Revelations - Chanbaek BDSM

Heightening...

A heavy textbook hits Baekhyun over the back of the head. Jongin's voice follows.

"You are the most unsociable fucker lately. Too good to talk to your friends anymore?"

Baekhyun deliberately lowers his juice box so as not to end up with a straw up his nose and ducks Jongin's next swing. "Lay off, I'm here aren't I?" He grabs the book and wrestles it off Jongin, dropping it onto the bench beside him. An arm appears around his shoulders and Yixing uses it as leverage to step up onto the bench, turning around and sitting on the cafeteria table, facing him.

"Admit it. You've been ignoring us something awful."

Baekhyun scowls up at Yixing who picks a carrot stick out of Baekhyun's lunch and claims it for his own. He can't hold the glare though, not with his friends and he sinks back in his seat. "I'm sorry. I've been..." he scrabbles for the right word. "Busy."

"You won't even sit with us these past few weeks." Jongin swings a leg over the bench and sits down. "If we do see you you're inhaling your food and then disappearing again. What gives? Did you contract leprosy? Is that it?" Jongin shuffles closer, eyes comically huge. "You're deciding to become your own one man colony and live out the last of your days in the janitor's closet?"

Baekhyun shoves him, smiling. "Yeah I've been a dick. I'm sorry." He looks down at the wrap Junmyeon made for him this morning. "Just had a lot on my mind lately. Needed to sort a few things out."

Jongin immediately drops the teasing and looks thoughtful. "Everything okay?"

Yixing looks Baekhyun over. "You know you can talk to us if it's serious. We can try and help."

And Baekhyun does know. It was Yixing who put him in touch with Junmyeon all those years ago after all. "I know and I'm okay I promise. I'm..." He looks between the faces of his best friends and swallows. "I'm kind of seeing someone, that's all."

Yixing nearly knocks over the juice, whooping embarrassingly loudly and throwing himself at Baekhyun. He wraps him up in arms and legs until Baekhyun forcibly shoves him back onto the table, laughing and out of breath. Next to them Jongin looks brighter than Baekhyun has seen him in a long time. He scrubs a hand through Baekhyun's hair.

"Who is it? Do we know them?"

Baekhyun flushes. "Maybe. I'm... I'll tell you about it one day. Just not right now. It's still all new."

Jongin flashes bright eyes at Yixing. "When you're ready the celebratory booze is on us."

"Yeah, yeah." Baekhyun grouses, too happy to pull off the grumpy look he was going for as the pair high five over his head. "Don't you two have dance classes or something productive?"

Yixing grins. "Just after lunch." A knot of girls flutter past, whispering and smiling when they spot the three of them. More than one has a flyer clutched in their hands and Baekhyun frowns as they crowd to a stop in one of the corners and keep twittering. More gather and they pour over the pieces of paper they're holding amongst themselves.

"What's with the pack mentality over there?"

"You didn't see it?" Yixing grabs Jongin's book and opens it, pulling a piece of folded paper from inside it. "They're all hyped because of the chaperones for that excursion. The posters are now up."

"The one to the museum on Thursday? We got the flyer in the mail. I was ignoring it."

"Yeah." Yixing unfolds the paper and waves a hand between Jongin and himself. "We put our hands up to help out. You don't think it'd be cool? Dinosaurs?"