You Don't Know Love

Guard Up [28]

Baekhyun sits on the bench in the school garden during lunch break with a laughing jongin beside her.

"Thanks for ditching practice by the way," Baekhyun quipped.

Jongin finally looks up from his phone, "I told you I was meeting kyungsoo noona, and besides you don't seem so bothered by me ditching yesterday's practice."

"What do you mean? You left me to practice alone while you were having fun!"

"Are you sure you were alone?" Jongin smirks at her.

"W-well I was until—"

"—And don't tell me that you weren't having fun during practice. I know for a fact that you were probably in cloud 9 yesterday."

Baekhyun stares at her friend, "Don't tell me—"

And just as she thought, Kai wave his phone in front of her, showcasing a picture of her and chanyeol playing the piano together.

"You did not- Yah Kim Jongin!" Baekhyun slaps jongin's shoulder repeatedly.

"If you have a lot of time in your hand might as well help me with my performance not spy on me like a total stalker."

"I prefer the term shipper more than stalker thank you very much," Jongin said as he hides his phone from baekhyun.

Baekhyun huffs in annoyance, giving up on her friend's usual odd behavior.

-

Jongin and baekhyun are now in the music room practicing their performance. They are pushing themselves a little more than usual because the performance date is closer than they thought. Baekhyun's dancing has gotten much better than the first practice. She is now able to dance accurately with the right facial expression and at the same time have a stable voice while singing.

To say Jongin was proud was an understatement, he was moved by his friend. She was once insecure of her own capabilities and now here she is embracing her talents.

He could really see how baekhyun has greatly improved not only as a singer but as a whole performer. He could see the fire in her eyes that filled with burning passion.

He laughs to himself, feeling like a proud father.

"Why are you laughing? Did I made a mistake?" Baekhyun asked clearly out of breath after finishing the routine.

"The apposite actually, you did really well," Jongin put up his thumb.

Baekhyun smile widely feeling proud of herself.

The door to the music room open showing a familiar tall guy behind it.

"Hey sorry I was late, I had to run some errands for the coach."

"No problem hyung," Jongin high-five chanyeol as he enters.

Baekhyun sees chanyeol a lot lately since he's helping out jongin for his performance and jongin is helping baekhyun out too, so of course the both of them are bound to meet each other from time to time.Despite out of practice, they still hang out.

Since they tend to practice till late they frequently catch dinner together. They'd go their separate ways after dinner or a practice session.

And on their way back, Chanyeol would usually accompany baekhyun. even though baekhyun has politely decline his offer a couple times, chanyeol would still try to explain how his house is close to hers so in the end she stopped trying to reason with him and just let him take her home