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07 (Part II)

The small parent was sitting on a cozy yet fancy restaurant to have a meal with his boss and current date, Zhāng Yixing. It was all settled up by Moonsik, who couldn't kept whining about how both of them had kids and needed desperately the love of someone else besides them. Yixing was a widower with a five years old son while Baekhyun, who didn't lost his husband—or never actually had one—understood easily how it was to feel like him sometimes, so lonely with a big hole on his heart made up by someone else. It was the only reason why he agreed to go, he knew Yixing was a smart person full of interesting facts and funny stories to tell, he had a beautiful son and he knew how to treat small kids like his. It was everything Baekhyun was dreaming of, a partner capable of understanding not only him but his son too.

He was having a good time, despite of how he thought that everything was going to turn into some awkward meal with his boss, he was having fun laughing at Yixing's jokes. Baekhyun could see how bright his eyes were every time he tried to sweet-talk to him and he couldn't say he hated it completely, in fact, Baekhyun went along with it since the first moment. Yixing was charismatic and good looking and he was filtering with him without any doubts. Maybe it was a dumb decision—considering all the dumb decisions he had took in the pass, it really was—but he didn't mind when he saw how genuinely happy his boss looked at him, with sparkly eyes full of joy. Just how he used to look at me.

At first, Baekhyun couldn't believe Moonsik was really thinking he had time to have someone else on his mind besides his son—it was already hard when he involucred Chanyeol on his life again, but somehow, he slowly started to change his mind about it. It wasn't that impossible, he loved Sehun and he knew having a relationship was troublesome but his son was growing up and he was capable of understanding the fact that his father could be involved romantically with someone else. Yes, Chanyeol was back on his life, but he was also part of his past and he didn't want to allow his heart to keep beating for the same smile he used to fell in love with when he was younger.

He had moved on long time ago. He never needed Chanyeol when Sehun was born and he was sure that it wasn't important in that moment of his life either—even though he wasn't going to deny the fact that he was indeed happy that he was spending more time with Sehun to get to know him better, as he promised. But he didn't want Chanyeol to cross that line further. He needed to stay right where Baekhyun promised himself he was going to keep him when he left them alone. It was selfish, it was heartbreaking and it made him feel terrible. He loved Chanyeol so many years like crazy and depended so much on him that it made him the most pathetic person during so many time when he found himself alone in Junsu's dorm, without the warm feeling of his boyfriends arms.

It made him sick how Chanyeol still had that ability of getting inside of his mind and make him forget about everything else; his responsibilities, his work, his date. He was having such a good time with Yixing, in fact, he had never laughed so much with someone who wasn't not Sehun, Junsu or Moonsik yet he still managed to put Yixing away to keep thinking about his past with Chanyeol and all the pain that it made him feel their break up, which wasn't important six years later but he still had Chanyeol's image of that night on his mind; leaning against his car with acocky smile, holding the Disney's concert bag where he was keeping Baekhyun's presents, an awkward expression and his recently dyed blue hair combed to the right.

"So what do you think about it?" Yixing asked and only when the sweet and soft eyes of his date looked at him waiting for a response, Baekhyun was able to come back to his senses. God, Yixing was so perfect. Why couldn't he just forget his ex and all what happened? It just made him suffer way more than he needed, he hated drama, it wasn't his thing and Chanyeol always brought too many with him.

He bit his bottom lip apologetically and played with his glass of water, "I'm sorry, I wasn't listening to you." He was honest, he needed to be and he was so grateful that Yixing wasn't a person with bad manners or a temper full of anger because otherwise his date would have been gone by then, "I lost it when you mentioned the lake. What was it again?"