help it and he literally laughed out loud and burst from under his blanket fortress. He was so tickled that he snorted a piece of watermelon out of his nose.
"Hmmm, it's nice to hear you laugh," Sehun purred in satisfaction.
Baekhyun wondered if that had been his friends goal to begin with as he withered in amusement on his bed. His stomach was aching like he'd done 40 sit ups by the time he calmed down.
"God, you are no fun," Sehun warbled. "Okay, I'll call them subjects "PCY" and "DK". That cool?"
Baekhyun hummed then repositioned himself so he that he was laying on his back so he could press his phone to his ear and rest his arm on his pillow at the same time.
Sehun restarted. "Okay, here's how it all went down... Oh! Imagine really intense, angsty pop-rock music playing in the background--"
Chanyeol had sat his sights on Kyungsoo during the last game of the season for the junior varsity Lacrosse team back in their sophomore year. It had been a really intense match against their opposing school from the district. Emotions were high, the teams had brought their A-game, the crowds had been huge and super engaged in the match. It had nearly been a tie.
Basically, it had been epic.
Chanyeol may have been all tall and spindley but he was also lean and muscular. He was one of those guys who was a total sweet heart off the field and a blood thirsty beast on it. With his co-captain Minseok (Big-Bruiser-Baozi), Jongin (Killer-Kai), Jongdae (Choke-You-Up-Chen), Luhan (Brain-Breaker-Bambi), and a bunch of other guys Baekhyun didn't know, the match had been absolutely brutal. Chanyeol had come up with some amazing play strategy (that actually proved he was really smart and knew advanced algebra) and scored the winning point at the last second.
Everyone had gone silent when the ball hit the goalie net.
"Ohmy, what just happened?!" Baekhyun had screamed hysterically and jumped up and down like a baby rabbit doped up on Mountain Dew laced with Splenda.
Everything had moved so fast.
"We wooooooooooooooon!" Sehun whooped, throwing his arms in the air.
The crowd had gone absolutely ballistic.
Baekhyun remembered all of this very vividly. It had been amazing and his first time going to a game. He'd worn a team jersey and brought a cute poster and everything. He waved it around like a fanatic while he cried and hollard until his throat was hoarse. Sehun had invited him. The other teenger actually used to be a Lacrosse player himself so he was there out of moral support. He gave up the sport after concluding that he was too cute and delicate to play anybody's contact sport.
If Baekhyun had to be honest, that was probably the day he'd developed a crush on Park Chanyeol.
"So!" Sehun chirped. "PCY approached DK that day and invited him to the after game victory party. He was looking all Teen Wolf hot and vicious covered in dirt, blood, sweat, and the tears of his fallen enemies, and he said he needed help with his studies. They had a lot of the same AP classes. After consulting with the current school president, we all know him as Suho, DK totally blushed and agreed to help PCY with his studies."
Baekhyun made a stank face and scoffed. Had Chanyeol really charmed his way into Kyungsoo's life by asking to be study-buddies? The whole thing was so underwhelming, ick sappy, and PG-13... And it was exactly how Chanyeol had wooed Baekhyun. They'd connected over over the intricacies of quick grocery bagging abilities. Chanyeol had offered to teach him the proper technique for achieving maximum bag to item capacity in the shortest amount of time.
"It's like playing Tetris but you get paid for clearing stages." Chanyeol had said while grinning.
Baekhyun had fallen head over heels instantly.
"Now, you and I both know that PCY is not an idiot," Sehun went on. "Well, not academically anyway..."
Baekhyun shook his head but hummed in agreement.
"So obviously this was all a ploy. He didn't need help with school. I've known PCY all my life but I had no idea how underhanded and sly he could be." Sehun said. There was the audible flip of a page and Baekhyun realized he was on speaker phone. Sehun must have been eating a snack too because there was a crunch and several seconds of him chewing.
"Okay, fast forward, PCY and DK study together and get close. PCY admits that he likes DK, thinks he's cute and has a great personality, all that sappy ABC family , and that they should date. DK was like, "Hmm, I am not sure. See you are a peasant and I am a prince. Snooty, sniff, huff, huff, hmph--"
"Hoooooo-mygod! Kyungsoo did not say that!" Baekhyun chortled and kicked his legs merrily.
