It was one of the ordinary days for EXO, they would have interviews after interviews and shows after shows. Every member was extremely exhausted but they tried their best as this was part of their job.

On the van everyone was very quiet, only soft snoring could be heard coming from members which were really tired. Tao had been very quiet today and Suho noticed and was a bit worried for his baby.

“Tao?” Suho whispered.

“Y-yea?” Tao replied.

“Is there something bothering you? You have been extremely quiet today and I haven’t seen you smile yet.”

“Nothing is bothering, I-I’m just tired.”

“Okay, have some rest now,” Suho adjusted in his seat so that his panda could sleep on his shoulders.

Of course there was something bothering Tao, but he didn’t want his Omma to be worried and stressed. He knows that being the leader of EXO is already really tiring and plus the non-stop activities they had today, Tao just didn’t want to be a burden for Suho. Tao was annoyed by the fact EXO’s maknae has been sticking to Luhan the whole day. He knew that the two were close since pre-debut and that Sehun had an obvious crush on Luhan.

Tao was woken up by Suho when EXO finally arrived at their dorms. It was already really late, around 2AM or so. The members rushed inside their dorms and quickly lined up ready for their shower. The order would be eldest to youngest, but Tao was scared to shower alone in this time of the day.

“Sehunnie~” Tao whined.

“I know what you’re going to ask me, and it is a no from me, I’m not taking a shower with you. Luhan had already asked me and I promised him first,” Sehun replied.

Tao’s heart started aching, it wasn’t because Sehun had turned him down to shower with him, but it was because Sehun would be showering with Luhan.

It was finally Tao’s turn to shower and most of the members had already showered, maybe except some members which were nice enough to let the other members shower first.

Tao sighed and slowly made his way in the shower, he was scared to shower alone but there was no choice and he knew he had to be quick so that the other members could rest earlier.

It was a really short shower for Tao, which only took him 15 minutes. He walked back to his room with his towel trying to dry his wet hair. His room was towards the end of the corridor and when Tao walked by the second room, he saw the door opened. Curiously Tao opened the door a bit more allowing him to see what was happening inside. Sehun and Luhan were sleeping in the same bed cuddled up and whispering to each other.

Luhan and Sehun were whispering to each other when Luhan noticed Tao was at the door, Luhan leaned in closer to Sehun and kissed him on the lips and in the corner of his eyes Luhan could see Tao’s shocked reaction.

Tao wanted to greet them both a good night when Luhan suddenly kissed Sehun and they smiled sheepishly at each other. He quickly left the room and rushed into his room, shutting it with a loud bang not caring if Suho would come and scold him.

That night Tao couldn’t sleep, his tears just wouldn’t stop and the ache in his heart just couldn’t get any better. He ended up wetting his whole pillow and not getting any sleep.

“Tao, wake up! We have a schedule and we’ll be leaving soon,” Chen opened the door and saw Tao under the covers.

“H-hyung,” Tao whispered, just loud enough for Chen to hear.

“Tao, why are you trembling? What happened?”

“I-I,” Tao started to cry.

“SUHOOO!” Chen exclaimed loudly.

Suho came in running towards Tao.

“Chen what happened? Why did you suddenly scream?” Suho asked.

“T-Tao is crying!” Chen replied.

“Tao… Tao… Come out of the blankets,” Suho tried to persuade Tao.

As soon as Tao heard Suho’s voice, he jumped into Suho’s embrace and cried harder.

Suho and Chen were shocked to see their panda cry, but they knew they had a schedule so Suho basically dragged the panda to the toilet.

“Tao, you know we have a schedule today. Don’t be in the toilet for too long, we all have to get going,” Suho said and left the toilet.

Tao stripped and walked inside the showers and let the warm water wash him from head to toe. His whole body felt so tired and numb from crying yesterday.

After what felt like forever Tao stepped out of the toilet and changed his clothes, waiting for their van to arrive. When all the members were on the van, everybody noticed the aura around Tao had changed. Yesterday Tao was still somewhat happy and cheerful, but today, he was just quiet and seemed very depressed. Thinking it was just because Tao was tired, no one questioned it.

Things were getting worst when they were preparing for their photo shoot. EXO was going to advertise for a clothing brand. They were paired in twos and Tao was ended up paired with Baekhyun.

“Zitao, why do you look so sad today?” Baekhyun asked Tao.

“Maybe I am?” Tao answered quickly and barely audible before the two were called over as it was their turn.

Tao and Baekhyun finished first and Tao just sat on the couch waiting for the other members to be done. His heart started to ache when he saw Luhan and Sehun being extra close together when taking photos. They were so cute together no doubt.

The same things happened for basically a month, Tao would cry himself to sleep, wake up and have a depressed aura around him. It was when one night a knock could be heard on Tao’s door and Sehun walked in.

“Hyung, are you asleep yet?” Sehun asked.

Although Tao did not want to hear this voice right now, he knew it would be impolite to not answer.

“N-no not yet,” Tao replied.

“Can I sleep here tonight?”

“U-uh yea?”

Tao couldn’t help but to smile a bit when Sehun crawled in next to him under the blanket.

