back ; chanbaek [BOOK 2]

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Chanyeol takes a bit of time to register Baekhyun's words. "We were once friends? Really?" Chanyeol asks with a smile on, weird.

"Y-yeah! We used to go to high school together, great memories." Baekhyun responds putting on a smile. Lying is the only way I can get closer to you.

Chanyeol stretches his arms, "Let me give you a hug." Baekhyun raises a brow, Why is he so odd?  But this doesn't stop Baekhyun, he stretches his arms as well but with every step forward loud thumps can be heard.

Baekhyun just looks up and focuses on Chanyeol, ignoring those loud and annoying thumps. He was about to wrap his arms but three large thumps stop him. "Baekhyun! Wake up!"

Baekhyun's eyes shoot open, he sits up immediately his head hurting in the process. He sees Kyungsoo at the door, "Wake up sleepy head! We'll be late for school!" Kyungsoo scolds his friend and before slamming the door closed he hears Baekhyun call for him.

"Soo. Do I work at a bar?" Baekhyun asks so suddenly and it makes Kyungsoo roll his eyes. "No, sleepy head. We're still in highschool. Now get ready." Kyungsoo says and leaves.

Baekhyun massages his head. Was it really a dream or was it real? Why does it feel so real? Baekhyun stands up from his bed, "Soo, I think I can't go to school right now." Baekhyun says and when Kyungsoo turns to him he jumps. "YOU LOOK LIKE YOU GOT BEATEN UP LIKE TWENTY TIMES."

Baekhyun has dark spots under his eyes and he's pale as fuck. His hair so messy and he can tell that Baekhyun cried a little bit and with him wrapped in a blanket and he looks like after getting beaten up he enjoyed it in his sleep. "You bastard, eat some food if you're not going to school. I'll just say you got a fever." Kyungsoo says, putting a bowl of soup on the table and a glass of water. "I'll go ahead, get well soon bastard so that they don't think I beat you up on a daily basis."

"But don't you?" Baekhyun frowns and he swears he saw Kyungsoo's hand twitch. "Bye baektard."

Baekhyun sits down and starts eating but he can't stop thinking of his realistic dream, it's all going too fast. If he remembers correctly, Chanyeol has been dead for a year now and why is it just now that he's getting such dreams?

He did have dreams about Chanyeol when his death was still fresh but not as realistic as this. He's confused and scared. Is Chanyeol trying to tell him something or is this all just his mind playing with him?

He does regret everything, regrets not noticing earlier that Chanyeol was sick, regrets not noticing Chanyeol's feelings for him. He didn't notice all of this since he was too into impressing his friends that he got a girlfriend. Kyungsoo was the only one who didn't like what he was doing.

But through those times of having a girlfriend he never felt anything spark, anything special. He was always attracted to Park Chanyeol, his best friend who had fucking cancer.

The goofy smiles of Chanyeol, his horrible jokes, his loud voice and addicting laugh, his everything. He loved and still loves every single bit of him yet he chose popularity over his best friend who needed him, who genuinely loved him. He regrets everything to this day.

After such a realistic dream he just wants to sleep more and more to test out these realistic dreams of his. He can only see him but he can never hold him again.

Is this punishment? If yes then I'll gladly accept it, just to see him through my dreams.

But why now? Why not when his death was still fresh? Was it because pain just wants to see him again and make him regret everything? He finishes up his meal and he's so ready to just fall asleep and ignore everything but something inside him is pushing him to go out and go to the bar that popped up in his dream.