fries with a side of love. baekyeol

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⠀⠀It took about fifteen minutes for Chanyeol to pull up into the high school driveway, and in that span of time, Baekhyun had laid down on the bench outside and slept on it with his backpack as a makeshift pillow. At the sight of this, Chanyeol sighed before getting out of his car, walking over to Baekhyun, and picking him up bridal style, snagging the Byun boy's backpack with a few fingers as well.

⠀⠀Gently placing Baekhyun in the backseat then taking off his own jacket and draping it over the smaller one, Chanyeol shivered momentarily before getting into the car and turning on the heat full blast. He twisted in his seat to stare at Baekhyun sleeping peacefully before barely smiling and turning around again before stepping on the gas and zooming away to the destination he had in mind.

⠀⠀As he stopped at a red light, Chanyeol faintly heard Baekhyun's phone lightly ding with a message while next to Baekhyun's body. He glanced at the Byun boy before snatching the phone quickly and opening it via Touch ID to get to the message.

5:53PM | jun-noodle: hey byun coME TO WORK YOU HAVENT COME IN LITERALLY THREE DAYS

⠀⠀Chanyeol frowned. Oh, was this Baekhyun's "nice as hell" boss he had been told about? Chanyeol shook his head—this Jun-noodle guy seemed far more casual than his own boss. He grimaced at the dull flashback of his old, pot-bellied boss forcefully screaming ("mild reprimanding," as his boss called it) at him for being late for the fourth day in a row by mere minutes. Chanyeol sighed before lightly stepping on the gas pedal and steering with one hand while he typed with the other.

5:55PM | queen b: actually, I'm taking him out somewhere for the rest of the day. I hope you don't mind, and please don't be mad at him. Thanks! -Park Chanyeol

5:56PM | jun-noodle: oh you're that boyfriend of his that he's having issues with

5:56PM | jun-noodle: listen up park just because of you he hasn't been focusing at work. he's forgetting orders and not keen like he usually is, and being a customer favorite, the regulars are asking "hey what's up with bubbly baek" since he's so out of focus

5:57PM | jun-noodle: so you are in charge of getting his sorry ass together so i don't lose customers and money and a good worker whom i love like a little brother. and if you don't, i will have my employee aka son zitao come over and beat you and p.s. he's been training in martial arts for eleven years :-)

5:59PM | queen b: erm yes sir!!

6:00PM | jun-noodle: good. don't fuck with the boss okay

⠀⠀Chanyeol, wide-eyed, glanced down at the messages as he slowed to a stop at a stop sign quickly. He then looked behind him at the angelic face of Byun Baekhyun and wondered to himself, What the hell was Baekhyun talking about when he said he had a nice boss? The man seemed terrifying! Chanyeol shook his head and placed the phone back next to Baekhyun with the smaller's boss' words echoing in his head.

⠀⠀He arrived at the same hill he had orchestrated the amazing date with Baekhyun. This time, however, he had no plans because, really, because he just conjured this up mentally on the fly because he felt that things were finally starting to fall back into their rightful places. Chanyeol saw that, at this point, he and Baekhyun were on the brink of finally bringing their relationship back together from the tatters it had been not too long ago. He was pretty sure that he could forgive Baekhyun now—or maybe it was his young, stupid mind just saying it was okay.

⠀⠀Chanyeol ran one hand over his finger. After he had gotten home the other day, he had spent a large part of his evening digging through the depths of his room for the ring he had furiously thrown away after he had been told of Baekhyun's infidelity. It took a few hours, but Chanyeol had found it with the reluctant help of Minseok's small hands, and he honestly felt so much better with the gold band on his finger.