“Now tell me why you’re here,” Tao asked Sehun.

“I-I…Just missed sleeping with hyung,” Sehun replied.

Tao wished for it to be this easy, but he knew that the younger must be troubled or he would’ve never slept without his Luhan hyung.

“Just spill it out already, hyung will listen and promise not to tell anyone,” Tao said honestly.

“Fine. I had an argument with Luhan.”

“O-oh…” I should’ve known, Tao thought.

“He wouldn’t let me wear his favourite shirt,” Sehun whined.

Tao couldn’t help but think Sehun was cute. He ended up drifting off to dreamland.

Sunrays hit Tao when it was the morning and Tao couldn’t help but to whine a bit as it woke him up. It was one of the best sleeps he has ever had in the past month. Tao looked to his left at the boy he loved the most, sleeping in his embrace and snuggling onto his arms.

“Good morning hyung,” Sehun said.

“Morning, how was sleep?” Tao replied.

“It was great, but I think I have to go settle things with Luhan now. See you later hyung!”

With that Sehun exited Tao’s room and ran back to Luhan’s room.

For the first time, Tao woke up without any help needed and went to the toilet to wash himself.

When he arrived at the table, Suho and Kyungsoo were both shocked but happy to see their panda wake up early.

“Tao! Do you want pancakes?” Kyungsoo exclaimed happily.

“Sure hyung, thank you,” Tao replied with a smile on his face.

Tao’s smile appeared after nearly a whole month, but that was only for a short period of time, before Tao’s heart hurt more than ever.

Luhan and Sehun arrived later than everyone to the table and said they had to announce something. Everyone was somewhat eager to hear what they wanted to announce.

“Sehun and I are now dating,” Luhan exclaimed.

Everyone on the table stopped whatever they were doing, and looked towards Tao with a shocked expression.

Tao’s heart started to ache really badly, he couldn’t believe what he just heard.

Claps were suddenly heard.

Tao started clapping.

“It is great news!” Tao exclaimed shocking everyone except for the couple on the table.

“T-Tao,” Kris said.

“Um, I have to go practice my Wushu now, eat well everyone,” Tao said.

With that Tao left EXO’s dorm with tears streaming down on his face.

EXO didn’t have any schedules today so everyone was doing their own thing. Some played video games, some surfed the internet and fansites, and some just simply had some more rest. And of course the couple was somewhere on the streets going on their date.

It was around after dinner when 9 members were sitting in the living room all watching the television where their recent interview was playing. When the doorbell rang, Suho quickly jogged towards the door and opened the door. He was shocked when he saw the awfully drunk panda.

“T-Tao,” Suho asked still a bit shocked.

“What? Jeez just move away Suho, I’m ing fine,” Tao replied harshly.

“What your language, Tao,” Suho angrily defended himself.

“Who the cares?”

Tao just walked pass Suho into the living room where all the eyes were staring at Tao.

“Tao, what happened?” Chen asked worriedly.

“Why the do you care anyways?” Tao replied.

There were gasps coming from the members as they have never seen their panda use such inappropriate language.

“TAO DIDN’T I TELL YOU TO MIND YOUR LANGUAGE?” Suho roared.

“Whatever,” Tao said and walked towards the toilet shutting the door.

“What’s got into the panda?” Baekhyun asked.

“I don’t know but I can see that there’s something bugging him or else he wouldn’t have drunk so much,” Kyungsoo replied.

“But what could possibly stress him out so much?” Jongin said.

“Could it possibly be the fans out there?” Xiumin said nervously.

“That would be a low chance, Tao has a large amount of popularity too,” Lay said.

“I-I think I possibly know why,” Chen replied nervously.

“Why? Tell us!” Kris exclaimed.

“It was probably the incident this morning,” Chen said.

“Y-you mean how Luhan and Sehun announced they were dating?” Suho finally managed to say after calming down.

“Yea…That…” Chen replied.

“But wasn’t Tao clapping and cheering for them?” the dumbfounded Lay asked.

“Lay ah, Tao cheered because he didn’t want us to worry for him,” Baekhyun said.

“We all know that since pre debut Tao has had a crush on our maknae,” Suho said.

“But Sehun has always thought of Tao as a best friend and nothing more, his heart was always belonged to Lu Ge,” Minseok said.

A sudden loud bang could be heard at the door and a drenched and crying Sehun could be seen rushing into his room.

“Seems like tonight is going to be a long night,” Chanyeol said.

Tao had just finished his shower but as soon as he stepped out of the toilet, he saw a drenched and broken Sehun rushed in his room. Tao didn’t hesitate and opened the door only to see a fully soulless Sehun crying on his knees next to his bed.

“S-Sehun, what happened?” Tao asked the younger worriedly.

“H-hyung,” Sehun’s voice croaked.

Seeing Sehun so vulnerable Tao gathered up all his strength and embraced the younger. Sehun kept crying on Tao’s shoulders, Tao didn’t care if his shirt would be ruined, he just wanted the maknae to be okay.

