𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙛𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝 // 𝙗𝙮𝙪𝙣 𝙗𝙖𝙚𝙠𝙝𝙮𝙪𝙣

2

Like what you expected, it already starts raining, and you hurriedly take out your umbrella to protect yourself from getting wet.

You were actually planning to go to that hybrid orphanage your friend has told you about today. But now it's raining, and all you can think of is that the hybrid you may adopt will only get soaked and get sick. You don't want that.

So now you are about to turn around and walk back to your house which is twenty minutes of walk away, but you then you hear a sound of a puppy's whimper.

It triggers you. Gosh, you and your love for puppies.

You are a dog lover, and almost everyone who knows you is aware of that.

It is your passion to care for dogs, and to make puppies feel that they are valued and important to you even with the simplest ways like gentle touches.

You losing your only dog has caused you so much stress and loneliness, for you loved your dog, Brienne, so much that you wanted him to be able to live as long as you live.

But things really come to an end and you hate how you can't help that.

That is why you were informed about the presence of pet hybrids.

It wasn't like pet hybrids are abnormal in your place. They are generally accepted actually, but they are rare. And the ones left by their first owners on the streets are kept in that hybrid orphanage.

You almost jump in shock when your feet bumps into something.

You look down and see brown and white fur. The puppy looks back up at you and whines. You crouch down and smile.

"Why are you out here, sweetheart? Where is your owner?" you sofly say as you pet the puppy's head, and it surprisingly leans into your touch even if it's the first time you have met each other.

"Do you have an owner, hm?" you ask as you examine the soaked dog, spotting his collar on his neck.

'Baekhyun, Mierre's Hybrid Orphanage.'

You freeze. It's a pet hybrid.

"Baekhyun? Do you have an owner? Why did you stay here outside? It's raining and you're out here.. Let's get you back there, okay?" you say as you hold the umbrella with one hand and pick the puppy up with the other.

The puppy starts thrashing around and whining endlessly, making you frown.

"You don't want to go back there?" You ask as you set him back down.

The puppy looks at the ground and leans his head on his legs, then he looks back up at you with eyes that look like they're asking for something.

"Then would you mind if I take you home?"

The dog is obviously surprised by the question, but he immediately gets up and runs to your feet, looking up at you as if telling you something that you can't hear.

"You'd want that, Baekhyun?"

The puppy doesn't protest, so you did it.

He really reminds you of Brienne.

* * * * *

The puppy climbs up and down the small chair and you laugh at the puppy's cheerfulness, catching him right in time and wiping excess water from his body with your extra towel.

"Don't go anywhere, okay? Stay there," you say to Baekhyun as he stares at you, his eyes almost showing a smile.

You go to your drawer and look for clothes to wear, heading to the bathroom after to wash yourself and change.

You can't help but remember your dog, Brienne. He really looks like Baekhyun. The fur and all. Except for behavior, but that's not an issue.

You smile as you remember the way Baekhyun has leaned into your touch even before you knew each other. It's heartwarming to know that the puppy trusts you.

After you're done showering, you head out your bathroom. But you're surprised the puppy is nowhere to be found in your room.

The room is closed so the puppy won't be able to go out unless he can reach it, which is obviously impossible.

"Baekhyun..?" You call for him as you look under the bed, but there's no puppy you see. Nothing everywhere.

You sit on your bed confused. 'Aren't you just hallucinating everything?' you ask yourself.

You climb up the mattress but you are startled by a certain thing on it.

You look back and see that your blankets have something under it, a form and you look from down to top.

A hair, a human brown hair, is what your eyes meet sticking out of the blankets, also pretty and slender fingers that clutch the sheets.

You blink fast, your hands trembling as you reach for the blankets to take them off. You don't really know if this is real or hallucination now but your mind is blank and you're curious as to how this figure has reached your place.

You pull the covers off, though those fingers pull them back, and you really didn't expect it to be this.

His eyes are nervously looking at yours.

"Who are you?" you ask cautiously.

"B-Baek..h-hy-un.."

"Baekhyun?" you repeat.

He nods.

All these puppy ears and brown eyes and brown hair and this guy whose name is Baekhyun . .

You still can't take it in.