Torn // exo x reader

1; Do Your Part

"Well, Y/N, we don't just pick up random stragglers to mooch off us like Luhan insists." One of the ones in the back pipes up, and she's scared. They clear a path for him to come up to the front, and he's obviously the leader of whatever this is.
"A-And?" Her voice goes back to being small and meek, and subconsciously she leans back into the warm body behind her, the aura of the man talking scaring her greatly. Arms latch around both her shoulders, pulling her small form back into a noticeably larger one.
"Suho hyung, dude, you're scaring her." The body she's pulled into is Chanyeol's she can tell by the voice rumbling above her, and he looks down to make sure she isn't crying, and she smiles a tiny little bit, and he smiles back and looks back to where 'Suho' is standing.
"Oh, my apologies. What I mean is we want you to help out a little bit. Nothing too intense, like maybe going out and getting food?"
"Hyung she's going to think you're being sexist by making her go grocery shopping." Tao quips out as soon as he's finished.
"Oh my, that's not what I meant at all!"
She smiles at them, and she wiggles her way out of Chanyeol's grasp, bowing in front of Suho and trying her best not to stutter, she clears her throat.
"I'd l-love to!" Her voice comes out louder than she expected, and she turns to the crowd that gathered behind them, calling out some orders.
"I'd like to know your n-names! Please!" She adds the last part as an afterthought.
They go around, all of them introducing themselves. She meets a few new people, faces lost in the crowd she wasn't able to notice previously.
The walk to the line of the woods, and they all walk single file, but she needs someone to help her through the twigs and such lying on the forest floor since she's still in her small heels from the library, so D.O takes her hand lightly and helps her though the woods, whilst Baekhyun and Chanyeol start asking her questions rapidly, like where she lived previously and her favourite food and her favourite color.
She answers them all patiently, but D.O looks like he's ready to explode at the poor duo, so when they ask if there's anything they can do to make her feel more at home, she asks them to collect flowers on their way since they're scattered all over the place. They scramble to do so, somehow managing to rope Jongin and Luhan into helping them.
D.O sighs in relief once she's managed to rid them of his presence, and she smiles at him.
"You don't seem to like them very much."
D.O looks shocked her quiet voice managing to not stutter, but he shakes his head and answers, a slight grin on his face.
"They're literally the most annoying people on the planet. But that doesn't mean I hate them all the time." He avoids eye contact, and she understands what he's saying.
They get to the house quickly after that, and the riddance of Chanyeol and Baekhyun making the line of shuffling boys and her silent except for the snapping of twigs and leaves under their feet and the previously stated duo chittering in the back about what kind of flowers Y/N would like.
She finds it adorable how much they want to please her, and she doesn't understand how D.O hates them, but his personality is the complete opposite, and she guesses she should fit better with him, but she loves hearing the "beagle line"—as Chen called them—talk and ask questions and she was just as happy to answer them.
They enter the home quickly, but the beagle line plus Luhan and Jongin don't come in with the rest right away, apparently still trying to find flowers. In the interest of making them come in faster for some reason, Chen and Yixing go to help them.
As soon as she's sat on the small couch, Xiumin emerges from the kitchen, smiling down at her, sitting down beside her.
"Do you like coffee?" She likes talking with him, because with him conversations seems simple, and simplicity is her element.
"Y-Yes, I do."
"What kind?" He looks so interested for a conversation just about coffee, so she tries to think of something to keep the conversation going, but soon she's panicking because she's taking too long, and subconsciously she starts breathing heavily and tears start to collect on her lashes, making Xiumin start to panic too.
"No, don't cry, I'm sorry!" Xiumin's hand is on her knee, and he's starting to freak out too, and when everyone comes in from outside they only see her with tears in her eyes and Xiumin leaning in close to her face.
Naturally, they assume the worst.
"Xiumin! Get off her!"
"What the hell are you guys doing?!"
"Get a room!"
They immediately spring away from each other, stuttering and blushing and shaking their hands and heads, trying to convince their audience it isn't what it looks like.
At the sound of yelling, everyone who wasn't there is now, and they're yelling and hooting and hollering and she's sinking into the corner of the couch, pulling her knees to her stomach and playing through all the things they must be thinking about her right now. She's so immersed in this horrible thing that she doesn't notice the room quieting down at the sight of her.
