Belated Bloom - Lay (EXOxLay)

Meeting An Angel - Part I

A/N: 'nnn' - thoughts "nnn" - dialogue/Korean "nnnn" - Chinese (just FYI <3)

~ Wind ~

Oh Sehun learned early on, just as his fellow schoolmates had, that fooling around before you presented was a bad idea. The government, the teachers, and parents - they all said so. From what he could gather, it would create lots of issues and conflicts in a pre-existing relationship after presentation; roles could change, pack issues could arise, and attraction could wane. But, some idiots want to break social norms or whatever crap (it didn't really matter to him what other shit people got into - pssshhh) and went ahead and let their freak flag fly.

Sehun saw this happen first hand in his family pack actually. His cousin Su Lee became very close with a boy in high school and just after they graduated, his cousin presented and claimed to want nothing to do with her longtime boyfriend and dropped him- just like that. Admittedly she was one of his annoying cousins (a total alpha) but Sehun did feel sorry for the young man she had abandoned. That experience and the general populace consensus drove Sehun to keep everyone (girls and boys) at arms length, never having any close friends or socializing outside of school kept him from making a stupid mistake. He was lonely most the time but, deep down he couldn't wait until his own presentation so he could bond with his own pack and just freely love them without risks.

However even with his cool demeanor in place, wherever he went people told him "Don't waste your face" "join our company" or some merely mentioned he should consider joining an agency. One day in 2008 he decided he wanted to try this whole entertainment thing and auditioned for SM Entertainment, which (of course) he was promptly accepted.

He had heard horror stories of the difficulties idols faced and how strenuous the training could be (sounds horrible if you ask him) but he figured he had age on his side and natural beauty of course and he shouldn't waste it. Sehun soon recieved confirmation for his accepteance into their trainee program and his mother was thrilled to drive him straight over to sign his life away.

So...here he was...standing on the curb like a statue outside SM's entrance with his mother's parting words ringing fresh in his ears. "Sehunnie don't let this opportunity go to waste. You go and train hard and become a star okay baby boy, and make some friends for once okay? It's trendy to bond within those idol groups; maybe you'll find your pack sweetie! Just please, don't ignore the people around you- you deserve to be happy too Sehunnie".

What she had said made him even more anxious to begin his new life in SMEnt, she had basically told him to do the exact opposite of what he had been doing his whole life until now, to let people in. These thoughts whirled around his mind as he pulled his bubbly black coat closer to fend of the chill seeping into his collar and apprehensively approached the doors to SM Entertainment. Maybe he had moved too quickly or possibly too suddenly or bumped into someone- whatever the case, he was falling, straight towards the unforgiving ground. He closed his eyes, braced his arms and gave an instinctive yelp as he prepared for his imminent meeting with the cement below. But the impact was soft and his yell was suddenly muffled in the soft ground.

'Wait, soft ground?!' Sehun thought as he lifted his head for a better view of said ground.

Instead of the boring, cold, grimy cement of the streets of Seoul, Sehun caught a glimpse of soft black hair hiding under the puffy white jacket that had just broken his fall. Realizing he was lounging on the person he had just fallen onto he scrambled to his knees, straddling the poor soul, and carefully turned them over. Large mocha eyes stared back at him, glazed and confused.