"Whatever. His face said it. I was there when PCY asked him out. Sehun clucked his tongue. "You ever seen someone look constipated after asking them a question? "
Baekhyun sighed and waved his hand. "Anyway, continue...?"
"Right, so more days pass and I guess DK turned PCY down at first because PCY was walking around like his world had ended. Ungh! This is when I realized that bro actually really freaking liked DK like for real, for real. Whenever we'd hang out at DK's place those two spent the whole time face, touching all over, and ... Just yuck." Sehun sounded mildly horrified.
Baekhyun flinched. He really didn't need all of the visuals. "So, they got serious?" he breathed. He felt a bit light headed.
"Mmhmm, and fast. Kinda like how you did..." Sehun confirmed. "They made it official to friends by mid-June of last year. Hence, the 1st year anniversary post."
Baekhyun started to breath really slowly. "I see..."
Welp, that confirmed that Chanyeol had been with Kyungsoo when he'd been with Baekhyun.
"Yeah..." Sehun sighed deeply. "They were smitten. DK acted like a normal teenager instead of worrying about the SAT's or the DOW or something for once."
Baekhyun felt his mouth working but he couldn't think of anything to say. Sehun plowed on through.
"So we've deduced that PCY is a master of manipulative-manipulation right? Well, that's not the end of his -douchery!"
Baekhyun in a breath and became suddenly tense. He went to sit up and stare across his bedroom at the three windows then at the door. For some reason he felt like he was being watched. Now he understood why Sehun had been whispering earlier.
"O-okay...?" Baekhyun barely breathed, gripping his phone harder.
"You know PCY's family has been poor almost all his life right. Well DK's family has hella big ca-ching. Soooo..."
Baekhyun's mouth dropped open and his stomach sank. No way. Sehun couldn't possibly mean what he thought he meant. Chanyeol may have been a player, but he was still too kind a person for something this underhanded.
He didn't use people for personal gain.
"H-he's with Kyungsoo for his money?" Baekhyun cried. The tears hit him again almost immediately. "I thought you said they actually liked each other."
"Shhh! Use the code names!" Sehun said in a rush. Baekhyun could just see him ducking lower and looking around his room like the FBI was watching him. "You mean PCY is with DK for his parents money and their connections."
Baekhyun shook his head in absolute disbelief. This didn't sound like Chanyeol at all.
"Okay, stop." He pleaded a bit desperately. "C-Chan--I mean PCY--works so hard and he's so sweet. The guy volunteers at children's hospitals and churches in his free time for s sake. He can't possibility be--"
"--a two-faced, cheating, gold-digging ?" Sehun sounded equally perplexed. "I thought the same but... his family has a lot of debt from god knows what. I'd fake being a good guy too if I knew it could get me ."
Baekhyun shook his head. "M-maybe he's just trying to get help with college?" he tried to rationalize. "D-DK's dad does a lot of financial aid assistance. I got a scholarship through Mr. Do's company. Even with his families debt, if 'Yeol got approval for some grants, he wouldn't have to pay them back."
Thank for that, Baekhyun couldn't help but think. He'd gotten more money in scholarships than he could pay back in his grandchildren's lifetime.
"Um... did you and Park ever like, actually talk, when you were together?" Sehun asked in confusion. Baekhyun knew what he was getting at and scowled.
"Well yeah, but there's only so much you can learn about a person in freaking 90 days." He snapped. "Chanyeol kinda avoided personal stuff..."
And yet they'd gotten really close and personal physically. Once again Baekhyun wanted to punch himself for being so stupid and emotionally driven. He'd ranted on forever about what was going on in his life to Chanyeol but he other teen only ever listened and commented. He never talked about himself.
"Park's a nice guy and everything," Sehun sighed. "But like any human, he likes and needs money," Sehun sounded like he was shrugging. "He used to talk about always being broke all the time. That stopped and he did whatever Kyungsoo wanted. As long as K'Soo was happy, Do-Daddy would cough up the cash. Didn't you notice how he suddenly had all sorts of designer clothes and shoes start of school last fall?"
Baekhyun had actually but it wasn't his place to question it.
He also wished he had a human remote control so he could fast-forward through Sehun's in depth and incriminating back story. He was upset from learning all of this but he wanted to hear more.
