You're a Monster | Chenji

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Chenle was sucking on a cherry lollipop as he looked up at the man in front of him.

'Come on, little boy. Come with me.'

Jisung saw how the man took Chenle's hand and lead him somewhere. The small boy followed hesitantly. He was spying on him, but it was for his safety so he wasn't doing anything wrong, right?

The man and Chenle went into a dark alley where, the man thought, no one would see them. Jisung followed the two humans silently and kept an eye on them.

His little Chenle was too busy with his lollipop to realise the man in front of him had unzipped his own pants and pulled down his underwear until one of his dirty hands grasped Chenle's hair harshly.

'You like lollipops, don't you?'

He smirked evilly, he saw the kid looking confused and terrified.

'S-sir, what are you d-doing?'

Chenle gulped and closed his eyes. He didn't understand what was going on, but he knew something bad was about to happen. The man forced open Chenle's mouth.

Jisung had seen enough.

'Don't fucking touch him with your dirty hands!'

The man felt a brief but intense pain in his neck. Next thing he knew, he didn't feel anything else.

Chenle saw the man's neck break with an unpleasant creak and his corpse fell down in front of him. His gaze was glued to the corpse, as he didn't dare to look at whoever had done this to his attacker.

He was afraid, but he finally gathered the courage to look at him. It was a guy, approximately his age.

'T-thankyou for saving me...'

The mysterious guy nodded and ran away right after, leaving Chenle trembling in the dark place.

'I want a masculine perfume for my boyfriend.'

'Can you describe him to me?'

'He's very manly, and tall, and smart, and handsome...'

Yangyang was internally screaming for the lady to shut up already. None of the characteristics she was saying we're useful to choose a perfume for that unknown man.

'Maybe 'Parfum du Lapin Noir' would be a good choice. Do you want to smell a sample?'

The lady laughed at him. Yangyang cocked an eyebrow and gave her a 'what now?' look.

'Sorry, it's just that your French is so bad.' She giggled once again and pronounced the name in a perfect French.

Yangyang wanted to hit her so badly, but Kun would kill him for mistreating a customer, so he smiled at her instead. He picked a sample paper and sprayed some perfume on it, handing it over to the girl so that she could smell it.

'Uhm... I think it's not masculine enough...'

'What is masculine to you, miss?'

'I don't know, but I don't want my boyfriend smelling like he's gay, you know? What perfume do you use? I would love it if he smelled as good as you... Yangyang.' She flirtatiously winked at him as she read his name tag.

Yangyang rolled his eyes, this time without hiding it.

'Miss, I'm gay. And if you really want your boyfriend to smell like an homophobe with fragile masculinity maybe you should give him some rotten bananas instead of a limited edition perfume.'

'I'm sure you're gay because you haven't found the right gi-'

'Get out of this shop.'

'What? You can't kick out a cu-'

'I can. Get out right now.'

The annoying girl finally left the shop and let out a loud sigh.

He grabbed a paper and wrote some words on it. After checking it he smirked and stuck it on the glass.

'No perfume for homophobes.'

Once Chenle stepped on the school grounds he started searching for Jisung. He looked everywhere he could think of.

He can't be that hard to find, he's like, a fucking lamppost.

Once he caught a glimpse of the taller he ran towards him. He was about to get there when he suddenly stopped, almost tripping and falling embarrassingly. Jisung was with another guy, and that thought somehow bothered him.

'You sure you'll be fine?'

'Yeah, Sungie. Don't worry about me. Have fun!'

The unknown guy patted Jisung's head and hugged him. Chenle's eyes widened as he felt something in his heart. He was disappointed. Jisung had a boyfriend and he didn't tell him?

The taller noticed him as soon as Baekhyun had left.

'Oh... Chenle!'

'Who was that?'

Jisung went silent for a second.

'Baekhyun? Oh... He's just a friend, haha...'

'A friend?'

'Yeah, just a friend.' Jisung panicked as soon as he realised. 'I swear there's nothing between us! I would never, he... he has a boyfriend haha...'

'Hmm... Why did you leave in the middle of the study session last day and why didn't you show up yesterday?'

'I... Uh... I wasn't feeling well a-and I had to leave urgently. I-I haven't shown up to school either until today...'

'You left this at my library.' Chenle gave him his phone and his books.

'Oh, thanks. I thought I had lost them...'

'Yeah...'

'Chenle, are you mad at me..?'

'Huh? Oh, no. Not at all.' Chenle brushed off this feeling that was bothering him and put on a smile not to worry the taller.

Yukhei arrived a few minutes later than he was supposed to.

'Sorry, Yangie. I'm late.'

Yangyang yawned in response. He left the shop as soon as he could, leaving Yukhei in charge. Yukhei noticed the paper that was in the local's door, he read it and smirked. Yangyang had a strong personality, so he guessed someone had bothered him enough to make him put that sign on the door.

Now that Chenle had to work in the shop, their study sessions were moved to the Chinese's library permanently.

Jisung noticed how the older's mood had lightened up after school. They were currently studying maths, and Jisung was having a hard time with them.

'But where on earth does this 'y' come from?'

'Because with if you solve the first equation then you can find the second one by substituting this incognita by the result of the first equation.'

Jisung groaned dramatically as he crossed his exercise which was completely wrong.