Seven Lifetimes (A CHANBAEK FF)

Lifetime 4

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Unlike the nights before, tonight was warm. The sky was not as dark as before, and even the trees swayed gracefully with how the fresh wind blew all throughout. Baekhyun sat alone in the bed of his room, gazing at the quiet streets outside. It may not be the most perfect night, but for Baekhyun, he couldn’t ask for more. Because finally, he was alive.

“Baekhyun? Did anything happen?” Baekhyun looked down to hide his face from the worried lady, but Hyemi’s gentle hand was on his chin that he had no choice but to lift his face up when she sat on the bed across him. Seju’s mother sighed. “Did you and my son fight?”

“N-no,” Baekhyun answered. It wasn’t a lie. They didn’t really fight. But Baekhyun wasn’t really sure if he and Seju were okay. Or if Seju was okay with him.

Seju finally realized what had happened; the reality was altered and things in his life changed. It was a big thing to sink in to his mind, and Baekhyun would understand if Seju would act like that.

“Well, if you guys didn’t, why does your face say otherwise?”

Baekhyun’s shoulders fell. The woman in front of him was Shin Hyemi, Jung Seju’s mother. She was totally a different person. But Baekhyun was sure that besides the same face, Shin Hyemi has the same kind and caring heart that Lee Youngmi, Park Chanyeol’s mother, had. That warm smile and beautiful eyes that showed her pure emotions; it was the same thing Youngmi had offered Baekhyun during his lifetime. Baekhyun couldn’t help but be emotional. He wasn’t aware of it when tears started running down his cheeks.

Hyemi held his both cheeks with worry. “Baekhyun-ah, what happened?”

“I-it’s…” Baekhyun cursed himself for squeaking his voice, “It’s nothing, really, Auntie.”

“Do you want me to talk to Seju about it?”

“N-no. No, please, no.”

“If you insist, what can I do? But I hope you sort it out, okay? And I'm here whenever you're ready to talk about it. You and Seju had been together eversince. You won't stand fighting for long.”

Together eversince. Of course, it was true. Except for the fact that Seju didn't know him.

Baekhyun just nodded. "Okay…”

Hyemi left after that, leaving Baekhyun alone again in his room.

It was like an aftershock. Seju’s rage was the quake, and the happenings between him and Baekhyun after were the shocks after that. Baekhyun didn’t have the luxury of time to react—or explain, the taller male didn’t bother stopping and went on with his words. Sure, Seju wasn’t vocal enough to his feelings, but he did have a sharp tongue.

Baekhyun spent hundreds of years with no one to talk to and the first time he had someone all he heard were hurtful words. It wasn’t like he planned all this.

Altering the reality, it was more than what Baekhyun could do. He was a mere ghost, trapped in this world to stick with one person. Even the moon who he only talked to refused to talk back to him. And now that the things he wished for was granted one by one, the person who he loved the most is mad at him.

"I didn't do all that." he muttered, as if Seju was listening. "It's not like I wanted to alter your reality and replace your first love."

Baekhyun's hiccups were stopped when he heard footsteps coming at him.

"I know," said a voice. Baekhyun turned his head, seeing the tall figure of the same person whose physical appearance didn't change for seven long lifetimes.