Z APOCALYPSE

CHAPTER 34: Circles

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"Are you not going to sleep hyung?" Taehyung looked up at Baek's face. The latter stopped playing with Tae's hair and immediately responded with a small smile.

"I slept enough." He replied as he sighed silently.

"You woke up so early, what were you thinking?" Taehyung asked again, his voice quite low because he doesn't want to wake Luhan up who's just sleeping on his right side.

"Nothing important," Baek answered. Besides, he won't want to admit that lately, he was thinking about Chanyeol most of the time since he came back with Taehyung.

"Are you and Chanyeol on good terms?" The latter asked.

"Yeah, why wouldn't we," Baek responded as he crept closer at Taehyung who's busy hugging his waist.

"Because since the day that we came back, I don't see you guys talking just like before anymore. And when you have conversations, you just talk about the improvement of the prison and our safety," Taehyung mumbled on Baek's side.

"We are okay, Tae." He assured. We are fine. He mumbled inwardly.

"Hyung..."

"Taehyung, we are okay," Baekhyun reassured as he planted a soft kiss on top of the latter's head.

"What do you want for breakfast?" Baekhyun changed the topic.

"Anything," Taehyung silently sighed as he sat up and stretched his arms forward.

"Let's go," he smiled as he put on his boots.

"Lulu, wake up, wake up," Taehyung spoke.

"Shh, let him be, he might have been tired from the night guard," Baek responded.

"Nah, I'm awake," Luhan interjected with his eyes still closed as he yawned and stretched like a cat.

It's raining outside and the drops of rain were banging on the ceiling with this eerily cold atmosphere.

"You alright?" A sound resonated from the corridor.

Taehyung looked up to see Chanyeol leaning on the wall opposite from their cell.

"Hyung, you scared me! Yeah, I'm fine." Taehyung smiled as he opened the cell.

"Baek-hyung,"

"Yeah, coming." Baekhyun silently sighed as he lifted his body from the cell bed and grabbed his bag and samurai sword with him.

His boots echoed as he headed outside behind Taehyung. His eyes didn't wander on Chanyeol but it only explored the void in the grayish walls and cold iron bars.

"What brings you here, hyung?" Taehyung asked.

"I just came to say it's mealtime," Chanyeol answered without breaking his eye contact with Baekhyun. Chanyeol is a bit moody right now, Taehyung could feel it as the tall man has this seriously cold expression with his arms folded in front of his chest.

"Mealtime is meal time. There's no skipping, or else there will be no leftovers." Chanyeol stated expressionlessly as he kicked his foot slightly on the wall behind him to have his balance to stand up and walk out.

After the taller walked out the cell block, Luhan stepped out of the cell glancing at Chanyeol's back who's disappearing in the long hallway.

"He'd been serious lately," Luhan side comments as he neared Taehyung and checked the wound on his arm.

"He wants to be in control," Baekhyun grumped as he tuck his inner shirt on his pants.

"He's just frustrated because you're ignoring him again." Luhan nagged.