I'll Make This Perfect Again

Bonus Chapter One

It didn't take long into their new life together for Chanyeol to start to get antsy staying at home all day everyday. He ran out of shows to watch, video games became repetitive and he could only have sex with Baekhyun so much until it felt like his dick would fall off. He loved spending time with his boyfriend, but he knew he'd have to do something with his life eventually. He really wanted a career in music, which meant going to college. He got a scholarship for his first choice school starting the winter semester, so he spent the few months leading up to that working at a local grocery store, a job he kept through all four years of college. He landed a job out of college as an assistant to an up-and-coming music producer, the job he wished he would one day also have. After a couple years of toiling away under said producer, he was finally given a chance to show what he could do. He produced a ballad for a debuting artist named Do Kyungsoo, who would become his favorite artist to work with. The song quickly rose up the charts and lead them both to a level of fame and popularity neither had even dreamed of. Unfortunately for Baekhyun, Kyungsoo was a problem.

He didn't know if it was just their personalities or if their really was something there, but he always felt a flare of jealousy when he saw the two of them together. Chanyeol had always been a nice person. He got along with everyone. It was no real surprise that Chanyeol was friendly with Kyungsoo. But Kyungsoo, as far as Baekhyun could tell, wasn't a people person. Every time Kyungsoo looked at him, all he got was angry glares, the complete opposite of the sweet smiles he gave Chanyeol. The pair shared food and laughs and Kyungsoo never even talked to Baekhyun. All of this confused Baekhyun to no end, and only added fuel to the fire of his jealousy. He even started to notice all the time Chanyeol spent at the studio with the other, time he could've been spending at home with his boyfriend. Baekhyun was jealous and getting desperate and had no idea what to do.

Desperate times call for desperate measures and that's how Baekhyun found himself sitting on the couch in Kris and Tao's apartment, curled up with his knees against his chest. The pair were immediately concerned when he showed up unannounced on their doorstep looking like someone kicked his puppy.

"What's wrong, Baek?" Kris asked, trying not to sound as worried and upset as he actually was. They knew more about his past now, Baekhyun had eventually told them about his cutting and he was doing so much better now, that they didn't want to see him backpedal.

"I don't wanna lose Chanyeol. I'm so scared I'm gonna lose him."

"Why would you lose him? Chanyeol loves you," Kris asked, confused.

"He never spends time with me anymore. He comes home late from work every night and ignores me. He rarely cuddles me in his sleep anymore. Every time I want to do something with him, he's at work."

"He's working really hard to give you guys a good life. He loves you and wants you to have a happy life. He's doing it for you."

"If he wants me to be happy then he'd spend time with me. He'd have lunch with me like he used to. He'd hold me when I'm sad. He'd come home to me at a normal time instead of staying late at work with Kyungsoo."

"Oh," Kris responded, finally seeing where all this was going. "You're jealous." Baekhyun always hated that word and he never had been a jealous person before. But something about another person threatening his relationship with the one person who'd been there for him all these years made him feel jealous and upset.

"I guess," Baekhyun responded, burying his face between his knees, trying desperately to not cry. He'd been through too much with Chanyeol. He was the only person who stuck with him through everything, through the bullying, through the depression. He fell in love with Chanyeol because of his kind heart and now someone else was trying to take that from him.