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Chanyeol is awake.

He is fully aware of the living things that surrounds him. He's fully aware of Sehun's childish whines because his hyung, Luhan, didnt greet him a good morning. But, he doesnt care less.

A picture of a small guy with bouncy brown hair, white as snow skin tone, plump pink lips that turns rectangular due to forcibly stretched by laughing and that's it, his angelic face and voice.

"Chanyeol-ah, you must stop ogling like a total idiot right now," His eyes darted on the tall guy with an orange hair and a poker face plastered on his handsome face.
"What?" He asked because he didnt catch what was Sehun saying.
"What?" The younger parroted so they ended up chuckling to each other.

Shifting on his seat, he fully faced the guy busy fumbling on his phone as it furiously taps the touch screen while knitting his brows together.
"Hey, Sehun. What's his name again?" The orange-haired guy looks on him for awhile and busied himself again to the smart phone.
"Baekhyun. Byun Baekhyun." Smiling like a total idiot he is, Chanyeol imagined that some small guy clinging into him to buy him an icecream after class.

Shaking his head with the view of Chanyeol's eye twitching and laughing to himself, Sehun mentally sighed with his hyung fallen for the vixen head over heels. Chanyeol-hyung is hopeless. Really. Sehun thought.

Afternoon came and its time for their three-hour break, Sehun is nowhere to be found and now Chanyeol is all alone by no other than himself.
"Maybe he was with Luhan," He mumbled to himself as he head towards the direction of the cafeteria. There are alot of students because its lunch time, and lunch time means dealing with himself. Chanyeol mentally takes note that he must get used of seeing Sehun with Luhan, or seeing himself with Baekhyun. Smiling like a creep, he enters the cafeteria.

Ordering his lunch, he heard a familiar laughter and the unfamiliar beating of his heart started drumming irrationally.
"Are you okay?" The old lady asked as she handled the tray to Chanyeol who excessively sweats than normal.
"I think, I am earlier." He unsurely said as he bid his small thanks and left the counter.

"I know right! You shouldve seen her face when I bitched her earlier, my goodness." He smiled on himself as he listen to Baekhyun's story to the guy with round specs and wide eyes. He sat beside their table, his back facing Baekhyun.
"You really need to stop being a bully, baek. Really," The other guy said as it follows by a soft clings of utensils.
"What?! I didnt! She just assumed that--" Baekhyun stopped talking urging for Chanyeol to look on his direction.

He saw Baekhyun had his head low as he bites his lips.
"Chanyeol-hyung," He straighten his face when he saw Sehun sat infront of him and aimlessly gulps down his lemonade tea.
"What?" Sehun chuckles as he slumped on the table as he makes his chin rest on his wrist.
"Dont you have any words to say aside from what?" Sehun banters.
"What...do you mean?" Shutting his eyes close to calm his nerves, Sehun smiled and told him whatever.

"Why are you even here? You're ruining my mood." Chanyeol bickered to Sehun but the latter pouted.
"Luhan-hyung left me, how dare he." He whines but Chanyeol never cares though he looked back seeing an empty space that once Baekhyun occupies. He groaned, this is all Sehun's fault.

Basketball practice never ends this late.

Its already eleven in the evening and Chanyeol's body feels like collapsing any minute from now. He felt droplets continuesly drops on his arms so he rans a finger on his wet hair as he slumped on the bench waiting for the other players to take a bath, once done they separated their ways.

Its a cold night.

Humming on the Walk on memories by his favourite boy group, he smiled when pictures of Baekhyun plays on his mind nonstop. And hallucinating about the smaller is no help at all, he see Baekhyun standing but frightened under the flickering lamp ten steps away from him.