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Jongin smiles brightly at the two newcomers. "I'm Jongin," he introduces himself. "The grumpy one here is Sehun and this is Zitao."

"Chinese?" the tall one asks. There's something in the tone of his voice that Zitao can't quite pinpoint. It feels like surprise, but it's mixed with something else and it makes Zitao feel a little wary. He has experienced hostility due to his place of birth before and it wasn't exactly pleasant.

"Yeah?" he says hesitantly. The other just smiles and nods.

"Well, I'm Baekhyun, in case you didn't already pick that up," the shorter of the two says. He's got a nice face and a contagious grin and beautiful fingers that splay out on his companion's chest when he pats it as he continues: "This is Wufan."

Wufan. Zitao mulls over the name in his head and realization quickly strikes him. "Chinese?" he asks back, this time in Mandarin, and he may have sounded a little too eager because Wufan's mouth morphs into a beautiful smile that shows his gums and turns his eyes into crescents (and makes Zitao's heart stutter, but that's probably not important).

"Yeah." Somehow that's a relief. It's definitely a lot better than what Zitao had in mind. Less scary.

Baekhyun pats the other on the chest again. "Oh, look at you making friends like a big boy," he coos. "Good for you, honey." Wufan's glower doesn't seem to affect him at all. (The affectionate name added to the end of the sentence does affect Zitao, though, no matter how hard he tries to tell himself that it doesn't.)

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A/N: this was supposed to be a oneshot.
this was supposed to be a oneshot.
but here I am more than fifteen-thousand words and about twenty gallons of frustrated tears later and it's done, it's finally done. 
the story is going to have taoris, sekai, sekaitao!friendship and... well, hints of other pairings too (you'll see what I mean if you read it, hoho). it's going to have a total eight chapters and an epilogue and I'm going to update once a week. maybe twice, if you guys are good to me. ;3 oh, and yeah, there are going to be some rated chapters (but the overall story is pretty pg). \o/

I would like to give my thanks to sarah for giving me advice and confidence, to emma for encouraging me (even if it was for selfish, taoris-shipper reasons), to mini and bonnie for holding my hand. I would've probably given up on this long ago if it wasn't for you guys.

okay, bye. ♥