When Chanyeol arrives back more composed, he tries to avoid Baekhyun, but Baekhyun acts like nothing much has happened.
Baekhyun doesn't come around much, only sometimes in the middle of the nights to get something or sleep, but by the time Chanyeol wakes up the next morning, Baekhyun is gone again. Chanyeol doesn't know what the hell is up with Baekhyun, and horrible feelings continue to settle themselves in his heart.
Everyone seems to see that there's something up with him, but when they try to get close to him and ask him what's wrong, Chanyeol brushes them off. Rather, he pushes them away. Not because he wants to, or because he's doing it intentionally, but because he knows there's nothing wrong with him.
"Chanyeol, I think you should get some help." Kris says one day. Chanyeol hardly notices that Kris doesn't follow Joonmyun anymore. He doesn't realise that Kris is 'taking a break from Joonmyun' to make sure Chanyeol is all right.
"I don't need help." Chanyeol replies simply as he continues to read through his Dentistry textbook. This is the seventh time he's reading the entire textbook through. "I'm fine. You should go talk to Joonmyun or something."
"..." Kris sighs. He's really worried, because Chanyeol will never be able to read through even one chapter of a textbook, let alone the entire book seven times in around two weeks. "Chanyeol-ah, what happened? You know you can tell me, right?"
"I know." Chanyeol replies robotically. "Thanks, Kris. Knowing you're there feels great." Then he doesn't talk anymore, and he continues to do work.
Kyungsoo tries talking to him too, but the result is the same. Jongin tries to do it as well, once trying to talk to Chanyeol with Kyungsoo, but Chanyeol remains unresponsive.
Even the brat Sehun can see something's up, and he tries to cheer Chanyeol up through making jokes, even insulting ones to get Chanyeol to hit him, but Chanyeol sits there, staring at his meal, and does nothing else.
"How's Baekhyun?" Kyungsoo asks one day as he hangs out in Jongin's room. They're getting closer and closer lately, without even really realising it. Jongin sighs.
"I don't know. He hardly comes around anymore, I think he's just spending a lot of time meeting new people and hanging out with them."
"Why's that?"
"... He says it's his hobby." Jongin replies. "He does that a lot though, so I guess I'm not too worried about him." There is silence as the two of them mull over this. Kyungsoo wants to think up of more ways to get to Chanyeol, because they can't seem to find out what's wrong, but before he can open , Jongin lets out a huge sigh.
"I don't know though." He finally voices out. "I feel like ... something's wrong. With Baekhyun-hyung. He's acting normally, just ... more than usual, I guess ... but ... I have a bad feeling about this."
Kyungsoo doesn't know how to reply to that.
"It's ... probably just a feeling, right?" Jongin asks, to reassure himself. Then he shakes out of it, and smiles at Kyungsoo half-heartedly. "Okay, let's think up of more ways to cheer Chanyeol up, why don't we?"
"... Did you hear?"
"About Byun Baekhyun?"
"Yeah. I heard he's a full time now."
"Apparently he s at least 7 different guys a day."
"He's in my Psychology class and I haven't seen him attending. Guess he cares more about having fun than education."
"Same. He's in my Music club and he never comes."
"I hear he drinks every day to get the older guys."
