The Aftereffects | chanbaek

Buried Secrets: part 02

⚠️⚠️ [Mature] ⚠️⚠️
Language and Situation

April 16, 2018

"What is this?" Baekhyun asked.

Chanyeol chuckled and teasingly tousled Baekhyun's hair as he asked, "What? Have you never seen a convenience store before, Mr. Byun?"

Chanyeol laughed again and Baekhyun glared before retorting, "Of course, I know what a convenience store is dipshit." Baekhyun rolled his eyes. "What I meant was, why are we here?"

Chanyeol just tugged on Baekhyun's sleeve, pulling him along while he replied, "Because Mr. Byun, I'm sharing my past with you."

"And it starts at a convenience store?" Baekhyun asked doubtfully.

"No, my life began to change at this convenience store. Now Mr. Byun, would you like to hear a story?" Chanyeol asked.

Baekhyun rolled his eyes and pulled his arm away, crossing them as he replied, "As long as it doesn't bore me to death."

Chanyeol rolled his eyes too and patted Baekhyun's cheek as he said, "Wait here," before quickly retracting his hand - so not to get bitten - and running inside the store.

Baekhyun yelled after him, "I'm not a fucking dog, Park! Or should I say, Bark!" And then Baekhyun stuck his tongue out and huffed before turning around to sit on the sidewalk edge.

Chanyeol was back a moment later, holding his hand behind his back. Baekhyun rolled his eyes and snapped, "Park Chanyeol, stop being a child!"

Chanyeol just grinned and quickly sat down beside Baekhyun as he produced two suckers from behind his back.

"Strawberry or green apple flavor?" Chanyeol asked.

Baekhyun scoffed but still reached out to grab the strawberry one as he asked, "And what does flavored balls on the end of a stick have to do with this story?"

Chanyeol chuckled and tore off his wrapper as he replied, "Nothing really, just another memory. But sitting here, ten or so years ago, I over heard something about a vacation home that was going to be empty for a week - turned out it was only for a day though. Anyway, the home I broke into with....Sehun, just so happened to be the Park's vacation home."

Baekhyun's sucker was halfway frozen to his mouth as he stared at Chanyeol, his eyes full of questions and his tongue too slow to annunciate them all. And before he could fire them off all at once, Chanyeol placed a hand over his mouth and said, "Hold all your questions until I'm done. Alright, Sehun and I had first met in an orphanage around the ages thirteen and fourteen. We had decided to runaway one night with not much thought on where or what we would do, only knowing we couldn't stand another minute watching all the other, much younger children, get adopted."

"So one afternoon much hotter than this, we heard that there was an empty house not too far from here and we decided to stay there for awhile. But the day right after, the owners, being the Park's, had unexpectedly come back. Sehun had been out doing whatever when they come home, so it was only me there."

"When I was trying to sneak out, I had run into and unknowingly punched my foster father in the face, bruising his left cheek for almost a week. And while I had been in the jail cell, Mr. Park made an offer."

"He felt sorry for me, and had told me, although I was already fourteen at the time, that his wife and him had been thinking about adoption. I stayed with them for a month - they even happily let Sehun bunk with me - until once they had gotten to know me, they asked if I would like to join their family. And you obviously know how that turned out. Sehun didn't stay with us for too long though, and back when we had been in the orphanage, Sehun would always get yelled at, and every sentence spoken to him started like this, 'Oh, Sehun . . .' He had thought it was hilarious and legalized his name to 'Oh Sehun.' When he moved out though, my parents helped him establish himself and with their help and his amazing talent, he was able to become who his is today."