Once upon a time, hamsterboo wrote a fanfic called Distant Torment. As her beta, we have engaged in many discussions about what the lives of Baekhyun and Chanyeol in this fic were like in college.

I'd been best friends with Chanyeol ever since I could remember.  Wherever he went, whatever he did, I would be there along with him.  He was my happiness, my light, in the midst of all the darkness in my world.  I didn't know that once I turned fourteen all of that would change.  I lasted three years without Park Chanyeol, the way a person could live blind.  I was functional, but not complete.  I didn't think I would ever be comp