Lifetime 3

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Baekhyun was almost out of breath when his mind had absorbed everything.

"Baekhyun-ah, is Seju still sleeping?"

Seju's mother stood adoringly at the door frame. Though her face gave off the extreme worry she felt since the night before---her son came home very late last night reeking with alcohol, and if it were not for Baekhyun there, Seju would have slapped his face on the floor when he lost consciousness---Shin Hyemi was still as pretty as she could get.

The lady wore a peach floral dress, and her hair was neatly arranged in a bun. Before she could even say it, Baekhyun already knew where she was going; it was today five years ago when his husband, Seju's father, Jung Minjoon died in a car accident down the highway.

Baekhyun tried to plaster the most sympathetic smile he could. "Seju is still asleep, Auntie. I promise I'll look after him. Please leave without a worry."

Hyemi walked towards Baekhyun, who was sitting in a wooden chair beside Seju's bed, through her sandals, a soft click-click-clack sound resonating the room in a good rhythm. Baekhyun almost flinched when the lady raised her hand---it was his protective reflect, maybe---but turned out she just placed a gentle hand on Baekhyun's head, fixing his messy hair and putting his fringe aside to let him see clearly. "Thank you, Baekhyun-ah."

Baekhyun couldn't look at Seju's mother in the eyes. He was trying to ignore the ache in his heart since last night, but the more he saw Seju's mother's face, especially that she was talking to him like this with that sweet, sweet voice, he couldn't help it. Her face was really Lee Young Mi's, Chanyeol's mother from a few hundred years ago. Baekhyun fought a tear. "Y-you're... you're welcome, Auntie."

Hyemi checked her son for a second before leaving the room, closing the door with a soft click before going down the stairs to leave.

Baekhyun let out his breath. He realized he had been holding it in since the woman talked to him.

It was strange.

That night, after Seju passed out from being too drunk, Baekhyun found out something. He heard Hyemi's immediate footsteps coming upstairs, as Seju and him had caused a loud bang on the floor when they both fell.

Baekhyun was panicky; he still wasn't over the fact that he suddenly had a physical body---he wasn't a lifeless ghost anymore, but then things started coming right at him one by one in a consistent manner. Now he needed to hide himself before the woman could see him.

Of course, Baekhyun was a no one. He was worried Seju's mother would freak out seeing a twenty-seven-year old male in a white shirt and khaki pants, barefooted and stunned, with her drunk son on the floor. Baekhyun was about to carry his own weight and hide somewhere when he heard the footsteps drawing closer. He was aiming at under the bed but Seju's unconscious body was forbidding him to move. Hyemi finally opened the door and saw them both.

The woman had her eyes wide, but when Baekhyun was about to speak, she knelt down to grab Seju by the arm.

"Baekhyun-ah, help me carry Seju to the bed."

The woman called Baekhyun by his name.

After that, reality shifted.

Apparently, Hyemi knew him. Baekhyun turned out to be Jung Seju's best-est friend since highschool. Baekhyun didn't know how it happened, or how the world seemed to acknowledge his existence now. He was both confused and curious.

He wanted to know more, but since Baekhyun was now human, when he decided to know more about his identity, he fell asleep.

That morning he was able to know more about himself when he looked into Seju's room.

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