A Second Chance

Chapter 8

After they finished their ice cream, they went to Baekhyun's house to enjoy their usual session of playing video games. Jongin was being extra flirtatious, it was obvious to Sehun that Jongin was losing to Baekhyun on purpose. And whenever he did, he would make a big deal about it and try to reach for Baekhyun's controller to "mess him up", but really it was just an excuse to touch him. All the extra laughing and touching was starting to drive Sehun insane.

As they were doing their homework, Jongin continued to openly stare at Baekhyun. Baekhyun noticed and nervously laughed as he looked back at him.

"Is there something on my face?"

Sehun looked up from his homework, which he was actually trying to finish, to see Jongin's lovestruck expression as he was staring at Baekhyun. He watched as Jongin's eyes wandered down to Baekhyun's lips.

"No. Sorry, I was just looking at you."

Baekhyun paused, feeling embarrassed, "...Oh."

Sehun unconsciously moved his leg so that his knee was touching Baekhyun's knee, in a small attempt to make a feeble barricade against Jongin. Baekhyun looked down at it, surprised to feel Sehun's sudden touch.

"Baekhyun, can I have something to drink?" Sehun asked as he glared at Jongin.

Baekhyun smiled at him, pleased to hear his name again, "Of course. What would you like?"

"Just some water."

Baekhyun nodded as he got up from the table and left for the kitchen. Once Baekhyun was out of sight, Sehun quickly leaned forward on the table to speak to Jongin in a threatening voice.

"Listen. You and Baekhyun cannot happen."

"Oh yeah, and why is that?" Jongin scoffed at him.

"Because he's Mr. Byun, your Dad's friend. He's not really a teenager, he's an adult."

There was a short pause as Jongin stared at Sehun with a blank expression, "Wow, that is the lamest excuse you possibly could have come up with."

"He has the same moles on his face and left hand. Go ahead and look at a picture when you get home, I'm sure your Dad has some. Think about it, he even has the same name."

Jongin laughed, "You're seriously trying to go with this? Ok then, how do you explain the fact that he looks so young?"

Sehun paused and sighed, knowing Jongin wouldn't believe him, "...He...was given a second chance..."

Jongin raised an eyebrow, "That still doesn't explain anything."

"He was turned back into a teenager, ok? I know you don't really believe me, just look at some pictures. It's really Mr. Byun. So you hitting on him is super inappropriate."

Jongin laughed again, "Seriously, that is the best you could come up with?"

Baekhyun came back into the room and placed a glass of water in front of Sehun. Sehun used his eyes to point at the mole on Baekhyun's thumb, Jongin smirked and shook his head as he looked at it incredulously.

Baekhyun put another glass of water down in front of Jongin, "Here, I got you one too."

"Thanks." Jongin continued before Baekhyun could sit back down. "Hey Baekhyun."

"Mm?"

"Can you help me with this?" He asked as he pointed at his homework.

"Yeah, sure." Baekhyun answered as he walked over to his side of the table to stand next to Jongin.