Now that Baekhyun wasn't under love's heavy spell, he could see and hear clearly. So many weird things about his short fling with Chanyeol made sense now. Sehun may have been a huge gossip junkie but he wasn't a liar. It was practically his honor code as a loose lipped pseudo-reporter to tell the truth and nothing but.
Now Baekhyun was shivering so hard in anticipation that he thought he'd pee on himself and it took another 15 minutes of notes and deductive reasoning for Sehun to get to the damn point so Baekhyun went to the bathroom while he listened.
Long story short, Chanyeol and Kyungsoo had a huge, Youtube worthy, argument about how Chanyeol needed to get his together and that Kyungsoo was (holds up dainty hand, dramatic sigh) tired of covering for his severe inadequacies. All this started because Kyungsoo refused a kiss.
Said arugement happened in front of all of their friends at some party. Kyungsoo had gotten drunk on a bottle of his parents expensive as Bourbon and Chanyeol had shown up swaying around like Captain Jack Sparrow and reeking like a greenhouse full of really potent weed and rum. The two boys exchanged heated and hurtful words and Chanyeol left in a fit of jock-like rage. Kyungsoo had apparently locked himself himself the bathroom and cried.
Baekhyun wasn't cool enough to get a direct invite to this party. Sehun had actually offered to get him in but he'd declined. Baekhyun had to work that night and he had too much family drama to think about anyway.
School hadn't emotionally prepared him for the reality of his dad cheating on his mom and nearly ruining them.
School also didn't teach him how not to freak the hell out in a time of financial crisis. Baekhyun had never wanted to hit a woman (his dad's mistress) more in his life after finding out his college savings was wiped out and spent on over priced designer hand bags and name brand makeup.
And school sure as didn't teach him how to kill his DAD while the man slept and despose of his body without getting caught.
So, yeah, the last thing on Baekhyun's mind had been petty high school issues or some party.
"I wished I'd recorded their fight," Sehun whined. "God, it was so brutal."
"I don't know how to feel about this..." Baekhyun said softly. He could not imagine Kyungsoo yelling or swearing. He always seemed really neutral emotionally. The guy barely spoke accept for in class and presidental rallies. "So, they argued about--"
Sehun seemed to sober up at his friends tone. "--about how Park was tired of being controlled and always having to wait to get what he wanted." he explained, dropping the code names.
"Having to wait--?" Baekhyun echoed dumbly and sat up. His brain felt like it stuttered and passed out while trying to processes what he thought he was hearing. His eyes went as wide as dessert plates when he finally reached a conclusion.
"Hooooold on, are you telling me that Chanyeol and Kyungsoo haven't slept together?"
There was no ing way they hadn't had . Kyungsoo couldn't be that... perfect. What was he saving himself for marriage or something?
And Chanyeol was just--UHGH--Baekhyun couldn't even!
Chanyeol had been so gentle and sweet and never ever pushy. The ual attraction between them had felt like a chemical imbalance in Baekhyun's blood cells and Chanyeol had always asked him if he was sure he was ready to do things and that they could stop at anytime.
Baekhyun had never been more ready for anything in his entire life.
"Oh come on. Of course they were ing." Sehun scoffed. "They were all the damn time. Bro actually still owes me a freaking 12-pack of condoms!"
There was a click and suddenly Sehun's voice was much clearer and close. He must have taken the phone off of speaker.
"Anyway, Park told me K'soo had gotten real clingy and started making life plans for them without his input. He dictated their life, what Park wore, what brands, were he ate, and what he ate. He picked all of Park's colleges and filled out the applications. He's been accepted to three out of five with full scholarships. All thanks to Kyungsoo."
Baekhyun felt a spike of envious and putrid tasting green jealousy crawl up his throat and he swallowed thickly. "Oh... well, good for him..."
"None of the schools are where Park wants to go to so he flipped his . Kyungsoo was like, hah no, and cut him off from the fabulous life and for being so ungrateful."
Baekhyun was silent and his lack of response spurred Sehun on.
"So, Park was like you too, Do Kyungsoo! I don't need you! I can handle my own damn --and he started working more and later hours. He bailed on dates and ignored calls and texts from Kyungsoo and he acted like they were strangers..." Sehun paused to take a breather as he flicked a page.
