Enigma || an EXO fanfic ||

| 5 |

Half of the boys have already gone to explore the city when we were away. Only Chanyeol, D.O., and Kai are left in my room. "Finally!" Kai exclaims when we get back. "Where were you?"

"Jogging," Lay heaves. "Never again, though. I'll be back. I'm gonna take a quick rinse."

He heads back to his room, bringing Bay back to her's first so she can take a shower as well. I dig through my bag for another change of clothes and head to the bathroom. "I'll be out soon."

The three just continue playing on their phones as I close the door behind me. I turn on the shower and let water stream down on my head and down my back. I enjoy the feeling of the warm water on my already-heated skin for a few minutes, before lathering on soap. All I could think about is Bay. Why does she insist on sticking with me all the time? Where did she come from? Why is she here? And why does Chanyeol seem so wary of her? After all, he was the first one to find her.

I push all of the questions to the back of my mind, and switch off the shower, stepping out. I change into my clean clothes, kicking my dirty ones to the side and step out into the room, drying my hair with the towel. Bay had already finished her shower and is sitting on the floor with crossed legs, looking down at her hands. Chanyeol is, of course, giving her questionable glances and Kai and D.O. are having their own conversation at the side.

Bay looks up when I enter the room and a grin appears on her face. "Baekhyun!" she dares say out loud and I can't help but return her smile. Despite how shady her existence is at the moment, she still has a cute aura about her and it is really hard not to like her. Chanyeol arches his eyebrows toward me and I shrug, sitting next to him. He grabs onto my arm and pulls my out of the room. "I need to talk to you," he says simply. Bay's curious eyes follow us out but she doesn't get up. Chanyeol closes the door behind him and crosses his arms.

"She doesn't speak Korean. How are you two so close already?" he asks suspiciously.

I hold up my hands in defense. "We aren't close, Chan-ah. We only communicate with extremely vague words."

"But she's so fond of you already? She's a weird person, Baek."

"Yah, why do you hate her so much?" I unconsciously defend her.

He sighs, hanging his head. "It's not that I hate her. She's just an odd person," he says, looking into my eyes. "You didn't see what I saw yesterday, Baekhyun-ah."

"And what exactly did you see, hyung?"
"Baekhyun. I know she was hit by the bus. I saw it. We even felt it," he tells me, frowning. "Now I just don't understand how she walked away from that completely unscathed. But nevertheless, it's not normal."

I think about it carefully. We did hit her with our bus. I remember lurching forward, bumping my head on the seat in front of us. Yet, she ran with us today like nothing of such had happened just last night. I narrow my eyes. Chanyeol interrupts my thoughts. "She really does seem like a nice person. Innocent even. But I can't trust her. Not yet at least."

I pat him on the back. "Araso," I say, giving him a gentle smile. "Well it's not like she's going to stick with us permanently, right?"

Chanyeol just gives a lopsided half-assed grin, showing off one of his dimples and opens the hotel room door once more. Lay comes in, too, after a few minutes and we're getting ready to explore Hong Kong as a group when manager-nim comes in. "Bay?" he calls for her without bothering to greet us. She stands up, a concerned expression on her face.

"Yes?" she asks. Manager-nim doesn't know much English so instead he addresses all of us. "Bay will come back to Korea with us."

I widen my eyes and look over to Chanyeol. He's equally as shocked as everyone else. Bay's curious as to what's going on so she asks Lay and he shrugs asking her to wait a moment. "Wait, manager-nim, why?" he asks, extremely confused at the turn of events.

"I asked to for a background check... of Bay," he starts and all of us urge him to continue. He glances nervously at Bay. "And there's almost nothing on her."