"Ah right.Why would you listen to me?I'm just a roommate." -CHANYEOL
'Of course not.You're not just a nobody.You're more than that.Way more than a roommate.'-BAEKHYUN
🍒RANK No.1 #CHANBAEK-04182021
Chanyeol save up a lot of his salary to get a new phone.Unless it was basic necessity or stuff needed for his studies,his parents did not provide luxurious things often.If he wanted something,he had to work hard for it.
"Woah!Isnt that the latest phone with a high-end front and back camera?Rose said as she eyed the phone in Chanyeol's hand.His friend crowded infront of him too,trying to get a glimpse of the latest smartphone model he bought.
While he usually paints,he was obsessed with taking pictures lately.He wanted to try it out.But i stead of splurging on high-end cameras.He thought he would dabble with phone cameras first.
"Let me take you pictures," he said and his friends willingly obliged.They were bored,and their proffesor has running late today.Chanyeol did some studying the night before,so he had time to spare.They took a lot of pictures and selfies ranging from serious to wacky shoot untill they grew bored again.
While his friends conversed among themselves,Chanyeol tried other things to shoot,namely,his books,watch,even his pen.When those were no longer enough,he pointed his camera around the hall,Just ramdomly taking pictures of anything he came across.
It was at the moment when his camera caught one of his classmate.He was looking outside,unaware of the noise around him.Unaware of Chanyeol.
He was beautiful.
Before Chanyeol knew what he was doing,his fingers hovered at the capture button and snapped photo.
The shuter sound cut through his trance,and the sudden realization of what he just did hit him.He hid his phone right away and face forward,mentally cursing himself for forgetting to turn off the sound of the damned thing.
On the outside,he look calm and unaffected,but inside,he was itching to take a look at his phone.It was probably not nice to do that.Not when there was a risk that any of his friends might get a glimpse of his screen.
'Just one more look then...'
He looked over his shoulder discreetly as though he was only scanning his surroundings and not searching for that boy.The guy was reading his book now,but Chanyeol could still see his face,and he could not help but stare some more.
That beautiful face.
He swallowed.Who was he?Why did he only notice this person now?How many other classes do they take together that Chanyeol failed to take notice of him before.How many other chances passed him by when he could have gotten to know the other guy.
"What are you looking over there?" Rose glanced behind them.A couple of their friends followed her.
Terrified that they would be noticed,Chanyeol hastily said,"Nah,a lot of students take this class huh?"
"The professor's notorious but he's pretty good.That's why he's popular."
His friends fell into another discussion about their professor,but Chanyeol's mind was stuck to that boy.Even when the lecture started,all he could think about was him.
'Focus Chanyeol.Focus,'he thought but found himself focusing on other things.
************************* For the following weeks,Chanyeol stole several covert glance to the guy whos name he had not known yet.Not yet.Sooner or later he hope he would. For now he was content looking at him from afar.He kept his eyes peeled in all of his classes for any chance that they might be classmate again to no avail.
The only class they both took was such a drag,with their strict professor. Chanyeol learned a lot but hated being tensed at all the time so early in the morning.Waking up on days where he had this class felt like walking into the executioner's den.
But now,Chanyeol look forward to it.This was his only chance,three times a week,to see the pretty boy.Chanyeol choose a set closer to where he usually sat,but not to close that anyone would suspect anything. The way,he could not just see him closer,but also,hear his voice.The first time he heard of the guy's voice.Chanyeol felt weird fuzzy feelings.Good kind of weird.Hes voice was neither high or low but clear,and it sounded really nice to Chanyeol's ear.From then on,he was attuned to that voice and could pick it up over the noise of the hall.
"Chanyeol what are you waiting for?lecture's finished.Let's go,"his friend said.
The lecture ended with him day dreaming the whole time.Again.How many times did this happen already?He drag himself up,almost bumping to the student passing beside him.
"Baekhyun,you left your book."
The student paused and turned back just a few inches away from Chanyeol."Oh,right.Sorry."He took his book from his friend and added,"Thanks."
When he face forward again,his face was close.Chanyeol stood there,unmoving when he realized who it was.The guy Baek,shot him a quick glance and then walked past him followed by his friend.
The glance was as good as rejection.Perhaps he let the name "School idol"get to his head that Chanyeol thought Baek would atleast know him.But there was no recognation in that look.Chanyeol was just another student for him.If this was in the school where Baek was tha main actor,Chanyeol was a student A or worst,the tree in the background.
It stung a little,but that was what he got for feeling like a big shot when he was only a nobody."It would be really nice if he really looked,though."
He did not want anyone noticing his secret glances,most specially for Baek to know about this,whatever this was.At the same time,he also wished for Baek to notice him.
The thought made him paused.
'Woah,wait.Why would want him to look at me?It did not make sense,right?He decided to perish the thought and went on to his day.
That thought persisted--haunted-- him,whether he like it or not.Later in his room,he opened his phone album and stared at the photo again.He did that many times in the past weeks since that day,that now,opening his album was like second nature to him.
"Baek,"he said as thought testing how that new name rolled of his tongue.Finally,a name to put with this face.He thought that the novelty of the photo would lose its charm once he stared at it long enough or quite a bit about the owner of the face.Instead,It intensefied even more,not lessening one bit.
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