"Kyungsoo realized he went overboard and he apologized and well, Chanyeol accepted him back. Easily."
Baekhyun frowned in disappointment.
"But Chanyeol had also started seeing someone else during their hiatus..."
Sehun paused for dramatic effect. It went without saying who he was referring to but he must have thought Baekhyun didn't know because eventually he asked. "Y-you know that someone else is you right?"
"Yes." Baekhyun hissed in a "like duh" tone of voice. Being cynical was the only thing keeping him from bursting into tears.
Just God. He really was the other man.
"Oh okay. You didn't say anything." Sehun whined. "At least gasp during the suspsenseful parts of the story."
Baekhyun rolled his eyes.
"Anyway, Kyungsoo got less controlling but he was still needy and clingy. Chanyeol was really y around this time. I guess he finally realized how much work Kyungsoo would be..."
Baekhyun's mouth arched into a frowny face. He actually felt kind of sorry for Kyungsoo.
"Then word got out that Park still had you on the side. K'soo confronted him about it..."
This time Baekhyun did actually gasped and slapped his hand over his mouth. It took him a full 30 seconds to collect himself and speak again.
"Wait! Kyungsoo knew that Chanyeol was with me and that he was... c-cheating?" he asked slowly. He felt like he was going to vomit again just thinking about where all of this was going.
"Yeah..." Sehun replied, sounding sort of uncomfortable. "He told Park to break it off with you or they were over for real. He also threatened to ruin him both professionally and academically. Well, obviously Park didn't care because he kept seeing you..."
"Kyungsoo knows about me and Chanyeol?!" Baekhyun asked a bit frantically. Holy , he was ruined. He could kiss his scholarships goodbye now. All Kyungsoo had to do was tell his parents about Baekhyun and Chanyeol and the baby and his life was over.
"He knows Park had somene else. Not that it was you. He actually didn't have any proof to back up his accusations that Park was creeping. So relax." Sehun tried to sound reassuring. "Park's really skilled when it comes to hiding . If you and I weren't friends, I'd have never know you two dated. He never talked about you."
Baekhyun felt insulted and scared. "You're missing my point! I'm pregnant with Chanyeol's baby. If Kyungsoo's parents find out--what if they think I'm not worthy enough of their money anymore and retract my scholarships? Who wants to support a pregnant 17 year old!?"
"C-can they do that?" Sehun asked hesitantly.
"I don't know!" Baekhyun shrieked. ", Kyungsoo is going to hate me! Even though he has Chanyeol back he'll hear about my baby and come haunt me like the real ghost girl from the grudge and-"
"Baek calm down. You freaking out is not good for the baby." Sehun urged. Baekhyun clamped his hands over his mouth and trembled.
"Kyungsoo doesn't know about you," Sehun repeated gently. "And no one else from school knows you and Park dated."
Baekhyun back and swallowed his fear to listen.
"Look, I wouldn't worry about Kyungsoo. He's smart enough to know you wouldn't have known Chanyeol was with him. They dated in secret remember?"
Baekhyun had actually forgotten about all of that in his blind panic.
"Plus, he's way too forgiving. He took Park back and the guy said some really douchey things to him that night..." Sehun explained.
"Like what?" Baekhyun breathed, actually dreading hearing all the details.
Sehun sighed and flipped more pages louder than was needed. "Like how, and I quote, that Kyungsoo is; "--A self-rightous, pretentious, boring, insufferably needy, controlling, spiteful, stuck up and frigid little brat who needs to learn how to give a and make an expression other than resting -face. Then, you need to find the proper way spit without looking so insulted. Clearly your etiquette classes were a waste of your parent's money--"
Baekhyun's eyes had been gradually widening with each word and he was sure they were about to pop out of his head. His mouth flapped opened and close like a fish gaping for air but he couldn't form words. Sehun took a deep breath.
"Wait, there's more; "--The only thing you're good for is money, the occasional decent booty-call, and studying. I did you a favor by dating you. You were no one before me! Trust and believe that I can have another willing body in seconds. Don't you ever for a second get to thinking that you're irreplaceable!~~" Sehun sang at the end then trailed off and whistled like just remembering the fight was too intense to handle.
