𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑

02. 𝘽𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜

Two weeks. Baekhyun had been suffering for two weeks now. Each day Minseok would come up to him and eat with him. Most of the time Baekhyun would kept quiet, giving the silence treatment to Minseok. But his method was useless as Minseok was doing all the talking by himself.

He learnt many things about the  man, things his brain registered without his consent and sometime his body would betray him by smiling at Minseok’s jokes.

Baekhyun was beyond pissed off. But he couldn’t do anything about it because he had tried everything except killing Minseok. Unfortunately he still had a moral code so he always thought about different ways to kill Minseok in his mind without really thinking on doing it.

Currently he was visualizing Minseok hanging off the edge of a cliff and with an evil smile he watched himself pushing the pink haired boy.

"You look like a creep right now. Stop with the evil face, you are you thinking about ?" the high pitch voice came to his ears, pulled out of his dream.

"The Lion King" he answered. He knew he had seen this scene before and just realized where he stole it from. They were at the cafe, eating sandwiches made by the barista Suho himself, that guy was the owner and Minseok’s friend. The only useful piece of information Baekhyun got from his new self-appointed friend.

"Oh I love that movie ! But Mufasa’s death is so sad, I cried my eyes out." whined Minseok while discreetly trying to steal Baekhyun’s coffee.

"Get your ridiculously tiny hands away from my coffee. You want one, go get one." said Baekhyun with a bored voice.

He wasn’t making any effort to be nice but Minseok seemed to appreciate him nonetheless. Baekhyun didn’t understand how he had managed to reject every single person who tried to get close to him for six years and still failed miserably when it came to Minseok.

This guy was worst than the plague. Each day he would punched his sandbag thinking it was the smaller man’s face. He fought against Kangin a second time and a taekwondo student and he kicked both of their ass quite harshly.

" Baek … "began Minseok with a voice that was suddenly quiet and wrapped with concern. It caught Baekhyun’s attention and he looked up from his phone. He tensed up, scanning the room quickly and looking for a potential threat before settling his gaze on Minseok. He noticed how Minseok had his eyes focused on something.

"What ? Do I have something on my face ?" He asked.

"Did you fight ?"

Baekhyun rose his eyebrows at the question. Then a frown appeared as he was wondering why Minseok asked him that. His hand slowly came up to his face, his fingers brushing his left cheek. Realization washed over him and he relaxed on his seat.

"During my daily workout on Monday I fought against a UFC fighter and that dude punched me in the face. Thankfully I managed to partially blocked him, so it wasn’t as hard as it was supposed to be. I have been covering it since then, because I can’t show a bruise on my face to my students.

But I heal pretty fast so it’s almost completely faded. So today I didn’t put makeup on it." explained Baekhyun before sipping his coffee, resuming the game on his phone. It wasn’t a big deal for him. He was used to the bruises he could get from a fight. Minseok just didn’t know that.

" You WHAT ?" half yelled Minseok, earning glares from other customers. Baekhyun even saw Suho looking at them with a curious face. He sighed.

" I workout at a gym everyday after work, and sometimes I fight with others guys. I happened to have met with the same UFC man twice. The first time I beat his ass. The second time, I did it even more. Which led him to cornering me after I left the building. He punched me but I knocked him out. Pretty sure he won’t come up to me ever again now."