fall [EXO fanfic]

chapter 15: surprise team

When yixing got downstairs, a bomb exploded, at least; so it seemed. In the kitchen were baekhyun, jenna and jungkook and they were loud. balloons everywhere, flags, food...-

"what is this?" yixing stammered, still standing in the dooropening.

"HAPPY FIRST WORKDAY!" baekhyun and jenna yelled in unison. jungkook was busy pouring coffee, and only smiled timidly at him.

"you need to eat well! gain strength for the day!" "i hope you have had enough rest last night, we wouldn't want you to sit there with huge under-eye bags between all those beautiful idols" "sit down! eat! eat!"

"i made you some coffee, hyung" jungkook appeared next to him, "don't mind them, they're just a little over-excited. they mean well, anyways..."

"thanks" yixing smiled warmly.

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after he had been stuffed completely with food and he was sure he couldn't possibly move even one finger or he'd explode, his friends had already started sending him off. they basically carried him to the shed.

s.m. entertainment had already started paying him two weeks in advance, as the man had told him during their conversation, and they were paying goood. Jenna persuaded yixing into buying a moped  because he 'couldn't possibly walk there every day'.

jungkook held open the door of the shed while baekhyun went inside to fetch the new moped. Yixing and jenna had given it a try, riding a little bit through their neighborhood the day before, but she rode it better than him. he was too careful.

he got onto the moped and baekhyun gave him a little push as a start-up.  as he drove off, his friends stood on the pavement, waving and yelling things; "bye! good luck!" "don't worry, you'll be fine!" "kiss chanyeol for me!"

was he worried? he thought about what jenna had yelled. were they worried? at first he thought his friends were only excited, but now he thought more about it, he concluded that they were more nervous than he was.

why wasn't he nervous..?

he felt oddly comfortable on the moped, more so than when he first tried it. that's logical though, it's probably like all things; when you practice you get better.

just like with dancing, at least; he hoped.

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after getting lost four times he finally arrived at the sm building. in front of its large glass doors, there was a very tall man in a suit with sunglasses.

"zhang yixing?" he asked when yixing approached the doors.

"yes, that's me"

"please follow me"

and so he did, all the way through the lobby and all kinds of narrow hallways and stairs.

"in here" the guy nodded towards one of the million white doors yixing had seen since he arrived in the building.

"thank you" he bowed his head to the guy, who bowed back and then walked away.

yixing opened the door the man had nodded at, and stepped inside the next room. it was brightly lit and it had a long table in the middle.

"you are supposed to knock when you enter a room" a low voice said, making yixing jump. he hadn't even noticed there was someone in there.

a very tall man approached him, hands in his pockets.

"jokes!" he suddenly yelped and immediately nearly died of laughter.

"w-what" yixing whispered, looking at the tall man more closely. he reminded yixing of someone...

"wait! do you not remember me?!" the man stopped laughing just as abruptly as he'd started. yixing merely stared at him, mouth slightly open.

"i'm park chanyeol, we talked at the concert!" he smiled happily and offered yixing his hand. he didn't seem offended at all.

"oh that's right!" yixing exhaled in relief, "i knew i recognized you from somewhere.."

"i take it you're no exo-l, then?" chanyeol chuckled

"no, i went to the concert because my friend would be alone otherwise. he's a big fan of you, actually" yixing felt really comfortable around chanyeol for some reason, like he was an old friend.

"i know, i met him. he's cute. wait- uh...don't tell him i said that!"

yixing stared at him, this was too much information for him at the same time, he couldn't have told baekhyun even if he wanted to.

"let's get going! you need to meet the others"

"what others?"

"you're a bit of a turtle, aren't you?" chanyeol laughed, "the rest of exo, ofcourse! and the managers and staff!"

"oh" yixing said quietly and followed chanyeol back into the hallway.