Baekhyun stood from his bed and started pacing. He was so stunned to hear that Chanyeol had said such cruel and unforgivable . Like, he knew the guy was capable of being vicious--he'd heard Chanyeol talk mad trash on the field--but he'd never heard of him acting so foul.
It had to have been the alcohol talking.
"Jesus Christ... I can't believe Kyungsoo didn't punch him." Baekhyun scoffed. He also couldn't believe Kyungsoo had forgiven Chanyoel. Drunk or not.
"Maaaan, who're you telling!" Sehun crowed. "Luhan and the guys were gonna beat the out of him but Kyungsoo begged them not to."
"They argued like this in front of half our school and no one said anything?" Baekhyun asked in disbelief as he walked almost stiffly to his computer desk and stared at the calender tacked to the wall.
Sehun hummed in acknowledgement. "Kyungsoo has power. He made sure mofos kept their mouths shut. Accept for me. No one can silence me!"
Baekhyun flipped through the pages of his calender, ignoring the gurgle of his hungry and upset stomach. His nerves felt fried and a drop of sweat rolled down the side of his neck. His arm pits were equally damp again. He realized he'd do good with another shower.
He'd need to wash all of this drama off of his body with a loofa dipped in bleach.
"W-when was this party again?" Baekhyun wondered in a strained and wary voice. He was looking at the month of March on his cute puppy calendar.
A lopsided red heart was drawn on a Saturday and the letters "C+B!!" were written in it in big black letters. Baekhyun had been excited, over heated, and practically squealing like a baby pig when he'd spazzed and drawn it. It was really obvious his hand had been shaking.
Sehun seemed to think about the question. "Hmm, March. It was the first Saturday of the month and still cold as hell outside."
Baekhyun froze and stared blankly at nothing. His phone slipped from his numb fingers when it hit the floor. He regretted eating that watermelon because it was it was about to come back up. He took a few deep breathes, hugging his stomach tight, and willing his body and the baby not to reject the fruit.
The first Saturday in March?
Baekhyun couldn't believe this. That was almost exactly two weeks after he and Chanyeol had started secretely seeing each other and...
"No! Ohmygod no, no, no!" Baekhyun wailed. "Why is this ing happening to me!? What vengeful spirit did I piss off to be punished like this!"
Chanyeol hadn't officially broken things off with Kyungsoo until the night of that party?
The Lacrosse captain had come to the store that night, even though he hadn't had to work, looking extremely pissed off, tired, and kind of messy.
Baekhyun had been stocking shelves. When he'd asked Chanyeol what he was doing there and what was wrong, Chanyeol had told him it was nothing he needed to concern himself with and that he just missed Baekhyun. Then he tenderly kissed him on the lips in front of two teenage female customers. Chanyeol
smelled like pot, hard alcohol, axe deodorant, and sweat.
He'd smelled like a young and undeniably ual man.
Baekhyun had been both and a bit put off by all of the scents but he didn't ask why Chanyeol had obviously gotten ed up before coming by. He'd been too happy, oblivious, and blinded by love to question anything Chanyeol did ever.
Chanyeol had never said he'd gone to that party.
"S-Sehun--" Baekhyun squeaked after picking up his phone. "--I-I really have to go this time. I'll s-see you tomorrow okay?" He snapped his phone shut before Sehun could say anything else and tossed it across his room again. This time it skidded under his desk and vanished into the shadows.
"Oh my god..." Baekhyun gapsed, reaching up to cover his flushed face with a shaky hand. He sank to the floor, feeling numb and confused. "He came to me that night because because was angry..."
That fateful Saturday night in March had been one of the most memorable nights of Baekhyun's life. Chanyeol had waited for him to finish his shift (and sobered up on cheap coffee) and they'd left together. It had been really, really cold that night and Baekhyun had missed the last bus home. Chanyeol had talked him out of calling his mom to pick him up.
"You're welcome to stay at my place." Chanyeol had whispered softly into his ear and nuzzled into his neck. His words had been like an enchantment.
He'd still smelled like he'd rolled around in the most potent pot Baekhyun had ever gotten a whiff of. He'd been positive he'd gotten a contact high because he'd felt all floaty and loopy. That whole being on cloud nine thing was very, very real.
