Absolute Chanyeol

PART 02

PART 02

A few weeks later, Baekhyun comes home to a gigantic box in front of his door. The box is almost bigger than his apartment door itself and he stares, dumbfounded, at the giant, sparkly sticker ("The Boyfriend Store~!") in front of the box. His shame is the only thing that gets him moving and pulling the box inside, carefully laying it down in his living room and then stepping back.

After spending the better part of two hours trying to get the box open, the lid finally pops open with a loud gush of air.

Baekhyun falls back, not expecting the lid to suddenly come alive on its own, and stares as a very tall, very naked man stands up in the box. He thinks a part of his brain fizzles up and dies because from this angle, he is getting very intimately acquainted with his doll and that was not the purpose of all this. He stands, palms wet with sweat.

The thing shakes its head and yawns, stretching upward. Baekhyun gets an eyeful of cool, smooth white skin breaking out into goose pimples as the AC of the apartment hits him. Is this supposed to happen? Baekhyun thought they didn't feel.

"H-Hello?"

It opens its large eyes, blinking sleepily at him. "Oh," it says in deep voice Baekhyun would not have associated with such a cute face. "Hello."

When it laughs and its face gives a large twitch, Baekhyun knows why this model was significantly cheaper than all the rest. It's defective. They mailed him a broken doll. However, he paid for this so he won't let himself get too worked up about it.

He disappears into his room and comes back with some clothes, telling it to clothe itself. It does so easily, smiling. "My name is-"

"You have a name?" Baekhyun's voice sounds stupid to his own ears.

"Of course," it smiles. "Don't you?" A little twitch causes one of its eyes to close; Baekhyun thinks he looks like an overexcited puppy.

"Yeah, but I'm-" Baekhyun stops, eyes wide as the thing takes one of his shirts and pulls it over his head, hair flying all over the place when its head emerges.

"You're--?"

It really is life-like. Baekhyun can't take his eyes away from the very human looking pallor of its skin and how, after it licks its dry lips, there seems to be a small amount of moisture passed from tongue to lips.

"What's your name?" Baekhyun tries to see if it's on the box, but underneath the sticker, there is only a serial number.

"Chanyeol," it...Chanyeol says, smiling. There's that eye twitch again. "And you are?"

"Baekhyun," he replies, standing up straighter. Chanyeol's height is a bit intimidating, especially when Baekhyun pants are still in his hands and not on his body.

"Um," Baekhyun says awkwardly, averting his eyes. "Pants please."

"Pants?" Chanyeol asks, holding up said article of clothing. "Oh! Oh, right! I'm supposed to wear these, right? Humans don't like walking around naked, hehe. Sorry!"

Baekhyun nods, apology accepted. It's hard to stay mad at robot Chanyeol when he even flushes a pretty pink in embarrassment at his blunder. I hope this guy doesn't end up taking over my entire life, Baekhyun thinks with some dismay.

Chanyeol trips as he steps out of his box and Baekhyun flails, worried about his new investment injuring itself before he's had enough time to interact with it.

"Sorry!" Chanyeol turns a darker red, rubbing the back of his head. Already, he's more life-like than Kris ever is but maybe that's because Baekhyun has never seen Kris express negative emotions. It had been foolish of Baekhyun to think that just because Chanyeol was robotic that he was meant to be smart.

After tripping over everything from his own feet to air, Baekhyun makes Chanyeol sit down for the rest of the evening. He's expensive and Baekhyun hasn't looked into robot insurance yet.