Tomorrow With You (ChanBaek)

Chapter Twenty Seven

Chanyeol woke up feeling his throat dry. He reached for his phone to look at the time and saw it's past midnight. A few notifications came in sight but still no sign of Baekhyun replying to his messages.

He stood up from his bed, all groggy and a bit dizzy. He walked towards the door where he is met with a faint light from the hallway outside his bedroom. When he opened the door to a capacity where he could squeeze his way out, his eyes immediately closed, squeezed as they adjust to the light illuminated from the other side.

After taking his hand off his eyes from blocking the excess light, he gently rubbed his dry throat as if he hadn't drank water for hours.

He went to the dark kitchen, still half asleep, but his eyes drew to the faint light coming from the fridge. The door was open but no one is there. As if someone forgot to close the fridge. He walked around the kitchen island to get to the other side where the fridge is placed, and when he got closer to the edge, he saw someone sitting on the floor behind the island, just infront of the open fridge.

Crumbs and opened packages of food are on the floor and on the hands of the boy eating his late night dinner in the dark.

"Baekhyun.." Chanyeol called, his eyes surprised to see him devouring the frozen meals he could eat.

Baekhyun stopped chewing. With his eyes locked to the ground, he started lifting his head to see a giant with ears of an elf standing infront of him.

Baekhyun quickly took the food packages and returned it inside the fridge, and as if nothing happened, he started throwing some wrappers into the trash bin and turned his back to Chanyeol, about to leave.

Chanyeol grabbed his hand to stop him from walking away and pulled him closer.

"What are you doing?" Chanyeol asked.

"Are you dumb?" Baekhyun muttered.

"It's late at night. Why are you eating alone? Did you just come home?"

Silence

Baekhyun looked away from him.

"You just did, didn't you? Where were you? What made you come home late?"

"It's none of your business."

"You are my business." Chanyeol said. "Where were you the whole day? You're not in the library, Min Jae said you ditched him, and yet you came home this late."

"Why does it matter to you?"

"It matters because you haven't returned my messages for three years, then you ignored me ever since I went home. What's happened to you?"

"Just busy." Baekhyun muttured. "Would you let me go?"

Chanyeol looked at his hand, still hold Baekhyun's, keeping him closer. His face inches away from Baekhyun's nose. His features illuminated by the faint light coming from the fridge.

Chanyeol let go of him and Baekhyun started walking away. Confusion is all in Chanyeol's head. He followed him once he felt his presence is no longer in the kitchen. He ran towards the stairs but he didn't see him going up. Instead, he saw someone dragging himself at the hallway. He followed him and he saw a limping Baekhyun walking towards the end of the hall, near the garden. He walked as silently as he could, not making a sound for Baekhyun to hear him as he discretely followed the smaller.

Baekhyun walked what felt like miles. It dragged Chanyeol from the garden and past maid's quarters. He turned right after reaching the door to the garage and saw him walked inside a room. The door is small and Chanyeol knew that the room has been empty for years. Reserved for the mechanics to rest when they are fixing the family's cars.