Sitting alone again in the student’s gist, Baekhyun threw himself to couple of books to get his hot head off. He didn’t look like he was outraged, positioned comfortably in his seat with his hair wet and down with a pair of specs standing at his nose bridge.

But he couldn’t stop thinking about how his friends excelled so much in their love lives, yet he was still on a stage where he thinks he’s still an acquaintance to Chanyeol. It just burns his eyes when he sees Kai and Kyungsoo locked in hands heading up to the rooftop, or when he sees Sehun and Luhan, though they were just starting, they seem to be so happy.

Baekhyun drops his book on the table and looked at the piece of paper where he wrote a long list of things to do when you are with your boyfriend, which he will give to Luhan as a guide prior to his promise. He wanders his eyes over those words, thinking if he’ll even be able to do it when he is with Chanyeol.

He believes no one lacks in the relationship, and they already had moments together. What he just think that they should be more frequently seeing each other because there were no barriers. They’re on the the same school, and their dorms are not that far from each other. Though they don’t have classes’ together, he bets Chanyeol knows how long is Baekhyun’s free time, enough for him to push himself on greeting him or just to drop for a little while to say hi and smile.

Those wishes were around Baekhyun’s mind, and books just can’t take it away. He stands up immediately; deciding to go to the cafeteria to check out if Kyungsoo and Luhan was there. Maybe he was just hungry, that’s why he can’t get the matter out of his brain.

He opens the door, accidentally pushing it to a person behind it. He rushes over as he saw a domino display of books and rolling pencils caught the edge of his sight, only to see that he slammed the door to a student.

“I’m sorry!” He quickly apologizes, picking up the student’s things.

“It’s okay.”

After getting all of the student’s carry back to his arms, Baekhyun apologized and apologized, explaining that he was spaced out so he didn’t realized someone was passing by.

“It’s okay.” The latter said for the last time, smiling hectically. “But—are you Byun Baekhyun?” His smiled changed in to a pout, his bold and raspy voice made his apples go up and down.

“Y—yeah. Why?”

“I’m Jongdae.” He slowly pulls out his hands from the pile of stuffs he had in his arms, and gestured it to Baekhyun. “I’m Chanyeol’s close friend.”

Baekhyun was surprised, not knowing that Chanyeol had this Jongdae friend. He smiles back and shook his hand.

“But, you can call me Chen too.” His new-found friend followed up, smiling another one as he continuously fixes his hold on the pile.

“Do you want me to help you?” Baekhyun gently asks, seeing how difficult Chen looks like right now.

Chen nodded shyly, but he still handed over a couple of objects from him. They both walked with Baekhyun on his tail, watching his every step as he plays like he was holding a fragile box.

“I guess this is far enough.” Chen stopped by the library counter being greeted by Junmyeon who was checking the books and materials that they carried.

“Oh, isn’t it Mr. Byun.” Suho took notice as he was scanning over the books, and checking after in his pinned list.

“Hi.” Baekhyun awkwardly waves and smiled.

“Well,” Chen pulled him away from the counter. “your aid ends here. You should go back to the lounge or anywhere you were supposed to. I’m sorry to bother you, but your help was really heroic. I never believed that I would bring that tower of books back here.”

“That’s nothing. And I wasn’t really going anywhere at that time, I just thought of checking out if my friend’s where anywhere somewhere. I’m glad to be around to lend a hand, or two.”

“You should go now then; I’m fine at this point.” Chen laughed and assured Baekhyun that he is fine.

“You should text me or talk to me sometime. I’m always at the lounge.” Baekhyun informed him which Chen happily nodded to, and after they exchanged numbers, Baekhyun walked away and went to the cafeteria.

“Baekhyun!” Kyungsoo called him who was at a table with Sehun and Luhan. “We’ve been waiting for you.”

Baekhyun walks closer and sighs, remembering his forethoughts about the love birds around him. “Where’s Kai?” He sarcastically asks as he reached for a seat next to Kyungsoo.

Kyungsoo flusters, caught unarmed by his friend’s sudden question. “He’s—somewhere.”

Baekhyun sees a plate in front of him already, and his stomach awfully grumbles. He started digging in, also thinking of being considerate of Sehun’s appearance.

“Hello, Sehun. What a sight to see you here.” He speaks with food in his mouth, wiping it with the handkerchief from his pocket.

Sehun coyly grinned, and giggled a little bit as it affects him the other way. “I’m kind of in a star-struck now though; having Baekhyun at the same table as I am on.”

“Why?” He asks, his eyes glittering by the kid’s compliment.

