fries with a side of love. baekyeol

epilogue

⠀⠀"So, badabing, badaboom! It's been six years since then, and these fools are getting married!" Jongdae said casually as he leaned on Sehun's tall, muscled body. His feline eyes scanned the crowd until he saw the now-wedded couple sitting in the front. Jongdae winked cheekily before saying slyly, "Baekhyun and I have been friends since the day we met, and we haven't had a fight in the history of ever! Right, Baek?"

⠀⠀There was a loud ahem behind him, and Jongdae was shoved to the side by none other than Kyungsoo. With a pointed glare at Jongdae, he spoke into the microphone, "Anybody who has known Baek and Jongdae know that they'd both be in wheelchairs from their fights if it weren't for several intervening people such as myself," Kyungsoo deadpanned while sneakily slugging Jongdae in the shoulder and attracting a disapproving look from Sehun. There was an uproar of laughter in the crowd from both his comment and his action, and Kyungsoo took this opportunity to smile proudly to himself while the audience quieted down. Kyungsoo's smile faded away.

⠀⠀He sighed, ignoring Sehun's heavy stare and Jongdae's whining to continue with, "Anyways, Chanyeol, as you've noticed over the years, Baekhyun is my little side-hoe—"

⠀⠀"I take offense to that, Soosoo!" Baekhyun's shrill voice called out from his spot in the front of the audience where he was sitting on an elegant white sofa. Decked out in a suit with his currently-red hair styled to perfection, he held hands with a smiling Chanyeol. Kyungsoo's head snapped towards towards his now-married best friend and narrowed his wide eyes into a death glare.

⠀⠀"Shut up, Byun, or I will literally rip up all of your little polaroids with Big Dumb Giant over there—"

⠀⠀"Hey!" Chanyeol groaned.

⠀⠀"—and throw you back into the past!" Kyungsoo finished loudly. There was a pause where all of the noise in the venue suddenly vanished out of thin air, but soon, the audience collapsed into laughter from the best man's little hissy-fit. The best man himself softly groaned dejectedly before coughing expectantly into the microphone, which caught the crowd's attention and silence. "Back to what I was saying, Baekhyun has been my best friend since we were little children. We're all still quite young, so I'm still kind of in shock that he's getting married right behind Minseok and Lu Han-hyung, but hey—he's found the guy he wants. Baekhyun, to me, is the guy that's been through a lot, but still manages to put on a smiles to everyone. It amazes me, to be honest, how tough my best friend—Baekhyun-hyung—can really be. He's a whiny piece of trash, but he's also one of the strongest people I know."

⠀⠀"When I was young, I was Baekhyun's neighbor. I think it's been, what, twenty years now? Yeah, we've been together through a lot, Baekhyun mainly being the one dragging me through everything. With such a rough relationship he has with his family, I, along with his brother, were the only ones he could confide and feel comfortable with. When we were kids, Baekhyun spent more time at my house than his own, and would keep begging for my parents to let him stay. He didn't really reveal to me why he was so desperate not to go home until we were twelve. His parents—who aren't here—had a rough and rocky marriage, causing extreme distress to both Baekbeom and Baekhyun. Strangely enough, however, if you were to see Baekhyun just walking around in the city, you would never even fathom the possibility of a tough, rather unloving childhood. Baekhyun practically radiated sunshine with that little stupid rectangle smile of his, and I remember he used to capture all of the hearts of our teachers. How could anyone think that he had some sort of domestic problem at home? No one."

⠀⠀Kyungsoo stared down calmly at Chanyeol with steely eyes, causing the groom to shift uncomfortably. "So, listen up, Park. You're one of few people who really knows how Baekhyun ticks. You're one of few people that can make him happy. Together, you're both the most insanely annoying people I know, and it's almost disgusting how perfect you are for each other. But, if you do anything—and I mean anything—to hurt my hyung, I will hunt you down. You will wish you had never met me, if you so much as tease Baekhyun too much to the point that he doesn't like it. He is one of the most important people in my life, and if he ever calls me in tears and broken-hearted, you better sleep with one eye open because I am a force to be reckoned with. Do I make myself clear?"