Chanyeol lived six blocks away but it was enough to expose them to the elements way too long in their water proof-less coats. They'd had to run and they were soaked and freezing by the time they stumbled, cackling like hyenas, through Chanyeol's back door.
Chanyeol's home was a small two and 1/2 bedroom house that always smelled like fresh laundry and mint tea. It had dark wood floors and the decor was old fashioned and cozy. His living room had one of those gaudy but extremely comfortable floral print couches. Chanyeol's room was the one-half of the floor plan and it was in the basement next to the laundry room. Chanyeol had enough space for full sized bed, a bookshelf full of really deep and awe inspiring books, a small dresser, a desk, snd his laptop.
Baekhyun had been over a few times before and, like usual, Chanyeol's folks weren't home. He'd never even met them.
They'd kissed like usual while slipping out of their damp clothes. Chanyeol had said he'd toss Baekhyun's clothes into the dryer and find him something to wear so he could sleep totally not .
Baekhyun had giggled, bitten his bottom lip, then batted his eyelashes demurely like the classy lad he was. Chanyeol had leaned in and kissed Baekhyun's shoulder and commented about his soft and supple his skin was. He'd cupped Baekhyun's chest and his chilled s and Baekhyun had moaned, mewled, and arched into the touch like a pleased little kitten.
Then they'd kissed harder. Baekhyun had tasted every single drop of Jack Daniels rum, straight up, on Chanyeol's taste buds. He'd never been drunk before in his life but he'd felt so tipsy.
They never got re-dressed and it was the first time Baekhyun stayed the night. He let go of his problems and his common sense.
He also let go of his ity.
Well, it had been nearly two in the morning. So that morning, Baekhyun had been freed of his boy-cherry. And it hadn't been lame like in the movies. He'd gotten good and ed. He'd experieced the toe curling, blush inducing, wet sheet causing, wonderfully nerve-wrecking and glorious he'd read about it really good fanfics.
It had been perfectly clumsy and joyfully awkward. He and Chanyeol had cackled and kissed and each other's tongues while Chanyeol worked him open with warm and slippery lube and his thick and strong fingers. Baekhyun had been totally relaxed. All of his stretching for cross-country had paid off because Chanyeol had folded him nearly in half at the waist and hooked his knees over his powerful shoulders with no effort.
"God, you are so ing beautiful," Chanyeol had said in awe. Every single touch had been like a kittens whiskers across Baekhyun's skin.
He'd been so high it took him a few tries to stay hard and he'd come early across Baekhyun's left thigh in a thick creamy mess. Baekhyun had been forgiving and more than happy to help his boyfriend get up with his fingers and mouth.
Baekhyun had been willing to do anything to take his mind off of his home life. Being with Chanyeol, being touched, and kissed, and practically worshipped, it made him forget how much he hated his father.
Chanyeol had ripped through two condoms with his teeth in his haste to get inside Baekhyun's tight and curvy little body and he kept apologizing, claiming that he was nervous and buzzed and could do better. Baekhyun had tried to help only to burst into a snorty fit of giggles because the third had popped out of his grip and shot across the room.
They never found it.
Chanyeol had kissed the inside of Baekhyun thighs and he'd been glad he'd shaved when they'd finally managed to roll a rubber onto Chanyeol's near purple woody. Baekhyun had firmly squeezed it and purred about how it belonged to him. God, Chanyeol was huge. Baekhyun had had to work at getting his hand around him and part of him had known it would hurt to be penetrated.
Chanyeol had groaned in agreement before he ligned himself up with Baekhyun's entrance. He'd been so impossibly gentle when he'd started to push in. Baekhyun squirmed and wiggled and tried really hard not to laugh. Not because it was funny, but because it had felt weird and it stung but it also felt so good.
Chanyeol had asked him if he was okay, Baekhyun had said yes, and then Chanyeol breached him completely in one smooth and powerful motion. There chuckles had tapered off into breathy moans and shaky little gasps. It had hurt in a way Baekhyun still couldn't describe but it wasn't so painful that he'd wanted to stop. He'd grabbed the back of Chanyeol's sweaty head and pulled him closer and snapped his hips up to allow him deeper.
They'd been laying at a slant on Chanyeol's bed and each pushed them closer to the edge of the bed. They'd cried out each other's names over and over like a really broken record.
