ⓖⓘⓕⓣ || ChanBaek ⏸️

Part 6

All the emotions that silently filled both male's chests exploded right when their lips touched. It was unplanned. Unexpected. Yet all the other reasons were buried by just their longing for each other. Baekhyun, no matter how much he tried to hide it, couldn't help but give in.

"Please. Chanyeol.. please listen to me.." He begged. Kneeling in front of the man he truly loves the most. "I c-can't lose you.." Baekhyun cried his heart out.

But the stern expression on the taller's face made his hopes slowly vanish. The ache he's feeling on his chest is strong enough to make him so weak that he couldn't even run after Chanyeol when the tall male started walking away from him.

That moment, Baekhyun felt so alone. He couldn't find any reason to live. He offered everything he has for the love he thought would last a lifetime.

His shaking hands slowly reached his belly, and it made him cry even more.

"What are we gonna do now?" He asked the life that's starting to form inside him.

The tears that were flowing from Baekhyun's eyes suddenly stopped as he remembered the moment Chanyeol left him.

The moment Chanyeol chose to believe all the rumors instead of listening to Baekhyun's side.

The moment Chanyeol ruined his hopes for a complete, happy family.

He mustered all his strength to push the taller away from him, and the room was filled with the sound of a loud slap.

Chanyeol was caught off-guard. For a second, he felt like he's floating on the clouds, and then the reality slapped him. The reality that Baekhyun loathes him, and he knows exactly why.

The smaller male wiped the tears from his face as he let out chuckles and grinned towards his ex. Daggers of hatred and disgust were thrown to Chanyeol, enough to make him freeze on his spot.

"Bold of you to assume that you could just conveniently walk back into our lives after you left us hanging years ago." Pain and anger are obvious on Baekhyun's words. "The nerve of you to come back and show your face to my daughter--"

"She's my daughter too." Chanyeol tried to reason out. He tried to voice out his side even though he knows how shameless he'll sound.

His comment made Baekhyun laugh. The nerve of this man.

"Yes." The smaller said, confirming Chanyeol's haunches. It almost made the latter hopeful.

"Yes, it's true that she also came from you but that's it." Baekhyun said, trying hard not to raise his voice for the fear of waking his daughter from the other room. "That's it, Chanyeol. That's where it ends." Baekhyun stood from the bed and walked towards his bedroom's door, showing Chanyeol his way out.

"You've got no rights to call Hannah your daughter just because she came from your sperm." His tone is firm and his words are filled with conviction. "The only thing you did for us is prove that we can live without you, and you really succeeded on that." Chanyeol knows how Baekhyun is mocking him with those words, but he quietly accepts all that. He knows he deserves more than painful words.

Baekhyun has all the rights to be angry.

But Chanyeol promised himself that he won't lose his stand.

"All I want is for you to hear me out--" It was late when he realized how he used the wrong words.

"Funny how that was also everything I wanted from you, five years ago. But guess what you did?" Baekhyun asked him, challenging the taller.