Wherefore are thou, Chanyeol? × c.b ✔

Practise six

"Why not?!" Baekhyun yelled through the hallways at his phone.

"I don't want your DNA all over my house." The person on the other end of the line answered.

"But Chan-" Beep, Beep, Beep. "Yeol. . " he finished the name of his partner. "Do you think that will stop me?" Baekhyun spoke out his thoughts.

With heavy steps he walked towards his car and took place at the drivers seat. He was actually about to leave the house and drive to Chanyeol's, but the taller had other plans. Chanyeol didn't want Baekhyun to come over, he didn't want to see the smaller one for some reason. Baekhyun clicked some buttons on his phone to ask Suho about Chanyeol's adress. It took his leader more than 10 minutes to figure out how it was done to sent him Chanyeol's location.

After getting the information he wanted, Baekhyun started the car and drove away. He would've never thought of Chanyeol living in a quiet place like that, which was actually very obvious since Chanyeol doesn't like being surrounded by many people in one place.

He parked his car and stepped out of it, heading towards Chanyeol's house. It was grey and quite big, a nice car parked in the open garage. Baekhyun walked towards the fancy house door and rang the bell. A black sillouette was visible through the almost transparent glass door.

The door opened, a shocked Chanyeol stood infront of him, his eyes were opened wide.

"What are you doing here?"

"Visiting you," Baekhyun replied and entered the house as if it was his own. "Nice house."

Chanyeol turned around and saw Baekhyum walking to the living room, looking around. Chanyeol's house was beautiful, it was white with a grey and green touch. He had many plants and pictures of him and an old lady on his wall. It was the opposite of Baekhyun's flat, which was more colourful and cosy.  Chanyeol's house was too clean, everything looked like it was never touched nor moved but cleaned everyday.

Baekhyun sat down on the couch and watched through the room until one big bear like animal jumped on him.

"Oh, god!" Baekhyun shouted, but soon smiled when he realized that it was a big dog that was hugging his body. "You're so adorable!!" Baekhyun cheered and cuddled the big brown golden retriever.

"Nick, come here!" Chanyeol commanded.

"Noo~" Baekhyun whined. "He can sit on my lap."

"I don't want him to touch you."

Baekhyun rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, shut up."

Chanyeol sighed and sat on the couch as well. "Why can't you just leave, Byun?"

For a second Baekhyun got too distracted. Chanyeol watched him playing with his dog, nick. Baekhyun laughed and giggled when Nick was trying to lick Baekhyun's face. Chanyeol coughed loud to gain Baekhyun's attention back.

"Huh, what did you ask again?"

"Doesn't matter, what do you want?"

"Oh, right." Baekhyun got back to reality and slightly pushed Nick away. "Well, I thought maybe you're, well, sad or something like that. Suho told me that you're not eating well."

Chanyeol raised his eyebrows. He hopped a bit closer towards Baekhyun and leaned down, looking into his eyes.

"W-What's wrong?" Baekhyun asked in a quiet voice, the dog a barrier between their bodies.

"Baekhyun," Chanyeol said with his low and deep voice. "You're acting weird lately. Is it because of my grandma? Are you pitying me?"

"No!" Baekhyun blurred out. "No, really."

Chanyeol only nodded and sat straight, looking at somewhere else until Baekhyun asked. "Did you eat?"

Chanyeol shook his head. "It's almost four p.m and you didn't eat yet? Where's your kitchen?"

The tall male leaned back and pointed at an entrance without a door in between. Baekhyun stood up and walked straight into the kitchen. There he opened Chanyeol's fridge and shelves and searched for some stuff. He looked for something at the wall cupboard but couldn't reach it. Just when he turned around he noticed that he was trapped between the giant infront of him and the kitchenette.

He took a deep breath. "Chanyeol, you scared me."

Chanyeol only looked at him, not saying a thing.

"Can you move?"

Instead of moving Chanyeol leaned down and whispered. "Don't touch my stuff without my permission." Baekhyun looked at him and furrowed his eyebrows.

"Okay, okay!" Baekhyun slightly pushed him by pressing his palms against Chanyeol's stomach.

"Oh my god." Baekhyun said.

"What?"

He giggled. "Your tummy is so squishy!" Baekhyun started to squeeze the taller's baby fat. "And I thought you'd had a flat and trained stomach, but look at this!" He smiled and played further with the taller's stomach.

Chanyeol only rolled his eyes and grabbed Baekhyun's wrists. "Baekhyun, stop it." He said and pushed the smaller one again against the kitchenette.

Uncomfortable. It just felt uncomfortable to Baekhyun being this close to Chanyeol. His mint breath hitting Baekhyun's sensitive skin. "Chanyeol, I will stop, just go."

"Why, does it make you feel uneasy?"

"No, I just. .  I don't feel comfortable when you're that close to me."

Chanyeol nodded and let go of Baekhyun. "Tell me why you act so stupid, I don't like this." Chanyeol pointed out his opinion. He stepped back and watched Baekhyun from head to toe. Meanwhile Baekhyun only looked around the room and didn't respond. When Chanyeol took a step forward Baekhyun immediatly lifter his arms to block him.

"Okay, okay, I will tell you!" He gave up. Chanyeol nodded. "Well," Baekhyun began. "I just thought that since we are partners. . That we could be friends or something like that."

"Friends?" Chanyeol repeated in a sarcastic tone and laughed. "You and me?"

"Stop laughing, I don't know why I thought about that. It was stupid, you're stupid! I'm leaving." He said, sounding a little dissapointed. Chanyeol didn't expect him to react that sensitive. Baekhyun walked out of the kitchen. He grabbed the jacket he took off earlier and headed towards the exit, Nick following him.

"Baekhyun, wait." He heard Chanyeol shouting after him. His steps speeded up to reach the other male, he took the advantage and grabbed Baekhyun's arm, turning him around. "I'm sorry if I hurt you." Chanyeol apologized. "I was just shocked, the only thing I know from you is getting cursed at. But today you acted so so weird and I thought that maybe something was wrong."

"I didn't want to seem weird." Baekhyun spoke. "I just didn't know what to do or say."

"You told me you wanted us to become friends, why didn't you act like you do around your friends." A few seconds of silence surrounded the two. "Don't you know how to act around friends?" Chanyeol took his chance to ask and even gained a nod from Baekhyun.

Baekhyun really didn't know how to behave around friends. The only friends he had where his theatre colleagues, he wouldn't do something with them outside of the theatre. Most of the time he would spend at home, reading a book, watching tv or playing games.

Even if one of his actual friends wanted to go out with him, he refused to because he didn't want to seem weird or nervous just like he did towards Chanyeol. Not even things like dates interested him even though the girls might be pretty, he just didn't care.

"Baekhyun." A deep, smoothing voice brought him back to reality.

"Huh?" Baekhyun lightly shook his head and looked up to the giant.

"I think you're idea isn't that bad." Chanyeol said and looked at the wall which was covered by multiple pictures. "I think I could need a friend."

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