Baekhyun had locked his legs at the ankles to make sure Chanyeol couldn't get away. The Lacrosse captain had promised with his eyes open and focused that he wasn't going anywhere.
Everything had been slick, messy, sticky, musky, exhausting, and a teensy bit painful. There had definitely been some tears.
Chanyeol's bed had been so soft and smelled like Frebreze. The tumble of the dryer cycle had kept them from being heard when Chanyeol's parents eventually padded in from a long night at work.
Baekhyun had felt the pleasant ache of his first time for days. Sehun had noticed that he walking funny (his inner thighs were tender) but he kept why to himself. He'd planned on taking that memory to his grave.
In hindsight Baekhyun realized he'd been really careless and irrational. He hadn't thought about how odd it was for the Lacrosse Captain, Park Chanyeol to want suddenly just want him. They'd gone to school together since sixth grade and had barely talked. All they had in common was that they were both athletes.
But Baekhyun had wanted Chanyeol so badly. He'd hated that they had to stay a secret but Chanyeol had insisted they kept things quiet.
Now Baekhyun knew why.
"He used me..." Baekhyun whispered. "That er was pissed off at Kyungsoo and he came to me..."
Baekhyun was suddenly panting, so upset he that could barely breathe. "! OHMYGOD! I'm dying! Baby! We're dying!" He wailed and pressed his palms to his stomach.
He was pretty sure he was going into cardiac arrest or (and most likely) having an anxiety attack. It was the same feeling he'd had at the hospital. He knew he needed to calm down so he could breathe but he couldn't. This was all just too much. Would God just knock him the out already?!
Baekhyun rushed, practically wheezing now, out of his room to the bathroom and blindly looked through the medicine cabinet. A grey pump full of albuterol was on the top shelf. He didn't hesitate to think about why his dad left it considering his punk had asthma and he would need it. Without hesitation Baekhyun stuffed the little plastic device into his mouth and squeezed the pump six times before enhaling deeply and holding it. He felt the effects of the medication almost instantly and he plopped down onto the top of the toilet and sat there dazed and shakey.
"Okay... okay..." He gasped, light headed and dizzy, but able to breathe. There was a slight ache in his lower abdomen, like a cramp, so he pressed his palm to his stomach again and closed his eyes. The dull pain subsided and a fluttery and warm sensation felt like it spread through him. He wondered nervously if the baby was okay. Was it scared from being deprived of air for a few seconds? Had he been too rough and shaken it loose? Baekhyun prayed that he hadn't hurt it.
Sehun was right, he had to stop losing his before he miscarried or something.
"I'm sorry baby!'" He gasped gripping his belly. Suddenly nothing else mattered. Not Kyungsoo, not Chanyeol. Not even college. Nothing mattered accept that his little bean was okay. "I'm so sorry you have to deal with this," He said. "I swear m-mommy's so sorry... I'm just scared but I'll get my together, I swear."
Baekhyun walked slowly back to his room, amazed his mother hadn't heart him freaking out, and went right to the bed determined to sleep forever. Well, okay maybe not forever, but he at least wanted to sleep through senior year, and carrying and birthing the baby.
He rolled into his blankets like a caterpillar spinning a cocoon, curled up, and faced the wall. It took less than two seconds for him to start sobbing into his blanket. The tears didn't just well up, they broke through his clenched eyelids like a wrecking ball bursting through a dam and rushed down his face. He had to almost stuff his fist into his mouth to keep from groaning like a beached hump back whale.
"I promise this is the last time..." Baekhyun said to his baby about his mood swings. He was so tired of crying. A huge snotty wet spot stained his pillow when he finally passed out and his face was pressed into it while his arms were wrapped protectively around his stomach.
That night, he dreamed that he confronted Chanyeol about being pregnant in front of the entire school but for some reason everyone was wearing robes, different colored striped scarves, and carrying glowing magic wands. It was such a vivid dream that Baekhyun woke up way too early the next morning craving mystery flavored jelly beans.
Specifically sriracha flavored ones. Surely they existed somewhere in the world...
Damn Sehun for his damn obsession with Harry Potter.
Baekhyun was still tired but his hunger trumphed his sleepiness. He greeted his baby, deciding first that he needed another shower to wash the layer of life ruin off of his body.
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