“So Tao to end our tour, this is where we eat lunch. You can eat with us! We don’t bite!” Baekhyun laughed.

Tao glanced over and saw a guy eating by himself; He wondered how such a handsome man could be alone.

“Who is that?” Tao said pointing in the direction of the man.

“Oh… That’s Kris. He’s a bully… but I don’t think he’s a bad guy.. just insecure.”

“Him? Insecure? He’s absolutely-“

“Baekhyun! Tao! Over here!” Kyungsoo yelled waving his arms.

Kris’ eyebrows pushed together as he looked up from the book that he was reading. He glanced around until his eyes locked on Tao’s.

“Tao? Are you all right? You’re blushing.”

Tao cleared his throat,” Are not.” Tao didn’t take his eyes away from Kris’.

Baekhyun glanced over to where Tao was looking,” Ohhhhh, I see what’s happening here. Go talk to him.”

“I don’t need you to tell me that.” Tao finally broke away from Kris’ eyes, and blushed deeper.

The two boys walked over to the full table and began conversing with the others.

Baekhyun kept feeling something hit his back. Thunk, thunk, one after another. Baekhyun turned around, annoyed to find someone had been tossing grapes at him. He looked up to see it was Kris. Kris motioned for Baekhyun to come over to him.

Baekhyun sighed and got up from the table,” Guys I’ll be right back..”

Everyone watched in silenced horror as Baekhyun walked over to Kris’ table and sat down.

“What do you want?” Baekhyun asked with sincerity.

“Who’s that guy? The new one.” He asked

“That’s Tao. I think you guys would get along great, he’s Chinese too.”

“Do you mind if I sit with you guys today?”

This question caught Baekhyun off guard, but he smiled softly,” Sure Kris. I’ve been waiting for you to ask. None of us like to see you sit here alone. Throw your pride away and join us from now on, okay?”

Kris smiled,” Okay.”

Baekhyun stood up with Kris,” and Kris you should smile more, it’s nice.”

“Thanks for the tip.”

Baekhyun and Kris walked over to the table and Baekhyun cleared his throat, unnecessarily getting the attention of his friends, because all eyes were already on him.

“Kris will be joining us from today on. Treat him as a friend okay? I know we all have some type of history with him.. but lets put it behind us okay? We’re all friends from now on. Right, Kris?”

Kris nodded,” Right, sorry for anything I ever did to you guys..”

Kyungsoo smiled and stood up throwing his hands in the air,” Apology ACCEPTED YAYYY!”

Jongin tugged on Kyungsoo’s shirt and laughed,” Babe, sit down.”

Kris took the only open seat next to Tao.

“Hi, I’m Kris.”

“I’ve heard. I’m Tao.”

“I’ve heard. So you’re Chinese?”

“I sure am!”

Kris switched over to speaking Chinese,” Cool, me too. I’m glad to have another Chinese student here. It gets lonely.”

Tao smiled,” Well Kris, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.”