“You didn’t know? You are really popular with the boys around here. But, as usual, they didn’t have the guts to stand up to you since they say you’re kind of a hungry wolf when you are angry.”

“That’s damn right.” Kyungsoo agrees, tapping his spoon at the edge of his plate, laughing.

“Hey, I’m not a big bad wolf when I am angry!” Baekhyun complains, doing his aegyo boldly, attracting the attention of the other students at the cafeteria.

“Look at Baekhyun-hyung! He looks so cute; I am unworthy of being younger than he is.” One student claims as they watched Baekhyun acting adorable and flowery.

Luhan looked around and giggled, leaning closer to his famous friend. “See? They are really falling over for their cute Baekhyun-hyung.”

His friends laughed, and he doesn’t know if they are serious or they were just playing around with him. Though he does hear the guys whispering about him—he could also hear them betting on who’s going to say hi to him—there was still a bothering point inside him; something was badly missing.

° ° ° °

He went back to the lounge after eating, and brought Sehun with him for his tutor. They went in and was surprised to saw a couple of students by at another table, though he doesn’t forbid them to be inside, it was just scary surprising to see other people visiting the lounge besides them.

“Annyeonghaseyo.” The girls stood up and formally greeted the two, which Baekhyun and Sehun greeted back, making them quietly scream.

“We would be leaving now.” Mistaken as a hello, the girls were supposed to saying goodbye to them, as they tailed out of the door as they got in.

Baekhyun gave Sehun his problems for the day, and slacked on his seat. Nothing has really changed in his mind as he was here lately, and as he was here now. He grabs his phone to check on some messages, and was surprised to see Chanyeol’s name on the envelope icon.

He opens it and read it, eager to know what’s inside.

“Hi! I know this is all of a sudden, but please meet me at our dorm tonight. Make sure your dorm mates are asleep before you go out and go to our dorm. I’d be expecting you, Baekkie.”

Though the message lacked motives, he smiled and pushed back his phone in his pocket. He was smiling, and he was happy of what he read. Suddenly, he knew that Chanyeol was thinking about him. He knew it was timing, and it was on purpose to make him miss his tall admirer. That single text made up his day, and plans on his mind was already forming on what he will do this night.

° ° ° °

“Luhaen?”

“Dyiyo?”

He grinned as his two friends as they lied peacefully in their beds beyond the blue moonlight, as Baekhyun tiptoed away out of their dorm. He had his pajamas on, in thought that it would be a slumber party, or Chanyeol invited him to a sleep over. Most ideas could happen, and Baekhyun was looking at the typical ways.

He knocked in the dorm 207, having the guy’s surnames inscribed in silver alphabets underneath the room number. It immediately opened, and Chanyeol stood behind to greet him.

“Hi.” His happy face appeared, letting out the bright light from their dorm. He opens it wide and let Baekhyun enter, prior on getting greeted by Kai and Sehun who was sitting at the carpet on the floor.

“Hi, hyung!”

“Hello.”

“Come on, sit.” Chanyeol invited him to sit on the floor, sitting next to each other.

“I know you’re not prepared, but you are forced to join the game.” Chanyeol introduces him, and Baekhyun noticing the board in front of their circle.

“Snakes and Ladders?” Baekhyun names the board game, raising his eyebrow.

“Yes, hyung. Snakes and Ladders.” Kai confirmed and repeated, smiling widely at him.

“But the rules are different.” Sehun follows, pointing his finger upward. “Each round, we play as four. We must all race to the end, landing on the first, second and third positions.” He then points to the three squares that had gold, silver and bronze trophy printed in it. “And the fourth one, would have to face a consequence.”

“What is it?” Kai and Chanyeol asked, but they obviously know what it is.

“You’re going to remove one clothing item that you are wearing, and continue to another round. If the game ends, you will not be able to wear it back, and sleep with your remaining clothes.”

Baekhyun twitched, not sure on how far this dudes gone far. He only got a pair of socks, his pants and tee and underwear. He smirks after, thinking that the rules were kind of his type, seeing three dudes strip down—especially Chanyeol. He nodded and went on to play with them.

“Let’s start!”

After rolling the dice a lot of times, and going on six rounds of the game, the results were surprising. Kai ended up having to remove his shirt and curl up in his blanket tonight, and Sehun had his pants removed, luckily he was wearing his boxers. Baekhyun had his pants removed too, but he didn’t have any boxers on so his security was his over-sized tee. Chanyeol ended up as the worst one, having his pants and shirt removed, only with his boxers and briefs left.

Baekhyun lost the sixth round, but instead of removing a clothing item, Sehun and Kai plotted to give him the consequence of sleeping in Chanyeol’s bed instead. He agreed nevertheless, thinking that he’d benefit to that fact anyway.

