Liar // ChanBaek [UAU I]

X / It's Alright

WARNINGS: Medium language; Implied sexual references

-Day 9; Thursday, June 8th, 2017-

Park Chanyeol was in the the bedroom Do Kyungsoo had loaned out to him while he stayed there changing, slipping out of the tee shirt he had slept in and into another when Byun Baekhyun threw a chair at the front door.

Chanyeol heard the doorbell ring, Baekhyun yell "No!", and then heard the chair make contact with the door with a thud. Chanyeol exited the room, peeking his head around the corner, and saw the chair laying in front of the door, and Baekhyun inching away from it, as if it had mutated into some giant, ferocious, strange monster and Baekhyun was scared out of his mind of it.

"Baekhyun-ah?" Chanyeol asked, approaching him carefully. "Is everything okay?"

"There's bad men out there, Chanyeol." Baekhyun whispered, pointing straight ahead to the door. "Don't answer it, Chanyeol." he warned. The doorbell rang again, and Baekhyun lunged for another chair, but Chanyeol wrapped his arms around his waist to stop him from doing so.

"Baek, Baek, it's okay. It's fine." he said softly, and then dragged the chair over and handed it to him. "Here. You can have the chair, and if you need to you can use it. But for now, just hold it, and I'll get the door. It's okay." Baekhyun nodded, gripping the back of the chair as if ready to throw it at any given moment.

Chanyeol released Baekhyun and walked over to the door. "Be careful, Yeol." Baekhyun called. "There's bad men out there."

Chanyeol twisted the door knob and opened it, and on the other side was a man in a police uniform.

"Good morning. Is Do Kyungsoo or Park Chanyeol here?" he asked, consulting a notepad he held in his hands.

Chanyeol nodded. "Yes, I'm Park Chanyeol."

"Great." the officer smiled. "I'm Officer Park Jeongsu. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?"

"One second." he said, and closed the door, turning to Baekhyun. "See?" He walked towards him with his arms outstretched towards him. He wrapped Baekhyun in his arms, kissing the top of his forehead. "He's not here for you, he just wants to ask me a few questions. It's okay."

"If he asks, you've never heard of me."

"I'm not lying to the police, Baekkie." Chanyeol laughed. "I'll be right back, okay? I'm just outside." He released Baekhyun and tugged on some shoes, and then met the officer outside. "Sorry." he muttered, wrapping his arms around himself. "You said you wanted to ask me some questions?"

The officer nodded. "Yes. Where were you yesterday?"

"Here." Chanyeol answered, squinting against the morning sun.

"And what did you do yesterday?" The officer continued.

"I had some friends over in the evening, so I spent some of the morning and afternoon preparing for that."

"And who was all here yesterday?"

"Like, who was invited, or just natural comings and goings?" Chanyeol asked. Kyungsoo's older brother often stopped in, picking and dropping things off.

"Both." The officer shrugged.

"Well, Kyungsoo's brother stops by sometimes, and I think he dropped some stuff off yesterday morning." Chanyeol recounted. "And I had invited Kim Jongdae, Kim Minseok, Kim Junmyeon, Kris Wu, Huang Zitao, Xi Luhan, and Oh Sehun." Technically he had invited Baekhyun as well, but earlier, and for an initial different reason. Therefore, according to Park Chanyeol Logic, that counted as a different event, and one Officer Park Jeongsu didn't know and didn't need to know about. Baekhyun has also said he didn't want Chanyeol to tell the police he knew him. Chanyeol never said he didn't know Baekhyun, he just simply didn't mention him. There was no harm in that.