Chanyeol stares.
What the hell is Baekhyun doing up there?
And how the hell is he walking so smoothly? His knee hasn't healed! Chanyeol concludes that he's hiding his pain.
Even the host girl on stage looks shocked as someone infinitely better looking than she is occupies most, if not all, of the audience's gazes. He smiles at her, but the smile is fake and Chanyeol swears even from this distance he can see his roommate's cold eyes.
"Thank you. I'll take it from here." He smiles again and she hurries off. Chanyeol's not sure if she did that because she's afraid or if she's entranced or maybe a bit of both. The crowd cheers loudly, and a lot of them shout words from " me, Baekhyun!" to "Baekhyun you're so hot!". Baekhyun smiles at the crowd charmingly.
"Thank you." He says, his voice dripping with iness and Chanyeol just can't. With. This. Side. Of. Baekhyun. "Happy Valentine's Day."
The crowd cheers. They seem to be captured by his beauty and they cheer at the end of every one of his sentences.
"Me being up here ... isn't for me to confess to anyone ..." Everyone sinks into disappointed bouts of "Awws". "It's for me to tell you about something that's been bothering me for a long time. Physically." There is a sudden silence that falls over the audience.
Suddenly, the screen behind Baekhyun switches on and photos fill the entire space behind him.
The pictures range from injuries to ruined belongings - all of the pictures look disgusting, and the crowd submerges into whispers and mutters.
"This sort of treatment is what I have been getting for more than two and a half years at this school." Baekhyun says. "Not once have I uttered a word, but that's because I've been waiting, waiting until this day comes." There are more pictures that keep going on and on, and the whispers get louder and louder.
"I tried ignoring it, because to me, they were nothing but small fry. But now, I don't give a about protecting them anymore. Children can't always be shielded from the truth." The crowd screams in agreement, not because they agree, but mostly because it's Baekhyun that's talking. And who doesn't like a little beef?
"Here is the proof of what I've endured." There are more injuries showing on the screen, from knee scrapes to broken limbs, and there is even blood. Then he shows more destroyed belongings of his, from ripped books to more ripped books, to doors and more laptops, and even everyone in the audience can see how much he had to pay from all this.
"And more recently ..." Baekhyun trails off as he shows more photos in a familiar room - the one that the both of them share. Suddenly, the screen goes black and they hear something loud and static - an audio.
"I hope you can understand me for releasing this audio. Any names mentioned by anyone in this audio clip are innocent, although the voices in there aren't." Baekhyun explains calmly. "To the people whose names have been mentioned in here: feel free to prove it by explaining yourself in between these intervals. Take this audio as ... an indirect confession of sorts." Then something shifts in the audio and a voice comes on.
"... Baekhyun will regret this." Everyone starts whispering. "For stealing my man away. For seducing him with his disgusting looks. For taking away my baby Jaeyong." Whispers intensify as the crowd moves to look at this Jaeyong, but he stands up and shouts "I don't even know who this person is! And I've only ed Baekhyun twice!" Whispers continue to circulate.
"He will pay. He will pay for taking what's mine. He will pay with his money and his injuries." The voice fades and another voice comes on with similar threats and their possessiveness over people who have never even heard their voices before. Every one of the people whose names are called stand up to explain themselves by stating their non-affiliation with these people,which the rest of the audience seem to accept.
