“Are you serious, Hyung ?”

The other night, after the two had a chat about how Baekhyun wished to sleep during the normal sleep hours , well here was Chanyeol with a whole package of how they were gonna master the art of sleeping early

“Well yeah, why would I get these if I weren’t” replied Chanyeol smiling placing the medium sized box of incense sticks and scented candles on the table, dusting his hands lightly after that.

Incense sticks were popularly used at places of worship, it seemed funny they were gonna use it for this purpose,

Chanyeol had bought this to try these methods by Friday, so they had time till the weekend to come up with something.

“Whoa, your step brother is kind of cool” Kyungsoo responded after Baekhyun had told them about this entire plan.

“Well, he is not my step brother, he is my Sunbae from school, I was in before” Baekhyun explained munching on the food which, Chanyeol’s step mom packed for both of them this morning.

He is kinda paranoid around her , he doesn’t get the okay vibes from her , he might be overthinking but he didn’t know he was partially  right about it , It was cause Mr. Park and Chanyeol took this decision about Baekhyun single- handedly. Mr. Park and her even had a mini fight regarding the matter which Mr. Park was not successful in quieting his wife down , She had nothing against Baekhyun ,but she felt it would ‘ve been alright if Mr. Park had asked her opinion before he went forward with the Idea,

But, No! Apparently he felt she would be too busy on her business trip and so he did not bother to ask her.

Due to all this Baekhyun misunderstood the situation, though she had been trying to form a rapport with the kid.

Life in High School was not easy, from peer pressure to studying long hours after – school almost seemed never- ending. There were times when he wanted to leave all this and sit in the internet café and play video games with his friends ,but now that he had Baekhyun  he couldn’t wait try all the fun activities with the smaller

He couldn’t believe he was procrastinating so hard for Thursday to finish and the next day is Friday. Finally when he gets a little rest from the daily bustling schedule he was tired of,

Chanyeol had thought he had it well planned with the stuff he had got, but when the two of decide to try their experiment with the incense sticks it turned out to be a smoky disaster  with two of them dry coughing out of their room to the hallway

“Thank god, we tried this in the afternoon and not at night” Chanyeol commented after a mini cough session

“Hyung, it was a bad idea  ... thankfully we didn’t burn anything” coughed Baekhyun almost teary –eyed due to the weird intoxicating scent of the sticks

“It’s Ok … we aren’t gonna burn anything” Chanyeol assured patting smaller’s shoulder  planning to further experiment with the scented candles

But since Baekhyun’s sleep had already been vanished due to coughing all afternoon, he shifted the plan to try it at night.

Chanyeol had been grateful that it had been a windy afternoon that they were able to clear the smoke before the parents questioned them.

The supper was ready by 8:30, the aroma of the food pulled Chanyeol and Baekhyun from the room who were cooped up in their school work and occasional chatting

Since it was their first dinner where everyone was present after Baekhyun had joined the fam, the table was nicely set, initially Baekhyun and Mrs. Park felt slightly awkward , but the silence melted as soon as they started eating and chatting.

After the early dinner, Chanyeol decided to finish up his school work while the smaller catched up on with some of the old the old comics had, he couldn’t help but get amused at the tiny notes on some old bookmarks Chanyeol had written as kid, he took one of the them which had a yoda caricature which resembled Chanyeol tucking the old drawing in one of his favorite novels

After their peaceful night routine, Chanyeol took out one of the scented candle box with brown packaging, it was Sandalwood, he had bought other flavors but he preferred woody, rich scent for Baek. Both lay down on their beds after the elder placed the candle on Baekhyun’s table and tucked the smaller in.

“Hopefully, you can get some sleep tonight”

“I hope the same, Good night Hyung “ Baek waved at Chanyeol as he laid down on his Bed

The strong aroma of woods filled the room in matter of seconds, Baekhyun felt as if he were in a forest. Both facing each other in an unsaid competition of who will close eyes first, and obviously it was Chanyeol snoring softly while hugging his blanket, Baekhyun softly smiled at his Hyung who looked like giant teddy bear at the moment

He got up to extinguish the candle, softly touching the elder’s arm, before quickly stepping into his bed before he accidently woke up the other.

It was needless to ask how peacefully the younger slept as his dark circles were a clear indication he wasn’t able to

The entire weekend, was gone in these methods that Chanyeol had completely forgotten to prepare for a test he was gonna have after spending the entire morning studying; he decided to take a break in the afternoon.

He called Baekhyun who was walking in their lawn barefoot enjoying, the dew on the grass brushing his feet

“Baekhyun” he shouted from the window in their room

“Yes, Hyung” smaller responded squinting

“Wanna watch a movie?”

Baekhyun showed thumbs up walking swiftly to their entrance to return to their room

“Which movie are we watchin- ooh you’ve set up already”

“Yup, Come on up”

Chanyeol had not chosen the movie yet, but he had prepared some snacks and set the laptop on his bed where, they would be watching

After a round of scrolling and discussing Chanyeol chose a movie

It had a been an hour or so, Baekhyun started feeling drowsy after finishing the snacks with Hyung, while Chanyeol was intently watching his screen, went felt a soft thud on this shoulder, slightly shocked, he slowly moved to check on the smaller, his bending causing Baekhyun to further slide onto his chest, he quickly rested his back which he had strained for a while, intensely watching movie

It had been a few minutes, Baekhyun was comfortably sleep , he slowly lifted his frozen arm  which he did not move since Baek had fallen into deep  slumber ,he softly brushed his front fringes running his finger gently till the back of the head, further settling his hand  on smaller’s arm.

Little did he know that he finally found , Baek’s sleep inducer

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Sorry, For the late update 

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