Tabby is EXO's manager and Chanyeol is her best friend. She fastly becomes attracted to Kai and things start to move fast for them. Tabby finds out a secret that Kai is hiding and Chanyeol is there to help her through it all.
*Listen to Apology by Ikon while reading this chapter*
The next morning I'm woken up when Chanyeol gets out of bed. As soon as I open my eyes, all of yesterday comes crashing back to me. I cover my eyes with my arm. A lump forms in my throat as I think about what happened. I hear Chanyeol get ready and he leaves his room. When he leaves, tears start falling down my face and I let them.
A few minutes later, Chanyeol comes back into his room. I uncover my eyes and look at him. He's looking at me from his doorway.
"We are going in today." He tells me. I shake my head slightly.
"No Chanyeol." I say. He shakes his head.
"Tabby, you have to get up and be strong. I know it hurts like hell, but you can't let him do this to you." He says. I look at him and then sit up.
"You're right, but I don't want to face him." I tell him. Chanyeol softly frowns.
"I know. I don't either." He says. "Now get up and take a shower."
I get out of his bed and walk past him. I go into my room and grab some clothes. I go into our bathroom, take off my clothes, and then get into the shower. I just let the warm water flow onto me as I stand here. How stupid was I to let my heart be played with that? I should never have said yes to going out with him in the first place. I slowly find myself sinking to the bottom of the shower.
As I sit on the bottom of the shower, tears start to freely fall again. My tears mix with the water that is falling over me. I need help and I need Chanyeol.
"Chanyeol!" I say loudly. I know he heard me when I hear his footsteps hurry to the bathroom. He bursts into the bathroom and looks at me. Chanyeol turns away from me.
"I'm not looking." He says. If I was feeling good right now, I would have laughed at him.
"Chanyeol, I need help." I say softly and my voice cracks. This time he fully turns around and looks at me. He comes closer to me and turns off the shower. The water stops pounding on me and I look up at him. Chanyeol kneels down in front of me.
"I will always be here to help you." He says.
"I need a lot of it right now." I reply softly. Chanyeol looks over and reaches to grab my towel.
"I know you probably don't want to hear this right now.." He pauses and then looks at me. "But I want you to know that I'm going to wait for you until you're ready to have me." He says the last part softly. Our eyes meet and I search his face. He isn't lying and I want to softly smile at what he said.
"I love you." Is all I say. Chanyeol stands up and opens my towel up.
"What I say is all true." He says. I stand up and wrap myself up in the towel.
"I know." I find myself reaching up and placing my hand on the side of his neck. "I'm done trying to find somebody else because he's been here the whole time." I say so softly its almost a whisper. We look at each other and neither of us try looking away from the other.
This connection we have has always been strong and I'm just now starting to really feel it. As I look at Chanyeol right now, I realize how stupid I was to think anybody else would be right for me. The man standing right in front of me is the one. The only one.
"Maybe we should get going." Chanyeol breaks the silence. I slowly nod.
"Let me get dressed." I say and leave our bathroom. I can feel Chanyeol watching me leave. I go into my room and shut the door. I didn't realize my heart was beating so fast until now. I'm just now figuring out how I feel about Chanyeol. There is so much going on right now.
I get dressed in the clothes I picked out, then go into our little kitchen. Chanyeol is sitting at our table with food for us. I totally forgot about eating. I sit down in front of him and start eating my food.
"Today is going to be hard." Chanyeol mutters. I look up at him and nod.
"It is."
"He's my group mate and now he's someone I want to punch." He says. I start to smile softly.
"Please don't though.. I don't want you getting hurt." I tell him softly. He looks at me and our eyes meet.
"Your man won't get hurt." Chanyeol says. My heart skips at what he says.
"Good." I reply and stand up from our table. He joins me and we leave for SM. As we walk his hand interwines with my own.
We walk into SM and head to the practice room. I stop before we can even go inside. My stomach gets queasy.
"Chanyeol.." I whisper looking at the door in front of us.
"Just hold my hand when we get in there, okay?" I look over at him and nod. He opens the door and we both go inside. When I walk in I instantly see Kai and we make eye contact with each other. I look away and squeeze Chanyeol's hand as hard as I can. We stop in front of the EXO guys. Chanyeol takes his hand away from mine to join his group. I look at all the guys in front of me and I take a deep breathe.
"Let's practice for a little bit today and we will do some more tomorrow." I tell them. I get practice started and sit down to watch them. I try to keep my eyes on Chanyeol as he dances. Every time I happen to look in Kai's direction, my heart breaks a little more. I shouldn't be thinking about him. We were nothing.
I look over at Chanyeol and watch him. That's my man.
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