“Come on sweet, it’s going to be great!” Your mom said as she fixed your hair and made sure that your dress wasn’t wrinkled. Ever since the first moment she had told you about this you had complained and you had tried to convince her that it would be better for everyone if you would just stay home. The plans you had to spend your weekend without anyone else around you and without having to feel like talking were destroyed, just by the plans your mother had made behind your back. Of course you should have seen it coming, it was almost like a tradition for people over here to invite new neighbor over for lunch or dinner to let them know that they were welcome in the neighborhood. “Baekhyun only known you, I’m sure he’ll love it if you’d come so that he also has someone to talk to.” She went on and you rolled your eyes at her, angry because she was using that argument against you. 

She was right though, he was the only one he knew so far, even after he had spend a whole day at school yesterday. It had already started during the first class, he had decided to sit next to you instead of taking another free spot in class and getting the chance to get to know any of the other students in your class. When they had come up to him during the breaks or during the lunch pause, he had barely talked to any of them. You had realized that you hadn’t imagined that cold look inside of his eyes during his visit at the Secretariat. Only the look in his eyes was enough to scare all the people away from him and if you had to be honest, it even gave you the chills. Because you had thought that he’d be as kind to everyone as he was against you, but it seemed to be a very big difference. He pushed everyone away from him and the only person he ever smiled at or talked to was you. You didn’t understand though, you were sure that if he’d just act the way he acted around you with everyone else that he’d make so many friends, but it seemed like he didn’t want that. 

It was just so strange, it seemed as if he had a double personality or something and you had no idea which one you still had to believe. What you did know was that Baekhyun had not told you everything about himself yet, there was something important he was hiding from you, something that had made that he acted like this towards others. But then why didn’t he act like that when he was with you? “Hello, are you ready? We’re leaving.” Your mom called you back into the real world and you knew that you couldn’t find a way to sneak away from this. You had to go, even if it was just for the dinner so that you could go back home afterwards. Baekhyun had told you about his parents before, but you had never seen them in person before, so it still made you nervous. Baekhyun had probably already warned them that you weren’t a talkative person and that they had to let you be, you hoped that your mother wouldn’t push you to be too much of a part in this. 

The three of you left the house and luckily for you, you didn’t have to walk very far, you knew that you wouldn’t be able to walk far in these heels. Just the fact that your stepfather was here with you and that you had to pretend to be a close and real family tonight made you feel horrible. You hated these kind of moments, where you had to pretend as if your family was complete and you weren’t missing anything though you were missing a very special someone at the table. Maybe it was because you had never been able to actually grieve about your father’s death that it still bothered you that much, but you couldn’t let go of it, definitely not if someone tried to take in his place. It made you feel a bit better that maybe at least Baekhyun understood a little, though his mom was still alive, at least his parents weren’t together as well and he had to deal with the presence of a stepmom as well.

As soon as the door opened you saw two friendly people standing in front of you to greet you, Baekhyun wasn’t there. Maybe he had decided that he didn’t want to be a part of this and you had to sit there all evening with these two pairs, trying to stay out of the conversation. “Please, come in! It’s so nice to meet you!” You immediately noticed her enthusiasm, which didn’t really fit into the image you had had of her. She seemed like a very nice person, but you knew that you shouldn’t aways believe everything you saw, especially not when it went about parents. They invited you in and you looked around the living room, they had a ver nice house too. It was so weird, that you hadn’t been here anymore in such a long time, but the house had been empty for such a long time. It was only after a few seconds that you noticed that Baekhyun wasn’t here as well, seemed like he had really left you here by yourself then. 

“Oh sweetheart, I almost forgot. Baekhyun is in his room, he told me you could go there if you wanted.” His mom said and shot you a bright smile, of which you believed he had gotten from her, but then you reminded yourself she wasn’t his real mom. “Thank you.” You mumbled, knowing that you were in a situation where you couldn’t just nod and get away with it. This was probably the reason why you hated these kind of situations the most. You walked up the stairs and almost directly found a door with his name on it, which could only mean that that was his room. For a moment you held in your breath, just to listen if you could hear anything at the other side of the room, but it remained silent. You lifted your hand to knock on the door just at the moment it opened, and you had almost knocked him on his face. 

You stared at him with wide eyes, a little flustered because you had almost hit him in the face. It made you think back about the first time you had talked to each other, the time he had been standing in front of your door and he had almost done the same thing to you. He seemed to remember too because the look on his face told you he could barely stop himself from laughing and you noticed that even you couldn’t help yourself to let out a small giggle. He seemed surprised to notice that, because he had never heard you laugh before. He then moved aside to let you into his room, and to your surprise it was very clean and very tidy. There were some books standing on a bookshelf but it seemed as if the hadn’t been used for some time and his desk was all clean