Soon, the tears turned into sobs and Tao knew Sehun was tired so he carried Sehun on his bed and tucked him in. Zitao couldn’t understand himself, the boy which broke his heart this morning, now looking so helpless. He couldn’t possibly hate on anything about Sehun and he promised himself he’d murder Luhan when he comes back.

As if on a cue, Luhan opened the door instantly meeting Tao’s death glare.

“What the did you do to Sehun,” Tao coldly roared at Luhan, not caring if the other members heard it outside.

“Chill, whatever I do he’ll love me and come back to me tomorrow,” Luhan smirked.

“You filthy bastard, why would you do that?”

“Why? To make you see who Sehun belongs to. Who wouldn’t go for a cute looking boy rather than a beast and bulky dark eyed boy?”

A punch landed on Luhan’s right cheek and Luhan fell to the ground.

“What the ?” Luhan glared at Tao.

“Stop hurting Sehun. Take him all you want!” Tao roared as tears started to form in his eyes. “Just please don’t hurt him. I give up. You win Luhan, you win.”

“I won from the start,” Luhan smirked.

“Sehun might not be everything to you, but he certainly is for me. But I want him to be happy with the person he loves, and I know the person he loves is you. You. Luhan. His one and only Luhannie. I’ll do anything, just please don’t hurt Sehun. I beg you, please, please, please don’t hurt him.” Tao was on his knees, tears falling down on his cheek, begging for Luhan to agree.

“Fine. Now leave.” Luhan roared.

Tao left the room and went into his room, crying his life out. He had lost everything he ever had.

The dorm was never this awkwardly quiet, the members at the living room heard everything but they were all too shocked to do anything.

“Guys…Let’s just go to bed, it is late,” Suho said.

The other members agreed and went to their rooms, except for Baekhyun who walked into their panda’s room.

“Zitao,” Baekhyun said quietly.

Baekhyun could see Tao stirring in his sleep and he could see the tear stains that were on his pillow. Baekhyun crawled in and hugged Tao, making the younger look up at him.

“I know you’re tired, now go to sleep my little panda,” Baekhyun said.

“T-thank you hyung,” Tao replied.

Tao fell asleep on Baekhyun’s chest and it was not long till Baekhyun also fell asleep.

When Tao woke up, he felt his lips were very dry and his throat hurt. He turned around and looked up realizing that Baekhyun was here the whole night sleepy and comforting him.

“You woke up? How are you feeling Zitao?” Baekhyun asked.

“I-I’m fine,” Zitao replied simply.

It has never been this awkward at EXO’s dorm, normally when the members were all sitting in the living room having breakfast, the room would be filled with laughter. But today, it seemed oddly quiet. Luhan and Sehun excused themselves outside and went to eat breakfast. On the other hand, Tao refused to eat anything and just sat there watching the television as the other members ate their breakfast.

Around noon, they had a photo shoot which Tao managed to get through. Then they were back at one of the SM practice rooms practicing their choreography. They were doing their tree of life when suddenly Tao fell to the ground. Tao was unconscious and immediately all the members gathered around Tao.

When Tao woke up, he was on his bed, and he heard the faint sounds of the other members talking.

“Doctor, is Tao okay?” Suho asked the man that was dressed in white.

“From what I see I don’t think he has eaten anything today has he?” the doctor asked Suho.

“Uh…Yea…I don’t think so…” Suho replied.

“Well he needs to eat or else his fainting will just get worse,” the doctor simply said.

“Okay, I’ll make sure he takes his regular meals,” Suho said.

After a while, Suho and Kyungsoo came into Tao’s room.

“Tao, wake up, you have to eat something,” Kyungsoo said.

“I-I’m not hungry a-and I-I feel v-very tired,” Tao replied.

“Come on, you must eat, the doctor said you fainted because you didn’t take your regular meals,” Suho said, “I’ll feed you.”

Suho started spooning the congee Kyungsoo and Chanyeol made and made Tao open his mouth to swallow it. Soon Tao managed to finish the congee and with the help of Suho and Kyungsoo he made his way to the living room.

“Zitao, are you feeling better now?” Baekhyun asked.

“Y-yes hyung,” Tao replied.

Tao was feeling a bit weird when he saw Luhan laying on Xiumin’s lap instead of Sehun’s. He felt someone tug at his shirt and Tao turned around seeing Sehun.

“H-hyung, can w-we talk?” Sehun asked.

“S-sure,” Tao replied.

When they were at Sehun’s room, Tao sat on the edge of the bed. He noticed the change of aura around Sehun and how he avoided eye contact and didn’t smile.

“Now tell me what happened Sehunnie,” Tao asked sincerely.

“I-I…B-broke up…W-with Luhan,” Sehun replied.

Tao was a bit shocked when Sehun had told him that they broke up.

“I was awake when you and Luhan were fighting and it was then I finally met the real Luhan. The Luhan who played with my feelings. I was heartbroken and lost, but when I heard your words, how I actually matter to you, I-I…”

Sehun couldn’t finish his sentence when Tao crashed their lips together.

“D-don’t cry okay? Luhan is not worth someone like you, now he has Minseok hyung,” Tao said, “I love you Sehunnie.”

“Hyung, I love you too,” Sehun said with a smile on his face. 

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