Unexpected Events ¦ Chanbaek

Explanation

A/N: Hello my little raindrops~ It's officially June 30th here, which means it's my birthday! 🎂🎉 I can't believe I'm 18 now... Anyways, as a small present for you, I worked hard the past week, so that I could publish a new chapter for each of my stories today! I hope you enjoy this!

Baekhyun POV:

I let out an offended gasp as he walked past me. "Did he really walk away from me just like that? Who does he think he is?", I mumbled to myself angrily. I turned around but Chanyeol was no longer in the room. I went back to his bedroom and found him sitting on his bed, bent over a book. I walked over to him. "May I...?", I asked hesitantly. He nodded and I sat down next to him. "You said you had an explanation for all this, so tell me about it.", I demanded but Chanyeol shook his head and sighed. "But I also said that it's more of a crazy theory.", he replied and closed the book. "Crazy sounds good.", I said and winked at him. He let out an overly exaggerated sigh and opened the book again.

"A while ago, I borrowed this book from the library four blocks from here. It was written by a professor who teaches psychology at Yonsei University. It's about soulmates and similar things. I know that many people think these things don't exist but I personally believe in soulmates and such. I had originally borrowed it in order to educate myself more about the topic as itself, in order to write a fanfiction based on the topic. I know you probably think I'm-" I decided to interrupt him. "I don't think you're crazy. I know that many fans write fanfictions and I personally think it's a good thing even if some of them are quite... explicit. But they use their imagination to make up scenarios and stories for example about what it could be like to date their idols and in my opinion this is a wonderful talent." He smiled at me, visibly relieved that I didn't find him weird for writing fanfictions. "Well... While we were looking for the standee I remembered some of the pages I had read in the book.", he continued. "Here." He showed me a page and I read it out loud.

"When a person dies before they have met their soulmate or if they haven't gotten close enough to their soulmate, said person comes back to life, e.g. through a photo of them. The photo then disappears and is replaced by the body of that person. Once they wake up, they won't be different from what they were like before their passing which means their personality will remain the same. If this happens, whoever finds the person should carefully try to make the other understand that they died and came back to life. It might be better to call a professional for help because they will probably start to panic or faint even. Also, after coming back to life, the person should absolutely avoid being in contact with people they were close with before their death because it would be too confusing for people who aren't their soulmate to understand how this phenomenon is possible.
(Exceptions and possibilities for cases in which the person who came back to life could maybe be in contact with their family/friends/relatives/coworkers etc. are listed on page 419.)"

I took a deep breath before snatching the book from Chanyeol's hands and hastily turning to page 419. Before I could statt reading I felt a big hand resting on my knee. "Baekhyun... I'm not sure if you will like whatever that page says... I haven't read it yet, so I'm completely clueless about what these exceptions are. Are you sure you want to read this?" I looked up to meet his eyes. A worried expression was plastered on his face. I put the book aside and sighed. "I just want to know if I can somehow continue my life where it stopped or if I will have to stay hidden in your apartment for the rest of my life and hope that at some point it will turn out that you're my soulmate, so that I won't come back from death again... I'm sorry, I-" His expression became sad. "I know what you're trying to say, don't worry, I'm not hurt. It's not always easy to be an idol but, despite the problems that the idol life brings with it, you had a great life. You could never have that here." I felt helpless. I wanted to cheer him up but didn't know how to. "Let's get over with this." I grabbed the book again and Chanyeol came closer.

Chanyeol POV:

I sat a bit closer to Baekhyun, so that I could read the page out loud this time.

"When a person passed away and was officially declared dead by a doctor, it's hard to make their passing seem like a mistake. However, especially for celebrities and other public figures, it could be possible that the doctor was wrong and didn't check properly, so that the person was buried alive."

"That's it!", Baekhyun yelled. "I'll simply say the doctor was wrong and-" "And make an innocent doctor lose his job?", I interrupted him. "You can't simply do that." Baekhyun huffed. "Why not? I'm Byun Baekhyun, the media is going to believe me anything I say anyway. It's not like he can't get another job in a different hospital." I shook my head in disbelief and backed away from him. "I didn't think you could be this much of an asshole. I always saw you as a good person who doesn't take anything for granted and looks out for others, but I guess I was wrong. You would ruin his reputation, no hospital would want to hire a doctor who declares patients dead when they're not."

Baekhyun looked at me like a puppy who just got scolded for eating sausages that were originally meant for barbecue on a summer night. "Look, I understand that you want your old life back, I would probably want that too if I had your life, but I won't support this idea. There are a few people walking on earth who do quite look like you, you know? V from BTS, for example. Who says there can't be normal citizens who resemble you? You could say it was a lookalike." "Hm, yeah... And when they ask where I was all this time? What am I supposed to say then?" I thought about reasons for his absence for a moment but nothing that made much sense came to mind. "I'm not sure but maybe you could say you had an emergency in your family and had to go to Bucheon to see them but forgot to tell any of the members...?" Baekhyun turned his head towards me, a wide grin spread over his handsome face. "Your idea isn't too bad. I have a better idea, though." I looked at him with horror in my eyes and gulped. Uh-oh.