Coffee Shop (EXO Xiuhan/Lumin)

The best distraction is a phonecall

A/N: Excluding this, there's four chapters left ^_^

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And then, at that point, someone called him. As his phone played the irritating, default ringtone, Minseok flinched and started to look for his phone, slightly embarrassed. Who would call him at this point?! Luhan let out a short laugh, and Minseok could feel his cheeks burn. In the end he found his phone in his jacket in the hallway and quickly answered. He didn't even look to see who called.

"Xiumin?" An unsure voice in the other end said in a low voice. It was Lay! But then again, no one ever called him except for Lay so he probably shouldn’t be surprised.

"Lay! What is it?" Minseok asked. His friend usually never used that tone. Something was up.

"Well..." Lay stretched the word. "I was going to return that movie you lent me, but there are some shady guys with baseball bats and handguns blocking your door. The whole floor, actually."

Minseok let out a sigh. "They've got guns as well?" he said and ran over to the CCTV. And Lay was right. One of them was throwing his handgun lazily up in the air, bored.

"You don't sound as surprised as I thought you would be," Lay said suspiciously.

Minseok slowly shook his head, even though he knew Lay couldn’t see him. "A lot of things happened here and a lot of things happened there and right now I am trapped inside my apartment with Luhan," Minseok didn't bother to explain it all, because it would take a year to get it all right. And if Lay were outside right now, there would only be a matter of time before the guys would notice.

"Trapped?" Lay asked worried. He sounded like he was thinking hard.

"Yep, trapped," Minseok replied, twirling a lock of his hair, which he had left unstyled today. He was afraid that Lay would be interrogated by the gang-members, so he was kind of anxious to get Lay out of here as fast as possible. What if they took him as a hostage? Then Minseok would have no idea what to do, and he wouldn’t even be able to postpone his problems, like he did with Luhan when they were eating.

Lay became quiet for a while. "I can create a distraction, so you can get away," he said in the end.

"Nononono," Minseok shook his head stressed. "Absolutely not,"

"But you've been trapped for a while already, right? And anyways, I've always wanted to try this out," Lay tried to persuade him. And Minseok’s end of the line became quiet for a while.

"Is it dangerous?" he asked in the end, still unsure, but a little bit less worried now. Lay was pretty strong, after all.

"No, not at all," Lay grinned, knowing he had won Minseok over.

And Minseok sighed, knowing he had lost. "Just be careful, okay?"

No one replied, and he knew Lay had started his plan. Because three seconds later, he started talking again, unusually loud.

"Oh, Xiumin, you're not home? And I who was going to return this movie to you," Lay talked in a way that made it very obvious that he was lying, but the gang-members quickly turned their heads to him, and then started to talk to each other. But Lay still continued to talk.

"Where are you then? Oh, outside with Luhan? Wait, where outside? Your apartment-complex you say? But I didn't see you come out. Oh, you used the other way out. How clever. Are you going to the train station with Luhan? I will see you soon then," At this point, the members stood up, and stormed out and down the stairs past Lay, not bothering to even cast him the slightest look. A couple of seconds after, Lay showed up on the CCTV, smiling and waving. "It's clear," he grinned.

Minseok, who had been worried and sitting with his heart almost in his throat, sighed relieved. "Don't EVER do that again," he mumbled and walked over to unlock the door. As soon as he opened it, Lay barged in, and Luhan, who had been watching the whole thing, walked over to Minseok.

"Well, that was fun," Lay smiled and gave Minseok a little plastic bag with the movie he had loaned.

But Minseok thought it had been anything but fun. Lay could have been killed!

"For heaven's sake, Lay," Luhan said. "Please don't ever do that, even for Minseok or me. We're getting worried!" And Minseok realized that Luhan had been just as worried as he had. They had been thinking the exact same thing.

Lay just smiled and shook his head. "Thank you is what you should say. Well, I have to go, see you!" And then he closed the door on both Minseok and Luhan, without giving them time to say goodbye, not to mention thank you.

For a while, it was quiet. "Wow," Luhan said after a minute. "Lay's pretty amazing, or what?"

Minseok couldn't do anything but nod. He didn't know if he would've had the courage do to something like that, if it was Lay who was trapped.

He shook his head slightly and scratched the back of his neck, walking in circles on the white marble floor. What was he supposed to do now? Lay had gone just like that. And he was alone with Luhan. It had been okay when they were eating, but somehow, things were different now. Every time Minseok were alone with Luhan, he had this feeling in his chest that he couldn't really figure out. The only thing he could imagine, was that somehow, his mind meant that Luhan was special.