With Choices Comes Consequences

Part Two - Familiar

As Baekhyun stared at the man in front of him, memories from his years in highschool suddenly come flooding back all at once. How could he forget this man? He remembers quite vividly how everyone always talked about his height, which was well above average for his age at the time, and his adorable elf ears.

"We've... met before. Am I correct?" The man, whose name Baekhyun can't for the life of him remember, asked as he let his eyes wander over the brunette.

For some reason, Baekhyun felt shy under the inspecting gaze of the familiar man. He cleared his throat and glanced away, "Yes. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we went to the same highschool."

The tall man with large ears shifted his gaze away and brought his hand up to his chin, rubbing it, seemingly in thought.

The brunette watched him from the corner of his eye, a strange warm, fuzzy feeling pooling deep in his chest. He began to wonder what this feeling was.

Suddenly, the latter snapped his fingers and lifted his gaze to meet Baekhyun's, "That's right! You were quite popular among the female population if I'm remembering correctly."

Baekhyun became flustered and immediately waved his hands, "No, please. I had nothing to do with that." His cheeks grew hot as he remembered the times he would receive small gifts from the girls in his grade, all attempting to get as close as they could to him.

Little did they know, he had no interest in them.

The tall man let out a deep chuckle, "Yeah, well, unfortunately, that's about all I can remember. Forgive me, but I can't even remember your name." He gave Baekhyun an apologetic smile.

The brunette smiled back and felt his body relax, "It's okay, I can say the same for you," He giggled, "It's Baekhyun, by the way."

Almost instantly, the latter broke into a large smile, "That's it. It was right on the tip of my tongue," He pauses and leans his head back against the seat, "...Byun Baekhyun." He hummed out, closing his eyes as the name slipped from his lips.

Baekhyun's eyes went wide and he suddenly felt the pace of his heart pick up. The way this man said his name had a rather strange ring to it, almost as if the man was saying it with a huge amount of emotion behind it.

The brunette shook his head and concluded he's simply imagining things. It's probably because he swallowed too much rain water.

That's when Baekhyun realized that he still needed to get home, his mother was probably worried sick at this point. He hesitantly cleared his throat and spoke up, "I'm really sorry, but I need to be getting home."

The taller snapped his eyes open and leaned forward again, seeming startled, "Oh! I'm sorry. Where is it you're going?"

Baekhyun waved his hand in dismissal and gave a sweet smile, "It's okay. I'm heading at the small neighborhood just up ahead, at the end of the main road by the lake?" He responded in more of a questioning tone, hoping the latter knew what he was referring to.

The man cocked his brows and glanced at Baekhyun, "Really? That's great, I was actually just heading up there myself. My stop is the next little neighborhood over though, but it's quite convenient if I do say so."

Baekhyun hummed, not really hearing everything the man was saying, his mind was stuck up on his mother and Sehun.

For some reason, being here with this man and having all these memories pop up, all Baekhyun wanted to do was go and cuddle in the company of his son.

"Alright then, let's get you home." And with that, the car was put into drive and the two of them were off, heading down the street, leading to Baekhyun's home.