Behind Closed Doors: BOOK 2 - CHANBAEK FF ✔️

[ 37 ] The Other Side

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Even from the other side of the room, Chanyeol can still hear him cry, and it makes his heart break.

Baekhyun hasn't stopped crying ever since he told him he's gonna leave tonight, ever since they got off the car, ever since the two of them parted ways on the corners of the house.

Baekhyun never said anything as he only quietly sobs to himself, and the sole thing that Chanyeol heard was the closing thud of his bedroom door, followed by Baekhyun's heartbreaking cries.

Closing his eyes, breathing to maintain his ounce of composure, he closes his luggage after he rushingly packs his necessities. He checks his wallet, passport, visa and his airline ticket before he takes a last look around his dull room, bearing a heavy heart.

"Are you still awake?" Chanyeol asks while he knocks on the door of his lover's room. He doesn't bother to wait for a reply when he lets himself in and sits on the foot of the bed with Baekhyun crying on the other edge. His body is curled into a ball as he sobs like an innocent child, dressed in a white long sleeve polo shirt that Chanyeol owns.

"Baekhyun."

Baekhyun hears him, but his cries are louder than any sound, even louder than the voices in his heart telling Chanyeol not to leave. He knows he can't scream out his pleas, he knows he can't beg for him to stay, he knows he can't say how he wanted Chanyeol to just be with him for every second of his life.

His family needs him. Baekhyun would be selfish if he keeps Chanyeol only to himself.

But Chanyeol is his everything, and having nothing without his everything means nothing. It doesn't make any sense just like how his life would turn out the moment Chanyeol steps out of the fucking door. It's gonna happen, Baekhyun knows this time will come. It's his fault for not preparing himself for Chanyeol's absence. It's his fucking fault.

"Baekhyun, I don't want to see you like this when I leave," Chanyeol says, "Come here and look at me before I say goodbye."

It sounds easy but it isn't. It never was.

"Baekhyun."

He's still crying. It's too painful to hear and watch.

"Take care of yourself. I won't be here to do it for you anymore," Chanyeol starts, Baekhyun hears him and it all the more aches, "Don't leave the house when you're alone, bring Sehun with you when you go out. I don't want to say this, but he's the only person I can trust you with."

It hurts. So fucking much.

"I hired housekeepers so you don't have to worry about your food and laundry. They'll prepare everything for you like a prince. You don't have to clean your room, I know you hate it so much."

And I love you.

"Wear warm clothes when you're at school, and don't walk naked around the house even you're alone. When you miss me, you can go to my room and play with my clothes. It's fine if you don't return them, you can have them. You can have everything I own," Chanyeol says. "When you feel lonely, just look at our pictures together. Just think that I'm still beside you. Don't restrain yourself just because I left, have fun with your friends and don't think about me. I'll be back before you know it... I promise, I'll be back."