Freal Luv <chanbaek> ✔

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I stared at the boy with confusion, not sure what to do.

"What are you scared of?"

"The monsters," he replied, he looked terrified.

"The monsters?" I questioned, but I already knew what he meant.

"Please make them stop," Baekhyun said softly, his voice trailing off as he started to cry into the pillow again.

My heart stopped as I inched closer to his bed where he sat. I knew I was probably not supposed to be here, but I wanted to help him, I needed to. I sat at the foot of the bed in front of him as I listened to the painfully muffled cries.

He glanced up at me once his crying started to cease, his sniffling was still uncontrollable as he lifted his head slowly giving me sad eyes.

Before I knew it Baekhyun had fallen into him, holding onto me tightly. I wrapped my hands around him as well, but what surprised me the most was that he didn't cry. He was safe in my arms, he didn't have the need to cry anymore. I felt happy, for once in my life.

"I'm sorry," Baekhyun said softly with another sniffle. "But they wouldn't leave me alone."

"It's okay," I told him. "It's okay."

"It's okay," Baekhyun repeated as he clung to me tighter.

But was it really okay?

-

It's been about three days and I haven't seen Bakehyun. I haven't seen him in the garden, at lunch, in the rec room, nowhere. I was starting to get worried.

"Hey, Chanyeol!"

I looked up from my deep thought and saw a very familiar face.

"Hey Yixing," I responded with a weak smile.

"What's wrong? You look upset," Yixing said as he sat down at my table in the small library.

"Well I am stuck here," I said with a smirk on my face, but he didn't think it was funny.

"I'm serious," Yixing said with a bit of annoyance. "Tell me what's wrong."

"I haven't seen Baekhyun in three days," I said with a sigh.

"Oh," Yixing said simply. "I know why."

My eyes widened.

"What?!"

"He's in a more confined unit that's why you haven't seen him," Yixing told me as if it wasn't a big deal.

"Wait why?"

"I'm not really sure, I didn't have time to look," Yixing said. 

I just simply looked down with a bit of sadness, I just really wanted to help the boy.

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"A phone call for you Chanyeol," the nurse said rather dully.

I got up from his bed and went over to the nurse. It had been three days now since I've heard anything about Baekhyun.

She lead me into the phone room and closed the door. Every day felt more and more like a prison.

I picked up the phone, thinking it would be my sister again.

"Hello?"

"Oh my God, Chanyeol, sweetie are you okay?"

It was my mom.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I lied through my teeth.

"Your father and I are really worried about you, we just hope you're getting better."