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65. EXO Chanyeol - Always After All 2

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"At the end of the day, you've always got me."

Genre: Angst, Fluff || two-shot

Pairing: chanyeolXreader

Word Count: 11.7k

The followup and resolution to Always.

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Love was a messy subject.

It was even messier when a love after years came to an end.

But sometimes, there is one person who wants to help you clean up.

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One of best ways to get over a break up was to eliminate all reminders of that person from your life.

For you, that was an issue for two reasons.  

One, your whole apartment was filled with furniture that you had bought with your ex. Every detail of the apartment had been carefully thought out together.

Two, you didn't know if you were ready to be over it. The problem with that reason was it had been four years since he broke your heart. Four years since your seven-year-long relationship came to an end. Four years and you still couldn't pick it up.

Although, now more than ever it was crucial for you to get over it and that was because said ex-boyfriend was now a married man.

He had married while you were still reeling. He had married and found happiness while you were trapped in darkness.

You had gone to the wedding because he invited you. Not only had your ex been the love of your life, but before that, he was your best friend for four years. The two of you had a history together so you guessed he would have felt weird if he didn't invite you.

During the wedding, the two of you met eyes and the happiness was so evident on his face that it made you break down. You cried in the back of the church as two of your best friends clutched tightly onto you.

To you, as someone who still loved Kyungsoo, you wanted his happiness more than anything but even so, it hurt that his happiness no longer was because of you especially since it had been for so many years - or so you thought.

After the wedding, you were a wreck. It felt like you had to grieve all over again.

This time unlike before, Chanyeol didn't let you.

Before, he gave you your space because you forced him out of your life. You forced out anyone who tried to get too close and anyone who looked at you with pity in their eyes. Chanyeol wasn't only your friend, but Kyungsoo's so it was hard for you to hold onto him when all he did was remind you of Kyungsoo.

Now, Chanyeol wasn't going to let you push him out. He was persistent. More so than any of your other friends as when you lost Kyungsoo, you pretty much lost everyone else.

Every day when you got off from work after the wedding, Chanyeol was waiting in the living room of your apartment. You threw a huge fit about it but of course, you were the one who initially had given the keys to your place to both him and Baekhyun.

You nearly screamed out of fear when you saw Chanyeol's large figure sitting on your couch when you came home from work. For so long you had grown used to coming home to an empty apartment and it was a shock to have someone waiting for you when you got home. You had to admit that it did feel kind of nice to not be alone even if you were mad that he didn't warn you.