Boys Over Baekhyun - CHANBAEK FF ✔

5/10 - Last Option

Baekhyun sees Chanyeol so he finally breathes in relief. He thought he would be spending the night waiting for nothing. Inside the car, Chanyeol is just staring at him blankly like he has grown two heads.

"Why?"

"You're wearing a wig."

"Oh this," Baekhyun says as he gestures at his pink curls. "If it's bothering you, then I'll just....take it off." He takes it off. "Sorry."

"It's fine," Chanyeol simply says. "Get in."

Quietly, Baekhyun gets in the car as he sits beside the driver's seat. He has the wig placed on top of his lap as he fumbles with his phone again. There are several texts from Sehun and Jongin, asking him if he's okay. Yixing texted him too as well as his mom and brother, just greeting him and asking him if he already ate dinner. Smiling a little, he rapidly types in his reply to them.

He's too preoccupied texting on his phone to even notice his surroundings. It's just then when he realizes that he's still inside the car with Chanyeol when the car beside them honks.

Baekhyun looks up, and sees the traffic lights going green. He stares at Chanyeol on the rear-view mirror as he traces with his eyes the exhaustion painted on his bare face. He obviously looks like he is deprived of sleep. His lips are pale while his eyes are droopy, and that makes Baekhyun a little bit more guilty of himself.

Chanyeol is not saying anything. He's just driving silently, which is, kind of uncomfortable in Baekhyun's part. Since when did he and Chanyeol not talk? As if he has something important to say anyway.

"How did you know I was there at the ramen shop?"

"I tracked your phone's GPS."

"Oh, okay."

And the conversation ends just like that.

They reach their dorm an agonizing hour later, and Baekhyun realized just now that the place Yixing has brought him is indeed far. He had slept during the drive so he didn't know. Good thing Chanyeol is there to take him home before it gets dark. Should he thank him for that? Maybe he should.

"Uh, Chanyeol."

Chanyeol turns his head towards him as he keys in the code of the door. The clicking automatic sound can be heard as the taller opens the door for them to finally get inside the warm abode.

"Thank you for taking me home. You came to get me even if I didn't ask you."

Chanyeol looks like he wanted to say something more based on how his expressive eyes are looking at Baekhyun, but he just keeps his thoughts to himself. He settles for a curt it's not a big deal, before padding into the kitchen.

Baekhyun is left standing in the living room, feeling more suffocated than before.

His phone rings.

[Baekhyun, did you get home well?]

"Yes," Baekhyun answers. "Thanks for worrying, hyung."

[Sorry if I left you alone like that. I asked Chanyeol to get you. He didn't even let me finish talking when I told him you were out alone by yourself.]

"He did?"

Chanyeol appears with a glass in his hand, drinking the water as his and Baekhyun's eyes meet for a few slow seconds. The singer has a phone against his ear with Yixing talking in the background. Baekhyun looks at the other male, waiting for Chanyeol to say something. He watches as he puts down the glass, looking at the taller right into his tired eyes.