for him. ✔

chapter fourteen.

Like any teenager out there, Kyungsoo hated school. He hated the pressure, the teachers who never understood students, the constant need to interact with people you don't even want to interact with so that you could survive and how the idea of education has been obstructed into a ridiculous contest of students trying to obtain high grades for a higher rank.

But unlike most kids, Kyungsoo hated life itself. It was an on and off hatred. One day he'd be thankful he was alive, praising God for creating such a wonderful creature like himself, and other days he just wanted to disappear from the face of the earth and be reborn into another intergalactic specie with a different lifestyle from Earth's shitty one.

As an escape from such a fucked up reality, Kyungsoo succumbed into sleep - one of God's greatest gifts to humanity. He will always sleep by ten 'o clock every night to get his slumber, never late. He will never stay up for whatever reason - may it be school works or other responsibilities. Those will have to wait, since Kyungsoo prioritizes sleep. And when he sleeps, no one will be able to wake him up, unless it's the time you called morning and it's the thing you called sun.

Kyungsoo adored sleep a little bit more than Jongin. He won't even stay up to talk to him over the phone.

So on that certain day, Kyungsoo wondered why his body woke up just at the simple, medium-volumed sound of his phone ringing, blaring in a familiar ballad song.

Still groggy from sleep, Kyungsoo lifted the phone up to his face to check the caller ID. He had very bad eyesight, and add the fact that his eyes were still sleepy. He couLdn't read a thing, so he slid the answer button across the screen and lifted the phone to his ear.

"Hello, who is this?" he greeted, voice still raspy and deep.

"Kyungsoo..."

As if his eyes weren't big already, Kyungsoo's eyes widened upon the voice of the one person he had missed.

"Baekhyun!" he yelped, straightening up on the bed into a sitting position, bringing the phone closer to his ear. "Yah! Baekhyun! Oh my god, I'm so worried! We all are! What happened to you?"

"Kyungsoo... can you... can you meet me at the convenience store just near your place? I really need to talk to you."

Without hesitation, Kyungsoo nodded eagerly.

"Of course, Baekhyun! I'll be there in ten minutes, tops."

"Thank you Kyungsoo... thank you. I'll be waiting."

The call ended, and Kyungsoo quickly walked towards his closet to change.

Kyungsoo loved sleep, but his bestfriend was more important.

✴

Kyungsoo was honestly scared as he walked down the pavement to the convenience store. Not because it was dark or because someone might pounce on him anytime soon... it was because he was afraid of what he'd see when he met Baekhyun. He had been absent for two days without a single reason, and who knows what could have happened to him? Kyungsoo was seriously worried, and his heart was beating like a gong being rang.

Upon reaching the store, Kyungsoo's eyes darted through the clear glass windows in advance. At the corner of the shop, he found Baekhyun staring at something in front of him... and why does he have two big bags near him?

The door windchimes chimed pleasingly as Kyungsoo entered. The man at the counter greeted him politely, but he wasn't able to amswer as he rushed towards his bestfriend.

"Baekhyun!" Kyungsoo gasped. Baekhyun stood up and extended his arms, quickly receiving Kyungsoo and giving him a tight bear hug.