"Y/N, are you oka-"
"Does she look okay?! You idiot!"
She hides her face in her forearm, and all of a sudden there's pairs of comforting hands stroking her hair and patting her arms and everyone is saying nice things and the voice in her ear coaxes her out of the fetal position and she looks up to see everyone minus Sehun and Xiumin crowding around her.
She looks past Chen's head to see Xiumin looking utterly terrified behind everyone, and Sehun's slightly snickering at him, but when he sees her gaze on him he comes over quickly, as if he didn't think it actually affected her that much.
He's awkward and obviously has little experience doing this kind of thing, but he tries. He says things like "it's okay" and pats her head, more thumping than patting, but the thought he put into it makes her feel better, so she stands and breaks through the crowd of boys.
Sehun looks scared and almost jumps when she stands, and she sends him an apologetic smile, leaving to the kitchen where she guesses Xiumin went to hide, and that's exactly where she finds him.
He's grinding coffee on the counter, whispering things to himself that she can't make any sense of, but nevertheless she goes over and taps him on the shoulder. He jumps, and turns quickly, almost growling at her. She moves back at the look in his eyes, but when he sees her she swallows down the fear at what she's about to do and at his features, and latches her arms around his waist and slowly, hesitantly, he hugs back.
"I like all kinds of coffee."
She hears and feels the rumble of a laugh coming from him, since he's still slightly scared and hesitant, but she takes what she can get and springs away, looking up at him.
"It wasn't your fault, I took too l-long to answer and p-panicked."
Xiumin giggles a little bit, smiling at her.
"I think you should head back into the living room, Baekhyung and Chanyeol and crew have been aching to give you the flowers you asked for."
She smiles and bids him goodbye, leaving to find the Beagle line and accept the flowers she didn't really want but since they put so much effort into it she couldn't deny them, could she?
She finds them in the living room, but as soon as they see her they order her to close her eyes, and she does. She figures it has to be big, since Yixing ran into another room with some dead flowers a while ago, looking panicked and strained.
She sits on the floor with Baekhyun, and he tries to make conversation idly whilst he waits for Yixing and Chen—who ran after him—to emerge.
"For when you go to bed tonight, you can borrow some of my clothes, since I assume your backpack didn't include pyjamas."
"No, t-they didn't, thank you."
Baekhyun smiles, ruffling her hair, and he stands up, pulling her up too. She dusts off her skirt and tries herself to start the conversation this time.
"Do you—erm—l d-don't know, like d-dogs?"
Baekhyun snorts a little bit, resting his hand on his hip.
"Are you wearing a skirt?"
"Y-Yes? Why?"
"I thought we were just asking each other questions to which the answers are blatantly obvious. Of course I like dogs. Who doesn't?"
She laughs a little bit, and she's cut off from answering by Yixing and Chen tripping out of the room they disappeared into, holding a bouquet of wild flowers that Y/N saw on the walk here. They're different shades of purples and pinks and reds and yellows and she loves them a lot. She smiles really big and hugs all of them, leaving out Chanyeol because he had been called away by Suho for something important.
"Where can I put them?"
Baekhyun produces a vase from where he dumped out some dead flowers out the door and hands it to her. She smiles and places them into the base, going to the kitchen to fill it up with water and puts it in the spot of the old vase smiling big.
She looks out the window and it's now night, and she wonders where she's going to sleep, and she assumes the couch. It doesn't look very comfortable, but she's willing to sleep on it as to not inconvenience anyone here. When they ask her what she's doing when she goes to set her backpack up as a pillow, she answers that she's making her bed.
"No you're not, you think we have this many people living here and we don't have enough space for a bed for one more? You're lucky we had to buy Tao a new one and his old ones in the basement."
She sighs in relief because she really didn't want to sleep on this rickety couch.
"Almost every room has enough space for the bed, so pick someone and we'll set it up. Unless you want to sleep on the couch, that is."
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So basically, vote in the comments who you want to room with, and if there's not comments I'll pick myself, and if there's only one that will be it by default, OR if there's two ill literally flip a coin. Thanks for reading, look forward to other chapters. Sorry this one was a little shorter, I'll work harder on the next one, haha.
~Sierra