He never lied his eyes on Chanyeol yet, knowing that he’ll turn very red when he see him half-. The guys turned off the lights and started getting on their beds, while Baekhyun suddenly two-mindedly walked to Chanyeol’s.

“Good night, hyungs!” Sehun greeted before curling himself in a ball.

“Good night, love birds. Have a nice honeymoon.” And Kai follows a tease before covering himself completely with his blanket.

It’s a good thing it was dark, because Baekhyun was already blushing. Chanyeol got in first in his bed, and Baekhyun followed after. They stared for quite some time, and then made themselves comfortable as they lied on the bed.

“Baekhyun.”

“Yes?” He shakily answered, his legs touching Chanyeol's, still avoiding to look at his almost body.

“I’m happy you went here. I almost thought you won’t because I haven’t been around for quite some time.”

“Damn you’re accurate of your actions. You made me worry.”

Chanyeol twisted, facing himself to the petit. “Really?”

“Yes, really. I got jealous of my friends and your friends. They’ve been getting together every now and then. I wouldn’t expect much because we’re just friends, but I just think it would be a lot better for us to have more time for each other. You know, so we could truly know each side.”

“Is that necessary?”

“What the ?”

“You sound like you like me.”

Baekhyun sighed and rolled his eyes. “Didn’t you hear it? I was screaming at the rooftop on a cold night. I freaking like you, Chanyeol.”

Chanyeol laughed, which pushes Baekhyun off of his temper. “What’s so funny? Is that disturbing?”

“No. Calm down. I was just testing you.”

“Testing me!?” He propped up and glared at Chanyeol. “You should have known that for the past few days my mind was revolving around you, your face, and my stupid hope. I think this is the right time to speak yourself out. What have you been doing? What keeps you from seeing me?”

Chanyeol, who looked like he wasn’t surprised, let himself in to as sit. “I’m sorry, Baekhyun. But I know I’ve been really insensitive of your feelings and time—“

“Damn right.”

“—but I never knew you spend so much time in the lounge thinking about me. I always thought you were studying there, and I know Sehun and you are on sessions every day. I never made an effort to reach you because I know, and I believe that you are busy. We’ve just known each other, and if I make a bad difference in your usual routine, I will feel guilty. I just tried my best not to disturb you—“

“You didn’t!” Baekhyun shouted, luckily the others weren’t alarmed. He backs down and breathed normally, getting back to the matter.

“What you did bothered me even more.” Baekhyun suppresses, looking down to his knees. He just realized what Chanyeol said, and he was the one who was being insensitive. He was the one that lacked in the relationship, and he never even told that he was always on free time. He buries his face in his hand, regretting to why he outraged when he was the one who holds the fault.

“Baekhyun.” Chanyeol raised his chin, soaring his sight from his stomach, his buff chest, and to a wide view of his face. He then kissed Baekhyun in the lips, concealing their argument throughout. 

“I’m sorry. I love you, and I will try to be attentive of you next time.”

Baekhyun looks away, the way that Chanyeol’s soft lips landed on him, and his sweet words calmed him completely.

“I’m sorry too.”

Chanyeol smiled and nodded, inhaling the air around them. He hugged Baekhyun and they both lied down, sleeping again with each other side by side, but it felt like it was the first time together. This was the moments Baekhyun was lingering for, and he knew this was above than Kyungsoo’s or Luhan's. But that wasn’t the point; he knew they have their different stories. He’s just happy that he finally got his own under the white sheets.

° ° ° °

He was on his way to his Chemistry class; suddenly he felt his phone vibrate. He fetched for it in his pocket and read the message.

“Good morning, Baekkie. Did you eat breakfast? Did you prepare all of your things? Are you feeling alright? I hope you’re okay, and I wish you the best on the day forward. I love you, I love you, I really love you. Let’s meet later and maybe have some ice cream. Do you like ice cream? Maybe we’ll visit a Chinese restaurant instead. Just text me what you want to do before our classes. Okay? I love you.”

Baekhyun laughs, Chanyeol had it overflowing this time. But that was okay, and it was really sweet for him to do. He gets back on his walking, the vivacious sunshine were as bright as his smile towards the entire day.

A/N: So, I wrote this really long chapter, because I feel like it. :) I am so glad Baekyeol is around! Are you too? Well... Not much to say. I just want to apologize for not posting early. I just didn't have the time to and my busy days are getting tighter and tighter, but after this month, I'd be free as a butterfly. I wish you all the best. Keep on upvoting ♥